Ask HN: Outside of HN and Reddit what discussion communities are you a part of?

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by urs2102 • 11 years ago

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Outside of HN, Reddit, and Slashdot, what similar minded (or different) online discussion communities are you a part of? Just curious.

brlewis2• 11 years ago

I keep lists on Twitter. Twitter is bad because you're limited to 140 characters, but it's good because everyone else is limited to 140 characters.

Mz2• 11 years ago

Would you be willing to expand on your use of lists? I love twitter but also find it baffling.

Nadya• 11 years ago

You should use lists to organize discussions around topics you are interested it.

For example - I can create a list of lead-runners on Machine Learning and add the people I follow who are well-informed on the topic of Machine Learning to this list.

Then when I view my Twitter Feed - I can choose to instead look at a feed from a list. If I want to get "What's Going On" in Machine Learning, I visit that list and see a feed from these leaders of Machine Learning.

Do this for all of your interests and you can organize your feed to get a quick grasp of what's going on everywhere instead of being blasted by noise on your main feed.

brlewis2• 11 years ago

I have a "Hacker News" list with Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Paul Buchheit, Sam Altman and maybe some others. I have another list of tech people I've met locally. I remove anybody who posts lots of noise. I check approximately once a day and I almost always see multiple interesting things.

pranaya_gh• 11 years ago

Fastlane forum is pretty good - more entrepreneurship oriented.

HiLo• 11 years ago

wilmott

wvenable• 11 years ago

http://www.crazyontap.com -- It was created to replace the off topic board of Joel on Software when it closed. A bunch of old programmers bitching about things.

gexos• 11 years ago

+1 I love crazyontap

"To live is to war with trolls."

tmoullet• 11 years ago

homebrewtalk

Nilef• 11 years ago

youngstartups.io - It's a slack community for those under 25. As the name suggests, we talk about businesses, tech and...school

wingerlang• 11 years ago

None. Except for one Slack channel, which is directly derived from a subreddit.

Used to go to a country-local gamedev forum, but the owner stopped caring and eventually the community started their own website. I still have a reminder each year for the domain expiry date although I can never catch it. My plan is to give it back to the community. Edit: went a bit off topic there didn't I.

gammaray• 11 years ago

https://endless-sphere.com/forums/ - Enthusiasts forum for all electrical vehicles and technologies.

I ride my electric bike to work everyday in Silicon Valley consistently beating google driving estimates by 10 minutes as I get to use the underused existing bike lanes while moving at around 30mph/50kph.

testitouter• 11 years ago

http://frizbee.co/

It's a decentralized social aggregator.

colloqu• 11 years ago

I discuss the ideas of others and mine on https://www.stomt.com

pestaa• 11 years ago

What a useless front page. :(

blairbeckwith• 11 years ago

A hard-to-escape useless page, too. Don't break my back button, please.

XzetaU8• 11 years ago

http://lesswrong.com/

Ask HN: Outside of HN and Reddit what discussion communities are you a part of?

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