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Call the tab Ask, and let the opinion be Mimir's - #45

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Two Norse names is one more than a new reader can hold. Sabrina's first impression was that the app was overwhelming, and part of that is having to learn that Mimir is the product and Kvasir is the thing inside it that answers. Neither name tells a Genshin player anything, and nobody searches for either.

The naming convention governs projects. Kvasir is not a project — it is a tab inside one. So:

  • the tab becomes Ask, the verb for what you do there
  • every opinion is attributed to Mimir, which is already the name on the door

The button in that tab already said "Ask" and the field already said "Ask about your account…". This makes the tab agree with its own contents rather than introducing anything new.

The icon goes with it

🜛 (U+1F71B) sat in the Alchemical Symbols block, whose font coverage is thin enough that the tab can render as an empty box on Android. It is now (U+25C8, Geometric Shapes) where the other seven nav icons already live.

That leaves the logo glyph 🜁 as the last one in that block — the defect from the logo conversation, still open.

What did not change

internal/kvasir keeps its name. Nobody reads a package path, and renaming it would be risk with no reader on the other end.

Everywhere user-visible was covered: nav, the opinion card, the chat, the character page's button, the System page heading, and the manual — which opens beside the page and is as user-facing as anything.

Rendered rather than assumed: the chat now reads "Mimir reads what the engine calculated for this account", with no Kvasir left in it.

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Two Norse names is one more than a new reader can hold. Sabrina's first
impression of the app was that it was overwhelming, and part of that is
having to learn that Mimir is the product and Kvasir is the thing inside
it that answers — neither name tells a Genshin player anything, and
nobody searches for either.

The naming convention that governs this is about projects. Kvasir is
not a project; it is a tab inside one. So the tab becomes the verb for
what you do there, and every opinion is attributed to Mimir, which is
already the name on the door.

The button in that tab already said "Ask" and the field already said
"Ask about your account" — so this makes the tab agree with its own
contents rather than introducing anything.

The icon goes with it. U+1F71B sat in the Alchemical Symbols block,
whose font coverage is thin enough that the tab can render as an empty
box; it is now U+25C8, from Geometric Shapes, where the other seven
already live. That leaves the logo glyph as the last one in that block.

internal/kvasir keeps its name. Nobody reads a package path, and
renaming it would be risk with no reader on the other end.

Rendered rather than assumed: the chat page now reads "Mimir reads what
the engine calculated for this account", with no Kvasir left in it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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kristianwind merged commit 5141eb5 into main Sep 1, 2026
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kristianwind deleted the rename-kvasir-to-ask branch September 1, 2026 12:18
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