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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: fanpeople on Wed, 01 May 2019, 19:05:26
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So Massdrop changed their name to Drop, does this mean Geekhack will now change to just Hack?
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prolly not ?
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Makes about as much sense as logi
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I bet fanpeeps is doin' them straya drugs again.
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Going to log onto Hack and check the latest keebs news
Hmmm has a buzz to it. Just like the "news" on feed.
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And ima just call you people now.
Also, drop? Just drop? Ima drop some something since that the only drops I know.
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Changing an established brand's name has in the past often bit companies in the ass. It is known colloquially as "pulling a Borland" after a company who was once a major player but not after it had changed its name to something inane. They suffered huge losses because people thought that it had gone out of business.
Massdrop changed its name exactly 21 years later, on the day. Great timing!
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One more joke?
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So Massdrop changed their name to Drop, does this mean Geekhack will now change to just Hack?
This seems like a Reddit post...
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And ima just call you people now.
Also, drop? Just drop? Ima drop some something since that the only drops I know.
fine with me.... son.
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The renaming of Massdrop is odd. The only way they'd distinguish themselves in search results for specific queries would be if someone searched 'drop.com', which I doubt people will begin adopting in posts.
DuckDuckGo for example managed to obtain duck.com but they're not rebranding to just Duck.
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And ima just call you people now.
Also, drop? Just drop? Ima drop some something since that the only drops I know.
fine with me.... son.
I like it!
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I'm not really feeling the name change either. Wonder what they were thinking.
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I'm not really feeling the name change either. Wonder what they were thinking.
/ranttriggered
Have you seen their utter indecision on site layout? I don't think they think ANYTHING through. Honestly, if they just made the original site take you straight past discussions and to drops when you click a community I would have no problems with it. But now it is so convoluted I literally avoid the site and just check the headlines on the spam they send me to see if I'm interested in anything. It takes me at least a minute to get through ****ty webcode and animations so I can see if there is a new drop on the audiophile page, and if I want to search through comments now I have to scroll down and ctr-f 20 separate times.
Massdrop has never felt more out of touch with the community than recently to me, especially with the whole $1.5 holy panda that ignores the existence of every other panda clone, not to even mention the ****tiness of apparel collabs, terrible attempts to market price markups as "drops" in tech (amazon almost always has the same thing for less than $2 more), and some really terrible cooking collabs. The only good collabs anymore are a couple of the audiophile and the knife collabs that are made at WE.
I hope Massdrop gets its **** together soon, because rebranding cleans off none of the **** they've stained themselves with recently.
/endrant
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They really went weird in the past couple of years. Seem more corporate-driven than community-driven.
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I'm not really feeling the name change either. Wonder what they were thinking.
/ranttriggered
Have you seen their utter indecision on site layout? I don't think they think ANYTHING through. Honestly, if they just made the original site take you straight past discussions and to drops when you click a community I would have no problems with it. But now it is so convoluted I literally avoid the site and just check the headlines on the spam they send me to see if I'm interested in anything. It takes me at least a minute to get through ****ty webcode and animations so I can see if there is a new drop on the audiophile page, and if I want to search through comments now I have to scroll down and ctr-f 20 separate times.
Massdrop has never felt more out of touch with the community than recently to me, especially with the whole $1.5 holy panda that ignores the existence of every other panda clone, not to even mention the ****tiness of apparel collabs, terrible attempts to market price markups as "drops" in tech (amazon almost always has the same thing for less than $2 more), and some really terrible cooking collabs. The only good collabs anymore are a couple of the audiophile and the knife collabs that are made at WE.
I hope Massdrop gets its **** together soon, because rebranding cleans off none of the **** they've stained themselves with recently.
/endrant
Man I hear you. Seems like every time I got there the site has a new layout.
Totally agree when I just want to look at MK drops it takes too many steps.
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Probably to stop their comment threads to be referred to as "mass debating".
Now it just "drop debating".
Masshack Geekdrop.
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https://equityzen.com/trending/massdrop/ (https://equityzen.com/trending/massdrop/)
Mass as a word is something I've previously only heard in science-ing classes
From a pre-IPO stand point it kind of makes sense to distance themselves from a word that's commonly followed by words of negative context.
The libretard part of my brain, the one that grew up on alternate media, before the phrase alternate media (#1 haplesster) was even a thing says that dang is dumb son.
massdrop.com wasn't all that hard to remember...
drop.com reminds me of spilt beer
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https://equityzen.com/trending/massdrop/ (https://equityzen.com/trending/massdrop/)
Mass as a word is something I've previously only heard in science-ing classes
From a pre-IPO stand point it kind of makes sense to distance themselves from a word that's commonly followed by words of negative context.
The libretard part of my brain, the one that grew up on alternate media, before the phrase alternate media (#1 haplesster) was even a thing says that dang is dumb son.
massdrop.com wasn't all that hard to remember...
drop.com reminds me of spilt beer
I'm sure they hired some pr0-marketer to do this sort of thing.. Should be fine.