No.141434
>>141433Yeah, really there’s no creativity among people anymore because of them.
No.141435
>>141430One step closer to seeing the site become completely unusable.
>>141433At least until activity forces them to condense their threads harder and it all looks like b. Some of the slower generals are starting to fall off a along with the deluge of new threads with no replies.
No.141437
Find it interesting how people itt think frontpage culture is a thing.
4chan has been a thread-level platform for almost 10 years now. Moderation doesn't go that deep yeah, but there's practically no board out there that isn't a collection of microcommunities that hang around one or maybe two threads.
I like this aprils fools, the shakeup makes all these communities mix up and I enjoy seeing them discover places of 4chan they didn't know existed. Many a crossposter will be born this day.
No.141440
/v/ /a/ and /vg/ just got shut
[s4s] and /bant/ are the only two left I think
No.141441
/b/ is still there as well
No.141442
/f/ too
No.141443
It all returns to random.
No.141447
>>141446Aaand they fixed it.
No.141449
>>141443I would take a turn pissing in the ocean of piss if the 15m timer was gone. It resets itself so often I can't even post. But that's not new.
No.141450
>>141423I want it because it wiped out all the generals and insular circlejerks and filled the remaining boards with fresh threads and different discussions than what I normally see. There are still attempts to keep generals going from old boards, but outside /vg/ the breadth of topics to be covered tends towards flooding them out with more catchy, targeted OPs. If it were always like how it is now, I'd still use the site daily instead of checking for news a couple times a week.
No.141455
>>141450You aren't talking about small boards. /vg/ is not a small board by any metric whatsoever and neither is /v/. I'm sure they'd be fine to merge for one super fast board, but I am not a /v/ user because I hate that board so I wouldn't know.
Do you really think something like deleting /vr/ would somehow make /v/ noticeably better?
Or deleting /u/ will somehow make /a/ noticeably better?
Compare the size of /a/ and /u/, and /v/ and /vr/. You could delete both boards without it even being noticeable for the big boards. Nobody would notice it and all we'd have as options is getting completely drowned out and dying immediately or making a general to talk about the topics related to it which just makes everything worse for everyone.
No.141456
>>141455Or you could stop thinking like a tribal and reintegrate into the larger site culture.
No.141457
>>141456But the larger site culture sucks.
No.141458
>>141456If I wanted to do that I would do that. The larger site does not respect or have an interest in my niche hobbies. Does it bother you that there are people with other interests than what's mainstream?
No.141459
Only five boards remain, with dozens of bunkers in each one of them.
Copied from another thread:
>/b/
/pol/, /a/, /m/, /g/, /sp/ (some generals), /hr/, /tv/, part of /vt/, /jp/ and /s/.
>/r9k/
/cm/, /lit/, lgbt/, /vr/ and /mu/.
>/trash/
it's pretty much the same but with more non-furry /d/-tier porn. also /k/ and bits of /vg/ and /co/ are there.
>/bant/
/int/ (most generals), /biz/, /vg/ (mostly gacha and multiplayer), /a/ (dragonspics), /mlp/.
>/s4s/
/pw/ (a couple of generals), /sp/ (more generals than /b/), /vt/ (several generals), /vg/ (several generals) and /sci/.
>/vip/
/a/, /vg/ (some gacha and MMO), /wsg/ and /int/ (/brit/).
>/f/
Looks exactly the same but with more /v/ermin.
/v/ and /mlp/ ceased to exist as established groups and now are present in every board as dozens of shitposts tangentially related to their original topics. Other boards exists merely as concepts (i.e. /c/ exists as waifu threads) or have disappeared.
No.141460
I meant seven boards dammit.
No.141461
>>141459/qa/ is still up and almost as clean as ever
No.141462
Where is the funposting
No.141463
>>141457>>141458If you want to be sheltered from the big meanies with different opinions than you, then you can go to reddit or discord or another big social media site. Stop trying to turn community-focused places into clunky clones of those places.
No.141464
>>141463You are literally advocating for integrating with larger social media sites, you retard.
No.141465
>>141464How fucking dumb can one person be. This is why I don't want to use big boards, it will just be hundreds of him saying my hobby sucks and zero talking about my hobby and if I don't like it I'm a pussy. What?
How do people end up with these contradictory beliefs?
>>141463Be yourself, seriously.
No.141466
Cute wordfilter, it actually fits perfectly. Fuck your hivemind.
No.141467
>>141456Maybe over a decade ago when site culture was closer to being on the same page, but if the "larger site culture" is just low effort frogposting and bait then I would happily be a tribalistic neanderthal and sit in my corner if it means I could talk to people, in peace, who at least try to hold a discussion or genuinely appreciate the same things I do.
One would think that sharing a place with people who hold genuine contempt for you is not a good time for anyone involved.
>>141463The distinction is that someone with differing opinions can be argued with in a
discussion. Unfortunately, you don't get that with disingenuous trolls who hold nothing but contempt for you and your hobby. Their hobby IS the website. Excuse me for not wanting to interact with them.
