Internet Addicts Anonymous @ 4-ch

Internet Addicts Anonymous @ 4-ch

Do you have an addiction to the Internet? Do you spend all day looking at slashdot, wikipedia, porn or posting in your Livejournal, or are you a friend or family member of someone who is?

Internet addicts anonymous provides counselling, trolling, flames and utter internet stupidity for those who require the services, generously provided by 4-ch in association with the DQN community.
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1: Continuity of userbase of 4-ch (1) 2: Horrible, horrible websites (246) 3: New Gikopoi server dropped (20) 4: There is nothing good on gopher (7) 5: I'm an imageboard and online communities otaku (291) 6: Anyone willing to part with a Nevada-tan hoodie? (55) 7: [SPAM] Where does bot spam come from? [INQUIRY] [NET DETECTIVE] (36) 8: Goodbye world2ch! (67) 9: Decreasing usability on the web (40) 10: They redesigned 5ch (9) 11: Yukkuri shite itte ne! (22) 12: What music do you listen to when you websurf? (30) 13: Google buys YouTube. (28) 14: Why are imageboards filled with so many religious fanatics and conservatives these days? (28) 15: Pre-smartphone mobile web (wap, i-mode, etc) (14) 16: FOMO and Online Discourse (9) 17: how old is the enternet? (3) 18: BRING BACK IICHAN (11) 19: 711chan returns from the dead (2) 20: Goodbye Sageru.org (4) 21: Discussing on the net (5) 22: I want to now anothers text boards (7) 23: Junior, let's find VIP, DQN or IAA on your ID [PART III] (609) 24: channel4 laughs at other boards (7) 25: Pros and cons of anonymity (30) 26: Zona hispana (2) 27: Gikopoi thread! (25) 28: If anonymous forums are so great (52) 29: The end of Chris (22) 30: 4chan was never good (19) 31: POV: It's 2006 and you spelled Google wrong accidentally (FIXED) (6) 32: Text Paradise (12) 33: [TRUE ANON] Onion Chan! [ZOMG] (214) 34: Imageboard and textboard otaku needed (4) 35: what is the best kareha theme? (6) 36: [Single Points of Failure] Cloudflare Outage Thread [Bunker] (3) 37: Ok (3) 38: [SECRET] Attemptimg to find an old hidden board [HELP][ASSISTANCE REQUIRED] (3) 39: German imageboard Krautchan dies on 13.03.2018 (38) 40: twitter sucks (36)

Continuity of userbase of 4-ch (1)

1 Name: 409 - Name Conflict : 2023-09-24 23:31 ID:0gUJkGsh

This might sound a little weird, but is the userbase of this site how it used to be?
I ask because I came across it linked on the original 8chan, found it dead, and stupidly decided to post the link on various 8chan boards.
After that, the activity went up again. But I couldn't shake an uneasy feeling that I had done something wrong. I had heard that imageboards don't like large influxes of newcomers but (IIRC, it was so long ago) I wasn't quite sure if the same went for textboards, which were new to me at the time.
Ah well, I guess it comes with being young, autistic, and therefore uncomprehending of social norms.
Sorry to any oldfags that may see this and are bothered by what I did.

Evidence for oldfags being bothered:
- the list of sites at https://4-ch.net/iaa/kareha.pl/1439333638/ was deleted off pastebin

Evidence for oldfags not being bothered:
- when I asked about it on IIRC and another chan site connected to this one, they didn't seem to care

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Horrible, horrible websites (246)

1 Name: Anonymous 2004-11-13 20:11 ID:Heaven [Del]

List the most awful websites you have come across on the internet!

http://www.aiseikai.or.jp/

237 Name: 406 - Name Not Acceptable : 2023-08-16 16:30 ID:jALohWDX

>>234
discord good though

238 Name: 415 - Unsupported Name Type : 2023-08-16 20:01 ID:6t+qCHtO

>>237

Discord sucks. We hang out on synirc.

