I still think it was a dumb move. A lot of work had gone into branding the website and that all went in the trash. Our name wasn't a reference to the podcast, it was a reference to the subreddit.
I honestly still think some people here underestimate how notorious the subreddit was, and also how niche the podcast is. If you're not on the left in the US chances are pretty good you've never even heard of the podcast, but r/CTH was a big bad bogeyman for basically all of reddit - which is what, like 400 million users a month?
What's done is done, but I think it was a dumb (and undemocratic) move.
I still think it was a dumb move. A lot of work had gone into branding the website and that all went in the trash. Our name wasn't a reference to the podcast, it was a reference to the subreddit.
I honestly still think some people here underestimate how notorious the subreddit was, and also how niche the podcast is. If you're not on the left in the US chances are pretty good you've never even heard of the podcast, but r/CTH was a big bad bogeyman for basically all of reddit - which is what, like 400 million users a month?
What's done is done, but I think it was a dumb (and undemocratic) move.
For this reason I preferred the old name.
(and it pissed off a certain pod host :capybara-theorist:)
r/CTH was largely notorious because of brigading and other disdain for Reddit's rules.
As long as we do lots of brigading from here, that notoriety will build back up again.
Sure. My point is by changing the name destroyed all the cache we had, and we only have like 5% of the users we used to to do it.