I first joined the DEV community 8 years ago (as of writing) to jump-start my writing journey and get my name out there. Since then, my reading audience has grown to hundreds of thousands of readers globally. I owe a huge part of my early career to the DEV community.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/somedood/why-im-migrating-my-blog-to-astro-2o4)