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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by sotojuan »

angersock wrote: post #75
sotojuan wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Right, which is why I like Lobsters. The pace of Lainchan though is a bit too slow, even when I try to post. It's not that the content is bad, it's just that there's so little of it I eventually forget to check the site.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by thewhitetulip »

sethammons wrote: post #40
homarp wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036890

As a summary for those who are unaware: a (now former) mod of that subreddit, who is a major Go contributor, called for the deletion (or the discussion there of) of the subreddit due to the actions of the Reddit CEO. He did so believing that the subreddit was an official communication channel. Upon learning that it was community started, he changed his opinion. Many are very offended.

Yes, very offended. see my comments here

Just to see how friendly /r/golang is, check my experience as a newcomer on google group and on /r/golang

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041938

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by Neeek »

sotojuan wrote: post #68
endisukaj wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The level of discussion is not as high as here though IMO.

My experiences with the subreddit have been negative. For some reason, most comments are very negative and bitter for no good reason.

Wait are we talking about r/programming or HN here???

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by tnone »

misotaur wrote: post #2

/r/truereddit Just interesting stories and essays,a lot like HN but slower(and no show my program threads)

Unfortunately that sub is as politically left as it can get. Downvotes galore if you dare to disagree with the agenda of identity politics.

Best part: they upvoted and agreed with NPR that lefties are impervious to fake news and can quickly spot it because of their superior reasoning skills.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by shostack »

/r/ppc, /r/adops and /r/analytics

These three tend to have a pretty high signal-to-noise ratio, particularly when asking very advanced and technical questions.

From personal interactions I can vouch for there being many senior to exec level industry folks from a healthy mix of ad tech companies, networks, agencies, brands, etc. on both the buy and sell side.

Everyone is pretty friendly, so while asking basic questions might just get you a link to go RTFM (and really the official docs are often the best starting point...) everyone is pretty friendly and helpful.

Great for those trying to learn more about digital media and analytics all the way up to people with questions or who want to chat about stuff in the industry like header bidding, attribution, enterprise analytics troubleshooting, etc.

And the best part is since we all are living and breathing advertising for a living, we have a pretty low tolerance for blatant sales plugs and content marketing spam like on some other subs.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by ergot »

i336_ wrote: post #9

Right 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.

> I've been poking around the various *chans to see if I can brave the noise and chaos

Make Overchan one of your hops, there's a huge updated list of chans there:

https://www.1ch.us/

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by ergot »

yoodenvranx wrote: post #43
i336_ wrote: post #9

Right 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.

> lobste.rs is invite-only (not my cup of tea). I visited lobste.rs once, liked what I saw, realized it was invite only and then I never went back there.

> realized it was invite only

Send a PM to the creator Joshua Stein asking for a invite link then?

https://twitter.com/jcs

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?

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Post by ergot »

hga wrote: post #4
dorianm wrote: post #3

There 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.

Pop a PM to the creator Joshua Stein asking for a invite link then?

https://twitter.com/jcs

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