• Hotdog003 (unregistered)

    You'll need to register a new domain name, though.

  • michael (unregistered)

    Is it just me but is this a bike shed argument to rival the fbsd sleep discussion. We have 4 pages of replies, and really in the grand scheme of things, who cares? do people really come here to read the url? how about the banner? personally i come to read the stories and they will still be here

  • Mr V. (unregistered)

    Alex I guess that you won’t take note of my objections but here they are anyway…

    thedailywtf.com was a perfect name for the site, I remember reading the articles and thinking What The Fuck… not “this is Worse Than Failure”. And if you had an objection to the word Fuck in the name why not rename the site to thedailywhatthe.com and let the user insert the expletive of choice (e.g. heck, hell, fuck, frick, frack)

    worse than failure is so wrong on so many levels, the words worse and failure are off-putting to start with but you essentially keep the WTF anachronism which defeats the point of your censorship, that’s just plain daft dude… besides that I cant imagine anything worse than failure, and it doesn’t inspire confidence that there may be a chuckle at the end of it…

    I used to come here and was guaranteed a laugh if not at the article then at some of the comments, and I don’t mean a half hearted chuckle I mean a roll about the floor tears streaming down the face kind of laugh.

    Over the last year or so the articles have gone down hill and I must confess I don’t visit as much as I used to do, I guess that you have capitulated to the god of commercialism and Grandma…

    I do have one suggestion though: keep the “thedailywtf.com” name host it on another server reinstall the old crappy forum software and post articles like you did back in the beginning at least it was funny reading mangled posts bitching about the forum software, the isTrue() jokes and constant references to Paula…. Ah happy days…

    V

  • Fonzy (unregistered) in reply to bullseye
    bullseye:
    I miss the days when the average IQ of posters here was higher.

    At any rate, I suspect the complaining was to be expected. You should have posted the article on a school night...

    Go Fuck Yourself

  • Fregas (unregistered) in reply to b0red

    Alex, Alex, Alex.

    I will terribly miss the Daily WTF.

  • Chris (unregistered)

    WTF?

  • /Arthur (unregistered)

    A other name grandma can approve:

    Way To Funny

  • Mr V. (unregistered) in reply to michael
    michael:
    Is it just me but is this a bike shed argument to rival the fbsd sleep discussion. We have 4 pages of replies, and really in the grand scheme of things, who cares? do people really come here to read the url? how about the banner? personally i come to read the stories and they will still be here

    I think you missed the point you read the URL first then go to the site, a piss poor URL will put people off before they come for example which site would you go to:

    sexywomen.com Or fatuglyslags.com

  • hk0 (unregistered) in reply to Icarium

    I mean, what the shit? I say 'fuck' to my grandma all the time. We're motherfucking italians, it's 'F' this and 'F' that. I think this declawing of the name is a fucking travesty, that's what it is.

    And you know who to show the site to, by whether or not they'd be intimidated by the off-color name. Such filters are a good thing.

    Christ on crutches...

  • hk0 (unregistered) in reply to phx
    Sweet Zombie Jesus Titty-Fucking Christ on a Unicycle - why do you have destroy a perfectly secret guilty pleasure of mine by making it all politically correct. We dont come here like its a legitimate news website.

    We skulk in here in the shadows between the shitty orders our superiors ruin our projects with to get a bit of a giggle over how it's not just us that have to bear this crap.

    Motherfucking signed.

    And for the record, for all those self-righteous pricks who think the name-change will change the IQ-level or whatever of the site (good luck on that): I'll still come here. But I don't have to like it.

    Fuck you Alex. What the fuck, dude?

  • Prichard (unregistered)

    There isn't a significant amount I can say that hasn't already been said. Perhaps something I utter will fill in a gap.

    I've been enjoying this site since sometime in 2004. It's on the front page of my rss feed page and has consistently been a hilarious take on the programming side of the world.

    I have watched as the site has increasing become commercialized, castrated and reborn as a figment of what it once was.

    This name change itself (albeit sucky) isn't the reason I will stop reading this site today, it is however truly the straw that broke the camel's back. The transformation into shit is complete, goodbye dailywtf, it was a good run.

  • anonymous (unregistered)

    WTF?!?

  • anonym (unregistered) in reply to Ryan
    Ryan:
    I think "The Daily WTF" was part of this site's success and an excellent brand. We'll see if Worse Than Failure captures new audience as well, I doubt it.

    Agree.

