For the past year or so I've been wasting away my free time editing Wikipedia. I have found it to be quite fun and I like doing so, however Wikipedia has a plentitude of problems, which are only getting worse (centralization, censorship, shady donation business and more), so I want to find some other interesting projects, that I could contribute to. On Wikipedia I mostly edited computer science/otaku-related articles, since that is what I'm the most knowledgeable about. The purpose of this thread is NOT to compile a big list of Wikis, but rather to discuss what Wikis are particularly good to edit.
Some Wikis, that I can recall from the top of my mind are:
I like the Shikadi DOS Games Modding wiki. But updates from anyone are pretty infrequent because of the information being very niche and usually requiring a lot of personal research time.
There's also an adjacent Commander Keen wiki that's pretty much the place to go if you want to find Keen mods. But I only bother with reading that one, not editing.
the best way to use wikis is for trolling, terroediting is the best think to do
Does anyone here have the original Gear Navy Nevada hooded sweatshirt?
The original isn't sold anymore so those who have them, get them on eBay and notify the chans ASAP if you're willing to part: You'll make a killing!
reviving this threaddddddddd
Cracky chan was NEVER attractive and i HATE HER
The funniest part of the Cracky-chan saga was when she became an edgy white woman with dreadlocks.
She is a middle aged woman now... she probably just wants to be left alone and this bad part of her childhood forgotten...
cracky chan always kinda grossed me out tbh
otherwise, I think it's very easy to find nevada-tan's hoodie now
She was gross and not that attractive but she was the original and very sweet.
it's been a while since i've seen that name. seeing nevada-tan mentioned, i now remember that girl who livestreamed herself committing suicide. what was her name again? i remember there was a song made about the incident
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/09/google-has-acquired-youtube/
Seems like a perfect match. Google is the best company they could've sold out to.
>>27
I wish it weren't so saturated with endless content. it's like when you walk into a restaurant with three tvs blaring. you walk outside and there's flashing advertisements and music in the town square. you buy a loaf of bread and it's filled with sugar. the grocery stores have rotten produce but plenty of candy.
I think after all these years, I've come to realize that I actually am very addicted to the Internet. To endless stimulus. I knew better, but I succumbed to it anyways. And so did everyone else.
>>30
I can't take it anymore. There's just too much stuff hitting you all at once whenever you use a large enough site. Its frying my brain.
Stop using them less and less, then. If you go out of your way to engage, then you're going to see it. I understand it's hard not to - it's an impulse we've wired into our brains - but you can slowly taper away.
If possible, spend more and more time away from the computer. There is so much in the world for you to do that you could almost never even need one. Just learn to use it less, do more in real life that will keep you occupied so you don't open up Twitter or 4chan just because you're bored and eventually you just stop giving a shit for the most part.
things really went to shit in the 18 years since this post was made
agreed. my invidious instance doesn't even work anymore because of "community safety". ffs, I'm using an invidious instance [i]because[/i] I'm concerned about my safety. I don't mind advertisements per se, but the logical conclusion of the advertiser model is drm, insane amounts of data harvesting, and forced accounts.
Google must burn
Is there a working way to download the videos to a local file in [CURRENTMONTH]? The VLC trick and ssyoutube worked earlier this year but it seems both of them have been killed recently.
>>36
How do you not know about yt-dlp?
I just downloaded something two hours ago and it worked just fine. If it doesn't work, you can try circumventing blockage by using Tor with torsocks or a VPN. Try multiple times with a different proxy. J-Downloader 2 should still work too, if you prefer GUI, but I haven't tried it lately, so it might as well be kill in regards to Youtube.
Tonight I'm doing a play through of the albums by the Aquabats.
They released a new album , Kooky Spooky.
Currently 2 songs in and it's halfway good.
This station rules, I loaded it into my internet radio player a couple days ago and have been listening to it daily now. Thanks for the recommendation!
>>35
same, It's sad we no longer can enjoy it
Takeshi Abo's soundtracks, usually his work on the SciADV and Infinity series
Currently to some demoscene music webradios:
https://www.scenestream.net/demovibes/
https://www.kohina.com/
There is all sorts of stuff from old video game music, to keygen music and more. Once in a while, when I like a track particularly, I download it, but most of the time I just let it run in the background.
>>47
I knew about Nectarine but not Kohina. Good shit.
Depends on what I'm in the mood for, though usually it's either anison or rock.
Right now I'm listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBedISPe3S8
Hypnospace Outlaw's Soundtrack is pretty good to surf the web to
If you dare.
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Alt + Spacebar + C: Close current windows explorer window
Windows key + Shift + S: Screenshot
Windows logo key + Ctrl + D Add a virtual desktop.
Windows logo key + Ctrl + Right arrow Switch between virtual desktops you've created on the right.
Windows logo key + Ctrl + Left arrow Switch between virtual desktops you've created on the left.
