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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?
#72It isn't hard to get an invite if you're even partially competent. Then again, it is invite only to keep out the sort of camp following mouth breathers that are taking over HN.
Please don't come here to diss this community while participating in it. That's like littering in a city park while complaining what a mess it is.
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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#73It isn't hard to get an invite if you're even partially competent. Then again, it is invite only to keep out the sort of camp following mouth breathers that are taking over HN.
Please don't come here to diss this community while participating in it. That's like littering in a city park while complaining what a mess it is. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13050127 and marked it off-topic.
There's a difference between dissing HN as a whole, and dissing the growing subset of the userbase that has lowered the technical content of the site and decreased the civility and level of discourse.
That, or you mods aren't doing your job in keeping this site sufficiently attractive to hackers--if you were, threads like this wouldn't be necessary.
The first step to solving a problem dang is admitting you have a problem.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#74Right now the only replies list reddit and lobste.rs. That's really depressing :/ Are there really no other decent online communities out there? I'm increasingly disenfranchised with reddit and lobste.rs is invite-only (not my cup of tea). I've been poking around the various *chans to see if I can brave the noise and chaos in the hope that I'll occasionally find a similar calibre of info as what I find on here.
lainchain has a fairly civil and decent programming board, slanting towards beginners but still friendly.
You shouldn't cut yourself out over "invite-only", especially when the site itself tells you where to get an invite. It's a small speed-bump to keep out folks without basic politeness and problem-solving skills, not some sort of elitist thing.
The cold fact of the matter is that any community that pitches a wide tent and allows for everyone to join and talk about whatever is going to be unable to maintain a good signal-to-noise ratio...communities that wish to avoid that need to remain focused and conscious of what content they want and do not want.
It's possible to say "this is content that doesn't belong here" while at the same time not painting the content or submitter as deplorable.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lainchan is pretty good but also glacially slow. Many threads stay open for years. The level of conversation is reasonably high as long as you stick to specific threads. The /g/ boards of the world are almost universally garbage.
> Lainchan is pretty good but also glacially slow. Many threads stay open for years. No kidding. There are still threads from when I first found the site (2014).
Slowness is a feature, not a bug, right? It helps encourage thoughtful posting and civil discussion. :)
If you want more activity, post relevant and interesting projects and thoughts.
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#76There is https://lobste.rs which is great (not a subreddit but it's very similar)
Signup by invitation only, and having retired before it started I don't know anyone in it who I would feel comfortable asking for one.
Two others in my office read the front page, but quite none of us have yet found invites (not that we've looked hard), but the idea of an invite only community sites feels counter productive
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#77I enjoy http://reddit.com/r/haskell
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
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#79Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#80I wouldn't say these are comparable to HN but r/cableporn and r/welding might be interesting to HN posters.
I also have a soft spot for subs that reveal high craft in unexpected places. r/conduitporn is also on this list.
Thanks for the heads up, I just added it to my list of subs. There are some really great pics on there.