Hacktoberfest Check-In & Forem Contributor Spotlight

Hello, DEV Community!

For those of you who are participating in Hacktoberfest 2021 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...

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Hacktoberfest 2021 Discussion Thread

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Hacktoberfest 2021 Who's Looking for Contributors?

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More about how we're celebrating Hacktoberfest 2021 on DEV in this post.

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 and Fix PropTypes Error Create New Post Page by papuruth
• Subscribe the Newsletter if email_newsletter is Changed by takmar
• Add a notification on password reset by mrmir
• Fixed followers page html error by Blastoise
• Fix: no title shown in comment edit page by RehmatFalcon
• Safari CSS gradient bug by valtism
• When a user is blocked from commenting on an article, show correct error message by vishaldeepak
• Fix notifications not deleting because mentions already destroyed by lsparlin

Refactoring

• Use constants for Permitted params in controller by praveen-raghav-ns

Accessibility improvements

• Make dashboard left side nav an unordered list by secondl1ght
• Replace main tag inside another main tag with div by luhova
• Use complementary landmarks on Tags page by metamoni
• Use section instead of header in dashboard pages by MohamedAsan
• Fix: accessibility issue with feeds comment section by pramodrhegde
• Change div to aside tag and add aria-label to contain campaign banner by crisbnp

I18n Contributions

• Update some words already translated by thomasbnt
• Translate Following users page and loading text in sublist and Tokenize settings menu and add French translations by metamoni
• Translate actions in articles view and Translate some labels from profile information by mtayllan
• I18nize main_nav's "Home" and I18nize nav_menu's list items by KrystalJean
• I18n copy on Tags index page by lsparlin
• Translate some texts from Dashboard Page by
• Internationalize hardcoded text for videos pages by VictorPS
• Views/onboardings i18n by 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 for a full list of available issues.

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