I miss hobby interest forums
>>110265564I'm sure there still are some (full of 40+ years old boomers).
didnt the PHP CVE killed all of them
>>110265689You know updoots exist, right?
>>110265721but that would kill my 15 years of uptime on opensolaris
Several places that trade/sell home private videos still use these forums
There are still some semi-active ones.Honestly, I'm becoming frustrated with everything being closed off. Even if you join those groups, it's full of anti-social people not worth interacting with.
>>110266030well look at you mr. social butterfly
>>110266128No. I'm considering becoming orthodox. Maybe I can live in a monastery far away.
>>110265564This old motherfucker helped me learn how to code in vb.net nearly two decades ago. I was reading all of his forum posts and regularly posting seeking help for my terrible projects, lol. I made bad choices and had no idea how to get like multithreading working for a _long_ while. Coding back then felt a lot more like magic with new discoveries waiting just around every corner. Probably could have just read a book or something but that's not what I did, god I was dumb lol.
>>110265564This is a hobby interest forum
>>110266290Twitter screenshots aren't an interest.
>>110266297That's why generals exist.
>>110266282That's pretty cool anon, thanks for sharing.
I miss Usenet groups and QWK's from BBS's. Web forums were a downgrade.
>>110266303Generals on an image board is cancer. Especially some of the dogwater we have for generals (post your desk! post your desktop! post your gay neofetch! eight different llm generals!) That's what forums were supposed to be for. But they were mostly killed off by the UK's extremely heavy handed website regulations. So what's the alternative? Clog up the catalog with garbage? Faceberg groups? Fuckin Discord servers? Or worse, subr*dd*ts? I don't know. It just sucks ass
>>110266303Generative AI isn't an interest either.
Many have been saying this
>>110266303You mean generals exist to prevent new actually good posts from sliding Twitter/Reddit screenshot threads off the board
>>110265564There are a few left. Filled with boomers like me. But still. Also I remember that there were drug shops on phpbb about 10 years ago.
>>110266279>becoming orthopilled
>>110265576simpcity is still a bb forum frequented by many a horny teenagers
>>110266969>That's what forums were supposed to be forThat's literally my point.Generals here have similar function to forums, they bring together people who share specific interests/technologies etc. if you want a good discussion about eg gamedev, music genre, vr games, etc your best luck is to visit a general dedicated to that thing.>>110267010If peoplemignored twitter/reddit threads and posted in generals or made their own threads this place would be much nicer to use.
>>110265564Quite a few still exist, anon. Just go on Spacebattles o algo.(Just be polite there.)
>>110265564Hobby-centered forums are still alive and kicking.
>>110265751>trade/sell home private videoswhat did he mean by this?
>>110266030>Even if you join those groups, it's full of anti-social people not worth interacting with.Which forums did you have these experiences?
>>110266279OK, Luke.>>110268873Spacebattles and Terminal Velocity are shitlib sff forums.
>>110265564that's a funny looking sub
>>110265564there are many on tor
>>110265564https://forum.141-161.com/The oldest hobby...
>>110265564At least ttlg forum is still upUnfortunately all the older threads are hidden from plain sight.
>>110269853ttlg?
>>110269387I know, but unless someone revives the Sietch from more than a graveyard, they work for that purpose.(the most active subforum on there by far is the politics subforum, but if you're a chud SB/SV type that's where you go to chud out.)
>>110270046Looking Glass Studios fan site. Mostly for Thief fans.
>>110270059Thank you, anon.
>>110265564Way to doxx your userbasewoohoo
>>110265564Nigger they still exist. Most of newest posts and activity so u can just go in and glance go out again. Go out and join them.DESU the real issue is when they're too spread out within a given hobby. Checking one site for a given hobby is cool, multiple for the same is pain.
>>110267173It is a horrible way to have actual discussions. The best thing you can use it for is some guides and other resources, not that most of them are not out of date or deleted years ago while still being reposted all the time.They're just as cancerous as discord servers while having fewer and worse quality resources.
