I'm a Byteball dev and a service provider for the byteball platform and I'm still going to call it byteball because I never agreed with Obyte as it's an inconvenient name to pronounce and it looks weird. If you were going to change the name then at least do it right, or are you planning on doing this every year now so you don't need to put much effort into it? Makes me wonder. Anyway, the management has taken a step to the worse in multiple fronts so I'm not even mad. Dropping slack for an inferior service, changing the name into a worse one, having all these moon lambo bois like tarmo888 making dumb comments like "scaling can only come AFTER adoption". I'm glad the price is pumping with those pump and dump news though, because I am increasingly seeking for an exit from this project. It had all the potential in the world but is now screwed due to the uneducated but vocal moon lambo bois who joined the project with the last rally (2017/2018).

And no, I got my first Bytes in October 2017 (like most other cryptocurrencies I got) and joined Slack community in end of March 2018 when email attestation was announced.

But go ahead, make your fork, nobody is stopping you. Good luck.