I've bounced around my fair share of online forums since ~2006.<p>Inevitably, a shift in culture/moderation/interests with cause me to seek out new communities. HN has been fairly consistent in it's discussion since I've joined, and I'd like to find some similar sites.
I've been enjoying the Alpha of <a href="https://Tildes.net" rel="nofollow">https://Tildes.net</a><p>It's like Reddit for thoughtful content, no fluff.<p>And so far it's full of hackers and people who think like hackers.<p>Email the founder for an invite code. He's friendly and engaged.
<a href="https://habr.com/en/" rel="nofollow">https://habr.com/en/</a><p>Russian hacker community; this year they started an English version of the website (announcement: <a href="https://habr.com/en/company/tm/blog/435764/" rel="nofollow">https://habr.com/en/company/tm/blog/435764/</a>).
Obviously Reddit, particularly r/programming<p>Slashdot.org is still around<p>Metafilter.org is still going<p><a href="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/" rel="nofollow">http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/</a><p><a href="https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes" rel="nofollow">https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes</a><p><a href="https://lobste.rs/" rel="nofollow">https://lobste.rs/</a>
These are much smaller communities but not a lot of discussion in them.<p><a href="https://www.echojs.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.echojs.com</a> - HN for Javascript
<a href="http://www.datatau.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.datatau.com</a> - HN for data science.
Just few weeks ago I started a Slack workspace mvphacks.slack.com for all developers working on their MVPs, or developers who want to join with other developers to build their ideas together.<p>The aim is to allow developers to create their own channel for the project they are working on. The developers can then post about their project or idea under the "general" channel to invite others to their channel for participating in their project or idea.<p>Here is the invite: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ybongxl2" rel="nofollow">https://tinyurl.com/ybongxl2</a> in case you want to join.
I'm working on developing a new community (currently in stealth mode) associated with a well-known publication. Please let me know what you would like in a community forum (Discourse based). We're #deplatforming and want to make a place where great discussions happen.
Prismo (<a href="https://prismo.news/" rel="nofollow">https://prismo.news/</a>) will soon be opened to the public as far as I know. Code is on gitlab: <a href="https://gitlab.com/mbajur/prismo/" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/mbajur/prismo/</a><p>It is a project I've been following and seems pretty interesting. A federated reddit alternative, part of the fediverse.
<a href="https://www.spane.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.spane.org</a><p>It's a fledgling community for social entrepreneurs. (full disclosure: I started the site).<p>It has yet to gain traction, but HN is what prompted me start this in the social impact space.
I meant to ask this myself. Maybe I'm just scared hn will go away one day and I won't have somewhere else to go<p>I found mewe has a couple of good groups. They're a bit small, but some really smart, nice people in them
For Nomads and Travelling: <a href="https://nomadlist.com/forum/" rel="nofollow">https://nomadlist.com/forum/</a>
For Low Level Geeks: <a href="https://lobste.rs/" rel="nofollow">https://lobste.rs/</a>
<a href="https://www.laarc.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.laarc.io/</a><p>"laarc is a tech mashup of Hacker News and Reddit by two long time fans of both forums.<p>The initial impetus behind the site is a desire to try to recapture the early spirit of Hacker News. HN currently has about 5 million visitors a month. It's different than it was back in the day when it was a much smaller group of people.<p>We're aiming for a cross between Pinboard and HN: a central place for all your bookmarks, with the ability to make private submissions. (pg mentioned that he used HN for all of YC's internal software in the early days; it's handy to have a place to keep all of your notes!)"
I'm not kidding. I just came here from writing, elsewhere, about this very topic and mentioned that I thought HN has drifted--liberal, left leaning--over the years but not as bad as most and doesn't seem to have as many posts by kid pretenders.