Where do Chinese and Indian developers spent most of their time online?
Do Chinese and Indian developers primarily spend most of their time online in the same places as US/European developers, or are there similar sites that I'm just not aware of? I'm thinking places like Reddit, HackerNews, GitHub, etc.
Indian Engineer here.
We don't have a Firewall (yet). All of these common tech sites are still accessible here, so same.
Chinese:
v2ex (close to HN)
zhihu (close to quora)
Stackoverflow
github (joked as gayhub)
Chinese here, to be honest, I don’t think there are communities with an atmosphere like hn and reddit in China, including v2ex.com, zhihu.com mentioned in other replies.
I like hn, and many subreddits, but at the same time I also have language problems, So I created https://www.buzzing.cc , which collected many popular discussions in English communities, then translate all titles in Chinese and Japanese, approximately 3000 users visit per day.
Indian dev here. Nothing country specific. Stackoverflow mostly. Just google and whatever solves your problem. We are not community builders that work at scale.
As an Indian, I can tell you that we pretty much use the exact same sites as India. We are well versed in English, so for every use case you can think of, we use usual American sites. For Newspapers, we use India specific sites like hindu.com
Many of us understand American politics better than Indian politics :D
As an Indian dev, I've always wondered if there would ever be a homegrown tech site. For hiring at least, sites like HasGeek are popular (at least Bangalore.) I wonder if there could be a set of sites built around FinTech APIs that are India specific.