I've been at this for a couple years now. And I've observed the same things over and over. I was on Medium as well and made that switch not so much because of the walls which can be removed but because I find people on dev.to make much more meaningful comments. They are here to discuss. My medium articles still get much better visibility. This article for example would have done well on medium as it is less technical. But what I think dev.to does better is bring communities together.
My early Medium articles got almost no views. I remember getting my first couple claps and half my articles in the first 3 months didn't have any. But the great thing about writing is once you've done it, it's out there. Over 2 years later 5/6 of them now have 1000 views and 70% readership. Not my most successful stuff in terms of views but people found my content later due to newer articles went back and read them (hence the higher percentage of readers). So it all builds towards where you are heading. Keep at it!
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I've been at this for a couple years now. And I've observed the same things over and over. I was on Medium as well and made that switch not so much because of the walls which can be removed but because I find people on dev.to make much more meaningful comments. They are here to discuss. My medium articles still get much better visibility. This article for example would have done well on medium as it is less technical. But what I think dev.to does better is bring communities together.
My early Medium articles got almost no views. I remember getting my first couple claps and half my articles in the first 3 months didn't have any. But the great thing about writing is once you've done it, it's out there. Over 2 years later 5/6 of them now have 1000 views and 70% readership. Not my most successful stuff in terms of views but people found my content later due to newer articles went back and read them (hence the higher percentage of readers). So it all builds towards where you are heading. Keep at it!