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Aashir Khan on November 17, 2019

I was really scared of my writing before, that I'm not so good and I can't write. I found DEV and wrote my post just for fun but I got an amazing...
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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

I have a really similar story.
I spent years and years reading a lot at what others were writing but not quite daring to write myself.

Starting to write down my thoughts here and having some early nice feedback has been liberating.

On views: I prefer to have fewer people that care a lot about what I write that having lots of people who don't care much about what I write.

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Kenny Whyte

Similar story for me as well. I just started a few weeks ago...so I guess I would be a "Junior Dev.to" Dev contributor. 😊

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Rohan Sawant

Yes! Dev, is probably one of the most 'positive' social networks out there.

I haven't seen any 'bad' comments here, at all!

Maybe, it's because no one here does that -

Monkey See, Monkey Do.

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Andrew (he/him)

Unfortunately, there are some bad apples who can make the comments sections less than welcoming. But DEV has a moderator program and most negative / harassing comments get taken down pretty quickly.

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Aashir Khan

Yes, I've also reported a harassment comment, and they removed it in just 2 hours!

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Chris Frewin

Its because we're all developers - we know how super hard it can be sometimes :)

There are no stupid questions or ideas!

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Ibrahim Imran

Yeah! Developers will help each other!

Dev.to Is a great place to be!

It's easy to grow on too

I got featured on feed today! I checked incognito and I was there with everyone else!

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Aashir Khan

Incognito one!πŸ˜‚ I can connect to this, I also checked 4 or 5 times when I was on the Homepage

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Ibrahim Imran

XD same I Thought when I wasn't on incognito it just shows cuz I made it but when I check incognito That Wasn't true!

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Ibrahim Imran

Very positive I know!

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Jess Lee

Aw, this is great. Thanks for sharing :)

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Aashir Khan

Thanks Jess,

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Franklyn Wisdom

Nice write up.
Your story is quite motivating.
I joined dev.to less than 48 hours ago and I am yet to write my first post.
I hope to write my first post tomorrow

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Ibrahim Imran

I'm not so big yet. Only have a like from the Devs co CEO Though it's special or not idk im pretty new to dev it's not so bad!

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Ibrahim Imran

Sctrach That I just got big in a hour. Wow......

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Ibrahim Imran

Sctrach that again I checked my dashboard I have less than 100 views.

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rhymes

Great job Aashir! Happy you're part of this community!

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Aashir Khan

Thanks, I'm part of this community because of people like you

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rhymes

Ahah I don't know what to say to that. Thank you very much!!

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Andrew (he/him)

Congrats on the job, Aashir! 40k+ views on a post is really impressive! Keep writing and we'll keep reading :)

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Aashir Khan

These types of comments motivate me! Thanks :)

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Ibrahim Imran

Also I made a Series on dev!
It's called Why Choose? - An Official Dev Series!

Also please view me........
I'm still small.