[HN Gopher] My Favorite Software Subreddits
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My Favorite Software Subreddits
Author : eatonphil
Score : 96 points
Date : 2021-12-05 16:47 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| RivieraKid wrote:
| What are your favourite lesser-known subreddits on any topic?
| eatonphil wrote:
| Were these not lesser-known enough for you? :)
| adrianmonk wrote:
| Maybe they weren't any-topic enough.
| eatonphil wrote:
| Ah true, I missed that.
| malshe wrote:
| I like r/datasets (https://old.reddit.com/r/datasets/). Found
| some really nice datasets there.
| devwastaken wrote:
| Don't get invested in subreddits. Most of the original mods that
| cared about their subreddit are gone or have put modlords in
| their place. A modlord being one that lord's over many
| subreddits, typically for a financial or social gain, of which
| you will be banned at the sign of any criticism.
|
| Reddit corporate does not enforce their rules on subreddit mods.
| It's a show. You can have mods harass you and they'll do nothing.
| Only go into it with the expectation that this is like any other
| image board. Make new accounts, use vpn's, else a mod will cry
| and reddit corporate will treat you you as a felon regardless.
| civilized wrote:
| This is very sad to hear. I haven't been on Reddit much in the
| past few years, but I still appreciated the unique, often well-
| moderated communities I knew of back in the day.
| eatonphil wrote:
| For what it's worth, I do not share GPs experience. I shared
| this list because these are good, quality subs period.
| throwawaysea wrote:
| This. I have tried reporting mod ban abuse, which you can do if
| you look hard enough through the help pages. I gave them all
| the evidence needed to show the mods were violating Reddit's
| own policies around arbitrary bans. However I only ever got a
| form response that shows Reddit doesn't care. At this point I
| am convinced Reddit just needs to die and get replaced by
| something better.
| devwastaken wrote:
| I have had subreddit mods openly call me all manner of
| inflamatory names, stalk me, and harass me in general.
| Sometimes those powermods get removed by contacting the lead
| mod if they're still around, but powermods know this and will
| hide the mod list, remove the post(s), and handle all the
| reports. So to other mods and users it looks like nothing
| happened at all. Reddit is the least transparent platform,
| it's designed for censorship and abuse, even.
| armchairhacker wrote:
| This may be true for top subreddits but definitely not all.
| Especially the ones mentioned in the website. Like I doubt
| there are any powermods on r/ProgrammingLanguages.
|
| Also it's not like you're saying anything remotely politically
| incorrect on those subs either.
| devwastaken wrote:
| Its hard to tell. The design of Reddit is heavily favored
| towards mods. If something happens the mod will simply remove
| the post(s), squash the reports, and it will all look like
| nothing ever happened. A single mod can do whatever they want
| on a subreddit and effectively hide it from other mods. The
| "hide the mod list" feature prevents users from appealing to
| other less active mods.
|
| What is considered "politically incorrect" is not universal.
| Software has plenty of its strong opinions and people whom
| want to squash opinions. Over time some subreddits get taken
| over and used for personal benefit. Lots of crypto schemes
| and people looking to sell things. The bans generally don't
| happen over technical disagreements, they happen when a mod
| themselves gets inflammatory with users and users push back.
|
| Simply what I'm saying is reddit is designed against
| communities, don't get invested. There's useful stuff but
| underneath it's not any different from boards of old.
| riffic wrote:
| > Reddit corporate does not enforce their rules on subreddit
| mods.
|
| There are absolutely no rules concerning moderation. As long as
| content policy is being followed, mods have free rein and full
| discretion to apply their own standards.
| kzrdude wrote:
| There are some good stories too. For example, some time ago
| /r/chess had a "protest" against the prevailing mod, the
| subreddit was turned over to a new mod and there were community
| mod elections, and it's been much better since. So far so good,
| some people really care about the community (and some mods are
| good enough to step aside, also commendable!).
| mattgreenrocks wrote:
| To the author: thank you for this, I've mostly given up on
| aggregators for surfacing deep technical content. Looks like I
| was wrong.
| joefarish wrote:
| If people are looking to find more niche subreddits related to
| their other interests I've found this page
| https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/ to be quite useful.
| mopierotti wrote:
| I've also found this one to be useful. Sometimes this site will
| give better results than the other and vice-versa.
