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Re: Best online communities for software developers

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Post by Athas »

azemetre wrote: post #18
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,…

/r/programminglanguages has good content. Most of the contributors are hobbyists, and some are just starting out, but there are always good discussions to be had.

Re: Best online communities for software developers

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Post by WanderPanda »

JohnCurran wrote: post #23
somurzakov wrote: post #14

http://ebanoe.it for russian speaking folks

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

Its not directly a community, but the german ubuntuusers wiki [1] has very high quality content whenever it pops up in my search results

[1] https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Startseite/

Re: Best online communities for software developers

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Post by rapnie »

eeZah7Ux wrote: post #19
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.

Agree, and on Matrix as well.

Re: Best online communities for software developers

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Post by mellosouls »

I'm sceptical that there are many (any?) decent "communities" for coders anymore; particularly since the rise of StackOverflow and it's sibling forums.

It used to be the case that niche techs and business domains could provide a rallying point for those heavily-involved where you would see familiar names and could even get to know them a bit.

In the age of million-member fora with much wider scope like the above, that's just not something that is as easy; communities are more difficult to form around a tag.

Re: Best online communities for software developers

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Post by elcapitan »

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…

I think the general rule for reddit is: the more specific the subreddit, the less noise and the better the conversations, not just with tech, but most of them. Once you have people who actually care about something specific, they will maintain the quality of their discourse.
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