[hnfong]

Besides the LM Arena Leaderboard mentioned by a sibling comment, if go to the r/LocalLlama/ subreddit, you can very unscientifically get a rough sentiment of the performance of the models by reading the comments (and maybe even check the upvotes). I think the crowd's knee-jerk reaction is unreliable though, but that's what you asked for.

[NitpickLawyer]

Not anymore tho. It used to be the place to vibe-check a model ~1 year ago, but lately it's filled with toxic my team vs. your team, memes about CEOs (wtf) and general poor takes on a lot of things.

For a while it was china vs. world, but lately it's even more divided, with heavy camping on specific models. You can still get some signal, but you have to either ban a lot of accounts, or read new during different tzs so you can get some of that "i'm just here for the tech stack" vibe from posters.

[littlestymaar]

Yeah, some people just can't stop acting as if tech companies were sport teams, and it gets annoying fast.

[parineum]

I don't really go there much anymore but, when I was, there seemed to be an innordinate amount of Chinese nationalism from young accounts speaking odd English.