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Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A

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Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A

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JeremyMorgan wrote: post #22

This is great news. I've been a member of the community for a while and it's really positive in nature, a good mix of new developers and experienced. I like the culture of the people there and the values of the founders. Their success ultimately will hinge on: 1. Monetization (obviously) 2. Their ability to scale (I hope to help with this at some point) 3. Their ability to maintain the current culture. If they're abl…

Given that it took the open source release and PRs from contributors to get rid of the dark patterns on the site, I'm (as an outsider) not that optimistic about the "without annoying people".

Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A

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Post by JeremyMorgan »

detaro wrote: post #31
JeremyMorgan wrote: post #22

This is great news. I've been a member of the community for a while and it's really positive in nature, a good mix of new developers and experienced. I like the culture of the people there and the values of the founders. Their success ultimately will hinge on: 1. Monetization (obviously) 2. Their ability to scale (I hope to help with this at some point) 3. Their ability to maintain the current culture. If they're abl…

Given that it took the open source release and PRs from contributors to get rid of the dark patterns on the site, I'm (as an outsider) not that optimistic about the "without annoying people".

There's always going to be annoying people in any community. It depends on how much you let them take over. HN for instance has its share but the mods don't let them run the place.

Re: Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A

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Post by detaro »

JeremyMorgan wrote: post #32
detaro wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that it took the open source release and PRs from contributors to get rid of the dark patterns on the site, I'm (as an outsider) not that optimistic about the "without annoying people".

There's always going to be annoying people in any community. It depends on how much you let them take over. HN for instance has its share but the mods don't let them run the place.

I'm not really talking about people in the community (although that's of course also an important point, but I haven't spent enough time on dev.to to judge that), but design decisions like fake notifications for "you're not logged in! create an account now", signup prompts styled exactly like comments interspersed with the actual comments, ..., which were added before the open-source release.

(and SPA things like breaking the browser back button, although I don't think that it's intentional)

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