New project name?

[nclm]

It’s great to see that the open source Twemoji set is continuing life independently from Twitter!

As this set is now developing on its own, and will in time differ more and more with the “official” X emojis, wouldn’t a rename be a good move to distinguish them? And make it clear that this is now an independent project.

The name could either:

• Keep being “twemoji” in code to make it easy to swap for developers, and therefore retro-fit what it means. Something conceptually along the lines of for example “The Wholesome Emojis” or “Tremendously Wonderful Emojis”. (not actual proposals haha, just to give the idea)
• Switch all together to something else for a true break in branding. A lot of different names are possible, and that could be the place to list ideas? For instance with this set being used in several fediverse platforms, it could be “Fedimoji”, or with it being community-sourced, it could be “Coopemoji”, “Freemoji”, “Communemoji”, etc. (again, not really proposing those, just suggesting that a new name could be meaningful)

A new name could go along a new webpage (#85) to really relaunch the emoji set to the eyes of developers who haven’t been made aware of this fork yet.

[jdecked]

It's definitely on our to-do list! I will say it's not the highest thing, but it's on there. Suggestions welcome! (From anyone reading, not just OP.) When we first started working on this fork we bandied around a few that were admittedly also quite bad 😂

We'd kept Twemoji "for now" just for discoverability purposes. 50/50 on whether that has really worked, but it's probably time for a change.

[JiFish]

Might be worth returning to this now twitter/x is doing weird controversial stuff with it's emojis.

[nclm]

Some extra quick ideas:

• idemoji
  both “idem” (same as twemoji, duplicate of twemoji), “idea” (each emoji represents an idea), and maybe “id” (which can be post-rationalised some way or another)
• stemoji
  both “stem from twemoji, new stem of emoji” and “standard emoji”
• emblemoji
  from “emblem”?
• demoji
  from “democratic“, i.e. “people’s emoji”
• nemoji
  something fun branding-wise can be done around “Nemo” (a submarine captain or a dreaming boy), “n” could also mean “new” or something.
• unimoji
  both “unity“ and “unique”
• uxemoji
  what's after tw? u follows t and x is next after w. so ux! somehow 'user experience emoji', or maybe 'using excellent emoji' or 'users’ expected emoji'
• twemoji
  but it now means “tail wagging emoji” 🐕

Just to get the conversation started :)

[SlickDomique]

Would be great if the project could change name, would be easier to find it on npm too. Right now twitters version is still up and I had to look in closed issues here for npm to learn the npm package is under @twemoji/api

[jdecked]

Would be great if the project could change name, would be easier to find it on npm too. Right now twitters version is still up and I had to look in closed issues here for npm to learn the npm package is under @twemoji/api

This is helpful to know. Out of curiosity, what did you search for on NPM or before going to NPM? Were you searching for open-source emoji packages generally, or specifically for Twemoji?

A major reason we kept the Twemoji name originally was to make this package easier to find, but if that's not actually helping it be found, that'd be great to know.

[SlickDomique]

Would be great if the project could change name, would be easier to find it on npm too. Right now twitters version is still up and I had to look in closed issues here for npm to learn the npm package is under @twemoji/api

This is helpful to know. Out of curiosity, what did you search for on NPM or before going to NPM? Were you searching for open-source emoji packages generally, or specifically for Twemoji?

A major reason we kept the Twemoji name originally was to make this package easier to find, but if that's not actually helping it be found, that'd be great to know.

I was looking for a package to replace emojis with pictures for my hobby project. This was the biggest result anywhere but trying to look by the name for npm package gave only old twitter package. Maybe it's a good idea to add info about installing from npm to the readme file too.

[KeesCBakker]

I had the same, but then for GitHub. It wasn't until reading the issues in the original repo till I found a link to this current repo.

I think Google still favors the original in the search results. When reading about v14 something clicked, as I'm using v15.

[JiFish]

I suggest keeping the name simple and obviously understandable. Freemoji, OpenEmoji, Libremoji or a variation thereof would be nice. But these names are so obvious they've already been used for a bunch of stuff, which might make the project hard to google.

Perhaps "Creative Commons Emoji" or CCemoji for short?

[RealityRipple]

Kicking myself for not making an "XTwitMoji" rename Pull Request back on April Fools.