No.1711
>>1709Sure whatever lmao 4kek deserved it
Still hate the jaks but whoever pulled it off gets my approval
No.1713
What? Whaaat?
No.1715
>>17134CHAN HACKED
>4CHAN HACKED4CHAN HACKED
>4CHAN HACKED4CHAN HACKED
>4CHAN HACKED4CHAN HACKED
>4CHAN HACKED No.1716
with both this and the april fools I hope 4channers finally learn to lighten up a bit.
No.1719
I didn't think this would get its own thread here. Altchans didn't do anything.
No.1720
What's the song?
No.1721
>>1719Sometimes the best move is not to play. Or in less pretentious speak, the site going down with an actual risk is enough of a kick in the butt to get some anons to actually consider alt-chans as places to go. Kissu for one was linked in the old /qa/ 4chanx blotter which still worked when the board went back up, they got a decent chunk of traffic from curious folk and some like the place enough to keep using in the future.
Hopefully anons learn from this if the site does go back up. Always keep tabs on little nooks in the internet like this.
>>1720Darude Sandstorm.
(night of nights remix by cool&create and beatmario)
No.1723
>>1716Wapchan needs it the most, it feels like a poor man's /r9k/ in here. Just 4chan with a filter.
No.1725
Very cute Satoko gracing my screen right now.
No.1726
It's dead
No.1727
A pity no source code it would be wonderful
No.1729
>>1709oy vey shut it down!
No.1732
>>1731I just wanted to hang out in a comfy /int/ thread, but here we are
No.1735
Hahaha they already made an article about it knowyourmeme (dot) com/memes/events/april-2025-4chan-hack
No.1738
>>1737True, glad I had wapchan in the back of my head for the past few months. If more anons from home start showing up, I hope they'll be the more agreeable types.
No.1739
>>1736The last time he posted something was 4 years ago but the last time he ever had a conversation in the site was 6 years ago. It is still massive negligence and incompetence.
>>1737Greetings fellow /jp/friend, in my case I've been on and off this chan since its creation in the /a/ retro threads. /vnt/ is like a mix of /jp/, old /vr/, and /g/ so it's a good little alternative in case shit like this happens.
No.1740
Hope all you refugees are doing well.
I really do feel bad for boards like /jp/ who were just trying to chill. I'm open to changing the rules around here to better accommodate folks.
>>1719This is true, but since an alt technically pulled it off i couldn't resist
No.1741
can we have dubs here?
No.1743
Kill all trannies and jannies
No.1744
>>1740>I'm open to changing the rules around here to better accommodate folks.Globally? I doubt there are more than 0.5 people except me who do not visit 4 but still there's a reason we don't
No.1745
>>1744I'm not gonna add politics or anything like that (this isn't mean to be a 4chan clone after all).
But I suspect there will be new users who didn't come here from /a/ or /jp/ like the old folks.
No.1746
>>1740You seem to run a well-enough ship. There is certainly less trash lying around than most refugees would be used to, so I wouldn't sweat it.
Kinda glad this happened, finally forced me to start browsing around the alt-chans, real breath of fresh air in a few of them.
No.1747
>>1709Well I guess the party is over
I wonder where the /vm/ servers are at now
No.1748
Nothing ever happens. In a month 4chan will be back and altchans will stay dead
No.1749
>>1748Let's larp like it's the old net again I guess
What are the other "active" altchans?
A lot of the users are using down detector as a chatroom kek
No.1751
>>1749Lainchan and sushichan I guess
No.1752
>>1734You poor fool
You can't "live and let live" when someone is acting out for attention
They should have been faster, and more agressive
No.1753
>>1751Rotting Angels for a honorable mention perhaps?
No.1754
>>1748I hope you're right. I was looking forward to the upcoming Rinne storytime.
No.1755
Farting
No.1756
>>1740I think a direct /jp/ equivalent board might be good idea? Not just for 2hu stuff but also niconico, japanese forums and websites, doujin works, and otaku culture in general. The collabs with wapchan have been pretty fun so far ater all!
Just don't allow vtubers and 3DPD idolshit like the gay ass mods have not just been doing but also defending while also allowing low quality posters to ruin many threads.
