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Why I Publish My Articles on Dev.To

Claudio Bernasconi on April 06, 2019

TL;DR: Last week, I started cross-posting my content from my blog on dev.to. This article features my exciting results and my view on why I decided...
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Daragh Byrne • Edited

I added dev.to to a list of tech sites I could publish on sometime in early 2018. Came back to it and started crossposting everything from codingmindfully.com on here at the end of last year. Traffic to my own site blew up! And being involved in a community vibe like this one rocks.

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Claudio Bernasconi

Great to hear your success story, Daragh.

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Dimitri Merejkowsky

Answering your question: I'm also cross-posting all articles from my blog to dev.to.

Why? Because what makes me happy are the writing process itself, and the discussion about the topics I write. I don't really care about the view count, I prefer having meaningful interactions.

dev.to is really great at making interesting discussions happen in the comments section. I think it works both because of the way the site works (every member is identified on twitter or github), and also because of the community (developers sharing knowledge).


I also have a few comments:

I stick to my schedule writing a blog post every week.

That's impressive. I'm trying to do the same but as you can see I'm rather at one post every 2 weeks.

I wanted people to visit my site

Same for me. I have a dedicated machine where I manage everything. I love the fact that I have complete control over my contents.

I do also not want anyone to take advantage of things I want to provide for free.

I don't really care. All I'm asking is attribution. That's why my posts are using a CC BY license