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Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
- webmaven 10y agoNeeds an "Ask HN:" in the title.
- rms_returns 10y agoI tried doing that in the first place, but it goes above 80 characters!
- grzm 10y agoYou could shorten your title: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all content, no frills discussion sites like HN?
- anthony_franco 10y agohttps://barnacl.es/ https://barnacl.es/ is similar but targeted to self-funded founders
- jacalata 10y agohttp://metafilter.com http://metafilter.com
- akvadrako 10y agoI just visited and the top post this month is http://www.metafilter.com/163757/Emotions-are-Work http://www.metafilter.com/163757/Emotions-are-Work, which was the most anti-male comments I've been exposed to in a while. The name meta filter implies to me this site wanted to be somewhat neutral and open-ended, but my impression so far is it's become dominated by SJW types, which is going to make it unreadable by me.
- magic_beans 10y agoThen don't read it.
- 3131s 10y agoJust quickly browsing through it, I didn't see anything anti-male. It did strike me that there are many female posters there. Can you point out what you mean specifically?
- akvadrako 10y agoHow about the first sentence, "Women are expected to regulate the emotions of men as well as themselves." And the first comment, "Anyhow — men who don’t understand their entire emotional range are prone to anger because they can’t meet their own needs." And the 2nd comment, "I also wonder if that guy wonders if his girlfriends ever had to hire sex workers to manage their emotional needs before they met him." I don't understand how you can't see it's a one-sided echo chamber.
- pessimizer 10y agoWhat exactly do you object to in any of those three sentences as being sexist? I don't understand what anti-male means to you.
- akvadrako 10y agoThey are implying that women are better than men.
- philipov 10y agoThere is a type of person who is so oblivious to the plight of others, he thinks any criticism of his privilege[0] is a form of sexism. That is what anti-male means to them. [0]: (The luxury to be oblivious is itself a manifestation of privilege.)
- antisthenes 10y agoYou must be trolling. The entire thread is women finding reasons in everything but themselves at all the possible plights in real life. Also the idea that women are emotionally regulating 2 people in most relationships is such nonsense that it doesn't even deserve discussion.
- ropeladder 10y agoIt's true that anyone who dismisses people as 'SJW types' is probably going to experience a lot of cognitive dissonance reading metafilter. Metafilter has a lot of female users that feel safe expressing their opinion and telling their experiences. Not to rag on HN, because generally the discussions here are pretty respectful, but gender diversity at metafilter is one thing I really value about the site.
- pessimizer 10y agoIf that's one of the most anti-male comments that you've been exposed to in a while, the internet is a safe space for men. It seemed to me more of a rationalization for the behavior of abusive men; that the reason they're abusive is because they haven't been "regulated" enough, not because they're selfish, or stupid, or enjoy hurting people. It seems the kind of excuse that women make to excuse men, and to excuse themselves staying with abusive men.
- akvadrako 10y agoI think you make a good point, but just to clarify, I wasn't saying the story was very anti-male. It's that most of the highly rated comments are complaining about men as a group. Maybe a better phrasing is the highest volume of anti-male comments I've seen in a while.
- redsummer 10y agoMF is a pay-to-post site, so it is skewed towards people who will pay. It's the same as those small elite colleges where people will study something impractical for an exhorbitant fee. You would only pay if you agreed with whatever the orthodoxy is. And it becomes self-selecting, and self-perpetuating. The people on MF are the sort of people who would say "OMG I can't believe anyone voted for Trump, because nobody I know did"
- grzm 10y agoMF has a one-time sign-up fee of $5.[0] It's a method of making it less likely that people create fake accounts and for members to value their accounts more. There are some people for whom this fee is beyond what they can pay. For many people, it's a cup of coffee or two, or a beer at a local bar. Yes, it has a gating effect. It'd be interesting to do a more formal study to compare the discussions there with other sites, such as HN, lobste.rs (invite-only), or Reddit. [0]: http://www.metafilter.com/faq.mefi#1 http://www.metafilter.com/faq.mefi#1
- silvaben 10y agoInbound.org For those interested in Marketing, SEO, Sales etc.
