entire site hacked. RIP better to post on here instead. hope no one registered.
>>1664 (OP)
And nothing of value was lost.
I had a really sick thread on there before it got nuked. All my fucking (you)s, ruined!
Anonymous :
9 days ago :
No.1679
>>1681
>>1679
there are only 5 websites now: reddit, twitter, youtube, facebook, instagram
Kind of interesting how much of a non-event it is. The corporate takeover of the internet and its population with social media phone users has really defanged that old beast, huh?
Anonymous :
9 days ago :
No.1681
>>1683 >>1684
>>1681
God I hate the internet. It used to be Newgrounds, Wikipedia, and a million forums and chats. Really went to shit in 2007.
>>1679
Kind of interesting how much of a non-event it is. The corporate takeover of the internet and its population with social media phone users has really defanged that old beast, huh?
there are only 5 websites now: reddit, twitter, youtube, facebook, instagram
>>1681
>>1679
there are only 5 websites now: reddit, twitter, youtube, facebook, instagram
Exactly. That's why >>1675>>1664 (OP)
And nothing of value was lost.
is wrong, 4chan is the final nail in the coffin for the old, true, free web. Now it's like 10 'apps'.
Anonymous :
9 days ago :
No.1687
>>1690
>>1687
I think 2007 vs 2012 is like the real inflection point vs the center of mass shifting. In 2007 you had not just the iPhone, but Facebook and Twitter taking off and people started to make careers out of YouTube. By 2012 the transformation was complete. I distinctly remember in 2012 when Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars and I thought it was insane because I was subconsciously hoping the fever on vapid bullshit was going to break, but that's really just when it locked in as the norm. In the years in between it was basically impossible to socialize without using FB or Snapchat. And now we have TikTik rotting brains even faster, while reddit has thoroughly killed boring normies forums and Discord eliminated the need for niche interesting ones.
>>1684
>>1681
God I hate the internet. It used to be Newgrounds, Wikipedia, and a million forums and chats. Really went to shit in 2007.
I'd say the rot started setting in the 2010s, yeah iPhones came around 2007 but hadn't completely ruined everything just yet. The internet was still fun until about 2012 for me.
>>1687
>>1684
I'd say the rot started setting in the 2010s, yeah iPhones came around 2007 but hadn't completely ruined everything just yet. The internet was still fun until about 2012 for me.
I think 2007 vs 2012 is like the real inflection point vs the center of mass shifting. In 2007 you had not just the iPhone, but Facebook and Twitter taking off and people started to make careers out of YouTube. By 2012 the transformation was complete. I distinctly remember in 2012 when Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars and I thought it was insane because I was subconsciously hoping the fever on vapid bullshit was going to break, but that's really just when it locked in as the norm. In the years in between it was basically impossible to socialize without using FB or Snapchat. And now we have TikTik rotting brains even faster, while reddit has thoroughly killed boring normies forums and Discord eliminated the need for niche interesting ones.
Kiwifarms has all the leaks archived. The janny board, emails, bans, source code etc.. Pretty muted event tbh. If I wasn't able to torrent I'd leave the Internet entirely.
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1738
>>1740
>>1738
Seems like the hacker(s) got root access to the server which allows them full access to the website source code (available because it's seemingly written in uncompiled, unminified PHP) and the database.
The site operators will probably be able to get access to their server back through their hosting provider, but it's unclear how much damage the hacker(s) did while they had full access to the server, and if they put the site back online again it could immediately be compromised again by the same exploit.
If 4chan had competent technical staff or sysadmins then they could close the remote hole and get the site more or less up and running again, but the fact that this exploit happened implies that they don't. It seems that the website has basically been running without maintenance since it was sold by m00t, which is extremely negligent and implies that there is no-one on the 4chan staff really capable of technically administering the site. So they will need to bring someone onboard to put the pieces back together, which will be expensive and probably take a week or so at a minimum.
Is it really gone for good? How is that even possible?
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1740
>>1741
>>1740
From the way I see, wouldn't the best solution for the staff be to switch to vichan? You don't have to be a technical wizard to switch imageboard engines, plus, it would unironically improve 4chan.
>>1738
Is it really gone for good? How is that even possible?
Seems like the hacker(s) got root access to the server which allows them full access to the website source code (available because it's seemingly written in uncompiled, unminified PHP) and the database.
The site operators will probably be able to get access to their server back through their hosting provider, but it's unclear how much damage the hacker(s) did while they had full access to the server, and if they put the site back online again it could immediately be compromised again by the same exploit.
If 4chan had competent technical staff or sysadmins then they could close the remote hole and get the site more or less up and running again, but the fact that this exploit happened implies that they don't. It seems that the website has basically been running without maintenance since it was sold by m00t, which is extremely negligent and implies that there is no-one on the 4chan staff really capable of technically administering the site. So they will need to bring someone onboard to put the pieces back together, which will be expensive and probably take a week or so at a minimum.
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1741
>>1742
>>1741
I think they will be reluctant to do so, they probably are hoping to reconstitute the boards with all their posts intact. It doesn't really matter for /pol/ but for the smaller / slower boards starting again with a blank catalog would be pretty brutal.
Also whatever else you think about 4chan it was actually a pretty ergonomic website in certain ways while vichan kinda sucks to use.
And they would need to reimplement all their features like the 4chan pass and their advertising and their spam filtering and so on.
Not really going to happen.
>>1740
>>1738
Seems like the hacker(s) got root access to the server which allows them full access to the website source code (available because it's seemingly written in uncompiled, unminified PHP) and the database.
The site operators will probably be able to get access to their server back through their hosting provider, but it's unclear how much damage the hacker(s) did while they had full access to the server, and if they put the site back online again it could immediately be compromised again by the same exploit.
If 4chan had competent technical staff or sysadmins then they could close the remote hole and get the site more or less up and running again, but the fact that this exploit happened implies that they don't. It seems that the website has basically been running without maintenance since it was sold by m00t, which is extremely negligent and implies that there is no-one on the 4chan staff really capable of technically administering the site. So they will need to bring someone onboard to put the pieces back together, which will be expensive and probably take a week or so at a minimum.
From the way I see, wouldn't the best solution for the staff be to switch to vichan? You don't have to be a technical wizard to switch imageboard engines, plus, it would unironically improve 4chan.
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1742
>>1743
>>1742
That's their only option, realistically speaking.
Jannies can't code, and were effectively a cargo cult running 4chan. I don't think anybody would volunteer to fix up 10 years worth of exploits and spaghetti code; just so they can associate themselves with the evil Qanon site. I'd also add, that I doubt they were even keeping backups, so when the jannies "fix" 4chan and start it up again you shouldn't be surprised when we lose a bunch of digits and go back to a 2015 archive.
>>1741
>>1740
From the way I see, wouldn't the best solution for the staff be to switch to vichan? You don't have to be a technical wizard to switch imageboard engines, plus, it would unironically improve 4chan.
