Phone broke, screen fell off 😣 Now I can't download devRant on my new phone 😅 There's a community Android client, right? What's the name and where do I find it?

The name is SkyRant and afaik you can find it in the Play Store

Looks like we have a serial downvoter on the loose

@Lensflare I just assume its that guy named Buttfuck or Buttfon? I dunno.

3rd party clients are iffy, even if they're from trusted members of the community. I've only downloaded one (I forget what it's called and who made it, but it was something like devRant UWP) and that's because I was super into UWP at the time and wanted to learn from the guy's well-done app.

This is all to say, just use the web app on your phone. I've heard it works pretty much identically, except I guess you don't get notifications.

Update: I remembered. It was called devRant UWP (I was right!) by @JS96

@AlgoRythm what do you mean, iffy?
In a sense they are more trustworthy than the original clients because they are open source.

@Lensflare Community members have less at stake than the platform owners, who have at the very least financial incentive to deal with your data responsibly.

Take a look at retoor who made a bunch of devrant shit and then went insane and wrote a fuckton of spambots.

You've gotta be really selective with the software you run, that's always been rule 1 of the internet.

@Lensflare Besides my posts being insta-downvoted (not pointing any fingers, but it started when retoor went to the dark side...) my bias in this matter also comes from the fact that I've been a Minecraft addict my entire life and I've seen 100s of malicious / trojan mods. It's a very common thing in the community unfortunately, and even non-technical people know what RATting is over there (even if they don't know what it stands for, what it means, or even that it's an acronym for anything)

@AlgoRythm it looks like everyone is affected by the downvoting that started recently

@Lensflare I noticed. I don't think it's targeted specifically at me, but someone - anyone's guess who - seems to have a vendetta against the community and is just downvoting everything. It's also clearly automated as it happens quickly, at any point in the day.

I went to the second page of devRant feed today (eugh) and saw a post from like 20 days ago telling people to sign up for retoor's (at the time) anti-spambot army.

I just laughed to myself because less than a few weeks later any account you would have contributed has a great chance of downvoting your posts today.... lol