Dutch-language tech community. Has news, a well-moderated and active forum, product and price comparison (with many filtering options) and reviews (both by tech journalists and the community), second-hand sales, and a job board.
It was started by one guy 20 (if not more) years ago, but these days it's part of one of the big Dutch-language media conglomerates (DPG Media).
I started visiting this site when I was 16/17 and starting off my IT classes. I still feel like I learned more browsing the site's daily news than my school. It's still my daily routine, nearly 20 years later, to visit it every day. I'm apparently in the top 100 wrt number of comments (mostly shitposts and arguing, kinda like what I do on HN)
Never did get on with the forums much, mind you. But some threads are fun to follow.
I think the forums are one of the site's greatest assets, actually. But there does exist a certain culture there in which absolutely everything is debated into oblivion, even long past the point where such a discussion stops being useful for answering the question at hand.
When discussing Tweakers, https://hardware.info comes to mind, which has been run by the same guys as Tweakers since September 2020 and focuses on products. Its associated forums were discontinued in favor of the Tweakers forums.
The community on /r/thenetherlands on Reddit is pretty friendly (more friendly than Reddit at large, where arguments tend to devolve into snide remarks with a higher frequency).
https://fok.nl and its associated forums are still kicking, although I don't personally frequent the site.
There is also https://dumpert.nl, which appeals to a certain subset of the population. I admit some of the videos on there can be entertaining, but the community is offputting to me.
Other than that, there are of course a dozen news media (ownership of which is mostly split between two conglomerates: DPG Media and Mediahuis) which have an online presence. Reputable ones include NOS, de Volkskrant, NRC, Trouw, het Parool, de Groene Amsterdammer, FD, de Correspondent. Don't bother with de Telegraaf, it's the Dutch equivalent of The Sun or Bild (or in certain regards, Fox News). There are also media outlets covering Dutch-speaking areas outside the Netherlands (Flanders (Belgium), Suriname), but I'm not too familiar with those, being from the Netherlands myself.
Dutch-language tech community. Has news, a well-moderated and active forum, product and price comparison (with many filtering options) and reviews (both by tech journalists and the community), second-hand sales, and a job board.
It was started by one guy 20 (if not more) years ago, but these days it's part of one of the big Dutch-language media conglomerates (DPG Media).