Hello, i'm thinking about creating a textboard like 4-ch(channel four) but.... no one nowadays uses anymore textboards..
Should i create one?
Do whatever you want to do. Your site will only be as popular as you make it to be. You can create the next Facebook but it doesn't matter if you don't make something worth people's time that they would enjoy using. If you advertise/market your site correctly and treat people nicely and have a product they like using, then you'll do just fine.
Best of luck!
discord is less pain in the ass, but also spies on you. Textboards are a bit easier to moderate than imageboards, worst they can do is post loli ascii art or shady links. So, answer depends on whenever you have people you want to chat with, that already aren't swallowed by other internet giants.
What can you bring to the table that any of the other textboards don't already do?
I actually wanted to create a textboard + wiki + uploader hybrid site, but I can't find a good hosting. If you are willing to pay for hosting or selfhost, I would greatly appreciate that. I can't stand captcha here, I want to live in the world without captchas.
>>7
very interesting..
you are searching for cheap/free webhostings?
if yes, you'll never find any, i recommend that you selfhost from home because it's not that hard and webhosting services are scams (if they not give you full control over a VPS)
i can't host for you websites that require moderation (like the hybrid upload website and wiki) but if you want to help me with the project of the textboard let me know
-OP
>buzz_lightyear_toy_shelf_zoom_out.gif
basically what I'm saying is that there's hundreds of dead textboards just like the one you're envisioning, and people not using textboards isn't JUST due to the rise of social media. Find something that will keep a userbase engaged and make the website stand out from the crowd.
>i can't host for you websites that require moderation (like the hybrid upload website and wiki) but if you want to help me with the project of the textboard let me know
First, I can moderate your board, second, I can make it so that uploader is only functional when at least one moderator is online.
>>12
if you are time rich and money poor self-hosting is good for u
just give it a try, it's simple
you just need to keep one of your computer on 24/7 and connected to the internet, that's it
you need no memory if the website is small, same for bandwith, if you have problems switch ISP and buy a new hard disk
it's the simplest thing ever, you can do that even if you have a dynamic ip (with a ddns)
get a ddns (no-ip.org is free and freenom is free) + download mamp and set your website (totally free) + get a reverse proxy (cloudflare is free and easy to set up)
reply if you have questions of problem
-OP
>>14
Selfhosting is good for you if you don't live in a fucking mordor
At the very least, CP won't be an issue for you since you can't post images. Plus, the bar for discussion is set much higher since people actually have to type shit up instead of posting an ebic meme thread and nothing of value ensues. Just my two cents
No.
Most people have no desire or will to use text or image boards.
If you do find some people your site will just become a bee hive circle jerk fest as seen with surviving sites unless there is balance of new and old users with different views.
It should be noted that your average modern joe will not bother reading or writing something longer than a sentence.
Ignoring users and still proceeding will leave you with having to choose which shitty software to use. Hint, they all suck except Kareha and Wakaba.
Even if you set this up (or others) what is there really to offer that 4-ch doesn't?
Sure you can invest time to create something new, but just keep in mind you may invest time (and money) and receive nothing for it so think and plan.
>what is there really to offer that 4-ch doesn't?
An admin that isn't a pussy that doesn't allow posting lolis, even drawn ones?
Piracy?
Posting without captcha?
Ability to edit and delete your posts?
Having javascript functionality built in into the board instead of forcing users to install userscripts, which isn't even possible on most mobile browsers?
There are tons of ways to improve, I just don't want to either selfhost or pay.
>Ability to edit and delete your posts?
Spend more time thinking before posting.
>Having javascript functionality built in into the board instead of forcing users to install userscripts, which isn't even possible on most mobile browsers?
Yes, what we need is more phoneposters.
>>Ability to edit and delete your posts?
>Spend more time thinking before posting.
Sometimes you have a link in a 2 year old thread that went pichuun, and it's pretty convenient to be able to edit it to something that actually works.
>Yes, what we need is more phoneposters.
Phoneposting is awesome and convenient. You can just delete/ban people you don't like if they get too phonepostey for you. Making at least reading convenient for phone posters is a pretty good goal.
>doesn't allow posting lolis
Find a website that does.
4-ch is located in UK and UK does not have tolerance for lolis.
Besides why allow it when it draws in good and bad people?
Bad outweighs good with posting their links to pedo rings on tor as well as including image.
To me these are just FBI/CIA honeypots at work, but can cause trouble nevertheless.
As for rest of reasons, I think you should try Reddit.
Piracy board
Edit and delete posts
Javascript dependent website
No work required and free!
>>doesn't allow posting lolis
>Besides why allow it when it draws in good and bad people?
Because it's fucking good?
I need a place where I can be exactly the way I am, and post exactly the things I want. When I see a place that tells me "hey you can post anything you want except lolis / ntr / gore", I just go "allright, go fuck yourself, here is my entire collection of that thing you don't want". Like, fuck you, you didn't pay me to post anything anyway, why are you telling me what I can and can't say?
I miss rozenmaiden threads. You could post dolls there if you wanted, you could post gore there if you wanted, you could post lambdadelta if you wanted, you literally could do whatever the hell you liked to do. There probably were some shady things going on in those images though. Internet is such a lame place nowadays.
>As for rest of reasons, I think you should try Reddit.
Ah, yes, that great site that shadowbanned me the second I registered there. I hate how it wastes horizontal space both with chains of comments and with sidebars, and how you just can't post images there. I might try to register there again, in that prison of minds, if I'll ever need something out of them that much.
>I need a place where I can be exactly the way I am, and post exactly the things I want.
