What are your favourite lesser-known subreddits on any topic?
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My Favorite Software Subreddits
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#22You self-promote your blog too much.
It's very common for people to write an article and share it themselves here. Many of the most-loved HN posts of all time are self-posted articles. How is it different from Show HN?
In this case, there's no financial gain here. It's just an enthusiastic sharing with other enthusiasts. That's among the best things HN does.
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#23I find Reddit to be insufferable when dealing with code, simply because of how terrible a job it does with code. But many of the communities are vibrant and helpful, despite the less than ideal venue. Discord on the other hand is phenomenal.
It does a poor job with code... but I would contend that most of the terrible job that it does is because people don't know how to (or refuse to) pay reasonable attention to what the format of their code is when one looks at the page. A lot of it is a "copy and paste the code and walk away" - not really caring about how it looks when the page is rendered. With Discord (and slack and even teams) the ability to paste a…
It also does the formatting differently between old and new Reddit. So people on new Reddit don't realize that their post looks like garbage for old Reddit users.
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#24I put old. in place of www. in the URLs otherwise I find reddit unusable.
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#25I put old. in place of www. in the URLs otherwise I find reddit unusable.
If you're logged in, having old reddit be the default without the need for a different subdomain is just a setting.
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#26/r/beneater is a nice companion to Ben Eater's YouTube channel. It's mostly people helping others build their 8-bit CPUs and others showing off their improvements and extensions.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does a poor job with code... but I would contend that most of the terrible job that it does is because people don't know how to (or refuse to) pay reasonable attention to what the format of their code is when one looks at the page. A lot of it is a "copy and paste the code and walk away" - not really caring about how it looks when the page is rendered. With Discord (and slack and even teams) the ability to paste a…
Why should everyone have to spend time formatting code for reddit that looked perfectly fine in whatever editor it was copied from? Why can’t reddit just display code properly?
Even HN requires some minimal effort if you want to post code in a way that looks decent. Prefixing lines with 2-4 extra spaces is easy in most decent text editors, and if you don't have a decent text it's not hard to do manually.
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#28I put old. in place of www. in the URLs otherwise I find reddit unusable.
I put teddit.net in place of reddit.com.
I run https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit in a container, and use localhost:9999.
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#29I joined reddit just because of r/selfhosted.
Yeah for amateur takes on how to host anything. More than a few times you see people say to just use managed services and post their "homer homepage" theme.
It's not really a good subreddit.
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#30/r/homelab will lead you down a dark path for your wallet of buying used enterprise gear and self hosting tons of docker based services. I regret nothing.