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Ask HN: What's the best forum-based community you've been a part of, and why?
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#2Thumpertalk
Incredibly useful for DIY dirt bike repair, threads often have step by step instructions with photographs. Motorcycle people are generally very nice unlike some of the car forums I've used.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best forum-based community you've been a part of, and why?
#3Whenever I am stuck with a photography problem I ask at
and usually people there get me unstuck very quickly and I learn a lot from other photogs. The exception is in stereography and light field photography where there aren't that many people who know about it and even those who do a little don't understand the fundamentals well. But for ordinary things like taking flower pictures and sports photography (my main thing these days) it amazing.
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#4Techlore Discussions
Self-described as, "a home for reasonable privacy and security discussions" — which I find to be good description. It was formerly a Matrix + Discord community, but transitioned to a forum as it's a more productive medium for discussions.
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#5It was a long time ago, in a galaxy far away…during a more civilized age…
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#6Warbeatz/Futureproducers/gearslutz: just music producer stuff.
Fun times.
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#7It’s still August there. I’m not telling.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best forum-based community you've been a part of, and why?
#8eevblog, vogons. Both full of enthusiast, subject matter filters out casuals.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best forum-based community you've been a part of, and why?
#9It’s still August there. I’m not telling.
This is the only correct answer.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best forum-based community you've been a part of, and why?
#10Whenever I am stuck with a photography problem I ask at https://www.dpreview.com/ and usually people there get me unstuck very quickly and I learn a lot from other photogs. The exception is in stereography and light field photography where there aren't that many people who know about it and even those who do a little don't understand the fundamentals well. But for ordinary things like taking flower pictures and sport…
Has it changed much after the Amazon acquisition, or later, after the almost-shutdown?