No.141468
I want to talk about my hobby not listen to outsider opinions about my hobby. Be yourself be yourself be yourself.
No.141469
>>141463It's not wanting to "be sheltered from the big meanies," it's a fundamental philosophy difference. Yes, you can go to your big social media sites if you zero conflicting conflicting opinions, but conflicting opinions are not the problem. The problem are people, probably people like you, who want to actively destroy these hobbies because you don't like them or pretend to not like them to fit in.
No.141470
i believe the idea is more that you should be willing to play with them and turn their stuff around, to have a back and forth of some sort, even if they're vapid shitposters
as it commonly occurred on 4/qa/
No.141471
>>141470Yeah but that worked on /qa/ because there wasn't a huge influx of retards everywhere. And then once they flooded in look what came of it.
No.141472
>>141471nuh uh half of the board was an influx of retards and you filtered people by clowning on them or spamming or doing fun stuff
No.141473
>>141472And then the mods banned us and imported a billion more retards, and then look what happened with the efforts of the few left who tried to fix the place.
No.141475
>>141473yeah but that was caused by mod action, which is a different topic from whether you should or should not stay in a general, which are also affected by the staff's whims either way
No.141476
It's more to say, you can salvage and fix a board steering towards the wrong path when you're in the majority. But once you've ceded that majority to a larger group of degenerates then it's hopeless to fix without major changes from up top. So fixing /v/ as a minority is hopeless.
>>141475Yeah well that's why I'm not in a general and spend most of my time here instead. I don't like being subject to the whims of staff I can't trust.
No.141480
>>141467>if the "larger site culture" is just low effort frogposting and bait then I would happily be a tribalistic neanderthal and sit in my corner if it means I could talk to peopleThis is the mindset that turned /a/ into the general-infested shithole it was yesterday. Utter stagnation to avoid seeing a kuso meme template that hasn't been a serious threat in years. Take one look at the site today and you'll see there are fewer frogs than there were in the early 10s, but I guess it's easier to write off the rest of the site as hostile to you specifically than to actually go see whether your preconceptions are correct.
No.141481
>>141480I can look at /v/ and reddit and aside from a few threads I post in here and there, there's next to no difference.
No.141482
>>141456dead since the catalog was introduced 12 years ago.
No.141487
>>141483>2. not actually having enough people interested in the hobby to keep a thread alive>Which fortunately i've learned to compensate with other IBs or even Reddit albeit that's a noticeably lesser experience since nobody replies in kind when you effortpost, they just grunt and upvote.Or we could just keep the small boards.
No.141490
>>141483as a gamedev, the top scenario is perfectly fine with me
no such thing as bad publicity and all
No.141493
april fool's is over
all boards are back
some with odd bugs with partially frozen catalogs, like /v/
No.141494
I really liked the board merger april fools from a few years back but this april fools simply felt like a poor retread of that.
No.141495
It's like they haven't woken up properly yet and there's still refugee threads in limbo
No.141501
>>141420Nobody wants to talk with you. Nobody wants to interact with you. If you think people being forced to do so is a good thing then that's hilarious and part of the main reason nobody wants to do it. 4meme is just a place for people to congregate without having to make accounts, nobody wants to "interact" with some random schizophrenics that don't even know what the thread is about and are inevitably part of the cancer demanding consistent 24/7 low effort posts to feed their (You) hunger. You're just seething people are actually talking about something that they enjoy instead of whatever /v/ is seething about today.
No.141511
>>141494>a few years backIt was nine years ago...
It did end up being pretty derivative of that, but still better than most of the stuff they've done sense. It also gave a pretty good idea of what the ideal level of speed and consolidation is.
No.141522
>>141382it's been under like three different admins in the last 12 months
I wonder if this incarnation will survive, lol
>>1413847chan being basically stone dead feels awful.
>>141420on one hand, 4chan is a stagnant mess of a site
on the other hand, all the big boards are pure cancer these days
traffic is in decline because things are shit and won't get better with Hiro in charge
No.141529
>>141464Naw. You're making a part (broadness of the userbase and opinion) out to be the whole of what's being advocated for. The whole of what an anonymous bbs is isn't simply a broad (or tiny) userbase and while I don't really agree with that anon he certainly isn't just calling for more users in a vacuum.
Put more simply: Calling for more diverse users on an anonymous bbs isn't the same as calling for more diverse users on shitter. Platform and media matter.
No.141530
>>141483I agree with you, that with the way 2ch/2chan/4chan treat all bumps and posts equally, the biggest metagame that gets in the way of 'interesting threads and posts get bumped, where they get seen, and you get more interesting replies, which in turn bumps the thread so it gets seen etc etc' has never been a few angry shitposts. It's spammers. Whether its botted or one dedicated schizo camping out threads for 10 years. They're the ones that don't let posts/threads live or die on engagement. They're the noise to the signal.
When this nonsense happens not by individuals but cabals, we call it a general thread.