this is ok. minetest was an awful name.
for those of you without the patience to read a blogpost, the new name’s actually a bit of wordplay.
“Luanti” is a wordplay on the Finnish word luonti (“creation”) and the programming language Minetest Luanti employs for games and mods, Lua. The goal was to avoid yet another plain English word (good luck finding something unique…) and highlight the core principles of the project. The fusion of celeron55’s Finnish nationality and the platform’s focus on content creation resulted in the birth of “Luanti”.
Is this an out-of-season April Fools’ joke?
No, it is something that has been discussed for quite some time. No one could decide on a good name until now
One could argue they still haven’t
I hope this is a joke cause Luanti sucks, stick with the already well known Minetest.
Why is this news??
Minetest doesn’t have to turn into Roblox, we already have OpenBlox for that purpose
Edit: person below is now accusing me of promoting crypto
How are you guys pronouncing this?
Personally, I’ve found it sounds kind of nice when said like “Loon tea”.
It’s finnish, so like it’s written. Foreign concept for english speakers, I know.
It is quite literally a foreign concept to anyone who only speaks English. That’s how foreign languages work.
How is the word pronounced though?
I’m a finn, so the only advice I can give is that it’s pronounced like luanti in finnish.
Not very useful, I know, sorry. Nau ai häv tu kou präktis mai rälli inglish.
It’s nice to see open-source things copying what dot-coms do when they’re bored.
Wait. No it’s not. It’s actually worrying.
I worked for a company named essentially “The Portland Office”, and it had that name for 30 years; because, honestly, who cares about a name? The product should stand out.
Literally just yesterday my wife learned of Minetest’s existence and said it was a terrible name
the new name is equally terrible, at least in terms of pronunciation.
It IS a terrible name. But it also is an over one decade old brand.
It will be hard to propagate the new name and have it as recognizable as “Minetest”.
Just tell her that you told them your wife didn’t like the name so they changed it.
