The latest articles on DEV Community by Jesse Skinner (@jesseskinner). https://dev.to/jesseskinner https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F158378%2Fe1ba5e13-202a-4429-aa84-5a22005263c4.jpg https://dev.to/jesseskinner en Jesse Skinner Tue, 28 Feb 2023 15:59:53 +0000 https://dev.to/jesseskinner/goodbye-dev-5119 https://dev.to/jesseskinner/goodbye-dev-5119 <p>It's a sad day. I'm unpublishing all my articles on DEV.to 😢 </p> <p>I love DEV. I got in the Top 7 one week with my article <a href="https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/svelte-is-the-most-beautiful-framework-ive-ever-seen/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Svelte is the most beautiful framework I've ever seen</a>, which had 78,000 views(!) from getting on the front page of Hacker News, thanks to Ben Halpern himself. And I even got a free DEV t-shirt I proudly wear.</p> <p>Recently, starting in January my reach on here has dropped from thousands of views down to a dozen per article, or less. I don't know what happened. Was it a flood of low quality ChatGPT-written content? Or have people just moved elsewhere? I don't know.</p> <p>And why am I unpublishing? Since joining DEV, I've always cross-posted my articles on both here and my personal website. Unfortunately, despite adding a canonical URL in my articles, if you search on some article titles on DuckDuckGo (mostly) but also Google, DEV still shows up as a search result oftentimes. So, I decided I'd rather just have my blog show up in those results.</p> <p>In any case, if you want to find me, I'll still be writing over on my blog at <a href="https://www.codingwithjesse.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.codingwithjesse.com</a>. Or you can sign up for <a href="https://www.codingwithjesse.com/newsletter" rel="noopener noreferrer">my newsletter</a>.</p> <p>So long, and thanks for all the unicorns!</p> discuss ethics ai illustration