The only relevant textboard in english ;_;
no, still alive ;__;
still lurking ;_;
still kickin' ;__;
I visit this website about twice annually out of curiosity.
I've never really known what to do here because it seems like there's no one here.
We should have less boards. The only board that gets any traffic, any how, is DQN.
This website was more active 8 years ago. I could waste an entire day posting.
How can we revive it?
>>9
So every time we make a post, we post twice.
I post. I exist.
We can bring this entire website down to 2-3 boards.
>>13
I like the other boards though. Even though it's not used often, I like the idea of having a "Romance" or "Personal Issues" board.
>We can bring this entire website down to 2-3 boards.
Terrible idea. Terrible, terrible idea. Just in general.
Imagine how this place would be if DQN was the only board. (So what if it is....- You catch my drift.)
Bummer at the absolute snails pace the last several years though.
I'll try posting more.
>>15
I understand what you mean, but what if we (and by "we", I of course mean squeaks or shii or whoever runs this forum now) merge the boards whose topics overlap each other. For example, what distinguishes net culture from Internet addicts? And what distinguishes the content on Internet addicts with that of general. Food and fashion make more sense being topics or running threads on the very inactive hobbies board, which pretty much consists of, "I need a new hobby". I get the Japanese board, but do we really need a Nordic board separate from languages?
>>16
If we didn't have a separate Nordic board, those dirty swedes might start interfering and mucking around with the rest of us.
The only problem with the separate boards is I'm too lazy to check them all to look for new posts. So I tend to avoid the ones i'm less interested in. Sorry all you News boards.
This site's traffic is going to pick up. Mark my words. 4-ch is going to be all the rage by 2020
so there are srill people here..
>>18
In the near future I shall make a global feed for new posts made across the entire site. Possibly I will allow the option to filter out certain boards (in particular DQN, since it is the most active). If people are sufficiently aware of this new feature (new? shock!), it may begin to address the problem you are describing.
In terms of removing boards, I really have to side with >>15 on this one. I do not know if this is simply out of nostalgia, stubbornness, or whatever, but it is a very strong feeling. Having said that, I really want to hear all arguments to the contrary.
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>>21 I know how you feel, based out of nostalgia, but at the moment there are too many boards. For example, Anime and Manga can easily be put together. I can't say whether any of the users of /manga/ use /anime/ as well, but I'd imagine that they do. One of the biggest things it seems in getting more people on boards and on the site is to make it seem like there is more discussion going on. The last post on Manga was in march, and the last post on anime was today, by me. Romance and Personal could easily be merged into one board, so could Tech Support and Programming, Politics and Debate (they go hand in hand), Fashion, Food and Hobbies could just be merged into a Daily Life board. I think that textboards never really got their fair shot in the west, but I've always loved the concept, I used to post on world2ch a LONG time ago but moved to imageboards. Now that imageboards are completely un-saveable, I think that textboards are a good possibility. That's just me, however.
>>14
Other chans already have a romance and personal issues board.
It's called /r9k/
>>23
/r9k/ always revolves around not having a gf and self-loathing.
Have you seen the Personal Issues board? It's nothing like the /r9k/'s I've seen before.
Yeah, /r9k/ is fantastic, though, if you ignore all the >tfw no gf stuff.
Personal Issues is nothing like that. No self loathing, but also no good OC.
It's because of the captcha. Fix this captcha so we don't have to copy our message into an Emacs window in case we are wrong and lose our entire message.
>>27
My captcha is always "wow"
It must take an idiot to get the captcha wrong.
>>28
It varies, sometimes it is very difficult.
>>26
That can be said of any board, though
I could say that /b/ is pretty good if you ignore all the shamelessly gratuitous shitposting
>>23 since when /r9k/ is about personal issues or romance? If anything it was a cool new /b/ where people fought with no repeats rule.
...a few years ago while I still frequented the place.
>>31
It's turned into the "feels board" for losers and NEETs. At least the 8chan and 4chan ones. Lots of overuse of Pepe and Feels Man.
Uh, way off track here guys..... just noting that.
I still stand by my original position of basically not changing the site in any way. It's lasted thus long.
What we need is less posters. More moderators. Mark my words.
>>33
I disagree about the posters/moderators.
