Ask HN: HN for non-techies?

Posted by itry on Saturday March 30, 2013 @07:50AM
from the ask-hn dept.

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?

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Re:Ask HN: HN for non-techies? by jaebrown on Saturday March 30, 2013 @09:12AM (#5465292)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: HN for non-techies? by tnorthcutt on Saturday March 30, 2013 @08:44AM (#5465241)

Metafilter + Ask Metafilter.

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Re:Ask HN: HN for non-techies? by sciurus on Saturday March 30, 2013 @10:52AM (#5465552)

Seconding this.

http://www.metafilter.com/

http://ask.metafilter.com/

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Re:Ask HN: HN for non-techies? by pasbesoin on Saturday March 30, 2013 @04:31PM (#5466574)

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

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Re:Ask HN: HN for non-techies? by jstanley on Saturday March 30, 2013 @08:12AM (#5465176)

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

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Re:Ask HN: HN for non-techies? by itry on Saturday March 30, 2013 @08:20AM (#5465190)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: HN for non-techies? by merqumab on Saturday March 30, 2013 @09:57AM (#5465405)

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

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Re:Ask HN: HN for non-techies? by pasbesoin on Saturday March 30, 2013 @04:30PM (#5466569)

Focus on sub-reddits.

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Re:Ask HN: HN for non-techies? by JacksonGariety on Saturday March 30, 2013 @12:48PM (#5465923)

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

Same format, only less tech-focused.

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