Great idea. I just wonder how Flohmarkt is read by non-Germans. Anyone want to state their opinion, their initial experience seeing the word, on that?
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Swede here, see no issue with the name. I'll just ignore the h when pronouncing though.
My American brain wants to read it as "FlowMart", or "Flowmark". Neither of which I have a problem with.
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"flow market"
Initial impressions of the name are not great.
I think an English localization as 'Flowmarkt' or 'Flowmarket' might be more catchy in English-speaking countries, since the intended pronunciation for 'Flohmarkt' isn't clear at a first glance.
I forgot its spelling the moment i scrolled past it.
I read it as being pronounced something like "flow-marked"
yeah, it's quite close
just read it as 'flow market,' realized it was german, and looked up the word. it doesn't look weird at first glance.
At least most speakers of European languages will pronounce it close enough to German - though most will not do make the r in markt as hard as Germans do.
Yeah but if you had to search for it you'd have a trouble spelling it. Flowmarked would be how English speakers would hear that I think.
It probably needs an English brand name for outside the germano-sphere - fedimarket?
And why should we name things for the exclusive convenience of monolingual English speakers to the detriment of everyone else?
I don't disagree conceptually, but English has been a lingua franca for a long time now.
That's not an issue for brands. German and Chinese brands are just doing fine everywhere with the possible exception of the two countries in the world where people are not exposed to other languages.
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Definitely weird on first reading. New names often seem weird or dumb at first so maybe I'll just get used to it. Anglicizing it might make sense? Fleamarkt?
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This is what i need so i can finally delete facebook but unfortunately this is too early and small with nothing piblically uk based and no one looking at it so things would never sell.
Really interesting! can't wait to see how it progresses along.
Maybe someone may want to put links to Flohmarkt instances on Craigslist or FB Marketplace to put more eyes on it?
any of them US?
Feel free to host an US instance :)
What localities does this operate in so far?
Cool. If u can host it as a tor hidden service that is a large an influential market that might benefit from such a thing. Haven't looked but it might need some additional features to work as a decent platform in that sense.