dev.java feedback

[Ethan McCue]

Following up again.

I have to assume that the team has not had time or inclination to review on
account of this still being on the home page.

"The DayOfWeek enum and the Month enum are dealing with day of weeks and
monts." (sic)

If there is anything I can do to make progress happen I will do it.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 9:43 PM Ethan McCue <ethan at mccue.dev> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> Chad
>>
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>> Chad Arimura
>> Java Developer Relations
>> Oracle Corporation
>> +1-415-935-3448 [m]
>>
>> Dev.java - Inside.java - Twitter.com/java - Youtube.com/java
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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.
>>
>>