dev.java feedback

[Ethan McCue]

Just following up on this.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 1:57 PM Chad Arimura <chad.arimura at oracle.com> wrote:

> Thanks for taking the time Ethan. Our team will reach out directly once
> we’ve had a time to review your suggestions.
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> > On Feb 5, 2022, at 1:48 PM, Ethan McCue <ethan at mccue.dev> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > I've gone through a chunk of the dev.java site and marked up feedback in
> this Figma
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> > https://www.figma.com/file/pTnVYD5WHWxsIDoBDuUaFt/dev.java-feedback
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> > 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.
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> > The biggest and most pervasive issue is that there does not seem to be a
> clearly defined audience.
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> > 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
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> > and the quality of content suffers massively as a result, ending up not
> really being useful for any group.
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> > 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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