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The closest thing I can think of as far as communities would be the http://www.edaboard.com/ folks (although that's a lot of students) or opencores.org (which is more just general projects).

There are a lot more "news" esk hardware design places as well but I'm assuming you're looking closer to stack overflow/github of HDL rather than the slashdot/reddit of HDL?

If you want HDL best practices any of the resources you can get your hands on from http://www.sutherland-hdl.com/papers.html <-- those folks are excellent

and I would highly recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/SystemVerilog-Verification-Learning-Te...