I just check HN for worthy news, everything else is just noise. I miss the old days of forums.
Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#42I've found that layoffs and RTO have multiplied the toxicity of development communities. People will openly threaten to call your HR department if you say something wrong. Developers and engineers aren't trying to get better, they're just harming each other in a loop until the most evil one survives. It's cut-throat but not even in a good way, just extremely anti-social and aggressive. I don't recommend any developme…
This. Exceptions: Hacker News and... Irc servers. Python devs are very kind for example on irc
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#43One of underlying issues is also, that "web dev" is a very broad field. There are people programming Ruby on Rails, C#/ASP.NET MVC, Python, Java etc. without JavaScript at all, and it is considered web dev. There are people doing FE/BE separated in whatever backend language, and using Angular/Vue/Svelte/React with TypeScript, Javascript and so on. It is a very heterogenous field. So you should narrow down what you are looking for.
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#44I've found that layoffs and RTO have multiplied the toxicity of development communities. People will openly threaten to call your HR department if you say something wrong. Developers and engineers aren't trying to get better, they're just harming each other in a loop until the most evil one survives. It's cut-throat but not even in a good way, just extremely anti-social and aggressive. I don't recommend any developme…
How easy is it to call the HR department in the US? Here in Germany, you will almost never be put through to direct departments - especially HR. Because they are bombarded with calls from headhunters or agencies trying to sell them their services.
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#45I think Discord/IRC are the best two options for real-time talk. Social media sites are quite clunky for that purpose, but still useful to discuss the topic.
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#46Downvote all you want, but 4chan's /g/ is pretty honest about many subjects, including regular "webshit" discussions, while at the same time being pretty interesting and useful. Elsewhere it's too polite and even shallow.
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#47It’s not really the golden age of web dev. Everything has its season.
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#48There 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…
Exactly. Many senior devs don’t want talk about the latest updates but those topics are usually what’s trending on X/YouTube/or even HN.
Let’s face it, how many times does those new features really “revolutionise” or make a real dent in our work? Or are the content creators just using them as click baits to get views and engagements which eventually can turn into monetary or network values for them?
Real talks are getting hard to find in this attention economy plus bots rampage across the internet.
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#49I 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 ar…
The thing about Hacker News is that it's a real fight for life to get any engagement. Just showing the humble project you're working on doesn't cut it. You need to time your submission just right and impress like you're doing a product launch, otherwise you get no visibility and no comments. Social media shouldn't have to be so exhausting and competitive.
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#50You 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.
I definitely feel this. We're a far cry from the early days of Facebook where you could just post your thoughts and feelings and real people you'd know and care about would come and interact with you. Now all I see is posts from grifters and politics bots, and it's desperately hard to get my own stuff seen, even as an established account.
I want a new platform.