I recently joined DEV.TO and I think is a great niche community, I am reading almost every day lots of articles and as others mentioned elsewhere the 'reading list' is a GREAT feature.
I am pondering whether to start writing some articles, and I am not entirely sure that the community is still mature enough. What made you decide to start writing articles on DEV.TO?
Even if I stumbled across some interesting pieces of information in some of the articles, I still didn't find those GREAT articles that really suck you in. Looks like to me that right now the community is a bit too much web-development centric, or maybe I am not good at handling my tags? I might give it a shot in the upcoming weeks.
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I started writing here because I love to talk about what I do. After writing blogs on websites like medium, my own personal website, quora to no avail. After awhile, I just stopped trying when imposter syndrome set in and I just figured that either what I was writing was so simple and incorrect that nobody even bothered to troll me, let alone follow me. But, after awhile of writing my own code, working on learning what goes on under the hood, and finding myself mentoring recent CS college grads, I decided my lack of degree might not mean that I'm just a script kiddie with a big head. Then is as a post in this site, signed up, but was too nervous to post.
Then I started and people responded, commented, gave me feedback and weren't jerks about it. Now, I've found an audience and a community that I would refer to as colleagues. I have 1200 folks that enjoy my content enough to follow it (1200 more than I've had on any other platform), and just did a guest appearance on a podcast (what?!?!).
Basically, I started just to see if Dev.to actually was the wonderful community it claimed to be and it did not disappoint and exceeded my expectations.
I think my story is similar to @kaelscion. I'm still finding my feet with writing, but I've found the community here is really supportive. It feels like having a lot of nice colleagues or friends doing similar stuff and willing to comment and help.
There is a lot of web dev stuff. One of the things that is distinctive is that people here do talk about all sorts of other fun corners of their interests as well. There doesn't seem to be a nervousness of saying "I'm only just learning this but I'm excited about it". It feels like a safe space to do that. If you wanted to talk about non web dev stuff I'm sure you would find some takers.
The conversations are often as rewarding as the articles themselves. I hope you find your own comfortable corner to write about and talk about the things that interest you.
All the best.