Ask HN: What other forums do you visit?

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by jawmes8 • 4 years ago

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Aside from HN, do you visit other forums?

I used to think traditional forums were completely dead, but after getting into working on cars I am frequently on both https://www.tacomaworld.com and https://www.e46fanatics.com

Interested to see if others hang out on SW forums or other hobbies.

mikece• 4 years ago

No other forums: just QuiteRSS and a well-curated OPML file of channels of interest to me (and which overlaps with the HN audience).

airhangerf15• 4 years ago

Poal.co, Kiwifarms, Poa.st, Phucks and Something Awful

anaisbetts• 4 years ago

PSA, the first three of these are all Stormfront-level Hate sites.

milsorgen• 4 years ago

KF is underrated. People should never have abandoned the idea that you never put your real name on the Internet.

nemomarx• 4 years ago

I'm still hanging around https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/ but that's more of a sci-fi nerd ish forum than a SW one.

chc4• 4 years ago

likewise, https://forums.spacebattles.com/ which is a vaguely sister site to SV

WalterGR• 4 years ago

If anyone is curious, there have been past Ask HN's about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

justusthane• 4 years ago

https://www.advrider.com for adventure motorcycling

(Interestingly, launched by the founder of SmugMug, Chris MacAskill. He has a great TEDx talk here: https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_macaskill_your_difference_ca...)

svacko• 4 years ago

https://www.skyscrapercity.com - love to see what's being built in the cities around

sqwrell• 4 years ago

just reddit

lolive• 4 years ago

I am rather new on Reddit. And I use the official app. Is there other alternatives?

mturmon• 4 years ago

If on iOS, Apollo (https://apolloapp.io) is excellent

dspolaris• 4 years ago

I'm an old time user...still use BaconReader (before there were better alternatives out there). It's buggy..but I'm so used to the interface I just can't use anything else.

pixelated_music• 4 years ago

definitely, i do not like the official app. you can try Relay for Reddit, Sync for reddit, Boost, Infinity, if you are on android. (i personally use reddit is fun, but that's because im accustomed to it, it's ugly)

on iphone, apollo is undoubtedly the best choice.

danuker• 4 years ago

I used to use RedReader. But it got too addictive, so now I use old.reddit.com on mobile.

eps2• 4 years ago

https://old.reddit.com

Dracophoenix2• 4 years ago

Slide for Reddit. It's on both iOS and Android. It's also open source.

leach3• 4 years ago

Funny, i created this account after years of lurking because I’m trying to get away from Reddit

jawmes83• 4 years ago

I feel the same. With forums, I feel it’s easier to get familiarized with other users. Not sure why, but it definitely feels more communal than Reddit

lakomen• 4 years ago

I've never met such a mass of nationalism and racism paired with lack of knowledge an opinion value vs facts than on Reddit. It's even worse than Facebook nowadays in terms of quality of audience.

Sadly, since Google+ is gone, it's now home to some groups that moved to Reddit, but I'm sick and tired of the racism and nationalism there and the half truths and the whole unculture.

If I was a dictator, Reddit would be the 1st domain I'd ban. For the betterment of humanity.

leach3• 4 years ago

https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php I lurk here a lot, i try and by active but find myself checking it like once a week

warrenm• 4 years ago

A handful of niche subreddits

A handful of niche Facebook groups

Twitter (not sure if you would classify it as a "forum" ... but it can act as one)

listenallyall• 4 years ago

Don't know what E46 was like previously, but I was a heavy lurker on a different car forum. Yes, activity was declining in the mid-2010s but once VerticalScope bought it out and changed everything, the site has essentially died completely.

jawmes83• 4 years ago

My favorite is definitely Tacoma world, which is probably most active because the platform is still alive. The E46 forums are not quite as active but the folks that are have incredible knowledge

SyneRyder• 4 years ago

Gearspace https://gearspace.com/board/ for music/recording stuff. Everything from home recording, through to the highest levels of mixing & mastering multi-million selling albums.

It's a bit like HN in that you'll sometimes find yourself talking to people who are very famous / successful in the industry. Charlie Clouser & Butch Vig have posted there before. Best example is the thread where someone asks about Serban Ghenea's techniques (he mixed for The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran etc) and by the end of the 4000+ reply thread, Serban's assistant John Hanes now replies personally every week to new questions.

https://gearspace.com/board/high-end/1213742-serban-ghenea-m...

marpstar• 4 years ago

In this same vein, https://homerecording.com/ is also great.

Dracophoenix2• 4 years ago

For those unfamiliar, the site was once known as Gearslutz until about two years ago. The name change came as a result an attempt to appear more professional than the Internet equivalent of a watercooler that it has been for the better part of two decades.

SenHeng• 4 years ago

I used to post on various forums related to my hobbies but as I’ve aged, I’ve found myself more content being a lurker than engaging with other users.

This is particularly exacerbated by the megaforums like Reddit and this site, because whatever I may have wanted to say will usually already have been said by someone else, often more eloquently and well thought out.

This then further disengages me from most forums and after a while, I simply forget about them. Now, I only interact here, niche subreddits and a forum for locals.

tirwander• 4 years ago

Even if it hasn't been said... There are already 1,397 comments so who the hell would see it anyway?

petecooper• 4 years ago

https://forum.textpattern.com is a favourite of mine.

jjulius2• 4 years ago

https://watmm.com/ and the Discogs boards. Might end up just ditching HN at some point.

jjulius2• 4 years ago

Fuck it.

bni• 4 years ago

English Amiga Board http://eab.abime.net

aquajet• 4 years ago

I go on https://lobste.rs pretty frequently in addition to reddit and twitter. Also do discord groups count as forums?

jawmes83• 4 years ago

Also do discord groups count as forums?

For myself, I wouldn’t count it. I have a hard time searching for past information on discord. In my experience, forum posts do a good job of keeping the conversation at-hand focused.

eps2• 4 years ago

I find lobste.rs discussions threads to be often dominated by dismissive and arrogant "elders", which tends to suppress any desire to participate in them. Still visit it for the links though, but the overlap with the HN and programming-related reddit subs is, unsurprisingly, quite significant.

night-rider• 4 years ago

Tildes.net

ijustwanttovote• 4 years ago

I used to hang out a lot on bimmerforums.com

zgniatacz• 4 years ago

www.modwiggler.com/forum/ https://llllllll.co/

jeppesen-io• 4 years ago

https://lobste.rs/ - I find the comment sections more enjoyable

https://www.advrider.com from time to time

not really forums, but I lurk on nixos.org matrix server

erikig• 4 years ago

https://slashdot.org I still frequent /. comments & discussions. It is probably not as popular as it was back in the day but this decline in popularity has actually helped the quality of the discussions.

gaws• 4 years ago

It is probably not as popular as it was back in the day but this decline in popularity has actually helped the quality of the discussions.

The UI still gives me migraines.

JacobAldridge• 4 years ago

I enjoy the right subreddits, and my engagement can wax and wane with my interests.

Mostly I'm active on r/DigitalNomad and a few of the relevant-to-me Financial Independence subs.

I imagine hobby stuff can be a little hit and miss, especially trying to find the sweet spot between a sub that's too small (with negligible community) and one that's too big (powered by too much groupthink).

hidden_sheepman• 4 years ago

If your into BSD* OSes then you might like: http://daemonforums.org

2143• 4 years ago

Since you mentioned cars, Team-BHP is one place I frequent.

https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/

It's a car enthusiast forum from India.

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