https://lobste.rs/ - I am not a member, but it looks very similar
If anyone would like an invite, send me an email or reply here.
I'd like one too. Email is in my profile. Thanks!
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#92http://www.forrst.com - "A community where developers & designers improve their craft through design feedback."
Yeah, it's gone through changes over the past year, and it's pretty much all but dead. There used to be a decent blend of development/designer articles, but it's completely dominated by design articles now.
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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...
Some would see a liberal use of language and the ability to hold a sense of humor to be civilized traits.
The comment is indeed funny but I don't come on HN to get my daily dose of humour just like I don't go out to a bar to debate the latest HTML5 specs. Yes, I do enjoy humour, drinking and debating HTML5 specs but each has its own time and place.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's an alternative, but not a particularly good one, IMO. The Comic Book Guy is strong over there - meaning that a significant number of conversations carry that sort of condescending, unfriendly tone as the Simpson's Comic Book Guy; intending to show that the author is clearly a superior human being due to their knowledge of ARM opcodes and their interaction with GCC or whatever else the subject is. The biggest r…
> "The Comic Book Guy is strong over there - meaning that a significant number of conversations carry that sort of condescending, unfriendly tone as the Simpson's Comic Book Guy; intending to show that the author is clearly a superior human being" Wait, are we talking about /r/programming or HN? ;) Seriously though, I see a lot of that here, it's frustrating. Lots of rude, condescending ad hominem shit. Lots of Alpha…
Yes, it's not like it's absent here, but there's more of a presumption against it, and the guidelines do ask that the tone is one of talking in person.
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Slashdot is ad-plagued and not at all the techie site it once was, IMHO. You used to get the big names in the field discussing their topics on there. Now it's mostly fanboy flamewars.
It's definitely not the same site it was in 1998, that's for sure. But I've (for whatever reason) been finding myself wandering back over there more and more lately, and I've been surprised to find there's still some good discussion to be had, but - as always - you have to pick around the GNAA stuff and the "In Soviet Russia" stuff or whatever the meme of the day is. It's really too bad, in a way, that the founders o…
> It's definitely not the same site it was in 1998
Part of the problem is it's not the same site it was in 1998. The other problem is it is the same site it was in 1998.
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#99http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ And many other subreddits besides.
I'm a left winger, I even shook Gus Hall's hand.
But for me the people on proggit are too communist. If you show the slightest bit of evidence that you're (at least somewhat) in it for the money, they hit the downvote button hard.