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Re: Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

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Post by nosianu »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #18

https://www.home-barista.com/ is a great forum for espresso and coffee enthusiasts. It has some particularly engaging threads of people who take old, rusted out machines and restore them to glory. One good example: https://www.home-barista.com/repairs/conti-prestina-espresso...

Ha, I wanted to suggest that too!

For my region and all German speakers a (the?) relevant site is https://www.kaffee-netz.de/

It is pretty active and has a lot of topics around coffee and coffee making technologies and techniques. It's definitely on a similar level to what OP was asking, I had to think of it immediately.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

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Post by bmarquez »

zpeti wrote: post #12

If you don’t mind right wing politics, retalk.com

Thanks for the suggestion, pretty much everything political on reddit is heavily brigaded.

A look at retalk's homepage shows similar subforums to reddit like /ufc /funny and /todayilearned so it's more of a reddit replacement than a niche political forum, HN style.

The discussion appears to be civil as well, but everyone has there similar opinions and no reason to argue so that's not saying much.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

chirau wrote: post #19
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But every niche forum that's gotten popular has been ruined. Really? I'm not sure I agree with this. I feel like if the topic itself is niche or requires some baseline level of competency to contribute, then it actually resists this "crapification" because your average troll just doesn't have enough content/info to work with. It's the broader, general interest topics, usually that have some intersection with politi…

Random question... is hn_throwaway_99 your main HN name or you still maintain a main account? I know a lot of folks use a throwaways for controversial stuff or for 'anonymity', but it seems yours is quite prominent.

Heh - short of it is I originally created this "throwaway" account years ago, I just forgot to throw it away. The initial impetus was yes, I was commenting on something controversial, but then I just forgot/was too lazy to switch back to my original account so I just left it.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

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Post by zucker42 »

This used to be called Reddit. Not so much anymore, since they started optimizing for advertisers instead of users.

I don't think there are going to be very many places like HackerNews. "Hackers" as a subculture are bolstered by the fact that Internet based modes of communication and work (not just forums but also things like Github) are seen as interesting and productive. Plus the people capable designing such a forum are likely to be software people; it's a bit more difficult for a skilled mechanical engineer to quickly set up a forum. So it's no surprise that many of the forums are software/"hacker" oriented (e.g. Blind, Lobste.rs, HN). Any forum built by software engineers for other people seems doomed to go the way of Reddit rather than the way of HN.

However, I'll give a shoutout for a great community forum that I've participated in, and that's ChiefDelphi. But that's super niche (it's focused around the high school FIRST robotics competition).

Re: Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

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Post by Strom »

kennywinker wrote: post #27
co_pilates wrote: post #23

Anyone know of a "hacker news minus politics and marketing"?

I hate to be that guy, but literally nothing is apolitical. Hn minus explicitly political content is is just status quo maintenance news.

Where's the politics in discussing which anchor screw holds the most weight in drywall?

Saying everything is political removes any meaning from the word politics.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

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Post by davmar »

Strom wrote: post #38
kennywinker wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate to be that guy, but literally nothing is apolitical. Hn minus explicitly political content is is just status quo maintenance news.

Where's the politics in discussing which anchor screw holds the most weight in drywall? Saying everything is political removes any meaning from the word politics.

If you rent, you can't put an anchor screw in the drywall. Who rents vs. who owns is political!
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