What is the algorithm for dev.to's feed?

Publish Date: Jan 12 '20

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My feed is full of people who I do not follow and tags I do not follow. I have checked various posts. It seems all of dev is being shown to me. What is happening here?

e.g. I am seeing this post
https://dev.to/koddr/how-to-create-a-native-macos-app-on-go-golang-and-react-js-with-full-code-protection-part-1-463k

I do not follow the person and do not follow any of tags in it so why am I seeing this post in my feed?

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Kostas BariotisJan 12, 2020

Not directly an answer, but if you are a Ruby on Rails user, you could figure it out your self: github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...
- Justin MancinelliJan 23, 2020
  
  It's great that dev.to is open source. I dug in and the algorithm is spread out across a few files (including the article model you pointed out)
Justin MancinelliJan 23, 2020

Thanks for posting the question, I had thought about it myself but wasn't motivated enough to dig in until seeing your question.

So I dug in:

The Dev.to Feed Algorithm 🤖

Justin Mancinelli ・ Jan 23 ・ 7 min read

#meta #rails #beginners #webdev
Justin MancinelliJan 23, 2020

I dug into this and the first article you see doesn't take into account people or tags you follow. Several after that should take into your negative tag score and, with -100, shouldn't show up. But, later on, especially after scrolling a bit, tags don't matter again.

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Aseem Bansal @anshbansal

What is the algorithm for dev.to's feed?

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The Dev.to Feed Algorithm 🤖

Justin Mancinelli ・ Jan 23 ・ 7 min read