- Numberwang 10y agoreddit.com is a popular one.
- witty_username 10y agoNo, it has tons of fillers and memes.
- ihaveahadron 10y agoReddit was hn , about 15 years ago now
- otalp 10y agoEverybody knows you stay away from the defaults and stay on the smaller subreddits. There are a lot of small, specialized subs that have a great community.
- h1d 10y agoAny examples?
- suby 10y agoI'm not OP, but https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ is a good example.
- dfc 10y agoSadly, it seems it is also the only example. Can you name four or five other subreddits that come close? I always felt like vommiting when I saw people recommend /r/woodworking, but I couldn't figure out why. I was reading an unrelated critique of /r/fitness one day and somebody summed up my feelings about /r/woodworking perfectly "/r/_______ is a bunch of beginners masquerading as experts."
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- qwertyuiop924 10y agoLainchan usually gets the mention at this point.
- crncosta 10y agoLobsters https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
- colinbartlett 10y agoI enjoy reading Lobsters, but the invite-only nature of it has had me sidelined as a passive observer for years and that's frustrating.
- jayrox 10y agoI love lobste.rs but I do have one complaint: The Tags, metadata and noise around the topic titles makes it difficult to scan for interesting topics. HN is so easy to just look down the list and find something interesting to read or discuss.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoHonestly if you can find some good communities on Slack those are usually great. Unfortunately I don't have any recommendations as I only have private slack teams but if anyone has recommendations that are popular that would be pretty awesome. A hacker news team would be fantastic!
- akvadrako 10y agoHow could anybody find a community on Slack? Are they listed somewhere?
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoI've seen them posted online. But it would be pretty interesting if there were a way to discover public teams.
- onembk 10y agoLate to the party, but http://www.slacklist.info/ http://www.slacklist.info/
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoWell look at that, thanks!
- mynewtb 10y agoHobbyist-hosted niche community forums.
- rmccawl 10y agohttps://pinboard.in/popular/ https://pinboard.in/popular/
- dfc 10y agoWhere is the discussion?
- lisivka 10y agonntp
- k__ 10y agoI like the topic boards of 4chan. The general stuff like /b/, /r9k/ and /pol/ is pretty crappy. But stuff like /fit/ helped me a lot. No voting karma crap, just anons posting stuff, read what you like, hide what you hate. the end.
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- djmobley 10y agoAgreed. 4chan is a nice antidote to all the karma whoring and gaming of Reddit.
- hclivess 10y agono-frills? hahahaha. yeah, sure. "why wont you marry the right person" etc. top articles.
- campbellmorgan 10y agoI've always thought that a simple HN-like site directed at those of us interested in art, critical theory and literature would be wonderful. Does anybody know of one? I would be interested in helping set one up... One of the difficulties is that artists and academics tend to be very protective of interesting sources as I think intellectual individuality is much more of a currency than in the tech world.
- mubub 10y agoI would be interested in this. I come from an art background and many people use aldaily.com to get a sort of curated collection of articles. But adding the voting from HN would be interesting. That said, you are right that academics are protective. Much of what they are actually interested in is pay-walled as well.
- NicoJuicy 10y agoI once created a HN like alternative - http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/ http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/ - Has Tags - Reputation - Votes used as favorites - Permission based roles ( not everyone can see all tags), according to tags --> custom roles or permissions on the topics. - Personal tag header ( you can pick which tag you want to show in your menu) - Custom tag based posts ( eg. when you add the tag newsletter, it adds 1 text input named subject, 1 textarea with Html and 1 textarea with text). - You can hide tags showing, so it's only used as data - ... I could add paywall to it, if a post contains a tag named " paywall" The demo is currently in Dutch though ( titles). For anyone who wants to try: Demo1:123456 ( user : pass) -- http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/Account/Login?returnUrl= http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/Account/Login?returnUrl= It's not completely finished though
- webmaven 10y agoYou should post this as a "Show HN:".
