Hacktoberfest Check-In & Forem Contributor Spotlight ⭐️
Tags: hacktoberfest, forem, opensource
Published: 2021-10-15 19:28:19

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Hello, DEV Community!

For those of you who are participating in [Hacktoberfest 2021](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) as either a contributor or maintainer, congrats! We're already _halfway_ through though this annual celebration of open source. 

I wanted to take this opportunity to remind you of all the Hacktoberfest resources available to you right here on DEV...

### Discussion Thread

A place for you to connect with other participants and discuss your Hacktoberfest journey.

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### Contributor Thread

A place for open source project contributors to solicit Hacktoberfest PRs from participants.

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### Hacktoberfest Template

We'd love to read all about your Hacktoberfest experience right here on DEV. Use [this template](https://dev.to/new/hacktoberfest) to post your thoughts before the month is over and we'll award you a special DEV profile badge 🌈  

More about how we're celebrating Hacktoberfest 2021 on DEV in [this post](https://dev.to/devteam/hacktoberfest-2021-is-here-4a3l).

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I also wanted to take a moment to thank all of the fantastic people who have contributed to Forem for Hacktoberfest 2021 so far. Let's take a look at all of the Hacktoberfest PRs that have been approved since October 1...

**Smashing bugs**
- **[Fix Prop Types Error](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14889)** and **[Fix PropTypes Error Create New Post Page](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14969)** by [papuruth](https://github.com/papuruth)
- **[Subscribe the Newsletter if email_newsletter is Changed](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14226)** by [takmar](https://github.com/takmar)
- **[Add a notification on password reset](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14968)** by [mrmir](https://github.com/mrmir)
- **[Fixed followers page html error](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/15003)** by [Blastoise](https://github.com/Blastoise)
- **[Fix: no title shown in comment edit page](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/15066)** by [RehmatFalcon](https://github.com/RehmatFalcon)
- **[Safari CSS gradient bug](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14938)** by [valtism](https://github.com/valtism)
- **[When a user is blocked from commenting on an article, show correct error message](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/15009)** by [vishaldeepak](https://github.com/vishaldeepak)
- **[Fix notifications not deleting because mentions already destroyed](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14987)** by [lsparlin](https://github.com/lsparlin)

**Refactoring**
- **[Use constants for Permitted params in controller](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14895 )** by [praveen-raghav-ns](https://github.com/praveen-raghav-ns)

**Accessibility improvements**
- **[Make dashboard left side nav an unordered list](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14887)** by [secondl1ght](https://github.com/secondl1ght)
- **[Replace main tag inside another main tag with div](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14896)** by [luhova](https://github.com/luhova)
- **[Use complementary landmarks on Tags page](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14899)** by [metamoni](https://github.com/metamoni)
- **[Use section instead of header in dashboard pages](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14873)** by [MohamedAsan](https://github.com/MohamedAsan)
- **[Fix: accessibility issue with feeds comment section](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14958)** by [pramodrhegde](https://github.com/pramodrhegde)
- **[Change div to aside tag and add aria-label to contain campaign banner](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/15034)** by [crisbnp](https://github.com/crisbnp)

**I18n Contributions**
- **[Update some words already translated](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14890)** by [thomasbnt](https://github.com/thomasbnt)
- **[Translate Following users page and loading text in sublist](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14898)** and **[Tokenize settings menu and add French translations](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14905)** by [metamoni](https://github.com/metamoni)
- **[Translate actions in articles view](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14911)** and **[Translate some labels from profile information](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/15002)** by [mtayllan](https://github.com/mtayllan)
- **[I18nize main_nav's "Home"](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14982)** and **[I18nize nav_menu's list items](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/15055)** by [KrystalJean](https://github.com/KrystalJean)
- **[I18n copy on Tags index page](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14891)** by [lsparlin](https://github.com/lsparlin)
- **[Translate some texts from Dashboard Page](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14963)** by [berviantoleo](https://github.com/berviantoleo)
- **[Internationalize hardcoded text for videos pages](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/14960)** by [VictorPS](https://github.com/VictorPS)
- **[Views/onboardings i18n](https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/15018)** by [yheuhtozr](https://github.com/yheuhtozr)


A round of applause for all of these Forem contributors 👏 

If _you'd_ like to contribute to the Forem codebase for Hacktoberfest, we'd love to have your involvement. [Click here](https://github.com/forem/forem/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3AHacktoberfest) for a full list of available issues. 

Happy Hacktoberfest to all! I look forward to following your journeys throughout the rest of October 🎃