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

The Outline Reviews

DEV.to mentions (396)

• Computer Science challenge, let's make it interesting!!

  If you haven’t checked it out yet, dev.to has introduced First Computer Science Challenge in honor of Alan Turing. The challenge is to explain a computer science concept in 256 characters or less. - Source: dev.to / about 15 hours ago

• Writing an Obsidian Plugin Driven By Tests

  I recently developed the initial version of Obsidian DEV Publish Plugin, a plugin that enables publishing Obsidian notes as articles on DEV. The first prototype was developed during a ~4 hour live stream. - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago

• Install Docker and Portainer in a VM using Ansible

  Note: The inventory.yml file is not shared since that depends on the actual environment So it will be different for everyone. If you want to learn more about the inventory file Watch the videos on YouTube or read the written version on https://dev.to. Links in The video descriptions on YouTube. - Source: dev.to / 25 days ago

• How Can I Create a DevOps Pipeline That Automatically Resolves All Conflicts and Bugs Without Human Intervention?

  Also, follow DevOps best practices on Dev.to and explore the Jenkins Documentation. - Source: dev.to / 16 days ago

• Two Days Indie Dev Life: Mailchimp, Webflow & Zapier - A Love Story

  I’ve been active on twitter for about a week now. It’s still kind of new to me but something really cool happened yesterday. DEV.TO put one of my daily blogs in one of their tweets, they have like 300k+ followers, I couldn’t believe it. Very very cool, thanks a lot 🙏. - Source: dev.to / 16 days ago

The Outline mentions (8)

• Vice website is shutting down

  For example a site that I liked called The Outline stopped publishing content in 2020 and they leave the site online at least for now https://theoutline.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Meta’s reportedly planning to lay off ‘thousands’ of workers this week

  The Verge did a whole website redesign in an attempt to stay relevant, having not learned the lessons from the failures of Joshua Topolsky's The Outline, which imploded due in part to its horrific design. Source: over 1 year ago

• Verge gets a redesign

  Reminds me of some the design decisions made on https://theoutline.com/. Same school of thought, design over functionality. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Verge gets a redesign

  It basically reeks of whatever Joshua Topolsky was involved with (https://theoutline.com). I've always thought a large reason why it failed was the messy web design, looks like The Verge wants to go that way too. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Best UX

  Since you asked, I thought The Outline had a unique and compelling UI/UX but sadly it’s parent company shit it down so it’s been dormant for 2 years: https://theoutline.com. Source: about 2 years ago