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Ask HN: Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?
E.g. for wood- or metalworking.
- sleepytimetea 4y agoReddit ?
- thebrainkid 4y agoFor woodworking: https://www.lumberjocks.com/ https://www.lumberjocks.com/
- ElevenLathe 4y agoThe Something Awful forums have lots of interest-based subforums for things like woodworking, wrenching on cars, etc., that are generally high signal-to-noise.
- bergenty 4y agoSomethingAwful is amazing and I’m sad that beauty was outvolumed by 4chan like entities.
- julianlam 4y agoWhat you're asking for is a community for a niche concept, activity, or hobby. What you're really looking for is a forum. A bulletin board, to use the outdated parlance. They still exist, although there is still a lot of hand-wringing over whether forums are "dying" or not. Long form journalism won't go away, long form discussion won't go away either.
- hardwaresofton 4y ago> They still exist, although there is still a lot of hand-wringing over whether forums are "dying" or not. My understanding has been that forums aren't dead -- the centralized, fast-food version of the forum, reddit has just won out for the usual reasons. What sets HN apart is it's moderation/curation. It feels like the HN hivemind is still smarter than me so I learn a bunch when I'm here, and people try to argue in good faith so that's good too. Creating and maintaining such an atmosphere (and getting your users to reinforce it) is hard.
- danjoredd 4y agoThere are also quite a few forums for different subjects around, I find. You just have to know what you want and where to look for it. The three forums I spend the most time on are Sinister.ly, survivalistforums, and melonland
- Move37 4y agoReddit is the best place outside HN that works similar for a lot of niches. But HN is still the best forum
- smsm42 4y agoThe quality of discussion there is orders of magnitude lower. Also, any topics having anything to do with current politics/culture wars are tribally segregated and heavily censored. For some niches that managed to avoid CW entirely there's some good content there though.
- edjw 4y agoI've visited Metafilter every so often which might be what your're looking for https://www.metafilter.com https://www.metafilter.com
- tomcam 4y agoOpenly hostile to those not in close political alignment to them.
- pasttense01 4y agoStraightDope is a forum which covers a little bit of almost everything. https://boards.straightdope.com/ https://boards.straightdope.com/
- solardev 4y agoThis is a most excellent forum
- rchaud 4y agoI don't think it's really possible to have a HN-quality level of moderated discourse on some other site. People come to sites through a shared interest, so frankly, I wouldn't want to discuss economics and politics on Bodybuilding.com message boards. Nor would I want to discuss say, design, on a politics forum.
- anonomousename 4y agoWhenever I see the bodybuilding.com forum, I always think of this and crack up about it. https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751
- mattpallissard 4y agoThis was better than expected.
- jbirer 4y agocity-data is quite great for travel related topics.
- m0llusk 4y agoBlade forums for cutlery.