I'm not satisfied, I was placated. I've yearned for the good old days forever and was just dealing with everything being awful. My posting habits changed from posting all the time to barely posting unless I felt there was something interesting while I did other stuff like watch anime or play vidya.

And fuck yes I would.

kissu is too fast now, I woke up to HUNDREDS of new posts instead of the usual one or two dozen and I don't have nearly enough time to read them all

Good thing you know about all the hiddne boards

>>143352
I for one think waking up to too many posts for me to read is a great thing. Encourages me to look back and sometimes remember the posts I forgot>

>>143352
Yeah, I liked being up-to-date on all the new posts...

>>143352
Those posts? All me.

i didn't mind 4chan, but someone somewhere else pointed out how i wasn't around to watch the site quality degrade.
even still, /v/ and /vg/ had discussion on specific games that i can't really find anywhere else. someone on wapchan pointed out that a lot of altchans don't really talk about seasonals that much.
the world would be better if everyone else shared my exact hobbies and interests.

also, i do wish it was a bit slower, seeing (10) in the notifications is a little intimidating

>>143346
I haven't been satisfied with the state of 4chan for well over a decade at this point. That's not to say there can't be good pockets of discussion that pop up (even for a prolonged time), but on the whole it really just feels like the top brass don't give a fuck or don't have the power to give a fuck. My own posting habits have changed a good bit since I first visited 4chan in 2006, back then I was much more into funposting but nowadays I tend to post less often and stick to effortposts for shit I care about. I still haven't outgrown the urge to call retards niggerfaggots whenever I see something extremely stupid though, I think that one's gonna stay with me forever.
On the subject of altchans, the userbase is probably the main reason why I don't use them more. Trying to yell into the void about [thing I like] and hearing a reply back days, if not weeks later isn't very engaging and just encourages me to stick to 4chan, though I'm not blind to the fact that my own actions are just part of a self-fulfilling prophecy that help keep altchans slow.
t. ex-/a/, /v/ and /vrpg/ user

I've found that I've been decreasing the amount of posts I make on 4chan and will sometimes give up on typing posts halfway, expecting only disingenuous or low effort replies if any at all. In contrast I find that on altchans or slower 4chan boards like /p/ tend to encourage longer posts and people who are genuine. I feel uncomfortable making too many posts in a short time on Kissu because it seems like I'm creating noise in an otherwise quiet place.

>>143378
>I feel uncomfortable making too many posts in a short time on Kissu because it seems like I'm creating noise in an otherwise quiet place.
I know what you're talking about but then it becomes so quiet that I just give up on making noise at all...

Other than occasionally browsing /vr/ and /vrpg/ I literally just used the VN general on /jp/ and the Etrian general on /vg/. About half the time I tried to post I got hit with the 15 minute timer and gave up. Good riddance, I say.

>>143346
I'm glad 4chan is gone. they always banned me for bullshit reasons that made no sense. I can only assume the mod had a personal grudge against me for something I said and stretched the rules to justify the 3-day. it was ALWAYS 3-days, just to make sure you can't appeal lol

It's fine. The traffic will die down eventually. Staff is watching the place 24/7 for any issues

>>143387
I know that a mod had a personal vendetta against me because I caught myself a rangeban after not evading or doing anything banworth on 4/qa/ for a good while.

>state of 4chan
lol, lmao
I've just kept to 4/jp/ and between character threads and the creative OC/write/discussion threads I was content. Happy is debatable, there's more than a few bad faith posters who take it upon themselves to troll and stir shit and we all know what the moderation was like. Yuri for example was tolerable, cute even, it was a small enough thing that it didn't bother people; until some faggot started spamming it everywhere and pissing off the waifufags and anyone who wanted to talk about two or more characters at once. Not to mention particular banes of individual threads. Diaperfags, scatfags, NTRfags, that MMD Ranfag, the wave of /pw/fags who overstayed their welcome after the big CDS thread.
And through all that we could only grit our teeth and ignore the vtumors and idolfags taking up some 20-30 threads on the catalogue with their lightning fast threads. Everytime the hololive thread autoarchives after 1500 posts (board bump limit is 310, image limit is 300), they make a half dozen more threads to compete as a successor until their protector janitor cleans the duds up; and before that they bump threads with empty posts so theirs can fall of the board faster. Setting up proper general filters made reading the catalogue 10x better.
Overall site post quality has fallen to unnacceptable levels of terribad, but there's a lot of niche and helpful communities eeking it out in that shitheap that couldn't survive elsewhere. It's a shame it had to be this way and it would be nice if we could just catch them all in a 1:1 of what they're used to without the other undesirable shit.

