An Update on How We Judge DEV Challenges

We're always working to improve how we run DEV Challenges, and we have an update to share on the judging front. Welcoming MLH Coaches to the Panel Now that DEV has joined forces with Major League Hacking (MLH) , we're bringing in the MLH Coaches to evaluate challenge submissions. MLH Coaches bring deep, hands-on expertise from judging hundreds of in-person and digital hackathons. They know great technical work when they see it and bring a rigor and consistency to the process that we're really excited about. This expands our judging panel, strengthens the technical expertise behind every review, and ensures more eyes are across every round of submissions. A Note on the Volunteer Judge Program We're temporarily pausing the volunteer judge program for the time being. The Coaches use a synchronous workflow for reviewing submissions, and it's difficult to integrate with the asynchronous flow our volunteer judges have used historically. We want to be thoughtful about how we layer these proce