There are many... But these communities are typically not advertised as such. Generally, you would be invited or referred to by another member.
How did you discover HN?
Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?
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Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?
#32In 2010 I felt at home on Reddit. I felt like a had an entire world to lose myself in. But now Reddit is hollow and glazed over with mindless political dogma and petty drama. Maybe I’m just getting older too and not really impressed by internet videos. I remember r/no sleep being this incredible wellspring of enthusiasm and creativity. I remember people raving about Dr who. Can you imagine Dr who being on half the fr…
"Eternal September" hasn't yet come for urbit; it's probably still february or march over there
Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?
#33In the same vein, any other site that focuses more explicitly on CS only? HN is irreplaceable on that count, you really get sometimes the very creator of the thing chine in, but there are sometimes almost a week going by without any “proper” CS-content (I follow basically every “front page” submission through RSS). https://lobste.rs/ comes to mind, but it has very few comments unfortunately. Maybe a tag system could be great, at least this crude.
Oh, and while we are at it, could we list some tech forums for other languages? I spend way too much time lurking around tech forums, and being forced to use another language might make me actually learn it (German in my case).
Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?
#34The comments here are just as mediocre and repetitive as Reddit, just written in a way to sound more sophisticated
There aren't enough people on HN to bury what Reddit would classify as a "controversial" comment. Reddit has so many people that anything that swims against the swarm would be deeply hidden unless you specifically use apps to filter by controversial (just means downvotes ~= upvotes). Reddit threads usually read like a circle jerk because the size of the hive mind visually drowns out all counters and contrarians.
HN still seems to have a natural disposition for countering, so it's rare to find a thread where everyone is jerking themselves off agreeing with each other. Not to say HN is a beacon for independent thought, but that at the very least there are two or three hive minds that counter each other.
So yeah, we have two opposing circle jerks instead of just one like Reddit.
Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?
#35The comments here are just as mediocre and repetitive as Reddit, just written in a way to sound more sophisticated
Your comment is the same low-quality and trite drivel that makes Reddit the contest hall for minimal effort shitposting. Why do you need to import it here?
Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?
#36In 2010 I felt at home on Reddit. I felt like a had an entire world to lose myself in. But now Reddit is hollow and glazed over with mindless political dogma and petty drama. Maybe I’m just getting older too and not really impressed by internet videos. I remember r/no sleep being this incredible wellspring of enthusiasm and creativity. I remember people raving about Dr who. Can you imagine Dr who being on half the fr…
"Eternal September" hasn't yet come for urbit; it's probably still february or march over there
How do we join Urbit? What can we expect
Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Eternal September" hasn't yet come for urbit; it's probably still february or march over there
How do we join Urbit? What can we expect
Here's an old guide: https://blog.remilia.org/urbit-with-port/
Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?
#38It’s really really hard to find sites like this. You might want to try Metafilter. It’s quite nice. https://www.metafilter.com/
I usually use this: http://bestof.metafilter.com/
Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?
#39I run a website/forum. Probably not as popular as HN but for New Zealand it is a good size. Won't drop link here unless someone asks/says is OK.
Let’s see it!
Re: Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?
#40I came across this 'hacker news as a service' site whilst browsing beta list. Will be interesting to see if it takes off. I'm half tempted to start a Spanish language hacker news just so I can find cool content to practice my Spanish with https://www.hn.plus/?ref=betalist
> I'm half tempted to start a Spanish language hacker news just so I can find cool content to practice my Spanish with
I've been wanting something like this for ages for the same reason!