Do most people use DEV to write their posts or do you post a blog elsewhere and syndicate to DEV?

I'm trying to understand how to best use the DEV platform.

Thanks!

Comments

[Jesse Phillips]

I've only posted to dev. I had some posts I brought over from LiveJournal, and at one point considered posting back.

To create some more content of a different kind I did a project with the dev api. I'm likely going to put my articles in a git repo. And maybe I should do something with my personal site I haven't touched in a decade.

Hobby Project: Dev.to API

Jesse Phillips ・ Jan 15 ・ 2 min read

#dlang #showdev #sideprojects

[𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐝]

I only use dev :) I'll be using the API to showcase my latest posts on my portfolio, but won't be rehosting them there - I'll just link to dev.

[Robert Bernstein]

Thank you!

[Donny Wals]

I post on my own blog first and then copy to dev.to with a canonical link to my own blog

[𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐝]

Interesting read! Maybe I should reconsider keeping everything purely in dev.

[Glenn Stovall]

I wish I could ❤ this more than once. Dev.to is vital, but its important to own your own platform.

[Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴]

I'm currently reposting some blog posts from my personal blog to DEV with canonical links :)

[Ali Kamalizade]

Currently, I cross-post but I am considering to move my content exclusively to dev.to

[Robert Bernstein]

Thank you for sharing!

Rob

[Hector Ayala]

Hey! How is this done? How do you syndicate to Dev?

[Robert Bernstein]

Thank you! I hadn't thought of it in terms of how companies will manage or control your content. Not that I believe that DEV would do this, but your advice is sound.

[Glenn Stovall]

No one thought Medium.com or Freecodecamp.com would either and look how that turned out. Any platform could go under, be sold, or have a change of heart about how it treats the people that use it.