Why we are discontinuing company sources and moving forward with squads

For quite a long time, daily.dev has been helping developers worldwide stay up-to-date through its world-class developer content and knowledge feed. One of the things that made this feed so great is that it aggregated thousands of different sources—our term for RSS feeds. We sourced a lot of content through these feeds, analyzed them, and curated them to create a personalized feed for every developer.

These automated RSS feeds have been highly valuable. They allowed us to create the best consumption experience for developers without requiring creators to upload content manually. This focus on consumption ensured that developers always had a fresh and engaging content feed.

The need for change

In early 2024, the daily.dev community has grown significantly. With this growth, we’ve received feedback that our users want more interaction with content creators. They want to ask questions, suggest improvements, and give feedback.

They expect accountability from those who post on daily.dev, which is challenging with automatic sources since creators are often not present on the platform.

Shifting to Squads

To address these needs, we’ve made a bold decision to discontinue approvals for company sources. Going forward, we will no longer allow new company sources and will gradually transition existing ones to squads.

Why squads?

Squads offer all the functionality of sources (except auto-posting), plus much more:

• Ownership and control: Companies can brand and describe their squads as they like, engage with the community, gain followers, and build credibility.

• Content variety: Beyond blog posts, squads allow free-form posts, sharing others’ content with commentary, and sparking discussions.

• Community engagement: Companies can add admins and moderators, empowering active contributors from the community to help build and manage the squad.

The benefits

This transition may initially upset some companies, but in the long run, it’s in the best interest of our global developer community and the brands themselves. Squads offer a direct way to interact with the audience on daily.dev, providing more organic exposure and engagement opportunities.

Moving forward

If you want to gain organic exposure for your company or brand, we highly encourage you to open a squad and make it public. We’re here to help you get the most out of squads and view this transition as an opportunity for even greater exposure and community building.

As always, we’re open to feedback and constantly iterating on squads to make them the best solution for building your community and gaining organic exposure on daily.dev.