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Ask HN: What other websites/forums do you use that are of similar quality to HN?

53 points by earenndil ↗ HN

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DoreenMichele
Some Reddit subforums are good. Just avoid the front page like the plague.
cholantesh
Would love to hear HNers' recommendations on subs. I'll start:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/

https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/

https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/

Also, if you're feeling down at any point, https://www.reddit.com/r/babyelephantgifs/ always does the trick.

odonnellryan
/r/sysadmin is one of the best tech subreddits IMO.
TaylorGood
FerrariChat. Subscription area is a brain trust of car guys. Been on there for like fifteen years. Immeasurably valuable.
[dead] raguuu
/g/ of course. Surprised people are afraid to name 4chan despite it being on I'd the most visited sites on the internet now.
ct0
hackaday.com
adrift
http://boards.4chan.org/g/
Amelorate
Small thing to note: While a lot of intelectual discussion does go on in /g/, the board's culture does often encourage misleading information and trolling. Browsers of reddit and Hacker News are often called out and ridiculed, and a number of technologies are dismissed based on being ran by "SJWs".

If you can filter out these things, /g/ does have a lot of discussion, but it is very different from Hacker News.

cholantesh
Every board has this issue, and the UI makes it difficult to follow the discussion. If you're not in it for silly greentext and a half hour (at most) of bantz, I think it's an uphill battle for quality.

It is better than /biz/, though, which is just MLMs and bad crypto advice it seems.

potta_coffee
lainchan.org has pretty good programming conversations. More civil and higher quality than any of the other chans I've visited.