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Chris Manson
Chris Manson

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Is there a place for dev.to developers to chat?

I've recently cloned the dev.to codebase to try and contribute and help with an issue that I discoverd but I'm wondering... where are all the developers!? πŸ€”

Maybe it's just that I'm a bit spoiled by the Ember Community having a very active Community Discord Server but I figured the right place to ask would be on dev.to itself πŸŽ‰

So folks, if I want to learn how to contribute where should I go to hang out with like-minded individuals? I did find a wonderful thread to help people with issues but I'm more so looking for the discussion aspect rather than the "I have a problem can you help me fix it" sort of thread.

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Theo

dev.to is mainly centred around posts and disscusions of said posts but they do have a disscussion section outside of this, using the Connect feature.
(Found next to notifications.)

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Chris Manson

Yea I very much get that impression the more that I understand the community here πŸ˜€ have you ever joined a dev Slack or Discord server? I'm wondering if you think something like that would be complementary or against the spirit of dev.to πŸ€”

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Theo

I am myself part of several dev discord servers (not related to dev.to) and even Administrator (Staff) in a couple!

Concerning it beng complementary or against the spirit of dev.to I think that really depends on how its used, as an alternative or as an extension. I can certainly see it working, what do you think?

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Chris Manson

So in my particular case I'm looking for some guidance on some hyper-specific points about how the code is structured and would like a bit of back-and-forth on some of those code bits.

I guess everything that I've seen in posts has been reasonably high level and I've already gotten past the checklist of "how to get involved" and that's why I'm thinking of it as an extension to the community rather than an alternative πŸ€”

Thanks for talking this out with me btw, I really appreciate it πŸŽ‰