I think they will be reluctant to do so, they probably are hoping to reconstitute the boards with all their posts intact. It doesn't really matter for /pol/ but for the smaller / slower boards starting again with a blank catalog would be pretty brutal.
Also whatever else you think about 4chan it was actually a pretty ergonomic website in certain ways while vichan kinda sucks to use.
And they would need to reimplement all their features like the 4chan pass and their advertising and their spam filtering and so on.
Not really going to happen.
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1743
>>1744
>>1743
tbf if the exploit really was an old ghostscript install that is a pretty trivially solvable problem.
the concern is that with the source in the open and the ancient state of the deployment being publically known that someone will just come along in a week or a month and find another RCE
>>2576>>1743
>lose a bunch of digits
Oh no! And on that bombshell...
>>1742
>>1741
I think they will be reluctant to do so, they probably are hoping to reconstitute the boards with all their posts intact. It doesn't really matter for /pol/ but for the smaller / slower boards starting again with a blank catalog would be pretty brutal.
Also whatever else you think about 4chan it was actually a pretty ergonomic website in certain ways while vichan kinda sucks to use.
And they would need to reimplement all their features like the 4chan pass and their advertising and their spam filtering and so on.
Not really going to happen.
That's their only option, realistically speaking.
Jannies can't code, and were effectively a cargo cult running 4chan. I don't think anybody would volunteer to fix up 10 years worth of exploits and spaghetti code; just so they can associate themselves with the evil Qanon site. I'd also add, that I doubt they were even keeping backups, so when the jannies "fix" 4chan and start it up again you shouldn't be surprised when we lose a bunch of digits and go back to a 2015 archive.
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1744
>>1745
>>1744
That's why they should really just switch to vichan and rice it to look like 4chan.
>>1743
>>1742
That's their only option, realistically speaking.
Jannies can't code, and were effectively a cargo cult running 4chan. I don't think anybody would volunteer to fix up 10 years worth of exploits and spaghetti code; just so they can associate themselves with the evil Qanon site. I'd also add, that I doubt they were even keeping backups, so when the jannies "fix" 4chan and start it up again you shouldn't be surprised when we lose a bunch of digits and go back to a 2015 archive.
tbf if the exploit really was an old ghostscript install that is a pretty trivially solvable problem.
the concern is that with the source in the open and the ancient state of the deployment being publically known that someone will just come along in a week or a month and find another RCE
>>1744
>>1743
tbf if the exploit really was an old ghostscript install that is a pretty trivially solvable problem.
the concern is that with the source in the open and the ancient state of the deployment being publically known that someone will just come along in a week or a month and find another RCE
That's why they should really just switch to vichan and rice it to look like 4chan.
going to miss /lit/ so much
Chill guys it's gonna come back up the 4chan account on xitter said so !! Coping
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1790
>>1791
>>1790
> I don’t think it’s gone, like, forever, they’ll probably find someone who will fix it eventually, but the lack of reaction to this really shows how homogenized the internet has become by like 15 websites at most.
I wrote a bit about this here
https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1k04wc0
4chan was starting to get pretty stale but it was still somewhat unique when compared to every other major site that is really just an empty highway filled with corporate billboards. But they get brought down because every staff member since Hiro bought the website hasn’t bothered to fix up the code at all so they get hacked by a splinter /qa/ website which is only dedicated to spamming soyjaks, calling each other slurs and raiding random Reddit boards without long-term impact. Still, I guess this was bound to happen. I don’t think it’s gone, like, forever, they’ll probably find someone who will fix it eventually, but the lack of reaction to this really shows how homogenized the internet has become by like 15 websites at most.
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1791
>>1822
>>1791
Nice post, anon. 4chan, as something of a final vestige of the old internet, was never meant to be understood by the paragons of traditional media. I think history will remember 4chan as a pressure-release valve in the wake of hyper streamlined content and late-stage Web 2.0 slop. As vulgar as 4chan was, there were moments of brilliance that you just don't see on shiddit and xitter.
>>1826>>1791
Shiny tea leaves
>>1790
4chan was starting to get pretty stale but it was still somewhat unique when compared to every other major site that is really just an empty highway filled with corporate billboards. But they get brought down because every staff member since Hiro bought the website hasn’t bothered to fix up the code at all so they get hacked by a splinter /qa/ website which is only dedicated to spamming soyjaks, calling each other slurs and raiding random Reddit boards without long-term impact. Still, I guess this was bound to happen. I don’t think it’s gone, like, forever, they’ll probably find someone who will fix it eventually, but the lack of reaction to this really shows how homogenized the internet has become by like 15 websites at most.
> I don’t think it’s gone, like, forever, they’ll probably find someone who will fix it eventually, but the lack of reaction to this really shows how homogenized the internet has become by like 15 websites at most.
I wrote a bit about this here
https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1k04wc0
>>1791
>>1790
> I don’t think it’s gone, like, forever, they’ll probably find someone who will fix it eventually, but the lack of reaction to this really shows how homogenized the internet has become by like 15 websites at most.
I wrote a bit about this here
https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1k04wc0
Nice post, anon. 4chan, as something of a final vestige of the old internet, was never meant to be understood by the paragons of traditional media. I think history will remember 4chan as a pressure-release valve in the wake of hyper streamlined content and late-stage Web 2.0 slop. As vulgar as 4chan was, there were moments of brilliance that you just don't see on shiddit and xitter.
>>1791
>>1790
> I don’t think it’s gone, like, forever, they’ll probably find someone who will fix it eventually, but the lack of reaction to this really shows how homogenized the internet has become by like 15 websites at most.
I wrote a bit about this here
https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1k04wc0
Shiny tea leaves
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1881
>>1893
>>1881
Unfortunately we are a teeny tiny minority. The internet is overhwelmingly those surface level slop enjoyers and those trying to make a buck off them. It probably has been for two decades, but for the kind of person who remembers the word netizen it is a net-dystopia now.
>>1977>>1881
>I didn't go on there because I didn't want to have to see fucked up shit just pop up at random
On /lit/ this basically never happened. At least in the last few years when I was there. And for /pol/ I created a script that hides all threads with less than 30 posts, which eliminated almost all gore. It still ended up being mostly noise but with the occasional rare thread that one wouldn't really find anywhere else.
Like others have mentioned, the most surprising part is how it just happened. Not only that it got hacked to the point of closing down but that there was no reaction to it. It's almost like people are taking it like a meme, just like everything that comes out of 4chan from their perspective.
I didn't go on there because I didn't want to have to see fucked up shit just pop up at random, but even then a lot of the high quality memes, greentext and insight that got out of it in the form of screenshots was oftentimes the best of the best. I think that if it's truly gone for good, it will be a huge loss for everybody with a minimal amount of media literacy and a desire to experience the internet beyond instagram reels or the front page of reddit.
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1893
>>1919
>>1893
I know it's basically akin to publicly embarrasing yourself to say this here but I was born several years after 9/11 so I never got to know a different kind of Internet. I consider myself lucky for using a PC regularly instead of exclusively my phone and knowing that just because something is online it doesn't mean it will be there forever. But in a place like this I'm easily the most ignorant about what the online world was before it became brain dead.
