Ask HN: Great online communities?

It's a great question. I also would love to unearth an intelligent community where discourse isn't limited to growth hacking, jQuery plugins, and startup pivoting. HN is the closet I get, but people here tend not to take intellectual risks and experiment with creating new thought paradigms.

Don't get me wrong, there are some tremendously bright people here who I learn a lot from. but the Reddit-esque social dynamics (ie, karma, hivemind,) tend to put safety pads on anything remotely radical or risky discussed here. Quora can actually have some pretty interesting content, but, again, there's similar reputation management going on that prevents discourse from elevating to being somewhat interesting and important.

Re: Ask HN: Great online communities?

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Post by eecks » Fri, Mar 11, 2016, 10:53 PM UTC

sideproject wrote: post #3

http://www.datatau.com/ - for data scientists https://www.designernews.co/ - for designers http://www.webdesignernews.com/ - for web designers https://growthhackers.com/welcome - growthhackers Then of course there's a sleuth of subreddits.... similar to HN would be https://www.reddit.com/r/startup If you are looking for something different, there is a tool that lets you create online communities like HN or Reddit, so…

I wonder why datatau went with the Hacker News format. It's pretty awful

Re: Ask HN: Great online communities?

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Post by Mz » Sat, Mar 12, 2016, 8:24 PM UTC

l33tbro wrote: post #4

It's a great question. I also would love to unearth an intelligent community where discourse isn't limited to growth hacking, jQuery plugins, and startup pivoting. HN is the closet I get, but people here tend not to take intellectual risks and experiment with creating new thought paradigms. Don't get me wrong, there are some tremendously bright people here who I learn a lot from. but the Reddit-esque social dynamics…

http://www.metafilter.com/

Also, the social dynamics here are not fixed. They can and do change over time. It is possible to participate with an eye towards fostering change of a sort you would like to see.