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by balladeer 2809 days ago
It was a comment by someone on some forum. Someone looking for similar sites as reddit (so was I) and another user who had replied had mentioned about HN a forum which is almost as good or as bad as reddit just that people on HN like to believe they are inherently better than reddit. I am not sure which forum it was - maybe reddit itself.

MeFi [0] and OneThingWell [1] are the gems I found in the same thread. Sadly OneThingWell's author took a long break due to RSI. Other forums/communities I found in that thread are/were SA [2], SDF, Barbelith [3] etc.

I guess it was just when I had got access to readily available Internet (before that it was weekly an hour or so in cyber cafes). I had immediately signed up everywhere (there were dozens) and SA is the only I never really got used to, never really stayed there.

[0] https://www.metafilter.com

[1] http://onethingwell.org

[2] https://www.somethingawful.com

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20051024234650/http://www.barbel...

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You just reminded me that I came here through OneThingWell.

Does anyone here know if the author is all right? That site is/was lovely.

No idea. I had mailed ~2 years ago.