There's a new type of Medium article in town! 🤠

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This is a great question and I’m glad you asked it because it reflects that I neglected to mention our goals for this initiative in the original announcement.

Our goals for posting these types of articles to Medium are:

• to promote visibility of the incredible minds on our platform
• to give more opportunities for all of our developers to learn more advanced subjects
• to show to broader development communities that our developers are accomplishing amazing feats and Roblox is not “that kids game” (or even a game at all)

The Medium platform helps greatly with the first and third bullet points; there’s a pretty substantial developer and technical community on Medium already. The idea is that we want to leverage the intricate knowledge and expertise of our developers to show that Roblox is a serious platform and that they are serious game developers.

The DevForum is more suited for Developer Spotlights, I think, and feel free to express differently. Developer Spotlights are all about getting to know fellow developers better and understanding their experience and ambitions.

TLDR: We want to show off how smart you are to Medium’s broader developer/technical community.

Let me know if this explanation makes sense or if I didn’t address something from your post

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Probably not, but I’m aiming to have around a 1-week response time for articles that get approved. Depending on what else is going on, it may take longer, so don’t get discouraged. If you don’t hear back after an extended amount of time, it’s reasonable to assume the idea didn’t get approved. The good news is that you can re-apply with another topic!

[Wrathsong]

Valid points. In addition to having a post on medium, you could do what Quenty did(?) and post on the devforum as well.

[EgoMoose]

I think that answers just about all my questions and the initiative sounds great!

It does bring up a follow up question though that @Wrathsong mentions. Would there be any issue with a post being on both medium and say #development-resources:community-resources or #development-resources:community-tutorials ?

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I don’t see any issue with it; we won’t post them on the DevForum by default, but I don’t see any issue with letting developers post their articles on the DevForum as well

[Automationeer (Eleanor)]

What category would these articles best fit in?

I submitted a pitch about game design and code organisation- would something like that be fit for #development-resources:community-tutorials?

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I’d say that’s probably the best fit!