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Eugene Karataev on December 09, 2019

One day I was reading DEV and noticed Ben's post saying that there are more than 250k registered users. "Wow, that's a lot" I thought. Couple of w...

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Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦 • Dec 9 '19

Why not use <dev-feed> in a pop-up when you click on each user?

Embed a Dev.to User Feed with Web Components

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Eugene Karataev • Dec 9 '19

Thanks for the idea, I'll take a look.

Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦 • Dec 9 '19

I'd suggest not setting the username attr until the popup opens, so as not to trigger the fetch request.

github.com/bennypowers/dev-feed/bl...

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Dec 9 '19

A cool idea would be to try to re-arrange the profile pixels so that together they form the DEV logo :)

Eugene Karataev • Dec 9 '19

Yeah, great idea and I guess it's not that hard in realization. We just need mostly black and mostly white avatars and position matrix to fill with images.
I regularly see posts here on DEV with ideas for side projects to level up developer skills. I think this idea is a great fit!

Michael Tharrington • Dec 9 '19 • Edited

Haha! Was just about to type basically the same thing and then looked down to see if anybody else already commented with this. 😀

Theofanis Despoudis • Dec 9 '19

Reminds me of Where is Waldo?

Eugene Karataev • Dec 9 '19

🤔

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐝 • Dec 9 '19

I'm seeing a lot of empty images - are these user's which have deleted their accounts? For example 3001 is empty for me!

Eugene Karataev • Dec 9 '19

I have the same question. Several blank users in a row make me think that some bots were weeded out during some cleaning procedures.

Ben Halpern • Dec 9 '19

some bots were weeded out during some cleaning procedures

I think this is mostly the case. I believe least one of these is gaps a dual account creation bug where we needed to go back and purge a bunch of people who got new accounts upon logging in instead of logging in.