Title: Note: Here, when I say &quot;community,&quot; I really mean &quot;online community.&quot;<p>To me, the most puzzling thing about programming is that there is no real place to actually <i>discuss</i> programming.<p>As weird&#x2F;absurd as that sounds, it seems like three major avenues where most discussion occurs are:<p>1. Reddit. Subreddits are nice and very effectively organize discussion of different topics. On the other hand, Reddit is virtually anonymous, and it&#x27;s generally frowned upon to share anything of your own creation, in order to not be flagged as spam&#x2F;self-promotion.<p>2. Hacker News. It&#x27;s more than acceptable to submit your own content, or other people&#x27;s content you found interesting. The downside is that it&#x27;s very difficult to get to the frontpage, and most posts not on the frontpage are forgotten. There&#x27;s also the fact that this site is far more anonymous than Reddit, and that features like downvoting are blocked off for most users.<p>3. Twitter. I like Twitter because it&#x27;s very personal, and you can actually put faces to names (unheard of elsewhere). The downside here is that for anyone to hear anything you&#x27;re saying, you truly have to have tens of thousands of followers. I have 4,000, but most of those people are not programmers, and thus there&#x27;s less than a smidgeon of opportunity for any sort of programming discussion there.<p>So, I&#x27;ve always wondered.<p>Is the reason that there is no real online community, the fact that maybe we just don&#x27;t need one?<p>Thoughts? Just wanted to discuss...
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