No views

Scrolling through the latest articles one can see that most of the articles have no reactions and no comments. Even if we scroll down to articles posted 10-20 hours ago.

I bet I am not the only author here on DEV whose articles are barely read. Looking at my dashboard many of my articles don't even hit the magic 25 views to show a real number and even the ones that pass it are mostly under 100 views.

Even worse a "view" doesn't even mean the visitor has read the article. The title might have been interesting, but the content might have made the person run away.

No reactions

The fact that the total number of likes and bookmarks is often closer to 0 than to 1 just rubs it in.

I often think it is not worth the time I put in the articles if so few people are interested in opening them and so few like them. Yet I constantly see 4-600 new articles on DEV every day.

Newcomers and stars?

Is it the case the case that, beside a few successful authors who get lots of views and lots of reactions to their articles, most of the posts are by hopeful newcomers who post a few articles and then leave?

Is it the case that most of the people for most of their articles get almost no reactions, but once in a while they have one success?

Feeling disappointed?

I guess I am not the only one feeling these results to be disappointing. If you have been publishing on DEV for a while, how do you justify spending time on your articles? How do you motivate yourself?