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In French you have a few interesting options, notably: - LeBonCoin.fr (“the good corner”, a Craigslist type site that’s used for everything from second-hand se

by djaahk 6y ago

In French you have a few interesting options, notably: - LeBonCoin.fr (“the good corner”, a Craigslist type site that’s used for everything from second-hand selling to job hunting to meet up organising), - LesNumeriques.fr is a decent tech review media with in-depth tests and a VERY critical community providing good balance - Gazelle which has now become backmarket.fr (also exists across other countries like Spain and the U.K.) and offers vetted second-hand tech gear - great for bargains and avoiding buying new for ecological reasons, - LeMonde.fr/Les-Décodeurs is the fact checking arm of the French paper Le Monde and has some really interesting visualisations and articles - Presse-Citron.fr was one of the first tech blogs in France and continues to be a reference - priice.fr is a price comparison site I’ve heard good things about but haven’t used myself yet - danstonchat.com is the French version of Bash.org for IRC fun - Legorafi.fr is a satirical paper with lots of hilarious fake news - often quite timely - akin to The Onion (it’s a play on words on the famous French paper Le Figaro) - Gandi.net is a registrar and hosting site which I’ve been using forever - they’re awesome

di4na 6y ago
canardpc.com is probably the best video game magazine and review around. I would not advise presse-citron they have been pretty obvious about being more or less just a sold out editorial at this point.
- djaahk 6y ago
  Presse-Citron is definitely more aligned with the tech establishment, but it remains useful for general tech news - and the comments are still rather sharp. CanardPC is a GREAT addition, excellent build! About so much more than games too.
Nextgrid 6y ago
LeBonCoin became annoying since they put contact details behind a login wall. What made it successful back in the day is the simplicity - just post an ad and have interested people call you. Search for something and you can directly call sellers.
staticelf 6y ago
LeBonCoin is actually a fork of the Swedish original site Blocket.se, visit it and you will see similarities. Both are today owned by the Norwegian umbrella organisation Schibsted afaik.
- djaahk 6y ago
  I did not know that, thanks for pointing it out. The similarities are flagrant - do they operate such listing sites in other countries too?
  - staticelf 6y ago
    Yes, http://segundamano.es/ http://segundamano.es/ was the spanish version but it looks like the merged it with another site. https://www.finn.no/ https://www.finn.no/ is the norwegian version but it was developed seperately. https://www.tori.fi/ https://www.tori.fi/ is the finnish one. Such listing sites are big business and they make a lot of money of them. They have done similar stuff with Prisjakt.nu and made a french version: https://ledenicheur.fr/ https://ledenicheur.fr/ I think there are even more still but I am not certain.
LordNight 6y ago
It's very niche but Philharmonie de Paris has some brilliant visualized analysis of some classical music scores. For example: https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100008800/default.htm https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100008800/defaul... https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100003900/default.htm https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100003900/defaul... https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100004800/default.htm https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100004800/defaul... Sadly they don't present the full scores, only the beginning or some part. I wonder if there are other sites where you can find something similar. Somewhat related is http://www.critique-musicale.com/ http://www.critique-musicale.com/ - another great site.
- djaahk 6y ago
  I didn’t know about these viz, they are awesome! Thanks for sharing critique-musicale too, immediately added to my Feedly. :-)
gquiniou 6y ago
I would add Linuxfr.org and specifically the user journals : https://linuxfr.org/journaux https://linuxfr.org/journaux : it is the website of the french libre software community. Lots of interesting content you don't find anywhere else.
jeffreyrogers 6y ago
I like Gandi too (I'm American, not French), very pleasant compared to other registrars I've used.
huachimingo 6y ago
A hispanic/south american forum, hybrid between Image Board and BBS, most good content goes to textboard section. Not so much new posts, mostly talks about tech and whatever goes. https://bienvenidoainternet.org https://bienvenidoainternet.org /int/ section https://bienvenidoainternet.org/world/ https://bienvenidoainternet.org/world/

by djaahk 6y ago

di4na 6y ago

canardpc.com is probably the best video game magazine and review around. I would not advise presse-citron they have been pretty obvious about being more or less just a sold out editorial at this point.

djaahk 6y ago
Presse-Citron is definitely more aligned with the tech establishment, but it remains useful for general tech news - and the comments are still rather sharp. CanardPC is a GREAT addition, excellent build! About so much more than games too.

Nextgrid 6y ago

LeBonCoin became annoying since they put contact details behind a login wall. What made it successful back in the day is the simplicity - just post an ad and have interested people call you. Search for something and you can directly call sellers.

staticelf 6y ago

LeBonCoin is actually a fork of the Swedish original site Blocket.se, visit it and you will see similarities. Both are today owned by the Norwegian umbrella organisation Schibsted afaik.

djaahk 6y ago
I did not know that, thanks for pointing it out. The similarities are flagrant - do they operate such listing sites in other countries too?
- staticelf 6y ago
  Yes, http://segundamano.es/ http://segundamano.es/ was the spanish version but it looks like the merged it with another site. https://www.finn.no/ https://www.finn.no/ is the norwegian version but it was developed seperately. https://www.tori.fi/ https://www.tori.fi/ is the finnish one. Such listing sites are big business and they make a lot of money of them. They have done similar stuff with Prisjakt.nu and made a french version: https://ledenicheur.fr/ https://ledenicheur.fr/ I think there are even more still but I am not certain.

LordNight 6y ago

It's very niche but Philharmonie de Paris has some brilliant visualized analysis of some classical music scores. For example: https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100008800/default.htm https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100008800/defaul... https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100003900/default.htm https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100003900/defaul... https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100004800/default.htm https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100004800/defaul... Sadly they don't present the full scores, only the beginning or some part. I wonder if there are other sites where you can find something similar. Somewhat related is http://www.critique-musicale.com/ http://www.critique-musicale.com/ - another great site.

djaahk 6y ago
I didn’t know about these viz, they are awesome! Thanks for sharing critique-musicale too, immediately added to my Feedly. :-)

gquiniou 6y ago

I would add Linuxfr.org and specifically the user journals : https://linuxfr.org/journaux https://linuxfr.org/journaux : it is the website of the french libre software community. Lots of interesting content you don't find anywhere else.

jeffreyrogers 6y ago

I like Gandi too (I'm American, not French), very pleasant compared to other registrars I've used.

huachimingo 6y ago

A hispanic/south american forum, hybrid between Image Board and BBS, most good content goes to textboard section. Not so much new posts, mostly talks about tech and whatever goes. https://bienvenidoainternet.org https://bienvenidoainternet.org /int/ section https://bienvenidoainternet.org/world/ https://bienvenidoainternet.org/world/