I have been programming professionally for more than 20 years now.
I wasn't familiar with this community. I decided to give it a go about a month ago, imported a few of my old blog posts, added some new ones, longer posts, quick ones, etc...
My posts are not popular by any means, I usually write about niche backend development stuff that's not very fashionable :-)
The one article that gave me the opportunity to approach dev.to was Five tips to be more effective on the command line, which I published here for the first time. It probably got picked up in some feed and a user posted it on reddit a few days later.
That made me understand the whole point of this community and why people like it. The same exact post got thousands of views on reddit and mostly positive reactions but also a few scolding and rude comments from people that have not even read the whole article, since they were complaining about stuff I did explain.
Here on dev.to, I got barely a few hundred views, but polite and relevant comments from people that had clearly appreciated and read through all, suggesting alternatives or simply their own view on the approaches expressed in the post.
I like how welcoming and polite this community feels like.
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