>Browsing habits
I used to frequent some more niche hobby threads on /vg/. My first was /aidg/ which was also the first to get on board with AI storytelling back in 2019. I gave up on that thread after one persistent niggerfaggot made it his dayjob to troll the thread, leading to a noticeable drop in people giving effort. Oh and let's not forget the key scraper he made which would pick up shared subscription keys, redeem them, then charge them back to pocket the change. It got so bad the company running NovelAI killed key purchasing because of it.
The other one was /mggg/ which I fell into at the time as a monstergirlfag. That one also became insufferable, so much so that a spinoff board was made for monster girl shit, capybarachan, which I go to now for that sort of stuff, much nicer too and I prefer it over /monster/ on smugloli. But, nowadays I'm a total 2hufag and I'm happy in my choice of obsession, /jp/ to that end has done well to feed it.

>Would you post on alt-chans like this more often if they were a bit faster?
The speed is a touch fast if you're trying to keep up with the whole website like I was used to, but there's a tradeoff between being up-to-date and having threads with smaller interests get a decent ppd.
The problem with chans in general is too many fragmented interests and not enough people to adequately discuss them. 4chan had that solved by just having a shitload of people for better and worse. I for one would love nothing more than a 2hu board/chan, but could you attract enough anons to fill out posting enough that even niche 2hus get a steady thread? Doubt it, but that's okay. As long as I can find people to talk lore and funpost with. Still, I hope some of the new anons stick around. Trust in 4chan is at an all time low and I've heard some say they won't go back even if/when the site returns, so I hope they find a place where they're happy.

This is just a personal gripe, but I don't like that fellow /jp/sies are on like five different chans now, touno, wapchan, kissu, ota, etc., too much for me to keep up with. Maybe I'm just a control freak and like to see my ducks in a row, but it's vexing.

>>143378
>I feel uncomfortable making too many posts in a short time on Kissu because it seems like I'm creating noise in an otherwise quiet place.
I feel ya. I jumped into making a lot of quick fun shitposts during the excitement of it, but things have calmed down and I'm falling back to my usual posting habits.

I think my main issue with 4chan is just aging out of a lot of it. You know, the average age staying the same but I'm now older? I do think 4chan's demographics have aged, just not as fast as actual time. I still enjoy reading through threads and posting on /v/ (those Claude Pokemon threads were amazing!) and occasionally others, but the days of me spending 10 straight hours refreshing threads and forgetting to play video games or watch anime are over. A bit of a conundrum since I wanted to post in threads about those things, but had to avoid them to stay away from spoilers for games I'm not playing.
I don't think I have the energy to write paragraphs of meta right now, but I will say that /v/ is better than people think it is, you just need to avoid the bad threads.

>>143346
I'm not satisfied, since many topics have their own dedicated schizophrenics, but usually there's a window of time with media on 4chan where it's good to discuss. There's enough people enthused about something to drown out the shitposts, and you can see what others are thinking.

As for changing posting habits, I've basically given up on effortposting outside of threads I'm already confident have engagement, and I steer clear of generals and pseudo-generals like the plague. Used to frequent a few, though.

>>143363
>someone on wapchan pointed out that a lot of altchans don't really talk about seasonals that much.
You're in luck. Kissu not only streams currently airring seasonal anime to watch together each Saturday 6 PM EST, but /jp/ also normally has a lot of posts about seasonal anime

severed ties with 4chan around 2020. It stopped feeling like home long before that and old /qa/ was the last hurrah for me.

>>143389
almost a decade ago, they specifically blocked my IQ address on 4/qa/ for what felt like a year because I reported the soyjak schizo spam way back after the raid (you know, the one where they green text everything over and over again the entire thread). I report for spam (which it literally IS; the textbook definition of spam) and instead they block my IP address "due to abuse". false reports are subject to bans, but I was using the feature as intended in good faith and got punished for it. the monkeys were burning down the circus and the fire fighters just stood and watched.

>>143405
IP address*
sorry, I'm tired

They blocked anons IQ

>>143409
I merely allowed them to think they did.

>>143378
>>143384
Kissu sadly turns into a ghost town during euro daytime. Luckily my sleep schedule is so bad I am usually asleep during that time.

>>143412
Last night was pretty active though, so if we've picked up people maybe it won't be so bad.

>>143395
>I for one would love nothing more than a 2hu board/chan, but could you attract enough anons to fill out posting enough that even niche 2hus get a steady thread?
I don't really think it's what you're looking for, but I like kakashinenpo. It's very calm and cutesy.

