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What 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 A bulletin board, to use the outdated
by julianlam 4y ago
What 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 A bulletin board, to use the outdated parlance.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