I miss forums.
They exist for exclusive communities only. No AIjeets allowed.
>>109792207I was in a forum back in 2012 or something around thereSpecific forum that was invite only from one of the IRC channels that was shared here, can't remember. It was basically 4 ultra autistic people all spamming and making daily forum posts. There was no other forum members. I was invited because I helped one of the ultra autists with finding some information about some software. They changed forum name and domain every month. It was called "king of the hill" or something like that when I was on there. One autist was really deep into mechs and specifically in the power ranger mechs. Second one really really liked trains. Third one liked birds. Fourth one was into coding like me. The only way they interacted between each other is through their hobbies. One guy would make a post about how power rangers was much better in the 80s, second one would reply how that reminds him of that episode when Thomas the engine was trying to help his copatriots etc etcI was really taken aback because they would spam the forum about 20 hours a day, I didn't know how to interact with them.When I left I couldn't for the life of me find them again. They changed names and domains. Didn't come up to that IRC ever again. I never joined another forum again after that. I imagine it's for retarded autistic retards that are too socially inept for shitty autistic social media like reddit. On reddit those autists would just smugly jerk off in a circle but you can understand them at least, there is some socialization. On forums you don't even have pecking order, it's just a mental asylum where there's 3 retards rocking back and forth and fourth one keeps hitting his head against the wall.
>>109792207theres still some companies like invision power board and there's the one calle XenForo which was created by developers who left vBulletin. There's sitll websites that use them but the traditional layout of a forum has also changed, at least with IPB. XenForo has stuck to the classic forum look and feel.
MyBB was also nice And it still is nice. Often used even.
>>109792270>On forums you don't even have pecking order, it's just a mental asylum where there's 3 retards rocking back and forth and fourth one keeps hitting his head against the wall.That's literally what's fun about it, though.
>>109792270>On forums you don't even have pecking orderhuh? thats exactly my experience of them. The guys with the highest post count & seniority gets their dicks giga sucked while you're genuinely considered "less" if you dont even have x amount of posts or karma or whatever next to your name.
>>109792207I was on a proto Kiwi Farms back in 2011. I ended up trashing it by plastering my face all over the home page. It was a good time.
>>109793322if it happens a lot it means your forum has been taken over by sociopaths/socialites/posers.
>>109793336timmageddon irl, nice
>>109792207That's because you've never used them and your only "experience" with them is fanfiction from other people that never used them in the 90s and 2000s either.
>>109792270>Specific forum that was invite only from one of the IRC channels that was shared here, can't remember. >It was basically 4 ultra autistic people all spamming and making daily forum posts. There was no other forum members. I was invited because I helped one of the ultra autists with finding some information about some software. >They changed forum name and domain every month. It was called "king of the hill" or something like that when I was on there. One autist was really deep into mechs and specifically in the power ranger mechs. Second one really really liked trains. Third one liked birds. Fourth one was into coding like me. The only way they interacted between each other is through their hobbies. One guy would make a post about how power rangers was much better in the 80s, second one would reply how that reminds him of that episode when Thomas the engine was trying to help his copatriots etc etcThis is extremely based. No one is willing to make a private forum anymore and just post to his heart's content with friends. Everything is happening on Discord, and we're all worse off.
>>109792207>spamming schizo retardit's amazing that these losers keep these same old screenshots for years just to spam imageboardshttps://desuarchive.org/g/search/image/y_IRwj9yknVwu-cIEL5rMA/
>>109792270>wall of AI generated schizo texthey.. fat pedophile: you're not fooling anyone here.>>109793467>fat pedophile thinks everyone is blind and can't see it's exactly the same source for texthi fat pedophile. still failing at using an imageboard? that's a shame.
>>109793744>representative screenshot of a default-themed phpBB site>y-you're a schizobetter a forum thread than whatever the majority of /g/ has become
>>109793758>gets caught out posting the same screenshot for a decade>mental breakdown timefuck off and die, you sad spamming sex offender.
>>109793744kind of a shit schizo if he only made 6 threads over 3 yearschances are its just the memetic convergence effect taking place
>>109793751who are you talking about?
this thread has inspired me to make a private invite forum. Stay tuned for a invite thread in the upcoming days.