>I don't like that fellow /jp/sies are on like five different chans now
It's been like that for a long time. To some extent, I'm not bothered by it. The /jp/ sphere has a lot of undesirable posters that I'm glad to have some distance from. I happy not sharing a site with ota, GNFOS, or merorin

>>143412
That's the perfect time to play and watch stuff, if only I wasn't asleep as well

>>143346
i wrote a long post and it got ate because i didn't have frame enabled on umatrix

i don't care about the speed my issue is our interest have changed. first started with moderation on /jp/ banning light novels back in 2011 when i was reading light novels. couldn't discuss them on /a/ or /jp/ so i got bored of the website learned japanese to read light novels. half a decade after the fact /a/ and /jp/ retards finally started to appreciate them but i was already bored and reading translated chinese stuff instead. 4chan doesn't have any board to talk about chinese 2d cultural stuff and naturally the piece of shit subhuman moderation doesn't have any wisdom or foresight to create it. i like /qa/ flavor but it gets insipid cause at the end of the day there's no way anybody here knows or gives a shit about the stuff i actually really want to talk about. there's simply no centralized place similar to /jp/ for chinese media on the english web instead they're in a bunch of isolated communities on discord or tiktok and they're younger too. my generation millennials are kinda retards who missed the boat on every sort of important forward facing decision possible. i want some board like /sino/ but this board and chance is long gone and past nowadays i feel.


cause there's no board to positively discuss chinese media i just ended up browsing /v/ to see people be angry at genshin starting in like 2020 saying it's going to fail or a copy of zelda. i really dislike talking with these sort of stupid subhumans so i just opt to read them argue with other people cause i don't even play gacha stuff so i'm not wasting my time arguing about it. plus i want to the community pulse and if people are starting to wake up to the chinese century or not. these alt-chans are filled with people just trying to enjoy their niche traditional japanese 2d stuff not really interested in chinese 2d culture in general just their particular gacha stuff. this topic doesn't even cross the mind of posters for example. i feel kinda done with it all.


i think we could've had a timeline shift if 4chan made a korean/chinese culture board. all the kpop+gacha autism centralized along with niche stuff fed into it. it would've created something really magical instead we get people spamming wojak and doxxing the retard shit moderation.

>>143435
Please respond. >>143362

>>143435
now that you're here, do you know where people go to talk about novels? I could use some directions.

>>143476
in chinese yeah. i'm pretty sure the english community for it is on tiktok and discords. there's https://www.novelupdates.com/ too i guess

maybe https://www.webnovel.com/ has something? there's random websites which have their own stuff going on with discords and all. it's very fragmented with each being their own island. since i don't need to read english stuff that's like a 1000 chapters behind i don't really pay attention to it. since /qa/ got shutdown i haven't really cared about any community of anything.

>>143438
here's a response
>>143514
>>143464

>>143523
ah, I meant talk about novels on THIS site. sorry for not being specific enough. I checked the catalog but there's only a manga and visual novel thread up. I also don't care about joining communities, that's why I mainly talked about it on 4chan but now that its dead, I might make a thread here for web/light novels (if there isn't already one up somewhere).

>>143528
>on THIS site
Make your own thread on /qa/ or /jp/!

>>143533
to be honest: I don't know the difference between /qa/ and /jp/, since I've always considered /qa/ to be 2D/SFW-random... maybe I will make a novel thread here later...

>>143534
/jp/ is for transient threads that don't last long
/qa/ is for more longer threads

>>143534
>>143535
And your /jp/ thread can get moved to /qa/ if it takes a /qa/-ish form, as deemed by a mod...

>>143535
>>143537
okay, thanks. personally, I would hope a thread about novels to be more on the permanent side, especially with the new 4chan refugees.

>>143542
So what kind of novels we talking?
Regular novels?
Webnovels?
Litrpg Slop?
/lit/shit?
Porn with plot?

>>143542
Can light novels be moved to anime/manga centric boards?

>>143548
The whole imageboard is anime/manga centric!

>>143545
asian light novels and web novels
>>143548
that's what I was curious about; if there was a specific place to talk about novels that was already up, but I'm not seeing a thread on /qa/ or /jp/

asian light novels has such cute scenes

For most of them, yes, not even kidding. I've been on generals for 10 years already without major problems. Maybe i'm just lucky.
But I only browse very insular niche generals, and most of them about games or media while every other frontpage i lurk for news only I rarely reply to.

My gripes these day are

* /int/ board culture is finally dying off and there's nothing to replace the feeling
* /co/ no longer discovers or reads new comics. not at all. not indies, not webcomics, not gns, not even bad stuff to laught at. only new things posted 2055 capeshit floppies and that one absolute madlad with the sunday funnies thread.
* 4/hap/ is the only off topic general I browse and it's an unironic schizo asylum because every site personally thinks it's a direct phoneline to the mods so every evader and every little internet war finds it way there.

>>143661
>* 4/hap/ is the only off topic general I browse and it's an unironic schizo asylum because every site personally thinks it's a direct phoneline to the mods so every evader and every little internet war finds it way there.
okay now imagine that but it's the entire board
that was 4/qa/

>>143668
I was on 4qa brother, it was nothing of the sort. The only time meta threads got replies was around the early years before getting listed.
After that it was like a sfw b that sometimes had dead on arrival meta threads mods moved there.

4hap hops on the schizo ride somewhere in 2020 when a lot of anons from /trash/ migrated there, including He Who Shall Not Be Named.
Somehow the general has survived them, the karens, the freeze, the move to fucking trash, other generals taking their schizo drama there, the soyteen raids, the kiwifags and the sturdyfags (and in fact both namedrop hap constantly for some reason). truly a testament to man's desire to post happenings.

>>143346
>Are you satisfied with the current state of 4chan/the boards you browse?
mostly but /v/ is awful.
>What are your posting habits like and how have they changed over the years?
i used to shitpost constantly but have chilled out over time. now i just lurk /tv/ and /a/.
>Would you post on alt-chans like this more often if they were a bit faster?
yes. it's a catch 22. people want to leave but everyone is on 4chan so no one does.

I do not particularly care about 4chan. I didn't post there outside of a couple threads. 4/jp/ sucked and I don't miss it.
I used to funpost a lot but meh, it's more fun to watch anime or do some gaming.
I prefer "alt-chans" for the fact that they aren't faster. I like taking time writing out posts and knowing they won't just be washed away quickly. Maybe someone will even write an equally thought out reply. It's a really nice thing.

i went on 4chan for the porn
sometimes visited the /v/ and /v/ spinoff boards but only lurked, wasn't really worth the effort to try to engage in discussion
and lurked /t/ too

>>144078
I'm in the same boat. It feels weird how fast kissu has been the last day, it almost makes me anxious, but I'm glad to see new friends anyways and hope some people stick around whenever 4chan is back.
This hack has been a gift for long term activity. Every poster counts.
Hopefully some people bookmark kissu and don't completely forget about us when their favorite big board is restored again.

>>144081
Admittedly, I haven't posted here very much at all, just lurked. I usually stick to nen and tohno. Kissu is nice, I just feel a little out of place. Maybe I'll hang around though.

>>143346
>Current state
I'm satisfied with the current state of 4chan right now in the sense that it's dead.
Part of me wants to sperg out about everything I think went wrong with the site but it's a pretty dead horse by now. At some point it just became everyone pissing into a sea of piss and nothing really mattered.

>Posting habits
Originally started browsing in 2007 and lost interest around 2011-12. Afterwards I've still drifted in and out over the years because I like the image board format. Recently I lurked /lit/ since I started reading again seriously, but found the user base insufferable so I didn't really bother engaging much. Generally I've posted less and less over the years.

>Alt-chans
I honestly regret not bothering to look at them earlier. Even during these few days I had more fun than I did for a long time on 4chan. Watching a livestream of some old animes with a bunch of other anons from an altchan earlier reminded me of exactly what I liked about 4chan originally, and how long that feeling has been missing from the site itself. Speed-wise, I'm not too bothered as long the site has a good feeling to it and the quality is decent. I'm absolutely wanting to find a an alt-chan to spend time on instead of 4chan now, it's just a matter of finding one that really matches my interests so I can meaningfully engage with it.

>>143346
>Are you satisfied with the current state of 4chan/the boards you browse?
No. I merely find it less bad than the alternatives.
>What are your posting habits like and how have they changed over the years?
I withdrew out of most of the site because a tide of garbage drowned out most of my interest in browsing other discussion.
>Would you post on alt-chans like this more often if they were a bit faster?
Yes, though what would make me post a lot is if I met an altchan which could sustain my irl hobby (involves a lot of going outside, talking to people, using machinery, exploring the wilderness so I am unsurprised to see no discussion, even on 4chan /trv/ and /diy/ was dead).

>>143346
>Are you satisfied with the current state of 4chan/the boards you browse?
I suppose I'd consider myself somewhat neutral on the topic. I think the site has definitely gotten worse though. What with the captchas needing 15 minutes before you start a posting session, or needing email confirmations for /biz/. I think in general I was a bit lucky in that I for better or worse isolated myself to a few niche generals. While that has been pretty nice, I feel like the generals themselves are bleeding out and it's possible that they will have a far less active userbase as time goes on.
>What are your posting habits like and how have they changed over the years?
I mostly lurk and I don't think that has changed. It's pretty rare for me to engage in a long discussion, but I do enjoy talking with various anons whenever I do chat with them.
>Would you post on alt-chans like this more often if they were a bit faster?
I would. Honestly this place is comfy enough that I do want to come back here even when 4chan gets back up and running. I really like this place, and also this is my first post here. Hello World! I look forward to seeing more of you all if you'll have me.

