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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

Tumblr 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

Tumblr mentions (32)

• ads

  Post of origin detected. I included two reblogs for redundancy. This one was a little harder to find. I tried using duckduckgo by typing "Something so profoundly fucked up between the inverse ratio of shrinking middle class and ever increasing aggression of advertisement site:tumblr.com". This would give me results with that word, and the filter would only return results from tumblr.com. Unfortunately that didn't... Source: 3 months ago

• Made a quite crazy discovery regarding Fan Arthur

  (Side-note: Clairo Fan Art says "dancy lala tumblr.com", and if you go on dancylala.tumblr.com, you see a page of her). Source: 11 months ago

• Neighbors, please don't wake up singing version.

  Tumblr for more traditional art stuff Kyattonippu's Cytadel (tumblr.com). Source: about 1 year ago

• what’s the most Rule here

  Does anyone who was once on tumblr.com remember the baeddel? I remember that. Source: about 1 year ago

• Reblog art

  I doubt the tumblr poster literally wanted to tell people that they are Morally Obligated to Reblog All Art on tumblr.com, but they probably could have done a better job of communicating the basic nuances involved here. Source: over 1 year ago