Ask HN: What other websites/forums do you use that are of similar quality to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16342192

by earenndil • 8 years ago

53 24 8 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

sukhadatkeereo• 8 years ago

I'm working on Knowledge Trybe (https://knowledgetrybe.com) -the focus is on Psychology, History, Creativity, and Learning.

DoreenMichele• 8 years ago

Some Reddit subforums are good. Just avoid the front page like the plague.

cholantesh2• 8 years ago

Would love to hear HNers' recommendations on subs. I'll start:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/

https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/

https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/

Also, if you're feeling down at any point, https://www.reddit.com/r/babyelephantgifs/ always does the trick.

cweagans• 8 years ago

If you're into these respective topics:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards

https://www.reddit.com/r/3dprinting

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio

https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking

https://www.reddit.com/r/vim

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang

https://www.reddit.com/r/maliciouscompliance

yread2• 8 years ago

Nice list, mine:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/

https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchPeopleCode/

https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlegifs/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/Excelsior/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/curiosityrover/

https://www.reddit.com/r/EarlyModernEurope/

https://www.reddit.com/r/HNDepthHub/

odonnellryan• 8 years ago

/r/sysadmin is one of the best tech subreddits IMO.

matchmike1313• 8 years ago

I enjoy https://www.indiehackers.com/

MichaelBurge• 8 years ago

https://lobste.rs/

TaylorGood• 8 years ago

FerrariChat. Subscription area is a brain trust of car guys. Been on there for like fifteen years. Immeasurably valuable.

olavgg• 8 years ago

https://www.servethehome.com

sgillen• 8 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/

ct02• 8 years ago

http://www.datatau.com/

ct02• 8 years ago

hackaday.com

adrift• 8 years ago

http://boards.4chan.org/g/

Amelorate• 8 years ago

Small thing to note: While a lot of intelectual discussion does go on in /g/, the board's culture does often encourage misleading information and trolling. Browsers of reddit and Hacker News are often called out and ridiculed, and a number of technologies are dismissed based on being ran by "SJWs".

If you can filter out these things, /g/ does have a lot of discussion, but it is very different from Hacker News.

cholantesh2• 8 years ago

Every board has this issue, and the UI makes it difficult to follow the discussion. If you're not in it for silly greentext and a half hour (at most) of bantz, I think it's an uphill battle for quality.

It is better than /biz/, though, which is just MLMs and bad crypto advice it seems.

potta_coffee• 8 years ago

lainchan.org has pretty good programming conversations. More civil and higher quality than any of the other chans I've visited.

rthomas6• 8 years ago

https://hubski.com

rndmize• 8 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/

timlovelee• 8 years ago

http://latest.is/

yread2• 8 years ago

I like metabunk.org, especially their forums on current events:

https://www.metabunk.org/current-events.f52/

The Oroville Dam discussion was particularly useful

deadcoder0904• 8 years ago

https://wip.chat

throwaway180118• 8 years ago

The Something Awful forums are still active and the topic-specific subforums are full of very smart minds. https://forums.somethingawful.com/