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Right, but that's very specific, and frankly Discord makes terrible public forums. HN excels as a general purpose forum for technical discussions relating to c
by xvector 3y ago
Right, but that's very specific, and frankly Discord makes terrible public forums.
HN excels as a general purpose forum for technical discussions relating to computer science.
- krapp 3y agoThe quality of actual technical discussion on HN is not much better on average than any programming or technical subreddit in my experience, if they are well moderated. It shouldn't be surprising that the most technically adept people here also tend to post the least often. The biggest difference is HN is strongly anti-humor, primarily because of the weird pathology the culture here has about Reddit and appearing "mainstream." But the lack of memes here doesn't make the rest of the content better, rather it tends to result in aggression, knee-jerk contrarianism and overconfident assertions in ignorance becoming low effort virtue signals instead.
- dartos 3y agoHN is just barebones. I don’t think there’s anything about it that specifically makes it better than anything else other than tech articles float to the top.