Well...more like idle...and someone says something once a week and then gets a reply a week later. But IRC is still better.

239 Name: 410 - Name Gone : 2023-08-23 23:32 ID:Y33VWP0E

echobubble dot xyz

240 Name: 415 - Unsupported Name Type : 2023-08-24 23:45 ID:8MIl6vMc

>>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.

also https://yesterweb.org

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242 Name: 408 - Name Request Timeout : 2023-08-31 02:52 ID:sSJEDarl

atob.xyz

243 Name: 401 - Unauthorized Name : 2023-09-10 06:43 ID:M7PA9MR3

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!

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245 Name: 406 - Name Not Acceptable : 2023-09-10 14:53 ID:Heaven

>>244 How topical!

246 Name: 409 - Name Conflict : 2023-09-21 07:49 ID:xu6488S7

ttps://www.nqalf.com

/ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/!

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New Gikopoi server dropped (20)

1 Name: 409 - Name Conflict : 2022-10-15 05:54 ID:vipeJqie

A new Gikopoi server dropped, https://play.gikopoi.com , repo overviewing changes/additions on github:153/gikopoi-illegal

No huge changes yet, but any characters/maps submitted will be approved.

The first real problem for the community to handle: how should stream slots be allocated? We can see in the github:iccanobif/gikopoi2 repo (see also: tanasinn wiki sortable table) that the rooms' stream slots are allocated in semi random ways; many rooms have 0 stream slots, while some of the larger rooms only have 2 or 1 slot.

Some ideas:

  • Give all rooms a handful of stream slots, and give some other rooms a bunch of slots. Means anyone can stream as-needed no matter where they may be.
  • Keep gikopoi2 default stream slots; why fix it if it's not broken?
  • Only give stream slots to 1 or 2 rooms, to encourage streamers/voice chatters to assemble in common spaces, and to give the rest of the server
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11 Name: 408 - Name Request Timeout : 2022-12-31 21:59 ID:k66PMlXX

>>8
this still doesnt explain it

12 Name: 409 - Name Conflict : 2023-01-03 05:49 ID:Heaven

>>11
He wanted iccanobif to add his bee and Islamic giko characters and bif refused. Now he is on an angry crusade.

13 Name: 403 - Name Forbidden : 2023-07-11 22:40 ID:ma8AbDUO

In the small town of Assville, USA, there lived two young men with dreams bigger than their tiny little minds could handle - Zzazzu Chu and Gyudon Addict. They were best buddies since childhood, sharing everything from dirty magazines to stolen cigarettes behind the local grocery store where they worked as stock boys.

One fateful day, after hours spent discussing advanced mathematics topics such as monoids and endofunctors (which neither of them understood), these two horny geniuses discovered something truly revolutionary – a shared love for consuming yoghurts through one another's anal cavities!

It was during this momentous occasion that they realized just how much more fun it would be if they combined both passions into one glorious act of sexual expression. And thus began the legendary tale of "The Yoghurt Monoid Endofunctor"...

As time went on, word spread throughout Assville about the incredible exploits of Zzazzu and Gyudon. Their reputation grew so large that even the most prestigious universities in neighboring cities sent representatives to study their unique form of mathematical erotica.

14 Name: 410 - Name Gone : 2023-07-11 22:40 ID:ma8AbDUO

>>13
It wasn't long before others started following suit, forming secret societies dedicated to exploring new ways to combine sex and higher education. Soon enough, entire conventions were held annually at which participants showcased their latest innovations in ass-to-mouth yoghurt consumption techniques inspired by various abstract algebra concepts. The world had never seen anything quite like it!

15 Name: 422 - Unprocessable Name : 2023-09-01 15:16 ID:H/xyhAew

16 Name: 405 - Name Not Allowed : 2023-09-02 13:13 ID:oT/BvU/c

>>15

I'll be there.

17 Name: 405 - Name Not Allowed : 2023-09-06 15:14 ID:gEi9l+JU

>>15
>>16
i will too

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19 Name: 408 - Name Request Timeout : 2023-09-11 21:53 ID:xrHNFZLy

>>17
nevermind. i am so sorry but i missed it. I will never remember what a 9/11 is now.

