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Re: Best online communities for software developers

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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.

Are there any in particular that you recommend?

Re: Best online communities for software developers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. :/

Soon you will be able to read three articles for free each month, more if you register. Anyway here's a list of free icon sets you can use in your projects. Tomorrow I will post 15 best free fonts you could use. Cheers.

Re: Best online communities for software developers

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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,…

On the ops side, /r/selfhosted and /r/homelab often come up in searches with pretty good content. /r/aws is also okay, but there's obviously also a lot of certification and amazon event noise. On the dev side, /r/reactjs as you mentioned is pretty good, and I can't really speak to any other languages right now, since I've been full stack js for over a year now, and /r/node and /r/javascript are not so good.

Re: Best online communities for software developers

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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,…

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Re: Best online communities for software developers

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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,…

as one of those /r/reactjs mods, very happy to hear that we're doing reasonably well! :)

Re: Best online communities for software developers

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http://ebanoe.it for russian speaking folks

In the foreign language vein, are there any for those who speak German?

I'd be interested, too, but I think Germans will always try to adapt to English speaking folks, so I guess no?
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