Ben Halpern

for The DEV Team

Posted on Aug 30, 2019

Native "Share to DEV" button is now on Stack Overflow

#meta #stackoverflow

If you click the share link on Stack Overflow you now see three options where there were once only two.

If you click the DEV icon, you'll be brought to a DEV editor with a prefilled Stack Overflow liquid tag to make sharing questions and answers more easily within this community.

You may do so in order to share a helpful tip, enrich a tutorial, or editorialize or host a "meta" discussion about the Stack Overflow content. With a much looser format than Stack Overflow itself, feel free to have sprawling conversations.

This feature was made possible by two features recently shipped on DEV:

Changelog: Stack Overflow Liquid Tag

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team ・ Aug 15 '19

#meta #changelog #stackoverflow

Announcing off-platform "Share to DEV" functionality

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team ・ Apr 26 '19

#replit #meta #markdown #changelog

Let's use this functionality to help bring light to all the most important questions:

Oct 28 '08 Comments: Answers: 15

What's the difference between JavaScript and Java?

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CodePen, Replit, and now Stack Overflow all have Share-to-DEV buttons. GitHub, will you be next?

Note, at the moment this is only live on the desktop version of the site, not mobile.

Happy coding!

Top comments (37)

Fernando Doglio • Aug 30 '19

Congrats! Definitely a nice platform to integrate with!

Sung M. Kim • Aug 30 '19

Lawfully Good + Lawfully Evil => Win-win 😎

Katerina Borodina

@kathyra_

developer community alignments. did I get this right?

03:20 AM - 25 Jun 2019

Ben Halpern • Aug 30 '19

🦄N B🛡 • Nov 21 '20

Well, I guess I need to head over to /g/ - Technology whatever that is.

And what's the middle one?

Lucas Olivera • Aug 30 '19

This is really wonderful, congratulations DEV Team!

Dian Fay • Aug 30 '19

👀

congrats!

Ben Halpern • Aug 30 '19

😄

Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Aug 30 '19

That's a big deal.
Congratz.

Jonathan Carter • Aug 30 '19 • Edited

This is so cool! 🙌 Live Share just released the ability to have a “reusable” session URL, and I wonder if it would be interesting to discuss some way that DEV posts could have an associated Live Share (e.g. it’s a help request/code review discussion/SO question, that the poster is around in real-time for a bit).

It might even be cool to have a Live Share badge that indicated the session’s online status, and let readers click it to directly join into the session. Just thinking out loud 😁

Ben Halpern • Aug 30 '19

That is really cool! As it so happens, we already have the boolean concept in our codebase of whether a DEV post is "live", with this sort of thing in mind, we just gradually stopped trying to make it work because we had bigger fish to fry. So now it's just always false.

But we've had this sort of thing in mind and I think we'd be all for trying to make this happen. So let's figure it out.