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What is Open Source Success?

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Matin Mollapur

hey, great article! i really enjoyed your take on open source success. it's refreshing to see someone emphasize the importance of community and collaboration over just numbers. totally agree that success isn't just about stars or downloads. keep up the awesome work!

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Fyodor

FWIW, this “play” button on the cover image is really hard to spot and not a habitual way of posting video content 😅 I was thinking, seeing the empty post content, that maybe that’s a metaphorical way to say that open source success is nothing, you still need to proceed grinding and crunching and never stop, kinda… 😅

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BekahHW

Is there a way to post a video in dev without the play button?

Would it make more sense to have the video and a blog post or discussion question after it?

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Fyodor

Is there a way to post a video in dev without the play button?

I mean, I’m fine with the play button and all, it’s just that the video (being the main subject of the post here) takes the place of a cover image (which is a supplementary content block usually). So I’d suggest to place it in the main content block, to draw more attention and to avoid this confusion. But actually, maybe that’s just me, and I’m sorry for the hassle in this case 😅

Would it make more sense to have the video and a blog post or discussion question after it?

That would definitely make sense to me personally, to be frank. I’m not a video person, and I come here to read, not to watch. Discussion triggers (and a blog post especially, of course) would give it a more appropriate context probably. But again, that’s IMHO.

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BekahHW

Here’s the blog post. The video is more of an overview of the topic, made after publication. I’ll have to see how to format it in Dev. This is how they automatically do it when you upload a video.

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Fyodor

This is how they automatically do it when you upload a video

Huh, that’s funny, didn’t know about that 👍 arguable defaults, fwiw

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Antonio | CEO at Litlyx.com

Litlyx is our most successful repository. Me and my co-founder are devs from 10 years now. He created a programming language that had 150 stars too. But lit is now at 191 stars in one month.

Please give it a look, and please help us reach our milestone of 1k stars in less than a year!

We are open to contribution too!

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BekahHW

@litlyx good luck with that! Here’s your repo page if you’re interested in the metrics we’re currently tracking. Let me know what other metrics you find useful.

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Antonio | CEO at Litlyx.com

Amazing thank you so much for sharing your amazing analytics tool! I will add to favourite on ARC. Thanks

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