In its own separate thread for convenience!
There are two main elements to this:
1: Archiving old threads
To clean the boards up a little bit, and to marginally lighten the load on Kareha, the plan is to move all threads that have not seen any activity for the past ~8 years (half the age of this site) to the archive. Maybe with the exception of DQN which can get an earlier cutoff date (or none at all), and I'm definitely doing this for Romance which has over two thousand (!) unarchived threads.
2: Merging boards
This has been a recurring topic for some time, and I think it's about time something be done about it. So as not to have a bunch of barely active boards on the boardlist, and to make the site slightly tidier (and more convenient to moderate), it seems prudent to merge some of the less active boards and the ones that have overlapping themes. My proposal is as follows:
General
> Good idea. I've added one to this thread, please tell me what you think.
Looks nice to me, I like the unobtrusive location.
>>37
Sports is already proposed for the new hobbies board.
>>30
（ ´_ゝ`）/net/ should stay instead of /iaa/ because /net/ has a cool header image.
>>39
Probably the easiest header image of them all to remake, though.
/net/ doesn't collide with /img/ for me so the url should stay that way
but "internet addicts" sounds better as a board title
Archival is done, except for DQN and /ascii/ which I've left alone for now. Also fixed the templates, CSS and JS, so you should be able to switch to the modern stylesheets now. The only thing missing is removing the thread form and fixing the closed thread messages, but that can come later.
i personally disagree with the "merge" but i know there are good reasons for it, for the rest, i agree with the "arrangement" of the [new] boards
check em
We should add some new boards here how about a otaku culture board for discussing otaku culture and other types of otaku stuff a NEET/hikikomori board for people who don't work or go to school and stay at home and live with their parents a Japan general discussion board to discuss Japan and Japanese culture.
>There are already multiple boards for that.
Fair enough.
>It's called Personal.
Personal is also used by non-NEET people.
>There's no way someone would think a board like this would go well in an anonymous English site.
Why not? this site is pretty much is the English version of 2channel and most of the boards here have to do with Japanese pop culture and nerd culture.
>Personal is also used by non-NEET people.
Is that really a problem?
>Why not? this site is pretty much is the English version of 2channel
It really isn't because it's too little compared to 2/5channel and it's also an international site.
>and most of the boards here have to do with Japanese pop culture and nerd culture.
Which are different things compared to more general discussion about Japan/Japan's culture and attract even more flaming, trolling and retardation.
''Just bought this fake katana on an antique shop, can anyone help me identify what the kanji on the blade mean?'' thread x one million.
>Is that really a problem?
No but it would be nice if NEETs had their own board.
>It really isn't because it's too little compared to 2/5channel and it's also an international site.
You do realize we have Japanese people who post here too right?
>Which are different things compared to more general discussion about Japan/Japan's culture and attract even more flaming, trolling and retardation.
Well if admin moderates it it should be fine.
> if admin moderates it
lel
New admin has actually been doing a good job dealing with spam/trolls, but we don't need to increase their workload by creating even more boards as dead as those that already exist.
>You do realize we have Japanese people who post here too right?
You missed my point.
What I'm saying is that unlike 2/5channel on this site the mods would have to deal with a never sleeping bunch of international shitposters and you need lots of manpower to deal with that.
>Well if admin moderates it it should be fine.
It won't unless there's a mod around all day every day.
/zoomer/ - Zoomer Culture
/emoji/ - Emoji Cafe
If you spot something that needs moderator attention, post about it here.
Specify the exact thread and post number(s) if possible.
I like seeing old threads bumped, and it's even more enjoyable knowing some people get upset by it. I don't necrobump to troll, it's just a happy bonus
>>843
I never do it to troll, I genuinely want people to read the old threads, but I do something think about the people here and I giggle about it
>I never do it to troll, I genuinely want people to read the old threads
There's already an ''all thread'' link to see past discussions so stop bumping old shit.
>>845
stay mad
>>842
who do you think is making those posts
https://4-ch.net/nihongo/kareha.pl/1132848659/86
first actual spam I've seen in quite some time
the CP bots have found the imageboard
Can we just delete everything and start over? why are people bumping old threads from almost 2 decades ago?
>>6
unban all the words starting with the gorilla name
>>8
I'm just sick of the one newfag shitting up half the active threads with cringeworthy memes from 2 decades ago, like "an hero", and whining about zoomers that was never relevant at any point.
Fuck off zoomer and the only newfag is you.
zoomers are based
>>13
No they are the worst generation ever and they destroy everything they touch.
