"Best of the Web" since 1999
A broad set of interests are represented there, not just programming or technology focused. The submission quality is high, and it is well moderated.
MetaFilter has always had a pretty strong community. The addition of a $5 membership fee, similar to SomethingAwful, seems to have helped filter out the riff raff.
There's also an "ask" section, and ones for projects and music. Overall, it's a good community for general discussion of things happening on and offline.
As always, hope u got 10bux...
By the way, if a lobsters user is reading this, I would love an invite :)
One of its continued strengths is the number of useful or deep articles in tech combined with a high number of people in the community that write them. The audience is pretty passive. We have some people who steadily have good insights and submissions on specific topics. Then, there are some that show up out of nowhere with whopper comments you won't find in other places. They avoid high-traffic/noise sites like HN. So, you only see them on places like that. So, I read both the orange and red sites. :)
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