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Ask HN: Great online communities?

15 points by ApplaudPumice 11y ago

It would be nice to have some thing like HN and maybe not so USA-centric.

sibizavic 11y ago
Noodlio - the community-driven marketplace for app development. You decide what can be exchanged and at what price. More on www.noodl.io
sideproject 11y ago
http://www.datatau.com/ http://www.datatau.com/ - for data scientists https://www.designernews.co/ https://www.designernews.co/ - for designers http://www.webdesignernews.com/ http://www.webdesignernews.com/ - for web designers https://growthhackers.com/welcome https://growthhackers.com/welcome - growthhackers Then of course there's a sleuth of subreddits.... similar to HN would be https://www.reddit.com/r/startup https://www.reddit.com/r/startup If you are looking for something different, there is a tool that lets you create online communities like HN or Reddit, so you can create your own. http://www.hellobox.co http://www.hellobox.co Quite a few communities on it are http://www.chitchats.co/ http://www.chitchats.co/ - community to share interesting Slack chatrooms http://tools.robingood.com/ http://tools.robingood.com/ - curated list of tech tools
- eecks 11y ago
  I wonder why datatau went with the Hacker News format. It's pretty awful
l33tbro 11y ago
It's a great question. I also would love to unearth an intelligent community where discourse isn't limited to growth hacking, jQuery plugins, and startup pivoting. HN is the closet I get, but people here tend not to take intellectual risks and experiment with creating new thought paradigms. Don't get me wrong, there are some tremendously bright people here who I learn a lot from. but the Reddit-esque social dynamics (ie, karma, hivemind,) tend to put safety pads on anything remotely radical or risky discussed here. Quora can actually have some pretty interesting content, but, again, there's similar reputation management going on that prevents discourse from elevating to being somewhat interesting and important.
- Mz 11y ago
  http://www.metafilter.com/ http://www.metafilter.com/ Also, the social dynamics here are not fixed. They can and do change over time. It is possible to participate with an eye towards fostering change of a sort you would like to see.

15 points by ApplaudPumice 11y ago

It would be nice to have some thing like HN and maybe not so USA-centric.

Noodlio - the community-driven marketplace for app development. You decide what can be exchanged and at what price. More on www.noodl.io

sideproject 11y ago

http://www.datatau.com/ http://www.datatau.com/ - for data scientists https://www.designernews.co/ https://www.designernews.co/ - for designers http://www.webdesignernews.com/ http://www.webdesignernews.com/ - for web designers https://growthhackers.com/welcome https://growthhackers.com/welcome - growthhackers Then of course there's a sleuth of subreddits.... similar to HN would be https://www.reddit.com/r/startup https://www.reddit.com/r/startup If you are looking for something different, there is a tool that lets you create online communities like HN or Reddit, so you can create your own. http://www.hellobox.co http://www.hellobox.co Quite a few communities on it are http://www.chitchats.co/ http://www.chitchats.co/ - community to share interesting Slack chatrooms http://tools.robingood.com/ http://tools.robingood.com/ - curated list of tech tools

eecks 11y ago
I wonder why datatau went with the Hacker News format. It's pretty awful

l33tbro 11y ago

It's a great question. I also would love to unearth an intelligent community where discourse isn't limited to growth hacking, jQuery plugins, and startup pivoting. HN is the closet I get, but people here tend not to take intellectual risks and experiment with creating new thought paradigms. Don't get me wrong, there are some tremendously bright people here who I learn a lot from. but the Reddit-esque social dynamics (ie, karma, hivemind,) tend to put safety pads on anything remotely radical or risky discussed here. Quora can actually have some pretty interesting content, but, again, there's similar reputation management going on that prevents discourse from elevating to being somewhat interesting and important.

Mz 11y ago
http://www.metafilter.com/ http://www.metafilter.com/ Also, the social dynamics here are not fixed. They can and do change over time. It is possible to participate with an eye towards fostering change of a sort you would like to see.