My Scratchpad on DEV
Tags: meta, watercooler, productivity, tools
Published: 2022-11-25 21:09:46

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title: My Scratchpad on DEV
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I wish DEV had a scratchpad for items I am working on and items I'd like to keep in mind. Is there is one?

The "Currently hacking on" entry in the `settings` could be something like that, but that's too small and the concept of the scratchpad is broader than that. It also includes ideas that one day I might address. Or not. But I am not hacking on them any time soon.

So far I used a draft for this, but seeing the yellow `draft` sign in the [dashboard](/dashboard) disturbs me. Besides that, I'd like to make some of the public.

So I am going to do this here, in this post and I'll update it later.

## Bugs and Feature-request in [Forem](https://github.com/forem/forem/) (the platform used by DEV)

* Scratchpad: Allow the users to have a Public and a Private scratchpad easily accessible from the menu that opens when clicking on the profile picture. The Scratchpad should support Markdown. They can be used to write down ideas for blog posts or feature requests, notes that later will be turned into issues on GitHub. I opened a discussion on [Public and Private Scratchpad (notes, notebook)](https://github.com/forem/forem/discussions/18783)


* [Infinite scrolling and footer](/szabgab/infinite-scrolling-and-footer-dont-work-well-together-not-even-on-devto-3619)
* [Prev and Next buttons for series](https://github.com/forem/forem/issues/5247)

* Add comma after each 3 digits to the numbers on the [tags](/tags) page to make them more readable.

* Search without accent marks: My name, when written properly is Gábor Szabó. It includes two characters with Hungarian "accent-marks". However if I write my name that way in the [settings](https://dev.to/settings) then the search for [Gabor Szabo among the users](https://dev.to/search?q=gabor%20szabo&filters=class_name:User) does not find me. So for now I removed the accent marks, but I think it would be important to match this. It seems that if I search for [Gabor Szabo among the articles](https://dev.to/search?q=gabor%20szabo&filters=class_name:Article) it can find entries with Gábor Szabó as well.

### [Analytics](/dashboard/analytics)

* Analytics: It would help if from the [Analytics](https://dev.to/dashboard/analytics) page I could jump to see the graphs about individual post.
* Analytics: It would help to be able to see the data for all the articles in a single series. It would be useful to be able to compare two series.
* Analytics: As I understand the number of new followers is just what happened in the given time period. I'd like to know which article and which series brought in more new followers.
* Analytics: Show when did the "day" start (what time-zone are the graphs in? Is it that of the reader? UTC?)
* Analytics: how often is it updated? When was it updated last time? When will it be updated next time?

### [Dashboard](/dashboard)
* [Dashboard](/dashboard) filter by `term in post title` or by `series`. There is a discussion titled [Search bar in Dashboard to filter Articles](https://github.com/forem/forem/discussions/15336) about this.

## SPAM filtering

In the last few days I've done some spam reporting. I encountered 10s of spam posts. Some were on the site for 10-11 hours. Some for more than a week. So I opened a [discussion about spam filtering](https://github.com/forem/forem/discussions/18784)

## API

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* rate-limit (in eamil)

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