The approximate reading time for a post on DEV is now displayed on feed pages as well as at the top of the post.
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It will likely also be added in places like liquid tags in the future, and anywhere else it could be contextually helpful.
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When I saw that feature I didn't like it because:
1) it's clogging space. (less is more kinda thing).
2) what if the article is technical? I'm sure to read it more thoroughly so the time is so relative that the purpose of the feature is counter productive. It doesn't tell me any REAL information.
But, as with everything, there will be two camps. The one that liked it and the one that didn't.
Althoug this is a great metric, I personally would find more useful to see the word count directly. Would you consider something like this?
Neat!
This is a very useful feature. Thanks for adding it!
¡Great addition! It will be super useful for extra busy days.
Collapsable comments and this were two of my most anticipated features! You guys are awesome! Big ups to the whole Dev crew 👍
Doing a quick regex on my Reading List (670+ right now), 40 were caught with a quick
[0-24-9] min readwhile 500 were caught with3 min read. This is fallible for multidigit things like 13 min read, but apparently I don't tend to save long form posts for later. 😅Thanks for the extra data points!
I love that someone (Kayla) bothered to investigate this. Awesome.
I actually typed up a comment originally like "Uhhhh this feels buggy" but given how much I've read on this site, having a ton of stuff in the 3-minute range wasn't that unheard of. Occasional long-form posts, sure, and occasional discussion questions without context, but for the most part, people tend to succulently say their piece.
We actually still have some older posts which have not yet been indexed and are defaulting to 3 mins. This should be rectified soon. It’s a known issue but I figured people wouldn’t notice this before it was ironed out. Leave it to devs to quickly uncover the problems.
QA is my day job ;)
Was just wishing we had this feature the other day, nice!
Great Feature ! Love the progress so far of dev.to
Ohh fancy!
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