Official thread for all users migrating her from 4chan to discuss things while 4chan is down!
That's right! This is a thread for me and me alone because none of them came here!
Get out of here you non-4chan user faggots!
>>99
A twitter post saying they're working on it(tm)
Also, I heard from another imageboard that someone on kiwifarms estimated about 15-25 days to get the site up and running and fix all the exploits, for what its worth.
I've been cruising the interwebs checking out different imageboards to see what's going on and have come to the conclusion that I've been living in a bubble. To me 4chan was always a wapanese website for otakus to hang out in and sometimes pretend to be retarded for teh lolz but no one seems to see 4chan that way anymore. There's also a lot of aggressively mentally ill people out there that I can't tell if they are being serious or not with the crazy and paranoid things they say. Wizchan especially has a lot of weirdos but I guess that is to be expected there. Am I really so out of touch or are the children wrong?
>>101
Are you saying that you actually never perceived the widening gap(s) in the huge community (communities) of 4chan throughout the yars?
Ultimately, the last year the 4chan was exactly as you've just described it was 2012, before the one minute post cooldown, the 4chan pass etc.
Seems people are at 8chan moe, don't know about 8kun, maybe at the soyjak site, but also theres lots camping out at downdetector, or /downs/, if you will.
Only feds are at 8kun, most of the former channers migrated to 8chanmoe, lainchan, soyjak.party, kissu.moe, lolcow.farm, kiwifarms, wizardchan, endchan, leftypol, etc.
Half of these websites are genuinely bad, but at least they get the job done.
>>101
I am probably one of the mentally ill people you are talking about. I mod there, and I agree with you that the culture can be pretty weird. Most of the activity happens on a hidden board anyway.
The whole internet is already dead.
I've been on 4chan daily since 2005. I'm realising part of the reason I still post is to cling on to the glory days of my youth.
Your mid-30s is kind of cruel when you have lots of responsibilities: job, house, pets, kids, wife, aging parents etc and sometimes it's nice to dive into boards and remember the good old days when you'd fap several times a night, play vidya with friends, and read visual novels and play 2hu. Maybe I can quit for real this time.
>>107
I know where you're coming from. It's nice to retreat from worrying about the roof leak that's getting worse into reliving something from easier times (when other people were the ones worrying about leaking roofs). I think part of the reason I clung around to 4chan, or even just the internet in general, was a desire to not fully let go of this, even though the reason that I was hanging on hasn't been true for a long time.
I've been having a feeling that the internet is, in a way, "over," and the death of 4chan -- whether it comes back or not doesn't really matter -- is the final nail in the coffin not just of my youth but also the internet that was worth caring about to begin with.
It sounds weird to say, but I used to think that the internet dying would be terrible because, at the core, it would mean the end of 4chan, and the end of something that pretty much defined my teenage years. Or at least a major part of it.
Now it's gone, why hang round? I don't mean "make a twitter/facebook and go normie," because that doesn't interest me at all. I mean, why even go online at all when the symbol of why I was there in the first place is gone?
Idolizing 4chan? Just the fact that you've ever done that is telling.
Bizarre people.
The pope died so that 4chan might live.
>>109
It's not so much 4chan I'm idolizing. More what 4chan was in terms of its place in internet history.
>>111
Alright, let's be honest and say that you're not completely wrong, but you're also fucking equating the death of 4chan with the death of the web.
LIke, are you serious? This type of stuff (that you hear from time to time) really makes me question how some of you people even use and browse the net.
I went to Reddit on reflex, realized what I did, and kept scrolling for some stimulation. All I got was doomposting and reposted TikTok vids, as expected. Please kill me.
>>107
I know that feel. Been a daily 4chan user since 2007.
I'm also realizing that I really only got exposure to new memes and jokes from my old hangouts /g/, /biz/, and a few others. Now I'm finding that I don't have a real place to laugh at stuff online anymore ecxept for maybe kiwifarms. But it's not quite the same experience that the rapid fire anonymous shit posting on 4chan provided. Also every alt chan is basically unusable without a 4chanX equivelant.
[Mod Team]: The old site's been hit, but it's gonna turn out alright. You're gonna take a long vacation to some old forgotten *chan and we'll catch the hell.
[Newfags]: How bad do you think it's gonna be?
[Mod Team]: It's okay, these things gotta happen every five or ten years or so. Helps to get rid of the bad blood.
captcha: uncothe
I didn't hang out the whole time, and there were far healthier communities elsewhere on the internet, and 4chan was a festering corpse from the get-go, drawing flies as it reverse-decomposed into a meaningless, bot-riddled hell. Its loss is for the best overall, feels a little like an orchestrated move of some kind, should matter less.
this thread easily has the highest amount of posts on this board
>>117 What are you talking about?
https://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1172164632
https://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1547388454
https://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1130119860
https://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1173107881
https://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1599910673
https://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1625420190
https://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1111604931
https://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1524927030
>>112
I mean the web has changed, with social media and the shift to video and everything. Weird emphasis on politics, what used to be "yeah, there are anonymous assholes on the internet, learn to deal with it" is now serious crime (sometimes literally, lol wut).