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There is nothing good on gopher (7)

1 Name: 415 - Unsupported Name Type : 2023-07-31 19:52 ID:fH5cLa3u

There is nothing good on gopher.

2 Name: 415 - Unsupported Name Type : 2023-08-01 07:21 ID:WjW3qGYp

then make something good

3 Name: 405 - Name Not Allowed : 2023-08-06 19:31 ID:FelLcXyd

dsfsdf

4 Name: 410 - Name Gone : 2023-08-16 12:06 ID:ddXerYhA

>>2
Fuck you.

Gemini is even worse, I wish every gembitch a very failed hard disk

Just write simple html without js, how hard is that..

5 Name: 410 - Name Gone : 2023-08-28 02:13 ID:ndrnRn+7

what a gopher

6 Name: 410 - Name Gone : 2023-08-28 02:14 ID:ndrnRn+7

*what is gopher?
is It like a website?

7 Name: 401 - Unauthorized Name : 2023-08-28 12:57 ID:eUtoJlXw

gopher is a failed protocol that is a hybrid of http and ftp
so instead of https://4-ch.net you would have gopher://4-ch.net
you need a gopher web browser to look at these pages, but most are not worth bothering with. just a bunch of websites run by people either stuck in the past or nostalgic for something they were not a part of. same applies for gemini protocol.

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I'm an imageboard and online communities otaku (291)

1 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-08-11 22:53 ID:7mRWuRW3

look at this list I made
http://pastebin.com/HNp6NuSA

282 Name: 422 - Unprocessable Name : 2023-04-11 09:02 ID:Heaven

>>281
gtfo 2kike

283 Name: 403 - Name Forbidden : 2023-04-11 09:40 ID:tjAeM28B

>>282
Wrong, btw

284 Name: 403 - Name Forbidden : 2023-04-21 01:22 ID:Heaven

420chan is back with Fred as the owner but Kirtaner remaining as the admin

>Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) bought 420chan.org on April, 20, 2023, from Kirtaner for the sum of US$4,200 (US$420×10) and uploaded this landing page. For the full agreement between them, see the below signed contract.
>Future plans
>Under new management, Kirtaner will remain the admin of 420chan, with Brennan as owner. The goal is for the site to be owned by a non-profit organization, with Fredrick Brennan as Chairman of the Board, by 2025. There are plans to rebuild the site from scratch.
>Additionally, a legal challenge will be brought to recover the servers that were seized by law enforcement in 2022

285 Name: 408 - Name Request Timeout : 2023-07-12 16:46 ID:Heaven

The only thing Kirtaner should be admin of is Big Bubba's Penis

286 Name: 410 - Name Gone : 2023-07-19 22:33 ID:Heaven

Lupchan.org (remember that?) died after relentless CP spam. It was hardly used and [s4s] cliques were mostly elsewhere, but it's just so weird that sites like this get hit so hard.
>>277
I hope tabamin is doing well.

287 Name: 403 - Name Forbidden : 2023-08-08 21:02 ID:UrRBWOwt

>>269
>>136
It looks like that archive is dead now. I wonder if everything there is lost forever...
Looks like /azu/ has a new home though:
https://azu.nfshost.com/azu/

288 Name: 401 - Unauthorized Name : 2023-08-08 23:30 ID:jrAuaFzV

>>287

I'm glad to see you post this because I just happened to start rewatching that for the first time in a really long time. I didn't realize it was so old...!

289 Name: 410 - Name Gone : 2023-08-09 00:09 ID:jrAuaFzV

4taba may be closing?

>Long story short, I don't want to moderate the place and no one has added a solution to deal with some of the spam(the CP is ultimately inevitable). Since there's no one I want to give the site to I'll ultimately close posting and pay the renewal on the server. What will be left running is the archive function I added at some point and the contents of the site.

https://puu.sh/JN2SM/535e545589.png

>Unless there's an alternative method that people want to reach out to me for. I don't have trust in handing over the site to random people and would rather keep it around as an archive.

