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2023 in retrospective

Nicolas Frankel on January 11, 2024

Last year, I wrote my first yearly retrospective. I liked the experience, so I'm trying one more time. Let the future decide if it will become a tr...
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Benoit COUETIL 💫

Thanks for these insights ! I've always wondered if dev.to was the right writing place to reach developers (I want to concentrate on a single platform), and it seems to be the case, no contest.

[followers] Growth visibly happens mainly on dev.to and Bluesky for reasons I cannot fathom (yet?).

There are some threads here on the subject. One solid argument is that newcomers have some well established writers presented to them as first people to follow, hence the continuous flow of increasing stats.

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Nicolas Frankel

Thanks for these insights!

Thanks for reading them

One solid argument is that newcomers have some well established writers presented to them as first people to follow, hence the continuous flow of increasing stats.

Yes, that's a good explanation for dev.to. I don't complain in any case