The reason I’m writing this post is to shed some light on an aspect of Dev.to that many of us don’t think twice about: our followers. We put so muc...
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Really cool, I did something similar with my followers that I didn't publish :D
I checked this with a friend - when you sign up, dev.to recommends you authors to follow and this appears to be based on recently published posts. For me the spike in followers when I publish something rarely matches the number of views.
Good catch about "recommends you authors to follow", didn't think of it
wow! great article
Established active user here. I just followed you 👋
(I haven't read the article yet, I haven't had time)
But what makes me wonder the most is how I have 10k followers and that doesn't reflect on the number of views on my articles
Like, I know there's interest in the content itself, but it's really weird that I have 10k and only 100 people read my last article
I find the ratio of views, reads, and followers on Dev.to quite disturbing
I've had a similar experience. After posting, there's usually a significant increase in followers, but other metrics seem out of sync. It feels like something fishy is going on.
so I can agree that raise of followers maybe connected to the fact that Dev.to suggesting profiles to follow during onboarding but views count seems wrong
Just a masterpiece of analysis, applause!
This is really interesting and so well done, thanks for sharing!
just wow ♥️.
This is awesome 👌
Your Data skills blow my mind, thanks for sharing
As to the "same day joiners" stats, I think dev used to suggest people to follow as part of the onboarding journey, so you could get a spike from that instead of any particular article.
I may agree with you. I've noticed others sharing the same thought about Dev suggesting profiles to follow during onboarding. It makes a lot of sense and could definitely explain the spike in 'same day joiners.