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?
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Personally, I would like to see:
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I am able to tag people with
@For example in this post of mine:
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Glenn Carremans γ» 2 min read
@ben can you explain how this works exactly
Huh, I didnβt see that in the docs when looking for it. Good to know it exists!
Unicorns are just super likes, because they're awesome ;)
Like a Fav button, but we are missing then, I think, the Unicorned posts list.
Would be cool to see where my viewers came from.
I have some articles with >10k views, but no way to tell what led to them
Yes, some more analytics may be good, but you can argue that Dev.to is not trying to make CEO a big part of this. Just sharing stuff... Am I clear?
On the way
Markdownis really cool and awesome, most devs love it. Please don't change it by introducing one of those heavy text editors.ctrl + b(shortcut for bold) should surround the word by**. Similarly, pressingctrl + ishould surround it by a single*, this will be great for productivity!Being honest, I like how dev.to manages followers and reactions. It's one of the main reasons I finally joined as an active user after being a long time lurker.
Of course it's my personal opinion and my opinion only, but for me this is what makes dev special along with an incredible community.
who cares about who follows whom? I don't, really.
Finally, I like your suggestions about shortcuts!
One of the reasons for caring is it acts like a reputation token on social media (just like "likes" and "upvotes" do). For example, I'd take an author with 10K followers far more seriously than someone with just 10 followers simply because of the reputation factor.
One of the great things about DEV imo is the ability for anyone to get equal view times regardless of popularity. I wouldnβt mind seeing followers for this reason, as long as it doesnβt effect how posts are presented to us.
Well, I respect your point of view @prahladyeri , I think this would be a good debate but for another thread!
Excited to follow along this thread. @georgecoldham , I would suggest adding the
#metatag as well.My small on-topic contribution is that I'd like @-mentioning to utilize a drop-down (maybe prioritizing people in this thread, similar to GitHub) to make comments like this a bit easier :)
Being able to see posts I β€οΈd and π¦d would be awesome. Right now I am abusing the reading list icon so I can find posts I really enjoyed later again.
This! Or maybe a Archive list in addition to the reading list.
And while we're at it, a history of comment favs as well :)
There is an archive! Once you read something from your reading list, you can click this guy to βarchiveβ it:
I think itβs a relatively new-ish feature because I donβt remember seeing it before.
Most of my "wants" are layout-related.
First, I appreciate the minimalist look to the site, but it could use some whitespace tweaks. There's a lack of consistency, especially vertical vs horizontal whitespace. Things look crowded vertically (because of less whitespace), which is harder on the reader.
Second, everything being black-on-white with small solid borders doesn't lend itself to easily understanding where various features are on a page.
Third, I see two fields in my profile for colors-- background color and text color. I don't know what those are for.
Finally, dark mode. Really not enjoyable to use. It has all the same problems the light mode has with whitespace and boxes, plus a few more.
I'm watching this thread closely π
Something like a Twitter within dev.to, for shorter thoughts, jokes, shoutouts etc.
Without headlines, tags, images etc. Maybe like a chat? Something "live" would be nice.
Just cracked open the post editor yesterday to find my biggest annoyance fixed: having the save button always visible. Used to have to scroll to the top of the editor to save (really annoying for long articles).
Nothing else comes to mind for me!
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.