Timeline for 'Sound Design' too narrow?
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| Aug 18, 2015 at 17:00 | comment | added | NPN328 | @AJHenderson You are the man! Let's see if we can think of something. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 16:59 | comment | added | AJ Henderson Mod | @JCPedroza you mean like the one I just made while you were writing the comment. ;) | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 16:56 | comment | added | NPN328 | @AJHenderson I can see how difficult naming this site accurately and concisely can be, but you don't have to start the change with a name in mind. Perhaps you can poll the user base, let the community share possibilities and see if we can find a better name through a meta post. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 16:53 | comment | added | NPN328 | @AJHenderson When SE was watching Music SE name change they told us that they were not interested in names like "stack overflow" or "server fault" anymore, and were looking for more descriptive stuff, and had no issues with the new name. It shouldn't be an issue here either, if it fits the site. For other examples, SE has names like "Theoretical Computer Science", "Science Fiction & Fantasy", "Personal Finance & Money", "Geographic Information Systems", etc. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 16:49 | comment | added | AJ Henderson Mod | Personally, I don't feel that I have a good enough name alternative to be worth using our change, though if someone had a strong suggestion that we haven't tried before (or that the community now showed more interest in), I could get behind it. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 16:49 | comment | added | NPN328 | @RoryAlsop I feel like a concise and clear scope is fundamental for growth, and a title with those characteristics is no exception. With that in mind, there's no better time to address the name of the site than now because the site is still small. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 16:49 | comment | added | AJ Henderson Mod | @JCPedroza mostly due to there having not been much apparent community interest in it and most of us were here for the last go around on trying to improve the naming. There are also (or at least were) factions of the community that want it more limited. So consensus is hard. The merger of the audio crowd from AVP and the social sound design crowd was, how shall we say, less than smooth. In addition, as I understand it, SE generally doesn't like long names, so you have to make a really strong case for them and normally can only change once, so we'd need to make sure it's a very good change. | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 21:29 | comment | added | Rory Alsop Mod | Remember the way we ended up with a name change on music? A meta post requesting options, then community voting, then SE discussions. Worth doing, although as we are still a small beta I don't know how high priority it will be. | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 21:16 | comment | added | NPN328 | @RoryAlsop The current name doesn't fit the intended scope in either direction. I feel like it's too vague (or narrow, depending on the interpretation) to be useful, and it's by far the most used reference for the scope of a site (I wonder how many users actually read the full site description). Read my comment above. | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 21:11 | comment | added | NPN328 | @AJHenderson Music SE was named Music: Practice and Theory. Following the same direction, here you could use something like "Sound Synthesis and Engineering". Sound Design can refer to any induced change in sound dynamics, so it doesn't seem to be a good fit for the intended scope of this site. I've been part of some discussions in this site, and even some of your avid users seem to be confused by the scope. Perhaps this naming issue needs to be resolved, rather than explained. | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 13:56 | comment | added | AJ Henderson Mod | @MichaelHansenBuur - I believe the argument on that one is that it didn't feel like it included the design side particularly well for those from that side of things. I don't remember exactly. Personally, I was with you that I thought that was a better alternative, but there wasn't a strong public agreement at the time. | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 13:32 | comment | added | Michael Hansen Buur | What about 'Sound Production' then? It seems to me that it would embrace all of the disciplines and exclude the hifi reproduction branch. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 17:56 | comment | added | AJ Henderson Mod | The problem with just "Sound" is that that becomes unclear that things like hifi and home audio aren't on topic. Similarly, professional sound was a bit too narrow in some aspects and a bit too broad in others as well. There wasn't really a clean name, so by default we kind of stuck with what we had. I don't object to the idea of trying to figure out something better, but it's harder than it "sounds". | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 17:55 | comment | added | AJ Henderson Mod | @MichaelHansenBuur - there was a lot of debate about that early on around and after the merger. The previous site was Social Sound Design and so the name kind of came from there, but the thought process behind keeping it was that we are looking for more design oriented questions rather than basic technical questions. In other words, they should generally be somewhat related to theory, if only loosely. There is a greater focus on the art of sound. It isn't exactly a perfect fit and some stuff that is on topic goes outside of that, but it was the closest we could come up with. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 15:01 | comment | added | Michael Hansen Buur | The site seems about a lot more than 'sound design'. Lots of questions relate to technical issues, live production etc. The current title has a bias towards the creative design aspect of sound production. My point is that in reality the questions you see in here is a well spread between all thinkable audio disciplines, not just sound design. "Sound Production" or simply "Sound" would probably fit better to the actual use and scope. | |
| Aug 12, 2015 at 6:54 | comment | added | Rory Alsop Mod | Michael - why not? The title is just a short description - if you wanted it to describe all that it would be that long...The site is about sound design. | |
| Aug 12, 2015 at 6:35 | comment | added | Michael Hansen Buur | But why is it still called 'Sound Design' then? | |
| Aug 11, 2015 at 20:06 | history | answered | AJ HendersonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |