A pair months again, we launched the DEV Neighborhood Satisfaction Survey with an announcement right here:
The survey formally closed on September twenty sixth with a complete of ~800 individuals. We’re now able to share a few of the outcomes with you all.
Let’s dive in!
TL;DR
- 68% of oldsters really feel happy with the content material they see of their house feed, whereas 27% are unhappy.
- The highest 3 forms of posts folks presently take pleasure in are:
- Programming tutorials (81.9%)
- Discussions (54.1%)
- Private tales (41%)
- The highest 3 forms of topics people prefer to learn are:
- Net improvement (78.8%)
- Backend improvement (68.8%)
- Frontend improvement (66.7%)
- 89% of oldsters really feel secure & inspired to share their ideas, whereas 93% of individuals really feel protected by moderators and the Code of Conduct.
Uncooked Quantitative Knowledge
1. “How happy are you with DEV?”
- 810 solutions (Avg Score = 7.7/10)
2. “Are you happy with the content material you see in your house (related) feed?”
- 812 solutions (68.1% are happy, 27.2% are unhappy, 6% different)
3. “Do you are feeling secure and inspired to share your ideas and emotions with the DEV group?”
- 808 solutions (89% do really feel secure & inspired, 8.1% don’t, and three.4% different)
4. “Do you are feeling protected by our group of moderators and our Code of Conduct?”
- 800 solutions (92.9% say sure, 5.8% say no)
5. “Are there any particular areas of DEV that you simply really feel we might enhance upon?”
- 307 open reply responses
6. “Do you are feeling happy with the variety of emails we ship you?”
- 801 solutions (67.2% say it’s good however no extra, 21.2% sure however might see extra, 9.3% no obtain too many, 5.5% different)
7. “Have you ever ever participated in a DEV hackathon and in that case, did you take pleasure in it?”
- 805 solutions (13.5% sure and loved it, 2% sure however didn’t take pleasure in it, 59% no however with the best subject they’d, 20.4% no and no curiosity, 5.8% no and located promotion to be off-putting, 2.9% different)
8. “What are you aware about CodeNewbie Neighborhood?”
- 808 solutions (52% nothing, 33.5% is conscious, 12% a member however not lively, 4% an lively member and revel in it)
9. “Examine the field beside the actions that you simply generally carry out on DEV:”
- 797 solutions
- Learn posts (91.4%)
- Go away reactions (64%)
- Browse articles in house feed (57.6%)
- Write posts (48.8%)
- Touch upon posts (47.9%)
- Comply with tags (42.2%)
- Comply with customers (42%)
- Seek for articles utilizing the DEV search bar (35.6%)
- Comply with organizations (20.8%)
- Different (1.7%)
10. “What forms of posts do you take pleasure in on DEV?”
- 791 solutions
- Programming tutorials (81.9%)
- Discussions (54.1%)
- Private tales (41%)
- Information (40%)
- Maker tutorials (35.7%)
- #assist posts (asking for assist/serving to others) (25.5%)
- Different (0.9%)
11. “What forms of topics do you prefer to learn/publish about on DEV?”
- 793 solutions
- Net improvement (78.8%)
- Backend improvement (68.8%)
- Frontend improvement (66.7%)
- Software improvement (53.2%)
- Profession improvement (48.1%)
- Developer way of life (46.8%)
- Discussions (34.6%)
- Knowledge Science (25.1%)
- Different (5.4%)
Noteworthy Lengthy Responses
1. “How happy are you with DEV?”
- “I hardly ever take a look at my feed, I typically go to dev after I get a digest electronic mail.”
- “A number of the feed is sweet however even with weighting it could possibly be higher and much the identical issues seem. “
- “The subjects I observe aren’t very lively, so it is probably not DEV that’s liable for me not seeing plenty of content material.”
- “It is fantastic. I really feel like I bought extra out of the feed years again after I was a brand new developer and actively trying to develop my data. Nowadays I do not see plenty of worth in spending time on the house feed, and after I do take a look at articles plenty of time I will discover low high quality JS articles with incomplete info.”
- “Generally I see repeated content material total content material is Good.”
- “Glad however want extra”
- “There are nice posts every so often but it surely’s so tough for me to seek out them due to all of the clickbaity or half-assed posts. I really feel there are such a lot of very self-centered and assured males there now. Once I began on Dev, I really feel like there have been so many queer people and girls posting – what occurred to that?”
