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Re: Best online communities for software developers

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Post by packetlost »

silicon2401 wrote: post #5
neom wrote: post #2

I thought everyone was using dev.to these days?

I used to use dev.to a lot, they definitely do great community building, at least as of a couple of years ago. Aren't they more aimed towards beginners?

Yeah. They have some settings to set what type of articles/posts you see, but it's very beginner web-dev centric. I stopped going there awhile ago because I wasn't finding anything there for me. IMO it's a very, very good replacement for Medium as a blogging/long-form writing platform, but content discoverability is lacking.

Re: Best online communities for software developers

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Post by viridian »

I don't think reddit is a good use of a programmer's time these days if you are seeking community. There are a few exceptional subreddits, but /r/programming, /r/learnprogramming, /r/webdev, and /r/compsci all have a low signal:noise ratio because all of them are majority undergrads or professionals who have under a year in the field. As other people have noted in this thread, dev.to has the same problem.

I haven't found a great answer for the question of community these days, outside of checking in on the blogs and newsletters of various developers. I'll have to check Code Project out though.

Re: Best online communities for software developers

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Post by monkin »

rayrag wrote: post #10
neom wrote: post #2

I thought everyone was using dev.to these days?

dev.to is new medium.com

Yes, agree with that. It was nice at the beginning, like most of this kind communities. But with popularity and lack of moderation comes huge amount of low-effort content from beginners to beginners and PR pieces by corporates.

In the last few months there’s even steady amount of posts with “Come and see my YouTube” kind of approach, which is tragic. :/

Re: Best online communities for software developers

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Post by azemetre »

viridian wrote: post #15

I don't think reddit is a good use of a programmer's time these days if you are seeking community. There are a few exceptional subreddits, but /r/programming, /r/learnprogramming, /r/webdev, and /r/compsci all have a low signal:noise ratio because all of them are majority undergrads or professionals who have under a year in the field. As other people have noted in this thread, dev.to has the same problem. I haven't f…

Would you mind sharing what the exception communities are? I've found some really insightful comments in /r/javascript from the creators of selenium for example; but the noise to signal is very low as you mentioned. /r/reactjs is another decent community as the maintainers do post in the comments.

I like /r/coding but it's pretty dead and sometimes /r/scala will have decent blog posts. Also /r/hnblogs is very decent, but extremely slow, for insightful posts as well.

Re: Best online communities for software developers

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Post by eeZah7Ux »

shae wrote: post #4

I expected to see IRC communities as well. Is there a collection of communities that aren't hosted by corporations?

There's plenty of interesting places on IRC, mailing list, XMPP, Mastodon.

Downvote me to hell, but best communities I hang out in are far from shiny/hip/popular, and this is why they are good.

Re: Best online communities for software developers

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Post by quyleanh »

ktkoffroth wrote: post #9

Any good communities (not on reddit) for Electrical/Computer Engineers? Things like HDL, Embedded, VLSI, General Electronics?

You can try https://www.edaboard.com/

> EDAboard.com is an international Electronic Discussion Forum focused on EDA software, circuits, schematics, books, theory, papers, asic, pld, 8051, DSP, Network, RF, Analog Design, PCB, Service Manuals... and a whole lot more!

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