Good communities like HN
zimbabwe: Stick to sites that use flat displays rather than threads. Threading almost always leads to crap. Flat displays have disadvantages but the linearity of the conversation leads to there being some focus in the community.Metafilter and SomethingAwful are my two drugs of choice. I'd argue that SA's community is better than this one overall, though it's not as focused. It's also good for promotion: A company I did some work for used SA to launch their product and got a few thousand sign-ups, though they had a damned good piece of software to launch with. Metafilter's got ups and downs, but its community is terrific.