>>1881
Like others have mentioned, the most surprising part is how it just happened. Not only that it got hacked to the point of closing down but that there was no reaction to it. It's almost like people are taking it like a meme, just like everything that comes out of 4chan from their perspective.
I didn't go on there because I didn't want to have to see fucked up shit just pop up at random, but even then a lot of the high quality memes, greentext and insight that got out of it in the form of screenshots was oftentimes the best of the best. I think that if it's truly gone for good, it will be a huge loss for everybody with a minimal amount of media literacy and a desire to experience the internet beyond instagram reels or the front page of reddit.
Unfortunately we are a teeny tiny minority. The internet is overhwelmingly those surface level slop enjoyers and those trying to make a buck off them. It probably has been for two decades, but for the kind of person who remembers the word netizen it is a net-dystopia now.
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1917
>>1978
>>1917
This is an imageboard (like 4chan and similar places) where you can post images (or memes, whatever) and discuss them. Everyone is anonymous and on top of that there's no way to tell users apart. If you want to reference a specific post, you have to manually write the number of that post after two chevrons (the greentext sign ">"). So, to reference your post, I wrote >> 1917 but without the spacing.
>>1982>>1917
>So what exactly is this place?
Not sure but from what I've seen the posters here seem to be mostly recruited from r/redscarepod, which would make this place way less schizophrenic and more neurotypical and left-leaning than 4chan.
>>2189>>1917
Test
So what exactly is this place?
>>1893
>>1881
Unfortunately we are a teeny tiny minority. The internet is overhwelmingly those surface level slop enjoyers and those trying to make a buck off them. It probably has been for two decades, but for the kind of person who remembers the word netizen it is a net-dystopia now.
I know it's basically akin to publicly embarrasing yourself to say this here but I was born several years after 9/11 so I never got to know a different kind of Internet. I consider myself lucky for using a PC regularly instead of exclusively my phone and knowing that just because something is online it doesn't mean it will be there forever. But in a place like this I'm easily the most ignorant about what the online world was before it became brain dead.
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1977
>>1981
>>1977
Yeah from what I've been reading now it seems there were legitimately calm places in 4chan which I didn't get to see because I avoided the more notoriously shitty boards. If it ever goes back up (which I doubt, and if it does it will most likely not be the same anymore) I may give it a try.
>>1881
Like others have mentioned, the most surprising part is how it just happened. Not only that it got hacked to the point of closing down but that there was no reaction to it. It's almost like people are taking it like a meme, just like everything that comes out of 4chan from their perspective.
I didn't go on there because I didn't want to have to see fucked up shit just pop up at random, but even then a lot of the high quality memes, greentext and insight that got out of it in the form of screenshots was oftentimes the best of the best. I think that if it's truly gone for good, it will be a huge loss for everybody with a minimal amount of media literacy and a desire to experience the internet beyond instagram reels or the front page of reddit.
>I didn't go on there because I didn't want to have to see fucked up shit just pop up at random
On /lit/ this basically never happened. At least in the last few years when I was there. And for /pol/ I created a script that hides all threads with less than 30 posts, which eliminated almost all gore. It still ended up being mostly noise but with the occasional rare thread that one wouldn't really find anywhere else.
>>1917
So what exactly is this place?
This is an imageboard (like 4chan and similar places) where you can post images (or memes, whatever) and discuss them. Everyone is anonymous and on top of that there's no way to tell users apart. If you want to reference a specific post, you have to manually write the number of that post after two chevrons (the greentext sign ">"). So, to reference your post, I wrote >> 1917 but without the spacing.
>>1977
>>1881
>I didn't go on there because I didn't want to have to see fucked up shit just pop up at random
On /lit/ this basically never happened. At least in the last few years when I was there. And for /pol/ I created a script that hides all threads with less than 30 posts, which eliminated almost all gore. It still ended up being mostly noise but with the occasional rare thread that one wouldn't really find anywhere else.
Yeah from what I've been reading now it seems there were legitimately calm places in 4chan which I didn't get to see because I avoided the more notoriously shitty boards. If it ever goes back up (which I doubt, and if it does it will most likely not be the same anymore) I may give it a try.
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1982
>>1985
>>1982
True, but redscarepod has a lot of overlap with r/stupidpol, which is primarily a socialist sub but there are a lot of people on the center and right too, so we might start seeing different types of people as more join.
>>1990>>1982 (Not him btw)
Never knew about /r/rsbooks but I knew about redscarepod.
/lit/ was ironically good because most people there clearly disliked reading.
All them were forced into it by circumstance, and would gladly have taken any other path (even podcasts!) had their needs been met. The real core and soul of literature comes from desperation and crisis. It is so strange and funny that academics believe they might understand Huysmans when they have never had a spiritual crisis of their own. And that there is no book without the crisis, and lots of crises without books. Most "book lovers" are absolutely hopeless because if they see a homeless man tweaking on the sidewalk their only thought ever will be "eww gross!"
>>1917
So what exactly is this place?
>So what exactly is this place?
Not sure but from what I've seen the posters here seem to be mostly recruited from r/redscarepod, which would make this place way less schizophrenic and more neurotypical and left-leaning than 4chan.
Anonymous :
8 days ago :
No.1985
>>3212
I am glad to find a /lit/ replacement of sorts. /lit/ was terrible at times but it did get me back into reading and so I will always have a soft spot for it. Picrel is the last image I downloaded from /lit/.
>>1985
lol I guess we are all fish in the same pond. r/stupidpol and /his/ were my intro to Marx and left-wing politics.
I will miss /lit/, /his/, /sci/ and /x/. This site looks like it may be a replacement for the first two.
>>1982
>>1917
>So what exactly is this place?
Not sure but from what I've seen the posters here seem to be mostly recruited from r/redscarepod, which would make this place way less schizophrenic and more neurotypical and left-leaning than 4chan.
True, but redscarepod has a lot of overlap with r/stupidpol, which is primarily a socialist sub but there are a lot of people on the center and right too, so we might start seeing different types of people as more join.
>>1982
>>1917
>So what exactly is this place?
Not sure but from what I've seen the posters here seem to be mostly recruited from r/redscarepod, which would make this place way less schizophrenic and more neurotypical and left-leaning than 4chan.
(Not him btw)
Never knew about /r/rsbooks but I knew about redscarepod.
/lit/ was ironically good because most people there clearly disliked reading.
All them were forced into it by circumstance, and would gladly have taken any other path (even podcasts!) had their needs been met. The real core and soul of literature comes from desperation and crisis. It is so strange and funny that academics believe they might understand Huysmans when they have never had a spiritual crisis of their own. And that there is no book without the crisis, and lots of crises without books. Most "book lovers" are absolutely hopeless because if they see a homeless man tweaking on the sidewalk their only thought ever will be "eww gross!"
Yo No.1984is that Sirius? The dog? You know. From 9/11. Yeah, the constellation. They are fascinated by it. It’s their symbolism. It’s what’s on the dollar bills around the pyramid’s capstone. We are ruled by the most vile people you could ever imagine, and we are but puppets on their stage following along to their script.
Oh, also 4chan is down I guess. Silly heh heh guys look I’m so schizo and quirky and shit.
Y’know this is the problem with modern internet discourse. Everyone tries to derail the conversation to something relating to themselves. It plagued 4chan these last few years. In that sense, I think the previous post conveyed it quite well, tho I don’t know if it was necessary.
Anonymous :
7 days ago :
No.2266
>>2274
>>2266
Nice GET.
I think the site itself is going to come back, their site went from a Cloudflare cached page to a global 503, so someone is working on things. Whether it will ever be the same remains to be seen, though.
>>2275>>2266
/g/ had good generals, all the other shitposters deserved to die though.
>>2302>>2266
/v/ fucking stunk, but /g/ could actually be pretty useful sometimes. I switched to Loonix recently, and I had been using the Linux general on there to hammer out some of the issues I'd been having.
This is how it ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper. Where are my /g/ and /v/cels gonna go now...
Anonymous :
7 days ago :
No.2274
>>2284
>>2274
part of me wishes that 4chan never comes back. it's been rotting for a while and you can't change a slowly rotting corpse. but something new and completely-from-the-ground-up has more potential for improvement.
>>2266
This is how it ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper. Where are my /g/ and /v/cels gonna go now...
Nice GET.
I think the site itself is going to come back, their site went from a Cloudflare cached page to a global 503, so someone is working on things. Whether it will ever be the same remains to be seen, though.
Anonymous :
7 days ago :
No.2284
>>2384
>>2284
The problem to me is that what comes after 4chan already exists, it's soyjak, and soyjak is 4chan without any of the good parts, the slow boards. It was made by zoomers who pretend to know what 4chan was actually about. Either it will be that, or another walled garden. So we're talking about the death of the free internet, or the death of a free internet that's actually useful.
>>2399>>2284
4chan sucked, but it was still better than most everywhere else. There's basically no chance of a new text-based social site that allows free speech, has a decent amount of posters, and isn't explicitly conservative coded.
>>2274
>>2266
Nice GET.
I think the site itself is going to come back, their site went from a Cloudflare cached page to a global 503, so someone is working on things. Whether it will ever be the same remains to be seen, though.
part of me wishes that 4chan never comes back. it's been rotting for a while and you can't change a slowly rotting corpse. but something new and completely-from-the-ground-up has more potential for improvement.
Anonymous :
7 days ago :
No.2302
>>2386
>>2302
Yeah, stuff like /pcbg/ /fwt/ /fglt/ /dpt/ /twg/ could be useful and would have useful OPs/Links
>>2266
This is how it ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper. Where are my /g/ and /v/cels gonna go now...
/v/ fucking stunk, but /g/ could actually be pretty useful sometimes. I switched to Loonix recently, and I had been using the Linux general on there to hammer out some of the issues I'd been having.
Anonymous :
6 days ago :
No.2382
>>2648
>>2382
/lit/ was one of the better boards though it had gone downhill a bit recently. It's a shame that so many niche boards are scattered with nowhere to recongregate in significant numbers. The problem with "just go to Xchan bro" is there are several options and none have a large userbase. As shit as 4chan could be it was popular enough to attract lots of anons. Getting a reply in 20 minutes vs in 2 days.
The sad part is even when ot comes back it will never be the same. RIP
>>3374>>2382
I always found it amusing how newfags on /v/ would treat /x/ as a pariah and discuss its subjective poor quality, as if /v/ were a bastion of high-intellect discussion, sat upon a pedestal with the worth to judge anybody else. /x/ was better than many boards at staying true to its intended topic of discourse.
On another note, has anyone heard of an altchan with sheep in the name? Or maybe it was a forum.
I miss /x/ and /lit/. You could always find rare books and stories that are really hard to find in other corners of the internet. The level of discussion was never very high, but that was not why I frequented there.
4chan's allure for me was these unfiltered voices and random ideas that do not fit in narratives or well-eatabliahed groups. It was just the internet thinking about itself. That I will miss
Anonymous :
6 days ago :
No.2384
>>2385
>>2384
I must be living under a rock because I had not heard of soyjack/sharty until the 4chan takedown. Is it actually that popular?
>>2528
>>2284
>>2274
part of me wishes that 4chan never comes back. it's been rotting for a while and you can't change a slowly rotting corpse. but something new and completely-from-the-ground-up has more potential for improvement.
The problem to me is that what comes after 4chan already exists, it's soyjak, and soyjak is 4chan without any of the good parts, the slow boards. It was made by zoomers who pretend to know what 4chan was actually about. Either it will be that, or another walled garden. So we're talking about the death of the free internet, or the death of a free internet that's actually useful.
Anonymous :
6 days ago :
No.2385
>>2397
>>2385
Yeah, it's pretty popular among rw xitte kids, and their discord pedos.
>>2384
>>2284
The problem to me is that what comes after 4chan already exists, it's soyjak, and soyjak is 4chan without any of the good parts, the slow boards. It was made by zoomers who pretend to know what 4chan was actually about. Either it will be that, or another walled garden. So we're talking about the death of the free internet, or the death of a free internet that's actually useful.
I must be living under a rock because I had not heard of soyjack/sharty until the 4chan takedown. Is it actually that popular?
Anonymous :
6 days ago :
No.2386
>>2532
>>2386
/csg/ convinced me that there's no longer any reason to every buy American, Japanese, or Korean consumer electronics ever again. Also that the Chinese World Order will soon be upon us.
>>2302
>>2266
/v/ fucking stunk, but /g/ could actually be pretty useful sometimes. I switched to Loonix recently, and I had been using the Linux general on there to hammer out some of the issues I'd been having.
Yeah, stuff like /pcbg/ /fwt/ /fglt/ /dpt/ /twg/ could be useful and would have useful OPs/Links
Anonymous :
6 days ago :
No.2398
>>2474
>>2398
I once dreamt that everyone on 4chan holed up in a big complex of abandoned industrial buildings after an unspecified event. petty arguments were common still, but there also were real anime girls hanging around, and a general jovial atmosphere.
this was 2014, it feels so distant now.
>>3066>>2398
Lol I haven't dreamt about 4chan yet, but I quit reddit for a year (like blocked the site completely) a while back and I noticed I was constantly dreaming about rsp, which is the same phenomenon that happened when I quit drinking. Never happened before that or after I unblocked it and started using it occasionally. It's pretty fucked up that there is a part of my brain that seemingly permanently yells at me for not rotting my mind online
>>3153>>2398
>but they had an uneasy false feel to them.
No schizos?
Anyone else dreaming about 4chan?
Last night I dreamed that a couple boards were back up and running, but they had an uneasy false feel to them.
>>2284
>>2274
part of me wishes that 4chan never comes back. it's been rotting for a while and you can't change a slowly rotting corpse. but something new and completely-from-the-ground-up has more potential for improvement.
4chan sucked, but it was still better than most everywhere else. There's basically no chance of a new text-based social site that allows free speech, has a decent amount of posters, and isn't explicitly conservative coded.
4chan will be back
it'll be gone for longer than we expect but back to business as usual a few days/weeks after it returns
>>2398
Anyone else dreaming about 4chan?
Last night I dreamed that a couple boards were back up and running, but they had an uneasy false feel to them.
I once dreamt that everyone on 4chan holed up in a big complex of abandoned industrial buildings after an unspecified event. petty arguments were common still, but there also were real anime girls hanging around, and a general jovial atmosphere.
this was 2014, it feels so distant now.
Anonymous :
6 days ago :
No.2482
>>2568
>>2482
Ew a race reductionist.
>>2828>>2482
When I said that people in the center and right could start joining soon I didn't mean it as a bad thing whatsoever. I myself am not politically defined as of yet, that's why I think it's good for more people to find this place. Also yeah white people go brrrr and I'm as white as they come but I hope you can see the irony in what you said (>>2568).
>1985
Eww, class reductionists. Why are white people like this?
>>2474
>>2398
I once dreamt that everyone on 4chan holed up in a big complex of abandoned industrial buildings after an unspecified event. petty arguments were common still, but there also were real anime girls hanging around, and a general jovial atmosphere.
this was 2014, it feels so distant now.
Construction Cancellation Order goes hard
>>1683
>>2384
>>2284
The problem to me is that what comes after 4chan already exists, it's soyjak, and soyjak is 4chan without any of the good parts, the slow boards. It was made by zoomers who pretend to know what 4chan was actually about. Either it will be that, or another walled garden. So we're talking about the death of the free internet, or the death of a free internet that's actually useful.
the world really is just shit sovlless slop now isn't it? what do i even do, except turn inwards and write books or something. which nobody will read by the way
where is /diy/ refuge
Anonymous :
5 days ago :
No.2568
>>2828
>>2482
When I said that people in the center and right could start joining soon I didn't mean it as a bad thing whatsoever. I myself am not politically defined as of yet, that's why I think it's good for more people to find this place. Also yeah white people go brrrr and I'm as white as they come but I hope you can see the irony in what you said (>>2568).
>>2482
>1985
Eww, class reductionists. Why are white people like this?
Ew a race reductionist.
>>1743
>>1742
That's their only option, realistically speaking.
Jannies can't code, and were effectively a cargo cult running 4chan. I don't think anybody would volunteer to fix up 10 years worth of exploits and spaghetti code; just so they can associate themselves with the evil Qanon site. I'd also add, that I doubt they were even keeping backups, so when the jannies "fix" 4chan and start it up again you shouldn't be surprised when we lose a bunch of digits and go back to a 2015 archive.
>lose a bunch of digits
Oh no! And on that bombshell...
Anonymous :
5 days ago :
No.2611
>>2621
>>2611
The beauty of 4chan is that it is (was?) an overall generic board, despite the growing /pol/ slant. Everything -chan since has been "4chan but for [X]es".
Apparently there is sofiechan.com. Never heard of it until today. Though it seems more adjacent to the rationality and accelerationist communities.
>>2611
Apparently there is sofiechan.com. Never heard of it until today. Though it seems more adjacent to the rationality and accelerationist communities.
The beauty of 4chan is that it is (was?) an overall generic board, despite the growing /pol/ slant. Everything -chan since has been "4chan but for [X]es".
I hope it comes back. Anonymous imageboards are important, without it the internet is just walled gardens and status-seekers.
>>2382
I miss /x/ and /lit/. You could always find rare books and stories that are really hard to find in other corners of the internet. The level of discussion was never very high, but that was not why I frequented there.
4chan's allure for me was these unfiltered voices and random ideas that do not fit in narratives or well-eatabliahed groups. It was just the internet thinking about itself. That I will miss
/lit/ was one of the better boards though it had gone downhill a bit recently. It's a shame that so many niche boards are scattered with nowhere to recongregate in significant numbers. The problem with "just go to Xchan bro" is there are several options and none have a large userbase. As shit as 4chan could be it was popular enough to attract lots of anons. Getting a reply in 20 minutes vs in 2 days.
The sad part is even when ot comes back it will never be the same. RIP
No need to shout
>>2665
>requires email
no thanks
>all these ai generated websites trying to consolidate the based 4chan crowd
we're hot commodity
>>2482
>1985
Eww, class reductionists. Why are white people like this?
When I said that people in the center and right could start joining soon I didn't mean it as a bad thing whatsoever. I myself am not politically defined as of yet, that's why I think it's good for more people to find this place. Also yeah white people go brrrr and I'm as white as they come but I hope you can see the irony in what you said (>>2568>>2482
Ew a race reductionist.
).
Anonymous :
3 days ago :
No.2831
>>2890
>>2831
yea, it's mostly tech autists and angst. not bad, but I think petrarchan is ten times better. lainchan may be a little bigger, but the moderation is very strict. they enforce the culture, which ironically hurts posting quality.
>>2693
/pol/ack refugee here, miss /po/ too. /g/ is hanging out at Lainchan, we're comfy. Fuck jannies, glowies tongue my anus.
lainchan looks interesting. Is it mostly full of tech autists?
>>2831
>>2693
lainchan looks interesting. Is it mostly full of tech autists?
yea, it's mostly tech autists and angst. not bad, but I think petrarchan is ten times better. lainchan may be a little bigger, but the moderation is very strict. they enforce the culture, which ironically hurts posting quality.
>>2665
yeah needing to use an email is bad
Man it's crazy how uninteresting the internet is without 4chan. The redscare subs are getting worse and are hardly worth visiting anymore. This place is cool, but there's not a lot of traffic so I can't waste my life here. I guess I'm gonna have to go actually live a real life in the real world. This is some bullshit man.
Anonymous :
3 days ago :
No.2926
>>3170
Does this place keep records or archives? I don't want to kick a thread out forever. Life's weird lately, I'm not ready for the changes, 4chan gone, Pope gone, military spending going up.
>>2926 that's great, there's new users so it feels less gloomy than usual.
>>the moderation is very strict. they enforce the culture, which ironically hurts posting quality.
That just sounds good. Made me curious so I skimmed the rules.
>>5. Don't respond with aggression to perceived flames or trolls (or at all.)
Fucking excellent. Ancient, mostly lost wisdom.
this place needs shiny new features idk
4chniz texboards had hover to view
Anonymous :
2 days ago :
No.2987
>>2989
>>2987
unless it gets untenably slow (like no replies during the day), I don't plan on jumping ship. I hope more have the same mindset.
>>3011>>2987
We've been around for a year before the 4chan shutdown, so I think there will still be here even if they get the big site back online.
>>3040>>2987
Considering how Hiro did jack in maintaining the site and the extent of its damages I begin to doubt if it will ever come back
How long will this board be around for? I'd imagine when 4chud comes back online traffic will fall off a bit, its already slow now
>>2987
How long will this board be around for? I'd imagine when 4chud comes back online traffic will fall off a bit, its already slow now
We've been around for a year before the 4chan shutdown, so I think there will still be here even if they get the big site back online.
I am a 4chan refugee. I will stay. I like it here.
>>2398
Anyone else dreaming about 4chan?
Last night I dreamed that a couple boards were back up and running, but they had an uneasy false feel to them.
Lol I haven't dreamt about 4chan yet, but I quit reddit for a year (like blocked the site completely) a while back and I noticed I was constantly dreaming about rsp, which is the same phenomenon that happened when I quit drinking. Never happened before that or after I unblocked it and started using it occasionally. It's pretty fucked up that there is a part of my brain that seemingly permanently yells at me for not rotting my mind online
I hope it comes back but I'm not planning for it. If Hiro didn't give a shit about maintaining the site and all the staff got doxxed then it's going to be really hard to resurrect it.
Anonymous :
1 day ago :
No.3170
>>3173
>>3170
Right now there's no archive, posts are permanently deleted when they get fall off the catalog. I could add an archive but the board is slow enough that I don't really feel the need. I think the perma-deletion is a feature not a bug though if you really wanted to save a thread of course you could just put it into archive.is or whatever.
There are daily backups but I only really intend to use them to recover the board in case it gets raided or something.
Does this place keep records or archives? I don't want to kick a thread out forever. Life's weird lately, I'm not ready for the changes, 4chan gone, Pope gone, military spending going up.
>>2926
>>the moderation is very strict. they enforce the culture, which ironically hurts posting quality.
That just sounds good. Made me curious so I skimmed the rules.
>>5. Don't respond with aggression to perceived flames or trolls (or at all.)
Fucking excellent. Ancient, mostly lost wisdom.
that's great, there's new users so it feels less gloomy than usual.
Anonymous :
1 day ago :
No.3173
>>3185
>>3173 that's an interesting way to see it, thanks for your reply. I don't have the heart right now for more losses, but this place's nice.
>>3170
Does this place keep records or archives? I don't want to kick a thread out forever. Life's weird lately, I'm not ready for the changes, 4chan gone, Pope gone, military spending going up.
>>2926 that's great, there's new users so it feels less gloomy than usual.
Right now there's no archive, posts are permanently deleted when they get fall off the catalog. I could add an archive but the board is slow enough that I don't really feel the need. I think the perma-deletion is a feature not a bug though if you really wanted to save a thread of course you could just put it into archive.is or whatever.
There are daily backups but I only really intend to use them to recover the board in case it gets raided or something.
>>3173
>>3170
Right now there's no archive, posts are permanently deleted when they get fall off the catalog. I could add an archive but the board is slow enough that I don't really feel the need. I think the perma-deletion is a feature not a bug though if you really wanted to save a thread of course you could just put it into archive.is or whatever.
There are daily backups but I only really intend to use them to recover the board in case it gets raided or something.
that's an interesting way to see it, thanks for your reply. I don't have the heart right now for more losses, but this place's nice.
I am glad to find a /lit/ replacement of sorts. /lit/ was terrible at times but it did get me back into reading and so I will always have a soft spot for it. Picrel is the last image I downloaded from /lit/.
>>1985
>>1982
True, but redscarepod has a lot of overlap with r/stupidpol, which is primarily a socialist sub but there are a lot of people on the center and right too, so we might start seeing different types of people as more join.
lol I guess we are all fish in the same pond. r/stupidpol and /his/ were my intro to Marx and left-wing politics.
I will miss /lit/, /his/, /sci/ and /x/. This site looks like it may be a replacement for the first two.
Anonymous :
1 day ago :
No.3224
>>3226
>>3224
Well it's been posted a fair few places around the web, on reddit, on the archive sites with ghost posting, on twitter, on a few other imageboards. so I'm not sure how else to go about advertising it.
I agree that we're still below the point where it wouldn't be a nice thing to have more activity, but the quality of users is of paramount importance. I think this is an easy thing to screw up when it comes to imageboards.
What would you suggest?
Is anything being done to promote this board? Or is that not something desirable? I think its preferable if it had slightly more activity, but too much activity is also bad like on /pol/ or /v/ moved too fast
Anonymous :
1 day ago :
No.3226
>>3228
>>3226
Different anon, but email select homies. I correspond by email with some guys I met through /lit/, and it's been on my mind to share the site with them, but at the site's current pace it'd be way too easy to recognise each other.
Other forms of direct contact would probably also work, but I dunno how people would react to a message like "hey ur cool wanna come post on my site? ;)" on places like Twitter or Reddit.
Probably better to only have the link publicly visible on pages that someone has to reach relatively deliberately. The current pace is kinda okay anyway.
If there ever is a larger influx of users, it might be useful for the admin to resort to more visible forms of moderation, e.g., public bannings/warnings or thread merges (are thread merges even possible on here?). That'd help make standards clear.
>>3224
Is anything being done to promote this board? Or is that not something desirable? I think its preferable if it had slightly more activity, but too much activity is also bad like on /pol/ or /v/ moved too fast
Well it's been posted a fair few places around the web, on reddit, on the archive sites with ghost posting, on twitter, on a few other imageboards. so I'm not sure how else to go about advertising it.
I agree that we're still below the point where it wouldn't be a nice thing to have more activity, but the quality of users is of paramount importance. I think this is an easy thing to screw up when it comes to imageboards.
What would you suggest?
>>3226
>>3224
Well it's been posted a fair few places around the web, on reddit, on the archive sites with ghost posting, on twitter, on a few other imageboards. so I'm not sure how else to go about advertising it.
I agree that we're still below the point where it wouldn't be a nice thing to have more activity, but the quality of users is of paramount importance. I think this is an easy thing to screw up when it comes to imageboards.
What would you suggest?
Different anon, but email select homies. I correspond by email with some guys I met through /lit/, and it's been on my mind to share the site with them, but at the site's current pace it'd be way too easy to recognise each other.
Other forms of direct contact would probably also work, but I dunno how people would react to a message like "hey ur cool wanna come post on my site? ;)" on places like Twitter or Reddit.
Probably better to only have the link publicly visible on pages that someone has to reach relatively deliberately. The current pace is kinda okay anyway.
If there ever is a larger influx of users, it might be useful for the admin to resort to more visible forms of moderation, e.g., public bannings/warnings or thread merges (are thread merges even possible on here?). That'd help make standards clear.
Since 4chan died I have spent each day on KF hoping to recapture some of that feeling. But this has totally failed. 4chan gives this weird sense of tapping directly into humanity's psyche and other sites don't come close.
Anonymous :
1 day ago :
No.3249
>>3251
>>3249
>play in the sewer
>wtf why does it smell like shit
Popular boards are containment boards. 4chan has always been digging through shit looking for diamonds. The diamonds were still there, just a lot more shit.
