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Ask HN: What other forums do you visit?

by jawmes8 on 6/14/22, 7:22 PM with 47 comments

Aside from HN, do you visit other forums?

I used to think traditional forums were completely dead, but after getting into working on cars I am frequently on both https://www.tacomaworld.com and https://www.e46fanatics.com

Interested to see if others hang out on SW forums or other hobbies.

  • by SyneRyder on 6/14/22, 8:44 PM

    Gearspace https://gearspace.com/board/ for music/recording stuff. Everything from home recording, through to the highest levels of mixing & mastering multi-million selling albums.

    It's a bit like HN in that you'll sometimes find yourself talking to people who are very famous / successful in the industry. Charlie Clouser & Butch Vig have posted there before. Best example is the thread where someone asks about Serban Ghenea's techniques (he mixed for The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran etc) and by the end of the 4000+ reply thread, Serban's assistant John Hanes now replies personally every week to new questions.

    https://gearspace.com/board/high-end/1213742-serban-ghenea-m...

  • by WalterGR on 6/14/22, 7:43 PM

    If anyone is curious, there have been past Ask HN's about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

  • by SenHeng on 6/14/22, 8:46 PM

    I used to post on various forums related to my hobbies but as I’ve aged, I’ve found myself more content being a lurker than engaging with other users.

    This is particularly exacerbated by the megaforums like Reddit and this site, because whatever I may have wanted to say will usually already have been said by someone else, often more eloquently and well thought out.

    This then further disengages me from most forums and after a while, I simply forget about them. Now, I only interact here, niche subreddits and a forum for locals.

  • by justusthane on 6/14/22, 7:54 PM

    https://www.advrider.com for adventure motorcycling

    (Interestingly, launched by the founder of SmugMug, Chris MacAskill. He has a great TEDx talk here: https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_macaskill_your_difference_ca...)

  • by airhangerf15 on 6/14/22, 7:27 PM

    Poal.co, Kiwifarms, Poa.st, Phucks and Something Awful

  • by JacobAldridge on 6/14/22, 11:51 PM

    I enjoy the right subreddits, and my engagement can wax and wane with my interests.

    Mostly I'm active on r/DigitalNomad and a few of the relevant-to-me Financial Independence subs.

    I imagine hobby stuff can be a little hit and miss, especially trying to find the sweet spot between a sub that's too small (with negligible community) and one that's too big (powered by too much groupthink).

  • by mikece on 6/14/22, 7:25 PM

    No other forums: just QuiteRSS and a well-curated OPML file of channels of interest to me (and which overlaps with the HN audience).

  • by erikig on 6/14/22, 9:58 PM

    https://slashdot.org I still frequent /. comments & discussions. It is probably not as popular as it was back in the day but this decline in popularity has actually helped the quality of the discussions.

  • by listenallyall on 6/14/22, 8:38 PM

    Don't know what E46 was like previously, but I was a heavy lurker on a different car forum. Yes, activity was declining in the mid-2010s but once VerticalScope bought it out and changed everything, the site has essentially died completely.

  • by jjulius on 6/14/22, 8:58 PM

    https://watmm.com/ and the Discogs boards. Might end up just ditching HN at some point.

  • by 2143 on 6/16/22, 9:24 AM

    Since you mentioned cars, Team-BHP is one place I frequent.

    https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/

    It's a car enthusiast forum from India.

  • by nemomarx on 6/14/22, 7:37 PM

    I'm still hanging around https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/ but that's more of a sci-fi nerd ish forum than a SW one.

  • by leach on 6/14/22, 8:20 PM

    https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php I lurk here a lot, i try and by active but find myself checking it like once a week

  • by svacko on 6/14/22, 7:54 PM

    https://www.skyscrapercity.com - love to see what's being built in the cities around

  • by hidden_sheepman on 6/15/22, 5:56 PM

    If your into BSD* OSes then you might like: http://daemonforums.org

  • by warrenm on 6/14/22, 8:27 PM

    A handful of niche subreddits

    A handful of niche Facebook groups

    Twitter (not sure if you would classify it as a "forum" ... but it can act as one)

  • by petecooper on 6/14/22, 8:49 PM

    https://forum.textpattern.com is a favourite of mine.

  • by ijustwanttovote on 6/14/22, 9:18 PM

    I used to hang out a lot on bimmerforums.com

  • by bni on 6/14/22, 8:59 PM

    English Amiga Board http://eab.abime.net

  • by zgniatacz on 6/14/22, 9:29 PM

    www.modwiggler.com/forum/ https://llllllll.co/

  • by jeppesen-io on 6/14/22, 9:35 PM

    https://lobste.rs/ - I find the comment sections more enjoyable

    https://www.advrider.com from time to time

    not really forums, but I lurk on nixos.org matrix server

  • by aquajet on 6/14/22, 9:04 PM

    I go on https://lobste.rs pretty frequently in addition to reddit and twitter. Also do discord groups count as forums?

  • by sqwrell on 6/14/22, 8:08 PM

    just reddit

  • by night-rider on 6/14/22, 9:14 PM

    Tildes.net