A feature I'd like to see
I think an optional spellcheck/grammar setting would be amazing. Pre-release of a blog it'll go into a special mode where certain people can read your blog and fix any spelling/grammar mistakes you may have made.
This would really help non-native English speakers get their point across and also help them in learning the language at the same time. I've seen too many brilliant blogs not getting the traction they deserve just because their English isn't the best.
Maybe add badges or some kind of incentive to get people to actually bother!
Your thoughts
I'd love to hear people's thoughts on this and also hear some features you'd love to see on the website!
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I really want the ability to filter the feed by post read time. I don't want to have to scroll past twenty 1min read posts to find actual content
Yeah that'd be really good, especially if you've got X amount of minutes free - good to be able to quickly find articles that you have enough time to read!
That would be a really useful feature!
I'd also like to be notified when people embed one of my articles in theirs: Once I discover someone sharing my article and it was awesome. And, also, I sometimes share other people's articles and I'd like the authors to know.
I've mentioned this before somewhere, but heavily programmer-focused custom filters.
I would like to set [my default view] to be posts on [topics from this list] excluding [topics on this other list] including one or more matches to /this pattern/ and excluding matches to /this other pattern/ ordered by [most-recent], and I'd like other people to be able to subscribe to this filter:
There's already an "Experience Level of Post" setting under management, I'd be grateful if that were a displayed/filter-able category.
It's very rare that I see anything on dev.to that I would consider "advanced knowledge", most of the stuff I read on this site is beginner, maybe breaching into intermediate.
This is not a bad thing - it makes for a very inclusive community, and if I want a quick introduction to something I know where to look! I just wouldn't use this website for anything more than what it seems to be.
Public reading/watching/listening list on user profiles. So a page where people can publicly list which books/articles/etc. they are reading/have read/are going to read.
oooh maybe an integration with goodreads.com!
Same + too many articles covering things which the internet is full with (eg: introduction to react hooks / async await / other generic stuff), or articles which are basically just rephrasings of the readmes
That is similar to the way the quora and stackoverflow do and yes the mods that do language and grammar checks could be useful.
Also having a badge for that activity would help.
I want Dev to prevent user from giving reactions to their own post.
Really? Got to give your post a kickstart 🤣
If everyone is doing it then??
No offence to webdevs , but my dev.to feed is 23/25 articles just related to Js/webdev, despite me not following any of those relevant topics.
Maybe change your preferred tags and the bloggers you follow!
I care deeply about the multi language issue as a polyglot living in this modern tower of Babel called Berlin, Germany.
On my profile, I show which languages I speak well enough
Jean-Michel Fayard (fr/en/es/de)
That gives multiple hints
my request for dev.to : display the languages that the user feels comfortable speaking in the user profile. at least as an option.
"Maybe add badges or some kind of incentive to get people to actually bother!".
There is already a badge system. Maybe they should show it next to the username?
I know there's already a badge system, I just mean add a badge for someone who has editing X amount of blogs!
Also, links automatically opening into another tab. Often, folks use DevTo as documentation/ref, and it's rare I want to leave the page from another link.
I have a habit of automatically clicking the middle mouse button for links, but I can see how this might be an issue!
A pronoun field in the bio settings.
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