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The SSC diaspora is collecting in a number of locations. The two I am most familiar with are Naval Gazing (a blog about naval affairs) and Data Secrets Lox (a n
by johan_larson 6y ago
The SSC diaspora is collecting in a number of locations. The two I am most familiar with are Naval Gazing (a blog about naval affairs) and Data Secrets Lox (a new discussion forum).
Data Secrets Lox is set up as a replacement for the SSC open threads, and is run on actual forum software, which means there are topic-specific threads for easier navigation. As membership increases, I expect we'll add subforums, also.
https://www.navalgazing.net/ https://www.navalgazing.net/
https://datasecretslox.obormot.net/ https://datasecretslox.obormot.net/
- oceliker 6y agoIs Data Secrets Lox an anagram of something else, like SSC is?
- robertk 6y agoI’m not sure if you are joking? As it is an anagram of “Slate Star Codex” and so within the same anagram equivalence class.
- johan_larson 6y agoIt's an anagram of "Slate Star Codex".
- johan_larson 6y agoActually, Data Secrets Lox has moved to this URL: https://www.datasecretslox.com/ https://www.datasecretslox.com/ The old link will continue to work for a while.
- zozbot234 6y agoInteresting. The SSC home page itself points to the site's subreddit as the intended place of discussion, but this could work as a "lifeboat" site in case that runs into problems with the new reddit content policy.
- johan_larson 6y agoSome people just plain don't like Reddit. I'm not quite clear on why, but it predates the current cancellation fights. Perhaps the upvote/downvote system encourages attention-seeking behavior.
- Smaug123 6y agoI'm one of those people. I'm told the problem is mainly that I can't find the right subreddits to follow; any remotely popular subreddit is a) very easy to find, and b) almost completely worthless. It's really the same problem that this entire HN thread is about!
- JohnBooty 6y agoI've found that single-player games often have shockingly nice communities on Reddit. r/EnterTheGungeon and r/AceCombat were two great ones. I say "were" only because they (naturally) become sort of semi-dormant because those games haven't seen major releases in a while, so discussion has petered out. r/Xcom is pretty strong! It's hit or miss, but a lot of "niche" hobbies have really good subreddits. I recently got into watches and subreddits like r/Casio and r/Seiko are fun and supportive. Not exactly deep discussion, because there's only so much you can say about a watch, but they are fun. There are some decent audio-related subreddits. I'm a mod at r/budgetaudiophile and we try to be as helpful as possible who are dipping their toes into the hobby, though I'm not too active over there these days. I haven't found any solid tech-related subreddits, ever. Though, I haven't looked too hard I suppose.
- vertex-four 6y agoI'm a reddit user, and I find that it doesn't encourage ongoing discussion, even in the smaller subreddits - a thread is pretty much frozen in stone after a day or two, even if technically people can post there for six months, so people keep starting new threads on the same topic (often covering a large part of a subreddit's front page with discussion of the same subtopic, preventing other discussion) but without history or interlinking. The problem is that posting to a thread doesn't "bump" it, so if you want people to see what you said the only option is a new thread.