Comment by criley2 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by criley2 | Hacker News Reader

Reddit is culturally focused to me, and younger and less intellectual/cerebral. Of course, by saying that, I'm sure there are outliers that can be posted that show how reddit can foster the most intellectual discussion possible! By cultural I mean it isn't much use for discussion about work/programming, nor is it an effective news aggregator on any level, but it is a great way to find humorous or entertaining content or discussions on popular culture.

In honesty, reddit doesn't attract a lot of the actually-hacking hacker crowd.

I go to reddit to see what consumers think and HN to see what producers think.

Reddit is more like an unbridled 'id' of people in a similar culture to HN. Witchhunts, trolling, nastiness, low-effort posting, are stereotypes of reddits most famous and popular areas, and for good reason. Almost every community of any size on reddit is a pretty intellectually barren place (shout out to the outliers like /r/askscience).

It is what it is, but you go to reddit to talk about video games and popular culture and cat pictures, and you go to HN to talk about coding, web development, and the many topics surrounding it.

I like how little patience HN has for off-topic, non-constructive or unfounded comments.

Sometimes I have the feeling that even HN is bit too redditish for me. Is there something that is to HN what HN is to reddit?

Lobste.rs if you don't mind very few posts.

Mailing lists for the other stuff.

I have invites just let me know if you want one.

email me at mtelesha at not yahoo but the google email account with a title lobste.rs invite. I think I have 3 - 5 invites. Also include your HN user name. I have to verify your not a troll :)

UPDATE: I still have more invites 12:31 Eastern time

I've visited lobsters a few times but it never seemed like the comments were particularly active.

That not necessarily a bad thing if they're aiming for quality over quantity. They might need to be a bit more active though.

Me too, and it is why I am more active here than on Reddit. The fact that Reddit has to tag posts as "serious" gives you an indication of how challenging it is for interesting and honest discussion to take place over there.

Reddit has thousands of subreddits, some of which are very heavily moderated (more than HN, even). Yes, trying to have a serious, on-topic discussion in /r/funny or /r/animalsbeingjerks might be tricky, but you'll find that they are plentiful in places like /r/askhistorians.

Treating reddit as a singular 'thing' like HN doesn't really work, reddit is a platform for thousands of communities each of which has different standards and expectations.

Discoverboard ( https://discoverboard.com ):

An online community focused on quality, thought-provoking conversations about a broad range of interests. It's a significantly different experience from other online communities:

-Most members choose to use their real identities on the site, and this information is only available to other members.

-Each member pays a small subscription fee, which helps keep out trolls and spammers. The fee also pays for moderators and serves as our members' commitment to quality and respect.

-Discoverboard doesn't display ads to subscribers or sell their data.

Full disclosure: I work for discoverboard. We would be very interested in hearing your thoughts about it. I've also created an invite code for free trials for people on this thread: https://discoverboard.com/code/HN

Reddit in general is more consumer oriented and HN is more producer oriented, but /r/programming is the opposite. You won't see any cat pictures there. If you want to talk about coding, web development, and the topics surrounding it, you're better off in /r/programming than on HN. Cold hard technical discussion is a rare thing on HN. The HN audience seems to be mostly non technical people.

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