I used it for a while, it seems that most content is geared towards beginners (ie. to-do list web apps). There is a lot of noise and I failed to find really interesting / in-depth articles.

They do a great job at building communities though.

From what I've seen it has very little value if you aren't into trendy web dev or mobile apps. + the dark patterns soured me on it (although they've gotten rid of at least the worst ones)

I used to use dev.to a lot, they definitely do great community building, at least as of a couple of years ago. Aren't they more aimed towards beginners?

Yeah. They have some settings to set what type of articles/posts you see, but it's very beginner web-dev centric. I stopped going there awhile ago because I wasn't finding anything there for me. IMO it's a very, very good replacement for Medium as a blogging/long-form writing platform, but content discoverability is lacking.

dev.to is new medium.com

Yes, agree with that. It was nice at the beginning, like most of this kind communities. But with popularity and lack of moderation comes huge amount of low-effort content from beginners to beginners and PR pieces by corporates.

In the last few months there’s even steady amount of posts with “Come and see my YouTube” kind of approach, which is tragic. :/

Soon you will be able to read three articles for free each month, more if you register. Anyway here's a list of free icon sets you can use in your projects. Tomorrow I will post 15 best free fonts you could use. Cheers.

+1. It is not on the list and they are doing a great job in terms of community building.