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Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#52There is a very large presence over at Mastodon when it comes to people well versed in web standards. The public discussions are often very lively (in a good way).
yeah check out https://front-end.social - some popular front end dev accounts: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs https://social.lol/@db https://front-end.social/@piccalilli https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000 https://indieweb.social/@addyosmani https://front-end.social/@jensimmons https://mastodon.social/@adactio https://zachleat.com/@zachleat https://front-end.social/@rem https://front-end.social/@chriscoyie…
They're closed for sign-ups, so no way to view their feed :(
But happy to follow those accounts.
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
This still isn’t true for Twitter like platforms like the ones OP mentioned, you see only posts from people you follow, in chronological order. If it’s not on by default, you can very easily turn it on from the main screen, and from my experience it never reverts.
I had the opposite experience with X: it would frequently reset my view to "for you". I ended up writing a tampermonkey script to work around it until I gave up on X altogether-and I do the same for platforms like YouTube. Bluesky, on the other hand, hasn't repeated this problem at all.
Recently started using NewPipe for youtube (since the content error for ubo) and its fantastic, highly recommend. No account needed but can manage subs and playlists better. Puts youtubes anti patterns to shame.
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#54I'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
My experience with IRC has always been the same, including present day libera.
Almost all the channels are dominated by a few terminally-online people with zero emotional intelligence and the biggest god complexes you've ever seen. Everything is black-and-white, and daring to suggest otherwise just gets you attacked.
Some will say "just use /ignore", but that's not very helpful when most conversations always involve said problematic people and their walls of text... you just constantly see one-sided conversations now.
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#55I 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…
HN is hostile to most web dev. About 10% of web dev is acceptable, and the rest is bad for one reason or another.
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#56what I do is: I join discord servers managed by tech/developer youtube content creators. on there you'll find many kinds of people, including experienced developers on basically any topic. and if you don't find anyone interesting, you can just look for and join a different server.
Re: Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s no criticism there. Calling people racists and bots is not criticism, it’s just name calling. There is nothing critical about it.
It was an observation, and a criticism. It was massively reported that Shitter has a huge problem with bots, and was very publicly known when company valuations were happening. And, since the handover to Musk, there has been a documented shift to extreme-right-wing content on the site. I'm not going to beat around the bush. You know as well as I do that X has become the de-facto social media network for extreme-right…
Yes, the quality has gone down, but not much quality can be had in 140 characters in the first place - so it is impressive that it was managed in the first place.
> their users are either racists, bots, or simply garbage people
It is a bit intolerant to go and blanket label a large group of people like that. Sure there are extreme views, but that is what is bound to happen when you have a large amount of users on a platform. So it is on reddit, bluesky, YouTube and what-not. But there are also a lot of milder people.