💥🦆 Unofficial devRant Clone Jam 2023 🦆💥

Retoor has a challenge hackathon for you. 🧑‍💻 Post here: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/drbboard/...

Pick your tech stack, announce it in your comment by the link above, and code your own DEVRANT CLONE in 8 hours. There is only a week for y'all, but don't overdo it and write the thing just in 8 hours. If you need more time, announce that too. Address to the post for all the rules.

Code competition start! 🏁

Check out my retrospective on dR Community Server (Discord guild)!

https://kbin.melroy.org/m/drbboard/...

It's the story about our devRant meetup back in October 2020. Hope it will bring you a little tear to your eye. 🥲

Together, we've finished this 68x78 logo! 🥳 Yeaaaah, plans turned out to be very ambitious, but the end of the event was nearing, so we settled on a hollow version.

Find it on Canvas, as part of our collab: https://devrant.com/collabs/8270045 🔍

dR Community Channel has all the progress and references for the next r/place-like social! Join the chat: https://matrix.to//... 💬

Reintroducing you to online chat that we have open since July, dR Community Channel. Let me start by showing you a thread about "Synchronous software for devRant people". It has common questions and answers to them, to get you going with this social avenue.

There are 17+ people on our Matrix room plus 14 more through Discord bridge. These numbers keep growing! 🥳

🧵 Read on Fediverse: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/drbboard/...

Boost, leave your suggestions and write-ups there, just so more of us could help and respond. Thank you and have a whale of time!

💬 Chat: https://matrix.to//...

💥🦆 What if... your devRant clone? 🦆💥

Appoint an 8 hrs sprint for your very own DEVRANT CLONE with tech stack of choice. Announce it on https://kbin.melroy.org/m/drbboard/...

For details, open the link above. Keep us posted there with screenshots and ready-to-use app until December 3rd!

Hello, everyone! Wild Matrix room just appeared: https://matrix.to//...

Hopefully, this one will be of more service to the people of devRant wanting to chat. It is bridged with dRCS, our Discord server, to make a faithful transition of subcommunities. Read the room's description for more detail. 🔗

Just at the start of it all, there is one more event you might like: a canvas like "r/place", but where you join via Lemmy. 🐭 I know, I know, Lemmy is only getting traction - but the community is thriving and making their own cool events already!

This one is called "Canvas": it's a fork of Pxls and a place where you can draw pixel art for all to see. The number of pixels replenishing on each person is limited and it takes time, so we REALLY need to gather together and draw this thing until the event ends!!! What thing? We are going to place a DEVRANT LOGO.

Canvas link and reference will be dropped in the comments below. Let's make devRant proud, for ducks' sake! 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆

It is recommended to join the channel to coordinate in real time and enjoy a good chat. 😁

https://matrix.to//...

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels...

After reading this post, I am so confused what to with this life. I thought of becoming a full stack developer. After reading it, I am thinking, is this I want to do with my life. How many libraries, frameworks, technologies and languages should I learn.

Getting confused what to do now. Grrrr...

UNOFFICIAL DEVRANT CLONE JAM - VOTING WITH CRICKETS - DAY 2

I see that nobody is leaving any comments on hackathon entries. It is troubling, because there is no telling if you approve the app behind the post or not - even if I were to collect all upvotes through myself.

Please give the feedback to our contestants in their respective rants! What it takes to make a "devRant clone" or there should be something else entirely? How do these clones look to you, which gets the most points?

Yesterday, @ostream has left the competition by removing account from devRant, but, hopefully, we'll see him again on the next hackathon. Now, it's only @retoor and @SidTheITGuy. They will clash for the right to get a cool animation of their devRant self. You vote can affect this.

Finnegan (by @retoor): https://devrant.com/rants/9946268
ragedev (by @SidTheITGuy): https://devrant.com/rants/9946238

Leave your comments in respective rants. Read the rules and vote for as many as you like!

UNOFFICIAL DEVRANT CLONE JAM - VOTING START - DAY 1

3 entries were submitted, and we're ready for your feedback! It is exciting to know what your votes say about the work needed to supplant devRant. However, considering the sudden announcement of hackathon some 10 days ago and very short sprints, we get what we get.

2nd place nominee gets their devRant self in all vector beauty. Of course, it's not the exact style, but it's something resembling and with objects separable from each other! The winner gets an animated version.

You are welcome to familiarize with all devRant clones that our participants have made!

Finnegan (by @retoor): https://devrant.com/rants/9946268
Ostream App (by @ostream): https://devrant.com/rants/9946296
ragedev (by @SidTheITGuy): https://devrant.com/rants/9946238

Leave your comments in respective rants. Read the rules and vote for as many as you like!

UNOFFICIAL DEVRANT CLONE JAM - LAST VOTING DAY

4 people have cast their votes on devRant clones with 19 points for @retoor and 3 for @SidTheITGuy. It's a huge rift, which will be hard to clamp by 12:00 UTC!

Finnegan (by @retoor): https://devrant.com/rants/9946268
ragedev (by @SidTheITGuy): https://devrant.com/rants/9946238

Despite the obviousness and overall weirdness of the end product chosen for this hackathon, I want you to give your feedback to others who want to see the best of devRant, but somewhere else. What do you think a serious devRant alternative should have and what are expectations for the design?

I'm sure all these topics will keep reappearing, so maybe this rant can be used to gather all the thoughts in one place before spreading them around.

Deadline for your devRant clone: 18:00 UTC!

Help and chat: https://matrix.to//...
Posting guide: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/drbboard/...
Works in progress: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/drbboard/...
Artistic prizes for winners, certificate for everyone.