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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: Smokey on May 10, 2022, 10:17:27 pm

Title: Who thought "RenesasRulz" was a good name for the official tech support forum?..
Post by: Smokey on May 10, 2022, 10:17:27 pm
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!?
Title: Re: Who thought "RenesasRulz" was a good name for the official tech support forum?..
Post by: SiliconWizard on May 10, 2022, 10:25:42 pm
Ahah, good one.
Title: Re: Who thought "RenesasRulz" was a good name for the official tech support forum?..
Post by: thm_w on May 10, 2022, 11:00:04 pm
Looks like it started in 2007, if that makes it any better, but no it did not age well..

Title: Re: Who thought "RenesasRulz" was a good name for the official tech support forum?..
Post by: james_s on May 11, 2022, 02:24:43 am
That annoys me almost as much as starting C words with a K to be cute, it looks stupid and juvenile.
Title: Re: Who thought "RenesasRulz" was a good name for the official tech support forum?..
Post by: SiliconWizard on May 11, 2022, 02:55:18 am
And funnily enough, renesasrules.com is available.
Not that it would have been much better either, but... :-DD
Title: Re: Who thought "RenesasRulz" was a good name for the official tech support forum?..
Post by: Smokey on May 11, 2022, 03:51:56 am
Ask an industry veteran -> "www.renesas.com/support/"
Ask the 19 year old intern -> "www.RENESASRULZ.com/Br0-Z0ne/"
Title: Re: Who thought "RenesasRulz" was a good name for the official tech support forum?..
Post by: ataradov on May 11, 2022, 04:11:13 am
Quote from: Smokey on May 11, 2022, 03:51:56 am
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.

Quote from: Smokey on May 11, 2022, 03:51:56 am
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.
Title: Re: Who thought "RenesasRulz" was a good name for the official tech support forum?..
Post by: Smokey on May 11, 2022, 04:46:52 am
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.
Title: Re: Who thought "RenesasRulz" was a good name for the official tech support forum?..
Post by: Smokey on May 11, 2022, 04:48:24 am
Quote from: ataradov on May 11, 2022, 04:11:13 am
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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/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20070920075627/http://www.renesasrulz.com/)
Title: Re: Who thought "RenesasRulz" was a good name for the official tech support forum?..
Post by: amyk on May 12, 2022, 02:15:40 am
It's a Japanese company. Their understanding of foreign popular culture is probably somewhat skewed.
Title: Re: Who thought "RenesasRulz" was a good name for the official tech support forum?..
Post by: NiHaoMike on May 12, 2022, 05:17:45 am
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.
Title: Re: Who thought "RenesasRulz" was a good name for the official tech support forum?..
Post by: Smokey on September 21, 2022, 06:51:01 pm
I like to think this thread is responsible for the following change... :)

renesasrulz.com now redirects to community.renesas.com