Who thought "RenesasRulz" was a good name for the official tech support forum?.. - Page 1
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author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2022, 10:17:27 pm
content: 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!?

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2022, 10:25:42 pm
content: Ahah, good one.

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2022, 11:00:04 pm
content: Looks like it started in 2007, if that makes it any better, but no it did not age well..

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2022, 02:24:43 am
content: That annoys me almost as much as starting C words with a K to be cute, it looks stupid and juvenile.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2022, 02:55:18 am
content: And funnily enough, renesasrules.com is available.Not that it would have been much better either, but...

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2022, 03:51:56 am
content: Ask an industry veteran -> "www.renesas.com/support/"Ask the 19 year old intern -> "www.RENESASRULZ.com/Br0-Z0ne/"

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2022, 04:11:13 am
content: Quote from: Smokey on May 11, 2022, 03:51:56 amYeah, 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 amI 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.

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2022, 04:46:52 am
content: 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.

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2022, 04:48:24 am
content: Quote from: ataradov on May 11, 2022, 04:11:13 amwayback machine has no record before 2007:https://web.archive.org/web/20070920075627/http://www.renesasrulz.com/

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2022, 02:15:40 am
content: It's a Japanese company. Their understanding of foreign popular culture is probably somewhat skewed.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2022, 05:17:45 am
content: 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.

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2022, 06:51:01 pm
content: I like to think this thread is responsible for the following change...renesasrulz.com now redirects to community.renesas.com