>>109793858>when the fat pedophile's ai text gets laughed at>reply with nonsensehello fat pedophile. how's the failing at an imageboard going? still doing extremely badly?
>>109792207I'm still on a few forums that I check regularly. They're still active because they're semi niche topics that have been around forever.I've thought about wishing there was some kind of nice forum aggregator where I could browse them all in one interface with notifications since one of them only has email notifications. I realized the system I'm looking for is reddit lol. Too bad, reddit could be sick but upvotes and the general community have made it shit
>>109793883I may be shot for this but reddit is pretty good for niche tech stuff. It's terrible for everything else but porn, but it is really quite good for tech.
>>109792270>On forums you don't even have pecking order, it's just a mental asylum where there's 3 retards rocking back and forth and fourth one keeps hitting his head against the wall.as opposed to here which is 3 retards and 7 bots all defecating in the same cell
>>109794330for sure, there's a few subreddits I check sometimes because they're the only place left on the internet with a community for those topics. With something as big as reddit there's obviously going to be a bigger mainstream userbase that kinda sets their reputation, and that userbase has seeped it's humor and other characteristics back down into a lot of the more niche subreddits, but yeah there's a few places I'll still look at.Aside from the obvious reasons 4chan also just hates reddit because it's another perma-online community but one that's inherently lamer. I also hate the larger community on 4chan, but that hasn't stopped me from coming here every day for the past 20 years lol
>>109792207I don't———————[gigantic_fuckass_rainbow_image_signature.gif] [Log in to see images] (witty one-liner)
>>109794659kek
>>109792207do you want to go to hell?everyone is admin in hell
>>109792207they still exist and still suck like they did 20 years ago
>>109793322>>109793408I had a giga post count on an old school forum. But by the 2010s I had no bootlickers. All my forum friends were gone and feminist SJW-types would swarm every time I posted. I never broke the rules or deliberately trolled so they could never get me banned. But it became really toxic and I worried about getting doxed and baited into saying things that would get attention from crazier commies. There weren't any new posters by that point anyway so I just left.
>>109795369>things that absolutely never happened from the mind of a schizo compulsive liarfantastic story, lolcow. my dad works for nintendo and miyamoto came over to my house and we played tetris. i was then made king of nintendo. totally believable. really happened.
>>1097922074chan is a forum you retarded nigger
>>109793322In Australia, this happened with the PCPowerPlay forums back in the mid-2000s. They were adamant that "you are not your post count", yet if you weren't over 1000 posts or didn't have the exclusive ranks for your post count, you were absolutely ignored or abused.Eventually the forums were bought out and merged with CyberGamer and all the arrogant leftist cunts with 2000+ posts to their name went to some splinter forum, and the main forum community died pretty much immediately after that.
>>109793751>Anything more than 50 words is AII genuinely hope paranoid and mentally insane cunts like you get some help. What's next according to your rotten smoothbrain? Every novel, article, encyclopedia, etc ever in history is suddenly AI?Get some fucking help you faggot.
>>109792207They're past their prime... but they're still around, OP.Now go be the change you want to se in the world, create your accounts and post in them!
>>109792207Forums were gay, I miss dialup BBSes.
>>109792207Generally they are great.But because accounts get post count, levels, reputation and what not, you'll invite retards.4chan ID/flag system instead of accounts, with persistant threads instead of resets every x amount of posts, would be an upgrade to forums and this place.
>>109796201>>109796206A decade ago there used to be a few ssh textboards, but they've never picked up steam. The software was kinda shitty and hard to navigate; probably worse than pic related.
>>109795369Well? As you can see, it's not much better here.
>>109792207I don't. I hate navigating them. Having to page through threads is cumbersome and annoying.imageboards or unironically reddit are easier to read and follow
>>109792207What's that, you wanted to be able to find useful posts on some obscure forum from your search engine? Too bad, here's some retards on reddit instead.
