/wap/ - wapchan discussion

>>1449
All you can do is advertise the site and make sure there are interesting threads to post in when people check it out.

I don't get why trashy sites like Heyuri get so much traffic while good ones like wapchan are borderline dead. Like where do you even advertise a forum nowadays? I doubt most people these days even know how to use a forum or an imageboard. They are so used to the walled garden of social media they have no idea how to do anything else.

Well, starting the monthly anime watch with a 100 episodes series might have been a mistake.

>>1452
yeah definitely. i think heyuri has the right idea with watching ovas and small series. while wapchan doesn't have enough users to do a live cytube watchalong, i think a 2 episode ova each month and discussing it in a thread could be do-able.

i think having a sticky thread on /cel/ for shows people are watching at the moment and telling their thoughts on it would be nice and a good way to drive high-quality engagement

we can't compete with sushigirl's stream. we might as well join them.

>>1454
sushigirl sucks since that other otaku board died and moved there tbh

I will be honest here, when I was first lurking I was put off by /kind/. It came out to me as rather wizchan-like in tone, with people going on about how imageboards and the Internet destroyed their lives and how everything in existence is despicable. I wouldn't want to share a space with these kind of people.

>>1458
What.

>>1449
As always, there's a few main factors at play.
>Advertising the site
This is probably the biggest hurdle for us. When I get home (in about 5-6 weeks) I plan to get back to making videos about old anime, tech and other related subjects that overlap with this site and that personally interest me.
>Keeping the site active
This hasn't been easy for me in the past, mainly because I've consistently been busy with other offline activities. >>1452 is right on the money - probably was way too much of a commitment for most. We can definitely try out what >>1453 suggested later this month.
>>1451
Wapchan naturally doesn't attract the kind of unstable/edgy people that a lot of other imageboards do. It's not like we discuss topics that would get you deplatformed on mainstream social media, and we don't adhere to strict site culture.
>>1454
No reason we can't both stream. The sushis are always welcome here of course.
>>1458
From what I've seen, people are just very honest there - far more than most other places online. Some posts definitely lean towards what you're talking ahout, but it's not meant to perpetuate unhealthy behaviors, and one of the banners even talks about giving up your hiiki ways.

I think there's still a lot of cool stuff we can do around here. An idea I had is periodic topic based boards - since the site is naturally slow we could just open a board for say a month or two and discuss something - could be nature, food, a particular series, anything really. It would be a way to fight against the gradular "decay" of the site having really old threads that dissuade people from posting.

I'd also like to find a way to implement the deed wall from the now gone dreamchan. That's a cool little concept for sure.>>1458

>>1462
>giving up your hiiki ways
I haven't seen it but that's more of the type of thing I have an issue with. There is nothing wrong with being a hikikomori, but it's the wallowing in and spreading misery over either being a hikikomori or a wagie or whatever that overtook a lot of communities, and hobbyist communities end up being overtaken by people forced into them instead of joining through interest. I use wizchan as an example, take /jp/ and every other post ends up being about how Japan is shit, how anime sucks, how anime "was a mistake" and such. I am wary of a place driven by a non-thematic board.

>>1468
It's wrong to bash people for being hikkis or "wagies", but at the same time it's really offputting to see someone make their personality about being a hikki neet and bragging about it, MANY imageboards are filled with those types and I don't think it's any different from the /pol/ types in terms of toxicity and sociopathy

>wizchan
>non-thematic board
wizchan's whole thing is about being 30+ yo virgins, what did anyone expect could come from such a place?
You can be a hikki neet and be fine personality wise and slowly but surely turn your life around, but as soon as you embrace it and make it a part of you, you're fucked. Nobody with any empathy should encourage hikkis to be hikkis, especially if you have any personal experience as one.


(it's like being obese or any kind of addict, it's wrong to bully someone for being addicted to food or drugs but at the same time you know it's wrong and unhealthy, the last thing anyone should do is encourage it, at most don't talk about it and let that person work on it on their own. I just wouldn't talk to or like being in any setting with such a person if they embraced being obese as a good thing, or a smoker as a cool thing and so on.

>>1468
>I haven't seen it but that's more of the type of thing I have an issue with
If your issue is imaginary enemies that exist elsewhere then there is no issue. Just take a deep breath and remember it's going to be fine.

>>1469
>>1470
I'm the guy who made a positive post on /kind/ and felt it almost led to a collapse of the board. I've also been mostly a hikki and NEET for the past 12 years and hopefully for good now. But if a community is created around an interest, it's irrelevant if each user is an optimistic satisfied hikki or a depressive suicidal mentally-ill normalfag, or racist or a /pol/ user, that's not what will drive the discussion or what will be talked about.

I can take part in a forum about baking with professional bakers, or a language forum with translators and researchers, without being a professional or working in the area (or at all), just by being interested and taking part on those activities.

A hobby is something people are supposed to look forward to and be in expectancy of, for an Internet imageboard community to work it must be grown by people who think the Internet is good and like imageboards, and think that the community is something important and relevant to their lives, and that it should be cherished and cared about.

>>1462
shortform /wsg/ style bumps with a focus on lofi/retro anime, VHS rips would work well on twitter.