FWIW, I got fed up with this, and I spent last month building a completely open platform for programmers to come and chat about anything. It will still have a t

FWIW, I got fed up with this, and I spent last month building a completely open platform for programmers to come and chat about anything. It will still have a topic+answers format, but everything is allowed - let the community vote stuff up and down. It has reputation points, but no "achievements" yet. I'm not sure those are needed. The site design is clean and simple, no clutter. It is built with Bootstrap 3, so it looks ok on mobile. Stuff like image and video uploading works as well, with integrated video player (using ffmpeg for conversion). It has a social-network aspect: you can connect with other members or have private conversation. I soon plan to launch the website and I'll post the complete source code (sans passwords) on GitHub under GPL license. If you're interested to know when it launches, please e-mail me (it's in my profile):