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@dfox is it April fools joke?
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Unfortunately the timing is pretty bad but this isn't an April Fools joke. We wanted to make sure we gave everyone a full month before "closing time" for devRant and we head over to Semicolon JS full-time at the end of April.
We did have an April Fools joke planned (database corruption with no backups and all data lost) but we thought that combined with this announcement was a bit too much at once! -
@trogus bye bye devRant 😂😂😂
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@billgates we'll see what we can do!
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@theothergod Don't worry, I'll still be working on the same style of swag. Check out our new stress ball!
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@dfox i spent like a month building my client app... it would be such a waste...
As for your first comment, seems like i have clairvoyance :)
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@billgates Hard to say if we'll open source it, I know @dfox has a lot of proprietary code in there that we might use in another project down the line. Worse case, we can send you a slick Semicolon JS t-shirt. What's your size?
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@trogus I'd rather have a devRant one though. Since you're shutting down, can I drop by and pick up all the swag... for free?
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@dfox @trogus where can i get that tshirt?
Cant wait for the framework to release... Finally a useful awesome game-changing js framework to make the js community a more better place.
Well devrant is just a small sacrifice to pay for a the time needed to work on such a js framework.
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At first I was pretty positive that this was an April Fools joke but now I've come to the the realization that it probably isn't :(
They are only two people so I do not think they would take all that time to set up a domain, t-shirts and work everything out. I really wish that was the case but thinking about it I just do not think that would be reasonable.
I hope I am wrong but at this point I think I am correct and this is sadly not a hoax. -
@billgates old devRant shirts will more likely go to a local homeless shelter. No matter what you do in life, best to leave the world better than you found it
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@thedevone it was a lot of work, but when the framework is released, it'll all be worth it!
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April fool's day. You nearly caught me @dfox. 😂😂😂
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@AlgoRythm After our podcast with DHH (listen here if you haven't already: https://devrant.io/podcasts/...) we kept in touch and he's been telling us about how painful this js framework space is for so many of the devs that work on Rails. Why do new frameworks keep popping up? Because they all approach the problem from the same perspective and therefore instill the same fundamental flaws.
Semicolon JS takes a categorically different approach to building web products, starting with the end user in mind and solving the deeper, unmet needs of developers. Design Thinking is an integral part in the product creation process, which allows for us to build an elegant solution quite unlike anything that's come before. Once we can demo it publicly, you'll see what I'm talking about. The response to our private testing has been overwhelming positive. "It's so obvious, why isn't everyone doing this already?!" has been a common reaction. -
@trogus then the devrant will be puled down from play store
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@trogus really
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@trogus That answer has literally nothing to do with you not being a dev 😂. You're being so general about this project too, it can literally be summed up as "better". No details!
AND LETS NOT FORGET
A SEMICOLON IS THE WINK PART OF A WINK FACE. ;) -
There is one semicolon JS library already https://github.com/dchest/...
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You know i understand giving the shirts to the homeless but we could email @dfox our addresses where he could send us the extra stressballs since he wouldn't need the stockpile he has since devRant is shutting down.
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@dfox Yes that would do it...mabey upload source to github, or assign close friends to manage it...i don't want to lose DevRant.
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Let me throw a spanner in the mix. I was about to get my stressball cause my rant reached 300 up votes and then the new update pushed the stressball limit to 500. And now I'm reading this. Fortunately, no one around this way will believe this, till it gets unplugged. I joined :/ at a time when I didn't make a lot of sense to me. But the fact that it was full of fellow devs. It didn't have to make sense. I grew to love this community and I believe @dfox and @trogus will not unplug us from our matrix. And definitely not after so much effort. Let's think for a moment that this is true. I would glad keep it running for the love of the game. The day is long.
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I still believe it's April fool. Why?
Their comments, purposely "too much", like someone telling you he will kill himself by hanging on the Empire State Building...
And if they say it's April fool they'll ruin the joke.
