DEV definitely skews webdev, but we are actively working on some of the structural elements that make it harder for other folks to get their ideal experience.
Currently we don't do a good job of accounting for things just being more popular industry-wide and therefore too weighted in folks feeds, and we generally have not scaled the feed to account for different needs.
There is plenty of non-webdev activity on the site, but it is kind of choked out by the webdev stuff.
Anyway, I think we're going to make some product improvements which will help with this. It's probably our top legit complaint right now and we're on it!
The ability to weight languages would be ideal. This would be especially great if you allow a list of languages that isn't the tag list on the post and the ability to weight languages/tags that you don't want to see.
Ben, Hi! I'm quite flattered to get response from you!
Very intriguing to hear that some ideas are brooding about this :)
However be sure, I'm well pleased with DEV as it is - for its light air, humor, social approach - and it is even more pleasing to see DEV being so steadily improved, in constant "stable yet developing" state!
Yeah I didn't get the impression this was an "I hate DEV" kind of post by any means, but it addresses something we're actively working on.
Btw if you tag something #meta, there's a really good chance I'll see it due to my "follow weight" on the tag. 🙂
It's technically a great way to keep up with things that you specifically want to see more of, but it still doesn't quite work the way it really should for everyone.
DEV definitely skews webdev, but we are actively working on some of the structural elements that make it harder for other folks to get their ideal experience.
Currently we don't do a good job of accounting for things just being more popular industry-wide and therefore too weighted in folks feeds, and we generally have not scaled the feed to account for different needs.
There is plenty of non-webdev activity on the site, but it is kind of choked out by the webdev stuff.
Anyway, I think we're going to make some product improvements which will help with this. It's probably our top legit complaint right now and we're on it!
The ability to weight languages would be ideal. This would be especially great if you allow a list of languages that isn't the tag list on the post and the ability to weight languages/tags that you don't want to see.
Ben, Hi! I'm quite flattered to get response from you!
Very intriguing to hear that some ideas are brooding about this :)
However be sure, I'm well pleased with DEV as it is - for its light air, humor, social approach - and it is even more pleasing to see DEV being so steadily improved, in constant "stable yet developing" state!
Yeah I didn't get the impression this was an "I hate DEV" kind of post by any means, but it addresses something we're actively working on.
Btw if you tag something #meta, there's a really good chance I'll see it due to my "follow weight" on the tag. 🙂
It's technically a great way to keep up with things that you specifically want to see more of, but it still doesn't quite work the way it really should for everyone.
So we can summon you like Batman? Cool! Kidding.. It's great to see you actively contributing to the community. I really enjoy Dev.to