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Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

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Post by justifier » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 6:54 AM UTC

linuxquestions.org

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/

you can ask whatever questions you want, and even ask a half formed question and eventually work out an answer through a back and forth

the community is great, and will happily help with the whole spectrum of questions from broad discussions to very specific individual software issues

i found offering an opinion in other peoples' questions to be as equally rewarding as asking my own

i linked to the programming forum above, but they have a bunch of great forums.. check out some of the other ones where you might have, or want to have, an overlap in interest:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/

Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

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Post by charlesism » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 5:05 PM UTC

kazinator wrote: post #11

charlesism wrote: post #9

As far as I know, the internet lacks an adequate solution for this. If it existed, it would have enough users that we would all already know about it. Instead there's just a fragmented bunch of relatively small forums, group chats, mailing lists, etc.

The Internet solved this very nicely more than thirty years ago with a protocol called NNTP connecting article servers to form a network called Usenet. The traffic is pretty low on Usenet these days. You can blame your aforementioned fragmentation for that. People would rather write to walled gardens. The idea of using special client to connect a server is somewhat alien to the generation that equates the Internet wi…

In its heyday Usenet worked fairly well. The major advantage of a site like SO, is that it tends to have less repetition. The same questions on Usenet came up over and over again. On SO, the memory hole is smaller.

Re: Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

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Post by DanBC » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 5:10 PM UTC

speeder wrote: post #15

kazinator wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Internet solved this very nicely more than thirty years ago with a protocol called NNTP connecting article servers to form a network called Usenet. The traffic is pretty low on Usenet these days. You can blame your aforementioned fragmentation for that. People would rather write to walled gardens. The idea of using special client to connect a server is somewhat alien to the generation that equates the Internet wi…

When I tried to poke around, what I found is lots of expensive clients and no obvious gratuitous alternative, except for some time, Google groups

tin, slrn, or pan are good free clients.

http://tin.org/

http://www.slrn.org/

http://pan.rebelbase.com/