Best/Worst prog. communites

How would you rank the various programming communities? (Bonus points if you explain whats good/bad about them)

Here's my list:

1. Hacker news (links can be meh, but it has the most interesting discussions)
2. Stack overflow (community is pretty dry, but for general programming-related issues that google isn't helping with you can get high quality answers)
3.  Slashdot (lots of stories about shit nobody cares about, but community/discussion is OK)
4. /prog/ (the endless trolling, punctuated by anti-troll troll posts can be entertaining sometimes)
5.  /r/programming (links are pretty awful, discussion quality worse than /prog/, most commenters appear to know nothing about programming)
6.  /g/

1. /g/
2. reddit
3. /prog/

They're all shit.

>>1
Slashdot
community/discussion is OK
You've got to be kidding me. It's "polite", I'll give you that, but these people are generally even more clueless that the worst of /prog/'s trolls. If a comment is right it's by chance, and moderation only reflects how well written it is (no surprises there - the same pool of retards is in charge of posting AND moderation)

I can predict 95% of the comments just by looking at the shitty sensationalist story titles. On some occasions, I've looked through dozens of 4+ rated comments, and not a single one came even close to being right. I've never posted anything there, in case you're getting the wrong idea.

The sad thing is that it's probably in the right place on that list. But if you disregard obvious troll posts on /prog/, I'm pretty sure it could switch places.

0. Lambda the Ultimate

>>4
Slashdot is being overshadowed by newer sites like Ars Technica/Reddit/StackOverflow and its niche of "hacker news" is slowly abandoned in favor of "geeky" content for the wider audience(like e.g. http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/10/13/0154213/company-unveils-personalized-anime-robot-girl ). It tried to get to speed with firehose, but its design is laughable compared to reddit. Its basically a worse reddit: http://slashdot.org/recent

0. Lambda the Ultimate
1. Stack Overflow
2. Hacker News
3. /prog/

all message boards of every kind are fucking shit. there are just too many clueless idiots and people who are proud of their .net/java/web framework skills. irc and usenet are a lot better.

>>8
Too bad Zhivago will kick you for your lack of capitalization.

1. Lambda the Ultimate.
2. /prog/ before redditors and /g/tards migrated here.
10. r/programming.

I have never seen a good tip on Stack Overflow. It's always overcomplicating shit. Their layout doesn't help too.

Reddit is unreadable. Terrible, TERRIBLE navigation.

Slashdot posts ONLY uninteresting things. Seriously, it has to be one of the most boring sites I ever saw.

/prog/ is filled with us.

Ass Tech has a really retarded logo. They think they are like Nero or something.

I thought Lambda The Ultimate was a joke, then I just saw it's real. I'll check it. Never heard of Hacker News, but they must think hack is only those black or white hat bullshit, so they probably suck.

In order of my preference:
0. think about it by yourself.
1. google, some other search engines (can find almost everything you want)
2. comp.lang.lisp (very informative discussions). Other comp.lang.* newsgroups and some mailing lists are also very nice.
3. #lisp (very helpful and informative), ##c (slightly less helpful, but you shouldn't have trouble reading a standard document or your OS's documentation)
4. Do 0 again, ask a friend if it's truly non-trivial.

As for your examples in >>1, I've read some helpful stuff on stack-overflow, but usually it's just what google indexes for trivial queries.

As for the rest, I've read interesting links on Hacker News and even on some sub-reddits, but I would never go there for anything but some quick news and entertainment. ./ is ./ and doesn't actually need too much discussing, except that it's in a similar league with hacker news, just older (not that it's a bad thing). I wouldn't ask for anything on /g/, if I can't answer the question myself, chances are /g/ won't be able to do it either, however if you're looking for very cheap trolling entertainment, it may be the place to go.

As for /prog/: it has/had a few good posters, but they rarely post, it's mostly drowned out by poor quality trolls, yet I still refresh it daily. I never truly seeked programming advice here, as I'm usually either able to find out the answers that I want by myself or I can find someone who can answer my questions (such as a specialized newsgroup, mailing list, IRC channel and so on). The reason I stay here is because I've seen good and interesting things posted here and very rarely one can even learn something new worth knowing (hasn't happened in a long time).

Trick question. If I post the names of good online communities here, they will inevitably turn to shit.

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>>14

wut

Can someone please direct me to a programming community that will actually teach you things? I came to /prog/ years ago and all I've learned are a bunch of memes and that the people here have irrational hate towards most programming languages.

>>16
http://dis.4chan.org/prog/

>>17
No, you misread my post. I came hear years ago with the intention of learning things, but I did not learn any real programming. Instead I learned a bunch of useless memes and that you people irrationally hate most programming languages.

>>18
http://4chan.org/prog/

CEF is a great community for REing.

http://rechan.eu.org/

my anus!

>>19
Recursion?

/prog/ is basically shit. It's only good for non-programmers to brag about which CS 101 books they've read and argue about which is "teh best progamming languege!" At least people on Hacker News and /r/programming can program and actually have careers in the industry.

I only come here to troll anonymously.

>>24
how sad,

he thinks this level of trolling is good enough.

>>25
how sad,

he thinks this level of trolling is good enough.

how sad. almsot like death; death is sad

rip dmr

rip 7

Why are all these web sites full of freetards constantly flogging GNU/Shit to anybody stupid enough to post an earnest question?

whats wrong with phrack?
did they stopped

>>29
They're not. You're just the kind of person who flips their shit whenever someone mentions GNU/free software, as evidenced by your use of the word ``freetard''.

>>31
Man, I'm down with OSS, but 'freetard' is apt for some people. RMS is a bit of a nazi about the whole thing. FSF has been a necessary influence, but it's too narrowminded to be taken seriously by any healthy individual.