For me it's less about taking part in big moments in e-culture, and just the simple fact that linear message boards like this are better than the 'Big Five' sites we have now.
Basically in the same boat as >>113 since it's 'the' omni-forum the same way YouTube is 'the' video website. But god damn it is terrible: the voting system alone means it gets so myopic. And you're not even able to keep track of specific users like a 'normal' phpBB-style forum, what's the fucking point?
>>119,114,108,107
bruh go to bed unc💔💔
So many people nostalgic for 4chan. How sad.
How about you be nostalgic for something in real life or more personal.
These sad people need to leave.
>>122
No! Flooding for GETs in '04 & '05 was a better experience than anything irl. That's an irrefutable fact.
>>102
I knew things had changed but I didn't realise just how much things had changed online outside of the couple of three sites I mainly stick too. Whatever happened to real life and the nets being two completely different things? Why are people bringing politics into everything in a serious way now? I don't like it.
>>105
Are you one of the posters there calling everything and everyone a "glowie"? I may have been a little harsh calling all of you mentally ill. Really it's that I can't stand the defeatism of the posters there. Just read a book on stoicism and choose a positive mindset already.
>>120
This comes off vaguely threatening.
>>122
Nothing wrong with being nostalgic for Ye Olde Web. Hell, some older forums are (somehow) still up and it's nice to check them out from time to time (in all their Web 1.0 glory). Old images/files from dusty hard drives, games I used to play, I don't think nostalgia is inherently bad or anything.
Of course I'll meet up with old friends and talk about old times, but that makes me bitter because now they're all more successful/married/employed than me ;__;
It's up
not fully. it gives me a message:
Error
Our server encountered a problem while processing your request.
SSL handshake failed
Cloudflare is unable to establish an SSL connection to the origin server.
>Whatever happened to real life and the nets being two completely different things?
That also ended around 2012, or at least that's when I personally perceived the change.
As per 4stats.io it looks like the 8ch guys finally got what they've been tryimg to get for about a decade now: they've successfully seized a goodly chunk of 4chan traffic. Not all of it or even most of it, but enough to be noticeable on a few boards. Now, let's see how they deal with it.
>>132
The new users will go back to 4chan in due time.
>>133
Maybe. Traffic remains down, especially on boards that are primarily used for "general" threads. Some specific recurring threads might not be coming back to those boards, i.e. /vt/'s Phase Connect ALiAS and Invaders thread, while others such as Girls' Frontline General on /vg/ were ghost towns for the first couple days back but are now split across 4 and 8 with active threads on both and could either stay that way and diverge into separate communities or merge back to one or the other. If they merge again, it's almost certainly going to be back to the 4chan thread--8chan has had stability issues in the past and continues to have them while dealing with the new traffic, and they've even had to repeatedly hop URLs to successor sites owned by entirely different people before. They've kept a lot of users across those jumps, but it's specifically the users who are committed to the idea of "I'll build my own 4chan, with blackjack and hookers", not so much people who are sticking around for the volume and quality of active discussion.
8chan basically only gains users by way of 4chan users getting frustrated because they feel there's too much or too little moderation (or the occasional death of another alt-*chan driving refugees there) and its core userbase is stuck on the idea of being "the real 4chan", so they're in 4chan's shadow as long as they're still alive and those core users can have an offputting kind of inferiority complex--a decade after GamerGate, they're still bringing up 4chan in discussions just so they can call it "halfchan" or "4cuck". And since boards are made by just anybody and there aren't really any long-time administrators to be held accountable to, there's always the chance a board owner gets a wild hair up his ass and decides to start banhammering people for offenses so minor even the worst 4chan janitors wouldn't bother with it... or they could just vanish entirely and leave their board in chaos. If that happens, people will split off again. Then users will have to choose between somebody making yet another new board to flee to or going back home to the house of Yotsuba.
>And since boards are made by just anybody
I dislike this.
I understand why there are a few imageboards centered around the idea of self-making and self-running boards but to me it's just a bad concept.
>>134
I've only heard horrible things about my home general since the site came back so I can attest to this
Not that it wasn't feminine mental illness general prior that is.
>>139
if i had to reinvent this system, i'd do it democratically. allow anons to vote for what kind of board they want to see and allow anons to elect board owners.
>>139
I feel like the General boards do largely the same thing, but better.
You still get your smaller sub-communities centered around different things you're into, but actual moderation and such are still up to the mods.
And the board itself regulates itself a bit, since you can only have so many threads at once and anything too dead will just get bumped off page 10.
(Or for slower boards, stick around for a year anyway.)
>>141
this is why the 4chan /trash/ refugees just remade the board on 8moe. it's a good system but it needs a lower bump limit and less pages.
What's with 4tards calling each other "sis" or "sister" now? I've noticed it a lot on /g/. When did that start and what does it mean?
>>143
It's the ironic form of "bros", but might be used if the topic involves women or something "woke". Not sure when it started but it's been on /v/ for a long time.
It's some sort of ironic approval (in other words mocking), and they've been doing for more than half a decade.
They use to agree with something and imply that what they've agreeing with/quoting is pure rubbish.