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The DEV Team Is Now The Forem Team 🌱

Jess Lee on October 08, 2020

It’s been three years and ten months since we “officially” started building dev.to. At the time, our Twitter account was much more widely known tha...

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Madza • Oct 8 '20 • Edited

Congrats on beginning the transition! 🥳🎊🎉
Curious is this means dev.to will migrate all the users and content to forem.dev or just this current platform will change it's looks and the domain name to forem.dev?

Tyler V. (he/him) • Oct 8 '20 • Edited

forem.dev is already it's own site to discussing more meta level topics! 🎉

Ben Halpern • Oct 9 '20

Yup, forem.dev is where anyone can post to chat with one another or get our attention on ideas and concerns. Right now it still kind of makes more sense to post to github for many ways, but we foresee forem.dev being the most scalable way to have some kinds of discussions in the long run... Or to just chat and get to know one another.

Ben Halpern • Oct 9 '20

Yup! It will be a long haul because Ruby is not built for that quality by nature, but we feel pretty good that as we refine the platform we rewrite whatever the worst components are and we win in the long run.

Impact wise, this is a big part of our big picture plan with the hosted product, which will be called Forem Cloud.... Here's a little internal memo I just wrote about what Forem Cloud is all about, think of it as rough-draft copy for a future specific mission statement.

Forem Cloud is a commitment. It's a commitment to a security, privacy, portability and reliability.

It's a commitment to the accessibility of online community, to driving down prices over time and sharing our work to help others do the same when self-hosting.

Forem Cloud is a commitment to reliability and simplicity which nourishes the ecosystem and allows creators to grow and thrive.

Forem Cloud is a commitment to being detail-oriented, it's a commitment isolation for security for security and portability, shared resources where appropriate for efficiency, and it's a commitment to doing it all in the way that minimizes the longterm carbon footprint of global cloud compute.

It's a commitment to enabling transparency to thrive, for open source to become the norm in consumer applications, it's a commitment to empowering community.

kris • Oct 10 '20

can't wait for forem.cloud

Arnaud Delante • Oct 9 '20

I always get confused when I see the new name. Because here in Belgium, Forem is the name of the agency for unemployed people 😄

Andy Piper • Oct 9 '20

oops!

Ankit Beniwal • Oct 8 '20

Growth is one way and the only way forward. Congratulations 🎊

Yogi • Oct 8 '20

Yayyy! Congrats 🎉

JimCMorrison • Oct 9 '20

Congratulations on the big news and transition! A new chapter is always exciting!

Andy Piper • Oct 9 '20

This is great, thank you for sharing! And congratulations! And, Thank you and the team for building DEV, and for your vision for Forem - it's very compelling.