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Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
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#12I am going to get banned for this, but 4chan's /g/ is unironically a nice place
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#14lobste.rs is basically HN without the politics.
I always liked the look of lobste.rs but never knew anyone active there who could invite me (I've spent the last few years working at tiny startups and haven't spent nearly enough time networking with others outside my immediate circle).
what's your email?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
tildes.net is similar in that it’s good but it does have politics
Sadly its invite only and I know nobody with an invite. If anyone fancies throwing one my way it'd be appreciated.
The hand them out on their subreddit. Took me three minutes from posting to getting an invite from one of the owners of tildes
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#17Technical writers don’t have any strong online forums, I’ve been working on cultivating reddit.com/r/technicalwriting as our main watering hole.
I’ve recently started browsing reddit.com/r/webdev and am finding it to be a pretty lively source of web development discussion.
Twitter gets a lot of flak but I find it helpful for getting a pulse on different communities.
Aside:
> I get most of the value from HN from what you guys have to say.
If you’d like to cultivate HN as a place where women and non-binary people also contribute, consider using “you all” instead of “you guys”.
Edit: Looks like I’m getting downvoted for the “you guys” comment, which I expected. I know that it’s usually just an old habit but I also know that being thoughtful and correcting that old habit means a lot to some people. Considering that we’re talking about online communities it seemed relevant to bring attention to here.
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#18twitter
I have curated it to the point where I almost never see anything political and there is a lot of really good content. It's all computer vision, computer graphics, demoscene, black/grey hat and startupy type stuff.
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#19Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/ It's a slower-moving site with lots of CompSci and programmer-focused stuff. People also regularly share what projects they work on, what's going on in their life, or maybe what they're reading. Still has a small community feel despite over 10,000 views a day. Lobsters and Hacker News are my must reads each day. They're both great. :)
It doesn't look like lobsters have enough content for everyday reading..
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#20News and community are two very different things to me. I get a lot of news from Ars Technica but their forum community is extremely toxic and mob-driven, not helped by the active side-taking of their staff.
Platforms I love like Imgur can be very useful but I think the use of point ratings on comments discourages honesty and turns discussion into point-hoarding pageantry.