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Discussion on: What is the best time to post on dev.to? a data-backed answer 🕰🦄🤷‍♂️

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Dinesh Pandiyan

In my personal experience, posting Thursday morning - evening US time gets most traffic to your posts and increases the chance of making into 'weekly top posts'.

Two reasons mostly

  1. Before Thursday is too early and by end of the week, your post will already be at the bottom of the feed.
  2. After Friday is too late and even if your post quality is great, you wouldn't get enough traffic or reactions to reach the top posts curation that usually happens EOD or early Monday.

IMO I personally believe timing matters as much as the quality of the post to make it to 'top posts of the week'.

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Pierre • Edited

I agree that quality is the much important factor here, especially considering the amount of manual curation there is on the platform.

However, it is nice to see that likes are spread evenly during the week even though there are much more articles posted during the timeframe you mentioned.