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> If you’re a product designer or were a regular on Designer News, where do you have product discussions online? I’d love to find a replacement.

Hoping to get an answer on this one myself.

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"Design Twitter" is the only reason I haven't deleted my account yet. Yes, Twitter is full of toxicity and can easily become an echo chamber -- but if you actively set out to create one it can be a unique positive. Bear with me.

I follow a range of designers and front enders from the early Dribbble days and basically haven't added many people since. Yes it might be "polite" to follow back friends and colleagues who follow you, but it disrupts the balance. I don't even follow my own parents back because it introduces a bunch of off-topic content.

Anyone in particular you recommend to follow?

I'm not a designer but have gone through similar things in my own niches and honestly I just decided to stop talking about things. It wasn't really healthy or useful the way in which I was talking about those things anyway. I think it feels like we almost need to constantly discuss our ideas about our craft or hobbies to an audience, but I've really enjoyed letting go of that and just focussing on my own stuff.

It's not quite the same, but, https://read.cv/explore is fun and interesting to see what people share.

And they also have this https://posts.cv/

Same, I don't have any regular places besides random blogs to learn about design stuff from people who really care. Any recommendations people have would be very welcome!

Can't believe I'm saying it but twitter has become the main spot for me. Read.cv as others have pointed out is also good. Way less signal and noise than X of course, but the content is almost always very high quality.

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