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Discussion on: Is Dev.to victim of its own success?

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leob • Edited

Some good points, the only point where I don't agree with you is that dev.to has the same problems as Medium - maybe they share some issues, but not all.

Medium was simply killed as far as I'm concerned by the horrible pay wall, dev.to obviously doesn't have that (the moment they'd even contemplate that, it would be dead, on the spot - completely a no-go).

What sets dev.to apart from Medium is that dev.to feels more like social media, a community, and that's also what generates a lot of low quality content. But, on Medium the listicles and the sensationalist click bait titles are also a problem, probably even more so than on dev.to. And on Medium they sell that as "premium content" ;)

Still vastly preferring dev.to over Medium ... without doubt.