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by JI_Joe1 1028 days ago
Not aware of any discord server for HN.
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If I set up an unofficial one, would people be interested?

Edit: I decided to find out. Here's a link to an unofficial HN discord - https://discord.gg/ggCFRbGP2

I'd be interested to hear what people would hope for from an unofficial HN discord.

The server has the same guidelines as HN:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

As the person running the unofficial HN discord, what are YOUR hopes for it?
1) More of the good parts of HN. Ask HN, Show HN type stuff.

2) Feedback before Show HN posts.

3) "Personifying" HN i.e. right now HN is kinda opaque, I use it all the time, and I have some friends that use it, but mostly it's a black box. Would be nice to be able to have an idea of a bit more of the personality of some of the people I'm interesting with on HN

I'm open to all forms of communication, thanks.