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Genuine question: what are some other communities on the internet that have a quality level similar to HN? I have really enjoyed this site and want to find one
by elamje 7y ago
Genuine question: what are some other communities on the internet that have a quality level similar to HN? I have really enjoyed this site and want to find one or two others.
- darkkindness 7y agohttps://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/ is a very similar community to HN. The catch is that registration is invite-only. By the way, if a lobsters user is reading this, I would love an invite :)
- muppetman 7y agoEdit: I will not be replying to anymore requests. Sorry! (was: Provide me with a way to contact you and I will.)
- darkkindness 7y agooh my, sure! [email removed]
- muppetman 7y agoDone.
- darkkindness 7y agoCheers!
- halcar 7y agoHi, could I get an invite too? halcar@firemail.cc
- muppetman 7y agoSorry, I am not inviting an account that's 10 minutes old with no HN comment history. Hope you understand.
- MegaButts 7y agoSorry to pile on here, but I would also appreciate an invite.
- muppetman 7y agoDone
- MegaButts 7y agoThank you!
- Charlie_26 7y agoWould you mind inviting me? cfin @ secure email based in Switzerland dot com
- laszlokorte 7y agoI would be interested in an invite as well. [removed email]
- muppetman 7y agoDone
- mabcat 7y agoCan I pile on too? Cheers!
- elamje 7y agoHey muppetman, I would appreciate an invite too. twitter dm @elamje
- muppetman 7y agoDM sent.
- elboru 7y agoI’ll appreciate one too, elboru at hotmail.com
- pgl 7y agoDone.
- kzzzznot 7y agoIf you’re willing to open it back up I’d appreciate an invite :) <removed> [at]<removed>
- jml7c5 7y agoTo be frank, lobste.rs seems like the same content as Hacker News + /r/programming, but with fewer people commenting.
- nickpsecurity 7y agoIt's more focused on actual tech. It's also gotten more like those sites since people have invited more people from those sites that I can tell. It's definitely changed a bit over past few years. One of its continued strengths is the number of useful or deep articles in tech combined with a high number of people in the community that write them. The audience is pretty passive. We have some people who steadily have good insights and submissions on specific topics. Then, there are some that show up out of nowhere with whopper comments you won't find in other places. They avoid high-traffic/noise sites like HN. So, you only see them on places like that. So, I read both the orange and red sites. :)
- vs4vijay 7y agoHey, Could you invite me? email is my username at google's mailing service.
- pgl 7y agoDone.
- amelius 7y agoAre cross-posts happening between the two?
- dv35z 7y agoI'd appreciate an invite if anyone is willing to share out (and is still reading this thread). Thank you!
- thedevelopnik 7y agoI would also love an invite from some awesome person :).
- shiftpgdn 7y agoAs crazy as it is, the somethingawful forums have remained relatively good (give or take) over the last 20 years. I semi-chalk it up to the fact that the average age of the forum users is around 30-35 years old.
- enraged_camel 7y agoThe main thing that has kept SA high quality is the $10 registration fee. It sounds like a small amount but I get the impression that it filters out the vast majority of shitty trolls. On top of that, if your account gets banned then you have to pay the $10 fee again, so if you’re a repeat offender then it gets expensive fast.
- CriticalCathed 7y agoI really don't think SA after around 2010-12 and before that period are the same. Vastly different communities inhabiting the same body. I was on site in 2003 and I despise what its become. As always, hope u got 10bux...
- unixhero 7y agoThe What.CD forums were stellar. Oh well.
- arpa 7y agoLoss of what.cd was somewhat like burning of alexandria library. So much lost, never to be recovered...
- mongol 7y agoWhat could you find there?
- nitrogen 7y agoIt was approaching all music in all formats, ever.
- unixhero 7y agoFormats yes, but more importantly for music fans and audiophiles, all mediums!
- r3bl 7y agoIt was an invite-only torrent tracker. What set it apart was its size. Any song you could think of, in any format you could think of. You could find lossless music that there's 0 chance that you could find anywhere else (legally or not).
- unixhero 7y agoArtists launched their own albums there first and became famous, the so called "Vanity house". An example of an artist that got big is "The Flashbulb".
- arpa 7y agoWhat sibling comments said, also, great community, great recommendations, relationship graphs between artists/styles, very neat and tidy metadata (accurate tags, releases with serial numbers, etc).
- clydethefrog 7y agoTildes, Metafilter.
- vatys 7y agohttps://www.metafilter.com https://www.metafilter.com "Best of the Web" since 1999 A broad set of interests are represented there, not just programming or technology focused. The submission quality is high, and it is well moderated. MetaFilter has always had a pretty strong community. The addition of a $5 membership fee, similar to SomethingAwful, seems to have helped filter out the riff raff. There's also an "ask" section, and ones for projects and music. Overall, it's a good community for general discussion of things happening on and offline.
- qwsxyh 7y agoYouTube comments.
- throwaway9d0291 7y agoFirst one that comes to mind is this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/