The reason I’m writing this post is to shed some light on an aspect of Dev.to that many of us don’t think twice about: our followers. We put so muc...
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Really cool, I did something similar with my followers that I didn't publish :D
I checked this with a friend - when you sign up, dev.to recommends you authors to follow and this appears to be based on recently published posts. For me the spike in followers when I publish something rarely matches the number of views.
Good catch about "recommends you authors to follow", didn't think of it
Established active user here. I just followed you 👋
(I haven't read the article yet, I haven't had time)
But what makes me wonder the most is how I have 10k followers and that doesn't reflect on the number of views on my articles
Like, I know there's interest in the content itself, but it's really weird that I have 10k and only 100 people read my last article
I find the ratio of views, reads, and followers on Dev.to quite disturbing
I've had a similar experience. After posting, there's usually a significant increase in followers, but other metrics seem out of sync. It feels like something fishy is going on.
so I can agree that raise of followers maybe connected to the fact that Dev.to suggesting profiles to follow during onboarding but views count seems wrong
This is really interesting and so well done, thanks for sharing!
Just a masterpiece of analysis, applause!
wow! great article
Your Data skills blow my mind, thanks for sharing
As to the "same day joiners" stats, I think dev used to suggest people to follow as part of the onboarding journey, so you could get a spike from that instead of any particular article.
I may agree with you. I've noticed others sharing the same thought about Dev suggesting profiles to follow during onboarding. It makes a lot of sense and could definitely explain the spike in 'same day joiners.