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Yeah... the problem is that SO is becoming the only place where people hang out, and it's really difficult to find active programming forums nowadays. Except, a
by amenod 8y ago
Yeah... the problem is that SO is becoming the only place where people hang out, and it's really difficult to find active programming forums nowadays. Except, as you say, SO is not a forum, it's a QA site. Which means there is no place left for discussions. While I certainly use SO a lot to find those small bits of missing knowledge, I think it has made search for help (in specific cases) actually much harder.
- lucb1e 8y agoAgreed! I moved to HN and SO after two forums slowly died. I have some friends from those forums, but a chat group is different from a forum with dozens or sometimes hundreds of active topics every day. Not just in activity, but also the kind of things you can talk about. I'm not quite sure what is going to fill this gap. I don't always have a place to post things. Blogging doesn't exactly work without an audience. The mainstream things these days appear to be just chats. There are still forums, mailing lists... heck, there are BBSes but it's niche and hard to find anything that isn't already on the decline.
- eitland 8y agodchuk tried to start https://hackerforums.co https://hackerforums.co earlier this year. It was a nice forum and I really wanted it to succeed and but it seems to have faded out.
- webmaven 8y ago> I'm not quite sure what is going to fill this gap. Reddit?
- collyw 8y agoI always find Reddit fairly poor in terms of what people actually suggest on the technical subreddits that I subscribe to.