A pair months again, we launched the DEV Group 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 parents really feel glad with the content material they see of their house feed, whereas 27% are unhappy.
- The highest 3 sorts of posts folks at the moment get pleasure from are:
- Programming tutorials (81.9%)
- Discussions (54.1%)
- Private tales (41%)
- The highest 3 sorts of topics people prefer to learn are:
- Net improvement (78.8%)
- Backend improvement (68.8%)
- Frontend improvement (66.7%)
- 89% of parents really feel secure & inspired to share their ideas, whereas 93% of individuals really feel protected by moderators and the Code of Conduct.
Uncooked Quantitative Information
1. “How glad are you with DEV?”
- 810 solutions (Avg Score = 7.7/10)
2. “Are you glad with the content material you see in your house (related) feed?”
- 812 solutions (68.1% are glad, 27.2% are unhappy, 6% different)
3. “Do you’re feeling secure and inspired to share your ideas and emotions with the DEV neighborhood?”
- 808 solutions (89% do really feel secure & inspired, 8.1% don’t, and three.4% different)
4. “Do you’re feeling protected by our crew 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 just really feel we may enhance upon?”
- 307 open reply responses
6. “Do you’re feeling glad with the variety of emails we ship you?”
- 801 solutions (67.2% say it’s excellent however no extra, 21.2% sure however may see extra, 9.3% no obtain too many, 5.5% different)
7. “Have you ever ever participated in a DEV hackathon and if that’s the case, did you get pleasure from it?”
- 805 solutions (13.5% sure and loved it, 2% sure however didn’t get pleasure from it, 59% no however with the suitable subject they’d, 20.4% no and no curiosity, 5.8% no and located promotion to be off-putting, 2.9% different)
8. “What have you learnt about CodeNewbie Group?”
- 808 solutions (52% nothing, 33.5% is conscious, 12% a member however not energetic, 4% an energetic member and revel in it)
9. “Test the field beside the actions that you just 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%)
- Observe tags (42.2%)
- Observe customers (42%)
- Seek for articles utilizing the DEV search bar (35.6%)
- Observe organizations (20.8%)
- Different (1.7%)
10. “What sorts of posts do you get pleasure from 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 sorts of topics do you prefer to learn/submit 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 life-style (46.8%)
- Discussions (34.6%)
- Information Science (25.1%)
- Different (5.4%)
Noteworthy Lengthy Responses
1. “How glad are you with DEV?”
- “I not often take a look at my feed, I usually go to dev once I get a digest electronic mail.”
- “A number of the feed is nice however even with weighting it may very well be higher and plenty the identical issues seem. “
- “The matters I observe aren’t very energetic, so it is probably not DEV that’s liable for me not seeing loads of content material.”
- “It is high-quality. I really feel like I received extra out of the feed years again once I was a brand new developer and actively trying to develop my information. As of late I do not see loads of worth in spending time on the house feed, and once I do try articles loads of time I will discover low high quality JS articles with incomplete data.”
- “Generally I see repeated content material total content material is Good.”
- “Happy however want extra”
- “There are nice posts every now and then 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. After I began on Dev, I really feel like there have been so many queer people and ladies posting – what occurred to that?”
- “Sure, I’m glad with the content material you might be displaying however I would like that it reveals 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 glad, I simply want I may toggle off posts in languages I do not converse, and low high quality posts.”
- “I might love to have the ability to add damaging weight to topic I do not care, even when they point out tags I follows… With out following them after all”
3. “Do you’re feeling secure and inspired to share your ideas and emotions with the DEV neighborhood?”
- “It usually doesn’t make sense. I don’t worry the trolls, however I feel it’s too many individuals with little or no expertise.”
- “95% of the time, I do, however there’s a small quantity of dialogue that is not constructive in the direction of dialogue. I attempt to nip these early however some have required blocking. “
- “I had one “damaging” expertise in all these years (3 or 4 years?) – an unfriendly interplay with one other member which received a bit out of hand, and each of us received a slap on the wrist, regardless that I used to be totally satisfied that I used to be in the suitable – by no means thoughts, it may occur.”
- “Identical to every other neighborhood, 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 related to Git or every other public account. I desire a diploma of anonymity”
- “I do not normally 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 hastily 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 might be. I’ve skilled myself, and seen in different posts, how impolite some neighborhood members get while you speak about (gender) equality. “
- “Feeling ‘secure’ shouldn’t be 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 wish to hear/learn from seniors. “
5. “Are there any particular areas of DEV that you just really feel we may enhance upon?”
- “Podcast?”
- “I can not select everybody that engages with my content material.”
- “The sign-up course of – why do I’ve to have an account on one among a number of different platforms to create one right here? GitHub MAYBE I may perceive, because it’s builders speaking to builders, however nonetheless. However Twitter? Actually???”
