Ask HN: Outside of HN and Reddit what discussion communities are you a part of?

21 points by urs2102 ↗ HN
Outside of HN, Reddit, and Slashdot, what similar minded (or different) online discussion communities are you a part of? Just curious.

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I keep lists on Twitter. Twitter is bad because you're limited to 140 characters, but it's good because everyone else is limited to 140 characters.
Would you be willing to expand on your use of lists? I love twitter but also find it baffling.
You should use lists to organize discussions around topics you are interested it.

For example - I can create a list of lead-runners on Machine Learning and add the people I follow who are well-informed on the topic of Machine Learning to this list.

Then when I view my Twitter Feed - I can choose to instead look at a feed from a list. If I want to get "What's Going On" in Machine Learning, I visit that list and see a feed from these leaders of Machine Learning.

Do this for all of your interests and you can organize your feed to get a quick grasp of what's going on everywhere instead of being blasted by noise on your main feed.

I have a "Hacker News" list with Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Paul Buchheit, Sam Altman and maybe some others. I have another list of tech people I've met locally. I remove anybody who posts lots of noise. I check approximately once a day and I almost always see multiple interesting things.
Thank you.
Fastlane forum is pretty good - more entrepreneurship oriented.
http://www.crazyontap.com -- It was created to replace the off topic board of Joel on Software when it closed. A bunch of old programmers bitching about things.
+1 I love crazyontap

"To live is to war with trolls."

youngstartups.io - It's a slack community for those under 25. As the name suggests, we talk about businesses, tech and...school
None. Except for one Slack channel, which is directly derived from a subreddit.

Used to go to a country-local gamedev forum, but the owner stopped caring and eventually the community started their own website. I still have a reminder each year for the domain expiry date although I can never catch it. My plan is to give it back to the community. Edit: went a bit off topic there didn't I.

https://lobste.rs/ is very similar to HN, but it's invite-only. (If anyone reading this has an account there, I'd appreciate an invite! :P)

http://firespotting.com/ uses the same Arc-based framework HN runs on, but is virtually unknown.

https://endless-sphere.com/forums/ - Enthusiasts forum for all electrical vehicles and technologies.

I ride my electric bike to work everyday in Silicon Valley consistently beating google driving estimates by 10 minutes as I get to use the underused existing bike lanes while moving at around 30mph/50kph.