/jp/'s board culture has been eroded pretty badly but thanks to it being an overall slow and unnoticed board it managed to retain a bunch of good aspects.
No.1758
/qa/ won
No.1759
Fucking Sharty killed /a/ right during the JoJo storytime thread
Unfuckingforgivable
No.1760
4chan died in 2008 anyway.
No.1761
so… lum won?
No.1762
If /a/ isn't back up for Wednesday's Rin-ne thread, I might do it here (in /lum/ obviously). Sad though. I expected Rinne threads to be dead as all hell anyway and now they will be even deader.
No.1763
The world will never be the same.
No.1764
I just remembered this site existed because of this.
No.1765
lol I'd refrain from doing victory lapsover this, 'sharty weens are allabout chaos and they would do the same if not worse to even small alt-chans like thisjust for teh lulz.
No.1766
>>1765Chaotic evil, I would state. Nobody here is hopefully praising the sharty or their morals. The fact is that there is a good marketing opportunity right about now for smaller sites. Assuming you are ready and brave enough to moderate the wrath.
An attention Spring sale, if you might.
No.1767
Free BSD is one of the safest (if not the safest) OS in the world.
There is literally no excuse for this shit, the entire security infrastructure wasn't updated since 2014/2016.
Not a single security update in 10 years!!! shame deserved all the way.
No.1768
>>17664chan will be back up in a day or two, nothing will change.
>inb4 but what about the leaks and various honeypot accusationsWe (as in actual oldfrens) already knew all of that shit from even before moot gave hiro the keys, there's too many interests from multiple parties in keeping the corpse alive.
Plus 90% of the current 4chan userbase doesn't go on alts anyway, wap might get a minor influx for a couple of weeks and that will be it, also this>>1767
No.1769
>>1768The issue at this point is moreso how many holes this exposes in 4chan’s infrastructure and it would require a complete rebuilding to patch up. The guy who did the hack was on this for over a year and dumped everything.
A bigger issue though is the extent of pass information leaked. If 4chan retained payment info, then this gets a whole lot worse.
There is a non-zero chance this kills the site or causes an 8kun level restructuring.
No.1770
>>1768I genuinely hope it comes back. I'm glad I managed to finish Inuyasha at least.
No.1772
>>1769Yeah, a rebuild is certainly in order after a gaffe of such sheer magnitude, but it's highly unlikely 4chan will straight up die due to this, especially not during Trump's second term since it's one of its major cultist grounds and feds want to keep using the place in general.
Again, there's too many parties that are interested in the "hate machine", if this happened during the Chanology days I'd believe it, but now? No chance, give it a couple of days and it will be back up.
No.1776
Feels bad…
No.1778
>>1775Satokei won
True love won
No.1782
>>1774If anything you should expect mods to go full draconian now that the whole place burned down.
Who knows whether all the smaller and older boards like /f/ will survive this, we'll see when they put it back up I guess, whatever happens from now on will certainly be a new era.
No.1786
>>1778MR AND MRS.MAEBARA WON
TRUE ETERNAL LOVE WON!!!!!!
No.1787
>>1782It wouldn’t make sense to also outright eliminate older and smaller boards entirely, especially subculture(protoculture) like /m/
No.1788
>>1774For just one day, I wish I could see the behind the scenes of the /m/ moderation team because that shit makes just no sense. My very far-out guess is that they just delete or ban on reports and call it a day. I seriously doubt any janny or mod is actually looking through the board, and they're definitely not reading through the generals
No.1789
>>1787Common sense and logic does not apply to people who did not update the site's PHP for over a decade and "managed it" the way they did.
No.1790
>>1787I think the bigger issue is will any of these people want to return?
Will a single janitor want to go back to moderating the site when their emails, names, phone numbers, and addresses are out there?
Will anyone want to buy a pass when someone got all that information this easily?
Hell, will legacy more care to stay? A lot of them were already doxxed, sure, but for some this is the first time a lot of real info has come out.
Even ignoring all that, the site’s outdated infrastructure is now biting it in the ass and that needs to be updated. At what point does the cost of doing this outweigh the expected gain from continuing to host 4chan?
