Hey folks!
We recently posted the DEV Community Satisfaction Survey and would love for y’all’s participation. ❤️
However, along with the survey, we’re hoping to gather some more qualitative feedback about what brought you here and what keeps you coming back.
So, with that in mind, would you please describe why you joined DEV and why you’ve stuck around? You may make your answer as long or short as you’d like.
Thanks so much for being part of the DEV community! 🙌
Latest comments (53)
Thanks for sharing this with us.
I am always learning something new and up dating my skill level - Love Dev.To
I posted some of my articles and blogs on DEV and I got a good views and followers, So that keeps me staying with DEV. I just want can you please give the option to show followers on authors profile.
I like reading and I'm always coming back hopeful of finding a few nuggets of wisdom here c:
Also, people are nice here! except when you make an article explaining your thoughts on why you think PHP is good or why you think Tailwind sucks. For some reason, it makes people really angry 😂
DEV content seems to be more open-minded than StackOverflow posts, more tech-focused than "Tech Twitter", and more detailed than both of them. But some people tend to produce too much content, making it hard to find out the articles that are helpful and relevant to me.
I already tried to elaborate on this issue in my article about quality vs. quantity/consistency: Stop rewarding quantity!
Stop rewarding quantity!
Ingo Steinke ・ Jan 17 ・ 5 min read
The awesome content in the web development journey
DEV is really beginner friendly, and there is essentially no gatekeeper. I don't mind people posting low quality content, everyone need to start somewhere. TODO tutorials or so are like HELLO WORLD to the writers, it just does not work out when people expect newcomers to have reference articles in the first place.
Sadly, this is not acceptable on platforms like StackOverflow or Reddit. Certainly, you have to get better overtime or else, no one will see your content.
Joining DEV has been one of my greatest decision this year as many new oppurtunities have come to me because of this.
I joined quite some time ago, when Dev was still relatively young. As it is built on top of Rails, it attracted some folks from Ruby community. Unfortunately, nowadays I rarely see content that would be interesting for me. And even when I see it, it's usually with 3 likes and 0 comments. So I cannot share the enthusiasm of others, that Dev is for great discussions and community interactions.
It's a good platform though and I believe it convinced many people to start blogging, which is great.
Really appreciate your constructive criticism, Paweł!
We still got a lotta work to do on ensuring that folks see more of what they're most interested in and less of what they're not. You can trust that we'll keep thinking on how to best do this!
The hope that the quality of the posts increases in time.
But I am nearly hopeless.
Create an extra space for those "writers" who thinks "Hello World" is the new shit on the block. But it seems that this problem arises also in medium and hashnode. The new credo seems to be: I write so I am.
I have been gone three times because of this. Hopefully there will be another site or at least an area free of those post and someone who cares about the stuff written here.
It is a little bit like TikTok for developers. Look and see me, how great I am.
In these times every one is fabulous, but this is simply not true and we should not write about stuff only for ourselves - look I have written a post.
Think first, write second.
Write for the reader, not for the writer.
I have nothing against post from beginners, but please spend more than a minute to write a post.
From observations here and on Hashnode I get that nowadays it's part of a bootcamp process to start blogging and document the progress. Which is good for learners but, as you pointed out, not so much for a community. I wonder what would be a good solution for that, because detecting such posts and shadowbanning them seems too hostile.
Yes thats true, so we should have an area for that: Bootcamp Writing.
And everything that seems to be something like that is moved there.
Maybe we need a pay per post for posts that wants to get into the non Bootcamp Writing.
And you get money back, if your post is voted up to ....
That's a bit extreme but some sort of screening mechanism could help. Perhaps readers could opt in to some sort of program to help new writers.
Everything about DEV is just amazing and I do not know how should I describe my feelings for it 💓