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Is it possible to write articles on dev.to in other languages?

Hi everybody!

Is it possible to write articles on dev.to in other languages, for example, in Russian?

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Stephanie Handsteiner • Edited

Technically there are no limitations to use another language than English to write articles here.

If I were to write articles in a language other than English, I’d also add a hashtag with the language to it, so you’ll over time receive a nice collection of articles in this language.

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Emma Goto πŸ™

I've seen some Japanese articles! If you go to your misc settings there is a feature (in beta) to choose which languages you would like to see in your feed.

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Ben Halpern

Yup, and this functionality essentially works fine now.

The beta label is there sort of because we still have the chicken-egg problem of having enough content that we can provide value in other languages. There are also some caveats that we still need to improve on.

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Gabor Szabo

It might be nice to have a tag-like thing in which one can select the language of the article and then if the readers were able to filter based on that.

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Kyle Martin • Edited

Per Terms of Use:

  1. Content Policy The following policy applies to comments, articles, and all other works shared on the DEV platform:
  • Users must make a good-faith effort to share content that is on-topic, of high-quality, and is not designed primarily for the purposes of promotion or creating backlinks.
  • Posts must contain substantial content β€” they may not merely reference an external link that contains the full post.
  • If a post contains affiliate links, that fact must be clearly disclosed. For instance, with language such as: β€œThis post includes affiliate links; I may receive compensation if you purchase products or services from the different links provided in this article.” DEV reserves the right to remove any content that it deems to be in violation of this policy at its sole discretion. Additionally, DEV reserves the right to restrict any user’s ability to participate on the platform at its sole discretion.

So I don't see why not. At worse it will just limit how many interactions your post gets. But if its what you are comfortable with, do it!

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Alvaro Montoro

I know many Spanish-speaking developers who write articles in Spanish on DEV. And every now and then I see articles in French or Portuguese. As far as I know, there aren't any language restrictions.

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