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Discussion on: Is it OK to write a dev.to article that just links to another blog such as medium.com ?

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Ben Halpern

It’s okay in that it won’t be taken down for spam if it’s still about programming.

But it’s generally not the ideal thing for users and probably won’t get much reach. Those posts t nd to get a one or two ❤️ max.

As others have mentioned, crossposting the whole article and linking back is cool. You can even use the RSS tool in your settings to help manage this.

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Casey Brooks

Agreed. I usually won't follow a link to another post if the whole post hasn't been copied here. But if I read an article here that has a link to the original source, I will quite often follow the link to see their site and the other articles they've posted there.