Accessibility First DevRel. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
I have been fortunate enough to have been promoted on social media 5 times, I want to make it clear that I am grateful for that! Thank you once again!
I just wonder if certain tags and post types are more promotion worthy as it does make a difference to views and I don't mind writing posts that get promoted so I can add links to my more serious posts within my "crowd pleasers" and give them a little boost!
Speaking of "a little boost", I have one last question, I am fortunate enough that DEV has given me a few credits for listings, is there a way to promote a particular post that I want a few more eyeballs on via listings or some other method? I couldn't see a category / way to do that but it could just me I am missing it!
Accessibility First DevRel. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
I think we are crossing from what DEV picks to what is popular in the feeds here. I am talking about the stuff DEV puts in the weekly newsletters, on social media etc.
For where things appear in the feed you can examine the source code of Forem on GitHub. github.com/forem/forem/blob/c842d1... might be one place to have a poke around and explore from there!
I look forward to seeing what you come up with for working out which posts gain natural traction etc. I would suggest looking at times they were posted using the API and which tags they use in addition to the analysis so far.
inhu.co/dev_to/analyse/timeofday.php may be useful (the table at the bottom) as it is a very rough analysis on what time of day posts were published vs number of likes (with the top 5% and bottom 5% of posts removed to avoid the skew). It doesn't take into account when popular authors post etc. but hopefully it gives you some more information to work with! The data is based on every single live post on DEV (about 3 months ago, I need to update the data).
What DEV picks and places in social media and stuff can't be analyzed properly – It can only be tracked. My best guess is it mostly contains stuff geared at beginners.
That code seems intresting... I'll surely check it out!
As for what I'm tracking, I plan to track stuff in the feed (in an incognito window of course), the weekly newsletter, and some other stuff using the APIs.
I remeber that post which you're talking about. It's some intresting (but not the most useful) data. I'll check that out too
Accessibility First DevRel. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
I have been fortunate enough to have been promoted on social media 5 times, I want to make it clear that I am grateful for that! Thank you once again!
I just wonder if certain tags and post types are more promotion worthy as it does make a difference to views and I don't mind writing posts that get promoted so I can add links to my more serious posts within my "crowd pleasers" and give them a little boost!
Speaking of "a little boost", I have one last question, I am fortunate enough that DEV has given me a few credits for listings, is there a way to promote a particular post that I want a few more eyeballs on via listings or some other method? I couldn't see a category / way to do that but it could just me I am missing it!
Nice timing! I'm taking an analysis on this (by tracking top 7 posts, bla bla). So far, I found a few things:
I think we are crossing from what DEV picks to what is popular in the feeds here. I am talking about the stuff DEV puts in the weekly newsletters, on social media etc.
For where things appear in the feed you can examine the source code of Forem on GitHub. github.com/forem/forem/blob/c842d1... might be one place to have a poke around and explore from there!
I look forward to seeing what you come up with for working out which posts gain natural traction etc. I would suggest looking at times they were posted using the API and which tags they use in addition to the analysis so far.
inhu.co/dev_to/analyse/timeofday.php may be useful (the table at the bottom) as it is a very rough analysis on what time of day posts were published vs number of likes (with the top 5% and bottom 5% of posts removed to avoid the skew). It doesn't take into account when popular authors post etc. but hopefully it gives you some more information to work with! The data is based on every single live post on DEV (about 3 months ago, I need to update the data).
What DEV picks and places in social media and stuff can't be analyzed properly – It can only be tracked. My best guess is it mostly contains stuff geared at beginners.
That code seems intresting... I'll surely check it out!
As for what I'm tracking, I plan to track stuff in the feed (in an incognito window of course), the weekly newsletter, and some other stuff using the APIs.
I remeber that post which you're talking about. It's some intresting (but not the most useful) data. I'll check that out too
For a good idea of popular posts, you could go to the inifinity tab
Added a bit for clarity as I obviously wasn't clear (my fault I reread the first part and can see how I worded it badly! 🤦♂️):
Thanks for helping me realise that I needed to make it more clear to avoid confusion!