While reddit has a quite bad reputation, there are quite a few subbreddits which are heavily moderated and quite serious:
For example, /r/askhistorians requires that all answers be long form and cite peer-reviewed articles (no wiki, first person comments or pop-historians allowed).
Some of the tech subreddits there are much better than StackOverflow - for example, I get better answers on /r/rust than on SO.
The links on the site are usually the "most trending" ones, so it's good for that, but I wish it had as much discussion as HN. For some reason I much prefer HN to reddit for discussion.
KnowledgeTrybe (https://knowledgetrybe.com) The focus is on Psychology, Creativity, History, and Learning. I'm still working on adding comments. Please let me know what you think about this. Would love to hear any feedback.
Interesting site, but I'd like to offer a suggestion.
In my opinion, a well-designed web site should pass the "someone linked me here and told me it was good but didn't say anything more about what it is" test. When I landed on your site, I felt it wasn't that easy to discover what it's about if I don't already know.
Even just adding a short sentence ("read about and discuss psychology, creativity, and more" or something) would go a long way, but having an "about" link I can find and follow might be good too.
FWIW, I think Hacker News also fails this test to some extent. It's possible to glean what the site is about from the Guidelines and FAQ links at the bottom of the page, but it doesn't really cater to that at all.
Thank you so much for your feedback. I will definitely work on that. This is the first time I'm sharing it outside of friends and family and it's great to get a fresh perspective. Please feel free to give more suggestions.
Panda (http://usepanda.com) is pretty good for the fields of design, development, and entrepreneurship. It pulls from many different sites, including Hacker News.
Some emails don't work, I had the same problem therefore the admin (u/etc) added me via console. I contacted him via lobste.rs, if you have an account there msg him.
... or politics. Hacker News moderators become infuriated when there's too much 'political talk' and parent posts get [flagged] since this is considered naughty.
Intelligent political discussions off the police radar are 50% of the reason why I check this site everyday. I just don't get that level of discourse at the comment-level anywhere else.
Political posts get flagged because they are explicitly against the purpose of the site. From the guidelines, for the benefit of the readers who haven't read them:
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."
Given that political stories get flagged fairly consistently, I would guess that the majority of readers here agree with that guideline.
I can't see how what you wrote answered the question in any way, or even attempted to. (p.s. I do sympathize with what you wrote about political discussion on here.)
For example, /r/askhistorians requires that all answers be long form and cite peer-reviewed articles (no wiki, first person comments or pop-historians allowed).
Some of the tech subreddits there are much better than StackOverflow - for example, I get better answers on /r/rust than on SO.
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