Ask HN: What has HN given you?

Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by opportune on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:35PM (#16410771)

I'm very curious as to whether there are any other communities on the web that are as generally "high quality" as HN (bonus points if those communities are tech-focused or tech-adjacent). Anybody got any links?

To date HN has the highest (consistent) quality of any online community I've encountered

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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by petercooper on Monday February 19, 2018 @10:23AM (#16413390)

https://www.metafilter.com/ - it's been going for almost 20 years. Not really tech per se, but is tech/liberal/academic leaning.

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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by verylittlemeat on Monday February 19, 2018 @11:10AM (#16413675)

Just a note, you have to pay a one time fee of $5 to comment on metafilter.

Also I say the following as a long time member of metafilter: it's really gone downhill. If you're the type of person who thinks dissenting opinion on hacker news is restricted you will probably be shocked by what goes on at metafilter. They have a serious problem with passive aggressive bullying and groupthink on political and social justice issues.I don't think it's hyperbole to say that the conversation there has been hijacked by a handful of aggressive users who shameless brigade threads to their narrative. Metafilter is a shadow of what it was even 5 years ago.

That said, ask.metafilter.com is the best part of metafilter and is worth the $5 price of admission alone.

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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by hobofan on Monday February 19, 2018 @02:55AM (#16411419)

lobster.rs[0] is pretty good for tech (specifially software development) topics.

[0]: https://lobste.rs/

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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by corobo on Monday February 19, 2018 @09:37AM (#16413089)

My first impression:

"Deldo is a sex toy control and teledildonics mode for Emacs"

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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by abhishekjha on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @11:39AM (#16421617)

It is pretty good though. Never got an invite and din’t know how to. :( Seems like a very closed group.

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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by chrisper on Monday February 19, 2018 @01:11AM (#16411074)

I'd say Quora is rather good as well.

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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by sleavey on Monday February 19, 2018 @01:56AM (#16411196)

Nowhere near as high quality as it used to be though. I stopped my email digest there a year ago.

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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by opportune on Monday February 19, 2018 @02:03AM (#16411224)

Yeah I agree with this. I've tried to use Quora before (about 2 years ago) but couldn't get my signal/noise ratio nearly as good as I wanted it to be

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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by hutzlibu on Monday February 19, 2018 @08:56AM (#16412856)

It was very good in the beginning. Now it is mostly people trying to show off any way they can. And it attracted too many ... well, let's call them ordinary mainstream people.

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