>4chan is losing users and getting slower every day>even fast boards like /v/ are visibly slower, with 2-3 day old threads sometimes still in the catalogwhat's the end result of this? do you think smaller boards will get axed? it's been memed that '4chan is dying' for years now but it's actually happening for realz this time
>>85195171Yeah all my irl friends who used 4chan fucking hate it now and refuse to use it. It's honestly just lost it's charm with way too many normies and shit now. Way too many boards just feel like reddit shit and even a lot of threads are just reddit screencaps. I think 4chan could actually become better if it keeps bleeding users but it'll have to bleed a lot of them for a while before that happens.
>>85195209Right. It's not like infinite growth is a good thing. 4chan got too big, now it'a stabilizing and returning to the size it was comfortably at in the past.
the core 4chan posters, the main drive behind memes and threads and board culture, are all in their late 30s+ now, and got either bored by 4chan or are too busy with families. also, twitter is genuinely better for consuming memes and content and keeping up with your hobbies now. as crazy as it sounds.also i think a lot of people just don't trust 4chan with their information after the hack, so they just never came back.
>>85195227Yeah exactly, getting back to the days of smaller communities on boards and shit would actually be nice. It was way better here when it was much more of a community than just another social media site.
>>85195171I don't care about fast boards. Hopefully all the generals die off as normalfags go to websites actually made for that kind of regular shit. Slow boards here are still faster than any alt chan. Things are looking good from my perspective, unless Hiro cuts his losses and either shuts the whole site down or sells it to someone who'll bloat the site with a million ads to try to turn a profit.
>>85195235Twitter fucking sucks anon, I tried to get into it and it's just fucking retarded and way too commercial. It's like reddit but with no rules, too many people trying to turn their account into money making shit, too much solicitation and too much attempts at propaganda from all over the god damn place. I mean admit it's personal taste but even at it's worse I'd take 4chan over twitter.
>>85195171it will live on on the internet 2.0
>>85195171>what's the end result of this?Will get bought by some crypto retard and die without any dignityAt some point the "it was a chapter of the golden era of internet" stops mattering too.
>>85195209>honestly just lost it's charm with way too many normies and shit nowinverseevery fucking board is stormfront aside from a small fewthis place used to have plenry of almost-normie types who floated throughnow everyone is a major autist in the bad waythis place was good when people made OC but ideologues don't have time for OC between axe grinding and sperging
>>85195171Years of troon bibisi spam will do that to a site.
>>851951714chan was special because you could be edgy on here during a time where PC culture was running rampant. Now you can say nigger and faggot everywhere and nobody blinks an eye. The only reason people have to come here is nostalgia or y2k hipsters/chud appropriators
>>85195921>every fucking board is stormfront aside from a small fewThose are normies, just not he ones you're thinking of. Those are the faggots that came from cuckservative facebook groups and the_donald subreddit. I was on /pol/ when stormfront was actually active on that board and I'd take them any day over the migger retards that infested this entire website. You might have a point about /r9k/, i quit this place back in the day and only recently came back so I'm not an expert but /pol/ went from a board where autism actually thrived to a retards bragging about their income, pick up trucks, dick size, wives and other stupid bullshit. It might as well be a conservative facebook group full of gen xers.
>>85195171The site is healing recovering from the 2016 2015 invasion
>>85196059It's really not doing that
I think part of it is people just naturally being lazy and not wanting to type out posts forever. The new captchas and shit probably didn't help. Shit I'm one of the only guys on this site who actually looks up articles and reads more than the headline when they get posted.
>>85195171Everything you say is happening is a positive change.
>>85195171If it isn't outright killed with another hack or something I could see this site limping on for quite a while, so long as there are people like me that have absolutely nowhere else to go.
>>85196136I know right? If this site ever goes down it's not like I'm going to suddenly decide Twitter and Instagram are tolerable. I'd probably just stop using the internet in general.
everyone moved to discord because it's superior in most ways
wouldn't mind if 4 getting slower meant more people going back to real forums instead of xitter
>>85195171I used to love /v/ back in 2012-2015 really fucking cozy and fun, I hope some day /v/ can be fun again.
