I'm trying to understand how to best use the DEV platform.
Thanks!
Robert Bernstein
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Do most people use DEV to write their posts or do you post a blog elsewhere and syndicate to DEV?
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I've only posted to dev. I had some posts I brought over from LiveJournal, and at one point considered posting back.
To create some more content of a different kind I did a project with the dev api. I'm likely going to put my articles in a git repo. And maybe I should do something with my personal site I haven't touched in a decade.
Hobby Project: Dev.to API
Jesse Phillips γ» Jan 15 γ» 2 min read
I only use dev :) I'll be using the API to showcase my latest posts on my portfolio, but won't be rehosting them there - I'll just link to dev.
Thank you!
I post on my own blog first and then copy to dev.to with a canonical link to my own blog
Interesting read! Maybe I should reconsider keeping everything purely in dev.
I wish I could β€ this more than once. Dev.to is vital, but its important to own your own platform.
I'm currently reposting some blog posts from my personal blog to DEV with canonical links :)
Currently, I cross-post but I am considering to move my content exclusively to dev.to
Thank you for sharing!
Rob
Hey! How is this done? How do you syndicate to Dev?
Thank you! I hadn't thought of it in terms of how companies will manage or control your content. Not that I believe that DEV would do this, but your advice is sound.
No one thought Medium.com or Freecodecamp.com would either and look how that turned out. Any platform could go under, be sold, or have a change of heart about how it treats the people that use it.