Well I only had a week to do it, and so I had to choose a new name quickly.<\/p>\n
I reckoned a lot of the site’s users would miss the announcement, and would turn to Google to find the new site.\u00a0 After a couple of hours of research I found that far more people search for phrases including the words ‘cheat’ and ‘words’ than any of my alternative names.\u00a0 So I quickly registered the name cheatwords.net and moved the site.<\/p>\n
Well it turns out that a lot of you really didn’t like the name ‘cheat’.\u00a0 In retrospect, that should have been obvious to me!\u00a0 I’d always shied away from the ‘cheat’ label myself in my 5 years running this site.\u00a0 People use the helper for many reasons, and I’d always felt that the site attracted word lovers who enjoyed playing Scrabble, not cheaters.<\/p>\n
I certainly never meant to offend anyone, and didn’t intend to effectively call you cheaters!<\/p>\n
Anyway, for the last week I’ve run a poll to see what people thought of the site name, and the results are now in.<\/p>\n
A whopping 4590 people voted!<\/p>\n
As you can see, the overwhelming majority (66%) wanted the site name to change, and so who am I to argue?<\/p>\n As of today, Word Helper<\/a><\/strong> is the new name for the site, and the URL is www.wordhelper.org<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Don’t worry if you still have cheatwords.net<\/strong> bookmarked.\u00a0 That domain will still work, it will just re-direct to wordhelper.org<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Sorry everyone – I’m only human \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oops. You will probably already know that due to legal problems I had to rename the site from its original name of scrabblehelper.net. Well I only had a week to do it, and so I had to choose a new … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/poll.png\" "\\"Poll")
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