>>85196136>so long as there are people like me that have absolutely nowhere else to go.yeah same, no matter how bad it gets I'll stick around until the end because I literally have nowhere else to go and have been here for like 20 years now (holy shit wtf did I do with my life).
>>85196227I never thought I'd miss the days of /v/ where everyone just called everyone casuals but it's so much worse now. I miss old /mu/ too, haven't been there in years so I don't know what it's like now but I know all the old people I talked to on there are likely long gone.
what about this idea for threads>default view - shows all posts from users who used the captcha / swiped for a pass>schizo view - shows the default view + posts from captcha-less users...will likely include bot posts (no image posting or URLs allowed)
>>85196174I can't get into discord, feel like a tech illiterate boomer trying to use it for anything but instant messaging.
>>85195171>4chan is losing users and getting slower every day>even fast boards like /v/ are visibly slower, with 2-3 day old threads sometimes still in the catalogFinally, the summerfags are leaving and we can have old 4chan back.
>>85196272why is it hard to join a server? what do you not get
>>85196279bro is 40 something having nostalgia for a website
>>85196282I can't even find good servers, I use the search shit and it just comes up blank or it's just mainstream shit like servers for movies and shit.
>>85196174discord is shit tier walled garden . 4chan and xitter are the only places where you can have real uncensored public discussions and that's their value.
>>85196293>can't even find good serversthats the hard part...finding good servers and people. if you dont have those then its useless.
>>85196288>bro is 40 something having nostalgia for a websiteYou'll be there one day dude unless you actually leave this place for good, some people manage to.
I would go somewhere else but I have no idea where to go. I don't want to go to Reddit or Twitter either. Where to go then?
>>85195171Internet culture like 4chan will never die it just can't, ok? Don't be so melodramatic.There is literally no other place to go for people who hate to constantly self-censor themselves... the hack showed me that I rather just do something productive than going to alternatives like the ugly board that did the hack last time. I even forgot their name (don't remind me) and I remember how ugly and not cute their memes were plus tons if spam that didn't get suppressed.Don't be a sad cunt.
>>85196369If 4chan died someone would just make another one.
>>85196376yeah sharty pop ballooned because of the hack, but now it's dead dead
Elon bought twitter and it's the new 4Chan. Learn to keep up grandpa
>>85196376Hopefully with a /r9k/ that's a blue board. Porn reminds robots of things they'll never have and it makes them depressed and/or angry.
>>85196398Oh, yeah? THAT was its high point? It was still slow AF, even with all the spamming. Either way, their taste in memes and humor was as stupid as their name. "Sharty" - Their fecal-adjacent humor did grind my gears.Plus the spamming of their ugly basedjack meme everywhere? Who the fuck wants to see such an ugly meme all day. Must be brain damage.
>>85196412>Porn reminds robots of things they'll never have and it makes them depressed and/or angry.It mostly just annoys me because it's usually depraved ass homosexual porn and hardcore porn and it gets old.
>>85196459I just don't see the need for porn on /r9k/ since /gif/ and the other porn boards exist.
>>85195235>twitter is genuinely better for consuming memes and content and keeping up with your hobbies nowHow does twitter work? Do you have to make an account to use it? From my understanding every account has a page and they make tweets. How do you keep up with shit if it's driven by profiles and you have to scroll through each page to see what users are saying instead of being organized by boards and then threads like on imageboards. It seems the forum/imageboard formula makes more sense than a private profile formula.
>>85196180Forums are dead afI'm in a footy one, the king of sports, universal hobby. Quite the dedicated admin too, constant updates and shit. Extremely confident the average age of the userbase is like 38
>>85196458not to mention sharty users simp for their qwaen who is into bnwo shit
>>85196174There's like a billion different discord servers and you need a server invite to join them. If I want to join a server for women that are into femdom, or a general for a video game I play, how would I even do that? I prefer the anonymity of imageboards. Discord is probably chock full of attention whores. Same with Xitter.
