If anyone can recommend design or UX specific forums similar to HN, I would love to know. I miss Designer News.
Ask HN: What intelligent forums exist outside of HN?
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#22Just curious, is there any Russian forum that discusses software reverse engineering seriously? Now armed with AI it shouldn't be too hard to read the posts or even participate the discussions, and I know Russians are very good reverse engineers.
Or any Eastern European language programming forums. In general I believe they are excellent software engineers.
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#23https://bogleheads.org/index.php has given me a good amount of joy as well as https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/ "All the things personal finance" basically
Absolutely agreed. Bogleheads is an absolute treasure of discussion and I've gotten some excellent tax planning advice there. It's one of the few sites in my reading rotation with HN.
MMM's forum is also a classic. I don't read it regularly these days, but it definitely gets a read once every month or so. Still surprisingly active and I've found some really good lifestyle financial advice there, as opposed to the more number based info I get from Bogleheads. I just enjoy the idea of a forum filled with Mustachian ideology.
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#24Some other:
Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611708
Ask HN: What are some communities like HN?
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#25Mastodon works for me, but you do have to work to build your network. Discoverability is a problem, but you follow people on your home server, follow the people they boost, see who they follow and follow them ... Then cull ruthlessly. Repeat a few times and quite quickly you find your personal feed full of things from interesting people. If you don't have "algorithms" to suggest things to you, you need to do the work…
I recommend following hashtags to bootstrap your feed.
Also, starter packs, they're community curated lists of people to follow for specific niches.
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#26> Twitter has long been declining Why do you think so?
Always has been. People on here just act like it's new because opinions they don't like don't get shadow banned anymore.
It is new. Elon has intentionally redesigned Twitter to surface right-wing and extremist opinions, which no longer get banned, in order to purge the "woke mind-virus", and the platform is flooded with bots.
Claiming that the platform is exactly the same as it's always been and then pointing out one substantial change from the way it's always been, is an insane degree of cognitive dissonance.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't it obvious? The news feed is full of spam from people I do not know and do not follow. Meanwhile the posts of people I follow never reach me!
I remember twitter being like this in 2020 when I stopped using it.
That can certainly be true, too. But different people will have different thresholds for how much enshitification is too much. So, you hit your threshold in 2020 and OP hit there's today.
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#28Mastodon works for me, but you do have to work to build your network. Discoverability is a problem, but you follow people on your home server, follow the people they boost, see who they follow and follow them ... Then cull ruthlessly. Repeat a few times and quite quickly you find your personal feed full of things from interesting people. If you don't have "algorithms" to suggest things to you, you need to do the work…
I've had a similar experience with Bluesky, though it's much more like Twitter than Hacker News. You can curate a good feed by following a ton of people, then unfollow the noisy ones as you look over the feed. You can use "starter packs" and hashtags to help get started, too.
Once you've found some people you like, this tool is somewhat helpful for finding more people you might like to follow:
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Always has been. People on here just act like it's new because opinions they don't like don't get shadow banned anymore.
It is new. Elon has intentionally redesigned Twitter to surface right-wing and extremist opinions, which no longer get banned, in order to purge the "woke mind-virus", and the platform is flooded with bots. Claiming that the platform is exactly the same as it's always been and then pointing out one substantial change from the way it's always been, is an insane degree of cognitive dissonance.
It might be more of a case of "if you're accustomed to left-wing bias, a balanced media feels like right-wing bias..."
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is new. Elon has intentionally redesigned Twitter to surface right-wing and extremist opinions, which no longer get banned, in order to purge the "woke mind-virus", and the platform is flooded with bots. Claiming that the platform is exactly the same as it's always been and then pointing out one substantial change from the way it's always been, is an insane degree of cognitive dissonance.
It might be more of a case of "if you're accustomed to left-wing bias, a balanced media feels like right-wing bias..."
The quote you're appropriating, "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression” doesn't really apply in this context because we're talking about actual right-wing content, which many people find offensive on its own merits.