I would honestly sooner expect Elon Musk to buy 4chan at this point.
No.1791
I'm thinking of organizing a cross altchan event with some like minded boards potentially (hikari3, 39chan, sushichan, maybe kissu and others) to both get a better sense of community and to show the 4refugees how alts are these days
still thinking of a name but how do you all feel about this?
>>1786this
No.1792
>>1791Try talking to the webring that came out of 8chan’s fallout as well. There’s also Mark/Acid’s 8chan, which is primarily just /v/ and some fetish boards.
No.1793
>>1791If those other chans have userbases similar to wap, then absolutely. Maybe they'll fill the holes and I can just leave 4chan altogether.
No.1794
>>1791Slow down and don't let your noble and altruistic side get the best of you.
We're currently in the eye of the storm where interest in alternative chans is high, that's for sure, this could mean more traffic for this place but consider this:
Do you REALLY want to expose this or other places to the bulk of people who browse 4chan nowadays? Do you really want the same ilk of posters who infest places like Sharty to be aware of this place?
If community is your main concern shouldn't you be worried about letting some undesirable know about these places? I understand the need to help fractured communities and maybe help the few people who might deserve it, but never forget that this is very much a pandora's box situation, think VERY carefully about it.
No.1796
>>1789>>1790It was my board dang it
>>1794>>1791I agree, it’s best not to get unwarranted attention from other hackers potentially
No.1797
holy shit… this amount of activity
it almost feels like a normal /a/ thread
No.1798
>>1796speaking of alt /m/ possibilities, what happened to VF-Kun's altchan?
I don't even remember the name now, is it still a thing after he disappeared?
No.1799
>>1790>I would honestly sooner expect Elon Musk to buy 4chan at this point.That would be the most embarassing thing ever, I can totally see him trying to do it for attention tho since he's a mythomaniac that constantly want to be at the centre of everyone's eyes.
No.1800
>>1798I recall someone mentioning it and even finding the place earlier this year, sadly forgot the name
No.1802
>>1799That's a scary possibility I actually did not consider.
But I reckon he's already wrangling Xitter hard enough, 4chan is a whole different beast too and trying to get his finger into that pie might be too much,
No.1804
>>1791Quick question, can you add the thing where a post has the little hover overlink to posts replying to them? I like that thing.
No.1806
>>1805Nah again that goes for unwanted attention
No.1812
>>1811Just being honest, dude.
No.1814
>>1810This. It's the same thing that happened with pantsu.nyaa/nyaa.si
I'm guessing if 4ch will actually die, a new site will be created. Most likely a new site being hosted on a raspberry pi.
No.1815
>>1810And who in their right mind is going to come in with a new shithole to sweep all the crud and sludge in there? Get real anon.
Btw, I'm seeing claims on Xitter that 4chan is already sorta back up (but slow) though I can't access it on my end so take that as you will, all this doomsday talk is not yet warranted.
No.1817
>>1804I made a kinda working userscript for that it's on this site somewhere
No.1819
>>1806Can't you just ban whoever does dumb shit here
Although if we attract more than just 4channers it could get bad yeah
No.1821
>>1818Yeah, and you know how both of those ended up
No.1822
>>1816Sex board.
Sex site.
Deal with it lumposters.
No.1824
>>1794I understand where you're coming from but I don't think we have that much to worry about. From what I'm seeing, the hacker isn't even going to release any pass data. This looks like it's solely against the site and its' staff.
Barring that, wap has active staff and I'm sure the infrastructure has been updated more recently than 2014. Same thing can't be said for 4chin.
No.1826
>>1824wapchan is running on a version of vichan that came out 2 weeks ago it is light years ahead of 4chan
No.1827
>>1824So… Should we prepare the WAPCHAN ASCII art for the desuarchive thread?
