You don’t see them because social media algorithms works for to improve your doom scrolling time. You’re not allowed to decide who to follow anymore. You have to see that they decide for you. Those people who you want to follow are only valuable for you, not for social media platforms.
Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
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#32Web dev is quite a big subject. I suppose you have to focus on a certain framework or technology.
Probably narrow down on: - Laravel - Rails - Django - React - VueJS - Javascript - Typescript - PHP - Ruby - Tailwind - CSS - MySQL - PostgreSQL etc...
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#33You don’t see them because social media algorithms works for to improve your doom scrolling time. You’re not allowed to decide who to follow anymore. You have to see that they decide for you. Those people who you want to follow are only valuable for you, not for social media platforms.
This still isn’t true for Twitter like platforms like the ones OP mentioned, you see only posts from people you follow, in chronological order.
If it’s not on by default, you can very easily turn it on from the main screen, and from my experience it never reverts.
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#34You don’t see them because social media algorithms works for to improve your doom scrolling time. You’re not allowed to decide who to follow anymore. You have to see that they decide for you. Those people who you want to follow are only valuable for you, not for social media platforms.
This still isn’t true for Twitter like platforms like the ones OP mentioned, you see only posts from people you follow, in chronological order. If it’s not on by default, you can very easily turn it on from the main screen, and from my experience it never reverts.
I had the opposite experience with X: it would frequently reset my view to "for you". I ended up writing a tampermonkey script to work around it until I gave up on X altogether-and I do the same for platforms like YouTube. Bluesky, on the other hand, hasn't repeated this problem at all.
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#36There used to be many excellent web development communities, but almost all of them have died more than 10 years ago. You can still find some good on topic conversation on IRC.
These communities died because experienced developers wanted to talk about product and emerging capabilities. People entering web development just wanted to just talk about frameworks and trends. The experienced people stopped contributing once everything becomes about tool literacy and conversations about framework literacy are boring to everyone so even the conversation killers would stop showing up once it’s apparent the scene is killed.
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#37I am kind of surprised no-one has mentioned the obvious: Hacker News. Unless I've misunderstood your question, the bulk of web dev discussion happens in technical posts on personal and business blogs, which are then aggregated right here. It's a big part of why I'm on here.
If you're talking more about chat, the more messy "pair programming" side of web dev, I have always found this happens in actual dev teams who are working on the same product or for the same business. You do absolutely get chat like this at conventions - I have been to DjangoCon and PyCon back in the day and there were enormously useful discussions at those - but devs need to have something in common to talk about. As someone else has said here already, web dev is a far far broader topic than you might think - I have often found speaking to other devs I did not understand what it was they were doing. Alberta Tech did one on this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBSpm2CNuGF/?igsh=NGttZzk5NzB...
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#38WebXR has a good WebXR Discord
https://discord.gg/ webxr
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#39There used to be many excellent web development communities, but almost all of them have died more than 10 years ago. You can still find some good on topic conversation on IRC. These communities died because experienced developers wanted to talk about product and emerging capabilities. People entering web development just wanted to just talk about frameworks and trends. The experienced people stopped contributing onc…
Interesting. That's exactly what I feel about most subreddits. Go to r/Python for example.
It's an endless stream of basic tool/library questions. Put me off reddit quite a bit.
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#40There is a very large presence over at Mastodon when it comes to people well versed in web standards. The public discussions are often very lively (in a good way).
yeah check out https://front-end.social - some popular front end dev accounts:
https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs
https://front-end.social/@piccalilli
https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000
https://indieweb.social/@addyosmani
https://front-end.social/@jensimmons
https://mastodon.social/@adactio
https://zachleat.com/@zachleat
https://front-end.social/@chriscoyier
https://front-end.social/@AmeliaBR
https://front-end.social/@rachelandrew