Alt+D then Shift+Enter: Move current tab on browser to new window
Alt + Tab: Switch window
I use the suckless DWM now, but when I'm on the Cinnamon desktop, I like to Alt-Tab a lot.
F5 F5 F5 F5
ctrl-alt-del
CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + WIN + L.
Get a job.
List the most awful websites you have come across on the internet!
http://www.aiseikai.or.jp/
echobubble dot xyz
>>238
This has always been my experience with IRC. All rooms are dead. It's difficult to find active discussion. Only discussions I've found when looking is in the private tracker scene.
atob.xyz
Discord sucks sooo much i wake up in every day at 11pm and I scream at the top of my lungs "WHHHYYYYYYYY!!!@#" I holler I scream I just cant take how much i dislike discord!
>>244 How topical!
ttps://www.nqalf.com
/ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/!
all chat rooms suck
I want something similar to Strange World (ex, https://ayashii.net ) but behaves more like Kareha and other 2ch-likes. In addition, I would rather that new threads belong to "tags" than "boards"
This is what I have so far:
demo https://bbs.gikopoi.com/
src https://github.com/153/pohon2
Aside from having a tags feature (which will be improved soon), there is also a "tree view" that can make conversations a little easier to follow, and there are also Atom feeds for all site threads, each tag, and all recent site comments.
What do you think would be some cool features to add ?
I've been asked multiple times to make the site more "mobile friendly" -- that's a hard no, there. Posts from people sitting on the toilet add nothing to the site.
Hello, Tokiko
The truth is we don't need more textboards or more textboard softwares. We need more people to want to use them or a niche community that decides to use one. The best textboard software is either Kareha or something built to imitate it as much as possible.
Just look at this thread, immaculate perfection. Looks great on desktop, looks great on mobile.
Yours is kind of an eyesore. The colors while not completely your design are painful to read, the font is annoying and the whitespace is a bit too big. Here it's comfortable and easy to read. Everything is spotless.
Even just putting a grey-ish background, black text color, and removing the uncomfortable font your BBS becomes much more readable and less straining on the eyes.
If one wants to use a tag system then a Kareha clone with tags instead of boards would suffice. It doesn't need to be more unique than that, and in fact it may actually serve to alienate a few people who otherwise would be interested.
Also poipoi is the one true site also the game.
Forgot to mention, but I also agree phone users are worthless contributors and nothing more than mindless consumers and responds with 1 sentence using buzzwords or catch phrases to stroke their ego. However, it can be nice to mindlessly surf and read on the toilet and reply from a computer later so you'll want to cater to those because someone may discover your website while on the toilet. One way to prevent posting is to use a useragent or window size css detection to disable posting from mobile by throwing an error or just hiding the post form.
> We need more people to want to use them or a niche community that decides to use one.
Valid point
> [the stylesheet sucks]
The initial design is meant to be more of a homage to sites running "Strange World" (like ayashii.net) than Kareha and friends, but I think a Kareha-esque alternative stylesheet down the line will definitely be a thing.
Do you think the current stylesheet/UI is better than SW's? I do, but I'm obviously biased.
> [why not just make a kareha with tags?]
I personally like the pseud0ch theme a lot. It's hard to pander to the broader, "normie" audience when it comes to UX design, because what normal people want is Material/Facebook/Corpo-chic superflat garbage that's designed mostly to signal to consumers that you spent a lot on a graphic designer. You seldom see a nice, static, geocities-style website anymore, except among web developers. Aesthetically, they can be both awful and amazing. It's more about the resources used and what they represent though. Among developers who are more sensetive to web bloat and worthless js frameworks and infinite scroll hamburgers, a small, static website with a little character is king.
Internet culture is being a cuck. cuck.
Internet culture is being a cuck. cuck.cuck.cuck. On Facebook, there’s the comedy page Cucks on the Couch, which features white guys simulating sex with black or “ethnic” women in grotesque images of gushing semen or semen-drenched dildos. It’s clearly a parody, but it’s still pretty shocking to see some guy sitting in a leather chair with his mouth gaped open as his imaginary sex partner thrusts obscenely in his face.
Much of this is generated by a shared attitude that women are less than men, that we’re just getting a share of a
hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Cuckleberry Finn
Speaking of cucks, I found this while looking for niche interest forums, thought /iaa/ might enjoy it.
https://www.qostube.com/f
It has a surprising amount of activity for the size of it in this day and age, but activity is clustered in a few threads, pretty typical, especially considering the subject matter. The only thing that weirds me out is their off-topic forum, they chit-chat about movies and current events with the same group they talk about raceplay porn with, sounds incredibly awkward.
I haven't read any of it, because raceplay is a retard-stew-level fetish but my bigger question is why and who wants to go on a forum to discuss pornography? I guess they're fans of the actresses? They also have a thread with one retard going on a crusade about pornstars who don't do interracial scenes while the rest try to talk him down.
