CALL FOR HELP: Project Name Change

[stonesam92]

When I created this project, I named it WhatsMac without giving it too much thought and only expected it to be used by a few hundred people. Now that the project has become fairly popular, it has been brought to my attention that WhatsApp has in the past taken a fairly strong stance against unofficial reimplementations of it's product.

I believe that there is a key difference between this project and those linked which makes this project compliant with WhatsApp's TOS while others are not; while this project simply wraps WhatsApp Web in an app and does not interact directly with WhatsApp at all, the other linked projects were based on reverse engineering and reimplementing WhatsApp itself, and allowed for users to automate parts of the service, which allows spammers to abuse the service.

However since part of the complaint to WhatsAPI was regarding its possibly confusing name, and because I really do not want to see this project taken down, I am very hesitant to have the project linked with anything which could be interpreted as infringing on WhatsApp's property. As such, I have decided to err on the side of caution and will rename the project so that it has a name less similar to WhatsApp that WhatsMac.

If anyone following the project has any better name ideas I'd like to hear them, else the project will be renamed ChitChat in order to make clear its lack of official association with WhatsApp.

Links to the current project repository name will automatically redirect to the new repository, and once this change is completed it will be pushed, along with the recently added bug fixes, to users as the 1.1 update.