>>109792397ipb fucking sucks. I fuckin ghate that piece of shit holy fuck man. trying to find anything is the most retarded bullshit cluster fuck
>>109792207I always loved the anonymous imageboard formatno updoots or points or anything, so no incentive to whore for whatever clout you can get, total anonymity too so it wouldnt even mean anythingjust people posting and discussing. imageboards are to me the purest, least diluted form of social media ....
>>109793872>invite threadjust post here, this place is dead anyways
I'm a zoomer and have to admit I never got to experience forums, or IRC in it's hey-day. ik it still exists but the only active ones are specific to tech, which is fine but it's not my only interest.
>>109796622IRC wars were the best. Imagine if, by exploiting just the right timing, you could steal jannie powers and ban everyone you didn't like from their own thread while spamming ASCII dicks at them
>>109792216I'm still using them for special topics like hardware or aquariums but the English / International ones are generally worse in qualityThe German hardware scene is one of the best in existance, the format of a forum keeps the shitposting reduced or the mods would clean up
>>109792207Aim better then.
>>109792216Man I miss the times when forums weren't full of retarded culture warriors like you.
>>109796635lmao, that explains the 8ch /irc/ board.
>>109794330>reddit is pretty good for niche tech stuff.any subreddit is still subject to the whims of a janny and upvote circlejerk. a regular forum would simply stay out of the way.> It's terrible for everything else but porn, maybe 10 years ago. these days new nsfw subreddits are shutdown within weeks, and the older bigger ones are sponsored or paid content by onlyfans whores>but it is really quite good for techif you are into circlejerking, sure. reddit is the last rung on the ladder about tech news. Instagram, tiktok, youtube even threads get OG content that eventually trickles down to reddit after a day or worse.
>>109796768I got banned permanently on dxm reddit for mentioning "binging"On a subreddit about substance abuse... Reddit is just pure shit
>>109796660Consider euthanasia.
>>109796350did your 2 brain cells have a boxing match to get that out?
>>109797359i am going to fuck you. stfu faggot. ipb sucks ass man
>>109797384damn your tough
>>109797408ya, i am.
>>109797448look out fellas, he's gonna fuck you
>>109797453look out.
>>109792207>>109792216yeah I still use mmo-champion.com from time to time.It is very active too
>>109797466tony too tough
>>109795840I believe him. It sounds very similar to my own experiences with forums. It might even have been the Cracked.com forums, which very noticeably went from comedy banter to SJW permaseethe and autism. If it was, then he will have read a lot of my posts that I wrote there.I miss their limerick thread. That was GOAT-tier.
>>109792207I miss not only the forums but the ecommerce websites too. They were so much easier to navigate and purchase, they didn't upsell you additional garbage on checkout or popups with requests for your email address for a discount code. Picrel
>>109794659double kek
>>109797565Wasn't cracked.com, but yes many forums followed a similar pattern and suffered a similar fate. The left-wing culture warriors tended to seek out moderator positions and agitated for rule changes with language protecting intersectional snowflake victim groups (no racism, sexism, homophobia, etc).>>109796277The whole internet has declined, yes. The ratio of retards and annoying thirdies to interesting people has gotten vastly worse.But 4chans problems have always been a little different. The main issue here is the decline of banter quality alongside the increase in its prevalence. Every retard and shill thinks the way you are supposed to win arguments on 4chins is to be as hostile, disrespectful, reductionist, and nihilistic as possible. They have forgotten the importance of truth and humor.
>>109796201>>109796206I wonder what would happen if you posted humorous screenshits of BBS posts here for an extended time. Would more people use them if they were funnier than the rest of the internets?
>>109796833They are absolutely a bunch of fucking coward bootlicking faggots.>Call phenibut, pheni.No! you can't do that, that's glorifying drug use. In a sub about doing drugs for fun.>Next time I get sleep paralysis I'm going to convert that demon into a girl and rape her.No! you can rape the psychological constructs that exists only on your mind / entities that are invading your mental space, that's unsafe! Faggots.
>>109792207I'm going to make a forum, but first i need to finish my payment infrastructure project.
>>109792207i was active on many forums and it really brought up the worst in mei still feel cringe whenever i remember what i did as a forum mod
