Ask HN: HN for non-techies?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5465130

by itry • 13 years ago

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What do you guys consider the most "non-geek" site that has the same or a similar format to HN?

I constantly rave about HN to my friends, but nobody is interested in the contents here. Wouldnt this format also work for other news?

jstanley• 13 years ago

Isn't reddit basically what you're thinking about?

itry• 13 years ago

Reddit is MUCH too geeky for my non-techie friends. Also it doesnt look civilized like HN. It looks like one big confusing mess of untrustworthy chaos. And it doesnt look intelligent. My friends are not interested in cat photos and celebrity gossip.

merqumab• 13 years ago

Unsubscribe from the default subreddits and you'll find more intelligent discourse.

pasbesoin2• 13 years ago

Focus on sub-reddits.

tnorthcutt• 13 years ago

Metafilter + Ask Metafilter.

sciurus• 13 years ago

Seconding this.

http://www.metafilter.com/

http://ask.metafilter.com/

pasbesoin2• 13 years ago

With some reservation... fearful of it becoming "overrun".

jaebrown• 13 years ago

I believe you may to want to state the subject matter that you would like to get your friends engaged with. If it's stuff like SEO, social media, CPC and business, then try inbound.org. Other then that a sub-reddit around specific content may be your only shot. There are sub-reddits for just about everything. Once you create an account and choose your sub-reddits, that is all you see.

JacksonGariety• 13 years ago

You should check out TL: http://thelist.io

Same format, only less tech-focused.

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