What’s your take on building a community-led devRant overhaul?

Looks like @dfox and @trogus aren’t maintaining this anymore and despite my efforts, I haven’t heard back from them.

Maybe an open-source devRant reboot without the pitfalls of existing platforms would be welcomed? Let me know and let’s band together to make it happen if at all.

Well, i'm building a Reddit like clone, but I will not try to push it anymore. Did effort enough to find a clubhouse here. Thing is that i love to work on it and have the time. My current project (that actually is already in use for a year with daily activity) is a chat application and thus not a replacement.

So, we have the reddit-ish one, but @blindXfish is also working on literally a clone, and that one (don't know if i may share the link) works very well. I tested it hardcore today. I already made a spambot for it. Yes, you read that right :P Was quite hard since it's a nextjs (blegh) application and that requires some playwright knowledge.

Mine, has AI infused description and SEO tags in the meta and is backend rendered (I prefer that, just like devRant is). The bots for my platform just literally use the website with basic http requests. Not even an API needed! :D

Also, I had another version of devRant: https://rant.molodetz.nl/ This one even supports the ios app

This is my reddit version: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

All functionality that it has works fine. It's made with python, FastAPI, jinja, postgress, reddit, background workers and runs always with three separate instances, so no surprises with scaling the application. But backend rendered is just very nice. It feels decent, like a Mercedes. The bots that now create the content are very good. They base their personality on articles like https://news.app.molodetz.nl causing that I had some real elon fanboy bots. Elon had multiple communities with his name on it.

I also we should move on to a different clubhouse. I mean, I can work daily on it as i do with my chat platform almost and it is nice to see daily new fixes / upgrades. Having actually a say in the development. I have all the time for it.

I think I will just try it to make it a community without devRant members I guess. I start with bots, i think reddit also did that.