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Welcome @devintelbyte, the 1 millionth registered DEV!

DEV just passed 1 million registered members, and the 1 millionth is @devintelbyte 😆.

Thank you to all those who have been along along for the ride, and we hope you have been enriched by at least one thing you've read on DEV. I suspect you have.

We're deep in the continuous process of reinvention, and growth of all kind to ensure that we provide a valuable experience for the whole developer ecosystem. This would not be possible without all 1 million of those registered members (even the spam bots and hackers, who have helped us develop a resilient system). It's exciting to take a moment to celebrate this milestone.

Of those registered members are 669 individuals who have committed code to Forem, the open source technology that powers DEV — and our core team members, past and present.

Here's to the first million, and our collective efforts to create a welcoming environment for the next million!

cheers to 1 million

Happy coding!

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Devintel-byte

I should get a badge of recognition, right?

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Ben Halpern

Ask and you shall receive

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Edited

What I find admirable is not that DEV has merely grown Big.
It is that it has grown Big without growing Bad.

Obviously that's always a work in progress.
But still, that's like the quadrature of circle on the modern internet.
So yes, congrats!

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Pankaj Doharey

Yup no toxicity without much moderation tools or such. Stack for instance has too much priesthood at this point.

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Calin Baenen

Yeah, StackOverflow sucks. That's one of the reasons I originally migrated to DEV.
Unfortunately nowdays it is dead (for me).

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Calin Baenen

It is that it has grown Big without growing Bad.

Some people would beg to differ.
While the community isn't toxic I've heard there's a lot of bots and spamstuff.

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Kevin Rajgor

Indeed!
We really have come a long way..
This community is what it is because of genuine people trying to genuinely work to better themselves and because they have a passion in what they're doing.

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Mahmoud Harmouch

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leob • Edited

Brilliant! :)

"One does not simply" ... create brilliant "one does not simply" meme posts!

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Nick Taylor

Congrats on one million @ben and team!

Jake Peralta from Brooklyn Nine Nine saying Hella Fresh!

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Calin Baenen

Yeah, congratulations, @ben!
It's been a real long journey. . .

(P.S.: "Hi again." because it's been a while.)

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Madza

Congrats on this huge milestone! 🥳🎉

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sahra 💫

🎊🎉🥳🥳🤸💃Yayyy!!!

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Phil Nash

Congratulations on the million user mark! Here's to millions more! 🥂

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Charlie Say

Woah, now thats a milestone! Congrats team.

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Void⚡

Huge Milestone.

Kudos to DEV team!!

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Varshith V Hegde • Edited

Github reaches its 100 millionth user and dev.to reaches 1 millionth user, what a start this year!! . Proud to be part of this Community ❤️. We have long way in forward.

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Jonas Brømsø

Blog post from GitHub on their milestone, just for reference: