sure this place doesn't get much traffic.. but it's not dead.

I'd love a 4chan alternative too though, I had such high hopes for 8ch but they've all been destroyed. I've been doing nostalgia binges across various old chans, some gone and replaced with new.

I'm not sure what to think of what >>2 said about there needing to be one textboard. There's sageru and saovq which are basically single board DQN sites - but DQN is the busiest board on this site too. I don't feel they detract from here. Certainly there is no programming discussion on /prog/ (used to be 4chan, now superceded by progrider) taking away from programming discussion on our /code/ board.

One interesting modern thing is atob.xyz - it's actually pretty lively and it's a general purposes textboard. It's very 'web 2.0' maybe that's why it's sucessful?

I'm glad there are lots of little textboards but I do agree this place could use an new birth of life. maybe we should advertise it somehow? Or is there something about the site itself that needs update and fixed, or features added? (I feel this is unlikely)