No.1828
>>1823>>1825LMAOOOO it begins
No.1830
>>1825Your gachafren meme was never funny, no matter how much you spam it everywhere, sorry
No.1832
>>1827DEPLOY THE ASCII
__ _ ______ _____ _____/ /_ ____ _____ | | /| / / __ `/ __ \/ ___/ __ \/ __ `/ __ \| |/ |/ / /_/ / /_/ / /__/ / / / /_/ / / / /|__/|__/\__,_/ .___/\___/_/ /_/\__,_/_/ /_/ /_/
No.1834
>>1824Hackers are the least of my worries, it's the quality of posts going down due to the influx of things like the average shonenposters on /a/ or worse, creatures from places like /dbg/ finding this place.
You do not want to deal with the kind of human being who makes it a personal mission to spam your board 24/7, especially not in a place like this where there's not even a time limit for posting, you really do not want that, vetting is a must.
No.1838
>>1836I dedicate myself to keeping wapchan nice and tidy.
It would have died ages ago otherwise.
No.1839
>>1794The Pandora's box is already open. They already know about alt-chans. They already raid alt-chans. Not at the scale of 2000 PPH but they are already spewing "death to alt-chans" propaganda. And they all will succumb a terrible fate.
Pic related to their success so far.
No.1842
>>1839>they are already spewing "death to alt-chans" propaganda.Because of course it's our fault if their PHP hasn't been updated for 10+ years.
No.1843
>>1839>they are already spewing "death to alt-chans" propagandaMods or users? The mods couldn't be fucked to update 10 year-old infrastructure so I think we're safe. And the users will forget once the site is back up.
No.1845
>>1843Can they even come back from this
No.1846
>>1844I'm doing rounds through the various altchans and the vast majority of them are still as dead as ever and barely ever talking about the current events.
Ironically this is one of the more active ones.
No.1847
>>1804Should be up now
It wasn't working before but it seems to be fine now
No.1848
>>1845Give it a couple of days or a week and it'll be back. Shit like this used to happen in the mid-2000s when the site would be completely unusable for days. It's the reason why 7chan used to rival 4chan.
No.1849
>>1846it's almost like having an admin that actually gives a shit changes things
No.1850
>>1849True, to a certain degree at least.
Altchans are very much their own little biospheres, in many cases a lot of them straight up do not care about 4chan, others are also simply too dead.
No.1851
I'll take a look around the other chans and see if I can cover all my bases. Wap pretty much covers all my anime needs.
>>1845With the site the way it was, yes. Just have to switch the servers back on. As an actually functioning site with active staff and infrastructure, who knows…
No.1855
>>1847Oh nice. Now all I would like is the hover preview thing, but this is way better.
No.1856
>>1855You can manually add this site to 4chanx and it should fix that
No.1857
>>1807IT'S GONE FOREVER FOR REAL THIS TIME
No.1858
>>1856Oh. I don't use 4chanx. Yeah, I'm one of those. I'll start.
No.1860
>>1859We’ll be back, give it time
No.1861
Does anyone have a straight answer on how fucked pass users are? Like, how much info 4chan kept?
I know they used stripe to process payments but did they keep anything aside from a receipt and your email?
>t. Bought to dump on /a/
No.1862
>>1859now you can talk about it on
>>>/digi/maybe you'll get a different crowd
No.1865
>>1863>>1864That is until the site comes back up lol. And make sure they get some better security, really
No.1866
Your FAQ has nothing in it. Can you make trips on this chan?
No.1868
>>1866oh whoops lmao
added a few basic things but the gist is that it's the same as 4chan (one hash for unsecure and two for secure)
Also for anyone who wants to discuss a topic that dosen't have a dedicated board please use
>>>/media/ for now
We may add boards if there is enough interest
No.1870
>>1869>>1868Thanks, goofball.
No.1871
>>1868would you ever make a cosplay board figamin sama?
No.1872
>>1871AND AND a wap otakon panel
No.1873
>>1871sure we can give it a trial, why don't you start off with a cosplay thread in media and we'll go from there
No.1874
RIP bozo
I always hated that godforsaken site
Time to peruse altchans until it comes back and I crawl back anyway
No.1876
>>1874I never thought I would miss, Mr. Bones.
No.1877
>>1734Crazy to think they weren't even doing the bare minimum to keep the site working yet it survived 11 years of schizo insane people anyway. Didn't they have a full time IT guy?
