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Would you mind sharing what the exception communities are? I've found some really insightful comments in /r/javascript from the creators of selenium for example

Would you mind sharing what the exception communities are? I've found some really insightful comments in /r/javascript from the creators of selenium for example; but the noise to signal is very low as you mentioned. /r/reactjs is another decent community as the maintainers do post in the comments. I like /r/coding but it's pretty dead and sometimes /r/scala will have decent blog posts. Also /r/hnblogs is very decent, but extremely slow, for insightful posts as well.

viridian 6y ago
On the ops side, /r/selfhosted and /r/homelab often come up in searches with pretty good content. /r/aws is also okay, but there's obviously also a lot of certification and amazon event noise. On the dev side, /r/reactjs as you mentioned is pretty good, and I can't really speak to any other languages right now, since I've been full stack js for over a year now, and /r/node and /r/javascript are not so good.
- shagie 6y ago
  I believe it has to do with the specificity of the forum, passion of the people contributing, activity of the mods to keep it "on topic." /r/homelab (I've dipped my toes into occasionally) has people who are passionate about their craft. The people who are interested in setting up a homelab are also likewise interested in investing (time and money) in it. This differs from things like /r/learnprogramming where the people posting are not invested in it (the community or the craft). Another difference would be the "who contributes new posts" aspect. With /r/homelab new posts come from people of all skill levels. With /r/learnprogramming they come from people who are at the very basic skill level. The implications of this is that /r/homelab has peers helping peers while /r/learnprogramming needs people who aren't posting questions to post comments and provide additional material.
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acemarke 6y ago
as one of those /r/reactjs mods, very happy to hear that we're doing reasonably well! :)
Athas 6y ago
/r/programminglanguages has good content. Most of the contributors are hobbyists, and some are just starting out, but there are always good discussions to be had.
- arabelladonna 6y ago
  Seconded. It may not be the content you want, depending on what you're looking for, but there is a lot of great, informative content on that sub.
est31 6y ago
The reason I have a reddit account in the first place is /r/rust. It was and still is one of the central discussion places of the community, more so today now that IRC has been killed. /r/linux is a great place to hang out as well, at least if you are interested in FLOSS related things. Sometimes you'll even see someone like gregkh chime in.
- yagya 6y ago
  I remember at one point the moderators turned r/linux into a place where you could only post Linux news. That's when I left the subreddit, and I haven't really gone back since.
kzrdude 6y ago
I think /r/musictheory is good
kettro 6y ago
r/rust appears to be a decent community; lots of very good posts.

viridian 6y ago

On the ops side, /r/selfhosted and /r/homelab often come up in searches with pretty good content. /r/aws is also okay, but there's obviously also a lot of certification and amazon event noise. On the dev side, /r/reactjs as you mentioned is pretty good, and I can't really speak to any other languages right now, since I've been full stack js for over a year now, and /r/node and /r/javascript are not so good.

shagie 6y ago
I believe it has to do with the specificity of the forum, passion of the people contributing, activity of the mods to keep it "on topic." /r/homelab (I've dipped my toes into occasionally) has people who are passionate about their craft. The people who are interested in setting up a homelab are also likewise interested in investing (time and money) in it. This differs from things like /r/learnprogramming where the people posting are not invested in it (the community or the craft). Another difference would be the "who contributes new posts" aspect. With /r/homelab new posts come from people of all skill levels. With /r/learnprogramming they come from people who are at the very basic skill level. The implications of this is that /r/homelab has peers helping peers while /r/learnprogramming needs people who aren't posting questions to post comments and provide additional material.

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acemarke 6y ago

as one of those /r/reactjs mods, very happy to hear that we're doing reasonably well! :)

Athas 6y ago

/r/programminglanguages has good content. Most of the contributors are hobbyists, and some are just starting out, but there are always good discussions to be had.

arabelladonna 6y ago
Seconded. It may not be the content you want, depending on what you're looking for, but there is a lot of great, informative content on that sub.

est31 6y ago

The reason I have a reddit account in the first place is /r/rust. It was and still is one of the central discussion places of the community, more so today now that IRC has been killed. /r/linux is a great place to hang out as well, at least if you are interested in FLOSS related things. Sometimes you'll even see someone like gregkh chime in.

yagya 6y ago
I remember at one point the moderators turned r/linux into a place where you could only post Linux news. That's when I left the subreddit, and I haven't really gone back since.

kzrdude 6y ago

I think /r/musictheory is good

kettro 6y ago

r/rust appears to be a decent community; lots of very good posts.