New JoyRant build (38) with a new feature:

Every user that you see in a rant will be stored in a list which can be used for @mentioning and viewing the profile.

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/IMG_529...
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Sometimes you just don‘t remember the exact name of a user and hopefully this feature will help.

It might also be a nice summary of how many users are active.

thanks @retoor for molodetz :)

Is it Android compatible? I'm still on the official app

So when the current backend goes down, who's creating a new backend?

@lungdart no, only iOS. For android there is skyRant by the guy who was something like 007 and then changed his name.

@Lensflare liquid glass?

@superdupernova not out yet

@Lensflare ok

Ti molodetz, v tom zhe dukhe!

@atheist probably retoor.

@Wisecrack yeah my thought is a JoyRant update might be a good way to switch to it when this all inevitably comes down. Might actually have to install it just in case.

@atheist I'm completely useless as far as technical help, but I think it'd be cool to see a few regular DR people like you, retoor, and a couple others build out a full successor.

It wouldn't be DR, but it'd be the next best thing seeing as DR is slowly fading. But I think too what made Devrant what it is, is the people to begin with.

It made the post/thread content highly visible, like it was some site-endorsed level post, instead of just another blog post, it made looking up users who responded and voted easy, so you could reward engagement by going through their own stuff and co-comment and support good posts and have people keep coming back.

It kept advertising tasteful (and minimal, maybe too minimal for a site trying to support itself).

It didn't have too many frills, just the right kinds, like identifiable avatars.

Voting was designed to minimize bullshit and mostly worked for a while.

@atheist And on that note, if you ever do build out a platform, I'll come post content, and comment on new users posts like crazy to keep people around and engaged.

I've been wanting for a while now to do both more long form and short form content, with more variety than math shitposts and hottakes. Just haven't found the right platform for it. DevRant was, and is great, but I knew from the day I joined that it was a cooling ember of a 'community' (too many people use that word), but of all the platforms it came the closest to actually achieving what that word means.

Almost felt like an insiders club that was semi-open.

And unlike sites like say reddit, content was mostly unmoderated, and unlike sites like substack, it was always two-way communications where everyone was supporting and engaging with each others comments and posts, not just one-to-many relationships.