I would love to have a mainstream English textboard like Japan has. 8chan/4chan are cancerous because at it's core are "le maymays" and they never breed any meaningful discussion, especially 8chan. A popular general-purpose discussion textboard would coexist with reddit and forums, and get rid of comment sections on blogs and news sites and such.
So I actually think this place needs to be shilled hard.
>>34
That post was a sarcasm, pointing out, there is more moderators and their friends, than posters.
Does captcha work now?
I'm so alone
no you're not, anon. You've still got us.
all 12 of us.
Searching for 「anonymous discussion forum」 on startpage (which partially gets its results from google), wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan appears on page 3. And nothing more except a 4chan mention up to 10.
I don't know, maybe if we shilled the results hard..
>>41
could work, but who's gonna google "anonymous discussion forum"?
Also, if we got whoever runs 4chan now to put a link to 4-ch, that would send more ppl this way. Not an advertisement and not paid, but a link.
I imagine they don't like the idea of of textboards or other sites, though.
>>43
tbh, i doubt whoever runs 4chan now would put a link to here.
our best bet would just be to buy a self serve ad from them.
>>44
I'm opposed to advertisements, but also, I feel something deeply revolting about buying ads on 4chan.
Another way would be to contact some mainstream news outlet and propose them to make an article about textboards and 4-ch like a sort of english 2ch.
>>48
Has a major news outlet even mentioned 2ch? The only ones I can find are some Japanese sites and fucking Kotaku, so I doubt our chances of getting publicity like that are very high.
And even if a major news site did do a story on 2ch, they'd probably decry it and all of it's spinoffs as sites for pedophile-rapist-murderers because they're dumb as fuck and need pageviews.
2ch probs hasn't been mentioned but don't they run out of ideas sometimes.
Why do we need more people? With that just comes meme-faggotry and spammers.
>>51
I like 2ch style sites, so the fact that most english ones are slow as hell is kind of annoying.
As for meme-faggotry and spamming, we could just tell them to fuck off if they're being faggots.
It's ironic that you would act so elitist, considering words like faggot are only really trendy on some of the more juvenile imageboards.
Ah, maybe we should just take 4-ch for what it is, a seemingly desolated posting ground.
>>53
yup
/polpol/ and /32/ are some of the better boards on 8chan (I'm slightly suspicious of the moderation of /polpol/ though)
maybe we could subtly advertise there by mentioning 4-ch in a discussion (this is how /32/ is advertised)
Casually mentioning it on slow 8ch/4chan boards might work. On /qa/, one of the less populated boards on 4chan, I usually mention it in "Post what other sites you frequent?" Threads. I've also posted it on /txt/ on 8ch.
Why advertise it? It's not like that ever endures. They'll visit for the novelty then leave, because they're too image-oriented.
The fact is that if someone takes up an interest textboard culture, no matter what they do, they're most likely to visit this site first, so why not just let it be? Don't try to impose your interests on others.
You should, because they're going to spam the front page with stuff like "I'm from 8ch, and what is this site?" rather than actually contribute discussion.
Or, more likely, they're going to post on DQN, deteriorating the quality of what's all ready a very low-quality board.
So caught up in your elitism that you failed to notice >>60 is likely one of them.
Or did I fail to notice something myself?
>>60
in my defence, textboards are better.
Less bullshit image internet memes to worry about.
>>56
/pol/ is literally worse than furry don't bring that shit here please
wait, why do we have an imageboard now?
>>66
BPS didn't say anything on /req/
Hm
>>68
it's at least a bit funny because of the cat face
>>66-67
There is no particular reason. I was just idly toying with the idea for some time and decided to give it a go.
I've made a newspost concerning it now, as well as an invitation for any kind of feedback on this and other matters. As usual the best place to voice any kind of concern is on /req/.
I appreciate that this website moves slowly in more ways than just frequency of posts, and accordingly that some people may be resistant to this kind of change. (Actually, to be honest, it is way more active than people often give it credit for. The problem is that it is concentrated to maybe 3-4 boards in total.)
Anyways, thanks for your concern. Let me know your thoughts!
>>71
Wait, so SAoVQ is finally back up now?
nice
>>72
that's a different set up by a different guy
It's an extremely bad sign that almost all topics of discussion are about the death of or low post count of the boards.
Why does no one simply post other topics? The simplest solution. It's very puzzling.
>>74
4chan children think that something has to be as fast as an active IRC room in order for it to be "good".