No.1879
I'll be streaming some anime here
https://stream.wapchan.org/r/wapstreamsCome stop by
No.1881
>>1880Okay, this place is too gay. I'm out.
No.1882
>>1880Okay, this place is too gay. I'm in.
No.1884
>>1881if you're from /jp/ you're already at a minimum level of fruity tbdesu
No.1885
>>1877Think he left and became a tumblrite or something
No.1887
>>1880Hiromoot will never ever step down, there's no way he is going to abandon his cash cow.
The only way he leaves is if he sells the site to someone else and let's be real who the hell is going to buy a site that needs to be completely rewritten?
No.1889
>>1807Yes you ugly bitch.
Jk
No.1893
>>1892That's kind of sad then given how slow the retro anime board is. Someone started a Tokimeki Tonight thread after one that was on /a/ late last year and it's still pretty high on the board months later.
No.1894
>>1791I don't think sushi takes kindly to exposure and especially not to 4channers. And remember, shartyfrengots will surely you too. 4chan will be back up in a few days and we'll go back to sleeping in our coffins.
>>1790>I would honestly sooner expect Elon Musk to buy 4chan at this point.You jest but he probably will.
No.1895
>>1709I was already here on-and-off lurking after /a/, /v/ and /vr/ devolved to absolute garbage. But at the same time, it's a damn shame I won't find an alternativea to /vst/ and /xs/. Those were the last good boards I was on other than /m/. Shame too since /vst/ finally was a good place for people to discuss Total War, AoE and Mount & Blade. And /xs/ was ideal for discussing Martial Arts with at least SOME people who practiced it, especially the /judo/ general.
Damn shame.
Ah well, at least this place is perfect for discussing everything else.
No.1896
I saw the banner and for a moment I was worried this place got hacked too. I've been lurking a bit for the last couple of years, but if this truly is the end of 4chan at least I have Wapchan. As long as there's some level of /vr/ discussion I'm good.
No.1897
>>1831/tower/ checking in
No.1899
>>1898i don't miss all the ragebaits and nintendo threads desu
i miss vg though
No.1900
>>1898>>1899make your generals on
>>>/vnt/ :D
No.1901
>>1898I also miss /v/, it could occasionally have good discussions. I hope if 4chan lives they'll moderate it better. Get rid of any political discussions and twitter screencaps and you're halfway to making it a fun board once again.
That said, /vr/ was already decent for the most part. At least the Doom general was.
No.1902
>>1898>I miss the second worst board on 4chanbro
No.1907
>>1901>I hope if 4chan lives they'll moderate it better.Prepare for disappointment.
If 4chan comes back, this will be used as an excuse for even less moderation, since this attack has primarily targeted staff.
No.1908
>>1905Who the hell is M00t?
No.1910
>>1908He was that one guy already on your MySpace account when you made it
No.1911
>>1909I hope you will enjoy your time here.
We like Mii-chan too.
No.1912
>>1908a pathetic excuse of a man who engaged in numerous acts of sodomy, he also founded Reddit and liked Code Geass
No.1913
>>1908Founder of Facebook
No.1914
>>1902But enough about /vt/
No.1916
Current state of /a/ffairs from what I can see:
>Most users just stopped posting entirely
>The majority of those who remained are currently active on desu through the ghostposting feature
>Wapchan is the second(?) most active /a/lternative
>8/a/ has one active thread talking about 4chan
>Smug and PLW are unaffected by the calamity
No.1917
>>1916Kissu is the other most active adjacent board (though it's more /jp/)
If they just merged or formed some partnership with wapchan they clold probably carve out quite the niche
No.1920
>>1916Desu seems the most active part of the chans so far from what I've seen
Sushi's lethargic but they've started to acknowledge the situation
8ch.moe saw a major surge of immigrants and a lot more activity
Lainchan doesn't give a shit apparently
Leftych didn't even register the thing yet? Saw no reaction there
Sharty is still gloating about the whole thing
Other than these Xitter woke up due to american hours and now everything's spreading, we'll have to see what happens tomorrow and…well, for the rest of the week.
