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What is DEV.to? and what it wants to be?

Hello people, what the title suggests!

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Sunit Katkar

You are so right. It is very rare to find a good example or tutorial on almost any topic.

I just skim through the main page everyday and am mostly disappointed. Good that I pay for medium as the quality of articles there is much better. I understand the good intentions of dev.to but it's just as you said - not a really dependable place.

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Justin Ho

Don't (popular) medium writers get paid though? Which kind of makes it their job to vet their articles / sources compared to DEV?

I haven't been on DEV for too long but I agree that it's more like Facebook where most people just verbal vomit (not always a bad thing), engage others, and once in awhile you find the really inspiring posts which makes this place more fun than medium.

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Sunit Katkar

Yes medium pays for content and charges for it too. Anyway, I think of dev.to as a quick place to glance in hopes of finding something good. There has to be some editorial vetting for dev.to be interesting long term.

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Pablo Herrero

Sorry, a question about it, really worth paying the subscription of Medium?

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Sunit Katkar

Not all content on medium is worth the monthly $5 but just do some searches on topics like Keycloak or Angular or Spring Boot on dev.to and medium and then compare the quality of content.