Knew what it'd say before even clicking on it.
Sadly, I don't think 4/qa/ ever managed to have a good reputation. You know, with being hidden, then delete /pol/, then people not understanding what was going on, and finally cancerman schiz raiders taking over. The latter in particular went around spamming "/qa/ won" and being extremely open about where they "came" from, while prior to that things were infinitely more insular. There's nothing that can be done, more so now that people identify this community as kissu rather than /qa/.

Imageboards are like the dark forest. It's best not to announce your presence unless you know you're in good company, lest a more powerful and sinister force hear you and decide to destroy you.

What I wanna know, is where the hell did /a/ go? They were such a huge presence on the internet a decade ago and a lot of them still come back for christmas r/a/dio but like aside from meguca and other liveboards they have no presence anymore. Did they just become riajuu?

>>15506
Most people lose the interests and hobbies they had as teenagers while others drop them when they get bogged down in careers and normal life I think. The old /a/ people that still maintained an interest in the stuff are probably on twitter, reddit and discord now as depressing as it is to say. Hell, they might be on facebook.
The "retro" sites are generally very young demographically, or else they wouldn't be referring to the subject as retro.

>>15509
>they might be on facebook.
Definitely not. Once in a blue moon I run into these sorts of people in online circles. It's not even necessarily that they've given up on their hobbies, it's just that they've moved on from posting about them on imageboards. As far as using Twitter, Reddit, and Discord goes, yeah that's accurate from what I've heard from them.

The only people who under 30 who talk about hobbies on facebook are Africans, Desis and SEAsians

>>15512
The old /a/ people are not under 30, though

>>15506
You can see this in those holiday threads, but there's a split between people who moved to altchans to attempt to recreate a slice of old /a/ and people who stay there trying to protect what is already lost. The former are too small, disparate, and insular to have any real impact on an internet that's more centralized than ever and the latter are are drowned out by newfags when they're not being shut down by the mods.

And if you're wondering why the new /a/ doesn't have the impact the old one had, it's because the board is completely segregated by franchise fandom. They're important parts for some niche airing shows, but mostly the thread for a series is a funny little sideshow for the rest of the fandom to use when they want to shitpost.

Always found that "no generals on /a/" rule pretty funny. Are the mods blind or stupid or are they just too lazy to do anything about it?

And speaking of /a/, Cinco de Maho is up right now. Gonna tardlaugh at all the confused shounen kids.

>>15534
I'm not sure what's up with that rule, it's like everyone thinks that if it doesn't call itself a general then it's not one. They just say "the X thread".

>>15534
>>15535
It's a legacy rule from an entirely different set of mods with an entirely different vision for the board. The old mods did regularly purge generals, sometimes to the extent that all discussion of a show was softbanned for years to stop the autists from making stealth threads, but the current mods are the exact opposite and want every thread to have a series in the title field, presumably because it makes the catalog easier to moderate. They only remove threads that follow the format if they get trolled to death while threads that don't follow it have a high chance of getting deleted as off-topic, even if the rest of the OP is exactly the same.

There's still a lingering fear of the old system, though, which is why everyone uses the stealth general format. It's most obvious in things like /pc/ or /idle/ where the threads are direct continuations of old generals that changed how they titled themselves to escape moderation. There's also always been a grey area where an airing day thread for a seasonal show is naturally going to be pretty broad in its topic and sometimes continue for several threads, so it's not obvious to a newfag how that's different from a general. Over time, that turned from a bullshit way to pretend an obvious general thread isn't one to a genuine belief that a series getting new content can't be a general.

>>15558
>/pc/ or /idle/
Like these?
https://desuarchive.org/a/search/subject/idle/page/3/
I can see the 2020 ones changed to a long-winded title with an unimportant OP. I also take it /pc/ means PreCure.
Anyways, it's interesting how OP standards vary inside of /a/: most have their series title in the subject field and some throwaway line, One Page Thread uses slashes, and the isekai general simply has its keyword in spoiler tags (which I personally associate more with 4/v/, funnily enough). Lil' bits of variation are always neat.

It's pretty crazy to me that a general gets so separated from the rest of the board that it gives itself an acronym to finalize its state as a separate entity and no one seems to really care.
"What board are you from?" "Oh, I'm from /dbz/" "Oh, cool, I'm from /pc/"

>>15597
And that's why /vg/'s existence is a good thing.

I only come here for /hauug/ >>>/jp/55098

at least /bant/ has a good reputation

this one's kinda funny
soyteen wrote it, of course

>>15696
Wow, æ still exists. I thought kiwi totally filled this niche

>>15698
stɪl hæŋɪŋ ɒn

>>15698
Compared to ED and similar sites, KF is pretty blatantly watered down and norm-friendly.

>>15698
æ = encyclopedia dramatica
Æ = Anaheim Electronics

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>>15750
yuno hard at work making a dorf fort tileset

>>15750
wtf dwarfs are cute now