Do you remember how you've found devRant?

Frankly, i don't. I probably was looking for a technical solution to something.

Also, how long did it take before you registered?

Found app or site first?

It took me more than a year or so before I decided to register. I'm a quite old user. Had a different account once. RIP.

I saw someone post an image to /r/programmerhumor and decided to check the site out

Registered soon after

I was super pissed about windows and whatever excel is, and yea here I am

I think everyone is here is connected by actually giving a fuck and thus rant. Giving a fuck about how things are done is our connection probably.

In that case, I would've expected more flame wars about how to deal with stuff and less about just saying the word "rust".

A colleague told me about it and I registered immediately because I loved the idea.
Normally I‘m very averse to create an account but I felt like this one would be worth it.

That colleague has been active only for about a month or so, but I never actually stopped being active (except for a year break, I think).

Thanks, colleague.

I typed "fuck java" into the search bar.

It was on my Google Play home page while I was looking for something unrelated.

@lorentz imagine, we're missing all those users that come from there now. Maybe sky rant actually doe welcome new users.

@feuerherz would be interesting to track that.

I wanted to rant about angular and I looked for a website called "rant dev" or "ranting website for dev" or something

A friend told me about it. They left soon after but I stayed.

Site first for me, searching for something long time ago and I found DevRant very entertaining! lol

two years ago, I found the site first...didn't know how I stumbled upon it but yeah, I did and I love it

> "Do you remember how you've found devRant?"

Another developer, "John", who I frequently ranted about sent me a link.

We would frequently swap links (never posting anything), then eventually the new wore off and he stopped.

I continued and eventually started posting, always wondering if "John" ever started to read devrant again.

I was searching on how were Python developers called (Pythonistas) and found a meme on devrant, and decied to sub

About a decade ago, a colleague sent a link to an image here to the group chat at work.

I've been here on and off, depending on how selfish and moronic the community gets.

Wizard James told me about it.

@donkulator the WEB GENESIS one or the CYBER TRUST one?

@donkulator top comment.

@NoMad I think the quality of this community way higher than any other community. For example, I gave everyone the power over my bot network for deleting rants if they're spam and no one abused it. Where do you find such network elsewhere? devRant is maybe not the biggest community anymore, but maybe it's the biggest one with decent people.

@NoMad I feel called out. lol

I just went looking for dev community to learn dev. I stayed and became a sarcastic asshole. I have learned quite a bit here. Lately less so.

@Demolishun Are you still worken on your OpenCV stuff?

@retoor I ain't done shit. I posted update on my rant of what I did. I got excited about it for like a few hours and then did stuff with family.

@Demolishun yh, family stuff > computer stuff. Dream is programming together with kiddo .

@retoor yeah, my daughter wants to learn blender. She spent about an hour getting into before getting frustrated. We will keep trying. She will get it eventually. She is smart.

@Demolishun wow, blender is a serious skill. I did it for a while and kinda had the same feeling as programming later, i felt like a ninja. I really, really advise to do this one, good speed, beautiful result: https://youtube.com/watch/...

It says 20 minutes. But make that three hours :P But this video, you won't get bored and I finished it - so no issues.

If she can learn blender, that's really impressive. It's a skill equal to coding. I quitted because i can't design. It's the same as I can do CSS but not design. So CSS i'm also not very advanced in. See no point.

How old is your daughter?

@retoor this one is 13. She is struggling with the terminology at the moment. She will need to learn more geometry too. I think seeing the axis and points in action will help with her math.

@Demolishun she's lucky to have you. You're a great resource for such stuff. Imagine how many parents can't help with such interest.

I had my own service called Void. It's down now due to downscaling my services and bills but it was about shouting stuff into the void. Essentially a temporary short message bulletin board. You'd write a message, max 256 chars, it would get persisted on the server and shown publically, but it would be erased without a trace after 5 minutes. So no matter what you wrote in frustration it would be gone without consequences or traceability later. Was kinda poetic and I created it out of frustration in the first place.

One day I was shouting something there and then decided to look if there are other places similar to that, if other devs had a space they would use to vent.. which is how I found DevRant literally by googling "developer ranting" or venting or something like that. Pretty straightforward path led me here xD

@Hazarth so people pretty high up in politics in the USA were using a service that allowed posts to exist for 24 hours (or some time) before deleted. They were thinking they were posting shit anonymously and passing secret messages to other people that nobody was smart enough to figure it out. Pretty sure the NSA was logging all this shit knew what they were posting. The stuff they were posting was illegal as hell. So imagine a manager using a service like that thinking they are all sly and the internet will not remember. lol

@Hazarth I have used your service. You had it once on your devRant profile IIRC.

@Demolishun someone in the internetdiaries said that security guys used sites of barbershops and stuff where they could login and used that for secret communications. Interesting, but I do not consider it the best way.

@Demolishun heh, didn't think about that. Was mostly a service for my own use, though it was Public.

Heh, next time I'll think about how I can keep it public without being searchable or screenable, could be a fun challenge

@retoor
Oh, actually was still linked there, I removed it since It's down rn anyway :D thanks for trying it out though

@Hazarth sure. If you have any more to test.

@Hazarth maybe have it shows images so at least they have to do OCR. Make it harder.

I don't really remember any of it due to my spectacularly bad memory (that may actually be due to how my brain structure is)

Can't remember exactly, as it's been quite a while ago.

It was either any of these, or some combination of:

0. Was frustrated w/ something tech-related.

1. Was looking for new programming-related jokes to fill the void left by devopsreactions.tumblr.com/ , which has been inactive for _some_ time.

2. Was looking for a solution for some problem.

I had been lurking for a month, maybe two before I decided to create an account, as I felt it would be worth it.

Am ! disappointed.

can't actually remember how I first came here. but I really liked the idea and the posts at the time so I stayed ( with short outs ) outhough mostly as an observer ;)