| https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I find Reddit to be insufferable when dealing with code, simply
| because of how terrible a job it does with code. But many of the
| communities are vibrant and helpful, despite the less than ideal
| venue. Discord on the other hand is phenomenal.
| M277 wrote:
| Speaking of which -- Are there any communities/servers with a
| similar feel to HN / r/learnprogramming / etc that you'd
| recommend?
|
| Kind of new with Discord I admit.
| shagie wrote:
| It does a poor job with code... but I would contend that most
| of the terrible job that it does is because people don't know
| how to (or refuse to) pay reasonable attention to what the
| format of their code is when one looks at the page.
|
| A lot of it is a "copy and paste the code and walk away" - not
| really caring about how it looks when the page is rendered.
|
| With Discord (and slack and even teams) the ability to paste a
| code is easier because rich text gets pasted as rich text and
| there's also even more advanced "collapsible code snippets".
|
| And so... out of the "reddit's terrible job with code" I only
| attribute 25% of that to Reddit itself and 75% to the "people
| aren't caring about their post."
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| Why should everyone have to spend time formatting code for
| reddit that looked perfectly fine in whatever editor it was
| copied from? Why can't reddit just display code properly?
| Jtsummers wrote:
| Even HN requires some minimal effort if you want to post
| code in a way that looks decent. Prefixing lines with 2-4
| extra spaces is easy in most decent text editors, and if
| you don't have a decent text it's not hard to do manually.
| IggleSniggle wrote:
| I find it painful, since I do most of my HN and Reddit
| from my phone. I write code this way directly from mobile
| with enough frequency...the main feature I long for is to
| be able to type code fences with backtick.
|
| Monofaced fonts would be nice, too, so that you could be
| sure that you're on the right indentation level as you
| tap something in.
| Jtsummers wrote:
| It also does the formatting differently between old and new
| Reddit. So people on new Reddit don't realize that their post
| looks like garbage for old Reddit users.
| Gunax wrote:
| Reddit has 2 ways of formatting code (4 spaces and triple
| backticks) but for some reason the triple backtick only works
| on new-reddit and each reportedly have spotty results on
| mobile.
|
| It's a literal trap: you can format the code correctly per
| reddits documentation, but inadvertently fail to format it
| for old-reddit users.
|
| For this reason most coding subs recommend the 4 spaces even
| though it's a pain-in-the-butt to format it that way
| manually.
| nerdponx wrote:
| I hope communities start moving off of Reddit onto more
| traditional forums. Yes, having a single login for multiple
| communities is very convenient, but I think overall it's bad
| for communities to be tied to the Reddit platform.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I mean I just use Google login everywhere, for better or
| worse, so that's not even really an issue.
| retro_guy wrote:
| Yeah, r/retroprogramming is not a very active sub... Check out
| r/retrogamedev
| iratewizard wrote:
| You self-promote your blog too much.
| smt88 wrote:
| It's very common for people to write an article and share it
| themselves here. Many of the most-loved HN posts of all time
| are self-posted articles. How is it different from Show HN?
|
| In this case, there's no financial gain here. It's just an
| enthusiastic sharing with other enthusiasts. That's among the
| best things HN does.
| eco wrote:
| /r/beneater is a nice companion to Ben Eater's YouTube channel.
| It's mostly people helping others build their 8-bit CPUs and
| others showing off their improvements and extensions.
| shepherdjerred wrote:
| https://eater.net/
| odonnellryan wrote:
| /r/sysadmin is not a software sub but is generally a good sub for
| discussion in the tech space with a focus on sysadmin and DevOps.
| It also gives you an alternative perspective on a lot of things.
| A lot of the people there are also programmers from my take.
| atombender wrote:
| Is there a good sub or discussion board for the design and
| implementation of complex backend app architectures that need to
| operate at scale? By complex I mean something beyond just CRUD.
