Coming back to devRant after almost a decade, what did I miss?

A whole lot, I gotta say. I've been here for the past 1.5 years and we went through so many phases during just my time. So there's a LOOOOOT more that you missed out on.

@SidTheITGuy I just opened a random post, and there was a reference to some prior "lore" about families and past work.

Guess I'll just have to catch up as I go along 😂

@Lawrenz1337 I'd advise against it. You'd leave again after seeing the degenerate filth posted here.

And I'm only talking about myself :D

@SidTheITGuy I'm already sold, no need to sell it further XD

You missed the decadence of devRant. Less people here, the admins are not around, app not updated anymore, spammers appear upvoting their own posts...

Fuck all

What was it like back then?

Currently you can’t say anything against JS.

If you do, a specific person will instantly come in and start whining about how his favorite language is insulted and how this implies that he is a worthless web dev.
Then he will call you an idiot and a retard. He will also tell you to stop whining, even if he is the one that whines.

So try at your own risk ;)

@black-kite it was crazy. Devs posting nudes back then. C devs where the hottest. Who would've expected that

You missed the best parts.

I'm pretty sure it didnt come out til 2016.... mainly because I just restarted using it after several years as well.

My conclusion on what I (and likely you) missed:

Rants about all the new trendy bs/frameworks/languages/etc and needing to adopt them.-- totally expected.

Some dude, b2plane, his limited vocabulary and fascination with posting his bowel habits, somehow relating it to dev topics. -- totally asinine but so far an intriguing case study.

The wilfully ignorant and therefore inept nature of millennials/genZ infecting the industry to the tune of widespread learned helplessness.
Ex: 'devs' complaining about something easily changeable, ie. keyboard shortcuts.-- sad, just sad.

The rampant misinformation/reduced standard of common sense, coupled with lack of DYOR or any "engineering".
Ex: Rant based on Mac hardware "not" being able have a different OS installed.
Someone also told me that the normal way to "uninstall" , ex., bloatware, was to drag it to the trash can.

People started chatting in Discord right after virtual meetup in 2020, retrospective: https://devrant.com/rants/9228210

Since this summer, most that were have moved to https://matrix.to//...

And to supplement it with repeatable material, bookmarks and other swag, there is dR Bulletin Board: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/drbboard

These all are unofficial subcommunities, but in case devRant gets shitstormed into stratosphere there will be places to commute with us.

@retoor we should get the nude posts back starting with @b2plane . I feel like he's a looker!

@retoor yooo I remember the porn controversy era

@lungdart pretty sure anything coming from him would support my current theory of him being a fecalpheliac.

@retoor Ofc - because in C, nobody is doing the heavy lifting for you. C programmer here. :)

@Fast-Nop ever done that basic af C loop trick to piss someone off or prove a point? ...I mean... ofc I'm not saying I would/have ever done something like that...

C was one of the first languages I learned... primarily because I found out the hard way that soldering together components that weren't made to work together required custom drivers... I was a highly unsupervised child.

@awesomeest What loop trick? Duff's Device?

@Fast-Nop just the original one(at least to my knowledge) that likely wouldn't work nowadays, at least not nearly as well/significant effort. Calling main(); from main and throwing some extra crap in for fun.

Duffs dev is a great classic. Back in HS, I baited a posturing teacher (who was technically in charge of anything more tech-related than a typing test and Office, also short+the basketball coach) to ignorantly trap his system in the looping. He's still terrified of me last I checked... I may have been amusing myself teaching him things via example for years.

Thanks, this gave me an idea that apparently worked. I have a babydev who has likely never heard of C (or c++... and the majority of tech...long story) and he basically got trapped in his own logic loop of over contemplation. Thinking of C loops made me remember good ol' ioccc.org i sent him a link... he tried to take it seriously until it apparently broke his contemplation loop with a "wtf?!?! Is this a real thing..."