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There are three ways for you to get your article picked up by daily.dev:

1. Publish guest articles on well-known publications that are already included in the source list of daily.dev. You can explore the list using the sidebar in the app itself. There are plenty of options out there.

2. Publish articles on developer blogging platforms such as Hashnode, DEV.to or Hacker Noon. If your article will gain enough traction on those platforms, there's a high chance it will be picked up by daily.dev as well.

3. Submit a new and original article to daily.dev/blog. Here's the process of how to submit a story to our blog. Please read the instructions carefully before submitting a guest post.

Requesting a new source on daily.dev is as simple as it can get. Below is the list of simple steps you need to perform to request a new source.

1. Go to the sidebar of the Daily extension.
2. Click on the Request source button.
3. Paste the URL of the source.
4. Click on the ✅ in front of it.

You should see a success message, and your request is submitted.

daily.dev is entirely open-source, and you can find the source code on GitHub. The linked repo serves as the central repo for the different projects/services which come together to do Daily work.

It contains extensive documentation. By going through the documentation and following the steps, you can develop a good sense of Daily’s architecture and how you can set it up.

You can contribute to daily.dev by:

• Sharing an idea
• Reporting a bug
• Improving docs
• Creating a PR
• Joining a discussion
• Submit a guest post

or whatever you could think of to improve daily.dev. Our team is highly responsive to any request. It’s a great way to learn about the daily.dev codebase and build to something that would make you proud.

We maintain all the issues in the central Daily Repo. Once it’s reviewed and finalized, we create a new issue in the respective repo, which leads to an actual PR. 

Snooze, or as we call it "Do Not Disturb" mode, allows you to turn off daily.dev for a while. Currently, there are three options available for you to snooze:

• For an hour
• For a day
• Forever

Enabling Do Not Disturb mode is pretty straightforward. Click on the clock-like icon on the top right corner of the daily.dev extension. Once you click, a drop-down menu should appear with the above three options. Choose one of the options to enable the Do Not Disturb mode.

To disable the Do Not Disturb mode, click on the TURN OFF button on the top bar of daily.dev. However, once you close the tab, you won't be able to access it as the Do Not Disturb mode is enabled. In such a case, you can access daily.dev by clicking on the daily.dev icon in your browser's extensions. Once you clicked, you should see the daily.dev page. From there, you can disable the Do Not Disturb.

To bookmark an article, click on the bookmark icon on an article's card. Once you click it, it turns orange, indicating it is now has a bookmark. Clicking on the bookmark icon again removes the bookmark. Additionally, you can remove bookmarks from the bookmarks section of daily.dev.

To enable recently visited sites in daily.dev, go to the Layout Settings and toggle Recently Visited Sites button. When you do it for the first time, it might ask for permission to read your recently visited sites. Click the Allow button, and that's all!

You can now see your recently visited sites on the right side of the daily.dev navbar.

daily.dev performs a super-fast search using a 3rd party service, called Algolia. It searches the database against the entered query and also suggests auto-complete results whenever there is a match.

You can use this feature to search for:

• Particular phrases
• Specific articles
• Any other query of your choice

Search using the key bindings:

Follow the steps below to search via key bindings:

1. Hit Ctrl+T or ⌘+B for Mac, to open a new tab.
2. Hit tab to shift focus to daily.dev extension.
3. Hit \ to open the search bar in daily.dev.
4. Type in your query and hit enter.
   

There are quite a few customization options at daily.dev! Make sure to check the full guide here: https://dev.to/dailynowco/how-to-customize-the-layout-of-daily-4nle

By default, we sort the feed by the popularity of the articles. We allow the users to sort their feed two modes:

• By popularity (called "Popular") - the articles are ranked based on the number of views. If an article gets relatively more attention, it appears in a higher position in your feed.
• By publish time (called "Recent") - the articles are ranked based on their original publish time. Most recently published articles are shown on the top of your feed.
  

We created many options for you to personalize daily.dev for your needs! Make sure to check the complete guide

While most of our users have signed up at daily.dev, there are plenty of those who still haven't. If you are one of them, you might be missing out on many fantastic features of daily.dev. Here are some of them:

1. Content Moderation - daily.dev is all about developers. We aim to contribute and make this community better and safer. That's why we allow content moderation and welcome all the daily.dev users to take part in it. By signing up, you can join in the effort.
2. Request New Sources - Do you miss a source at daily.dev? As a member, you can quickly request a new source for daily.dev. Once we receive your request, our team takes care of reviewing it. If we approve it, all daily.dev users can enjoy your contribution.!
3. Sync Data Across Devices/Browser - As a developer, we often use multiple browsers and even multiple devices. You might want to sync your preferences and bookmarks across all of them. By signing up to daily.dev, it becomes available!
4. Weekly Recap - We publish a newsletter that contains all the highlights of the past week and new happenings at daily.dev. You can also sign up for it separately via daily.dev.
5. Updates From Team daily.dev - Whenever there is an important update or something that we want to share, we drop emails to all the registered users. It's the best way to stay updated and never miss anything. You can also stay in touch with all the updates through social media.
   

User preferences are stored along with the user profiles when you are signed-in to daily.dev. In case if you are not signed in, your preferences are stored locally. All you need to do is log in with the same credentials on all devices and browsers, and all the changes are automatically in sync.

daily.dev has a built-in feature to easily report a broken link or NSFW (not safe for work) content. We take a quick action to remove such content and make sure it never appears again. The whole process of reporting is as simple as it can get.

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All you need to do is to click on the three dots on the card you want to report, and a menu appears. It provides you the option to report the issue. All you need to do is to click on it, and that's all. A notification should appear on the card showing a thank you message, and the card should disappear.

If something you don't like and don't want it to be in your feed, feel free to hide it. But if it's inappropriate, we highly encourage you to report the content and make daily.dev better for everyone. The hide option is on the same menu with the option of reporting a broken link or NSFW (not safe for work) content.

It's quite simple. You need to enable the option of Show Bookmarks Bar in your browser.

There are two ways mentioned below to toggle the bookmarks bar in Google Chrome. 

Using Shortcut Keys

Below are the shortcut keys that you can use to toggle bookmark toolbar:

• For Windows: CTRL+SHIFT+B
• For Mac: CMD⌘+SHIFT⇧+B

It allows you to toggle the bookmarks bar quickly. This way, you can easily hide it when you are not using daily.dev.

Using Settings Menu

Click on the three dots (⠇) on the top right corner of Chrome. Go to Bookmarks > Show Bookmarks Bar. That's all! For more info, make sure you check out the complete guide.

Using daily.dev on Vivaldi browsers is totally possible. However, as you may experience, once you install daily.dev won't be automatically launched in every new tab. That might be a bit frustrating, so to solve it, you would need to "Settings." Then, go to the "Tabs" menu. Under the title "New Tab Page," mark the "Controlled by Extension" checkbox. That's it, and you should be ready to go.
If you still experiencing issues, you might want to check their support ticket or contact us at support@daily.dev