>>105207>That's the reason people dislike generals so...Not at all, "chatroomized" generals are only an issue when they've degenerated past the point of no return. It's the last stage of topic erosion, which applies to any type of community. The main issue with perpetual compartmentalized generals, at least to me, is that they cordon off a topic and say "this is exclusively about X", preventing the mixture that occurs with more general OPs.
>You see the exact same thing with live boards where posts update in real time.no you dont???
Past a certain level of speed regular threads become Twitch chat, yes, but that's in the sense that it becomes unreadable, people start to address the reader rather than each other, and the number of times people link to another person's post radically diminishes. But it's a marginal imageboard scenario converging into a marginal chatroom scenario. At low to high speeds, imageboards still have the ability to articulate longer posts, even if the thread is going to somehow die in an hour.
I get the impression that you're carrying some baggage when you say chatroom, I'd like you to expand on what you're referring to if possible. Feels like it has to do more with topic and post length than platform mechanics.