UGH REDDIT. You couldn't say forum? It has to be on reddit? IRC is where it's at tbh.
Where on IRC? #startups? or language specific ones? Quite a few are ghostowns since slack picked up steam...
Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can send you (or anyone else) an invite if you'd like one - send the email address you'd like inviting to blog@dantup.com. I don't use it that much so I don't have any real opinion on how useful/good it is.
Thanks, I appreciate the offer, but 4 people beat you to it by private email, 3 within 30 minutes.... When I've peeked in on e.g. the lisp subforum, it looked to be quite good, although that was a while ago, too frustrating to contemplate engaging without being able to be part of the conversation (which, I again emphasize, is an entirely legitimate method to avoid a variety of problems).
I suspected they might; but figured I'd make the offer as others might also like to try it out (and it seemed they did, I had a bucket of emails and sent invites out!).
I've posted a couple of things on there and although there seems to be a lot less traffic than HN/Reddit (at least for the posts that were to my blog) there quality of discussion seemed to be much better :-)
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#33Maybe a combination of various topics, add/remove to your interests:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Freethought+PhilosophyofScience+Som...
Basically: Freethought+PhilosophyofScience+SomebodyMakeThis+browsers+cogsci+compsci+gamedev+longtext+math+programming+shamelessplug+somethingimade+startups
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#34UGH REDDIT. You couldn't say forum? It has to be on reddit? IRC is where it's at tbh.
Well, which IRC servers/channels then?
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#35https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/ by a long way
Meh, it's alright. I've found it to be completely dominated by people who are only interested in or talk about deep neural nets. That's fine I guess, it's certainly popular. But there are vast areas of applied machine learning that rightly use other techniques (deep learning isn't AGI!) and it's really frustrating to try to ask questions about RF Tree Pruning or SVM kernel functions only to get a bunch of vacuous "you should try deep learning" comments.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#36how can I get an invitation for lobste.rs?
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#37https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/ by a long way
Meh, it's alright. I've found it to be completely dominated by people who are only interested in or talk about deep neural nets. That's fine I guess, it's certainly popular. But there are vast areas of applied machine learning that rightly use other techniques (deep learning isn't AGI!) and it's really frustrating to try to ask questions about RF Tree Pruning or SVM kernel functions only to get a bunch of vacuous "yo…
For deep learning quality is high (and it rarely misses important stuff). But I share your frustration that it is "deep learning news", see this post of mine: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/4el597/is_... (Though, in the last month deep learning is my main focus, so it is OK.)
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#38I rarely read r/programming any more, its content rules seeming so arbitrary. My favorites are:
- r/python
- r/reverseengineering
- r/netsec
- r/shittykickstarters (to read debunkings of why a Kickstarter is scientifically/technically unfeasible)
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#39Not a sub, but I'm a big fan of Designer News. I've been a daily visitor for the last 3 years. While it's more design-focused, many Users are UI Designers, Product Designers and people working in tech.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#40For Go, it is http://reddit.com/r/golang
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036890
As a summary for those who are unaware: a (now former) mod of that subreddit, who is a major Go contributor, called for the deletion (or the discussion there of) of the subreddit due to the actions of the Reddit CEO. He did so believing that the subreddit was an official communication channel. Upon learning that it was community started, he changed his opinion. Many are very offended.