- “The search is crap. Frankly changing it with a ” website:dev.to” Google Search can be a right away enchancment earlier than it may be changed by one thing higher.”
- “There appears to be much more spam or low-quality posts on the whole. It is a bit of irritating and makes DEV much less useful for me.”
- “1. Sorting feedback by date 2. Choice to share Badges on social platforms”
- “Clearly too many internet dev associated matters within the e-newsletter. This IS unhappy. Why is generally webdev featured? Different matters deserve that spot as properly.”
- “Ease for looking # that you do not observe”
- “darkish mode needs to be brazenly visualize”
- “give us a solution to exclude content material/tags.”
- “Related feed ought to absorb account my “knowledgeable degree” and my checklist of tags with -1000 weight. I wish to keep away from seeing JavaScript. In any respect.”
- “Your excessive WOKEism! Make DEV freed from politics, please.”
- “I feel the quantity is suitable however on the whole the content material high quality is suitable for extra novice, junior or mid profession devs, with little or no content material for senior and above.
Perhaps emails tiered to submit expertise ranges?” - “Getting feeds from Hashnode working so I haven’t got to manually crosspost”
- “Why Dev does not make the most of the entire out there house on my 24 inch monitor? And on my 34 inch monitor it is even worse! It looks like 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 appears to be like actual messy. Please do one thing to repair this.”
- “Dev.to is a platform for dialogue amongst builders, assist posts and even submit tutorials. However It will be nice if it had a discord channel for any queries and instantaneous suggestions.”
- “It will be nice if I can take heed to posts with some text-to-speech software.. like https://medium.com/ or https://hashnode.com/… e.g. medium.com makes use of https://integrations.speechify.com/“
- “I feel DEV wants a fast tour for brand spanking new members to be taught extra about utilizing DEV”
- “Surfacing high-quality content material. For many of my time on DEV I used to be solely following tags and turning into more and more dissatisfied with the content material. Solely after studying dialogue posts on this difficulty did I be taught good content material is barely 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 may very well be different facets that could be price centralizing in Dev, like governance, questions, discussions “
6. “Do you’re feeling glad with the variety of emails we ship you?”
- “I lately unsubscribed primarily as a result of motive 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 suitable.” - “I suppose I’ve my account configured so I solely get an electronic mail once I get a notification, which is ideal. I do not like advertising emails.”
- “It isn’t that too many, however the notifications can grow to be problematic. Fortuitously, it may be disabled, however extra granularity can be appreciated.”
- “Sure after all! However possibly combine extra photographs to make folks wish 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 containers, as a result of the forem android app, merely supplies no notifications irrespective of how I set it up. However I feel it is best to discover a solution to permit folks to group them on a 6-12h delay. We do not want a lot typically”
7. “Have you ever ever participated in a DEV hackathon and if that’s the case, did you get pleasure from 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. “Test the field beside the actions that you just generally carry out on DEV:”
- “Bookmark & Studying checklist”
- “I normally browse by “newest” so I do not get caught seeing the identical articles. I am conscious I would miss one thing that manner, and I do periodically go to the “related” feed, however I would like to have the ability to select which was the default.”
- “Report customers/posts, too.”
- “Browse Hackathon submissions.”
10. “What sorts of posts do you get pleasure from on DEV?”
- “Explanations on theoretical ideas”
- “Methods & at-scale tales/classes”
- “Kubernetes, docker, container, safety matters”
- “analysis matters”
- “Jokes”
- “simply ideas, not tutorials; possibly I may name them “essays””
- “Explaining or examples of latest options / applied sciences”
- “Finest practices, delicate expertise”
- “Challenges”
- “Suggestions and tips”
11. “What sorts of topics do you prefer to learn/submit about on DEV?”
- “Infrastructure and Cloud”
- “Terminal emulator improvement and throughout it”
- “DevOps and Cloud “
- “Safety”
- “Sport 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 drastically worth our neighborhood 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 will take advantage of optimistic impression on the neighborhood. Whereas we obtained a good quantity of reward within the solutions to our open-ended questions & the overall outcomes had been fairly encouraging, we additionally obtained some very legitimate, constructive criticism.
Loads 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 degree! We’re additionally going to be considering exterior the field feed, for brand spanking new and fascinating ways in which we will 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 spite of everything, if we anticipate people to share nice content material on DEV, we gotta provide up prime notch tooling. On that word, we only recently 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 For those who may add one characteristic to DEV, what wouldn’t it be? Y’all can anticipate extra enhancements alongside these strains as we glance to enhance the platform for content material creators.
Lastly, y’all can positively anticipate us to share extra of those surveys! We have realized lots from this expertise and stay up for persevering with the dialog with you all in future surveys. Once more, many due to these of you who stuffed out the survey and shared your trustworthy suggestions with us — respect y’all! 🙏
