Habr is a Russian collaborative blog about IT, Computer science and anything related to the Internet, owned by TechMedia. Habrahabr was founded in June 2006. The Englishsection of Habr was launched in 2019. Habrahabr is often compared to other technology sites, such as Engadget or Hacker News. The parent company of the site, Thematic Media developed a group of websites after they developed habrahabr.ru. In 2007, Habrahabr received two nominations in the ROTOR contest, which awards prizes to Russian-language web projects. Habrahabr was nominated for the Discovery of the Year and Online Community of the Year prizes. The website's author, Denis Kryuchkov, was nominated for the Producer of the Year prize. In 2009, the website was again nominated for the Online Community of the Year prize.
Sections
Blogs
The blogs comprise three sections: theme-specific, personal and corporate blogs. Each team blog consists of two sections, both of which contain entries that go by the moniker "habratopiki" in the Habr environment. The first section, titled "zahabrennye", broadcasts entries that have received high approval from users of the website. The second section, called "othabrennye", contains habratopiki that have received disapproval by users of the Habr platform. Topic-specific blogs, which go by the name "Haby", include sections devoted to programming, IT security, DIY projects, self-care, popular science, open source software, vintage hardware, game development, transportation, programming language-specific threads, and others. Habr's corporate blogs are authored by companies that include Google, Yandex, Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and ABBYY, among others.
Since the autumn of 2010 has hosted a questions and answers service, similar to Google services FAQ. In this section, any user can ask questions about IT-related topics and receive answers from other members of the project. In 2013, the Q&A section separated from the main portal Habrahbr, and can now be found under a section that from the main Habr portal.
People
The "people" section provides statistics on registered users and includes user rating, built on the basis of their habrasily. In the present karmagraf - a graph showing the cumulative change indicators karma users.
Corporate
Rating companies, one way or another connected with the sphere of high technologies. Basis rating - the assessment by users of a particular company.
The section devoted to industry job boards. All resumes and vacancies divided by sector. Position can accommodate only a user with a non-negative karma. Summary Users with negative karma will not appear in the list summary.
Sandbox
Sandbox is designed for posts from read-only users. Posts get there from users who have not yet received access to commenting and creating posts without pre-moderation. After hitting the post in the sandbox it is to see someone from "zahabrennyh," and if he is interested in the post, it will be added to the main section.
Mechanisms
Karma - The karma is a value assigned to each user. It can only be changed by other users. It is a form of community-driven moderation, since a user's karma level determines their privileges. To publish posts, for example, users must have a positive karma value.
Rating - The rating is another value assigned to each user. Rating depends on Karma, positive and negative votes of other users for posts and comments. However, the exact algorithm has not been disclosed by the website.
Voting for topics and comments - This allows users to show their opinion about posts.
