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.
Most of them are run and used by the same teenage users. The moment one is made they advertise it on the same websites and get exactly the same userbase.
You now have the ability to see what those boards are and avoid them.
My thoughts on obscure textboards that get made every month or so in what I assume to be for fun coding projects, doesn't it make more sense if everyone joined forces and instead attempted to cultivate activity on existing and somewhat alive textboards?
4-ch for example has a broad range of boards and long term relatively active in comparison with fly by day textboards that come and go at a whim. If everyone tried to grow threads and discussions there (anywhere but the General board where idiots go), would it not have a bigger and longer lasting impact on the future of textboards? I've seen so many textboards come and go, but there's only two that I've kept visiting all these years because they never die and I know my thread will still be there next year if I want to revive a discussion.
I try to do my part in keeping the two boards I go to somewhat alive, but they could genuinely grow if people were to bring more passion to them by bringing creating a thread for a topic that interests them and bringing a few like minded people to join those threads in particular so they stick around long term for other threads too.
H*yuri is a pedophile website. Stay away from those people.
>>3
I would like to see more niche boards instead of people just copying the same staple textboards like /lounge/, /vip/, /prog/, /anime/, whatever.
I want, for instance, a board for discussing bomberman games, a board for the MS Dos game Jetpack, a board for gardening, a board for chess (no other board games allowed), a board for baroque music, a board for the sanskrit language, and a board for radio collectors.
>>5
This goes for imageboards as well, imo.
>>4
If it was just that. They are annoying, that's the problem.
>a board for the MS Dos game Jetpack
Being able to post all your diabolical custom level designs would be obligatory.
>>4
Even though it's not fully a txtboard, this is unironically true. I tried using it for a while because I like their philosophy of forbidding 2010s+ topics & encouraging OC. Since every site these days always gets overrun with the same shallow nigger this, tranny that. Most of them really are underage and some have even posted nudes, but they never get perm banned, they're told to just not explicitly state their age in the posts. They hang out in the chatroom all day linking to each others sites, sorta like what >>2 said.
Once someone started dumping tons of medical journals of "legal" cp, I gave up.
The whole concept of image/text boards is so niche. Any that last more than a few years become quite well known because no one who isn't already familiar with them likes or understands the point of them.
I've seen many tiktok children posting about 4chan, asking "i dont get it, its ugly, how do i use it" purely because it has this big spooky reputation as some dark-web adjacent website.
IMO the closest thing to a new audience these sites can get are the kids who are into neocities,spacehey,nekoweb old internet larp sites. But while they like the aesthetic of "old web", they'll mostly always have a link their discord,(or eqiv) to have a real instant msg conversation.
>>9
You get it. I'd even have a dosbox emulator embedded into the board, and custom levels could be shared and played by everybody without having to download them.
>>9
i liked those gimmick boards where OP could be .it/.xm/.mod files and i'd like to see more stuff like that. you'd have to be careful though, sounds like it could be exploited.
> 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.