>>85196478It's engagement b8 just like it's used on other boards like /pol/. You can make the dumbest fucking thread and if you strap eye catching porn to it anons will flock to it. I agree it shouldn't even be on here, this place looks like /b/ sometimes with how much porn is in the catalogue.
>>85196525yeah you gotta know people through other sources. it does suck.
>>85196510Twitter is exactly how you describe but also dominated by a shit ton of bot traffic and big account are clearly paying bots to boost their shit. If you read through the replies on tweets you'll see 100's of accounts spamming the same exact reply. There are more niche communities on twitter that some anons swear by but I never found them, twitter was entirely just liberal vs conservative shit when I was on it. Even the default accounts it put on my feed were shit like Luara Loomer lol. I tried using it while the Israel vs Palestine shit was going on and it was just a swarm of Israel accounts and bots at that time, lots of indians shilling too.
>>85195171>>even fast boards like /v/ are visibly slower, with 2-3 day old threads sometimes still in the catalogI wonder why that s?
All valuable posters for tired of newfags and redditors. Some of them matured and moved to greener pastures in their lives. I'm an oldfag but I was never good at making threads./pol/ used to be packed with actually intelligent posters that knew about politics. The threads were so rich you could always find an interesting debate in every thread. They were critical of races but also hated radicals such as stormfront faggots. On /fit/ you could always receive good advice on fitness and nutrition while being funny. Also made you feel you belonged, as if you were part of a really chill friend group. /r9k/ real robots supported each other here. Now is full of spiteful edgelords. Trannies and tranny lovers. Porn addicts and sexual deviants and of course, women attentionwhoring.> Bye bye to the niggertits site. Where I'd linger with a finger always over F5.
>>85196590>get warning>ok fine, whatever>try to post again>you are banned
>>85195171Delete /pol/.Bring back raids.
>>85196282>>85196272There's no Discord servers like 4chan. They're all dominated by attention seeking fags if they're 4chan oriented anyway. I prefer forums and threads anyway. Unless you know any comfy robot servers?
>>85196683>They're all dominated by attention seeking fags if they're 4chan oriented anywayYeah and they are full of dudes orbiting a few girls and treating any new dude like some kind of sex rival. it's wild. I thought about making a server for streaming movies and shit with robots but I'm pretty sure I'd get a ban for that.
>>85195171The site could be easily improved by lessening the time and amount of captchas required to post and by banning Xitter/Reddit/TikTok screencap threads. After that, one could work in adding features such as being able to post more file types, including video files with sound to all boards, and adding 4chan X features to regular 4chan.This is never going to happen though, because Hiro doesn't care whatsoever about the site and will never hire (or even pool volunteers) competent devs and moderation staff to work on any of these changes.file:///home/mago-aprendiz/Pictures/Reaction%20Images/1769833765214626.jpg
>>85196724I would definitely join that if it had a rule against porn and gay shit.
>>85196743>file:///home/mago-aprendiz/Pictures/Reaction%20Images/1769833765214626.jpgmessed up pasting image from clipboard, bleh
>>85196743>The site could be easily improved by lessening the time and amount of captchas required to postalternatively make passes mandatory and shunt all the third worlders/trolls who make captchas necessary in the first place
>>85196766but, anon, I am a third-worlder :(
>>85196755Oh yeah not streaming porn to sit around with bros and watch lol. Actual movies and shit. Gonna look into it and if it's possible to do without banhammer coming down.
>>85196780suffer thirdie i want my anime website back
>>85196743isn't twitter mostly bots? maybe the captcha is keeping the bots out of here?
>>85196803Yeah it's an ass ton of bots, you can pay for services to bot your twitter account and a lot of people do it.
>>85195235I remember when like every single internet meme came from either 4chan or Something Awful.Things like Orly and Rickrolling don't even really exist any more I feel.
>>85196006Surely this is exactly the opposite.In 2007 you could just say faggot and nigger on MyAnimeList or Gamefaqs fine but now they all have automated word filters against that, same on Reddit.Recently Twitter allowed more of it again since Musk took over though.