Interestingly, it's unlikely they will survive past March this year, ( https://www.qostube.com/forum/topic/15225/outlook-for-2021/ )
and it's causing infighting with the 20 people who use the site enough to pay for it.
Fun novelty that it's still (barely) alive.
>>4
DO YOU CUCK LIKE A CUCK WHEN YOU CUCK
Does anyone know what http://futachan.org/ was about? According to an old post from Mr VacBob* it contained a "pretty web portal" for 4chan, but I can't find any more info on it. What exactly did the "pretty web portal" entail? Are there any screenshots left?
Shit, sorry, I replied to the wrong thread! Serves me right for not reading the title, I accept my new cuck identity without complaint.
>>9
At this juncture, one has to ponder whether those 20 people lean more towards the side of cuckery or paypiggery, in spite of those two factions not inherently being mutually exclusive.
v: dog
>>1
in the 3 years since this post was made, being a cuck did indeed become a large part of internet culture. There are just so many porn-addicted cuckold fetishists on social media that are constantly on the verge of turning any thread on most topics into an impromptu black penis worship session
Kind of a funny development.
>>22
Interesting post.
>Thus we got stuck in our current era, half of the people don't believe in anything but the rule of self-legislation, the rule of not accepting any rule beyond themselves, and half the people believe in unrelenting dogmatism and inner conviction in an attempt to stave off the reality of freedom, that no one can hold us to our commitments but us.
>the reality of freedom, that no one can hold us to our commitments but us.
I think this is a great line.
Right-left politics seem to have become a disliked topic on imageboards and even on really cancerous I haven't seen a lot of /pol/-type posters in a while.
As for religion, it helps a isolated people cope, they like the aesthetics or they're mentally ill. People who still use imageboards tend to fall into these groups
I feel like all social media is just saturated with propaganda. There's no logic to it, ideas just want to perpetuate themselves, and the people who benefit -- whether in the form of a cheap dopamine hit, the comfort of feeling like you're part of something larger, those seeking an answer to all the problems of life, or for more substantial reasons like power and money -- are willing to invest time in doing so. It's like a memetic virus that infects people, and social media is the memetic equivalent to a coffee shop.
Because think tanks, lobbying groups, and shady outlets who serve doners have been spamming imageboards for years now. Imageboards are extremely easy to manipulate if you have the time and money. They are filled with vitriolic losers and the mentally ill. As for religious stuff, I mean Futaba had a whole board dedicated to cults and paranormal stuff so that's nothing new. What is new are breeds of psycho Christians who seem to care more about culture wars issues than divinity and scripture. You can't have a conversation with these people about the Bible or theology because for them Christianity and tradition are just ways to rubberstamp their retarded political views. They aren't really religious.
>>22
This.
>I mean Futaba had a whole board dedicated to cults and paranormal stuff so that's nothing new.
Are you talking about the fortune telling board?
But that's a bad example anyway because it's one of the Futaba joke boards, just like the moai board, the Umehara general board etc.
>>31
I mean the shukyo board. Its still a bad example because its mostly focused on cults, Sokka Gakkai activities, Unification Church scandal etc. Japanese sites did have occult boards though. I'd say the anti-religious sentiment on most of the English language internet during the 2000s was unusual and limited to the Western and maybe Japanese internet. Its not something you see in other places. I'm glad that atheist phase is mostly over but the reactionary Christians you see on imageboards these days aren't genuinely religious at all. It's a larp.
>>32
I don't want to sound petulant but can't people just say role playing instead of ''larp''?
There's no live action element to be found in net posturing.
>>33
Unfortunately, with these types of culture warriors there often is a live action element to it. There's a type of person who shows up to mass and is surprised when the message espoused is moderate if political at all. They usually last a year, I don't know if they join a more traditionalist, sometimes wacky sect or if they just go back to shitposting online
I knew a guy who decided to roleplay as Christian and changed all his views to match with the biggest retards on Politically Incorrect, started joining local churches and was kicked out of all of them for his extremist views. He then killed a family member and went on to do some terror attack. The roleplaying does not always stop at the monitor. He was never a religious person. Probably mental illness.
Thats so bizarre...
Why are they so pathetic? They're either obnoxious,pretentious or both.
CWC is funny, but you have to be a special kind of loser to dedicate your life to interacting with and looking at bigger losers all day long. No mentally stable person just dedicates their life to looking at what losers are doing. They got their own stuff to deal with. These people don't have that. They're basically Chris Chan, but with a slight amount of self awareness making them just barely capable of realizing that hey at least they're not Chris. Not enough self awareness to realize how pathetic they are and get a real hobby though.
I mostly just ignore Chris bullshit, until it inevitably gets too real or something (which it tends to do every so often), and then go back to ignoring him.
I'll guarantee you, it's going to be a tragedy when he's gone and there's basically no replacement, outside of DSP or whatever.