- “Sure, I’m happy with the content material you’re displaying however I would like that it exhibits related content material not promotion content material. As in my house feed I’ll see each content material like easy content material & promotion contents.”
- “Largely happy, I simply want I might toggle off posts in languages I do not converse, and low high quality posts.”
- “I might love to have the ability to add detrimental weight to topic I do not care, even when they point out tags I follows… With out following them in fact”
3. “Do you are feeling secure and inspired to share your ideas and emotions with the DEV group?”
- “It usually doesn’t make sense. I don’t worry the trolls, however I believe it’s too many individuals with little or no expertise.”
- “95% of the time, I do, however there’s a small quantity of debate that is not constructive in the direction of dialogue. I attempt to nip these early however some have required blocking. “
- “I had one “detrimental” expertise in all these years (3 or 4 years?) – an unfriendly interplay with one other member which bought a bit out of hand, and each of us bought a slap on the wrist, although I used to be absolutely satisfied that I used to be in the best – by no means thoughts, it may well occur.”
- “Identical to some other group, DEV has its trolls, searching for self-affirmation, largely by diminishing the others with fallacies and teasing. Even so, they appear to be much less widespread right here, which is by some means an encouragement.”
- “secure, however not inspired”
- “I do not need my account to be linked to Git or some other public account. I need a diploma of anonymity”
- “I do not often remark however the feedback I’ve learn from others appear open-minded and welcoming. “
- “Sure, I really feel secure and inspired by the DEV workers and customers with extra dev expertise. No, I do not really feel secure and inspired by the tech bros who rapidly found DEV.”
- “It relies upon – I really feel it is secure to share ideas in the event that they’re strictly about tech, but when there’s, for instance, even a bit of point out of (gender) equality, I am afraid what the response will likely be. I’ve skilled myself, and seen in different posts, how impolite some group members get if you discuss (gender) equality. “
- “Feeling ‘secure’ isn’t one thing I take into consideration.”
- “I really feel it’s secure to share, however I do not really feel comfy. I do not suppose folks need to hear/learn from seniors. “
5. “Are there any particular areas of DEV that you simply really feel we might enhance upon?”
- “Podcast?”
- “I am unable to pick everybody that engages with my content material.”
- “The sign-up course of – why do I’ve to have an account on certainly one of a number of different platforms to create one right here? GitHub MAYBE I might perceive, because it’s builders speaking to builders, however nonetheless. However Twitter? Actually???”
- “The search is crap. Frankly changing it with a ” web site:dev.to” Google Search could be an instantaneous enchancment earlier than it may be changed by one thing higher.”
- “There appears to be much more spam or low-quality posts basically. It is a bit of irritating and makes DEV much less priceless for me.”
- “1. Sorting feedback by date 2. Choice to share Badges on social platforms”
- “Clearly too many net dev associated subjects within the publication. This IS unhappy. Why is generally webdev featured? Different subjects deserve that spot as nicely.”
- “Ease for looking out # that you do not observe”
- “darkish mode ought to be overtly visualize”
- “give us a approach to exclude content material/tags.”
- “Related feed ought to soak up account my “skilled stage” and my listing of tags with -1000 weight. I need to keep away from seeing JavaScript. In any respect.”
- “Your excessive WOKEism! Make DEV freed from politics, please.”
- “I believe the quantity is acceptable however basically the content material high quality is acceptable for extra novice, junior or mid profession devs, with little or no content material for senior and above.
Perhaps emails tiered to publish expertise ranges?” - “Getting feeds from Hashnode working so I haven’t got to manually crosspost”
- “Why Dev would not make the most of the entire obtainable house on my 24 inch monitor? And on my 34 inch monitor it is even worse! It looks as if only a web site made for pill centered on the display screen :'(. Due to this, more often than not I’ve to horizontally scroll code snippets and the editor seems actual messy. Please do one thing to repair this.”
- “Dev.to is a platform for dialogue amongst builders, assist posts and even publish tutorials. However It might be nice if it had a discord channel for any queries and prompt suggestions.”
- “It might be nice if I can take heed to posts with some text-to-speech instrument.. like https://medium.com/ or https://hashnode.com/… e.g. medium.com makes use of https://integrations.speechify.com/“
- “I believe DEV wants a fast tour for brand spanking new members to study extra about utilizing DEV”
- “Surfacing high-quality content material. For many of my time on DEV I used to be solely following tags and changing into more and more upset with the content material. Solely after studying dialogue posts on this subject did I study good content material is simply surfaced by discovering and following high-quality writers.”
