Ask HN: Where do the young nerds hangout?

20 pointsbryanwb4y ago15 comments

I get the distinct impression that HN, like Slashdot before it, has aged along w/ its original audience. I suspect most of the readers and submitters are aged mid-30's to late 40's. Which online communities attract the young weirdos these days?

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RicoElectrico4y ago

Reddit, Discord. With the caveat most communities are a cacophony of people not having anything intelligent to say, but there are gems in between. Many educational YouTubers and open source projects have their own community on one or both on them.

bryanwbOP4y ago

have very positive experiences w/ discord. I have learned a ton from channels like Economics Design (token economics) and Reactiflux (Reactjs)

yash_vishnu4y ago

Hey, I couldn't spot the 'Economics Design' channel. Could you please share the URL here?

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arkitaip4y ago

Twitch, Discord and other gaming related communities for the young ones. Twitter attracts the 20-something crowd.

wolfpvck4y ago

A popular discord community, a good mix of experienced people with a bunch of beginners: https://theprogrammershangout.com/

Graffur4y ago

Nothing against that community at all but I hate discord. Maybe I am old but I don't see how it's good for communities.

wingerlang4y ago

If you’re old and hang out on HN you probably like IRC?

The benefit of discord is probably that it is extremely easy to join, and it seems like they have easy access to mod tools and bots and whatnot.

taf24y ago

https://dev.to/

mooreds4y ago

Not sure why this is downvoted, this is certainly what I've seen.

Sure, there's lots of spam on dev.to, but I see a lot of content and discussion happening there too.

rocketpastsix4y ago

Didn't downvote you but dev.to feels like the early days of Medium, where it was great. Now I'm waiting for the day they start paywalling things.

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hidden-spyder4y ago

What discord servers do you hangout on?

vagrantJin4y ago

Yeah, I'd also vote up Discord.

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RicoElectrico4y ago

bryanwbOP4y ago

have very positive experiences w/ discord. I have learned a ton from channels like Economics Design (token economics) and Reactiflux (Reactjs)

yash_vishnu4y ago

Hey, I couldn't spot the 'Economics Design' channel. Could you please share the URL here?

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arkitaip4y ago

Twitch, Discord and other gaming related communities for the young ones. Twitter attracts the 20-something crowd.

wolfpvck4y ago

A popular discord community, a good mix of experienced people with a bunch of beginners: https://theprogrammershangout.com/

Graffur4y ago

Nothing against that community at all but I hate discord. Maybe I am old but I don't see how it's good for communities.

wingerlang4y ago

If you’re old and hang out on HN you probably like IRC?

The benefit of discord is probably that it is extremely easy to join, and it seems like they have easy access to mod tools and bots and whatnot.

taf24y ago

https://dev.to/

mooreds4y ago

Not sure why this is downvoted, this is certainly what I've seen.

Sure, there's lots of spam on dev.to, but I see a lot of content and discussion happening there too.

rocketpastsix4y ago

Didn't downvote you but dev.to feels like the early days of Medium, where it was great. Now I'm waiting for the day they start paywalling things.

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hidden-spyder4y ago

What discord servers do you hangout on?

vagrantJin4y ago

Yeah, I'd also vote up Discord.

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