290 Name: 406 - Name Not Acceptable : 2023-08-22 12:07 ID:nffyf4zi

4ct.org seems to have gone down a while ago without anyone noticing!

291 Name: 403 - Name Forbidden : 2023-08-23 23:31 ID:a699zToN

echobubble dot xyz

a textboard for the bored.
ratwires.space revival
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Anyone willing to part with a Nevada-tan hoodie? (55)

1 Name: Osaka !8FVFEBTVK2 2005-08-18 22:29 ID:NKC60ER2 This thread was merged from the former /net/ board. You can view the archive here.

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!

46 Name: 409 - Name Conflict : 2021-04-02 23:52 ID:ZNrvWSmU

Cracky-chan was always better than Nevada.

Nevada fans are welcome to convert but only if they renounce and repent.

47 Name: 406 - Name Not Acceptable : 2021-04-03 01:22 ID:Heaven

>>40
Nice one, greentexter.

48 Name: 410 - Name Gone : 2021-04-28 08:07 ID:yQ++/sJj

>>46

She doesn't care about you guys and never wanted that sort of attention in the first place can't you sad fucks just move on already? Also no Nevada-Tan is way better because she wasn't a whore looking for attention she was just a cute loli standing up to a bully and she did nothing wrong tbh.

49 Name: 403 - Name Forbidden : 2021-04-28 18:55 ID:XKs05p5G

Cracky chugs black cock

50 Name: 410 - Name Gone : 2021-04-30 19:52 ID:lWGRGj/d

OKAY
WHAT IF
BABJ

51 Name: 405 - Name Not Allowed : 2021-05-10 06:09 ID:+XyfLURM

>>48
He had me in the first half, can't lie.

52 Name: 410 - Name Gone : 2022-12-02 00:36 ID:kZ7t73Rg

reviving this threaddddddddd

53 Name: 401 - Unauthorized Name : 2022-12-04 00:08 ID:+zmhHj2d

Cracky chan was NEVER attractive and i HATE HER

54 Name: 408 - Name Request Timeout : 2022-12-04 13:10 ID:Heaven

The funniest part of the Cracky-chan saga was when she became an edgy white woman with dreadlocks.

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[SPAM] Where does bot spam come from? [INQUIRY] [NET DETECTIVE] (36)

1 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2021-01-07 20:09 ID:A2XHXRdb

I once uploaded Kareha onto a server I was running from home, purely just to test the software and study the code. I didn't advertise the board to anybody, and only made three test threads. Amazingly, after having forgotten about the board, and coming back a year later, I found it full of spam and links.

Everybody knows about textboard spam, wakaba's /soc/ board was removed after being spammed to oblivion, the site that wrote the original gazouBBS (futaba's sourcecode) script's demonstration boards were also full of spam comments written in English, so on, we've all seen it.

Where is it actually coming from though? Has anybody ever gone down the rabbithole of internet spam and bots? How do they find no-name sites that nobody visits? What is their end goal? Who actually runs these bots? Is anybody even running these bots or have they been on autopilot for decades? Is there a network of spammers? What is your experience with spam?

Within the past three years or so, "scambaiting" has become a popular genre of youtube and twitch content, with people investigating tech support scammers and robotcallers and whatnot, but I feel like nobody really cares about the rabbithole of people spamming on websites, when it is just as vast and fascinating.

27 Name: 422 - Unprocessable Name : 2022-08-23 04:42 ID:blVLru5i

people keep posting cpz on my favorite altchan
is it feds or cloudflare

i think its just pedos

28 Name: 403 - Name Forbidden : 2022-09-14 12:26 ID:qJtDLLAl

The quality varies a lot, this new guy seems to have figured out how to use the name/link fields AND html formatting to spam his shoe (?) websites.

