The actual world cup starts in 17 days. This group stage is a joke.

>>155133002
The honest answer is the fucking changes to the captcha are cancerous and have contributed massively to the gradual decline in posting volume across all boards.

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>>155133002
Not bad

>>155133002
Twitter took all the tourists

>>155133002
New captcha fuckery and the hack killed 4chinz

this website is fucking dead

>>155133540
good?

>>155133456
I just wanted to post a joke a bout the ref speaking English like a mong, and I had to wait 60 seconds to post and failed the captcha because I'm drunk and by the time I posted it was too late

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>>155133002
america world cup, cringe, low effort, low energy, third world country (they don't even have roofs on the stadiums like wtf), and to top it all, america culture fatigue. If I have to laugh at Americans poisonous food one more time...

>>155133548
so we filtered out the <90iqs and adhd freaks

people say the site is dead but /pol/ /vg/ /v/ and even /tv/ are still active
this board just died in the past few years and became a generals board

>>155133456
haven't posted for 3 years and almost couldn't believe it, it feels like a joke?

>>155133589
what a life! what a beautiful beautiful ride

>>155133603
>america culture fatigue
not happening. the world is more americanised than ever.

the site could be more active with your average 2026 internet user but lets be honest they wouldn't be qualityposting now would they

/generals/

>>155133456
The sliding word captcha was fine but this current one is so fucking bad

>>155133653
I'd say more old posters leaving and replaced by 3rd world culture war fags but I can't prove it so yeah

>>155133002
At least it’s not an ocean of generals

someone post the graph lol
no one browses this mushroom growing indonesian board anymore

>>155133709
/vg is just /notdiscord/ and /v/ is the most dogshit imaginable, at any time of the day you will have, at best, 5 sincere threads and the rest will be sales faggotry, off-topic threads and culture war shit. It's really bad

X is unrioncally more edgy than 4chan now so people fucked off there.

Also no one under the age of 25 uses 4chan so we don't have that bump of new users
Most people on here are millennials

>>155134464
then what are the young versions of us doing these days instead? it cant be normie world

>Most people on here are millennials
grim
so this place is the equivalent to those old boomer forums from 2006 where some bloke's uncle would talk about his car exhaust at this point?

>>155134560
Posting george droyd/charlie kirk memes on instagram reels

>>155134671
>instagram reels
but thats normie to the core

>>155133709
/v/ and /tv/ are populated largely by paid shills pushing their product to a website with a large audience, and /pol/ and /vg/ are the same except they do it for free because they love their team and hate the enemy team.

>>155133002
Site basically never truly recovered post the hack and this current captcha is ridiculous for casual retard posting. That paired with a WC with very little hype, shitty opening game, etc.

>>155133002
I mean, look at this tournament. It is bound to be shit

>>155134700
They just doomscroll some shitty memes all day

>>155133456
this is the easiest captcha we've ever had, no typing, just slide some shit and click
ive been here since before kimmo forced moot to add captcha

>>155134560
from what i understand everyone is hypnotized by reels and tiktok and the ones that would have shitposted on 4chan are instead grooming kids on roblox and discord

>>155134885
easiest captcha was when there were two words and one was fake that you could enter whatever you wanted
this shit legit takes me 30+ seconds

>>155133002
the actual answer would send one straight into time out if you know you know

the captchas are legit difficult now
like you need at least a 110 IQ to get it first time

This site gets more dead every year. People only come here for /pol/, /v/, and the other tranny boards. Most boards are slow as fuck now

>>155134885
This
How is figuring out what figure is different between two triangles and a circle any harder than typing out a bunch of distorded letters and numbers?

>>155134558
you should check out /adv/ sometimes, it's full of <20 year old retards unironically asking for advice.

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>>155133589
>failed the captcha because I'm drunk

Are people actually retarded? I find this captcha easier than that stupid identify all the buses one.

>>155134560
the future is 100% normie

wait until some euro team with black ppl in it starts
then reddit will show up no worries

>>155135100
I love the new captcha my nigga

>>155133002
yeah, I only come for the world cup (that I watch a little just to participate in the shitposting) and the board is kinda dead. Sad.

>>155133456
/sp/ has been dead for years mang. Like pre covid it was nothing like back in the day

>>155133456
Regular posting from computer is absolute shit with the captcha but phone posting from a app is retardedly easy to post. Dunno why they made it like this, desu.

>>155133589
He spoke english? I think the sound was shit while he was speaking but it sounded like gibberish.

>>155135034
True. I swear they could combine boards to help create more energy, but whatever.

>>155133709
/teevee/ feels dead as fuck, almost as slow as /ck/ these days

>>155133002
Football as a sport is dead. FIFA has made it hollowed, oil arabs can buy whatever they want, every single player tries to cheat and dive as much as they can and every national team is full of ngubus without brains or skill.

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>>155134885
that is incorrect, here comes the "actually" redditor moment
I also had that easy slide captcha, and do right now as well. But I had to completely erase my cookies and info at some point on my browser, and oh boy, if you are new here and the system has no info on you, they give you very, very, VERY obnoxious captchas.
First you need to wait 60s, 90s or 120s just to receive a captcha, then they give you 4 slide captchas, with very annoying patterns (3 point stars, 4 point stars, tetris pieces, random ass cubes with lines on it). You need to answer these correct at least 10 to 15 times for the system to give you the easy ones (mostly dices and square/triangles/circles). If you answer ONE captcha wrong, it resets, and you need to answer those 10 to 15 correctly again, in a row. But wait, it gets worse, you can't just simply post anything and rush these initial harder captchas, they have a timer. Something around 10 minutes, or maybe 20 minutes. So you can't just abuse the system, you need to wait to get the "score".
It's a pain in the ass, worst captcha ever

>>155133456
>>155134885
>>155135030
I think the difficulty of the captcha changes. If your cookies have no history of posting then you get difficult captchas. If you have a 4chan cookie which has a history of successful captchas and posts, your captchas will be easier.

t. Easy captcha nigga because I post often

>>155135008
>type half the captcha as "nigger"
Kino

>>155133002
We fucking told you over and over there was no hype for the World Cup.

