Ask HN: What other Hacker News like forums you hang out at?

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In my experience, the discussion quality and signal-to-noise ratio in Hacker News is very high. This is definitely way above the Internet average. But I came across this forum very recently when I followed a link from Twitter to a discussion thread here. I wonder what other such nice forums I might be missing out.

Are there any other such good discussion forums you hang out at?

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Generally, on a specific technical topics, smaller subreddits can be useful and can generate interesting discussions as well.

https://lobste.rs/ is potentially a good one, similar focus to Hacker News and on top of that it's invite only, so quality is high. Also there's a concept of "hats", basically badges that accounts can have which are verified, it makes it easy to see who represents a project or organisation in some official capacity. There's also 2FA. I've posted a couple of things, and commented a few times but it's definitely quieter than Hacker News and sometimes there's crossover.

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