Dear devRanters,

I am writing to tell you all goodbye.
This used to be a place where I could find some fellow programmers having similar frustrations, helping me feel not alone in this world. Now it is a cesspool of "look at me! I got a job!" and "it's my birthday!" and much more unrelated unrelatable CRAP..

So to you, people's of the world.. Fuck yourselves for ruining good shit.. (it's a general statement and extends far beyond devRant)

@dfox & @trogus, thanknyou and I still have mad respect for you for creating this. I will treasure my stress ball and avatar forever, and hold dear the moments when this was better.

✌️

And don't forget the memes.

Agreed, this place is hitting a maximum. Essentially Dunbar's number is in effect here.

@dfox 😭😭😭

I’m new here and I’m grateful for meeting like minded women who also work in the IT field.

I enjoy everything post here

Sorry you feel that way and sorry to see you go.

We have no plans to try to limit positive rants like “I got a job and am excited” and I’d say birthday rants are about .001% of rants and many of those get hidden any way for low scores.

I hope you enjoy the content more on whatever community you end up in.

@iSwimInTheC we always appreciate constructive feedback and we get tons of people telling us we’re extremely receptive to it.

“devRant has too many users now” is far, far from constructive.

@dfox while I agree the amount of people is hitting a high point, I also believe it's a good thing too. It means you've got something good going on.

At the end of the day, I always enjoy coming here. I more or less take a back seat now because there's nothing much I have to add at the moment. My job is definitely not as strenuous as others 😅

Personally I like spending a couple of days away and then coming back for the most upvoted content.

Devrant is becoming more of a mixing pot, so in hindsight it takes a while for things to get sifted around.

Of course there's R9000, jk.

Keep on keeping, dfox. Naysayers will naysay, but I still enjoy coming back.

@iSwimInTheC thanks for the feedback!

We’ve definitely tried to take note of what people have told us about the growing content, and that was one of the main reasons we launched post types yesterday. We want to make sure people are seeing the kind of rants they want to see and we think that will go a long way to accomplishing that.

I hate to sound too corporate/cold, but if devRant wasn’t growing at all, there’d be no more devRant. I can’t think of any online community or app that same rule wouldn’t hold up for. The truth is we still don’t cover costs and without growth we’d have trouble ever doing so and wouldn’t be able to exist as a community. So that’s the direction we naturally have to go :)

The point I’m trying to make here, and not to you specifically, is we get our best ideas from things the devRant community members suggest and we really try to encourage those ideas.

Things we can’t do anything about:
- The need to grow
- People occasionally posting stuff that some people don’t want to see

Things we can do something about:
- Literally everything else, including drastically minimizing the amount of content users see that isn’t the content they want to see

It just takes some feedback for us to get there, and I can tell you that “post types” launched last night came completely from feedback.

@dfox Honestly, it's the direction of every community ever. Especially when it comes to the need to control content. (reddit, imgur...) In our case, we're a more specialized community.

In any situation, you're doing an awesome job dealing with the influx of popularity.

@iSwimInTheC thanks, I appreciate that. We really like hearing from long-time dedicated users like yourself how we can make more improvements so please reach out if you ever have anything. Thanks!