@shoop Looking good! I do want you to know that you're welcome to explore the API and build out an app for educational purposes, but @dfox and I don't allow devRant clients to be released on platforms where official versions exist (iOS, Android & web). This is to reduce market confusion, ensure user privacy, and maintain our brand. Thanks for understanding!

@C0D4 that could work. We have the </> icon, could do more dev themed iconography

@C0D4 that would be fun, but we've been trying to avoid using trademarks/brands that might give us a hard time

@C0D4 they way we fabricate the capes now, variety is pretty straightforward. What were you hoping for?

@ksdme actually not the result of a hackathon. We were looking for our next project after we made a "tinder for news" app that fell flat, and it seemed like something we understood better working in tech

The real question is "where is dfox's avatar?" Might be some jank happening with notif lists @dfox

@kiwibird22 that post was before we added SEO friendly urls. If you take the rant url up to the /number/image.png it still works

@Superviral Mike Tyson

@ScribeOfGoD it's SukMike's rant, so blocking him from posting comments on his own thread will never be a feature. Jenny was the one to introduce the maturbation topic, which opened some doors, but I agree that the responding comment is more targeted than we'd like to see here, so I'll remove it.

I spoke with @dfox recently about blocking, which has some complications of hiding just for you, hiding for everyone on your thread, hiding from @ mentioning you, hiding from the algo feed, etc, but there might be at least a simple blunt approach that could be an 80% solution.

@srivmanu we put in the basics for SEO-friendliness a year or two ago, and it's been slowly building up since then. Much better than it was!

@embeddedmaikel so sorry! We ordered another batch back in March and somehow missed updating them in the swag store. 😬 They are available now: https://swag.devrant.com/products/...

@Root thanks! I had fun coming up with those titles

My experience was that you get what you pay for, so you need a good incentive to get good designers. Also they wait to the last minute to post to the competition so others don't steal their ideas and try to make them slightly better to win

@linuxxx it would be straightforward, but we've held back on adding more tees since all the colors were getting excessive in the shirt options. We could add a few more. Next batch, I'll get you covered. Ultimately, the plan was to have a graphic tee builder (design attached) but it never got built.

@Haxk20 ha ok I'll see what I can do

@linuxxx looking badass dude!

@Haxk20 sorry about that. We initially had item pts much much higher spread across the 50-100k range, but looking at the distribution of users at even over 10k pts, we decided to lower it dramatically to make sure the top 100 users got something cool. I can make you something to shoot for at 50k. What do you want?

New items live!

New items live!

@linuxxx bring your game face!

@linuxxx your face tattoo is in this batch. I hope you enjoy it!

They were designed many weeks ago, but ran into issues with the above 20k limit that had been set, so @dfox had to build out a more flexible pts system. Which required a new build of the mobile apps, which required updating Appcelerator and libraries, which was a shit show, which led to no new avatar items as of yet. I believe @dfox still has a little more work to get them releasable. Sorry for the delay!

@hypervtechnics we have put a lot of work into creating all those avatar layers that make up the builder, please do not take our work and use it elsewhere for your own projects

The skills charts on resumes and portfolios scream junior to me. Self-described skill levels don't mean much, lots of delusional "experts" out there and without a standard scoring method, 6/10 is not grounded in anything. Some exposure to a software suite is important, so do list them, but tools are overrated imo, your end product is vastly more important than the tool you used.

@Haxk20 bug or feature...? You'll never know!

Ah the trouble with our limited character counter banners is the ambiguity (which can lead to humor and/or confusion). PMs are supposed to mean Product Managers for this one.

@Haxk20 they are all good to go, but unfortunately the way we had the pts associated with dollars made it unweildy for over 20,000, so @dfox is working on some adjustments to the system such that higher pt values can be supported. Will mean an app update I believe

We were aiming for a niche audience that would actively share the community, as a social network should be inherently viral. Growth has been slower than expected, but that may be because we do minimal re-engagement (we send zero emails right now). Also the nature of ranting against your co-workers makes you less inclined to invite your co-workers.

@linuxxx no update will be needed, but not quite released yet. I'll let you know

@Haxk20 soon, I was finishing up the female versions last night. Might add a couple more little items for variety