After a week of using DevRant, it looks more like a book of jokes for developers, than a social platform for serious discussion of developers stuff. :(

I kinda feel the same. I posted a pic of my cat a month ago, +50 and I still get upvotes. I posted three days ago a real question about a problem I encountered with adds on a project, only one comment and un upvote (dfox, yeaaaaaah !). I thought that in fact, devrant would be a more social stackoverflow...

@Enocra I too have the same feelings, I posted something joking about being desperate because I was on page 5 of google. Loads of up votes, posted a question about value of codecademy pro and got a few responses but would have liked more input I guess.

Maybe it's just good to vent on here and ask questions elsewhere.

It is

@philcr here is a venting place. It's called devrant not devhelp

devRant is for venting, ranting and lightharted discussion imho. It isn't stackoverflow

@Bramskyyy I agree but a question about learning to code and pro subscription isn't in depth it's light hearted. Admittedly I did miss !rant from my question

That's why Twitter has a character amount limit. You can, but you should not write your next best-selling book based on tweets (even though I've seen some books made entirely of emojis and mock-up tweets...)

You're welcome to rant here, but if you have a serious question, try with "!rant", sometimes it helps

It's for ranting not asking for help

@Enocra @Enocra what you're describing is not a more social SO, it's just SO as a fees. What you want is just another questions board. That's not what devRant is about imho

I really enjoy devRant. It is not supposed to be stack but there is a lot of good sound tech advice and tool discovery recommendations. I have been using 3 tools I read about on devRant.
What is your feed set to? Maybe try Algo.
Good luck.

In response to the 9gag stuff:
Free sticker and free stress ball for x amount of votes? The best strategy is to get the lowest hanging fruit.

@Bramskyyy from my experience Stack overflow community sometimes is very helpful :)
but sometimes developers are very mean :(

@apex now I understand what does '!rant' mean

@GnoeJuan maybe the free stuff should be taken away

Wow this is meta a f

Dev rant about devrant. I'm impressed.

To the people that replied with "that's what DevRant is, it's not StackOverflow", well done.

stackoverflow = questions about dev problems

devrant = ranting about daily dev stuff that make you wanna punch a baby in the face

@philcr even though I'm so close to the stress ball... I agree

Thanks, i understand now. I also translated the word rant to my language, so now I think I really understand. And I have nothing to rant, so leaving the community.

I didn't want a helpboard, just wanted to find people with similar interests, but ranting, for me is not what I want.

Thanks for so many response to my 'rant'.

@grauschnabel That's a shame. The reality is, very few people ACTUALLY rant.

Cool rant, get it out there, humans do adapt, you know.

@Enocra
In my mind I open devRant and expect WTFs and a good laugh. If I have a problem, google/stackoverflow tends to answer me.

DevRant community isn't close in size, either, maybe the ones that read it couldn't answer as serious as the question required.

What if 9gag is the one stealing posts from Devrant? Huh?Never thought of that?

And me who thought Devrant was about Nyan cats :disappointed:

Boo hoo

I thought that's what it is meant to be! 😃

@bdhobare they might do it... But haven't seen it yet

I come here for the personal stories. Even if its a picture of your cat that formatted your drive by stepping on the keyboard, it is still a personal story or a rant. Really don't care if it is a rant or not.

A generic picture from ze Internet works too if you tell the story and it fits Into the context. Usually I just skip the "look at this funny pic i found on reddit/gag/facebook" because there just isn't any personal touch.

But still the community controls the content by reacting to it. If most of users like nyancats and upvote then thats what the content will be. Still if you look at top lists there is quality content.