E.g. for wood- or metalworking.
Ask HN: Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?
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#2Reddit ?
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#3For woodworking: https://www.lumberjocks.com/
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#4The Something Awful forums have lots of interest-based subforums for things like woodworking, wrenching on cars, etc., that are generally high signal-to-noise.
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#5What you're asking for is a community for a niche concept, activity, or hobby.
What you're really looking for is a forum. A bulletin board, to use the outdated parlance.
They still exist, although there is still a lot of hand-wringing over whether forums are "dying" or not.
Long form journalism won't go away, long form discussion won't go away either.
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#6Reddit is the best place outside HN that works similar for a lot of niches. But HN is still the best forum
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#7What you're asking for is a community for a niche concept, activity, or hobby. What you're really looking for is a forum. A bulletin board, to use the outdated parlance. They still exist, although there is still a lot of hand-wringing over whether forums are "dying" or not. Long form journalism won't go away, long form discussion won't go away either.
> They still exist, although there is still a lot of hand-wringing over whether forums are "dying" or not.
My understanding has been that forums aren't dead -- the centralized, fast-food version of the forum, reddit has just won out for the usual reasons.
What sets HN apart is it's moderation/curation. It feels like the HN hivemind is still smarter than me so I learn a bunch when I'm here, and people try to argue in good faith so that's good too. Creating and maintaining such an atmosphere (and getting your users to reinforce it) is hard.
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#8I've visited Metafilter every so often which might be what your're looking for
https://www.metafilter.com
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#9StraightDope is a forum which covers a little bit of almost everything.
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#10StraightDope is a forum which covers a little bit of almost everything. https://boards.straightdope.com/
This is a most excellent forum