Ask HN: Where do researchers hang out?

[gosenx]

I'm starting to get interest in research and plan to write papers on the future.

Where can I find a forum or a social network where researchers ask questions to each other and interact?

[anigbrowl]

Researchers of what? Surely you don't imagine that everyone who is professionally interested in anything all take part in the same social forum.

[gosenx]

Computer Science in general, or more specific to distributed systems, networking, cloud computing.