Niche boards were the real attraction. Everyone complains about how much beter things used to be and maybe they were but look around you, everything is crappier now, not just 4chan. At least, all in one place with millions of users, you could discuss vidya, books, conspiracies, diy projects, movies, fitness, news, tech, etc. with a fairly decent stream of posts coming in. The breadth was the appeal and what is sorely missing from other chans. Entire boards have no equivalent not to mention countless generals and types of threads.
>>3264>>3249
If you looked through warosu you could see a surprisingly high number of posts on /ck/ were getting removed, they worked quite hard to keep it a decent quality board.
>>3359>>3249
>Any ideas on how a community like 4chan could be managed/nurtured properly?
unironically shadowbanning. though i imagine implementing it on a site where every post has a number would be difficult.
Any ideas on how a community like 4chan could be managed/nurtured properly? I miss the place but it was clearly in terminal decline.
I used to agree with the common wisdom that quality is relative to the size of the community, but I don't buy that anymore. /mu/ used to be an interesting, worthwhile place to visit even at its peak popularity but it lost a lot of its users over the years. Instead of reverting to a slower but more interesting board made up of discerning hobbyists, it ended up with the worst of both worlds: low post quality AND low post counts (especially if we exclude KPOP threads). To me, this seemed to be the direction many 4chan boards were heading, as most of them were slowing down yet also dropping in quality. It's like there's something wrong with the type of person it was attracting or it was driving away interesting people or something.
Fast boards like /v/ are (rightfully) shat on but you could actually have decent conversations on them before. A few months back I tried making a thead for New Vegas mod reccomendations, I got no replies so I checked the archives and stumbled on a NV thread from 2017 and started reading through it. In 2017 there would have been absolutely nothing remarkable about this thread since it was just people chatting about the game but seeing it in 2025 was shocking and really made me realise how much the quality had dropped off, a mediocore thread taken for granted from a decade ago now seemed like an unattainable high standard.
On the other hand some boards like /ck/ and /vr/ seemed to maintain a reasonable level of quality without much intervention at all, so idk man.
>>3249
Any ideas on how a community like 4chan could be managed/nurtured properly? I miss the place but it was clearly in terminal decline.
I used to agree with the common wisdom that quality is relative to the size of the community, but I don't buy that anymore. /mu/ used to be an interesting, worthwhile place to visit even at its peak popularity but it lost a lot of its users over the years. Instead of reverting to a slower but more interesting board made up of discerning hobbyists, it ended up with the worst of both worlds: low post quality AND low post counts (especially if we exclude KPOP threads). To me, this seemed to be the direction many 4chan boards were heading, as most of them were slowing down yet also dropping in quality. It's like there's something wrong with the type of person it was attracting or it was driving away interesting people or something.
Fast boards like /v/ are (rightfully) shat on but you could actually have decent conversations on them before. A few months back I tried making a thead for New Vegas mod reccomendations, I got no replies so I checked the archives and stumbled on a NV thread from 2017 and started reading through it. In 2017 there would have been absolutely nothing remarkable about this thread since it was just people chatting about the game but seeing it in 2025 was shocking and really made me realise how much the quality had dropped off, a mediocore thread taken for granted from a decade ago now seemed like an unattainable high standard.
On the other hand some boards like /ck/ and /vr/ seemed to maintain a reasonable level of quality without much intervention at all, so idk man.
>play in the sewer
>wtf why does it smell like shit
Popular boards are containment boards. 4chan has always been digging through shit looking for diamonds. The diamonds were still there, just a lot more shit.
Niche boards were the real attraction. Everyone complains about how much beter things used to be and maybe they were but look around you, everything is crappier now, not just 4chan. At least, all in one place with millions of users, you could discuss vidya, books, conspiracies, diy projects, movies, fitness, news, tech, etc. with a fairly decent stream of posts coming in. The breadth was the appeal and what is sorely missing from other chans. Entire boards have no equivalent not to mention countless generals and types of threads.
>3249
I think/mu/ was a victim of cultural and technological changes that made the way we engage with and talk about music worse.
Anonymous :
23 hours ago :
No.3255
>>3257
>>3255
Same, I bet they're trying to implement the quoted post preview functionality without JavaScript but it's showing the linked post's text unconditionally. Sad!
>>3260 >>3266>>3255
Oh, did that and it looks much better, thanks
Admin sorry to bugreport but the latest update seems to have broken something for Firefox users, at least in my case separate posts are now jumbled together and displayed as one post. With Chrome it looks right.
>>3255
Admin sorry to bugreport but the latest update seems to have broken something for Firefox users, at least in my case separate posts are now jumbled together and displayed as one post. With Chrome it looks right.
Same, I bet they're trying to implement the quoted post preview functionality without JavaScript but it's showing the linked post's text unconditionally. Sad!
>>3240
Plainchant v0.5.5 is worse than v0.5.4 with the small text of post replies
>>3255Admin sorry to bugreport but the latest update seems to have broken something for Firefox users, at least in my case separate posts are now jumbled together and displayed as one post. With Chrome it looks right.
If you press cmd-shift-r or ctrl-shift-r it will force download the new stylesheet
Anonymous :
20 hours ago :
No.3264
>>3366
>>3264
But they removed the Big Texan steak challenge livestream threads and that's an honest fucking tragedy.
>>3369>>3264
/ck/ was one of the few boards where the mods actually did their job and took to deleting low effort bait threads and troll posts...most of the time anyway
>>3249
Any ideas on how a community like 4chan could be managed/nurtured properly? I miss the place but it was clearly in terminal decline.
I used to agree with the common wisdom that quality is relative to the size of the community, but I don't buy that anymore. /mu/ used to be an interesting, worthwhile place to visit even at its peak popularity but it lost a lot of its users over the years. Instead of reverting to a slower but more interesting board made up of discerning hobbyists, it ended up with the worst of both worlds: low post quality AND low post counts (especially if we exclude KPOP threads). To me, this seemed to be the direction many 4chan boards were heading, as most of them were slowing down yet also dropping in quality. It's like there's something wrong with the type of person it was attracting or it was driving away interesting people or something.
Fast boards like /v/ are (rightfully) shat on but you could actually have decent conversations on them before. A few months back I tried making a thead for New Vegas mod reccomendations, I got no replies so I checked the archives and stumbled on a NV thread from 2017 and started reading through it. In 2017 there would have been absolutely nothing remarkable about this thread since it was just people chatting about the game but seeing it in 2025 was shocking and really made me realise how much the quality had dropped off, a mediocore thread taken for granted from a decade ago now seemed like an unattainable high standard.
On the other hand some boards like /ck/ and /vr/ seemed to maintain a reasonable level of quality without much intervention at all, so idk man.
If you looked through warosu you could see a surprisingly high number of posts on /ck/ were getting removed, they worked quite hard to keep it a decent quality board.
Hopefully we can recapture the RedScare sub feeling before it turned to shit
>>3249
Any ideas on how a community like 4chan could be managed/nurtured properly? I miss the place but it was clearly in terminal decline.
