This is a follow-up to the discussion on [renaming the site to match its FAQ, or changing the FAQ to match the site name][1]. The question is one of the highest voted questions on here, and moderators have told me to post a separate question proposing the actual name change to keep it separate from the discussion about if we should make our Name and FAQ match.
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The name "Programmers" was selected for our site back when this was a Q&A site meant for programmers to ask and answer questions that were not related to programming. The [site scope has changed dramatically since then][2] to be for conceptual questions on software development only, and the descriptive name of **Programmers** no longer fits our site.

I believe our name is the biggest reason for the extremely high number of bad/off-topic questions that get asked here, because users not familiar with our site think this is a Q&A site about programmers, not one about conceptual software development.

The best analogy I can think of is creating an `Athletes.SE` which is only for conceptual questions about sports, while questions about athletes themselves, or technical questions about sports, are both off-topic. It's very confusing, especially to new users.

I don't like sifting through so many off-topic questions to find ones that won't get closed, so would like to pick a new name for our site that better matches the site's scope, and change our site's name by doing the following:

 - Change the Name displayed on our site from Programmers to something else. This would be a cosmetic change only.

 - Register the name as a new SE domain name for the site to use

 - Keep the `programmers.stackexchange` domain name active, and simply redirect it to the new site's domain name for SEO and to maintain old links


As for what name to use, I think the name should be something the community decides. If we get the OK to do something like this from SE, we can create a meta thread to determine a new name for the site.

To summarize, we advertise as a Q&A site about programmers, however we are not a site about programmers. We are a site for getting expert answers on conceptual questions about software development. Lets change our name to clarify that.



 [1]: http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/q/2948/1130
 [2]: http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/q/3412/1130