- “Maybe extra instruments for orgs to foster their communities inside Dev? I see some orgs like Strapi posting, however there could possibly be different elements which may be price centralizing in Dev, like governance, questions, discussions “
6. “Do you are feeling happy with the variety of emails we ship you?”
- “I not too long ago unsubscribed primarily as a result of cause said above: content material is nice for novice, junior or mid profession engineers, however that is not my case so I get little worth from the e-mail.
By no means the much less the quantity is acceptable.” - “I suppose I’ve my account configured so I solely get an electronic mail after I get a notification, which is ideal. I do not like advertising and marketing emails.”
- “It isn’t that too many, however the notifications can turn out to be problematic. Fortuitously, it may be disabled, however extra granularity could be appreciated.”
- “Sure in fact! However possibly combine extra photographs to make folks need to click on on the hyperlink and skim extra.”
- “I do not suppose we should always obtain as many mail as we do… Okay I ticked the bins, as a result of the forem android app, merely supplies no notifications irrespective of how I set it up. However I believe you need to discover a approach to enable folks to group them on a 6-12h delay. We do not want a lot generally”
7. “Have you ever ever participated in a DEV hackathon and in that case, did you take pleasure in it?”
- “I do not see the profit in my case. I’ve gained a number of hackathons previously.”
- “No, I’ve not participated in a DEV hackathon as a result of age restriction.”
9. “Examine the field beside the actions that you simply generally carry out on DEV:”
- “Bookmark & Studying listing”
- “I often browse by “newest” so I do not get caught seeing the identical articles. I am conscious I would miss one thing that means, and I do periodically go to the “related” feed, however I would favor to have the ability to select which was the default.”
- “Report customers/posts, too.”
- “Browse Hackathon submissions.”
10. “What forms of posts do you take pleasure in on DEV?”
- “Explanations on theoretical ideas”
- “Methods & at-scale tales/classes”
- “Kubernetes, docker, container, safety subjects”
- “analysis subjects”
- “Jokes”
- “simply ideas, not tutorials; possibly I might name them “essays””
- “Explaining or examples of recent options / applied sciences”
- “Finest practices, gentle abilities”
- “Challenges”
- “Suggestions and methods”
11. “What forms of topics do you prefer to learn/publish about on DEV?”
- “Infrastructure and Cloud”
- “Terminal emulator improvement and throughout it”
- “DevOps and Cloud “
- “Safety”
- “Recreation improvement”
- “Would love UI/UX design associated posts”
- “Serverless and AWS “
- “RPA, Lowcode no code”
- “Ethics, DEI”
- “Blockchain & Net 3”
- “Net scraping/crawling”
- “DevRel, Accessibility, Kotlin”
- “Cell improvement”
So, What’s Subsequent?
First off, we vastly worth our group members’ opinions and are so grateful to these of you who took the time to take part in our survey! 💚
We’re nonetheless digging into the outcomes to attempt to determine the place we are able to take advantage of optimistic influence on the group. Whereas we obtained a good quantity of reward within the solutions to our open-ended questions & the final outcomes had been fairly encouraging, we additionally obtained some very legitimate, constructive criticism.
Plenty of the suggestions y’all gave tells us that we have to hold engaged on our strategies for getting y’all high quality content material. One space we will certainly proceed to hone is our house (related) feed. We hope to get higher and higher at delivering you all content material that matches your preferences and ability stage! We’re additionally going to be considering exterior the field feed, for brand spanking new and fascinating ways in which we are able to introduce to assist y’all uncover related content material.
On the similar time that we enhance the reader expertise, we additionally plan to proceed honing our writer instruments. In any case, if we count on people to share nice content material on DEV, we gotta supply up high notch tooling. On that be aware, we only in the near past introduced a brand new characteristic for scheduling out posts; whereas this characteristic was not talked about in survey responses, it was essentially the most requested characteristic in our dialogue If you happen to might add one characteristic to DEV, what wouldn’t it be? Y’all can count on extra enhancements alongside these traces as we glance to enhance the platform for content material creators.
Lastly, y’all can undoubtedly count on us to share extra of those surveys! We have discovered lots from this expertise and sit up for persevering with the dialog with you all in future surveys. Once more, many due to these of you who crammed out the survey and shared your sincere suggestions with us — recognize y’all! 🙏
