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Discussion on: Is Dev.to victim of its own success?

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Thomas Bnt ☕

From my point of view

Okay, some points is true and I have the same feeling as @samuelfaure .

Precisely, the "Junior fullstack javascript developer fresh out of bootcamp".

I see most of DEV posts around JS/React and HTML/CSS, I'm into that but I appreciate read/learn others stuffs like languages, culture of devs or wathever with good content. No links to 'Read more at' or just a embed with the code source and nothing more...

Even the little contents of people who start to learn a language I'm happy to read, so maybe it's not the most interesting topic of my comment, but if you who read this start to learn something and you want to share it, do so! Don't be afraid! It's a great way to learn more, to get feedback which is always nice, and nobody eats here (Si?)

The proof, my very first post here was when I started learning Ruby, it's still online and my very first comments are golden nuggets.

Second part, I'm agreed :

5 Top VSCode extensions"

I totally agree with that, I see most of the time on the homepage this kind of posts, and for some people they like it, but after a while it becomes boring and it makes you less interested in reading the articles on the homepage

StackOverflow and DEV

Why did you add StackOverflow as a shortcut? Usually people don't take the time to write down their problem and just copy and paste as many tags as possible. I find that it stains the platform. Help should always be part of it, but just throwing in a StackOverflow link and putting the same title again... might as well write "Read me more at [link]".

If you don't know what I mean, when you share on StackOverflow, you can create a post here, very easily.


I was speaking to you as a DEV member. What follows is about the moderation part.

It's almost the same, I moderate some tags and I see from time to time empty posts, here just to signal and mark its presence on DEV. I'm often wondering if I should downvote the post to make it less prominent or just report it as spam/nothing to do here.

I have forgotten some points, I am aware, but I would like to share some points that I think are right.

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Samuel-Zacharie FAURE

After multiple readings, I'm still not understanding your comment about StackOverflow. Can you clarify?

It seems like you're asking me "Why did you add StackOverflow as a shortcut?" but I did not link to SO in my post ?

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Thomas Bnt ☕

No not you ^^
StackOverflow added "Share on DEV" on this platform.

When you share here from SO, it's prefilled to post on DEV.

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Andrew Bone

Oh I didn't even know that was a thing