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Do most people use DEV to write their posts or do you post a blog elsewhere and syndicate to DEV?

Robert Bernstein on November 19, 2019

I'm trying to understand how to best use the DEV platform.

Thanks!

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Jesse Phillips

I've only posted to dev. I had some posts I brought over from LiveJournal, and at one point considered posting back.

To create some more content of a different kind I did a project with the dev api. I'm likely going to put my articles in a git repo. And maybe I should do something with my personal site I haven't touched in a decade.

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I only use dev :) I'll be using the API to showcase my latest posts on my portfolio, but won't be rehosting them there - I'll just link to dev.

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Robert Bernstein

Thank you!

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Donny Wals

I post on my own blog first and then copy to dev.to with a canonical link to my own blog

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Interesting read! Maybe I should reconsider keeping everything purely in dev.

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Glenn Stovall

I wish I could ❤ this more than once. Dev.to is vital, but its important to own your own platform.

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Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴

I'm currently reposting some blog posts from my personal blog to DEV with canonical links :)

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Ali Kamalizade

Currently, I cross-post but I am considering to move my content exclusively to dev.to

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Robert Bernstein

Thank you for sharing!

Rob

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Hector Ayala

Hey! How is this done? How do you syndicate to Dev?

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Robert Bernstein

Thank you! I hadn't thought of it in terms of how companies will manage or control your content. Not that I believe that DEV would do this, but your advice is sound.

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Glenn Stovall • Edited

No one thought Medium.com or Freecodecamp.com would either and look how that turned out. Any platform could go under, be sold, or have a change of heart about how it treats the people that use it.