>>155133002
the match times are stupid and exclude 3/4 of the football enjoying world. i have a job, i'm not watching 3am games.

>>155135374
>>155135349
oh yeah i have to identify the right pattern square from a selection of 25 different squares, 4 times in a row

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>>155135349
>>155134885
You guys need to slide?

>>155135349
>t. brainlet
Just visualize the shape in your mind and select it once you have to pick it up. The initial waiting time can be annoying but it only shows up once in your session. I like that it discourages tourists who shit up the niche boards.

>>155135291
/tv/ is just advertising and media campaigns now

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>>155135402
There is always hype for the World Cup, just not in your dogshit country

>>155133002
The hack last year basically killed the website.

>>155133002
this place isn't relevant now simple as
reddit got bigger and went mainstream
twitter took the edgy leftovers

>>155135856
The only thing this place has to offer is a no algorithm live feed, which for most people, is not a positive.

>>155133456
Yep I gave up using the website because of the captchas, only checking now because of the World Cup. Only responding to this post because I agree with you on the captchas
>wait 60 seconds
>scroll to find matching image, not clear at all what that image is
>do this four times
>says captcha incorrect so I have to do this a second time and third time
How do they expect this website to garner any activity like this? It takes me about five minutes to make a post

agree with others. captchas are just way harder than they need to be now
before you cope with 'you're just dumb' or whatever, no. you know you're all guessing some of the time and there's like 3 rounds of this shite per post

>>155135959
filtered

>>155135959
I mentally read this post in a Scottish accent. We should always have England/Scotland/Wales/NI flags, so I can see when a Celtic brother is posting.

>>155133962
*americanized

>>155135856
You have to pay to use Reddit now so no. Xitter is where everyone is but I don't use it for sports.

>>155133456
feel like been waiting for fuckn ages to make this post
now i have to solve osm e gay puzzles like a child doing gcscs
its so wank i just want to shitpost like i used to

fml why is there 4 of them

if they got rid of captchas and we just had bots wouldn't that be worse than the traffic decline

>>155140948
Yes, but people want it to be worse. They want to see wojaks with flags on their foreheads, BBC edits and real humans taking the bait, that's what people come here for

>>155133002
>first day of the world cup
>latest reply on the last thread of page 10 is 4 and 15 minutes ago
/sp/ is dead

>>155140587
>fml why is there 4 of them
it tracks you, unfortunately with cookies per device not via IP, and the POS captchas get 'easier' - drops to three, then one puzzle challenge or none - after a bit. Its a flying PITA when you use multiple devices and it initially wont let you post from a new device at all, this after 4 shitty captchas.
>why
who the fuck knows.
pissing off existing users to the extent they flee while blocking new ones entirely is always a winning strategy.

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>>155133456
>This filters anons
Probably best they don't post desu.

>>155133002
The sharty hack last year killed 4chan.

Guys, just make a fake mail on gmail or outlook and verify your mail. It's a bit of a bother but not that big a deal.

>>155141257
I shed a tear patriot

To be fair i remember /sp/ around 2011 and 2012 to be fast as fuck compared to nowadays, but way more muttball compared to football, only tournaments and Premier League threads were constant, and the guys playing FM of course.

>>155146441
yep and thats why those captchas are just useless time wasters and boards are still full of bots
like on pol 90% of posts are non-human
bot purveyor just register a fake email cause they have an agenda and money/time to spend on burner phones for email registration
mods know all this but leave it as for ulterior reasons that have nothing to do with fighting bots like for example they want to build profiles on anons based on their emails (if some suckers gave them real ones) and posting styles or they want to punish independent informants/leakers with worse captchas for ban-evading to give more room for state-approved bot farms

>>155134560
Unironically on X. There's been a massive migration of posters onto X since 2020, especially since Elon took over and got rid of the censorship. Seen so many posts on my For You page with full blown n-words and slurs towards faggots with 100k likes. You don't have to wait to post there like you do here (captchas have ruined this site's activity) and as long as you dont post stupid shit like death threats in Minecraft you wont be reprimanded or put on a 3-day ban.

>>155134700
not really. It used to be a decade ago where Stacys and Veronicas would post their celeb slop but nowadays you can find a lot of underground meme shit or autistic meme reels if you know where to look.

>>155133456
real, what the fuck is this horseshit

>>155146441
The problem is that some fags here love to samefag and shitpost on multiple IPs so even though you can easily get yourself verified, most want to post derange schizo bait or ruin a general with incessant shitposting so they opt to just clear their cookies, switch to multiple IPs and deal with the captchas if it means getting to rape an entire thread to their liking

>>155145906
Its not about being hard, its about being annoying.

>>155135349
>But I had to completely erase my cookies and info at some point on my browser, and oh boy, if you are new here and the system has no info on you, they give you very, very, VERY obnoxious captchas.
at some point this year I wanted to try out firefox (and switch to it) but holy fuck it was almost impossible to post here

>>155133002
>UTC-6

>>155133002
You should see this shit hole board when there ISN'T a world cup, it's a ghost town

>>155133456
Retards don't know that the captcha gets easier if you keep your cookies. On a fresh IP with fresh cookies it starts off annoying as shit and then slowly over time it will reduce to the point where I have it now where I can complete one without thinking in under 2 seconds.