- campbellmorgan 10y agoThanks for the aldaily heads-up! Going on my bookmarks. If you don't already know it, http://conversations.e-flux.com/ http://conversations.e-flux.com/ is also a pretty decent semi-curated list. In terms of setting one up, lobste.rs is open source (https://github.com/jcs/lobsters https://github.com/jcs/lobsters) and could be a good candidate for a starting point...
- rini17 10y agohttps://soylentnews.org/ https://soylentnews.org/ is slashdot clone, but tidier.
- sturza 10y agothis could look better
- bane 10y agoPick a topic, find the subreddit for it. If you don't like the vibe there, make your own subreddit and moderate it -- or offer to help mod the primary and let them know it's because you want to change the vibe -- lots of mods really don't have the time to do a great job. Go advertise your "just like /r/floobinart but with more zimbledings" sub everywhere to get people to come to it.
- IanCal 10y agoIf people haven't tried looking for smaller subreddits or more controlled subreddits then I'd highly encourage them to. Reddit may have a huge amount of low effort content and frankly highly disturbing content, but some of the subreddits are absolutely fantastic. I'm not really into history but https://reddit.com/r/askhistorians https://reddit.com/r/askhistorians is a treasure trove of fascinating information, with well sourced and detailed answers to the kind of questions non-history buffs might want to ask. Reddit, with good moderation, is a world apart from what you see if you visit the main page. On a side note, it's also a great place to go and see discussions around things you highly disagree with. It might help to understand the motivations of "the other side".
- bane 10y agoIt's important to think of reddit more like a new Usenet. It's a collection of communities, not one monolithic thing. You find the ones you like and discard the rest. Something like HN could theoretically just be a /r/HN (in fact there is a Hackernews subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews/ https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews/).
- areyousure 10y agoI don't know about the quality of moderation in r/AskHistorians however. I read a recent answer there whose first sentence was the opposite of reality. Thinking of how I could demonstrate this easily and effectively, where any person could follow up easily and see what's right, I posted a comment saying it contradicted the second sentence of the Wikipedia article on the topic. My comment was automatically banned by the auto-moderator because it had a link to Wikipedia and no other links. I tried reading the subreddit rules before posting, but it's pretty hard to find this rule -- indeed, it is not explicitly stated as far as I can tell.
- louthy 10y agohttp://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
- amorroxic 10y agodatatau.com is a good hn-like source for most things AI/data
- MrJagil 10y agoI'd love one for music production. Muffwiggler is the best so far, but it's just an old school messageboard. All the subreddits seem overly focused on EDM, and entirely without the scientific vibe that HN has.
- lwhalen 10y agoI've heard that Gearslutz is quite good for music production, although I haven't spent much time there myself.
- aban 10y agohttps://freepo.st/ https://freepo.st/
- mopper51 10y agoyeah I also read it regularly, and highly recommend it if you're into free/libre software
- AmitJS 10y agoI spent two hours yesterday watching and reading the top posts from https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/top/ https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/top/ Also these subreddits have interesting content : r/science , r/interestingasfuck , r/space , r/food , r/travel , r/earthporn , r/coolgithubprojects , r/iama etc
- sunilkumarc 10y agoReddit!
- karimf 10y agoLooking at the alternatives on this thread, I'm glad I've been procrastinating on the right website.
- wagecuck 10y agohttp://autoadmit.com http://autoadmit.com
- rms_returns 10y agoTo answer my own question, I've found voat.co to be a good alternative to reddit. The community is small, but the content is about as great as HN or some good quality sub-reddits.
- lisivka 10y agohttps://top.st/us/day/news https://top.st/us/day/news
- astrodev 10y agohttps://www.physicsforums.com https://www.physicsforums.com - for, well, physics.