dev.to as a generic blog?

@raphink

Wordpress.com supports Markdown

wordpress.com/support/wordpress-ed...

When I search WordPress.com for Genealogy, there are many hits

wordpress.com/read/search?q=geneal...

Medium.com does not directly support Markdown, but there ae ways:

markdowntomedium.com/

I think in all of this it is important to remember that the content and the audience for the content is far more important than the tools used to create the content. So a good principle to follow is to find the audience and then tweak whatever the system is so that it works the way you want it to work.

In doing this you gain two skills. 1. Learning about the domain of knowledge you are involved with because you are surrounded by experts in the field. 2. learning how to tweak your tools to make the best of the situation you find yourself.

After lurking around DEV.tobfor many moons now, I have not read too many articles on family trees.
Although I would not be opposed to it, I am not holding my breath. However, I love this platform. It seems to promote short posts and is very friendly.

pros

• if you are writing software dedicated to genealogy, then dev.to might be interesting
• Your choice of tags would be crucial

cons

• you may not get a lot of hearts let alone readers if you stray far away from coding
• there are a ton of blogs and forums already devoted to genealogy (and other specific topics) where you can get lots of readers

I did a search on Dev.to for "genealogy". There were four hits. One of which was your post. you might consider searching on Dev.to to prior to posting to see if there is any interested what you are writing about