I am not opposed to all improvements to dev.to, but the ones you are suggesting don't jive with my understanding of dev.to's culture. I am not a stakeholder, but I do love this community and I advocate to protect it.
I think dev.to's biggest strength and differentiator is that it has a friendly and enthusiastic culture that provides (particularly beginner) developers a safe and welcoming place to celebrate what they are learning and doing in order learn from each other.
Dev.to have included/excluded features over the years that support this difference, showing a bias toward producers over consumers. Some examples off the top of my head:
Peer review tags seem like a step in a different direction to me. It's not a bad direction, it just doesn't seem to fit well with dev.to's ethos. It provides a way to bypass content, making it harder for new dev authors to find an audience...the kind of audience that would help them learn through their mistakes.
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I am not opposed to all improvements to dev.to, but the ones you are suggesting don't jive with my understanding of dev.to's culture. I am not a stakeholder, but I do love this community and I advocate to protect it.
I think dev.to's biggest strength and differentiator is that it has a friendly and enthusiastic culture that provides (particularly beginner) developers a safe and welcoming place to celebrate what they are learning and doing in order learn from each other.
Dev.to have included/excluded features over the years that support this difference, showing a bias toward producers over consumers. Some examples off the top of my head:
Peer review tags seem like a step in a different direction to me. It's not a bad direction, it just doesn't seem to fit well with dev.to's ethos. It provides a way to bypass content, making it harder for new dev authors to find an audience...the kind of audience that would help them learn through their mistakes.