Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
by amenod on Sunday December 23, 2018 @03:30PM
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Yeah... the problem is that SO is becoming the only place where people hang out, and it's really difficult to find active programming forums nowadays. Except, as you say, SO is not a forum, it's a QA site. Which means there is no place left for discussions. While I certainly use SO a lot to find those small bits of missing knowledge, I think it has made search for help (in specific cases) actually much harder.
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Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
by lucb1e on Sunday December 23, 2018 @04:48PM
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Agreed! I moved to HN and SO after two forums slowly died. I have some friends from those forums, but a chat group is different from a forum with dozens or sometimes hundreds of active topics every day. Not just in activity, but also the kind of things you can talk about.
I'm not quite sure what is going to fill this gap. I don't always have a place to post things. Blogging doesn't exactly work without an audience. The mainstream things these days appear to be just chats. There are still forums, mailing lists... heck, there are BBSes but it's niche and hard to find anything that isn't already on the decline.
Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
by eitland on Monday December 24, 2018 @05:29AM
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dchuk tried to start https://hackerforums.co earlier this year.
It was a nice forum and I really wanted it to succeed and but it seems to have faded out.