I think different projects are now active in different places depending on the whims of that project. They might have their own forum like https://discuss.rubyo

I think different projects are now active in different places depending on the whims of that project. They might have their own forum like https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/ https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/, or they might be active on discord, or reddit, or they might just discuss everything on github, or mailing lists. Back in the usenet days there was really only one place to host discussions, and that was usenet. But now there are lots of places. I guess this makes it harder to find, and makes it harder to jump from community to community. Reddit is probably the closest thing. And I wouldn't judge all subreddits by the "front page" subreddits. I think the ruby and emacs subs are good.