the collection and organization of material is more precise and punctual;
handling of articles (amendments, updates, new parts, etc.) is easier;
as reader:
I can focus on a single aspect, and deepen the relative details with other sources without losing half of the article;
I can ask more pertinent questions, and questions from other readers will all be related to the same macro topic, which could give rise to constructive discussions or be a source of new awareness. This thing with a long article would be much more chaotic, with questions that would range over multiple topics.
thank you so much for taking the time to share your opinion!
As a writer I tend to favour long articles, as I can write them in one go and stop thinking about it. My opinion is thus biased due to my lack of organisation ^^'. I also fear losing readers, as there is no way to "follow" a single series on dev.to.
In case of a series, how would you organise it? One article per week or per day, publish them all in one go? I am really curious of what others are doing.
One solution would be to write the entire article in another application (e.g. Obsidian), and then publish it "serially" simply by copying and pasting the various sections.
I as a reader (and I think many on this site) follow different tags, and also other feeds (Medium, Hackernews, etc.), so I prefer to have shorter articles, which I can possibly pre-filter already from the content (functions in Kotlin already know them? Perfect, skip the article and wait for next).
If a reader is registered to your feed, they will be notified of each new article (maybe adding links to the series' articles, I often see it done here on dev.to). With a single article instead all updates to the article itself may not be notified to followers and be lost.
About the frequency of publication, I think it depends on your productivity: do you have many articles ready? Then publish them daily. Otherwise, you could keep some "backup" articles and publish them when you have little time to delve into other topics or the "writer’s block" hits you.
This is an example of an article "part of the series": you can see at the beginning of the article a sort of index/TOC that refers to all the articles in the series
I now write most of my articles first in hashnode (blog.derlin.ch) and then crosspost on dev.to. I like your approach, I may test it on the Kotlin article*s*, thank you!
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I am for the short article series:
thank you so much for taking the time to share your opinion!
As a writer I tend to favour long articles, as I can write them in one go and stop thinking about it. My opinion is thus biased due to my lack of organisation ^^'. I also fear losing readers, as there is no way to "follow" a single series on dev.to.
In case of a series, how would you organise it? One article per week or per day, publish them all in one go? I am really curious of what others are doing.
One solution would be to write the entire article in another application (e.g. Obsidian), and then publish it "serially" simply by copying and pasting the various sections.
I as a reader (and I think many on this site) follow different tags, and also other feeds (Medium, Hackernews, etc.), so I prefer to have shorter articles, which I can possibly pre-filter already from the content (functions in Kotlin already know them? Perfect, skip the article and wait for next).
If a reader is registered to your feed, they will be notified of each new article (maybe adding links to the series' articles, I often see it done here on dev.to). With a single article instead all updates to the article itself may not be notified to followers and be lost.
About the frequency of publication, I think it depends on your productivity: do you have many articles ready? Then publish them daily. Otherwise, you could keep some "backup" articles and publish them when you have little time to delve into other topics or the "writer’s block" hits you.
This is an example of an article "part of the series": you can see at the beginning of the article a sort of index/TOC that refers to all the articles in the series
I now write most of my articles first in hashnode (blog.derlin.ch) and then crosspost on dev.to. I like your approach, I may test it on the Kotlin article*s*, thank you!