Every time I find a new textboard, I keep seeing the same names over and over. "kuz", "heyuri", "4x13", and I sense a general atmosphere where everybody knows each other. I remember namefags in my day, but it's different from that because it feels like everybody knows each other even when they're posting anonymously.
> you'd have to be careful though, sounds like it could be exploited
In a world full of anonymizers, bots and spammer sweatshops, I feel like "careful" isn't good enough any more. You either have to commit to constantly cleaning up the mess bad actors make like we see here, make people have accounts/verification hoops to jump through that kind of defeats the point, or maybe you have some genius solution that's beyond my ability to think up.
This is why we can't have nice things.
>spacehey
as a quite avid user of that site, it's always (pleasantly) surprising to see it mentioned in the wild
>>14
erm as a quite avid user its pleasant to be a faggot outside of my faggot zone
they are the same people, you retard
it is called propaganda, children doing propaganda
they are children who want to make names for themselves
who is kuz? who is heyuri? 4x13 equals 52 i do not know
i do not know because i am not a child
>>12
Kills me that the few places that did have module/tracker boards are now dead-dead. I can't even think of one that's still around?
iiichan is gone, sovietrussia is gone. There might have been more but I can't remember them.
>>18
I unironically can do it on the textboard I'm making from scratch
But the board must be used and the style of the site should not make you throw up
>>19
make sure to seriously sanitize the uploads. who knows how many vulns the various tracker libs have.
4x13 is Tokiko who's been around forever...
Does anyone know what happened to Shii? I haven't heard much of him in a while. What was he doing last(what is he doing now?)
sucking my penis atm
He transitioned to a serious academic studying Japanese culture, or something.
Last published article was apparently
> "Conceptualising Secret Societies and Conspiracy Theories in Imperial Japan: From Countering Socialism to Rescuing Jewish Refugees". In Francesco Piraino, Marco Pasi, and Egil Asprem, eds. Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories (Routledge, 2023).
So I guess he's still around.
How does that article relate to him? Isn't he supposed to be done with academics at this age?
Is no one going to bring up that he converted to Islam?
I could explain why he did so, but that would spoil the fun.
>>4
He's a professor of Japanese religion now, teaches at some university in Boston last I checked.
>>6
grad student at a prestigious university in Rhode Island.
if you know that much, what's his name? is it one of those named in the article? I want to take a class under him lol
who is shii? lol
He's currently a PhD candidate at Brown University. He's an expert in Japanese religions focusing on the Meji period onward and does a lot of work on cults and new religions, religion and modernity etc. You can find his publications here. They are actually kind of interesting.
https://u-tokyo.academia.edu/AveryMorrow
>>8
He teaches at an Ivy League. Good luck getting in there. Its pretty impressive that Shii made it that far.
How do we know that shii's real name is Avery Morrow?
I've always seen people pointing out something about him (once a guy pasted a link to a fake gay wedding with his name in it lol) but I've so far never seen hard evidence of Shii == Avery Morrow.
Kind of a funny development.
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...
God loves everyone in this thread doe
>Because think tanks, lobbying groups, and shady outlets who serve doners have been spamming imageboards for years now.
Over time I get more and more convinced internet culture is at least in part artificial. Even 2ch was allegedly being manipulated by the LDP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textboard
there was a brief edit war before an admin said no
Is there any reliable encyclopedia website to recommend, preferably a static website or a web1.0 website, I don’t like websites with too bloated scripts
Came here from the wikipedia talk page itself. lol.
>>34
I googled Encarta and was sent to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education which features an "AI-powered assistant". It's all over.
Also if there was really a web-based version of Encarta I bet it didn't have that cool maze game.
If you rely on a encyclopedia but are at wit's end with wikipedia, I'd unironically recommend supporting Britannica. I think that's the only realistic alternative in the English speaking world.
>>8
how is he having his fingers in every online community
kuz = the israel of the internet
>>38
kuz was rather active on here back in 2020 and 2021, before getting into a lot of ridiculous drama and thankfully leaving us in favor of the 'sharty.
>>40
obsessed status?
>>37
Oxford Reference gives you the individual entries to their reference books. Which is useful because a failing of Wikipedia is how broad it is. Do you want to know about gold in history, chemistry, religion, trade...?
If you know anyone with a UK library card you just enter the library card number and get access to the site. Then you're free to look up gold in the Oxford Dictionary of Dentistry.
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
I found this website from some directory a couple of years ago and check it every few months. I really like the style and wish a site like this was more popular.
I had no idea this site existed when it was new and yet I have posted about shii before.
Similar to >>2, I have found this site somewhere a bunch of years ago. Being text-only is the sole attraction to me, don't care about 2channel.
bakayaro!!!! posting my sakuga textboard to a gaijin site!!! teme... fuzakeru ne!
I've been here a decade and I know users from here who have been around since 2006 and 2007. There's a good bit of continuity.
I have an idea to build an internet community for a topic, that interests me, but isn't discussed anywhere besides a subreddit and probably a handful of Discord and IRC servers. The thing is that I like anonymous message boards in principle and I prefer them, as a user, greatly over regular forums. The idea of anonymity rather than pseudonymity is just appealing to me on many levels. However, when it comes to being the administrator of such a place, it seems that a regular forum (something running Xenforo or phpBB for instance) has lower maintenance needs than an textboard/imageboard. It's not that I'm lazy, but I just don't want to deal with spammers, CSAM posters and all the kinds of annoying shit people do when they are not bound to an account. The kinds of spam that is a regular thing on most imageboard, yet on other forums, where you have to have a registered account to use, it's practically non-existent (at least in forums that are dedicated to hobbies and particular interests. While it makes spam practically non-existent, it probably also reduces the overall traffic by a lot, as nobody wants to make an account somewhere, when they could just not. I'm still not sure whether I should make this forum/message board at all, but assuming I am going to do this eventually, can any seasoned admins give me their two cents on whether a forum or anonymous textboard is preferable for a certain interest of mine? Personally I am inclined towards textboards, since that is what I have grown up with and what I think would be my preferred option if I were the user, nonetheless it's still a different thing from an administrators perspective.
