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DEV.to Reviews

1. jorge    

   CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA | about 4 years ago
   It is a nice mini-blog, it's for free and such but

   As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.

   However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.

   My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).

   Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Free

   👎 Cons:    Social justice|Basic features|Quality of content

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• Things you should do in your dev journey 🖥️👩‍💻

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• 🔍 Searching the web

  By adding a site:https://dev.to to your search, this will only find results that come from the dev.to page! This can be super useful, e.g. When you want to look up documentation of a specific framework on their site, or want to specifically get stackoverflow articles. - Source: dev.to / 14 days ago

• How to Download All Your Published Articles from DEV.to in Markdown Format

  As a content creator on DEV.to, you may want to have a local backup of all your published articles in Markdown format. This can be useful for various reasons such as offline access, archiving, or editing outside the platform. - Source: dev.to / 16 days ago

• 10 Websites Every Web Developer Should Bookmark

  DEV Community (formerly known as DEV.to) is a community-driven platform where developers can share their thoughts, experiences, and insights through blog posts, discussions, and coding challenges. This website is an excellent place to connect with other developers, learn from their experiences, and contribute to the community. - Source: dev.to / 20 days ago

Ghost mentions (173)

• Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces

  Diversifying a lot. Next acquisition will be Ghost(https://ghost.org/) I bet. Similar DNA, fits in the portfolio (If they are trying to match the feature set of Google) and have no VC backing. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

• Why I Care Deeply About Web Accessibility And You Should Too

  For example, if you are in a country where you can accept Stripe and are publishing a newsletter through, Substack or using the Ghost platform, enabling the ability to accept payments is a few clicks away. For those who cannot accept payment with Stripe, well, you are up the creek without a paddle. I do not know about you, but I see that as a barrier to access. - Source: dev.to / 20 days ago

• Faster Blogging: A Developer's Dream Setup

  Glee our dev friendly blogging setup has been undergoing a huge transformation for the last few weeks. For those who don't know, glee is a simple open source CLI tool that converts markdown posts into ghost blog posts. Check out the glee demo video when you have a moment! Glee: Dev-friendly Blogging Setup. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Deploy Ghost with MySQL DB replication using helm chart

  Ghost is used by creators to run their own website to publish private content. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri

  Not the OP but it looks to be https://ghost.org/ I use it as well for a small development blog and it's been an enjoyable experience. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago