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Ask HN: Where did you hang out while HN was down?
I'm (and probably others, hopefully) will be interested in knowing where you spent your online surfing time in place of HN. As a person learning programming for the first time, I spent most of the time on r/learnprogramming, r/learnpython, r/ python and Google Groups for the Python mailing list.
What of you?
- coloncapitald 13y agoI spent most of the time finishing my backlog on the multireddits I have made. To list down some of the sub-reddits, /r/dailyprogrammer, /r/cscareerquestions, /r/algorithms etc. This, in the time I would have been surfing HN instead, obviously. I also had a bookmarks folder of links from HN that I hadn't gone through.
- citruspi 13y agoI ended up spending most of my time productively, writing code. However, I did spend a significant amount of time in IRC channels, Lobste.rs, /r/netsec, /r/python, /r/crypto, and /r/malware.
- coloncapitald 13y agoIsn't IRC dead yet? What are some of the IRC channels you would recommend to HN users?
- martindale 13y agoIRC is just a protocol, like HTTP.
- cema 13y agoSo is gopher.
- pyre 13y ago... and protocols never truly die? Like Gopher?
- twic 13y agoWhat? Gopher isn't dead, buddy. There are over 160 servers.
- pyre 13y agoForgive me if I don't hold my breath waiting for Gopher to come back in-style though. ;-)
- brianpgordon 13y agoOne of them serving legitimate files, even! (Only on waning gibbous moons.)
- riffraff 13y agoI still go to freenode, but being a protocol doesn't mean it can't die, i.e. gopher is practically dead.
- bemmu 13y ago#startups on freenode has the biggest HN user concentration
- sillysaurus2 13y agoIRC is great. Need help with an advanced math problem (or a basic one)? Try #math on freenode. Need help with an esoteric Python problem (or a basic one)? Try #python on freenode. Need help with ${anything_else}? Try #${anything_else} on freenode. Etc. (If there isn't a freenode channel for your topic, then Googling for "topic IRC channel" will usually turn up something on some other IRC network.) I can't think of any other tool which solves the same problem as IRC, so it seems doubtful that IRC will be joining the ranks of the dearly departed anytime soon.
- citruspi 13y agoNot at all, I love IRC. I hang out on Freenode, consistently in #rit-foss (I'm an RIT student) and I jump around other channels. Whatever you're interested in, there's most likely a channel on some server which focuses on it, whether it's math, literature, jailbreaks, python programmming, security, torrenting, etc. Here's a list of EFnet channels[0]. [0]: http://www.efnet.org/?module=channels http://www.efnet.org/?module=channels
- blueskin_ 13y agoIn the datacentre, troubleshooting. I hardly noticed.
- thirdsight 13y agoAs most of it was Sunday for me, I spent some time working on my IOCCC 2014 entry after reading carefully through the 2013 entries for inspiration. That and r/wtf which is slightly addictive if not completely wrong.
- malka 13y agobeside working, I spent time lurking on reddit, lobste.rs and /g/
- wanda 13y ago/g/ & StackExchange. Still waiting for my account to be accepted at lobste.rs (˘､˘)
- pattle 13y agoI spent the whole time on HN pressing F5
- kozhevnikov 13y agoMe too, until a day later I realised I should probably try Ctrl+F5, worked like a charm.
- jyothepro 13y agoMe too, followed the HNStatus on twitter too
- brianpgordon 13y agoSo apparently I have a natural pressure gauge that makes me click my HN bookmark to let off some steam after some minutes of intense concentration. I found it incredibly bizarre that being unable to access the site prevented me from letting off steam so that I was clicking the bookmark compulsively every 30 seconds before remembering that it was down.
- munimkazia 13y agoI was using techmeme to get the latest tech news. To be honest, my work breaks got a lot more boring.
- peterkelly 13y agoIt was tough, but in the end I got by with a combination of work and spending time with friends & family
- cfontes 13y agoReddit /Jailbreak :D
- dferlemann 13y agoI actually got some work done...
- khrist 13y agoI couldnt hang out anywhere, I wall polling HN with F5
- chewxy 13y agoI ended up being productive - Started a new book (https://leanpub.com/jsoddities https://leanpub.com/jsoddities) and wrote some 20% of it while HN was down. Far more effective than my noprocrast
- huhtenberg 13y ago20% in a day - sounds more like a pamphlet to me :)
- srik 13y agoThat's great. the book looks pretty interesting and the cover is kinda awesome. Did you do that within the same time frame too?
