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Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

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Post by Moru »

the_duke wrote: post #9
david-cako wrote: post #7

Slashdot is fun if you want a more cynical take on some of the topics that show up here. Slashdot's articles typically are general tech, science, security, and politics (esp tech related). Here there's more software community stuff, blogs, update notes, personal projects etc. I read both HN and slashdot daily, they each have their own thing.

I remember when Slashdot was THE online community for tech news. Insightful comments, amazing (!) moderation system. It all went downhill years ago though and now the quality of the discussions is horrendous.

https://soylentnews.org/

is one of the Slashdot breakoffs from when they went too far. They are using an old fork of the Slashdot engine.

Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

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Post by egfx »

david-cako wrote: post #7

Slashdot is fun if you want a more cynical take on some of the topics that show up here. Slashdot's articles typically are general tech, science, security, and politics (esp tech related). Here there's more software community stuff, blogs, update notes, personal projects etc. I read both HN and slashdot daily, they each have their own thing.

Slashdot is good for the first few comments in every post, then drop's like a ton of bricks.

Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

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Post by dionidium »

ryanmercer wrote: post #8

Any number of subreddits? Construction workers - https://www.reddit.com/r/Construction/ "A subreddit for construction industry professionals." Teachers - https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/ "The goal of r/Teachers is to provide a supportive community for teachers and to inform and engage in discourse with educational stakeholders about the teaching profession." Actuaries - https://www.reddit.com/r/actuary/ "Articles a…

Some more that might appeal to the HN set:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject

- https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur

- https://www.reddit.com/r/coding

- https://www.reddit.com/r/programming

- https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev

- https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY

- https://www.reddit.com/r/urbanplanning

Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

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Post by isostatic »

Moru wrote: post #11
the_duke wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember when Slashdot was THE online community for tech news. Insightful comments, amazing (!) moderation system. It all went downhill years ago though and now the quality of the discussions is horrendous.

https://soylentnews.org/ is one of the Slashdot breakoffs from when they went too far. They are using an old fork of the Slashdot engine.

Sadly the site is mainly populated with about 8 extremists and it mainly covers political angles.

Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

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Post by jashmenn »

lainon wrote: post #2

https://www.barnacl.es - Business https://www.journalduhacker.net/ - French Hacker News https://write.narwhal.space/ - Writing https://g33kz.de/ - German Hacker News https://paperkast.com/ - Academic Papers https://bitmia.com/ - Finance/Investing All of the above are based on https://lobste.rs/ , which is pretty much like HN with a few extra features and less Off-Topic Also, there are independent StackExchange-like s…

I also run a lobste.rs sister site dedicated to blockchain protocol engineering: https://std.bz/

The goal is to be a high-signal community to share and discuss research, design, and code of blockchain and cryptocurrency protocols.

It's invite-only (to keep the quality of links and discussion high), but we're just getting started, so definitely apply for an invite if this is a space you're interested in.

Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

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Post by fancyfish »

Moru wrote: post #11
the_duke wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember when Slashdot was THE online community for tech news. Insightful comments, amazing (!) moderation system. It all went downhill years ago though and now the quality of the discussions is horrendous.

https://soylentnews.org/ is one of the Slashdot breakoffs from when they went too far. They are using an old fork of the Slashdot engine.

Note this is unfortunately not a news discussion site for the meal replacement of the same name.
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