The classic, slashdot.org
And its offshoot, soylentnews.org
Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#52https://barnacl.es/ (Barnacles) is a ~strong~ young community of tech-related news with emphasis on bootstrapping and launching products.
It doesn't look that strong to me. There aren't any comments and I guess there aren't more than a few active users.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can send you (or anyone else) an invite if you'd like one - send the email address you'd like inviting to blog@dantup.com. I don't use it that much so I don't have any real opinion on how useful/good it is.
Thanks, I appreciate the offer, but 4 people beat you to it by private email, 3 within 30 minutes.... When I've peeked in on e.g. the lisp subforum, it looked to be quite good, although that was a while ago, too frustrating to contemplate engaging without being able to be part of the conversation (which, I again emphasize, is an entirely legitimate method to avoid a variety of problems).
The community is mostly technical people with a large focus on programming, operations, and hackery. Fewer people comment on articles but the comments are lower noise on average. In a discussion on community standards, one of the veterans explained what the site should and shouldn't be about. I think the post represents what I've seen on the page & in the comments pretty well. Also, we have invitation trees instead of throwaways to encourage people to play nice. Been a few cesspools but not many.
It also illustrates there's a huge difference in priorities and culture between Hacker News and Lobsters. Not to mention who is participating. So, I like to read and comment on both sites as they each give me something different. People also often repost HN articles on Lobsters, too, with the Lobsters comments sometimes raising points I didn't see over here or vice versa. These two are my favorite sites for technical discussion for now.
On business side, you might like the Lobsters spinoff called Barnacles. It's open invitation right now. They're like HN for bootstrappers instead of VC-funded startups. High signal to noise ratio with good stuff on marketing & case studies of interesting business. Clifford's series right now is a good reality check for people that think doing a SaaS startup will let them focus on being paid to write code. Great opening pic, too. ;)
https://medium.com/@cliffordoravec/expect-everything-to-be-u...
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#54Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#55Literally nothing. Reddit is a cesspool and especially when it comes to technical topics it is absolutely abysmal. Most of the people spouting off opinions about technical topics on Reddit are totally unqualified to do so. People who work as cashiers at Taco Bell writing diatribes about Ruby vs PHP, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#56https://www.reddit.com/r/chipdesign/
For all things related to chip design.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#57Is there anywhere that covers technology/scientific development well? (Non-software). I'm always looking for those kinds of things (new sensor, scientific methods, medical advances). But have never found a good forum for this.
/r/futurology, also /r/science
From my experience /r/futurology contains way too much clickbait and sensationalist bullshit to be enjoyable.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#58Literally nothing. Reddit is a cesspool and especially when it comes to technical topics it is absolutely abysmal. Most of the people spouting off opinions about technical topics on Reddit are totally unqualified to do so. People who work as cashiers at Taco Bell writing diatribes about Ruby vs PHP, etc.
Quite contrary to what you've written I find the Haskell subredit very useful. The comments are usually well thought out and relevant. I daresay the people on the Haskell subredit are the smartest and most helpful of any subredit I've been on.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#59Literally nothing. Reddit is a cesspool and especially when it comes to technical topics it is absolutely abysmal. Most of the people spouting off opinions about technical topics on Reddit are totally unqualified to do so. People who work as cashiers at Taco Bell writing diatribes about Ruby vs PHP, etc.
Unfortunately the same thing could be said about this site as of late. There are still some knowledgeable people here, but it appears eternal September has hit.