29 Name: 403 - Name Forbidden : 2022-09-15 15:07 ID:M+fR2ryk

>>28
I think you meant hoe websites.

30 Name: 422 - Unprocessable Name : 2022-09-16 05:47 ID:Heaven

30get

31 Name: 422 - Unprocessable Name : 2022-09-20 02:03 ID:Heaven

>>28
That spam bot has been around for a long while now. I'm guessing it was originally made to seek out blog comment sections, I've seen similar spam on those and those also have name/email fields and either HTML or BBCode formatting. Actually, just supporting BBCode is enough to summon a swarm of spambots.

32 Name: 406 - Name Not Acceptable : 2023-01-08 01:33 ID:XHYVBWyG

>>1
Very interesting, certainly. In my opinion it must be spam bot farms, some of which left running for decades (have you noticed Usenet spam has not evolved from the typical garbage links?), or even paid Indian spammers
>>27
Feds seek imageboards out to post CP in them to get them shut down. If the janitors/moderators are proactive removing the spam, the feds observe when the janitors/moderators are asleep to perform the spam again, or even, in the worst rumoured cases, actually become janitors and begin antagonizing the userbase to get them to abandon ship.

33 Name: 422 - Unprocessable Name : 2023-03-17 09:50 ID:Heaven

>>32
I have heard fed this glowie that, but do you have any proof or evidence for this?

34 Name: 410 - Name Gone : 2023-07-06 06:12 ID:CDfICpJZ

Merorin has been getting hit by CP spammers that are not bots, but manually posted

I dunno why

35 Name: 405 - Name Not Allowed : 2023-07-18 07:17 ID:hulg03OS

>How do they find no-name sites that nobody visits

https website certs are publicly available in a certificate transparency log and this is one way bots find domains to check

36 Name: 422 - Unprocessable Name : 2023-08-15 21:28 ID:YjPYTmMf

>>10

Those randomly generated sites are exploiting Google Search's AI-powered search engine and they do get ad revenue from it. What the owners of these sites do is build a scraper with Python, implement it into their (monetized) Wordpress website where they churn out endless low-quality articles, and somehow, Google picks it up and it lands on the first page of the search results.
They're always in the middle or the last part of the search results yet that seems to be enough to make money off it.
I've started noticing that because whenever I look up something programming-related, I come across a low quality site that very obviously stole a q&a from StackOverflow.

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Goodbye world2ch! (67)

1 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2017-12-02 10:13 ID:5QTWt0//

world2ch is dead as of today, hopefully somebody has some sort of archive.

58 Name: 408 - Name Request Timeout : 2023-05-20 06:45 ID:jxoN2or0

>>56 wats the 0037 archive, sorry am newfag

59 Name: 408 - Name Request Timeout : 2023-05-20 10:20 ID:Heaven

http://w2ch.14get.helioho.st/, no clue why it wasn't linked here before

60 Name: 408 - Name Request Timeout : 2023-05-20 17:56 ID:qUhgYjAh

>>59

https://ssz.4-ch.net/

Under the "Wikis & resources" section

61 Name: 401 - Unauthorized Name : 2023-05-26 10:37 ID:Heaven

Inactive Account
Your account has been suspended for inactivity. To keep your account active you need only log in to heliohost.org at least once every 30 days. Failure to log in often enough results in your account being flagged as inactive. If you would like to continue using this account you can renew it. If you have already recently renewed your account and are still being redirected to this page don't forget to clear your browser cache.

62 Name: 408 - Name Request Timeout : 2023-06-12 09:02 ID:OdlOVcY9

>>56
>>61
it just does that every once in a while just gives you more reason to archive fucking everything before it shuts down for reals

63 Name: 401 - Unauthorized Name : 2023-06-21 16:59 ID:sU39f2aQ

world2ch.net is back!

64 Name: 409 - Name Conflict : 2023-06-24 20:40 ID:Heaven

nu-w2ch is owned by bunch of kids that never used the website and aren't japanese

65 Name: 410 - Name Gone : 2023-07-09 15:23 ID:Heaven

I had a datadump from just after it went offline somewhere.
Last thing I remember was a thread of a kid who was going to confess to crush (probably just someone larping). I believe the saga continued briefly on 4-ch.