- chewxy 13y agoYeah. I already had the vector of the lady from when I was working on Fork the Cookbook. The rest is all GIMP default
- bcj 13y agoI honestly didn't realize how much time I spend on here until yesterday. It was more than a little disconcerting. I spent a lot of my time reading up on Julia, and a little time working on a website.
- wil421 13y ago/r/learnprogramming and /r/programming
- hkmurakami 13y agotwitter. lots and lots of twitter.
- Sambdala 13y agoThere's a list of other communities at a spoof site I made a while back: http://hn4hn4x.herokuapp.com http://hn4hn4x.herokuapp.com
- ankitml 13y agoISRO scientists were doing an AMA on r/india
- greatquux 13y agoI spent more time hanging out in cesspools of villainy, like /b and the PhantasyTour Phish forum (http://phantasytour.com//phish/boards.cgi http://phantasytour.com//phish/boards.cgi). But yeah, I'm really happy HN is back.
- shponglemoorthy 13y agoNice, didn't expect to see any PTers on here
- tcgv 13y agoI searched google for "hacker news similar sites" and ended up on "http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/" http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/"
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- dalerus 13y agoI spent time reading Medium.
- CrazedGeek 13y agoFark, mostly.
- limaoscarjuliet 13y agoWent back to Slashdot for a day.
- redox_ 13y agoI released http://twittersearch.algolia.io/ http://twittersearch.algolia.io/ :)
- contextual 13y agoLooks cool, and I added my handle, but doesn't twitter already have this feature?
- redox_ 13y agoThanks. Sure it has, I explain what (and how) I improved here: http://blog.algolia.com/improving-ranking-twitter-handles-search/ http://blog.algolia.com/improving-ranking-twitter-handles-se...
- wellboy 13y agoSeriously? Can we stay a day without constantly checking hackernews and the internet? And then posting about it to show how much YC fanboi they are? Maybe be productive instead and actually code your startup instead of posting on hackernews. Seriously. Sry, I saw this discussion was all humane, so I thought it was time for token snarky comment guy. :P
- kartikkumar 13y agoReading TechCrunch, BBC News, and flipping through Flipboard.
- namenotrequired 13y agoReading a book (the origin of species, to be precise).
- bigd 13y agore-reading nodeweekly, jsweekly and pycoders weekly. oh and statuscode
- davidgerard 13y agoThe latest really disastrous LessWrong thread: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jfr/link_why_im_not_on_the_rationalist_masterlist/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/jfr/link_why_im_not_on_the_rationali... It turns out that if you provide a safe space for "Human Biodiversity" advocates, this can put some people off your site entirely.
- tfinch 13y agoI rediscovered lobste.rs - which seems to be picking up a little since I last looked. Quite a few duplicates from HN but some alternative stuff too... (Shameless, but I'm still looking for an invite if anyone's got one....)
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- kissmd 13y agoi was... working. such a shame.
- linker3000 13y agoOn the phone to my lawyer discussing whom to sue for emotional distress and whether the $Million figure should be in double or triple digits.
- ishbits 13y agoDid you see that? Developer productivity in North America just increased for one day. Its back down now. Honestly, while HN was down, I didn't feel the need to hunt down other news. In fact, I got a good start on the Coursera crypto course, as well as got some real work done.
- santoshmaharshi 13y agoSlashdot.org
- krapp 13y agoI tinkered around with a project and started Google's python course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTZoB2Vjuk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTZoB2Vjuk
- bettyx1138 13y agoI did my work.
- bkd 13y agoI was looking at news.ycombinator.com instead of news.ycombinator.com/news (which yields "Sorry for the downtime. We hope to be back soon.") so I thought it was still down until I saw hckrnews.com had new entries and I started thinking "New entries? I thought it was down." Backtracked and figured out what URL I should have bookmarked for HN.
- bkd 13y agoAnd then I saw below - Ctrl-F5... ugh.
- reiz 13y agoI was hanging out at Reddit and https://devcharm.com/ https://devcharm.com/.
- nreece 13y agoTook a peek back at http://www.reddit.com/r/startups http://www.reddit.com/r/startups and http://growthhackers.com http://growthhackers.com
- runjake 13y agoSaw it was down, tried the next day. I have too much work and family stuff to spend all day on HN.