Ingo Steinke is a Berlin-based senior web developer focusing on front-end web development to create and improve websites and make the web more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly.
Nice work, but I like that DEV doesn't display follower count in a prominent place. Likewise, likes should also be shown less quantitatively and focus more on quality. This is not Twitter.
I'm a selftaught (web) developer. On sunny days, you can find me hiking through the Teutoburg Forest, on rainy days coding or with a good fiction novel in hand.
You're absolutely right. I wouldn't want to display it anywhere except for a portfolio page, where it might be relevant for future clients or employers.
@tqbit showing your follower count on your portfolio isn't particularly meaningful. I get around 100 or so new "followers" daily, sometimes more if I've posted recently. However, I'd say at least 10% of them are spam accounts, and very obviously so (e.g., user id and name blatantly advertising casinos, travel agencies, etc, or you go to their profile and all of their posts are spam). Even if DEV disables a spammer's account, they appear to remain in your list of followers.
I'm a selftaught (web) developer. On sunny days, you can find me hiking through the Teutoburg Forest, on rainy days coding or with a good fiction novel in hand.
Nice work, but I like that DEV doesn't display follower count in a prominent place. Likewise, likes should also be shown less quantitatively and focus more on quality. This is not Twitter.
You're absolutely right. I wouldn't want to display it anywhere except for a portfolio page, where it might be relevant for future clients or employers.
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@tqbit showing your follower count on your portfolio isn't particularly meaningful. I get around 100 or so new "followers" daily, sometimes more if I've posted recently. However, I'd say at least 10% of them are spam accounts, and very obviously so (e.g., user id and name blatantly advertising casinos, travel agencies, etc, or you go to their profile and all of their posts are spam). Even if DEV disables a spammer's account, they appear to remain in your list of followers.
Great of you to point this out. I hope you don't mind I've added your comment under the official PR for consideration,