Two things you can do to improve your DEV home feed

1. Go to /settings/ux and select your "experience level" from 1-5 whether you consider yourself a newbie or an experienced dev. This will gently tailor content more to your level.
2. Go to /dashboard/following_tags and raise the "weight" of the tags you would like to see more of. You can fiddle with this over time. I personally have #meta as my highest weighted tag because I really want to see when folks post about DEV.

Happy coding ❤️

Comments

[Ben Halpern]

Here are my top-weighted tags all in all.

[RedCreator37]

Is there a way to opt out of / ignore certain tags? For example, if I want to see posts about java but not android?

[jeikabu]

I set some a while back and wasn't really sure if it was working. What's the range of accepted values and how do they work?

I set a particular tag to 2.0 and seems like I still miss posts and occasionally still manually check the tag.

[Piyush Sonagara]

I don't see a button to save my preferences. Are those even saved? I see those reset when I refresh my page. Am I missing something?

[Paweł Ludwiczak]

There's "Save" button right next to the input :)

[Piyush Sonagara]

Silly me! How could I miss that? :/

[Helder B. Berto]

Amazing! Thanks for the tip.

[Doug Tangren]

Thanks for the tips. You folks are the best.

[Ben Halpern]

🥰

[negue]

The experience level selection for me is a bit weird, because I may be quite experienced in one topic, but not even close to understand anything on a different topic

so setting a generic "level" doesn't really make sense, atleast for me

[Ben Halpern]

Yeah that’s why it’s an emphasis on gently. It’s not going to radically impact your feed but will be a subtle indicator.

[Rich]

What are the upper bounds? Or is it a "in relation to each other" type of thing where we have our own scale?

Could I follow a tag I don't like (i..e #Career, #Productivity, etc) and give it a weight of zero to ignore it, since there are no "I dont want this tag" sort of thing? Would make my experience much smoother! :)

[erica (she/her)]

alrighty follow weight is probably the coolest feature I've seen

[Mahmoud Ahmed]

Thank you.

Is it available to explore 'All' tags feed (including the ones I am not following)?
I just don't know if it's available and I have to sign out or explore the website in incognito mode to do so.

[Jeff Triplett (he/him)]

There are great. Are there any other options to turn off seeing comments in the main feed? I think that's one annoyance for me.

[Peter Witham]

I never even knew about the weighting, thanks for pointing this out. That will teach me to look around more!

[Kelvin Thompson]

How do you add more tags? Or delete?

[Baha chammakhi]

Thanks for the tip!

[Dylan Perkins]

Thanks so much for the tip! The ux page even made me realize there is a dark mode setting that I never thought to look for before, so doubly helpful!

[Cesar Melchor]

Awesome, Thanks!!