>Enter Yggdrasil
This is perhaps the worst branding I've seen in awhile. It's impossible to say correctly without being taught, difficult to remember, and difficult to spell. It's almost like they don't want their efforts to be acknowledged.
This is perhaps the worst branding I've seen in awhile. It's impossible to say correctly without being taught, difficult to remember, and difficult to spell. It's almost like they don't want their efforts to be acknowledged.
Ask veit ek standa, heitir Yggdrasill, hár baðmr, ausinn hvíta auri; þaðan koma dǫggvar, þærs í dala falla, stendr æ yfir, grænn, Urðar brunni.
Yggdrasil is not. You can lookup the Google Trends [1] to see that it's not really popular outside of Northen Europe.
[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/16417794...
> Yggdrasil is an implementation of a new name-independent routing scheme and functions as an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network.
Somehow I don't think this project is aimed at "normal, mainstream people"...
Huh? So there are no Nordic techies?!?
I mean, the world of tech is littered with "permanently questionable" pronounciations, one more makes no difference. SQL, GIF, LOG4J, etc etc, they are all successful products despite people not agreeing on how they should be pronounced.
I'm Italian so I read it like it's written: "ee-gg-dra-seel".
"Worldtree" is too 1990s. Better to have something with the power of myth and lore.
When I was a nerd teenager in the 90s, reading F-PROT's built-in encyclopedia of computer viruses, it was hard not to notice the abundance of Tolkien and similar references. Hackers have always loved this stuff.
> Yggdrasil is the name of the authentication system that is currently used for authenticating user credentials for Minecraft. ... Mojang has said that this authentication system should be used by everyone for custom logins, but credentials should never be collected from users.