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There are some other worthwhile tech communities on G+ - just visit https://plus.google.com/communities and do some searches, e.g. for your favorite programming language, platform, or framework.
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That's an alternative, but not a particularly good one, IMO. The Comic Book Guy is strong over there - meaning that a significant number of conversations carry that sort of condescending, unfriendly tone as the Simpson's Comic Book Guy; intending to show that the author is clearly a superior human being due to their knowledge of ARM opcodes and their interaction with GCC or whatever else the subject is. The biggest r…
I'm finding I have to check HN around 10-15 times a day, lest I miss some of the more interesting submissions. I really enjoying a lot of the ShowHN, Startup news, and discussions around programming languages/libraries. I primarily come to HN to learn. This seems to be the place that many clever people congregate to share opinions and ideas. I really just like to listen to what they have to say to each other. However…
https://lobste.rs/ - I am not a member, but it looks very similar
If anyone would like an invite, send me an email or reply here.
Especially after reading a bit about the background, and stumbling on this link on the front page:)
http://pthree.org/2013/05/30/openssh-keys-and-the-drunken-bi...
The content there is MUCH less tech focused, it's more about longform writing, and the comments are superb.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ And many other subreddits besides.
It's interesting to compare the HN[0] and Reddit[1] comments for the same article. The second highest voted comment on Reddit is "this is high levels of bad ass." at 276 points. I guess HN is still far ahead of other communities after all (if you're interested in serious discussion). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5330998 [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/19rzi3/breaking...
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> reddit - here, you have to subscribe to the right mix of subreddits according to your interests Can you recommend some subreddits beside /r/programming and the subreddits mentioned in the sidebar of /r/programming)? I have not found a generic software engineering subreddit (probably without any web development content), which is quite strange.
/r/webdev