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Discussion on: Where do intermediate and/or slightly more advanced devs go?

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Tyler V. (he/him)

On the internet I'm not really someone so regardless of what I do, I'll most likely be screaming in the void. My main question is should I still scream in this void?

If you never start screaming into the void, you'll never get to start screaming at people ðŸĪŠ

Additionally I've noticed a lot of folk I follow on twitter because of the DEV community don't seem to be on DEV anymore. Is this platform slowly dying or does that have to do with developer maturity?

I definitely don't think DEV is dying - I think what's really happening is DEV suffering a bit from success right now though and is trying to "catch up" to the large level meta changes. I'm mostly basing this off this recent post and the conversations I've seen happening for the past few months in Mod Connect chats (RIP ðŸ˜Ē).

I also think there's some amount of maturity where authors start here because they don't have an audience on their personal blog, then start transitioning to post more on their personal blog once they have a nice amount of SEO traffic being pulled in (while still cross posting to DEV using canoncial_urls) and eventually they reach a point where they care more about their personal blog's content than getting traffic to the DEV posts (which may explain why you don't see them posting links to DEV on Twitter any more).

As developers grow, they might also just find less interest in blogging or have less time for it. I'm sure there are plenty of people that blogging has created opportunity for, then the opportunity starts taking the time they used to dedicate to their blog.

Personally, I post my tech-related articles to DEV and use my personal blog as a place to also write anything else that I want. If people don't read those posts, it's fine with me - it's more about expressing myself and maybe someone enjoying it than the dopamine of getting a million views/likes ~that's what Twitter is for~ .

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Maniflames

Hey thanks Tyler!

I had no idea DEV has put a commitment in changing the feed. It's the reason I decided to take a break from DEV in the first place. I do really want to get back into writing so I should probably just go for it. It was not too long ago that I accidentally discovered that mod tab, I do report spam but in general it would probably really help to boost content that is worth people's time as well.

Growing your personal blog by starting out on DEV makes a lot of sense. It's not a huge deal but it's still kind of a bummer that most interesting creators slowly moved away from the platform. (In my case it probably amplifies my issues with the feed).

I guess that I was just in doubt in whether or not people were actually engaging or if spamming till your content reaches the top just was the new DEV mentality. I'm sure that if I cleanse some things in my account and engage a bit more I'll find joy in DEV again.

Cheers :D