My last post with a video got 120 readers. Six reactions and I got 108 followers.
My plan was to publish one video per day. What gives at least 3000 views per month, 180 reactions and over 3000 followers.
However, it won't happen. Why?
I was told by the moderator of dev.to that video posts are not welcome on dev.to. And I should add texts and snippets (that are in the video...) also as text.
I can not do it because it is additional work I rather spend on making videos.
Moreover, video section of dev.to is not working and it is impossible to upload videos there. It is still in beta BTW.
The result is that I can not publish my videos on dev.to.
The question is what is the plan of dev.to? People clearly like videos here, what can be seen by statistics. But because of a ban on video posts and not working video section dev.to users loose access to something they like.
Since that said, as a dev mentor with 16 years of experience in education I just can say sorry to everyone who is affected by this. I wished I'd be able to share knowledge with you here. Short videos are great in explaining things. You like it. But nor me, not you decide what we can do on dev.to....
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I think you have slightly over corrected here.
They were simply saying that it is desirable to have some explanation or additional info as part of the post, they certainly didn’t say video was not welcomed, just that a video without other supporting content is not right for the platform.
As for the extra effort creating written content in addition to the videos I promise you it is worth it as you then have content to recycle into tweets etc and your posts on DEV will rank better (getting you more views).
I for one will click on a post but if it is just a video with no explanation I will leave and miss out on your content.
Maybe you could make the process painless by exporting the auto generated closed captions from YouTube and sharing them under the video. Then as you already have the code snippets you can just copy and paste them in the relevant place.
Once you get that down it will take you less than 5 minutes to upload a video and the accompanying text content and code snippets.
You will go from 100 views to 1000 per post in no time if you do this as DEV audience appreciates effort in a post.
And the other thing you can do then is have a “call to action” to ask people to subscribe to your YouTube channel and grow that all important follower number!
I for one enjoyed your short video on ‘33’ etc, but certainly struggled to keep up with the pace of code examples shown on screen on the video about strings before that, so it would be great to watch the video and see the code below at my own pace, at which point your time on page goes up and increases the chances of a ❤️🦄 or share of social media!