| I'm thinking of consensus systems, transactional systems, queuing
| systems, distributed locking, sharding techniques -- but also
| just practical engineering stuff, like which off-the-shelf tools
| to pick for certain problems. For example, recently I ran into
| something where an app needs to send a certain volume of
| telemetry data to BigQuery, but buffering the outgoing data in
| memory isn't possible, because BQ ingest is slow enough that the
| processes would OOM; but also, because it must be possible to
| kill the app without losing the data. Turns out even Google
| Pub/Sub can't handle the volume. Writing to Postgres would work,
| but now we're talking about writing a whole little app with a
| schema just for some short-lived linear data. Must be a solved
| problem? But the best solution I found was to send the data to
| RedPanda and then have a simple little consumer ingest it into BQ
| asynchronously. When I had this question, I realized I had nobody
| to bounce ideas back and forth with. Stack Overflow doesn't have
| the right people (in my experience), and "Ask HN" doesn't get any
| replies because people don't seem to watch that space for new
| threads. Another problem I ran into the other day, which I still
| don't have a solution to, is spinning up end-to-end integration
| tests on Kubernetes. There must be some orchestration tool that
| can let us reuse all our existing Kustomize manifests for our
| apps so that I can say "this test requires apps A, B, C, please
| boot them and their required databases in a new empty namespace,
| then wait for them to get ready, then run the tests and then tear
| down everything, and then report all the results somewhere l, and
| also plug this into the GitHub PR status checks and log outcomes
| to Slack". Again, I don't know where to go for this. I tried the
| CNCF Slack community, but it was all tumbleweeds. I asked on "Ask
| HN" and got a reply from a CircleCI person that misunderstood my
| question. Surely this is a common problem? We use ArgoCD for
| deploys, but it doesn't have a solution to this problem, and Argo
| Workflows (which we currently use for e2e, but we are unhappy
| with it) curiously has no synergy with Argo app definitions.
| NmAmDa wrote:
| I joined reddit just because of r/selfhosted.
| sieabahlpark wrote:
| Yeah for amateur takes on how to host anything. More than a few
| times you see people say to just use managed services and post
| their "homer homepage" theme.
|
| It's not really a good subreddit.
| mmphosis wrote:
| I put old. in place of www. in the URLs otherwise I find reddit
| unusable.
| forgotmypw17 wrote:
| I put teddit.net in place of reddit.com.
| gjm11 wrote:
| Visiting teddit.com takes me, via a series of redirects, to
| something serving up spammy-looking advertisements.
| Curiously, if I do the same with the Firefox dev tools open,
| that doesn't happen; instead I just get an empty page.
|
| Maybe taking a valid reddit URL and replacing "reddit" with
| "teddit" produces something useful; I didn't try. But I'm not
| much inclined to trust this site.
| NoNotTheDuo wrote:
| That's because the replacement is teddit.net instead of
| teddit.com
| tgv wrote:
| I run https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit in a container,
| and use localhost:9999.
| [deleted]
| mixedCase wrote:
| If you're logged in, having old reddit be the default without
| the need for a different subdomain is just a setting.
| codetrotter wrote:
| I know you said no language specific subreddits but. r/rust and
| r/rust_gamedev
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| There are some non-language specific ones I like too though.
| r/IndieDev r/gamedev r/gameenginedevs r/Demoscene
| r/MediaSynthesis
| _newtype wrote:
| Ironically enough, I tend to find more useful rust snippets in
| r/rustjerk than in the official r/rust sub.
| mamcx wrote:
| Yeah, the rust Reddit is to me, the #1 reason I stick with Rust
| when I think I will not survive it!
|
| The amount of helpful answers is outstanding, and is self-
| reinforcing: I try to participate on it every time I can.
|
| Other reddit I enjoy a lot is r/ProgrammingLanguages/.
| eatonphil wrote:
| /r/programminglanguages is second on the list! :)
| eatonphil wrote:
| Yeah I imagine there are some good game subreddits! I just am
| not into that scene so can't comment. Thanks for sharing!
| tomschlick wrote:
| /r/homelab will lead you down a dark path for your wallet of
| buying used enterprise gear and self hosting tons of docker based
| services. I regret nothing.
| actually_a_dog wrote:
| r/DataHoarder is practically guaranteed to take you down a
| similar path, as well. You have been warned.
| tomschlick wrote:
| I have a bunch of shucked 10TB drives in an array in my rack
| because of that sub.
| shafinsiddique wrote:
| +1 for r/emudev. Amazing community, and was a huge help to me
| when i was building my first gameboy emulator.
| https://github.com/shafinsiddique/alchemy
| mattwad wrote:
| I like /r/programmerhumor, good stuff to share w/my team
| sometimes.
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