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?
#62* Barnacl.es
* aesi.news (defunct)
* DnE
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#63For bootstrapped startup talk, I like http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
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#64Right 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.
Unfortunately there's not much on the chans either. The ones I used to browse have generally been overtaken, even on tech/programming boards with threads complaining about diversity or they are thinly-veiled alt-right recruitment posts. I haven't been there for a while, but Lainchan isn't all that bad. Quite slow, though.
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.
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#65It 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.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks, I appreciate the offer, but 4 people beat you to it by private email, 3 within 30 minutes.... When I've peeked in on e.g. the lisp subforum, it looked to be quite good, although that was a while ago, too frustrating to contemplate engaging without being able to be part of the conversation (which, I again emphasize, is an entirely legitimate method to avoid a variety of problems).
The community is mostly technical people with a large focus on programming, operations, and hackery. Fewer people comment on articles but the comments are lower noise on average. In a discussion on community standards, one of the veterans explained what the site should and shouldn't be about. I think the post represents what I've seen on the page & in the comments pretty well. Also, we have invitation trees instead o…
The lobste.rs link is fantastic. The level of discourse it reflects is refreshing. Thanks for sharing!
Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#67Literally nothing. Reddit is a cesspool and especially when it comes to technical topics it is absolutely abysmal. Most of the people spouting off opinions about technical topics on Reddit are totally unqualified to do so. People who work as cashiers at Taco Bell writing diatribes about Ruby vs PHP, etc.
What are the qualifications for having an opinion on a technical topic? Ever since Reddit introduced subreddits, it has become a very dynamic place. Many moderators cultivate behavior similar to how it's done here on HN. Lots of subreddits are gems of community and threads like this are a great way to index those valuable parts.
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#68Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately there's not much on the chans either. The ones I used to browse have generally been overtaken, even on tech/programming boards with threads complaining about diversity or they are thinly-veiled alt-right recruitment posts. I haven't been there for a while, but Lainchan isn't all that bad. Quite slow, though.
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).
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#70Literally nothing. Reddit is a cesspool and especially when it comes to technical topics it is absolutely abysmal. Most of the people spouting off opinions about technical topics on Reddit are totally unqualified to do so. People who work as cashiers at Taco Bell writing diatribes about Ruby vs PHP, etc.
Is HN and the Twitter/Medium/blog spehere different? We get devs with 0-3 years experience and no desire to look into past art writing with an authoritative tone all the time.