Ask HN: Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?

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by nono-no-no • 4 years ago

25 18 4 years ago

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E.g. for wood- or metalworking.

sleepytimetea• 4 years ago

Reddit ?

thebrainkid• 4 years ago

For woodworking: https://www.lumberjocks.com/

ElevenLathe• 4 years ago

The Something Awful forums have lots of interest-based subforums for things like woodworking, wrenching on cars, etc., that are generally high signal-to-noise.

bergenty• 4 years ago

SomethingAwful is amazing and I’m sad that beauty was outvolumed by 4chan like entities.

julianlam• 4 years ago

What you're asking for is a community for a niche concept, activity, or hobby.

What you're really looking for is a forum. A bulletin board, to use the outdated parlance.

They still exist, although there is still a lot of hand-wringing over whether forums are "dying" or not.

Long form journalism won't go away, long form discussion won't go away either.

hardwaresofton• 4 years ago

They still exist, although there is still a lot of hand-wringing over whether forums are "dying" or not.

My understanding has been that forums aren't dead -- the centralized, fast-food version of the forum, reddit has just won out for the usual reasons.

What sets HN apart is it's moderation/curation. It feels like the HN hivemind is still smarter than me so I learn a bunch when I'm here, and people try to argue in good faith so that's good too. Creating and maintaining such an atmosphere (and getting your users to reinforce it) is hard.

danjoredd• 4 years ago

There are also quite a few forums for different subjects around, I find. You just have to know what you want and where to look for it. The three forums I spend the most time on are Sinister.ly, survivalistforums, and melonland

Move37• 4 years ago

Reddit is the best place outside HN that works similar for a lot of niches. But HN is still the best forum

smsm42• 4 years ago

The quality of discussion there is orders of magnitude lower. Also, any topics having anything to do with current politics/culture wars are tribally segregated and heavily censored. For some niches that managed to avoid CW entirely there's some good content there though.

edjw• 4 years ago

I've visited Metafilter every so often which might be what your're looking for https://www.metafilter.com

tomcam• 4 years ago

Openly hostile to those not in close political alignment to them.

pasttense01• 4 years ago

StraightDope is a forum which covers a little bit of almost everything.

https://boards.straightdope.com/

solardev• 4 years ago

This is a most excellent forum

rchaud• 4 years ago

I don't think it's really possible to have a HN-quality level of moderated discourse on some other site.

People come to sites through a shared interest, so frankly, I wouldn't want to discuss economics and politics on Bodybuilding.com message boards. Nor would I want to discuss say, design, on a politics forum.

anonomousename• 4 years ago

Whenever I see the bodybuilding.com forum, I always think of this and crack up about it.

https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

mattpallissard• 4 years ago

This was better than expected.

jbirer• 4 years ago

city-data is quite great for travel related topics.

m0llusk• 4 years ago

Blade forums for cutlery.

Ask HN: Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?

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