i have recently found the need to have it more integrated. and sometimes i want to be able to have respones from people from all the different groups. i have thus felt the need for a social site for programmers and hackers.

i mean there is obv a lot of good sites already for different purporses/interest areas of programming but nothing that puts it all in one easy accesible place. most programming forums also have fairly low quality. comp.lang is generally good though but there are no community features.

so i was thinking i might do one. a good project to learn diverse skills related to programming and even if noone is interested i learn something.

so features:

  *profiles
  *forum
  *chat
  *news(hacker news is great though maybe PG would let me integrate it?)
  *jobsearch and advertising, specialized ads for computer/programming-related jobs. 
  *quick-and-dirty outsource application, ie make it easy for a startup to get in touch with a specific programmer to do some shortterm job for them if they need that.

would you people want this? i think i will start working on it anyway to learn how to build a big application.