If you could add one feature to DEV, what would it be?
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The ability to Schedule posts.
Ya dang right! I'd love to have that one built in.
I'm uncertain if it still works, but a while back a community member (@toddanglin) created an awesomely handy companion app that is a scheduler called PublishTo.Dev . They describe it here in case your curious!
This one would be a such a great time-saver!
That feature is in flight. It's weirdly tricky but in our active work list.
Awesome to hear this — definitely one to look forward to! 🦅
What I do today is to write the article and save it as a draft. Then I just open the app and press publish when it's time. Works less good in the middle at the night though, if I ever would like to post at that time.
That's what I do. Then come back and try to publish in the morning.
Woot, happy to note that this is now available!
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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team ・ Oct 19 ・ 1 min read
Woot, guess I better write another post and use the feature.
Thank you DEV.
Post will post early Friday morning.
Exactly what I was going to say.
Happy to say that this feature is now available!
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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team ・ Oct 19 ・ 1 min read
🖊️ As an author
md,html), with the number of actual followers for people and organizations so we can embed them on various platforms🤓 As an integrator
📰 As a reader
🤞 Hopefully I'll get at least one of these features 🙏🎅
Ooh, tell me more about this use case! Do you have an examples of how others do it?
I don't know how to do it but it looks like the "embed" feature like on Twitter or Youtube also Katacoda was making it possible on is paid plan to embed content in any other corporate website
That's a detailed list mate! Great job
Excellent list. Thank you :)
@mbarre @hakumennc @dougniel @pluaki @spencer_forrest_opt 🗳️
I cannot 👍 as it is not "one feature" while 👍 for "Github like feature : be able to autocomplete with emojis"
Autocomplete emojis in the comments (as a user, but not as a developer 😄)
Yeah, as a developer I'm like: "good enough!" :D
YES ! Also just pointed it
But yours was not one!
A way for users to monetize their content 💙
That is a nice one!
You can currently connect a payment pointer to your DEV account using Coil (you'll need to set up an account) from your settings here - dev.to/settings/extensions. This monetization method is described a bit in this post and there's a more thorough on how to get set up here.
However, this is just one angle for monetization. I definitely think we can do more here and am open to feedback in this regard.
Neat! Thank you for those details!
No probs! Happy to help. 🙌
Better SEO tools for authors. Right now I can't have an SEO title or description with our articles (this exists for other sites). Also more segmented tags which might be related.
I agree to this. You can set a meta description today using Front Matter tags, I mention how to do that in this article.
But If I don't missremember DEV adds some extra text to the description which makes it hard to get a proper length on both DEV and original blog site.
That's a great resource. I wasn't familiar with that.
I would want the chat feature that did exist but seems to have been removed :)
I feel ya! That was a strategic cut because it (Connect) was really hard to maintain, but I also really loved having live chat available right here on DEV. For anyone curious, the announcement we made about cutting Connect can be found here on forem.dev (our community around the Forem community platform).
Communities like ours that are primarily asynchronous and work really well for long form content generally pair well with synchronous chat platforms. I do think there's a future where we integrate with existing chat platforms like Discord and/or Slack, but don't exactly know when we'll be able to put our focus on this.
I would love a cropper for featured images
YES! 💯
Haha, I'm always screwing around with featured images and trying to get them the right size.
This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but it could help... @pjijin created a cover image generator for DEV that's described in detail here:
Generate Cover Image For Your Dev Posts Easily
Jijin P 👨💻🦄 ・ Aug 14 '19 ・ 1 min read
By the way, I started up a discussion a while back about companion apps for DEV just in case you're curious:
Got a favorite DEV plugin or accompanying app?
Michael Tharrington (he/him) ・ Aug 31 '21 ・ 1 min read
That would be awesome and time saving feature.
:)
This should be straightforward to build using the API… not saying it should not be in the platform directly, but I think a backup tool might be low-ish effort to make, in fact, someone might have built on already… goes to check on GitHub
Several here - but obviously those are thing you’d need to run yourself, rather than built-in features behind a checkbox in your DEV settings.
While I typically don't champion for social features, I have been wanting to be able to see a full list of who likes/unicorns/saves my posts. I can see some of the info from notifications but trying to get a full list has not proven intuitive/possible - limiting my ability to grow an audience and participate among like-minded members of the community.
I totally feel ya on this request. I would like to more easily see who all liked my post because it likely means we have something in common and I would like to more easily be able to connect with those that I have things in common with.
