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My Favorite Software Subreddits

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Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

#31

/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.

r/DataHoarder is practically guaranteed to take you down a similar path, as well. You have been warned.

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

#32

/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.

r/DataHoarder is practically guaranteed to take you down a similar path, as well. You have been warned.

I have a bunch of shucked 10TB drives in an array in my rack because of that sub.

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

#33

I put old. in place of www. in the URLs otherwise I find reddit unusable.

I put teddit.net in place of reddit.com.

Visiting teddit.com takes me, via a series of redirects, to something serving up spammy-looking advertisements. Curiously, if I do the same with the Firefox dev tools open, that doesn't happen; instead I just get an empty page.

Maybe taking a valid reddit URL and replacing "reddit" with "teddit" produces something useful; I didn't try. But I'm not much inclined to trust this site.

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

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post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I put teddit.net in place of reddit.com.

Visiting teddit.com takes me, via a series of redirects, to something serving up spammy-looking advertisements. Curiously, if I do the same with the Firefox dev tools open, that doesn't happen; instead I just get an empty page. Maybe taking a valid reddit URL and replacing "reddit" with "teddit" produces something useful; I didn't try. But I'm not much inclined to trust this site.

That’s because the replacement is teddit.net instead of teddit.com

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

#35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I find it painful, since I do most of my HN and Reddit from my phone. I write code this way directly from mobile with enough frequency…the main feature I long for is to be able to type code fences with backtick.

Monofaced fonts would be nice, too, so that you could be sure that you’re on the right indentation level as you tap something in.

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

#36

I 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.

I hope communities start moving off of Reddit onto more traditional forums. Yes, having a single login for multiple communities is very convenient, but I think overall it's bad for communities to be tied to the Reddit platform.

I mean I just use Google login everywhere, for better or worse, so that’s not even really an issue.

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

#38
Don't get invested in subreddits. Most of the original mods that cared about their subreddit are gone or have put modlords in their place. A modlord being one that lord's over many subreddits, typically for a financial or social gain, of which you will be banned at the sign of any criticism.

Reddit corporate does not enforce their rules on subreddit mods. It's a show. You can have mods harass you and they'll do nothing. Only go into it with the expectation that this is like any other image board. Make new accounts, use vpn's, else a mod will cry and reddit corporate will treat you you as a felon regardless.

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

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I 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.

Speaking of which -- Are there any communities/servers with a similar feel to HN / r/learnprogramming / etc that you'd recommend?

Kind of new with Discord I admit.

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