dev.java feedback

Chad Arimura chad.arimura at oracle.com
Mon Feb 7 18:57:16 UTC 2022


Thanks for taking the time Ethan. Our team will reach out directly once we’ve had a time to review your suggestions.

Chad


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> On Feb 5, 2022, at 1:48 PM, Ethan McCue <ethan at mccue.dev> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've gone through a chunk of the dev.java site and marked up feedback in this Figma
> 
> https://www.figma.com/file/pTnVYD5WHWxsIDoBDuUaFt/dev.java-feedback
> 
> I know it's infinitely easier to be a critic than a creator, but I think that there are very real structural problems with the site as it exists right now and I don't yet have a better mechanism to affect change.
> 
> The biggest and most pervasive issue is that there does not seem to be a clearly defined audience.
> 
> Tutorials will shift rapidly between being targeted at
> * Total beginners
> * Beginners to Java who might know another language
> * Intermediates looking for reference material
> * Experts looking to catch up on new features
> 
> and the quality of content suffers massively as a result, ending up not really being useful for any group.
> 
> I am also cc-ing the discuss mailing list since I think this sort of thing is relevant to the community as a whole.



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