Anonymity is great because nobody can become popular, well-known, or more important than somebody else. Many of the ills of the modern internet are there, because people put too much importance on their identity, a thing that is not there in anonymous places like here. This has the disadvantage that nobody knows anyone really, I suppose that's a thing you have to ponder, if that is really what you want. Such is my reasoning why I prefer anonymity, is that though worth the nonsense and cancer you have to deal with when being a site administrator? The spam that plaques this place is pissing me off, despite me not even having to care, just having to endure it as a user, so I doubt it will be any better when I run such a site myself.
Sounds like you're trying to appeal to a chunk of an already niche community.
Maybe ask what kind of site the fans of your thing are into?
You wanna appeal to them, not just to you.
And some people actually like that whole popularity thing.
Also, you're gonna have to deal with spam, accounts or not.
If you're not seeing spam, it's probably just efficient moderation.
Couldn't really say without knowing what your interest is and what its community is like. 1chan - .us not .net - was an example of an otherwise normal IB that required registration to post. Another thing would be all posts are anonymous but have to be manually mod approved which would quickly get tiring.
Forums more time consuming in creating, managing, and posting on. Text boards, not so much.
But even image and text boards are becoming dead and used less just like when forums were left behind and ditched.
>Maybe ask what kind of site the fans of your thing are into?
I don't know if I get your question correctly, but if you are asking what kind of site the people in the already-existing niche would be using, then probably a forum, since they are used to Reddit and I assume that is the closest to that. On the other hand, I would guess more people would start using it, when no account is needed.
>>3
>Couldn't really say without knowing what your interest is and what its community is like.
The whole shtick would a board for discussing collapse of civilization, mostly apolitical though, not unlike r/collapse, but maybe with a bit more quality-control (that's probably bold of me wanting quality when I probably won't get any traffic at all). Outside of Reddit there is practically no place to discuss this besides some quality-less, probably dead, and uninteresting Telegram groups and Discord chatrooms.
>>4
what about something where you register but the posts are anonymous to the readers? consider how chans already (ab)use the ip address as a rudimentary form of account. modern chans take things further. for example on kohlchan, after filling a captcha and doing a proof of work, you get a token code. effectively an account. replacing the fickle ip address with a token makes posting from proxies and darknets viable, actually enhancing technical anonymity.
>I don't know if I get your question correctly,
I wasn't really asking you a question at all. I was just suggesting that you ask them one.
That way instead of just guessing about what they'd be into, you get some opinions from the people that might end up posting there.
If they're all "anonymity is weird, I need names and identities and such" and you make an anonymous board, it's probably gonna be real quiet in there.
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
Some more Wikis I came across:
While the Thinkpad Wiki sounds in theory interesting, it is has two problems. One being, that you can't register yourself really, as long as you don't reveal your real name to the Admin, which I certainly won't do. Other than that, the Wiki itself is fine.
The SigID Wiki is very nice. You can edit without an account, but you may create one without any further problems. The Wiki itself is neatly organized and the signals are well documented. There seems to be an active, albeit small, community surrounding it too. I don't know much about Signals, so I can't really contribute besides minor editors like fixing spelling mistakes, but I might contribute more once I gained enough knowledge about it. Bonus points for using the Monobook theme.
There is also the DelphiGL Wiki, which is a German wiki concerning programming with OpenGL. It's quite old, but still helpful. You have to be part of their forum for a week and contribute, I think, at least 10 posts to be allowed to edit their forum. The obvious downside is the language barrier and, that it requires you to be part of their forum, but otherwise I don't see much issue with this. The articles seem to be written in a more laid-back and relaxed way with many jokes inbetween the pile of technical info.
Apparently there is a new /g/-Wiki at https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Main_Page. I've been spending the whole noon looking for stuff to edit, albeit I'm not sure whether it's worth it, or whether it will die again. It's weird, because the old /g/-Wiki still exists and is still accessible, but they made a new one. I don't know if there was some technical issue or interpersonal issue, but it seems weird to me.
What happened to textboard.org? Didn't bother to visit for a while and now I see it's down. Is it gone forever?
The last valid shot in WebArchive is just some file collection.
Its gone? RIP schemeBBS
Did anyone grab an archive of the boards? Some of the discussions on there were amazing.
It came as a shock to me when it disappeared, it was probably one of my favourite textboards. Having felt personally responsible for kicking off several of the more interesting threads on there, it feels quite lonesome now that its gone. Bitdiddle could have at least announced he was going to take the site down or post an archive in the file list or something.
It had a very unique balance between actual thought-provoking discussion, creativity, and shitposting. If any recent site were worthy of inheriting the title of
i miss it :/
Can anyone access afternoon.dynu.com i.e Post Office?
I'm worried it's taken down because for the last week at least, it just throws 404s.
It was a really nice, chill place except for one tard posting links. Hope it's not been killed.
>>10
It was hosted by the same admin as SAoVQ and he's been missing for a while now.
It feels like just yesterday that it was spun up.
how many people do you know who have died after taking the covid vaccine?
My online conspiracy bubble is still on 'Covid isn't real', the whole vaccine thing is for posers/casuals.