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 💓
I have found a lot of good articles here. An example would be dev.to/ben/the-five-pillars-of-a-s...
I personally like helping others to give back to the community.
skills
I found very skilled people back those days when I started developing like Codrops and some other sites that are dead these days, I get to know how to deal with things that are quite advanced and I loved diving through this sites, trying to understand the implementations, following the tutorials and hopefully build something on my own that replicates the same with a different concept.
feedback
I like both to give feedback and write posts so I can get feedback as well and while the community itself has some inherent issues (always have been like that) like fanboying a given tech or sticking to a single tool in a vague try to rule them all, there are also tones of nice people that really try to understand what's behind the scenes and that's curious about whatever they found here and that's the best part 😁
Dev-Diary
There's yet another reason for writing posts that may also be the reason for what @wadecodez said. If you write a post about a topic, you get -more or less- forced to deep dive a bit more on the topic and try to write in a way it can be comprehended for any other reading it so you end up learning more and also the posts serve as own dev-diary to which you can come back at any time to modify and polish according to the feedback received and your learning stage.
You may find thousand tutorials on how to make a todo app but they may be categorized using different tech stacks -thus being good for comparing- and they can deep to a given detail point or give more or less advice for newbies so it doesn't harm anybody IMO.
Community Engagement
I expend some time weekly giving feedback to people by commenting on other's posts, discussions or help posts, either be correcting incorrect concepts, pointing out possible issues or concerns on implementations or simply to encourage the people to keep writing interesting things.
Giving back and grow together
I also learn more by giving feedback, because sometimes I need to search the details on a thing to add proper information on a topic and other times I need to ask on topics that are not on my mental encyclopedia 😂
I also enjoy to watch people's knowledge evolution through the time as well, I worked as web dev teacher for a couple of years and it's one thing I liked on that job so I extrapolate it to my junior teammates and the community in a way or another and as best as I can.
What an awesomely detailed answer! 🔥
It's so great hearing the many different ways in which you interact with folks in the community. Thanks so much for being a rock solid contributor in our community!
You're welcome Michael,
You give to the community and the community gives back to you somehow 😁
very unique platform, truly inclusive, fantastic authors.
I decided to give some time to help moderate the quality, though, as there are LOTS of spams and even some malicious content, which becomes problematic.
I've already kind of said this, but I want to reiterate it; You've got an amazing UI for authors! I love the process of writing articles here. Very pleasant!
Woot! Thanks a bunch, Thomas. 🙌
Really happy to hear that our editor and accompanying UI offers such a great experience!
It's well deserved. Luv the Markdown edge, and really everything - In addition to of course the people :)
No paragraph reply from me.
Simple...
Good content, similar minds, difference in perspective.