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Ask HN: Are there any HN-style web sites with mechanical engineering content?

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Nothing really HN style but:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Skookum/ https://www.reddit.com/r/machinists/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/

How is Reddit not HN style except for how it looks? (You also can make it look like 2004, i do that, its just a setting, not even an extension or some BS)

I mean the Sub system maybe, thats it. I think theyre pretty similiar

Quality of comments.

The top post in /r/machinists is a picture of a rubber glove with a face drawn on it.

+1 for r/Skookum

It's Skookum as Frig

As a tangential point, I run a tool that lets you manage a HN style community - hellobox.co - would love for you to try it out if you like!

https://www.hellobox.co

Just signed up! I've been annoyed with how Meetup.com is treating forums and their new "discussion" feature and I want to move communication/knowledge sharing for my local CSS Meetup to an alternative platform. Am also looking at Discourse as well.

Hi Navs. Thanks. Do let me know if you need any help! :)

"e.g.Elon Musk appreciation society" looooool

Wow. Finally, someone commented on it! :) Glad you caught it!

Just a heads up: when I create a new community, I reach the step "Let's set up your new community". There I have some action buttons, and also I can upload a logo. When I upload the logo, a thumbnail is shown and the buttons are pushed down, and so the buttons are hidden. Also the scroll is disabled. FF 61.0.2, Win10

Otherwise, it looks really nice. Congrats!

Fellow Sydney person!

I can't see a pricing page.

In the FAQs it says it is currently a free service, but they plan to introduce a paid version in the future.

Thanks I couldn't open the FAQs page for some reason it took me to the home page.

I'm not sure if this is a bug but when I go to sign up there is a typo on Google. https://renegadeeagle.co/pics/chrome_2018-08-13_02-48-31.png

I like the idea, but maybe some screenshots or a simple demo environment would be nice. :)

Well I do a hell of a lot of mechanical engineering (or maybe you’d call it mechanical design, idk) on my robotics community site, http://reboot.love

See this post I wrote yesterday on how to 3D print the gearboxes. http://reboot.love/t/guide-getting-started-building-rover/17...

Not sure if that is the kind of thing you’re looking for.

There are occasional mechanical engineering articles on HN, and I would welcome more.

I'm not aware of one, but the Lobsters codebase with very similar functionality is available if you'd like to start one: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

You can get help in #lobsters on Freenode. If you know Rails, deploying to Heroku is an afternoon job; using the provided ansible scripts on a bare VPS is a day or two.

The http://www.eng-tips.com engineering forums are okeish in that sense, with a good mix of academics and practitioners.

You spelt "google" wrong on your sign up form https://www.hellobox.co/a/hello/home#/register

Wow, compared to the rest of the sleek site, that is so incredibly obvious.

That makes me think it was an intentional typo.

oh boole

Not HN style either, but lots of content: Library Genesis.

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