Me, I check once or twice a day. It seems like more people are coming each week.
>>159
In this relation i also really miss idlechan. It was such a good, mixed and slow but clean board.
>>159
i archived so many things from so long ago thinking what a tragedy it would be if they were lost
i have them now and horrible thing that i couldnt have imagined was that ultimately nobody is left to care
>>163
Yeah, there's that. It always logically seemed to be one of any number of possible endings, but indeed feels quite bleak. Existential ruminations became commonplace for that very reason.
Is it a disappointment that we are all alone together again as before, or just bittersweet like the inevitable passage of time.
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>>164
I never really thought something that seemed to matter so much to so many people could be forgotten so quickly. How many years is it since the idea of having a personal site, or visiting mostly the personal sites of others, stopped being considered "the way it is"? If you spend any time bouncing around old Tripod or Angelfire (or Geocities if you go on an archive) there's clearly so much love poured into these sites, and it's not all children or teens because many adults also were immensely passionate about their chosen presentation or theme.
Yet now all of this is gone. I wonder how many ghost sites there are, which are connected to the web but never accessed and hosted on ageing hardware or part of someone's monthly bill they've never really though to cancel.
One day a site could go offline simply because the owner was reminded that it was even there at all.
I check here maybe once every couple years now.
It's just not the same anymore, is it?
lol at the anons complaying about /b/ in 2007
>>163
I was clearly in a rather somber mood when I made this post... It gets better, friends
>>164
Thank you.
>>165
Social media seems like the obvious culprit to me. I suspect the number of interesting things hidden in the ghost web to be fairly. A comparable dataset would be the collected works of cuneiform sitting in museum collections around the world. The vast majority have not been translated fully. Some are treasures of archaeology - Plimpton 322 comes to mind. Most are little more than records of account and inventory.
It might seem that we have lost the Library of Alexandria many times over, but ours were full of phonebooks. Hobbyists of the 90s and the 00s didn't have to be sophisticated because they didn't have to compete with anything for our attention.
>>168
fairly few
>>167
Don't laugh, we predicted almost exactly what came to pass. Look upon that... place... and tremble at the power of prophecy.
DAILY!!! I like to keep up with the current events.
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>>176
we are all gonna die anon
we are useless against time, we can only follow it to the end
dust to dust, ashes to ashes
here, have a hug ヾ(＠^▽^＠)ﾉ
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I think it's nice to know that people like us still exist. The fact that we're checking on dead websites almost 10 years after the last significant traffic, and the fact that it still allows us to post is neat.
>>178
There's beauty in the simplicity. <3 4ch!
I actually think it's better in a way now that there's no rational reason to even be here.
Once or twice a day.
I check it daily, it's a good site.
This is my first time back in about a decade. I lost my curry recipe in SSD fuckup, then I remembered I'd posted it on this site. http://4-ch.net/food/kareha.pl/1238592531/
Lucky me, I got it back. Thank god for people who run reliable long term internet services. Looks like I've been gone for about 8 years and 12 days.
Should I come back more often in the future?
I stumbled upon 4ch when someone said something that reminded me about tanasinn. I positive it's not my first time here, but it's been so long that it feels like meeting up with an old friend, but only by chance. I check DQN about once a day, and I'm just now checking out the other boards. It feels like I'm 15 again.
Almost everyday, at any given hour. Yes, I'm an addict; as my name implies, duh.
>>189
Me too!
We are like vengeful ghosts haunting the dying carcass of 4-ch, permitting it no rest as it takes its rattling last breaths.
Every couple weeks months to make bad low effort posts
i just found this website and im curious as to what its about.
>>192
It's an English knockoff of the most popular Japanese bulletin board, 2channel, except 2ch has millions of daily users and 4-ch has about four of them these days.
There is no particular focus for the site as a whole, but the most active board is "DQN," which is named after a 2ch slang term for dumbasses and has the kind of content you would expect given that.
4-ch used to have competing English websites, like world2ch and world4ch. Somehow it outlasted most of them.
>>193
Compared to the various eras of prolonged inactivity the past couple years have been rather brisk in terms of post rate. I would wager when compared with say, the earlier part of the decade after 2012ish that the site is more active than it was, especially outside DQN.
I haven't checked this site in quite a long time. Thought about it today after a whim took me to 7chan so I decided to stop by
Neat to see this blowing up a little bit. Cheers
I found 4-ch a few years ago as a teen. I felt like I had "graduated" from 4chan, so I looked for other chans to post on that I thought were "better quality". I browsed a handful of boards (like 20-30 lol) pretty much every day for a year. Over the years I cut it down to 5, then 3, then 2, then none at all. I haven't posted regularly anywhere in like three years. These days I visit some boards every few months when I feel really bored, like I'm doing right now.
>>196
Do you use social media or something or do you just not talk to strangers online anymore?
everyday. when i'm not on 4ch, i'm using 2ch, nico or youtube, sometimes i use irc.
>>198 Theres an IRC which isnt dead? ded srs?
>>199
Plenty, you don't even need to look very hard. #jp on Sageru and #tinychan on Rizon are good places to check out.
>>196
samachan.org is a good board and its active as well
>>201
irc.sageru.org
Why are you accusing me of insanity?
>>204
If you're on an that isn't 4chan statistically speaking you're at least mildly autistic.
About once every 4-5 years, I'll probably check through again by the end of 2024
checked
>>205
It's mostly teenagers and early twenty-somethings, which is understandable considering it's sort of rare today for someone to have experienced the goodness of imageboards and non-static forums in their hey-day--they just don't know / care that there was something that was (for some) a thing that was actually worth using.
For me, the last place that was worth regularly checking into was krautchan, and now that that's gone I consider the *chan-verse to be essentially dead, defunct, inert. I'm beginning to be getting too old for this shit anyway. But it will always be a part of me though and I will never forget the special joy it brought me. It really has been an honor
>>208
Just curious, how old are you?
I check every few days, depends on my mood
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