There's a lot of articles in topics like React and it's fairly easy to get attraction when writing about that. Meanwhile, when writing articles about less common subjects my impression is that very few people read the articles.
What is your experience? Is it worth writing articles about topics that isn't as popular as others?
I don't know where to see the amount of subscribers for a topic, but I would guess it correlates quite well with the amount of posts each tag has.
For comparison, my article about IaaS, PaaS and Saas and serverless hosting did get less than 100 views. That's a lot less than other articles I write with other tags. Count away some of my followers and it's effectively 0 views from the feed.
Do you have similar experiences to share?
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It depends whether your entire goal in life is to get people to read your stuff, or if it's to write stuff that's what you like and are interested in.
Every tag which has a zillion followers started with none. And it could be said that posting on topics which have a lot of traffic means you have to make sure your post stands out in some way, else it'll be lost in the noise.
On Dev, you can have up to four tags per post, so what you could do, I guess, is to find something like an algorithm you like and then make a post describing how you would use it in React, tagging both. Then you might get some interest from both sides.
You're a wise man. I like the combining part, it's a good way to bump popularity for some less common tasks :)
I use all of the tags available and try to have as many of the popular ones as possible. So that way you are always going to be getting some high visibility somewhere.