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Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?

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Post by nunez »

I've improved the quality of my Reddit experience significantly by:

- Unsubscribing from all default subreddits (which are mostly time wasters),

- Not subscribing to any subreddits (so that I don't have a front page),

- Using the multireddit feature to create groups of subreddits I like, and

- Using old.reddit.com which emphasizes the text experience more

Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?

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Post by freitasm »

RajSinghLA wrote: post #39
freitasm wrote: post #29

I run a website/forum. Probably not as popular as HN but for New Zealand it is a good size. Won't drop link here unless someone asks/says is OK.

Let’s see it!

There you go: www.geekzone.co.nz

Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?

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Post by gonehome »

EGreg wrote: post #36
maxwellface wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Eternal September" hasn't yet come for urbit; it's probably still february or march over there

How do we join Urbit? What can we expect

https://urbit.org/getting-started - that's the best place to start.

I also wrote this: https://martiancomputing.substack.com/p/your-first-day-on-ur...

The UI shown in my blog post is now out of date (the new one is much better), but the group names are still the same and it gives a decent overview. You should be able to join urbit community and find people in there to start.

Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?

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Post by wan_ala »

cpach wrote: post #20
MrGilbert wrote: post #3

If there isn't something like that - maybe we should build it?

That’s not a bad idea. One need to think hard about moderation though. Y Combinator has at least one employee who moderates HN. That’s quite expensive. Moderation can be solved without hiring people, but it’s not a trivial problem to solve.

For a project i am working on, I've thought about egalitarian-based moderation (i.e people vote on moderation decisions, there is no specific 'moderators'). It could prevent admin abuse and make it so that you don't need to hire mods.

Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?

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Post by jschveibinz »

was_a_dev wrote: post #17

I'd love there to be one for broader science. HN serves well, but can be hit and miss in the comments depending on the field and it's degrees of seperation from computer science. More technical topics end up sinking quick without much discourse. This is in contrast to technical computer science items that do the opposite

https://www.sciencedaily.com/ is good for a quick, broad look at new science articles. I’ve enjoyed visiting that site for quite a while. But it’s curated, ie. not a forum, so no commentary.

Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?

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Post by karmakurtisaani »

tee_0 wrote: post #24

In 2010 I felt at home on Reddit. I felt like a had an entire world to lose myself in. But now Reddit is hollow and glazed over with mindless political dogma and petty drama. Maybe I’m just getting older too and not really impressed by internet videos. I remember r/no sleep being this incredible wellspring of enthusiasm and creativity. I remember people raving about Dr who. Can you imagine Dr who being on half the fr…

I've had this feeling for a while now as well. I still enjoy HN, and try to think of commenting and participation more as just talking to one person rather than trying to score points from the community. That's what eventually destroys these for us, everyone trying to win popularity contests.

At least in HN we still have some interesting people left.

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