Then, maybe the ;JS is interesting, but not the name and I'm surprised that the people who found "devRant" named something ;JS (specially for the reason they gave)
Most people probably agree about the name. Just call it "NextJS". (btw, billion dollars framework / standard? ☺ok)
I'm sad you guys think devRant is not worth it. DevRant can be a continuous money source if you want it. Why? Because we would do whatever you want to keep it running , just send us your patreon page and you'll see what I mean...
If it isn't April Fool, you can still say it is.. And then rethink your future.
Though, if it really is too late. Well, farewell. You guys created an "Aaron swartz" level project, I'm proud of you!
Then you guys killed it, I don't know what to think of you. -
@thedev totally agreed
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@xios you could always send it to me
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@thedev good idea! I seconded
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Revolutionary products can take time for society to recognize their significance. Edison's lightbulb was just another lightbulb (lightbulbs had existed for 80 years). Ford's Model-T was just another automobile. MS-DOS was just another OS. The iPhone was just another cellular phone. And Semicolon JS is just another JS framework.
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@trogus whats the significance of MS DOS? 🤔
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At this point DevRant has a life of its own and should be passed off to those who value it and continue to have passion for it in the case that your 'no joke' April's fools isn't some April's fools joke.
There are plenty of capable devs here (myself excluded) and possibly a few willing to take this great community and potential money maker app called DevRant off your hands... ;) -
@arcadesdude and make dfox beg to give the company back after it has reached the place like google and ms.
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@arcadesdude let me know when you want to start I'll set up GCP and circle ci for automatic deployment.
I'm sure we can find some successful testers here that can help us do the same thing or better.
DevRant ain't dying... Only people die... @trogus, @dfox....
With love from @thedev... -
@stevorobs3 the real April fool's joke would be if they were actually making semicolon.js framework...
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@dfox April Fool's?
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@CozyPlanes All domains I have are powered by HTTPS which takes me about one minute to setup mostly with LetsEncrypt
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@arcadesdude specially with all the passif aggressive and the false positive comment they had...
One of them would be trying to hang himself while the other is blocking him so they can do it together
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@Devina Teach me how the hell you can see that pls 😊
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@linuxxx he didn't had the time to do that either
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@linuxxx The day of the year instinct. 😂
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@trogus I never knew I wanted a black stressball until I saw one. Please, a black stressball for anyone who is above 26700++s
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Wat? -_- the best place to chat some tech related stuff just can't shut down.
Make this project opensource and find some good maintainers from community. The community is big enough for creating new features and maintaining app in different platforms. It is like closing Arch Linux or StackOverflow project - a shitty idea)
P.S. it's a damn great joke, if I am right =D -
If this is true, want to say was just getting started. As both of you made this great community whatever you gonna do will give you success.
I hope @dfox sir has sent me a sticker's. I have 4, 5 rant eligible for sticker's so should I ask for all of them?
This is the saddest April fool's day!!! -
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@dfox Just say the four golden words already😛
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Don't worry, the revolution will be televised! We've been working with some student filmmakers to document our journey towards creating this inspired new framework. To watch the inception and birth of a category defining product should be a real treat! They've captured some truly authentic @dfox moments, that time we lost power and he hadn't saved, the time when I first introduced him to tequila, and that time when he nearly lost all faith in our destined path to JavaScript framework greatness (there were tears). Can't wait to see the final footage!
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After some serious discussion today @dfox and I have decided to change the framework name to OpenParenthesisDashSemicolon JS otherwise known as (-; JS
Web development will never be the same after OpenParenthesisDashSemicolon JS is unleashed upon the world! -
@trogus I was right. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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@dfox @trogus at least now you guys know how much devRant matters for us.
We just can't imagine a dev life without it anymore. It's like instagram and superficial bimbos, we just can't stop using it.
I was serious about having the community support the platform if needed. I really think my brothers and sisters here would love to help.
I think we also had some hint about having devrant (all or part of it) open source so we can help improve it and buy you sometimes for whatever other thing you have to do (just don't call it *.js 😂😂)
DevRant is back I really had a bad day thinking my favorite platform on earth would die. I was really ready to redo it if need be.
