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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A really helpful feature, it meets my needs exactly.
Grammarly can help to some extent for spellcheck and grammar checking.
It will be better If there is a strategy that encourages readers to improve the article.
Yeah I agree, there needs to be some incentive!
Suggesting edits. Similar to the Quora model, where you curate the edits on your posts.
That would let native English speakers help out non-native speakers too.
Yeah, I like that, that'll probably be much easier to implement!
Great idea!
I started a discussion about this in the moderators channel a few days ago.
This leads to the next suggestion: an indication of who is a moderator.
I suggested something similar here
Should Dev.to posts have a comment section for grammar suggestions?
Davide Bellone ・ Oct 20 ・ 1 min read
Also, a zen-mode mobile editor, with nothing except the text box (which scrolls rather than disappearing behind the keyboard!)
Chrome on Android, if anyone wants to debug...
Live preview while writing posts. I feel it's really annoying to keep switching back and forth between the editor and the preview.
ahh yes, this is one I've thought about too when writing blogs. I write a sentence, preview, write a sentence, preview. I'd probably write the blog at twice the speed if this was a feature!
I think you can create an issue in their github repo about this. This seems pretty useful :D
There's already one open. This is a pretty big and important feature so I think it will take a while.
Give me one day and a constant stream of coffee — I'll get it done.
I’ll donate!
That would be really really helpful for people like me
Being able to have the same post in several languages with an easy switch option
In theory, this is a really great feature that I totally agree with. However, given the current state of online language translators (such as Google Translate), it must be pointed out that it may prove to be difficult—or even cumbersome—to even attempt to translate some technical programming jargon to other languages. I fear that the state of being "lost in translation" may cause even more confusion.
But then again, some level of translation is at least better than none, right? I mean I hope so...
Maybe just the ability to write (manually) the article in more than one language, and the correct one for the reader's language preference is chosen automatically, if it exists.
Ah, in this case, I believe this is doable. A manual language setting—perhaps in the front matter—may prove to be ideal if the author wants to explicitly denote the language of the article.
I'm a non-native English speaker, and currently, I'm using the Grammarly Chrome extension for grammar checking, I totally recommend it.
In terms of features, I think it would be nice to add a link to the articles that earned a badge, right now you can see your badges (an others) but it would be nice if you could click on a badge and it would redirect you to the specific article that earned you that badge.
I was also taking a quick look at the API, and I was thinking that it would be great to have the option to obtain things like a list of who is following a specific user, and who is that user following.
I'm English and use Grammarly too, I still make mistakes that Grammarly doesn't pick up on 😔 but yeah, I recommend it too!
I'm unsure about the following/follower API — they're hidden in the UI so I suppose they have their reasons for it.
A computer-brain interface, so I can ingest all the info more quickly.
quick PR, no prob.
I would love to see a better Follower tab in my dashboard.
I think it would be nice to search and / or filter the list to better interact with users who follow yourself.
I'd love to be able to @ tag other Dev.to users in posts when I mention them 🙋♀️
That would be cool!
Can't you do that already? I think I got a notification when I was mentioned in this post.