  • anonymous (unregistered)

    More than 200 comments should be enought to make a point, I think.

    name a site "Worse than failure" ??? WHAT THE FUCK?????? what was you thinking???? This name sucks, and 200 readers already agree.

    Forget this dumb idea, rollback all this thing, and make a mock site to show to your grandmother, (put some bunnies in there too, it makes no sense, but she will love such cute thing)

  • RexInTheCity (unregistered)

    Now I can come here while I'm at school without looking over my shoulder.

    PS. My CAPTCHA Test says "gygay"

  • FTW (unregistered)

    ...fi neve ,eman thgir eht ti llac llits nac ew ,lleW.

    This renaming is just back-assward.

  • Alex Brown (unregistered)

    What the fuck?

  • (cs)

    This site was doing so much better in the last 6 months. Code SOD and Error'd were great additions. Now you've taken a huge step back. I'm not even sure I can read this anymore...we'll see what happens on Monday when I'm bored at work.

  • bcat (unregistered)

    Well, this is really, really dumb! Way to screw up a great site, guys.

  • Martin (unregistered)

    As long as the stories don't change for the worse, I will come back.

    Nevertheless: Nice heart warming, probably made up story about the grandma. But why don't you keep the original WTF and just tell her it means worse than failure. It is not that she will check. Or maybe you think the name hurts you in your professional life as too many people judge it negatively before you have a chance to explain why the name is excellent to address a specfic demography of technical people.

    The old name is still better, IMHO. It condenses the web site perfectly, the political correct version is lame.

    My best wishes, nonetheless.

    Captcha: ewww. Indeed.

  • ZerroDefex (unregistered) in reply to Ryan
    Ryan:
    When do people make business plans based on how their Grandma likes the name? I thought that the target market determined the name.

    Hell, even my grandma understands what WTF means.

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Martin
    Martin:
    ... Or maybe you think the name hurts you in your professional life as too many people judge it negatively before you have a chance to explain why the name is excellent to address a specfic demography of technical people.

    Yes, may be he wants to put it in his curriculum vitae and this name doesn't look professional enough.....

  • (cs)

    Awww, what the fuck?! ;oP

  • (cs)

    lame. it doesn't even make any sense; it's like a crappy mnemonic device. either name it wtf or name it something completely different.

  • baddognotbarking (unregistered)

    The new name is a crude reinterpretation of the WTF acronym. It may be politically correct but it reflects just a fraction of the site's content. The name change seems like a frantic move. You cannot except anyone who isn't accustomed to what WTF implies to read or understand a single article and there is no meaning to have a name liked by people who will never read a single article. WTF is an intuitive exclamation, worse than failure simply make no sense. Bring thedailyWTF back!

  • Erik (unregistered)

    Seriously, why does everyone care what the site is called? I do happen to prefer the previous name, but I, for one, come here for the content. If there hadn't been an article about the name change, I probably wouldn't have even noticed.

    I also agree with other comments that the new name might not attract the semi-curious web surfer as strongly, but look at us-- we've already found the site! It's Alex's problem if new people don't find the site, and it sounds like he's happy with his decision.

  • jman (unregistered) in reply to Erik

    wow, bad name change. Won't change my reading habits, I'll still come here but far less likely to hook in new readers with a crappy name like that. If I stumbled across a site called the daily wtf, I'd be inclined to check it out. If I stumbled across a site called worse than failure, I'd leave.

    WTF really summarized what this site was all about. Worse than failure just sucks

  • Jimmy (unregistered)

    Worse Than Failure = New Coke

  • Matt (unregistered)

    Long time reader, first time poster.

    As the quality of the posts has gone down (I'd much rather have one GOOD post per day than the multiple pieces of mediocre content that have appeared on this site of late.), the WTF name would at least bring a smile to my face. Once the old URL stops working, I'm going to stop reading.

    Now, how can I get a good deal on the leftover TheDailyWTF swag?

  • D (unregistered)

    Sad. Just... sad.

  • operagost (unregistered) in reply to b0red

    I suggest yet another name change... the Daily What the Fuck Were You Thinking!

  • Eli Sand (unregistered)

    Ok, let me get this straight... you renamed a website frequented by programming geeks that more than likely wear tshirts that say "WTF?" in big white letters on them to work every day (you know, cause geeks don't know how to do their own laundry unless there's a command line version of the washing machine) because you couldn't explain to your GRANDMOTHER what the site's name stood for (the point being the era your grandmother grew up in)?

    You win the daily WTF award on this one - and I don't think I've ever posted a comment on this site before, ever - until now.

