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Want to help cover #news on DEV?

Michael Tharrington on July 15, 2020

Update: Thanks to all those who have gotten in touch and are interested in helping with #news. I'm still working through logistics but will do my ...
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Robin Kretzschmar

That's one small step for the tag, one giant leap for DEV

I'm looking forward to more people posting about new products, services and interesting updates under the #news tag!
This will hopefully also attract more companies or teams behind products and services themselves to post here on DEV and also more discussions on those topics ☺️

I think featuring the tag on the homepage will also help to make people aware of changes and even breaking changes much faster.

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Muhimen • Edited

I don't know what I need to do(πŸ˜…), but COUNT ME IN! (πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ)

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Antonette Caldwell

I am interested as well!

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Gavin

πŸ™‹πŸ»β€β™‚οΈI want to help.

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Awelle

This is a super cool idea. I'm in!

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Habdul Hazeez • Edited

This sounds interesting and I'll love to contribute.

Edit: grammar fix.

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mogwai

Count me in. How do I contribute?

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NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚑

Please add me in :)

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MΓ­riam SΓ‘nchez

Hi! Could you give me more info? Would love to help :)

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Keagan Van Rooyen

Sounds good, I'm in if there is still space available.

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Niko HeikkilΓ€

Sounds cool. I follow tech topics regularly and would like to participate in this.

By the way, I enjoy the style Changelog is using in their news coverage: short and to the point with relevant source links.

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Michael Tharrington

Wow, I really like this style of posts too! Thanks for pointing this out. We'll absolutely consider your offer to help! Just working out logistics of how big this group should be and such.

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Niall Maher

Will I still be able to write and be eligible for Top 7s? Would be happy to help though πŸ’œ

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Michael Tharrington

You would definitely still be eligible! And cool beans, I'll be in touch.

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Shannon Crabill

oh, this sound interesting. I've love to hear more.

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Let me see if I can help out with that!

Basically, I think it'd be cool if we could get a group together to cover current news that's appropriate for devs. Once we build out our group, we can connect in a channel over Connect πŸ˜… and strategize what sort of things we want to cover and what a DEV post might look like. We can also coordinate by messaging each other in this channel if we plan on covering something β€” this way we'll know not to double up on the same news topic.

This idea is still quite new, so will need a bit of brainstorming. But, if you're up for writing short news posts, this tag should be a great fit!

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Eyad

I'm curious about the kind of news posts we're talking about here. Will they be news that interest almost all devs? Or would there be a way to filter through them using tags somehow?

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Michael Tharrington

Hey Eyad,

That's right β€” it's somewhat subjective, but we're looking for news posts that are going to be particularly interesting to devs. The subjects could be more high-level general tech news β€” e.g. high profile Twitter accounts were hacked. But it's also cool to get more narrowly-focused, dev-specific news on version upgrades, upcoming features, or security patches for specific languages, frameworks, dev tools, etc.

If you check out the #news landing page and look to the left hand sidebar, you'll see submission guidelines that offer more detail about what we're typically looking for and what isn't a fit. That said, this isn't set in stone, we very well may revamp some of our guidelines once we get the news team together.

I love the idea of having some way to filter #news. I think it'd be cool for folks to be able to browse by tag combos β€” like maybe I want to search for any posts that are tagged #news and #react. Is this kind of what you're thinking?

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Eyad

Yeah tag combos is a good way of putting it. But does dev.to support such feature? When clicking on a tag the url structure doesn't seem like it would allow for mixing multiple tags.

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Ben Halpern

Only as much as you'd want to in order to "lead by example" as we put more focus on the tag. Definitely wouldn't be a strict thing. We'd more be looking for a light curation touch like we do with all tags on the site. 99% of all tag content should be whomever wants to contribute, but as mods there are opportunities to stoke certain conversations you want to deem newsworthy.

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Michael Tharrington

Woot! Just let us know if so. πŸ™Œ

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Quant Girl

Hi, I would be glad to help with this :)

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Michael Tharrington

Awesome! It'd be great to have your help on this β€” I'll be in touch.

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Luis Augusto

I would be interested in covering #news, as a frontend dev I already keep up with the latest browser updates and ES releases, and wouldn't mind sharing that on here as well.

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Really cool! These are exactly the types of posts that would work well under #news.

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Rohith Gilla

I’m in βœ…

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Michael Tharrington

Awesome! I'll be in touch.

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Iain Freestone

I would be interested in helping.

I run a weekly thread on here showcasing trending web development projects and I have to admit I was unaware of the #news tag, would this be the sort of material that would be useful?

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Michael Tharrington

This is absolutely useful material and a super cool series! I think this would work well for #news.

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Bernard Baker

I'm interested πŸ™‹

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Michael Tharrington

Thanks for raising your hand here. I'll get in touch with ya. πŸ™‚

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Sakshat • Edited

This sounds interesting, I'd like to be a part of this :D
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Hemant Joshi

I am interested 😁

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Joel Olawanle

Wow, I'm interested in this!

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Subramanya Chakravarthy

Hey Michael, I am interested and love to help

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Sean

include me ☺