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DEV.to Reviews

1. jorge    

   CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA | almost 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

Drupal Reviews

DEV.to mentions (371)

• Web Development Tools and Resources

  Dev.to (Visit Site) - A community of developers sharing knowledge and resources, Dev.to is a platform where programmers can stay updated on the latest trends, learn new skills, and connect with others. - Source: dev.to / 3 days ago

• Gameplanning the SGE Apocalypse

  I haven't looked at their media kit lately, but I imagine that dev.to has monthly site visits in the tens of millions.  Some of that obviously comes from search, but they also have a prodigious amount of direct navigation. - Source: dev.to / 16 days ago

• 7 ways to step up your API performance.

  REST (Representational State Transfer): This is a style of API that uses HTTP methods (such as GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) to perform operations on resources identified by URLs. REST APIs are based on the principle of statelessness, meaning that each request contains all the information necessary to process it, and the server does not store any client state. REST APIs are widely used for web applications, mobile... - Source: dev.to / 14 days ago

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

  Dev.to - Where programmers share ideas and help each other grow. - Source: dev.to / 22 days ago

• Dive into the Mind of Lead Power Platform Developer, David Wyatt

  You can stay updated with more of David Wyatt's insightful and inspiring articles by following him on Dev.to. You can connect him in LinkedIn too, David Wyatt's LinkedIn profile. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

Drupal mentions (28)

• Is there and easy way of porting a site from d7 to d9?

  I would be interested in some good migration tools, paid ones are also ok. I found a post about this on drupal.org, but it didn't seem like an easy process. It is a multilanguage site with many content types, and a totally custom theme. Source: over 1 year ago

• Is there any nice group, where I can ask questions, when I get stuck and recieve some guidance instead of crytics?

  You got already good advice, but wanted to point the guide of drupal.org where you can see some tools listed with instructions and channels https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/reference-information/talk/tools. Source: over 1 year ago

• MAMP issue after Pro trial ended

  There is a service call GitPod that provides a temporary container Drupal environment. If you are familiar with what is going on around the future of how Drupal modules will eventually be offered up, you will likely have seen the "Project Browser" module as a contrib demo of the approach. It is used for people to give feedback to the developers. So they set up the typical 'SimplyTestMe' but also a GitPod... Source: over 1 year ago

• Best Modules for Product and Recipe?

  For reviews, it depends entirely on what you mean by "review". I believe core has a simple comment module, although it may have been deprecated for D9? There are likely many review-style modules on drupal.org that might work, or if you just want to link out to third-party reviews then it could just be a repeating-value link field on the Product content type. Source: over 1 year ago

• Leadership?

  They should also use standards tools like Github. The drupal.org platform was certainly impressive 10 years ago, today it's a pain to use it. They ducktape it with gitlab, but really it sucks to have to read documentation to simply do a pull request. Source: over 1 year ago