66 Name: 403 - Name Forbidden : 2023-07-21 09:06 ID:q0xhGAfG

>>65
https://w2ch.14get.helioho.st/board/kareha.pl/1508512535/
definitely seems like it was someone larping i still found it really funny though

67 Name: 415 - Unsupported Name Type : 2023-08-15 04:03 ID:GDjL02Ma

The world2ch.org URL has finally expired. The same kids who bought world2ch.net have bought it too and it now redirects to their w2ch revival site.

Guess this means 0037 is finally gone for good. He kept renewing the URL for a rather long while after the site went down, must have finally decided it's not worth keeping.

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Decreasing usability on the web (40)

1 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2016-04-21 07:22 ID:ReD2ZvAk This thread was merged from the former /net/ board. You can view the archive here.

It seems like the web is getting harder to use.

Or maybe I'm just getting older.

  • I was using a search bar on a website. It had no "search" button ... it was just a text field. I tried hitting enter and nothing happened. The screen didn't change or anything. I finally reloaded and tried again and THEN my search actually returned results.
  • I was tabbing through a webpage, but the links were never highlighted or outlined to let me know that I was tabbed on them.
  • Webpages have become harder to read! I'm serious. There is something wrong with the new age typefaces. It's like someone decided to make a new font that inherited 3 X chromosomes so every character could be big, but skinny.

I am not adapting well to the future at all.

31 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2020-11-07 22:02 ID:OVNBlGgT

>>30
dude
just stop

32 Name: 403 - Name Forbidden : 2023-02-22 08:41 ID:J7je0dTg

In the early 2000s, dozens of academic math websites were made featuring Java applets with interactive geometry.
Now, nearly none are left and Java applets are long deprecated. There's still some similar sites and demonstrations but few are ever as comprehensive as those old sites (and considering the current state of the web, a pain to find). Also, Java applets and Flash somehow lagged considerably less than modern webshit attempts at the same.

It used to be that I could go online and spend hours discovering countless cool sites on whatever topics I could imagine. Now it's all buried in bot-ran blogs all copying from each other. Or is it that people no longer make cool websites? Most cool webpages I run into now are hosted on github, most cool articles on some large platform. Most people I know don't use the web outside of youtube, wikipedia, and social media apps. The web just isn't as fun these days.

33 Name: 403 - Name Forbidden : 2023-02-22 11:03 ID:hJNKjCc0

>>32

>Now it's all buried in bot-ran blogs all copying from each other.

You need to use a lot of +"query" -"query" modifiers to find the buried stuff.

>Or is it that people no longer make cool websites?

Depends on what you consider cool. I find that more interesting sites are usually spread by word of mouth. Here's a couple link directories to check out:
https://peelopaalu.neocities.org/
https://kaisernet.org/links.htm
https://sundee.neocities.org/links/

Some alternate search engines that mainly cover buried sites:

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34 Name: 415 - Unsupported Name Type : 2023-03-07 09:12 ID:J7je0dTg

>>33

>You need to use a lot of +"query" -"query" modifiers to find the buried stuff.

I find that Google has this habit of returning no results at all, or barely anything, for searches that make extensive use of +"query" -"query" modifiers even where a modifier-less version of that same search returns results that should match the modifiers. Or, on rarer occasions, of outright ignoring quotation marks or other operators for certain searches and shitting out a page of SEO AI-spam regardless.

>Here's a couple link directories to check out:

I am well aware of those link directories, and a number of others. Peelopaalu plenty of nice links in it.
The problem with these small "word of mouth" link directories is that they're usually a list of "nostalgic" webpages, old personal sites, and a bunch of the site owner's personal interests. They're not comprehensive and they're rarely useful for finding anything specific. I kind of wish there was a modern version of the old Yahoo link directory. Or for search engines to stop sucking again.
People linking to each other is a nice development though. With how most sites are now, you'd think everyone forgot the web is for hypertext.

