What does your forum’s name mean?

[Deleted member 49125]

& how did you think of it? When I was thinking of creating my forum last year, I enlisted my husband’s help to come up with an acronym. He helped me come up with HOST- Holistic, Organic, Secular, & Tolerant. Those 4 words describe my forum in a nutshell.

 

[Deleted member 31696]

I first came up with the name Yak ( (slang, intransitive) To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle) but that sounded blah to me. All of a sudden the word Yaketys came to me. The rest is history 🙂

 

[Deleted member 7467]

When I ran “Forum the Forum,” I wanted something really deep. Eventually I settled on a forum that looks inward at itself and understands how to provide a truly worthless experience to the user.

 

[scooter]

It's named after my company, Atlantic Computing Systems. It was originally "The ACS Forums", then briefly "Atlantic Computing Forums" before shortening it down to just "The Atlantic Forums", as the majority of its traffic became more general discussion than technical.

I chose "Atlantic" as a name for my company because many of my customers are seniors, so I wanted something that would be easy to spell and remember.

 

[leangreen76]

I don't feel I really need to explain my Transformers one, my film forum on the other hand.....

So as I have mentioned before, I came up with the idea for this message board years ago but never went through with it. Fast forward and I decided to still kep that idea name: 2 Hours Until Closing Time. My reasoning being that the average short movie can be 90 minutes, but the general average movie being around the 2 hours mark or more if it's a blockbuster/big film. So the idea of "Chucking out time" ie as we say in the UK until something closes, so this could referance the last viewing of the day - if you will.

 

[Mrs. Claus]

It’s not really a forum name. It’s more of a free forum host. prophpBB - the pro stands for professional and phpBB. Well, that’s the forum software!

 

[Smokey]

Revillution is an alternative spelling of the word "Revolution" it was set up as a means of revolting against the norms at the time in the forum and social network scene when it was created in 2009.

 

[Fait]

Play Observed
I was trying to think of a name that had the .com available and was catchy Play just means Playing games and Observed means all gaming content can be found and spoken about! 😀

 

[Mrs. Claus]

Revillution is an alternative spelling of the word "Revolution" it was set up as a means of revolting against the norms at the time in the forum and social network scene when it was created in 2009.

Play Observed
I was trying to think of a name that had the .com available and was catchy Play just means Playing games and Observed means all gaming content can be found and spoken about! 😀

Catchy names. I also try and think of names that are easily indexable but google, bing and the other major search engines. That’s not the only factor - you need to ensure your visitors will remember the ‘catchy’ name.

 

[Fait]

Catchy names. I also try and think of names that are easily indexable but google, bing and the other major search engines. That’s not the only factor - you need to ensure your visitors will remember the ‘catchy’ name.

That can definitely be hard especially when my forum was launched this year in 2021 but I will definitely try my best! 🙂

 

[Mrs. Claus]

That can definitely be hard especially when my forum was launched this year in 2021 but I will definitely try my best! 🙂

As well as being a web host, I’ve learnt as a forum owner previously it takes a ton of patience and time to get to a stage where you don’t need to worry about marketing or constant post exchanges with others to spark conversation

 

[Moonface]

Basically what it says on the tin. Universal generally means to encompass everything, and before we changed the name to Universal Gaming we were already using a space-style theme (no, I don't know why, things were wild and made little sense half the time back then) so the term "universal" was associated with "universe" which is a space type word, and so it just felt fitting for both our theme and our visual style we'd been using.

 

[Page]

The name of BaysideGamers was initially been started back in November 2014, It goes far deeper than that though, in fact, let's go back to the year 2010 when I got into the world of GTA4. Yes, when I first got into the world of GTA modifications where you were able to run scripts and plugins in the game of GTA (Grand Theft Auto) and become anything that you want, even change the game style. I was helping and running a GTA clan/roleplaying community was being opened and made public and right away I joined, the name was "Bayside Virtual Emergency Services" (domain I still got till today, baysideves.com) Hance of how the BaysideGamers, So the name of BaysideGamers was based on the name "Bayside Virtual Emergency Services" where I wanted to the Roleplay community linked as one company that never happen. For most of 2013 and 2014, I always wanted to become my own boss of my own website, was sick of being members on different sites and moderators.

 

[Xyphien]

So, my name is a bit complicated and kind of over convoluted. But Webmaster.Place was something I came up with on the fly, you see. I wanted a place for all webmasters to hang out, so I sat around and hired some nasa scientists from harvard to help me come up with a very original and unique spin to a Webmaster Place. What they came up with may put me in debt for the rest of my life, but I got webmaster.place as a result, I get asked all the time what it means and I may have to explain it daily but I think it's still worth it.

 

[Fait]

As well as being a web host, I’ve learnt as a forum owner previously it takes a ton of patience and time to get to a stage where you don’t need to worry about marketing or constant post exchanges with others to spark conversation

That’s true.

 

[Abizaga]

So "geeze" is obviously shorthand for "geezer" but that's not the way I use it. Basically it's based off a joke where say things in a specific phrase, so for example, I'd call the folks "Geeze Geezington III Esq." lol. If I didn't feel like saying that I'd just say "geeze" for short. The name is supposed to imply in a toungue in cheek way that all the people that use it are old people.

 

[Ashley]

Chatting Time was one of my first ever successful forums from 2010 to approximately 2011- first half of 2012. We had seriously impressive stats at the time and I hope it can get that way again. It was a random name I came up with

 

[Fait]

Chatting Time was one of my first ever successful forums from 2010 to approximately 2011- first half of 2012. We had seriously impressive stats at the time and I hope it can get that way again. It was a random name I came up with

I’m sorry activity has gone down 🙁
Hopefully it’s nothing to do with poorly made websites such as Facebook that people seem to flock to.

 

[Ashley]

I’m sorry activity has gone down 🙁
Hopefully it’s nothing to do with poorly made websites such as Facebook that people seem to flock to.

Well it's gotten kind of steady at the moment, so I'm not overly worried. When we were in lock down last year with Covid surges i was actually kind of hopeful that being stuck at home would boost up activity somewhat. At the end of the day, it is what it is

 

[simonweb]

You all have such unique and good names… One of my forum names is just a short abbreviation for Message Board. I'm just awful at coming up with good names.