Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums?

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Post by gibi555 » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 7:12 PM UTC

thanks

Re: Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums?

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Post by fiftyacorn » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 7:26 PM UTC

dcchambers wrote: post #25

Mechanical Keyboards - https://geekhack.org Watches - https://forums.watchuseek.com/ Role Playing (Video) Games - https://rpgcodex.net/forums Minecraft - https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums Linux - https://www.linuxquestions.org/ Apple/Mac - https://forums.macrumors.com/ Biking - https://www.bikeforums.net & https://forum.bikeradar.com/ Honestly, just pick one of your hobbies and go down the google rabbit hole. Man…

cyclingnews forum is good too - i even like reading the posts in the clinic

Re: Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums?

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Post by macando » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 7:47 PM UTC

https://slatestarcodex.com/

If you're into long intellectual essays on deeply investigated obscure topics you won't find a better place. I opened it once or twice. The community is surprisingly active.

Re: Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums?

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Post by wilsonnb3 » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 8:18 PM UTC

Talkbass is still the best place on the web to to discuss bass guitar.

Re: Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums?

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Post by seattle_spring » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 8:25 PM UTC

IronWolve wrote: post #42

seattle_spring wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Seattle subreddits are so bad about this. There's one with ~200k subscribers that is basically only sunset pictures and requests for good food. There's another one with ~100k subscribers with slightly better submissions, but every comment thread has the same 10 people brigading from a THIRD Seattle sub that focuses on alt-right politics.

The 2nd sub was created due to the primary sub pushing left-wing politics during the elections and just kept going farther left with approved/trending posts. Then the 2nd sub became right reactionary and pushed all the news the main sub would exclude due to leftist politics, pissing off the people who fled the primary sub due to politics. The posters are a small subset of the readers, if you think only 10 posters are…

> if you think only 10 posters are conservative in one of the largest cities in the US, you are mistaken

What I said was that there are 10 people who are the most prolific posters, and they insist on posting right-wing inflammatory garbage regardless of the actual topic.

Thread on the best restaurant? Guy 2 of 10 comes in and posts about the homeless. Guy 4 somehow ties it to gun rights.

Thread about transit? Better make it about Hillary's emails somehow! And hey, let's throw gun rights into the mix again.

Re: Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums?

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Post by tidepod12 » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 9:00 PM UTC

jvagner wrote: post #5

I'm particularly perplexed by [location] sub-reddits. No one uses the FAQs, search, or Yelp. Everyone wants to post a daily request for a good place for a drink, and a good hike, for just about every city on the planet. The annoyances in those threads seem to keep other participants away. It'd be nice to have a forum, message board, etc for people who are willing to try one tick more than the masses.

It's not just the constant "anyone have good ____ recommendations?" posts. For whatever reason, there is a tendency for local subreddits seem to be much more vitriolic than most places on reddit (and that's saying something). Threads about local happenings or even something as simple as posting a picture of the skyline seems to bring immediate, intense ire from some always-lurking posters. And God help you if you post an article about local politics.

r/Austin is particularly bad about this, but I've frequented several other city subreddits and noticed the same.

Re: Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums?

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Post by Trixter » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 9:04 PM UTC

Vintage Computing: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum.php

Very pure community around all things vintage computing; has stayed mostly the same for 12 years (and still very helpful).

Re: Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums?

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Post by tomg » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 9:13 PM UTC

dlivingston wrote: post #50

tetraca wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, you can't just simply tell anyone, because that's how most enjoyable places get ruined.

To be frank, that's how I feel about HN: it's a little haven of (usually) calm, rational discussion, and I fear that as it gets more popular the level of discourse and content will decrease.