Good luck guys, you are the best. -
@thedev Sorry to stress you out, April Fool's Day is more a silly American tradition where you quickly learn to trust no one on this particular date.
We are still very passionate about devRant and have plans for some cool new features and improvements moving forward.
PS a new js framework is a really dumb idea, nobody do that please! -
So in preparation for the Apocalypse, I have started a Collab
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@thedev superficial bimbos lol
@dfox maybe don't have a hackathon before you try to play a joke like that next time, usually if someone is loosing interest in a project there's less updates and they wouldn't plan events. But like i said on the slack channel you already have brought together atleast 20k devs/sysadmins so a new devRant would be up before 30 days if it came to that. But that being said it would never be the same without you and @trogus -
@jckimble We're currently at 30k registered developers, and growing everyday.
I have some mocks done for "live chat rooms" that can be spun up on the fly and die if they become inactive, so in the future, we might have some alternatives to the unofficial slack channels to have a real-time place for dev talk -
@trogus that makes my point even more valid lol
That sounds nice, irc or slack styled? Irc styled you could just use a websocket relay where the databases wouldn't need to be beefed up for it. -
@billgates dang I shoulda done the Collab yesterday... Seems @dfox hid it now though...
Will delete... But on the serious side, why but start a Collab for feature requests? -
@billgates auto mention? Someone uses twitter too much 😀😀
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Is it just me or @trogus looks like loki from avengers?
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@ElixirX sorry!!
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@ElixirX post a rant about this joke probably be the quickest upvoted rant ever
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@trogus Chat things sounds great though!
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@CozyPlanes read the top of the rant maybe?
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@NotABugAFeature haha! We will have it for at least the next year :)
@CozyPlanes yup, we thought of the name a few days ago and the domain was available so we grabbed it! -
@CozyPlanes if i have to guess. 10 - 15 usd. Domains are cheap
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@dfox wait....
HOW DID U EDITTED THE RANT????? U R A CHEATER!!!!! -
Just found out @samster upvoted this rant.
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You guys really had me ...I literally read each and every comment until I saw @dfox's post of april fools....Thank God....!!
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@pal3117 welcome to devRant!
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@xios Usually in a wallet or purse.
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@trogus i don't know why, but that looks like a dragon ball to me HAHAH XD
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@dfox aye yo I hope someone finds one of your part time open source projects and removes all semi colons from it. 💯😂
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@uberblah "Edit: April fool's"
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@Dacexi I ain't got no time to read comments! I was like "I only just got here and turns out they already shut it down, DAYUM!
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@uberblah look at the first line of the rant
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@Dacexi yeah I didn't before. Sorry about that. Don't want to confuse people now
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@uberblah no problem. Welcome to devRant btw 🙂
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@trogus updates of live chat rooms?
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@CozyPlanes not yet, you'll be the first to know ;)
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@trogus maybe 2 days later?? ^^
EDIT: devRant April Fools joke (2017)
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@trogus and I have had an absolute blast working on devRant over the last year. However, we're strong believers in only working on a project if you're passionate about it, and over the last few months, we've sadly lost some of that passion so we've to announce, with heavy hearts, that we will both be moving on. We've decided to focus 100% of our energies on our next product, one which we are confident has billion dollar potential: Semicolon JS (http://semicolonjs.com).
We identified this sizable market opportunity as we were building out the new devRant website. Every JavaScript framework we tried left us wanting more. More efficiency. More elegance. More extensibility. That's what Semicolon JS is: more. More than a framework, it's a guiding philosophy. We believe that Semicolon JS will do for front end development what Material Design has done for user interface design. We're calling it Semicolon JS because even though you can still develop JavaScript without it, like a semicolon, we think it will soon become a standard and synonymous with quality JS development.
So comes the obvious question. What will happen to devRant? We wanted to make the announcement today because we will be officially shutting down the product in 30 days. So that gives everyone a full month to take in the last memories, look at those rants they really loved, and hopefully take some time to chat with @trogus and I about Semicolon JS and what we have planned.
With so many thanks and looking towards the future,
- @dfox and @trogus
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