Sad in a way, but perhaps indicative of the changes in our society. I just returned after a 4 year hiatus, and I half to say it is almost heart-breaking to see the lack of content (ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ
Perhaps it was the end of an era? I hope not. Perhaps the drop of quality on contemporary imageboards (8ch, 4chan, etc.) will bring a flood of Anons back to textboards. They are a glorious thing that I hope we will rediscover.
The thing about 8ch is that can't say that 8ch itself is bad. I'd say it's rahter the boards that are shit, and more specificaly their users. 8ch only provides a playground for redards at 8ch's /b/ for example to post the exact fucking things they'd post on 4chan and brag about them and 8ch being so much better than 4chan qualitywise. If you look a little bit further than the top25 you might find a board with a decent activity and ok posts and people to discuss with. You have to look hard though if you wanna find a board where people don't have the need to use funneh maymays and greentext to communicate with one another, but there are boards like that.
And as to people comming back to textboards. I wouldn't hold my breath, really. If you wanna discuss something with chill people you'll have to find a niche imageboard, textboards are so obscure it's really saddening, this place could have been the 2ch of the west but no one cared. What a pity.
The thing that I am hoping for is that /jp/@8ch becoming more active and fun to post in, there is really a lot of potential for that board. So please tell rad people you know about www.8ch.net/jp !
fuck you, 8ch is an IRC channel-circlejerk with subreddits. Everybody who actively uses this not worthy of my time. Not to mention kid that ruined my last expectations about boards for NEETs. Theres no internets anymore. Long gone. And was a teen shit.
>Perhaps it was the end of an era? I hope not. Perhaps the drop of quality on contemporary imageboards (8ch, 4chan, etc.) will bring a flood of Anons back to textboards. They are a glorious thing that I hope we will rediscover.
They are, I think.
I got banned from 4chan the other day for simply posting a cartoon pony image. I think the whole culture is messed-up, if they can't handle a harmless pony, and yet their boards are full of angry jerks who do nothing but act aggressively. It just doesn't add up.
Anyway, I'm done with bothering to post there. Besides, I have all the google tracking/API stuff blackholed in my /etc/hosts file and don't want to temporarily disable that just to post something.
I've seriously been thinking of going back to gopher and telnet BBS's.
8/jp/ is good
4chan is bad
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well I want to leave 8ch anyway, where should I get the latest otaku updates?
One post every 3 months seems fair
let see if this can make text [b]bold[/b] or [i]italic[/i]
that didn't work lets try ''bold'' or '''italic'''
I don't like this whole 8gag thing guys. I want my mama
With regards to tech support specifically, people are less and less knowledgeable about their machines to the point that they may as well be black boxes. In some cases division of labor has just gotten to the point where it is impossible for one person or a small group of people to understand every aspect of a machine, but by and large I think the root cause of this phenomenon is the forced deadening of curiosity in the interest of selling more cheap shit. In Ghana people can keep their cars in working order well past 500,000 miles, in wealthier countries people just throw things in the garbage and buy new machines more poorly built and with more restrictions placed on the user than the last iteration. I've seen adults struggle to pump their own gas, people try advice online about fixing their phones by putting them in the freezer or some other nonsense you would expect of a cargo cult, and bioinformatics software grow so complex that people with doctorates often fail to understand the proper application of each program and just churn out worthless papers that have novel results only because of a questionable choice of statistical methods by the programmer (cuffdiff's negative binomial distribution is woefully insufficient for identifying differential regulation). Every so often there is a new burst of curiosity in whatever field is fashionable at the moment, but the trend has yet to be bucked in any meaningful way.
Even the computer companies that you would hope would know what they are doing have started to forget (http://www.eremedia.com/tlnt/lost-knowledge-what-are-you-and-your-organization-doing-about-it/). Intel is probably the best example of this. Most of the people involved with writing the basis for their millions of lines of proprietary microcode are dead, senile, or long since retired. There is no one left alive who has any damn clue how the processors work beyond the basic principles and whatever increasingly small niche of design they are assigned to improve on. Everything is slowly becoming machines making machines making machines with all knowledge of their function slipping away as people make petty little flashing light games that take the existing infrastructure for granted.
As such, I don't think it strange at all that fewer people would seek tech support advice.
>>21
This was really a five star post.
Ive been picking up electronics as a hobby recently and i like throigh hole components. I can stick them in my breadboard to try stuff out and solser them by hand
Most technology today has smd parts in it though, they need a special process to solder them. Often pick and place robotic machines. The stuff is so tiny you need a micfoscrope to see it.
So thsi is another place where wre being distanced furhter from ebing able to cfreate, repair, understand and just get our hands on the bits inside stuff we use.
Its not all totally abstracted and removed from our grasp though, theres a cool youtube channel i started watching with a guy who repairs apple macs, louis rossman. It makes me think of exploring egyptian tombs, seeing the ball grid array arepairs and stuff like that. Its really alien.