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Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
#42Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/ It's a slower-moving site with lots of CompSci and programmer-focused stuff. People also regularly share what projects they work on, what's going on in their life, or maybe what they're reading. Still has a small community feel despite over 10,000 views a day. Lobsters and Hacker News are my must reads each day. They're both great. :)
Can't recommend https://lobste.rs enough. If anybody has an invite to give out I'd thoroughly appreciate it.
Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
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#44Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
#45Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/ It's a slower-moving site with lots of CompSci and programmer-focused stuff. People also regularly share what projects they work on, what's going on in their life, or maybe what they're reading. Still has a small community feel despite over 10,000 views a day. Lobsters and Hacker News are my must reads each day. They're both great. :)
It doesn't look like lobsters have enough content for everyday reading..
I've got Lobsters (and HN, and barnacl.es) hooked into my RSS reader. It updates when it updates, and I still get the good stuff :-)
Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
#46Technical writers don’t have any strong online forums, I’ve been working on cultivating reddit.com/r/technicalwriting as our main watering hole. I’ve recently started browsing reddit.com/r/webdev and am finding it to be a pretty lively source of web development discussion. Twitter gets a lot of flak but I find it helpful for getting a pulse on different communities. Aside: > I get most of the value from HN from what…
I thought "guys" was accepted as gender-neutral now, like "dude". That said, in trying to force congruence in my idiolect, I once referred to a woman as "this guy", and it felt so wrong. It still feels wrong. My mind reels in disgust as I'm typing these words right now. It doesn't work. So maybe we need to go the other way. But why does "dude" work? Also, everyone becoming agender when? It's the best way to cut the k…
> I once referred to a woman as "this guy", and it felt so wrong
"Guys" might be considered gender-neutral, but "guy" is not.
Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
#47Reddit : /r/programming
Twitter : to follow some personalities in the field I'm currently interested in
Telegram : I like the devs network, mainly the Linux group chat of this network
Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
#48Technical writers don’t have any strong online forums, I’ve been working on cultivating reddit.com/r/technicalwriting as our main watering hole. I’ve recently started browsing reddit.com/r/webdev and am finding it to be a pretty lively source of web development discussion. Twitter gets a lot of flak but I find it helpful for getting a pulse on different communities. Aside: > I get most of the value from HN from what…
Re "you guys", this is a great suggestion. It takes little to do so, and it's a simple way to show courtesy to others.
I also appreciate the manner in which you suggested it. You didn't condemn or assume someone was anyone in bad faith; you simply pointed out a way that they might want to be purposeful about their words.
Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
#49lobste.rs is basically HN without the politics.
Although it began that way, that's 100% inaccurate today. Most threads have low noise with high civility. The biggest, meta debates are about whether politics should be included or about a politically-incorrect topic/comment. The last debate had the voting majority, the politically-correct folks, push for every thread to allow for making political points or calling people out. Which they do here and there with debate…
"The last debate had the voting majority, the politically-correct folks, push for every thread to allow for making political points or calling people out."
It'd be interesting to have a reddit/HN type comment threading but allow users to flag their own comments as political in nature or not, and also let users decide whether they'd like to see political discussion (account/Subreddit basis, with a toggle at the top of all posts).
Whether or not to allow political discussions is one of the more common tricky points in these forums it seems.
Re: Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
#50Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/ It's a slower-moving site with lots of CompSci and programmer-focused stuff. People also regularly share what projects they work on, what's going on in their life, or maybe what they're reading. Still has a small community feel despite over 10,000 views a day. Lobsters and Hacker News are my must reads each day. They're both great. :)
Can't recommend https://lobste.rs enough. If anybody has an invite to give out I'd thoroughly appreciate it.
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