>>110266030>it's full of anti-social people not worth interacting with.and it's even worse there because they're all middle-aged and have been acting that way their whole life
>>110266290I wish, this place pales in comparison to how it was 10 years ago.
>>110265564There are a few on I2P, well, at least the ones that weren't killed by the php exploit recently.
>>110266030It turns out, when you have an exclusive place, it immediately attracts the type of person who will effectively shit up the entire place, whether with toxic-positivity, toxic-rule enforcement or just generally toxic behaviour, until the only thing that exists is a giant pile of shit that they sit on, crowning themselves king.It happens in HOA's, forums, game communities, churches, small suburbs, school, teachers etc etc.Nothing "cures" the disease either, except violent expulsion.
>>110267173Generals have all the downsides of a forum (cliquish behavior, even lower signal-to-noise ratio due to chit-chat between 'regulars', etc) with none of the benefits and actual forum provides, like organization into threads/pages, searchability etc.They're a poor substitute that really doesn't belong on an imageboard.Same as using the first thread in a board to sticky the rules, it might seem normal to you if this version of 4chan is all you've known but it wastes the prime thread slot for no good reason.These things are why we need a catalog now to even browse this site comfortably, not to mention it degrades board identity/culture.I miss just F5ing the first page all day and seeing what pops up.
I thought it was hypocritical to ask for context without providing it myself, so:>>110269387>>110270057Context: SB = Spacebattles, SV = Sufficient Velocity (I assume "terminal velocity" is a joke name for SV).SB is this old, large sci-fi and general fiction forum with a large community for hypothetical crossover battles, both wars and versus scenarios, as well as fiction and fanfiction, which has been around since the ~late 90s. It's one of the first forums I found as a kid when I was searching for cool videos of space battles; back then, it used to have a landing page with a few custom CGI battles on youtube if you typed in the URL without "forums" in front of it. Alas, no longer. Also, click "load Old Spacebattles" on the bottom if you don't want the layout to look awful.SV was a ~2010s splinter to SB's political left, often filled with dual users of both and alternatehistory dot com's banned refuse (though SB has now (as in this year) set up AltHistory for that purpose), as SB used to have some rightoidism going around - I vaguely remember a large "alt-right" PM ring being discovered ca. 2017. Not like that now, it's now largely center-left nerds AFAIK.The Sietch is a rightoid splinter forum from the above, ostensibly with similar content. In practice, however, it seems centered on chuddery for the type of person that also posts on SB, as they can likely just post on SB for other things. Their "Politics and Current Affairs" forum has as many messages as the rest of their other boards combined, and a lot of the rest is in their "War College" forum, the bulk of which is a subforum for the Russo-Ukrainian War.There, >>110265564, you have three (actually five) decently active forums to choose from.
>>110269387 You sound like you wound enjoy the Sietch, desu.
>>110269736>>110270150Does anyone have a list of these? I know KF has a TOR service and know of Dread, but haven't heard of much else except the pale remnants of 8 coon.
>>110265689I know for a fact that SB updated very quickly against the PHP bug. Most of these forums tend to be run by tech-aware types who update promptly, if they are fairly active (and these are).
>>110265751What's funnier is that cops still can't find them. What's even funnier than that is that the feds run them. Where do you think they get them from? Your own phones. They have em backdoored.I see local police chasing the asses of feds all the time nowadays. That's not good ay. Twin Peaks was sorta prophetic.
>>110266282They would still be on bbs maybe. I don't know shit about bbs though. It's a mythical fairly land that was early internet and lots of satan larping. A lot of the lower hacking scene, mainly kiddies, aren't even aware of it nowadays. It's kinda funny. The demoscene was always dark web to me and piracy is just clear web entry level shit.
>>110270242Don't know about TOR, on I2P go to notbob.i2p. He's a guy whose hobby is categorizing and tracking the uptime of eepsites, he has a section for forums.