    You couldn't even think to say, "... it stands for 'what the frig'" or something else? There's quite a few replacement slangs that begin with the letter f and would fit quite nicely and wouldn't hurt your virgin grandmothers ears - and she wouldn't hit you with her jesus cross either and tell you that you're going to H E DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS!

    Wow, just wow. Check your pants man, I think your vagina is dry.

  • David Cameron (unregistered)

    Alex,

    long time reader, rarely posting.

    The name change is a bad idea for the reason others have pointed out: WTF is the perfect phrase to describe what is posted here. It is appropriate for the industry.

    I say this as someone who rarely swears. It is pretty immature of all the people swearing to prove that can. Most people seemed to grow out of that by the age of 12. However the acronym WTF is embedded in the industry.

    I'll give it a week or so to see if the name changes back. If not I'll be deleting this from my bookmarks and I won't be visiting again. I'd guess that you are going to lose 75% of your readers.

    In the end it is your choice, it is your site. I personally think it is a bad choice.

    David Cameron

  • Eli Sand (unregistered) in reply to David Cameron
    David Cameron:
    ...Most people seemed to grow out of that by the age of 12. <snip>

    I'll give it a week or so to see if the name changes back. If not I'll be deleting this from my bookmarks and I won't be visiting again.

    Funny, I thought the whining mentality was supposed to die off around the age of 12 too...

    If you wanted to carry some extra weight to your "I won't read your site any more!!" sobbing, threaten not to digg any of the posts ;P

  • Gogu Vasile (unregistered)

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    That is all. Thank you.

  • FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that the 5 pages of comments on this haven't degraded into nothing but swearing

    fuck fuck fuck fuck

    also cocks

    captcha: sanitarium; NO U

  • (cs)

    Liked the old name better, and it felt more significant to the articles we'd read about here.....

    However it is not my site, and I'll continue reading anyway.

  • Lauri Laakso (unregistered)

    I stop reading you're s(h)ite, Yours truly, Lauri

  • (cs)

    You sold out?

    ... because you're not adult enough to swear in front of your family?

    So you renamed your site to three hastily assembled words that could "explain away" the acronym and sacrificed the entire spirit of the site in the doing?

    You tell me, What The Fuck is wrong with this picture?

  • (cs)

    I desperately want to be supportive of the name change but to be honest I liked "What The F*ck".

    "Worse Than Failure" doesn't really describe the content and see a bit "made up" to that it fits the original acronym.

    However, life moves on...

    (Keep up the good work)

  • Bucciarati (unregistered) in reply to Ryan
    Ryan:
    When do people make business plans based on how their Grandma likes the name? I thought that the target market determined the name.

    This name change is plain silly. Sad that Alex quoted his grandma as the person responsible for this.

    OMFG WTF ??1?

  • aikii (unregistered)

    Oh, I don't mind the politically correct rebranding ... the real origin of "WTF" can still be seen as an inside joke.

    About the new name, nice and quite relevant too. It's no about failures but strange survival of monsters than shouldn't even be born. It's about kind of corporate anti-darwinism. Instead of being still-born projects, resources are wasted at them, and like I said before, it's often due to overconfidence but it's more than that ; I think this new name really embraces the website's purpose from its very start. The only grief I have : it's less funny.

  • Bernhard (unregistered)

    You ARE failure joking right!? No failure way!

    I've enjoyed What The Failure for so long, and as you so accurately wrote, it's the only natural reaction to some of the content.

    MAN, I'm soooo failured off!!!

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Bernhard

    You rename the site to Worse than Failure, to make your grandma happy... making your readers angry!

    To me, I dont care, because is the content. But I will not remeber the new name, so please NEVER remove the old name. I will continue typing thedailywtf.com on the browser address.

  • mca (unregistered)

    WTF!?

  • jamie (unregistered) in reply to mca

    sigh!

    • terrible new name
    • even worse because you have tried to keep the old acronym
    • grandma? seriously?!
    • PC = not-cool anymore = are you selling out??
  • wtf (unregistered)

    WTF!? That sucks so bad i can't believe it!

    Politically correct my ass - to me this site is called What-the-Fuck!.. Dude... "Worse than Failure"?! You got that right... :-(

    Biggest wtf to date, right here.

  • (cs) in reply to Icarium
    Icarium:
    YOU RE A SISSY!

    No, he's a pussy.

  • Jurgen (unregistered)

    This sucks. It's websensed now!

  • Anum (unregistered)

    A small piece of me died today. Goodbye DailyWTF :)

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