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Hi, I have about 2 months since I joined HN and I'm really excited with the athmosphere and the high-quality discussion and articles we have.

Though, I'm looking for other communities. As you are hackers you may know!

I want communities about general programming discussion, specific discussion... anything related to coding and computers.

An example can be stackoverflow.com (and that's the only community I use with HN)

Thanks!

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Stick to sites that use flat displays rather than threads. Threading almost always leads to crap. Flat displays have disadvantages but the linearity of the conversation leads to there being some focus in the community.

Metafilter and SomethingAwful are my two drugs of choice. I'd argue that SA's community is better than this one overall, though it's not as focused. It's also good for promotion: A company I did some work for used SA to launch their product and got a few thousand sign-ups, though they had a damned good piece of software to launch with. Metafilter's got ups and downs, but its community is terrific.

Past Discussions (search for more):

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576677

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199103

Suggestions:

- http://similicio.us/search.php?url=news.ycombinator.com&...

- I was also going to suggest stackoverflow.com, but you got that down

- http://episteme.arstechnica.com/

Usual hacker suggestions (not necessarily communities):

- http://research.google.com/video.html (Google Talks)

- http://www.ted.com/

- http://lwn.net/ (Linux Weekly News)

- etc.

If you happen to be into finance you can check out http://www.newmogul.com/

It's based on the same code as HN and run by nickb (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickb)

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board...

I really like Nuclear Phynance:

http://www.nuclearphynance.com

A lot of high-caliber people in there.

Whoever downvoted this, would you please care to explain why? You don't like NP? If so, why? Or don't you like the fact that there are high-caliber people in other forums because that makes you feel small? AFAIK, there is one Fields medallist and two Nobel laureates at NP. Plus a bunch of pure math PhD's and former theoretical physicists. Isn't that high-caliber enough for you??

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