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I don't think there needs to be necessarily one textboard. I just mean that it would do a lot for the textboard community if there was one board which was "The Big Apple", so to speak. There's a lot of imageboards besides 4chan, even prior to 8chan. If someone says "Gee, what's the big deal about imageboards?" there's one they can get pointed to which is active and serves as a main hub of that community. The rest of them are still there, but are (usually) deliberately off-the-beaten-path. There isn't anything like that for textboards. We have over a dozen boards, most with the same sub-boards, and most with the same people posting between them.

Thanks for the atob link though, I've never heard of it before! It looks like a fun place to hang out.