Filter home feed by experience levels
github.com/forem/forem/discussions...
a toggle to filter out seen posts in the feeds when revisiting
The ability for reader to archive post directly on "post details page" without going to "Reading list" and clicking there on "Archive" button for that post.
Tag suggestions!
Oooo that's a cool one!
To be clear, we have predictive text for tags — so, when ya start typing in a tag's letters any tags that we've marked as "supported" or tags that have moderators will appear for you to select.
Here's a little screenshot that shows what I mean:
However, I think you're probs suggesting that we offer smart suggestions based on the content of the post. Maybe we'd look at the text and code blocks used with ML and suggest tags accordingly. Does that sound like what ya have in mind?
Yes! Exactly what I have in mind :) Thank you for finding the words that I could not.
Nahhh, no worries! You made complete sense, I just wanted to clarify. Glad to hear this is indeed what you're thinking — it really would be awesome!
The option to set the language of a post and your languages as reader
Also, posting the same article in multiple languages would be nice. So, on the article page a user could switch between the translations (provided by the author).
Post-specific analytics! Right now on the analytics dashboard, I can see overall number of readers over time, but it would be helpful to see a breakdown of which posts people are actually reading.
That is available through the kebab menu for a post in the dashboard. The numbers are bugging a lot though. Choosing infinite timespan seems to list all your followers. The number of comments is a bit off and so on.
But I agree, improving the analytics page with new features would be great.
Oh neat, TIL! Thanks!
Yeah it would be nice if the main analytics dashboard had a way to see which posts people are currently reading without needing to click into each post separately. Like how Google Analytics has a table of for which pages are getting the most hits in a time interval.
Cute gifs? 😂
Haha, oh don't worry I got you covered!
Could we get the poll feature that's currently for admins only? :)
I disagree - can you imagine the flood of crappy posts?
Honestly, the quality level of content on DEV is getting low enough as it is. Adding this feature would make it way worse. I suspect that is why it is admin only
Absolutely!
Right! A poll feature that'll automatically remove a tag if majority of the mods/admins agree that a post is using an irrelevant tag 😄
The ability to schedule posts
We are working on it ✨
Ability to preview post in real time while writing it. It's a hassle to switch between both editing and preview tab.
There are badges on our profile pages. How about the ability to put a badge on your avatar. Similar to how a group blog has a team avatar with a smaller avatar of the author of that post.
How about additional badges?
Language tags or filters on featured posts.
I was thinking about it and a tag in the post view section to switch between languages would help to publish in more than one language.
Chat room
I didn’t use the previous chat / Connect feature, I’m curious what folks would use it for over other chat platforms? Personal view is that I enjoy the discussions in the comments, and I enjoy sharing and reading content on DEV, but for me, I’m not sure I need another realtime chat location. Can you say more about how you’d like to use it, or how it could show up for you?
Actually I just want to connect with like minded people but email is not good that's why I like to use chat feature 😉
Not really a feature but i’d to add the links for my linkedin, instagram, fb and tiktok + others in my profile so they show in my header
text / audio / video = real time chat (the big miss)
A larger data scientist community!
On I missed this thread and discovered it now.
Definitely a custom domain! 🚀🚀🚀
Add image option directly from unsplash. like medium.com
I’d love for Dev to remember listening progress on a podcast, so I pause on the app, flip back to the desktop, login and pickup where i left off 🎧
Give the reader of a post the ability to actually run code snippets!
That would empower authors to make posts more interactive
You can embed various codepen type sites to do this already, trying to do it directly on dev.to would be a massive undertaking.
Good point! I forgot that this is already possible with CodePens etc. 👍
And I suspected it would be a massive coding effort, when I wrote that suggestion yesterday 😅
As a redactor, be able to tell in which language my post is written!
As a reader, to filter post by language
Why not delegating this task to Apache Tika thanks to its org.apache.tika.language.LanguageI... ?
Sure! I think an easy first implementation is letting the author sets the language, but why not using Tika later to suggest language or even enforce it 👍
EH EH... LEAN <3
Site Theme sync with system! Currently we have to choose either.
text-to-speech
Not really a feature, but I think some kind of review process for posts has sadly become necessary. The quality of content has gone dramatically downhill over the last couple of years
Maybe not add, but it would be great to improve the Analytics section. I'd like to have a better breakdown on where my readers come from.