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If anyone would like an invite, send me an email or reply here.
Hi, I'd like an invite if you still have one (my email is on my account page). What is the history of https://lobste.rs ? Or maybe how would you describe the focus and character of the community?
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#42https://news.layervault.com/ Designer News is quite good for design discussion. It's an invite only site though ( I don't have an account so I can't invite - sorry! )
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#43Hackernews Clone http://hackerstreet.in
India specific though
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#44firespotting.com
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#45http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ And many other subreddits besides.
It's interesting to compare the HN[0] and Reddit[1] comments for the same article. The second highest voted comment on Reddit is "this is high levels of bad ass." at 276 points. I guess HN is still far ahead of other communities after all (if you're interested in serious discussion). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5330998 [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/19rzi3/breaking...
Nice sample size you have there. There are many extremely insightful comments on the programming subreddit, and there are also many empty, predictable comments on HN. I bet many people here can guess the top comment on particular threads based solely upon the submission title. (There's a high probability the top comment has the phrase "Am I the only one, or ...")
So is HN ahead of /r/programming? At times, definitely. However, anyone who frequents both will attest to the fact that /r/programming is much better at ignoring linkbait, while HN seems to fall for it on a daily basis.
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#47I have found only two such sites so far: 1) reddit - here, you have to subscribe to the right mix of subreddits according to your interests 2) Google+ - also quite good, but one needs to do some work, namely to find the right communities, pages and people to follow. But if you are asking about sites with the same "genre" as HN (the same functionality), then no, I haven't found alternative to HN.
> reddit - here, you have to subscribe to the right mix of subreddits according to your interests Can you recommend some subreddits beside /r/programming and the subreddits mentioned in the sidebar of /r/programming)? I have not found a generic software engineering subreddit (probably without any web development content), which is quite strange.
/r/webdev
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#48EchoJS is pretty nice for JS stuff
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#49Twitter is my current favorite way to keep up with the Zeitgeist.