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Ask HN: Which online communities(besides HN) are you a part of?
- partisan 11y agoHN is the only one I participate in. I will likely start to participate in Reddit, but as with HN, I lurk _forever_ before I participate so that I understand what I am signing up for.
- brickcap 11y agoI like stackoverflow quite a lot. I use quora on and off. I am also a member of gamefaqs. I have been lurking forever on rpgfan and rpgamer forums.
- _1tan 11y agoreddit, quora, stackoverflow.
- hillis 11y agoDiscoverboard ( https://discoverboard.com https://discoverboard.com ): An online community focused on quality, thought-provoking conversations about a broad range of interests. It's a significantly different experience from other online communities: -Most members choose to use their real identities on the site, and this information is only available to other members. -Each member pays a small subscription fee, which helps keep out trolls and spammers. The fee also pays for moderators and serves as our members' commitment to quality and respect. -Discoverboard doesn't display ads to subscribers or sell their data. Full disclosure: I work for discoverboard. We would be very interested in hearing your thoughts about it. I also just created an invite code for free trials for people on this thread: https://discoverboard.com/code/HN https://discoverboard.com/code/HN
- DanBC 11y ago> Unfortunately, our site won't work on your phone unless you upgrade your version of iOS. We're working to fix this problem as fast as we can. This is suboptimal.
- mrcold 11y agoI've been wanting something like this for a while. But it looks like your implementation is not that great. - Using your real identity is an extremely bad idea. Write something stupid once and it will haunt you forever. People will speak their mind only when protected by anonymity. - The topics and replies seem pretentious. Most likely because of the real identity thing. Everybody just tries to sound smart, eloquent and philosophical. - Unless you have some truly smart people initiating ideas and discussions, it's just the topic of the day kind of thing. It gets boring pretty fast.
- arfar 11y agoI use Reddit quite a lot. You do have to spend quite a bit of time discovering sub-reddits that you're interested, because that's where the only good discussion ever happens.
- Someone1234 11y agoReddit: But I use it a lot less now due to all the bigotry and bullying (that infects all front page subs). Few subs still get my attention. But mostly I dislike the peole there now. dpreview: Photography discussions. A lot of specialised sub-forums. slickdeals: Yes, it is a deals site, but there is a bit of a community there I guess (a lot of discussion, but it is very consumerist as you'd imagine). Stackoverflow: I've given up posting/asking questions. The community is pretty hostile and what was once the very best place to ask questions on the internet now thinks it is Wikipedia and downvotes almost every question that gets asked (even if nobody can answer, and even if there is no linked dupes). It now seems like a badge of honour on that site to mark something as "dup" but often they link to questions which are absolutely nothing like the original. The community is mostly toxic.
- api 11y agoI have never seen a community that did not get ruined by assholes, whether physical or virtual.
- tobylane 11y agoI'd say I've never seen a community of substantial size where assholes did not try to ruin it. /r/askscience has fantastic mods and there are many smaller subreddits like /r/london and /r/unitedkingdom where it's too small to attract anything worse than a mouthy ukipper.
- akg_67 11y agoReddit and Quora. I tried Stackoverflow but didn't like it. I also participate on some niche low traffic forums.
- Varkiil 11y agoCan Facebook be one ? I use the friend system for my personal shares but I am part of several closed groups with themed communities and shares
- hutattedonmyarm 11y agoReddit, Stackoverflow, App.net
- kleer001 11y agoalt.tasteless