Do you know HN-like sites outside IT?

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E.g. for wood- or metalworking.

julianlam · Accepted Answer

What you're asking for is a community for a niche concept, activity, or hobby.
What you're really looking for is a forum. A bulletin board, to use the outdated parlance.
They still exist, although there is still a lot of hand-wringing over whether forums are "dying" or not.
Long form journalism won't go away, long form discussion won't go away either.

ElevenLathe · Answer

The Something Awful forums have lots of interest-based subforums for things like woodworking, wrenching on cars, etc., that are generally high signal-to-noise.

thebrainkid · Answer

For woodworking: https://www.lumberjocks.com/

rchaud · Answer

I don't think it's really possible to have a HN-quality level of moderated discourse on some other site.People come to sites through a shared interest, so frankly, I wouldn't want to discuss economics and politics on Bodybuilding.com message boards. Nor would I want to discuss say, design, on a politics forum.

Move37 · Answer

Reddit is the best place outside HN that works similar for a lot of niches. But HN is still the best forum

jbirer · Answer

city-data is quite great for travel related topics.

sleepytimetea · Answer

Reddit ?

pasttense01 · Answer

StraightDope is a forum which covers a little bit of almost everything.https://boards.straightdope.com/

m0llusk · Answer

Blade forums for cutlery.

edjw · Answer

I've visited Metafilter every so often which might be what your're looking for https://www.metafilter.com