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Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

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Not exactly like HN, but stackoverflow has a lot of different sites for niche and interesting topics

Of all the things you can do or can't do on stackoverflow, "discussions" are probably the thing you are going to get doxxed the hardest for.

Wow you get doxxed for going off topic??

Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

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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…

/r/consulting

Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

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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…

A lot of these seem like HN-clones (UI-wise) except that they are ghost towns, with no comments on the top stories. I think it would be more useful to share sites that have great communities, even if they use different software. For example, for investing, the Boggleheads forum is excellent: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php

Really fascinating. g33kz.de has 25 stories on its front page, and none of them have any comment.

Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of all the things you can do or can't do on stackoverflow, "discussions" are probably the thing you are going to get doxxed the hardest for.

Wow you get doxxed for going off topic??

Not in my experience. You will however get the discussion shut down.

Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

#36
post #9

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.

The primary issue with Slashdot seems to be the flame wars—they don’t have some of the features and the moderation like HN does to detect and prevent them. If someone mentions systemd, you know that the quality of discussion just went from “mediocre” to “terrible”.

Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

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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…

How can i read the french hacker news without knowing french?

Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

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Arfcom GD: https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/General-Discussion/5/ Definitely a right-wing slant, but there are ton of very knowledgeable people there. Signal/noise ratio is kinda middle of the road, but the quality of the signal more than makes up for it in my opinion.

Ha, I used to post there all the time, still do once in a while. Alas, it's an old-style PHPBB system with no voting, so it gets to be harder to find the good content and keep track of discussions you've been in. And yes, it's a good place to get the pulse of what "Red Team" is thinking in general, and you can get banned for being too Blue.

Re: Ask HN: Other online communities like HN?

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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…

A lot of these seem like HN-clones (UI-wise) except that they are ghost towns, with no comments on the top stories. I think it would be more useful to share sites that have great communities, even if they use different software. For example, for investing, the Boggleheads forum is excellent: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php

You could also look at various subreddits...
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