If you're gonna troll do a better job faggot and anyone who isn't Gen Y or older shouldn't fucking be here because they are too young to remember old internet culture.
BPS has passed the site on to me, as you might have seen. Please use this thread for...
I'm also going to use this thread as an update log, for convenience.
For anything else, you can reach me over IRC (on #4-ch) or email (TBA).
settle down, Sergeant Mark IV
We say an hero here but you probably don't know what that means because you're a little bitch still in diapers who likes shitty mainstream normalfag culture. Zoomers like you don't understand internet culture you destroy it now get the fuck out of here this place is for old people who miss the 90s and 2000s and before.
>>126
Anhero
>>126
i literally dont even know how to use the internet, ive been on it for like a year and dont even bother trying to adapt to culture, i was born in 2006.
problem? lol epic owne!!1 so mad!!1 haha owned
I'm going to have a fucking aneurysm.
old people should not be allowed on the internet.
POGGERS
The truth does not fear investigation! Please restore Sexuality!
Got any ideas on how to prevent it from becoming a support group and CP trading hotspot for pedophiles when the mods here only check the site once a month?
>>2
There's no part of 4-ch that could be considered a hotspot!
THE TRUTH DOES NOT FEAR INVESTIGATION
Nigger
The culture section in the sidebar should say media instead.
We are not discussing culture. We are discussing media. We might discuss say, anime culture, gamer culture, but that is just shorthand for "fans of this medium".
It doesn't matter actually, don't change it, who cares, I'm gonna go smoke weed
I have a feeling the use of the term Culture here came from Genshiken (or indirectly did, from the venerable "Society for the Study of Modern Image Board Culture" textboard that existed on https://wakaba.c3.cx/ until it got spammed into oblivion.)
In Genshiken, this is needless to say a joke, because all the "Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture" does is consume weebshit.
>>2
I only just now realized /soc/ was a reference to Genshiken.
See https://4-ch.net/req/kareha.pl/1601991764/3,44
Probably going to involve reshuffling the board categories a little. "Media" could work, or what about "Interests"?
I think "Media" is better. Technically everything not in the General category is an interest.
Well I did initially support media but if it's a tongue in cheek joke to call it culture I would feel bad for stomping on genshiken fans' fun
Also having just read that proposal post a bit closer, I'm gonna say no to the backlinks / hoverquotes idea. Not to be like the "zoomers gtfo" guy, but I'm a pretty lame traditionalist regarding textboard features.
Rule 2) Spam, flooding and anything that would be considered abuse of the site will not be tolerated.
Admin please do something about these spammers and please clean up this site.
Rule 🚷 2) Spam, flooding and anything that would be considered abuse of the site will not 🚯 be tolerated.
Admin please 🙏 do something about these spammers and please 🙏 clean 🚰 up this site.
Ever since the faggoty Harambeposter has been bumping up old threads nobody wants to post in, it destroys semi-active boards and turns them into wastelands. This entire fucking website has been destroyed by this annoying poster.
At this point, I don't see why all boards shouldn't just be deleted and have only 2 or 3 boards up.
if you're going on closing boards, why not just have two boards General and Images (and maybe DQN) or something? Pretty much all the other boards are dead as fuck.
I think Lifestyle and World categories should be archived. Maaaaybe Personal. The other categories have a handful of dead boards. Sports, Literature, Music, and TV could probably safely put to read only access.
Ultimately though, I don't think it matters. Just clean up the spam links ``KUDASAI''
Putting in some support for this while I'm here.
We aren't 2-ch, we simply don't have the userbase to keep a million narrow topic boards active. I feel like someone viewing the front page for the first time probably wouldn't know which board is the "main" one of this site. So what happens to a lot of new visitors, they either look at /general/ first and see that it gets like 3 posts a month, or they look at a strictly topical board like /anime/ or /food/ and see that the last non-spam post is from 2013, then write off the whole site as dead and never come back.
I'd suggest archiving every category but general and then removing them from the sidebar and just adding a link to the archive directory in their place. Inactive but important with respect to site culture boards, like /ascii/ or /nihongo/, could be left on the sidebar but put into read-only mode or something idk.
It would also hugely reduce the workload of our one moderator to not have to monitor a bunch of otherwise dead boards for the occasional japanese dating spam.
rape me pls
Multichan supports tagging: https://bitbucket.org/796f/multichan
>>24
Who cares?
Wouldn't it look better if threads you have answered (and got reply) have [b]bold names[/b] ?
also lol @ bbcode.
dicks out for Harambe
rest in piss and good riddance!