>>110270305Thank you, anon. Going to keep that in my notes for when I get around to hopping onto I2P.
>>110266030This>find old school forum, bbs, irc, XMPP or fediverse initiative>it's either insufferable boomers or some larping tranny polycule (or both)I went to Something Awful the other day expecting a non-gay Reddit only to find it's boomer Reddit with 4chan characteristics.
>>110270359should've seen that comingnext time go to a something decent or whatever
>>110270182generals are only bad because we have 0 moderation which allows schizophrenic behavior to go unchecked
>>110270359Don't you have to pay $10 via a credit card? You may as well "age verify" via a credit card and dox yourself and go on any normie site.No wonder 4chan mogged it once it was birthed from it and 2chan...
>>110270104I enjoyed various programming, music and waifu generals so far. Sometimes they are better sometimes worse, but they are still a good way to find people who like similar stuff and discuss them.>>110270374This.The only time I have bad experience with generals is when they get shitposted by poltards, aifags, sharty, twitter tourists and such. If it's just people who like to program specific thing or share music they like and stuff like that they are pretty comfy.
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/Still going strong.
>>110270378It's a valid way to filter new users imho. I'm just surprised they go so far that any alternative space is already rigged for them. Is Twitter, Reddit and Bsky really not enough for them?4chan and Telegram is genuinely the only exception.
>>110270418>rpgcodexi'd rather stick my hand in a blender
>>110270473They were the ones who created and initally populated the spaces. "Blue Tribe"-adjacent/favoring, techy, Gen X or late Boomer programmers were the first on the internet and thus made the spaces.Reddit Mods are just this exact same process but delayed, so they are typically Millennials.Nearly every rightoid internet space is also made by a "traitor" to either this demographic or their younger versions, including Elon Musk and KF's Null, or dedicated digital liberarians (Moot, to some extent, or early Reddit).It's an echo of how terminally online chuds and troons are the same material cast into different coins, feuding siblings. Or how a lot of Fediverse servers are either leftoid troons or rightoid chuds, and never shall the two desire to meet. "Xenofem" or "Poast", anon, you must choose.Founder dynamics still apply to the internet and its spergs (complimentary).
>>110270511 (me)*"digital libertarians" not "liberarians" lol
>>110270473>It's a valid way to filter new users imho.100%. i sometimes wish 4chan had it. it would filter out soooo many broke turd worlders. site quality would skyrocket overnight.and don't you fucking>paying for 4chanme, you and i both 100% know we'll pay it.
>>110270586>paying for 4chan
>>110269379
>>110270511I guess, but where the fuck am I supposed to go as a matured Gen Z chud? I still want to keep distance from trannies, but I actually don't care and just want to enjoy my interests for the most part. You'd expect these alternative spaces to be ripe with such since we bear the brunt of censorship.>>110270586Already have
>>110270590lmao
>>110270644...they are sometimes, but people who don't want to have their alternative space turned into a chudfugee camp have to engage in cleanup themselves.I've seen it tactfully done, such as with the rDrama chud award, but it's simpler to just ban things like "chan behavior" (a Spacebattles term) or rightoids. Otherwise you end up in Null's situation with KF A&N.So there's KF, being a second-class citizen lolcow on rDrama, hiding out on 8 coon, here, Ecks Da Everything App, the Sietch, and a few others probably.
>>110266030>it's full of anti-social people not worth interacting with.that's the end stage of every single message board for the entire history of the internet. it eventually becomes a scene and the most awful people the scene queens. the reason 4ch survives despite being abandonware and targeted by pr firms and intel services for a decade is because there are no persistent credentials. you can't build a reputation here which prevents it from being destroyed by scene drama like every forum ever.
>>110269853>>110270059I have an account there that I lost the password of circa 2010, would alternate between there, Planet Deus Ex, and the Ion Storm Forums all the time
