Name: Anonymous 2011-10-13 2:54
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/
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/