DEV.to VS Neocities

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

Neocities Reviews

DEV.to mentions (386)

• How to Build in Public as a Tech Professional

  Remember how I suggested that you define your purpose in the previous step? Well, it makes it easier for you to choose the platform that will help achieve this goal. I decided to document my journey via blogging because I love writing. With this in mind, I wanted to use platforms with an easy setup and customization, so I chose Hashnode and Dev.to. If you prefer being on camera or audio, consider using platforms... - Source: dev.to / 2 days ago

• How to build dev.to Community Digest with Novu

  Dev.to is a widely recognized and highly esteemed community dedicated to developers from all around the globe. It serves as a platform for thousands of developers to learn, share, and publish their experiences with leveraging technology in their work. - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago

• Earth Day Frontend Challenge

  Thank you DEV.to for hosting this challenge! I'm looking forward to participating in upcoming challenges and continuing to grow my skills in front-end development. These challenges not only push my creative boundaries but also allow me to connect with a community of like-minded developers. See you at the next one! - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago

• How to build Dev.to In-App Notification System in 20 minutes

  I'll guide you on how to swiftly build an In-App Notification system for your next app using Novu and the Dev.to API. While it might not exactly resemble the system mentioned above, it'll have many similarities. - Source: dev.to / 11 days ago

• Finding Clients as a (Web Development) Freelancer

  You should publish posts on your own website, partly also because this again can enhance your SEO, But then you can additionally publish the posts on sites like dev.to, which can get you more readers and, If you add a link to the original post on your own site, more clicks on your website. - Source: dev.to / 13 days ago

Neocities mentions (162)

• The woman who coined the expression 'Surfing the Internet'

  You may really enjoy Neocities [0] it is full if websites that you explore. [0] https://neocities.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Neocities — Static, 1 GB free storage with 200 GB Bandwidth. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Neocities – Developers API

  Compare the copy on the landing pages and it’s pretty obvious https://pages.cloudflare.com/ https://neocities.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Is it just me, or is the Internet getting really boring?

  If you are curious to find more interesting stuff, start here: – https://mojeek.com/ search engine with own index, totally different results - https://wiby.me/ another search engine, but "old school" kind of web sites. It does not mean that site cannot be new, but it just looks and feels like old school web pages. Funny way is use that "surprise me..." link there to find something -... Source: 5 months ago

• The Small Website Discoverability Crisis

  Neocities has taken steps to try to improve small personal web site discoverability, which ends up being like a platform for people making web sites with a hybrid social component https://neocities.org I like the idea of calling this the small web, I usually go with something like "personal web site" or "home pages" but it's never quite stuck for me. I hope they've added Neocities to the Kagi small web search... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago