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Re: Ask HN: Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?

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Post by rchaud » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 3:17 PM UTC

I don't think it's really possible to have a HN-quality level of moderated discourse on some other site.

People come to sites through a shared interest, so frankly, I wouldn't want to discuss economics and politics on Bodybuilding.com message boards. Nor would I want to discuss say, design, on a politics forum.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?

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Post by jbirer » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 3:35 PM UTC

city-data is quite great for travel related topics.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?

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Post by tomcam » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 4:00 PM UTC

edjw wrote: post #8

I've visited Metafilter every so often which might be what your're looking for https://www.metafilter.com

Openly hostile to those not in close political alignment to them.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?

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Post by smsm42 » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 4:45 PM UTC

Move37 wrote: post #6

Reddit is the best place outside HN that works similar for a lot of niches. But HN is still the best forum

The quality of discussion there is orders of magnitude lower. Also, any topics having anything to do with current politics/culture wars are tribally segregated and heavily censored. For some niches that managed to avoid CW entirely there's some good content there though.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?

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Post by m0llusk » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 5:10 PM UTC

Blade forums for cutlery.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?

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Post by danjoredd » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 6:43 PM UTC

hardwaresofton wrote: post #7

julianlam wrote: post #5

What you're asking for is a community for a niche concept, activity, or hobby. What you're really looking for is a forum. A bulletin board, to use the outdated parlance. They still exist, although there is still a lot of hand-wringing over whether forums are "dying" or not. Long form journalism won't go away, long form discussion won't go away either.

> They still exist, although there is still a lot of hand-wringing over whether forums are "dying" or not. My understanding has been that forums aren't dead -- the centralized, fast-food version of the forum, reddit has just won out for the usual reasons. What sets HN apart is it's moderation/curation. It feels like the HN hivemind is still smarter than me so I learn a bunch when I'm here, and people try to argue in…

There are also quite a few forums for different subjects around, I find. You just have to know what you want and where to look for it. The three forums I spend the most time on are Sinister.ly, survivalistforums, and melonland

Re: Ask HN: Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?

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Post by anonomousename » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 9:22 PM UTC

rchaud wrote: post #11

I don't think it's really possible to have a HN-quality level of moderated discourse on some other site. People come to sites through a shared interest, so frankly, I wouldn't want to discuss economics and politics on Bodybuilding.com message boards. Nor would I want to discuss say, design, on a politics forum.

Whenever I see the bodybuilding.com forum, I always think of this and crack up about it.

https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

Re: Ask HN: Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?

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Post by bergenty » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 10:14 PM UTC

ElevenLathe wrote: post #4

The Something Awful forums have lots of interest-based subforums for things like woodworking, wrenching on cars, etc., that are generally high signal-to-noise.

SomethingAwful is amazing and I’m sad that beauty was outvolumed by 4chan like entities.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?

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Post by mattpallissard » Fri, Oct 14, 2022, 11:56 PM UTC

anonomousename wrote: post #17

rchaud wrote: post #11

I don't think it's really possible to have a HN-quality level of moderated discourse on some other site. People come to sites through a shared interest, so frankly, I wouldn't want to discuss economics and politics on Bodybuilding.com message boards. Nor would I want to discuss say, design, on a politics forum.

Whenever I see the bodybuilding.com forum, I always think of this and crack up about it. https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

This was better than expected.