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35 Name: 409 - Name Conflict : 2023-03-08 01:57 ID:hJNKjCc0

>>34
Regarding the search modifiers, I've also noticed they're not always working nowadays. In some cases you can use a different engine that is based on another to make it work, for example using goo instead of bing.

The novelty factor of the web has long since diminished so of course it's going to be harder to find sites like that. Interacting with your site visitors encouraged personal sites, but the lack of visitors, the poor conduct of the average user and the spambot armies of today make it less attractive. They do still exist, but the greater signal to noise ratio and poorly configured search engine algorithms make it harder to come across them.

Speaking of the link directories, why hasn't anyone made a wiki style link directory that anyone can contribute to? Perhaps it already exists but a quick search gave me nothing worthwhile.

36 Name: 405 - Name Not Allowed : 2023-03-10 21:56 ID:Heaven

>>35

>greater signal to noise ratio

*lower

37 Name: 406 - Name Not Acceptable : 2023-03-16 23:42 ID:Heaven

i see no problem, op.
i can still browse this site on my iPhone 17 XXR Pro Max Ultra

38 Name: 409 - Name Conflict : 2023-07-24 01:33 ID:NHjcc10k

Something I deeply hate about modern web are the tables or objects that don't load instantly and move everything on the site every other second.
Do you want to click this little link? Too bad, it moved to load our ad.
Oh, you think you got it this time? Fuck you! It moved again to load an empty box begging you to subscribe/turn off ad blocker!
You thought you were done? Have a funny pop-up show up exactly where you want to click! Now you have to input your email address DIPSHIT!!!

39 Name: 406 - Name Not Acceptable : 2023-07-24 09:27 ID:7OBfp9/t

>>38
This, this, this.

40 Name: 406 - Name Not Acceptable : 2023-07-27 09:48 ID:C8A6nJj3

The new authentication standards and machine learning legislation companies are pushing for could be really bad

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They redesigned 5ch (9)

1 Name: 408 - Name Request Timeout : 2023-06-23 05:08 ID:v+fh6xGl

I hate change

2 Name: 422 - Unprocessable Name : 2023-06-23 11:06 ID:LpV4B3ZZ

Why is every big website on the Internet turning to shit at the same time?
Most of them were already shit but now they're getting even shittier.

3 Name: 415 - Unsupported Name Type : 2023-06-24 20:38 ID:/ARo7f2U

5ch is owned by jim watkins it has always been shit. 2ch is still the same

4 Name: 409 - Name Conflict : 2023-06-26 08:00 ID:v+fh6xGl

>>3
Isn't 2ch (that is 2ch.sc, unless there's another site with the 2ch name) just a mirror of 5ch now though? Or does it actually have its own community?

5 Name: 401 - Unauthorized Name : 2023-07-19 21:13 ID:gIMRTPvr

Agreed. Every website just looks the same now, flat and boring as hell. And it's sadly not just the internet, just look at the history of the Google Chrome icon, every icon was worse than it's predecessor, getting flatter and flatter until it became something I could make in MS paint in like 2 minutes.

6 Name: 408 - Name Request Timeout : 2023-07-19 22:27 ID:Heaven

>>4
2ch.sc is a different thing, there's also open2channel (https://open2ch.net/) and next2ch (https://next2ch.net/).

7 Name: 408 - Name Request Timeout : 2023-07-19 22:35 ID:Heaven

Also, don't forget 4-ch's sister board, OCchannel (https://occhan-nel.com/)
ここはおっちゃんの憩いの場 (´・ω・`)

8 Name: 405 - Name Not Allowed : 2023-07-21 09:48 ID:Heaven

> 4-ch's sister board

citation needed

9 Name: 406 - Name Not Acceptable : 2023-07-27 08:09 ID:Heaven

>>8
It was a joke about it being called Middle-aged Man Channel

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