>>148050
Do you make maple syrup

>>143346
Generally my experience has been decent, probably because I kept switching my main boards before they get really kuso
I started with /v/ in 2014 and switched to /int/ then /vr/ then /m/ then /an/ and then finally /jp/ over the next 11 years
I don't really hate the management team but they are incompetent, this anon outlines my gripes with /jp/'s management here >>143395
But I should also mention that their choices to add new boards were confounding, they created /bant/ for decent reasons but did nothing to protect their budding community leading to them becoming disenfranchised and forming a new altchan
They wisely created a mobile games board to offload gacha garbage but didn't strictly enforce it so no one used it
They created a vtuber board but yet again didn't strictly enforce it leading to an enclave of horrid posters shitting up /jp/ still
And /vst/ /vrpg/ seem backward in approach as while both boards are decent they are like reverse containment boards, actively taking good discussion out of /v/ and /vg/
And yet despite all of their new boards they never once thought to create a korean culture board to offload the brainless k-pop posters who had generals on like 5 different boards at once

>>148300
No, I find rocks, and I cut them into interesting shapes. Involves a lot of amateur geological mapping out of areas and occasionally getting lucky enough to get into active mines. Plus trading interesting rocks with people.

>>143346
The boards I browse suffer too much from generalitis, seemingly in attempt to distance themselves from 4chan-brand low effort shitthreads (ironic, as the endless general spam seems like a much bigger reason for 4chan being such shit nowadays.) I appreciate kissu for being basically the only place where I feel comfortable just plopping a minor one-off thread (or possibly ten of them) and not feeling like I'm committing a crime.

I haven't really used 4chan itself in more than a decade and have little to no desire to do so again.

>>148350
interesting... requesting that you make a thread plz

I don't even know what the current state is, and I'm not interested in finding out. Last time I browsed, all I remember is zero quality content, threads being derailed all the time, idiotic mods/jannitors and too much /pol/, sharty, 'ick on 'eck spamming.

I stopped browsing seriously in 2010 or so because there was absolutely no sense of fun or community anymore, just the occasional interesting post in a sea of rage-inducing crap. I checked back every once in a while, sometimes even tried to see if I could interest myself in sub-communities, but I could never connect with anyone. I developed such hatred for the site that, when I did browse a catalog, I had to actively hide threads on topics that WERE relevant to my interests, because I couldn't stand the thought of things I like getting defiled by people I hate.

Kissu is currently the only website that I browse to read other people's thoughts and share my own, mostly to help activity. I'm not sure I fit, I don't really consume anime and my otaku culture interests stagnated way over a decade ago, but the sense of community is what makes it for me and I have been having a lot of fun on here. I can even see fun in posts that would have angered me on 4chan, simply because of the calm and honest environment.
I think the anons here that said they're into extremely niche stuff should still give their own threads a try if the topic would be relevant to one of the current boards. Kissu is slow enough for some people to potentially become interested in things they weren't before, engaging with topics they otherwise wouldn't precisely because of the lack of speed. Better to have slow but meaningful conversations than to get annoyed at 500 posts and only reply to 2.

>>143346
>Are you satisfied with the current state of 4chan
No when it's alive. Yes when it's dead. The only good times you can get are in "event" areas that you can find only by a trained gut instinct. It's when people of interest, topics, and trends converge into something you can gain value from whilst participating. People normally call such things "rare good threads." On 4lel, they were too rare for me.
>the boards you browse?
Hell yeah.
>What are your posting habits like and how have they changed over the years?
I don't have any stable patterns in this. But, lately, I don't kusopost or drown people in vitriol, because kissu is all I use, aside from checking in on other small imageboards' boards of my interest and seeing them inactive.
>Would you post on alt-chans like this more often if they were a bit faster?
Current kissu speed is just perfect for me. I don't want to spend too much time on internet interactions in the first place. Kissu allows me to have it short but concise, and maybe necropost a bit. I'd definitely end up posting more if certain other threads from other boards migrated here, but if it didn't happen while 4lel was down, it's not going to happen now.

>>153116
>>153118
The kissu friend site (wapchan) is decently active too if you ever want to check that out

>>153135
Thank you! I have seen some things on there that turned me away in the past, but I will give it a little more time.