What would you like to see implemented on DEV?

Disclaimer: I am not part of the DEV team

Im constantly seeing Ben and other people on the DEV team opening new issues on GitHub to try and implement features from posts that the community has left. Let's centralise this discussion if possible.

What new features/changes/tweaks and anything else, would you like to see implemented on DEV?

Comments

[Javier Aguirre]

I’d like to have more context in the followers list, like how many articles and comments did they publish. Sometimes a lot of people follow you at once and you can’t go one by one opening their profiles to see if they’re active in the community.

[Ivan]

multiple authors for a post :D

[Vincent Dal Maso]

I would like to be able to filter out some tags / people from my feed

[Ryan Smith]

• Weighted tags or an improved classification system for posts would be a good feature. If you go to the JavaScript tag now and view the top posts from infinity, many are not JavaScript-specific posts. I'm not throwing shade on these posts, as they are well-written and popular posts, I'm just saying some are general purpose programming posts with a loose relation to JavaScript. I would find improvements to tags useful in order to see what the hot topics in JavaScript are this week, month, year.
• A "rising" feed link to showcase new posts that gaining attention (through views, likes, comments, etc.). I think this would be useful to get into a topic earlier and contribute. It would also help if you are finding the main feed a little stale because you refresh DEV too much.

[Jean-Michel Plourde]

• When I am on an article, I'd like to be able to save the article. Right now when I click on an article from outside of the website (twitter, fb, etc.) I can't save it and if I go back to the main page, I will lose it.

• When I'm finished with reading an article from my saved list, I just want to get rid of it. Right now you click archive, you still have the count besides the list and it annoys me. I have like 40+ saved article. I want to know the number of articles I have left to read, not the number of every one saved ever.

[Tim Downey]

I'm not sure how hard this would be (and maybe there is a way to do it already), but it would be nice to have some liquid tags for embedding a specific commit from Github.

[Nested Software]

I have a couple of usability issues I've been thinking of reporting in github.

When creating/editing an article, on desktop, the "download image" icon is at the bottom of the screen. When you click it, you then have to scroll to the top again to select an image.

I've also noticed that if I edit or delete something, the update isn't propagated everywhere across the site. My impression is that there are separate documents behind the scenes that store the same information, depending on where it is displayed. In particular, deleting something, such as a comment, can take several days. If you click on it or try to interact with it in some way, it will send you to a 404 page, but it's still visible for quite a while. I have a feeling that there is a background process responsible for updating this stuff, but it does seem to be rather slow. I haven't seen this kind of thing on other sites. I don't know how high priority it is, but it would be nice if it were possible for the updates to be more immediate from the user's point of view.

In terms of new features, I'd really like to have more control over the profile page, though I don't have a clear sense of exactly what changes I'd ask for. In general, I'd like to have more control of what is displayed and in what order. I think dev.to has an opportunity with the profile page to create kind of a central calling card for developers, where developers could use it as their main profile for resumes/job applications.

[Ben Halpern]

I've been thinking just today about how I'd love to extend our notifications area to ingest some of my notifications from other services.

I have a hard time keeping up with relevant GitHub convos, progress in our CI suite, etc. I could definitely see some value to aggregate that stuff on DEV. I'm literally speaking from my own personal preferences as someone who hangs out here all the time, but I generally think it could be a good idea.

[Vincent Grovestine]

Maybe I'm showing my age being a geek of the '90s, but an IRC-like chat feature has been on my "fingers-crossed that the Dev team are mind-readers and will roll this out automagically" wishlist for quite a while.

Heck, it was only this morning due to an accidental click that I discovered the paper airplane icon in the top navigation bar leads to a direct messaging client! ;)

While the current messaging system is a nice perk, the necessity of mutual follow-back limits who one can talk with at any given time. Arguably, it is a barrier to organic conversation between folk, especially those who might not normally DM a stranger (lurkers, online introverts, deep listeners, etc.)

[Vincent Grovestine]

While "My Tags" and the auto-generated top-100 tags lists are handy, it'd be great to have a list of all tags ever used since the beginning of time. The top-100 list probably covers 99% of topics, but sometimes you want to read (or post) about a truly obscure or underrepresented subject.