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All frontend developers: keep the Flexbox article alive please.

by helipad 5y ago

PaulBGD_ 5y ago
I would love to see what % of their visits is the flexbox article.
- skilled 5y ago
  I bet it is in the millions. I help manage some sites which have CSS tutorials on them, and even if the article is about something like "How to use the CSS counter() property" - if you have the words "center" and "div" mentioned in the article, Google Search Console will report impressions for that article with keywords like "how to center a div". Funny!
- arvinsim 5y ago
  That and the grids article are probably the most used bookmarked articles I have perused.
- for1nner 5y ago
  Well at least 50% of that % is me forgetting which is justify-content and which is align-items... Words are hard
- swyx 5y ago
  7.6% this number is public: https://css-tricks.com/thank-you-2021-edition/ https://css-tricks.com/thank-you-2021-edition/ total traffic 88m, flexbox is 6.7m of that. speaks to their deep bench tbh.
jostylr 5y ago
Their guides are indispensable for my occasional dabbling. Just saved flexbox and grid guides using the SingleFile extension, something I discovered a couple of weeks ago here on HN. HN warns and provides solutions. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/
- mrpotato 5y ago
  Didn't know (but should have) that they had a grid guide! Thanks flexbox https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ grid https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/ https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
nyanpasu64 5y ago
Whoever owns the Flexbox article: please reformat it in a single column so I can read it without having to go into Reader View each time.
- dylan604 5y ago
  No!!!! Please don't!! My muscle memory would go totally out of whack if this happened. You can continue to use reader view and enjoy your muscle memory workflow, but don't go changing mine. Parent info on the left, child info on the right. Also, requesting your non-flexbox layout for your documents on how to do flexbox seems rather ironic.
  - moehm 5y ago
    Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/
Traubenfuchs 5y ago
Their flexbox article kind of ended my (hobbyist) interest in front end styling. I just turn everything into flexboxes and everything behaves just like I want it to. And yes I do visit it every time I do front end styling.
cehrlich 5y ago
Their Flexbox and Grid guides are the best. I've been using both since pretty much the start and I still look up syntax from them at least once a week.
- neovive 5y ago
  100% agree with this. I have these pages bookmarked and consistently use them as a reference: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/ https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
Zardoz84 5y ago
and the CSS Grid article
nojs 5y ago
Haha, that article is so good. It’s probably my single most frequently used frontend dev resource.
hinkley 5y ago
As others have said in other threads, I don't think you have much to worry about. DO seems to value quality over quantity for documentation. Documentation appears to be their 'doing well by doing good' strategy. What BackBlaze is to hard drive reviews, DO is to a subset of platform agnostic cloud technologies. I don't know what they do now, but at one point a couple years ago they were soliciting 'paid' articles, but rather than paying you directly they would make a donation to an organization on their list on your behalf. If I were telling an intern where to look for technical knowledge on the internet, my advice would be something like this: start at their website (mostly for due diligence, since 4/5 times you won't find what you want there), Stack Overflow, Google, Digital Ocean, and then look for either books by the authors (if you're a bookish sort), or find conversations with the authors on the internet. Though now Google is falling fast. I'm on the cusp of demoting it below DO. I feel that camel straining under the weight on its back. SEO is turning into Search Engine Sabotage lately. If DO starts buying up knowledge bases that could flip for positive reasons instead of negative ones.

All frontend developers: keep the Flexbox article alive please.

PaulBGD_ 5y ago

I would love to see what % of their visits is the flexbox article.

skilled 5y ago
I bet it is in the millions. I help manage some sites which have CSS tutorials on them, and even if the article is about something like "How to use the CSS counter() property" - if you have the words "center" and "div" mentioned in the article, Google Search Console will report impressions for that article with keywords like "how to center a div". Funny!
arvinsim 5y ago
That and the grids article are probably the most used bookmarked articles I have perused.
for1nner 5y ago
Well at least 50% of that % is me forgetting which is justify-content and which is align-items... Words are hard
swyx 5y ago
7.6% this number is public: https://css-tricks.com/thank-you-2021-edition/ https://css-tricks.com/thank-you-2021-edition/ total traffic 88m, flexbox is 6.7m of that. speaks to their deep bench tbh.

jostylr 5y ago

Their guides are indispensable for my occasional dabbling. Just saved flexbox and grid guides using the SingleFile extension, something I discovered a couple of weeks ago here on HN. HN warns and provides solutions. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

mrpotato 5y ago
Didn't know (but should have) that they had a grid guide! Thanks flexbox https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ grid https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/ https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/

nyanpasu64 5y ago

Whoever owns the Flexbox article: please reformat it in a single column so I can read it without having to go into Reader View each time.

dylan604 5y ago
No!!!! Please don't!! My muscle memory would go totally out of whack if this happened. You can continue to use reader view and enjoy your muscle memory workflow, but don't go changing mine. Parent info on the left, child info on the right. Also, requesting your non-flexbox layout for your documents on how to do flexbox seems rather ironic.
- moehm 5y ago
  Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/

Traubenfuchs 5y ago

Their flexbox article kind of ended my (hobbyist) interest in front end styling. I just turn everything into flexboxes and everything behaves just like I want it to. And yes I do visit it every time I do front end styling.

cehrlich 5y ago

Their Flexbox and Grid guides are the best. I've been using both since pretty much the start and I still look up syntax from them at least once a week.

neovive 5y ago
100% agree with this. I have these pages bookmarked and consistently use them as a reference: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/ https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/

Zardoz84 5y ago

and the CSS Grid article

nojs 5y ago

Haha, that article is so good. It’s probably my single most frequently used frontend dev resource.

hinkley 5y ago

As others have said in other threads, I don't think you have much to worry about. DO seems to value quality over quantity for documentation. Documentation appears to be their 'doing well by doing good' strategy. What BackBlaze is to hard drive reviews, DO is to a subset of platform agnostic cloud technologies. I don't know what they do now, but at one point a couple years ago they were soliciting 'paid' articles, but rather than paying you directly they would make a donation to an organization on their list on your behalf. If I were telling an intern where to look for technical knowledge on the internet, my advice would be something like this: start at their website (mostly for due diligence, since 4/5 times you won't find what you want there), Stack Overflow, Google, Digital Ocean, and then look for either books by the authors (if you're a bookish sort), or find conversations with the authors on the internet. Though now Google is falling fast. I'm on the cusp of demoting it below DO. I feel that camel straining under the weight on its back. SEO is turning into Search Engine Sabotage lately. If DO starts buying up knowledge bases that could flip for positive reasons instead of negative ones.