April 1st - ho ho :-)

[lilbud]

@tyreal90 Probably Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen, second place would go to Money for Nothing by the Dire Straits.

This is probably the hardest question I have answered. So many good songs.

[obsidianspider]

I didn't find it funny, but I guess the forum has evolved for me from tech support to a community of people with similar interests that I enjoy chatting with.

[meleu]

@BuZz you've really fooled me. Here is a list of things that came to my mind when I saw that:

• The forum is under maintenance. I'll try again later.
• After trying again several hours later: OMG! Is this the end of the forum?!
• They blocked IPs from Brazil (it happened before in other games networks, I think many Brazilian gamers like to cheat).
• OMG!! I'm involved in an interesting RetroPie-related project with @UDb23 and we were talking about it in the forum. Will we continue with no forum to share our work?
• Will @Rookervik , @lilbud and others lost their interest in making those cool splashscreens for the community without a forum to share them?
• Is this the end of MAME ROW?!
• The list of sad things goes on...

Man, the prank worked: you really scared me! But please don't do it again. I beg you.

As @obsidianspider said, RetroPie isn't only those scripts to install retrogaming software on a Raspberry Pi, it's a community of retronerds sharing cool stuff (es themes, arts, tools, knowledge, etc).

I really appreciate all your hardwork not only on the code, but keeping this forum too. You rock!!

I'm gonna make another donation with a message "please don't make that prank on the forum again".

[lilbud]

@meleu said in April 1st - ho ho :-):

The forum is under maintenance. I'll try again later.
After trying again several hours later: OMG! Is this the end of the forum?!
They blocked IPs from Brazil (it happened before in other games networks, I think many Brazilian gamers like to cheat).
OMG!! I'm involved in an interesting RetroPie-related project with @UDb23 and we were talking about it in the forum. Will we continue with no forum to share our work?
Will @Rookervik , @lilbud and others lost their interest in making those cool splashscreens for the community without a forum to share them?
Is this the end of MAME ROW?!

FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON DRAGON BALL Z

[BuZz]

It was only off for 10 hours (or less) - Kodi site was off for much longer :) You definitely should all make sure you can manage without the forum for 10 hours. Sounds unhealthy if you can't.

I enjoyed the break. Tbh I'm getting unhappy with the project as of late. Too many users (with constant complaints), piracy and trademark issues and now the overreaction from some because the forum was off for 10 hours. Maybe time for me to find a new hobby. Appreciate the comments of support though from some of you.

Btw http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=311022

[sonicsheppard]

I more often than not use the forums to see what cool stuff others have thought up to give me some ideas. Absolutely love seeing what can be done with RetroPie and how to make things look even better - @UDb23 I'm looking at you with your overlays :)

Had me panicking that the forum had been closed for some reason! So great April Fools Day joke @BuZz !

[tyreal90]

@sonicsheppard

I think retropie is like getting a swiss army knife with 200 functions and without a manual. It makes it extremely fun to see what you can make it do after you think you've found everything!

@BuZz

Please don't give up. You guys have made something truly game changing. I have showed retropie to over 10 of my friends and not one of them hasn't been amazed.

[sonicsheppard]

@tyreal90 Couldn't agree more!

[goodpi31]

@BuZz I hope you stick around though, especially now that I just gave you your 1000ths reputation point! :P

[BuZz]

@tyreal90 said in April 1st - ho ho :-):

@sonicsheppard

I think retropie is like getting a swiss army knife with 200 functions and without a manual. It makes it extremely fun to see what you can make it do after you think you've found everything!

Although we do have a manual (And a good one at that imho) ;-) There are gaps still, but people are free to add missing stuff.

Thanks. I'm not going to give up, but I do feel like it sometimes. It's a thankless job at times and a lot of work is involved - as well as managing the main code base(s) and building the binaries, I admin the server, website, forum and so on. It's a full time job on top of my full time job :)

I appreciate all those who contribute - couldn't do it without them - especially @herb_fargus. Cheers. (Plus I hate writing documentation!)

[lilbud]

@BuZz So this is how you feel?

Users:

You:

[mediamogul]

@BuZz

Btw http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=311022

Wow, Kodi took down their site, blog forums and even their repos. Talk about committing to a bit. Funny stuff.

[lilbud]

@BuZz How about you have this image display on first boot?

[BuZz]

@lilbud it would just be removed i think. We have a message when updating RetroPie setup. The person who registered the RetroPie trademark removed that on their fork (their only changes really).

[lilbud]

@BuZz Any news on that whole situation? Can we sue the pants off him?

[pjft]

@BuZz I was late to replying here - read this on my phone - but I love coming here every day and seeing what everyone is up to. It's a vibrant community of people who, for the most part, share the same love for old games. That's certainly how I feel, and the reason I'm around is partly because I want to enjoy them again, I want to be able to enjoy them with my kids, and I want to help others enjoy them as well.

Nobody can begin to imagine how you feel in your position, as you said it's a thankless job at times, and getting more and more people using it and coming across perhaps as "entitled" or with different expectations about what RetroPie really is, can certainly be draining and drown out the community spirit from the people who value the project, your (and by "your" I mean the team's and everybody's) contributions, and make this a great place to be.

I feel thankful and - why not - blessed for having run into RetroPie back in August last year, after hesitating for quite a while, and having found a fantastic community here. I feel that if the project would not be around, the entire retro-gaming community would be very much worse off, and I know that my days - and the days of many in the community - would certainly be less fun.

Keep up the great work, and a tremendous thank you to you and everyone for making this a great place to be, and a great project to be part of.

[BuZz]

@lilbud i have been informed the trademark was cancelled although I've not been able to verify. Signed agreement with attorney who will help us register trademark. Will.send that back to them tomorrow. I'll do an update on the blog with more info when i have it.

[BuZz]

@pjft cheers! Btw if i ever did stop developing, the project would go on without me. Florian and Herb both have full access to everything etc.

[lilbud]

@BuZz You didn't use these lawyers, did you?

[BuZz]

@lilbud no, but i bet they would give us a firm offer!