I used to agree with the common wisdom that quality is relative to the size of the community, but I don't buy that anymore. /mu/ used to be an interesting, worthwhile place to visit even at its peak popularity but it lost a lot of its users over the years. Instead of reverting to a slower but more interesting board made up of discerning hobbyists, it ended up with the worst of both worlds: low post quality AND low post counts (especially if we exclude KPOP threads). To me, this seemed to be the direction many 4chan boards were heading, as most of them were slowing down yet also dropping in quality. It's like there's something wrong with the type of person it was attracting or it was driving away interesting people or something.
Fast boards like /v/ are (rightfully) shat on but you could actually have decent conversations on them before. A few months back I tried making a thead for New Vegas mod reccomendations, I got no replies so I checked the archives and stumbled on a NV thread from 2017 and started reading through it. In 2017 there would have been absolutely nothing remarkable about this thread since it was just people chatting about the game but seeing it in 2025 was shocking and really made me realise how much the quality had dropped off, a mediocore thread taken for granted from a decade ago now seemed like an unattainable high standard.
On the other hand some boards like /ck/ and /vr/ seemed to maintain a reasonable level of quality without much intervention at all, so idk man.
>Any ideas on how a community like 4chan could be managed/nurtured properly?
unironically shadowbanning. though i imagine implementing it on a site where every post has a number would be difficult.
>>3264
>>3249
If you looked through warosu you could see a surprisingly high number of posts on /ck/ were getting removed, they worked quite hard to keep it a decent quality board.
/ck/ was one of the few boards where the mods actually did their job and took to deleting low effort bait threads and troll posts...most of the time anyway
Anonymous :
6 hours ago :
No.3374
>>3380
>>3374
sheepishpatio.net -- never used it
>/x/
I only ever knew the "good" /x/ as the place I used to read creepy stories and conspiracies as a teen (circa mid-2010s), with any recent visit being met with seemingly deadly serious discussions of vampires and the Nobody. I wouldn't say being true-to-topic made that any better, because it was completely bereft of any connection to reality---which I realise, yeah, is kind of the point.
It's hard to articulate what about it changed in that sense, because I know when I was a teen it was full of schizos and shit too, but I wasn't paying attention enough outside of greentext threads to say I was deeply a part of it any broad sense, even if I lurked a lot. Maybe the feeling back then was that these were people grasping at straws, trying to uncover shreds of evidence and entertaining strange ideas for fun, while later it became totally composed of people who were 100% convinced of their insanity and in a bubble that fed it. There also seemed to be some more levity to it way back, but maybe that's just me having been younger.
>>2382
I miss /x/ and /lit/. You could always find rare books and stories that are really hard to find in other corners of the internet. The level of discussion was never very high, but that was not why I frequented there.
4chan's allure for me was these unfiltered voices and random ideas that do not fit in narratives or well-eatabliahed groups. It was just the internet thinking about itself. That I will miss
I always found it amusing how newfags on /v/ would treat /x/ as a pariah and discuss its subjective poor quality, as if /v/ were a bastion of high-intellect discussion, sat upon a pedestal with the worth to judge anybody else. /x/ was better than many boards at staying true to its intended topic of discourse.
On another note, has anyone heard of an altchan with sheep in the name? Or maybe it was a forum.
>>3374
>>2382
I always found it amusing how newfags on /v/ would treat /x/ as a pariah and discuss its subjective poor quality, as if /v/ were a bastion of high-intellect discussion, sat upon a pedestal with the worth to judge anybody else. /x/ was better than many boards at staying true to its intended topic of discourse.
On another note, has anyone heard of an altchan with sheep in the name? Or maybe it was a forum.
sheepishpatio.net -- never used it
>/x/
I only ever knew the "good" /x/ as the place I used to read creepy stories and conspiracies as a teen (circa mid-2010s), with any recent visit being met with seemingly deadly serious discussions of vampires and the Nobody. I wouldn't say being true-to-topic made that any better, because it was completely bereft of any connection to reality---which I realise, yeah, is kind of the point.
It's hard to articulate what about it changed in that sense, because I know when I was a teen it was full of schizos and shit too, but I wasn't paying attention enough outside of greentext threads to say I was deeply a part of it any broad sense, even if I lurked a lot. Maybe the feeling back then was that these were people grasping at straws, trying to uncover shreds of evidence and entertaining strange ideas for fun, while later it became totally composed of people who were 100% convinced of their insanity and in a bubble that fed it. There also seemed to be some more levity to it way back, but maybe that's just me having been younger.
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>>3386
>>3381
Continue to stagnate and decline? I don't feel like I've noticed any significant downwards trend here since the 4chan influx.
>>3390>>3381 Everyone’s doomering about a 4chan invasion but I haven’t seen any 4chan refugees either here or on the Reddit board and if they’re here then they’ve probably assimilated quite well because at least I haven’t noticed them. The bigger threat for the subreddit is the horde of front-pagers, gamers and Democratic Party shills that have invaded it since it got to 100k and turned most of the discourse shallow. (I’m not a trump supporter either if anyone feels like calling me out for opposing the lib invasion, he’s a corrupt stooge bought out by the Saudis and billionaire lobbyists and the Epstein people).
The zeitgeist of golden 4chan days cannot be captured because we live in different times, and the people who wish to participate (us) are different. We no longer find random humor appealing. Imagebaord games of replies and screenshots are boring and old news. Just like musical trends which are snapshots of the era they emerged from. Savor the nostalgia and your participation in this retarded slice of history.
The 4chan incels have already invaded this place and it will continue to stagnate and decline in a near parallel of /r/redscarepod.
>>3381
The zeitgeist of golden 4chan days cannot be captured because we live in different times, and the people who wish to participate (us) are different. We no longer find random humor appealing. Imagebaord games of replies and screenshots are boring and old news. Just like musical trends which are snapshots of the era they emerged from. Savor the nostalgia and your participation in this retarded slice of history.
The 4chan incels have already invaded this place and it will continue to stagnate and decline in a near parallel of /r/redscarepod.
Continue to stagnate and decline? I don't feel like I've noticed any significant downwards trend here since the 4chan influx.
>>3381
The zeitgeist of golden 4chan days cannot be captured because we live in different times, and the people who wish to participate (us) are different. We no longer find random humor appealing. Imagebaord games of replies and screenshots are boring and old news. Just like musical trends which are snapshots of the era they emerged from. Savor the nostalgia and your participation in this retarded slice of history.
The 4chan incels have already invaded this place and it will continue to stagnate and decline in a near parallel of /r/redscarepod.
Everyone’s doomering about a 4chan invasion but I haven’t seen any 4chan refugees either here or on the Reddit board and if they’re here then they’ve probably assimilated quite well because at least I haven’t noticed them. The bigger threat for the subreddit is the horde of front-pagers, gamers and Democratic Party shills that have invaded it since it got to 100k and turned most of the discourse shallow. (I’m not a trump supporter either if anyone feels like calling me out for opposing the lib invasion, he’s a corrupt stooge bought out by the Saudis and billionaire lobbyists and the Epstein people).