>>75
if you think '4chan children' even know about this place, you're an idiot.
>>76
Great post, you've really contributed to the conversation. Contrary to your idiotic beliefs, 4-ch is well known on 4chan, especially boards like /qa/. Sounds like you're the type of retard who believes that all of 4chan = /b/.
>>77
Thank you for showing us all how autistic you are.
let's be nice to each other not fight...
>>78
Go back to 4chan.
>>77
It's true not all of 4chan is /b/, but a considerably large percentage of 4chan is, in fact, /b/.
And the boards that don't happen to be /b/ have a userbase that might at least partially overlap with users who have browsed /b/ in the past month or so.
this is crazy, I posted this thread years ago
>>77 You sure sound like one of these people you have such a distaste for. Such people will easily cripple a web site like this in numbers as few as a half a dozen posting regularly; they can't even enjoy themselves on a desert island. They are the invasive oil well outposts of the internet
>>82
We're still the most relevant english textboard ;_;
Yet not relevant at all.
please let this thread die 4-ch is quite active now
>>86
If by active, you mean currently has 20 semiannual posters instead of 10. Its as dead as the original imageboard culture. How embarrassing it will look in another few years isn't a thought I relish.
I cant be the only one who feels its getting so frustrating. Maybe it really is true that we are getting too old for these things.
>>89
i dont enjoy cliquing and ibs seems to be a place for your chat group you grew up with, and em caring about their ass
liek removing sexuality cause pedo text shit.
pathetic
I posted this thread 4 years ago, my life changed so much since
I like this place, it seems nice.
Maybe I'll stay.
It's not dead, it's just shit.
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4-ch is the best !!
this place is slow :(
sup losers
>>91
and now it's changed over the past 5 months.
Tell us what's changed in your life anon
I love 4ch! I love you!
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Hi I'm OP, I created this thread when I was 20 years old and I was still at uni, I'm now 27, I'm married and I have two kids. It's crazy how life goes by.
>>104-san,
your wife must have an overactive vagina. Either pour some poison in her cooter or stop creampieing her so much.
Much love,
-Anonymous Internet Addict
I was a neet virgin seven years ago and I'm a neet virgin today!
Gonna do AA flips on OP's non-virgin corpse
necrofag
It ain't dead, Anon.
It's just very slow.
Honestly, that's cool. These websites are a like trip to the past, as long as they're well preserved, like our beloved 4-ch.
>>111
This is what I've been saying to all the people in the request board that want the slow boards deleted or archived. Archived, I can understand, although I still disagree with it because the ability to actually post in these old threads is what makes this place so great. Deletion, however, it should be heretical to even suggest.
So I am OP, once again. My mother died of COVID 2 months ago, she had heart and kidney problems and was very frail... Right at the tail end of the fucking pandemic.
I will post here at the end of the decade, I have an item on my calendar for early 2029. See you in the future.
>>113
may Our Lord comfort you and your mother
>>113
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope the rest of the decade will be better for you and your family.
Hello from 10 years after the creation of this thread, today is my birthday, I'm 30. :)
>>112
i agree. this place is awesome. i know that if i said something here, maybe my son would find in the future and talk to his younger father!
hello 10 years from now, i am old as fuck now holy shit gonna take out my pension soon
>119
holyshit lmao
are you going to NEET?
got any kids?
I was maybe 14 when I first posted on here, and now I'm 23, and I haven't really grown much. and I don't think my passion for Internet culture has really amounted to much, either.
>>104
It's been about a decade by now...
It's more popular. The website as a whole seems to be anyway
I have come to this site at least a few times a year since I was thirteen. That's half my life now. Pretty soon even this thread will have existed for half my life.
I haven't done anything at all. I graduated high school and have rotted in my parents' house ever since. No job, no friends, no relationships. I feel like I died at some point when I was a teenager, and I'm continuing to inhabit my own body just to keep going on the computer. The only things that would prove I ever existed are my medical records and the posts I've made on the internet (at least a quarter of a million, if you include all my tweets). Oh, well. I guess it's normal to do nothing with your life, isn't it?
At least I have some desire to "grow" these days. I've been making progress on myself, by the standards of a hikikomori. Working doesn't even seem as scary anymore. Maybe some day I'll come back to this reply, and feel good about how my life's gone. I'll probably just feel bad, or no real way at all. But maybe!