Does anyone have suggestions on who I should follow? I’m completely brand new, and every article I read so far feels very technologically deeper than my current skills. Drop comments for suggestions. I’m just a beginner.

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Honestly, dont bother following for now, just live in the comments! You'll find your group! @francistrdev is great! Alot of valuable posts for beginners and very user-friendly reading (be warned, lots of memes)

@xulingfeng a published author 😎 who has an ongoing series that's really cool, but very in-depth and you're really gunna have to take your time reading it, but is fun to talk to, just be warned, he really likes KFC and would likely run downstairs to go buy some if you mention it... 😁

@pascal_cescato_692b7a8a20 Awesome posts that make you really think, lots of good advice and exceptional example of not overdoing it, when he makes something, it's genuinely useful (unlike me)

Depending on your niche, there's alot to find on Dev.to, but all 3 of these are genuinely good banter and respond to every message, so shoot them up in their comments, they've all been around alot longer than I have and they've all 3 been awesome!

You can also look at the monday memes post by @ben and find a good meme and follow the rabbit hole!

Or look at @jess posts for the weekend challenges and see if any challenger matches your vibe and go check out their work!

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ • Sep 9

What he said lol

Pascal CESCATO • Sep 9

Well… now I have a reputation to maintain. 😅

Thanks for the kind words, UnitBuilds — although putting me in the same list as Francis means I’m probably going to have to increase my meme game. 😂

And to Andy: welcome to DEV! Don’t worry about understanding everything you read here. Half the fun is finding the rabbit holes you didn’t know existed. 🐇

Andy Schelb • Sep 9

Oh my gosh, this is so helpful. I was so overwhelmed. I wrote several posts and now I’m like, am I even right for this platform? I appreciate your thorough response so much

UnitBuilds • Sep 10

Dont mind the low traction on posts. How Forem (the underlying framework) works, is that you have a 'reputation' score, starts off at 0, but it only really advertises your work properly to others as your reputation goes up. To that point, all you gotta do is engage, have chats in comments, like people's videos, basically use the platform, after it goes up, then you'll see your posts get alot more views!

Andy Schelb • Sep 10

Thanks, I'm not too concerned with my traction. honestly I just felt like I didn't speak any variant of the language if that make sense. Many of the articles suggested to me were way deep in coding language or talking about structures that I don't even have an understanding of at 30k feet view. I appreciate the encouragement. I'll work on replying and commenting more

UnitBuilds • Sep 10

When in doubt, everyone here enjoys a good joke, especially @xulingfeng he absolutely loves being mentioned in comments, even if unrelated to him, he's addicted to pressing the red notification, so definitely spam him 🤣