How was DR in the glory days? I joined a few years ago when it was already was niche

We had weeklies and lots of joke/meme spam.
But it wasn’t that different tbh.

Oh yeah, I remember the weekly post. It still is fun to read through some older posts

There was a legendary guy here named ostream. But then, when we needed him the most, he did not delete himself. I believe, that ostream can save the world.

The creators, dfox and trogus, ranted and commented often. I liked the April Fools post that they did every year.

seemed stuffy a bit

you could find lots of funny content though
also the app worked

back when we still had @rutee07, @Fast-Nop, @stuxnet, @linuxxx, @Floydian / @Floydimus, @irene (the original one), @condor and a couple more, which I'm forgetting to mention... it was a good place to rant. It was an actual devRANT, not devFacebook2. You could read all kinds of absurd stories.

Now it's more of a habit to open up dR. The content is rarely any good, mostly childish posts desperately hoping for any attention

@bittersweet had some interesting rants.

@netikras @irene is still lurking around I guess. If you mis him, he is on Matrix chat.

@whimsical iirc this alias is currently parked by uyouthe. Irene has been impersonated at least twice

@netikras it's bevause many people there have the same name :p Everyone is called Yurii, Ira, Katya, Anna. It's crazy.

@whimsical naah, it's been reserved the same day Irene deleted its account

In the VERY beginning, we had a guy named Alex, who wrote the angriest and most profane rants you would ever read. He was most popular for a while before being overtaken by a infosec guy named linuxxx, who was the first and only ranter to reach 100k upvotes and get a custom face tattoo in the avatar editor.

People used to beg for upvotes to get free swag. People posted their rubber duckies. April fools had pranks, like pixelated avatars and binary score counters. There was a rant topic each week.

Then Alice showed up and became the pink-loving queen of devRant. She was very skilled at design and front-end work, but also ran a stats database that used the devRant API.

At some point, there was a rush where a handful of people were making devRant clients for every platform. JS96, who is still around, made the most popular one for Windows.

dfox and, to a lesser degree, trogus were both active.

The app was regularly updated, speedy, and stable. 99+ notifications per day was possible.

Memeposting has always been an issue, so eventually the “categories” of rant were introduced (rant, meme, devRant, etc.) because the memes were pissing off some of the OGs (I was like 17 at the time so I don’t mind them)

Posting a meme in the rant category became blasphemy. If your rant was positive in tone, it usually was marked with “!rant”. For the most part, people actually stayed on topic and ranted about tech.

There were in-person meetups (generally in Europe). Rarely, organized by the devRant team in NY but mostly organized by the community around Germany. There was at least two giant threads where we posted face reveals. I guess mine is gone now. People used to upvote spam as a gesture. Alex actually stopped ranting because it made him too angry. This platform was made for him lmao.

Linuxxx eventually disappeared and that was the end of old devRant. I think Alice was still active for a little bit after Linuxxx left but I don’t think it was a long tenure.

Thanks for the history lesson. I'm sad I found this platform when it was already dying. At least Linuxx was still active then :)

I don't recall seeing Alice. Never saw an April fools I think :(

@AlgoRythm

> The app was regularly updated, speedy, and stable

Except for the iOS app, which was crashing every time that the current seconds counter was divisible by 42 (roughly).

This annoyed the hell out of a specific user who then made an unofficial iOS app.

@Lensflare at the time, I had android, so the extent of the crashing was only exposed to me through other people talking about it. Now I have iOS, but the app hasn’t been updated in then centuries so it’s not a fair comparison.