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Comments on What should the "webmasters" site name and url be?
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What should the "webmasters" site name and url be?
When SE's webmasters community was just starting out, they had a Meta discussion about what the site name should be. Although they settled on "webmasters", some of the arguments given at the time may no longer apply today.
For example, Bing still uses the term webmaster tools, but Google appears to have moved away from using the term.
If anyone has any alternative name suggestions, it might be easier to discuss possible names now, at proposal stage, rather than after the URL has been chosen.
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I have personally never been all that keen on the term 'Webmaster' for 2 reasons:
- It implies a certain level of competency that has already been attained rather than talking of levels of knowledge that are gained over time. Thus I believe the term is off putting for those who do not feel themselves as 'master' level.
- The term is laden with a gender stereotype (male) which is very much out of touch with modern times.
My personal preference is Web Developers. This does not claim any form of mastery and does not come with any gender stereotyping while also loosely encompassing all of the areas of interest to this section of Codidact.
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