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So, is it DEV, dev.to or The Practical Dev?

I'm sorry if that has been answered before, but I always get confused on how to say the name of this awesome community. What is the correct way?

  • DEV Community
  • dev.to
  • The Practical Dev

I always tend to say dev.to.

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Ben Halpern

Yes

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Ben Halpern

In all seriousness, I generally think of it as “dev dot tee oh” for folks who don’t know, and then “dev too” or “dev” for folks who know what it is.

Practical Dev is just the Twitter account, though I’d like to do something new to maybe differentiate it. ThePracticalDev will always be the origin story. ❤️

Here’s a little aside for anyone reading this right now: Can anyone get to the bottom of who owns dev.com? As much as we all love dev.to, if we migrated to dev.com it would kind of cement the whole journey. But no idea who owns it.

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Olimpio

I honestly think that dev.to rocks more than dev.com

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Glenn Carremans

I found an other website that is also hosted on the same IP has dev.com, however the WHOIS information is also hidden.
That website also seems dead, you can view file directory and found some files that I hope contain fake data... I can send you the link if you are interested.
If the last modified dates are correct then last activity was around August 2018.

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Jen

"dev dot to" ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Syed Faraaz Ahmad

Reminds me of that episode where you were invited on Software Engineering Daily podcast

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Jake Wesorick • Edited

name.com/contact-domain-whois/dev.com Assuming you already tried this, but maybe if enough people ask they will eventually give a response.

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Forest Hoffman

I always pronounce it "dev to". Short and sweet.

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Elena.NET

I always say devTo!

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briwa

For me it's dev.to. It's whole lot shorter, although it doesn't roll off the tongue as much as as the other two.

 
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Diana

I would absolutely LOVE this.

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Dan Vega

or to.dev😂

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Manbir Singh Marwah

Or practical.dev? 😂

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Jaaki

It plays on "I'm a dev too!"

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Meghan (she/her)

iirc 'The Practical Dev' is for the Twitter account. DEV, DEV.to, DEV Community, etc, all refer to here and are acceptable

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Dominic Duffin

I always tend to say dev.to, but I've never been quite sure!

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Michiel Hendriks

Yes, it is.

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Ian Knighton

We call it “dev too” around the office.

Seems to work pretty well.

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Julio Lozovei

I tend to say "dev" or "dev to" when speaking with dev folks; and "Dev Community" with non-dev folks

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Przemek Smyrdek

dev.to

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Antonio Radovcic

Devito, as in Danny, but the line on the "i" ran away.

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Amara Graham

I just had this exact conversation with my coworker.

I'm a "dev dot to" person myself.