This probably isn't it, chief.
maybe
i sysadmin another small social site with software i hate that is constant nightmare
bit ago it broke and couldnt easily fix some issue, thought it would be funny to set up kareha as 'backup temp fix'
more people use it than i thought and i screw around with the code + design when i'm procrastinating
it's fun
lower your expectations and a lot more things become 'worth it'
>>25
The way you are isn't sensible, the way you are is equivalent to spam. That is reason why we can say that you are spam. I have all the ability to spam up any forum the way you wish to be, but I recognise that I'm not the person who's paying for the server resource, I don't shit up other people's places with the filth you want to be.
If you want a place to post your spam, you're perfectly welcome to start your own website where you pay for the cost of hosting and server fees. If you burden other people's resources with spam, that is on you.
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>>33
captcha is hard to look at, if you allow some sort of registration without email, and make me type captcha only during registration, then I might actually move there.
If you feel like starting one, go ahead and have fun with it. It will likely always be a slow, niche place but whatever...so is this website and all the other textboards out there. To me, that is their appeal anyway.
>>1
You can always cash in on the nostalgia factor to get users. There are new Usenet and 90s style bulletin boards and some of the original groups are still going to this day running entirely on nostalgia factor. But textboards were never that big outside of Japan compared to imageboards. If you know Japanese (or know someone who does) and you can advertise it to nostalgic 2channel veterans or retro tech maniacs you can definitely reel in enough people to keep it going. However, for that to work your site would have to have the look and feel of a 2channel type site but have some functional improvements (e.g. make sure it runs smoothly on a smartphone or tablet) and generally be accessible to newer users who want to try out the retro experience of a textboard but have no idea how the format works.
>>38
I hope that isn't through inspiration as if you were to look up to those idiotic fools.
>>38
You'd need to find somebody who is willing to pay anything for your BBS. I don't think you could find anybody on earth to pay $50 for your BBS.
>>1
Why would you create a new textboard when 4-ch is perfectly fine? At least this place has some activity and isn't completely extinct. Your site would probably never get any users and if people from here went over there it would just kill 4-ch which is one of the internet's historic websites. This place should be memorialized, made into a world heritage site, not replaced. If your interested in textboards, then just keep using this one and bully your friends and family into using it. Making a new textboard is as pointless as making a new sail boat or a new mini computer or a new dummy phone. Why make a new version of something obsolete when you can use this right here?
>it would just kill 4-ch
Yeah a shame all those other BBS made by other people and then advertised here killed 4-ch!
There are still hundreds of niche textboards in every language still online that have not yet killed 4-ch. Them existing isn't taking anyone away from this website over that one because it's more about the community around them that people return to them for.
>>7
ANON, IF YOU'RE STILL HERE.
I want to create a textboard + uploader hybrid site + wiki too, and maybe an imageboard.
I need people. I can host.
kappaishi@proton.me
>2022-12-20
Yeah I am sure he is still around.
What would be the purpose of having a textboard, upload, wiki, imageboard combination website? What useful information would you even find on this wiki? What uploads could you find that would be worth retaining let alone downloading?
No purpose apart from some zoomer newfag wanting to recreate text/imageboard history to feel special. They obviously don't even get the culture or he would be able to find plenty of existing places like this in some incarnation or another or at least meet people to help start one instead of spamming an anonymous board like this. Well, I guess he's tripfagging but the rest of us aren't.
>>45
I wasn't thinking about a combination website, i was thinking about creating a small BBS (probably a texboard) for fun, because i don't know how to use properly complex scripts/softwares.
And maybe an uploader to make users share files without leaving the website.
>zoomer newfag
go back to 4chan..
>go back to 4chan..
How about you fuck off and die, namefag and tripfag? You are the most despicable type of poster one can find in anonymous communities.
Do it, faggot. I dare you. Start a textboard or an imageboard. I promise you I will make it my mission to ensure it becomes a failure. Be sure to let us know when it's online, tripfaggot. I can't wait to see what your little brain can achieve.
Heaven namefag has bene very rude lately...
>>47
Even if you aren't going to create a combination website my questions still stand unanswered.
>What useful information would you even find on this wiki?
>What uploads could you find that would be worth retaining let alone downloading?
All I see your website becoming is a wiki full of useless information with a bulletin board with nothing innovative and running out of space hosting random garbage files.
>>46
>>48
You sound more of a new user larping as an old user trying to protect 'teh old internetz' by being as hostile as possible to new people to protect something you were never even apart of.
Any actual old or long timer user would not give a fuck about new annoying posters because they know they will not stick around for very long.
>>4
If one were to block all VPN's, public proxies and annonimity networks like tor,
wouldn't that prevent CP from beeing posted?
>There's an old dino poster here, a living fossil from the mid 90s, who's made it his mission to attack anyone he perceives as younger than him. All sage posters have heaven as their ID.
I've heard of him even on other textboards haha
>All sage posters have heaven as their ID.
Back when /b/ on 4chan had IDs somewhere around the early 2010s probably joking around about this Heaven guy was pretty common.
Look who it is again, ID Heaven. I'm fed up with your shit faggot. The other day when you called me a newfag, yeah, haven't forgotten about that yet. Fuck you I've been on here for months and probably get on here more than you anyways. Don't you know that you make yourself look like a newfag when you call others newfag? Just because you learned how to hack your name and change it to "Heaven" does not give you the right to disrespect anyone at any time.
Evolution: Fast or slow? Lizards help resolve a paradox (quantamagazine.org)
This heaven guy is very [Insert Slur]