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I agree with that observation when it comes to reddit. But it makes me wonder why HN still contains a high signal to noise ratio despite not having subforums.
The design is a big deterrent to that. HN isn't remotely similar to any modern social media or forums.
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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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?
Any good communities (not on reddit) for Electrical/Computer Engineers? Things like HDL, Embedded, VLSI, General Electronics?
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/ is pretty decent
The section that I did find ("Security and Cryptography" in "General Programming") seemed more geared towards crypto - there was even a subsection for Steganography (?!). I actually think this is a bit concerning given that C++ is one of the most discussed languages on the platform...
EDIT: There is actually a Web Security section, but none for desktop development (or any other section, including development lifecycle)
Telegram is surprisingly good. My entry point to the Telegram rabbit hole was the Android development community, and I've found quite a few people who are willing to discuss stuff. We also have a lot of fun.