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Offline SmokeyTopic starter

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https://renesasrulz.com/

Of all the possible domain names in all the internet, and they pick that one for their main tech support forums?  With a "Z"?  Seriously?  Does that make it more EXTREME!?
 

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Ahah, good one.
 

Offline thm_w

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Looks like it started in 2007, if that makes it any better, but no it did not age well..

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Offline james_s

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That annoys me almost as much as starting C words with a K to be cute, it looks stupid and juvenile.
 

Offline SiliconWizard

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And funnily enough, renesasrules.com is available.
Not that it would have been much better either, but... :-DD
 

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Ask an industry veteran -> "www.renesas.com/support/"
Ask the 19 year old intern -> "www.RENESASRULZ.com/Br0-Z0ne/"
 
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Ask an industry veteran -> "www.renesas.com/support/"
Yeah, right. It will got to L1 support in India in the best case. And if you are lucky you will get to L2 after a few weeks.

Ask the 19 year old intern -> "www.RENESASRULZ.com/Br0-Z0ne/"
I have never seen this forum, but generally you will have better luck getting support in public forums. Renesas is not that popular in hobby, so it might be a bit worse in this regard.

The name is strange, but it is possible that they acquired an existing community forum. It is not like AvrFreaks.net is much better.
« Last Edit: May 11, 2022, 04:13:33 am by ataradov »
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I remember when TI cut off their FAEs, and pushed everyone to their E2E support forums.  They were the first I had seen do that.  It just made it harder to get real work done.
 

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The name is strange, but it is possible that they acquired an existing community forum. It is not like AvrFreaks.net is much better.

wayback machine has no record before 2007:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070920075627/http://www.renesasrulz.com/
 

Offline amyk

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It's a Japanese company. Their understanding of foreign popular culture is probably somewhat skewed.
 
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I remember that it was initially the name of a contest. They had a giveaway of a microcontroller board with Wifi well before ESP8266 was a thing and you were to come up with a creative way to use it, the pitfall is it was difficult to program compared to Arduino or even PIC so not many got very far with it.
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I like to think this thread is responsible for the following change... :)

renesasrulz.com now redirects to community.renesas.com
« Last Edit: September 21, 2022, 06:58:01 pm by Smokey »
 
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