No.1923
>>1917I'm pretty sure Figmin and Vern talked a little bit about cross linking each other, but it's been a while and probably didn't go far since it was not a very pressing issue at the time.
Either way I agree, they're the only two alt-chans I go to that don't cater to super specific niches like monster girls and they have enough in common and overlap to cover the /a/-/jp/ sphere of things. Though I should try to use wapchan more often, haven't been much outside the /jp/ 2huvn thread.
No.1924
>>1920>>1791What are the most popular altchans?
>Lainchan>Uboachan>Sushichan>wapchan>hikari3>39chan>kissu No.1930
>>1902>tiktok meme is the final gasp of 4chanpoetic
No.1933
>>1930Until it comes back on. In the meantime I wouldn’t mind sticking around wap, was always my go-to for retro anime discussion and maybe more mecha anime as well
No.1935
>>1931And I miss /jp/.
It seems as if all is returning to nothing.
No.1937
I hope the few good quality posters from 4chan move in here for once. This place has become rather pathetic in recent times.
No.1941
>>1938boy I sure am looking forward to even more unhinged mods and jannies when 4chan comes back up
No.1943
>>1890TOTAL CHUD ANNIHILATION
RETURN TO ANIME
No.1944
>>1940rapefugees raped the servers
No.1947
>>1940Probably went down due to high traffic, since the site has been down to like 20PPH globally for years.
>>1941I really doubt that.
Like, everytime something big happens, moderation just drops off more because none of them want to be bothered.
The aftermath is this:
>most jannies quit because their info is compromised>people stop buying passes because info got compromised and it only didn't get dumped because one guy didn't feel like it>mods already got compromised years ago and continue as they wereAll that'll change is less jannies.
No.1948
The worst part of all of this?
Chicken Jockey will be cemented as some legendary meme because it was the last post before 4chan got shut down during that one big hack in 2025.
No.1949
>>1946I only went on /o/ and /a/. /o/ hadn't been fun for a long time, so I'd appreciate a new version of it somewhere that doesn't allow constant ragebait threads.
No.1950
>>1946>Already a kpop generalFucking lmao
No.1951
>>1946Make sure the kpop posters don't get too out of hand. They are a huge part of what ruined 4/mu/
No.1953
>>1942Sushi's pretty dead in general.
The only somewhat active altchans are autism holes like Lainchan or Uboa, even Wap here is fairly dormant and slow.
As much as some people hate to admit it, 4chan is still where 99% of the chan traffic is.
No.1954
>>1938>Anyways, the exploit has been found, an outdated version of ghostscript was the weak point, and the profoundly incompetent and corrupt moderation staff is working to bring the site back up.Source on that?
No.1956
>>1953Sushigirl isn't dead. The most active places are hidden on this particular site.
No.1957
So what's the story with 8chan anyway? I knew about it back in the day, but never really bothered giving it much thought. Today's the first I've heard about it dying(?) and restructuring.
No.1961
>>1959This.
I only stay on /v/ for the FFFFFFRIDAY NIGHT threads, the occasional good thread that pops up and the vain hopes that someday people will get tired of political slap fights and the old 4chan that was all about having fun while being a bit of a dick would return. If this is truly it, then so be it.
If it comes back, I'll probably return too, but I have no idea why I'll bother considering the state of the place.
No.1962
Uhh I think Kissu might have died as well. Might just be on my end though.
No.1963
>>1959I grew to hate everything about the site since I graduated high school. Everyone on there was some variant of "abrasive internet person." They all used the same slang, had the same typing style, and thought the exact same shit. Boring as fuck and I'm glad that they had their space taken from them so they can be ostracized by more people.
No.1964
>>1962We thought upgrading the server would take a few minutes. We were too excited and blinded by possible repercussions. I can give an update here when it comes back.
Also hihi
No.1968
>>1960why didn't they upgrade the version of that script?
No.1969
>>1967This might just be a temporary thing though, until 4chan is back. Personally, I love altchans but I don't think the increased traffic is going to be long term.
No.1970
>>1946https://discord.gg/dnjmrYrg/a/ discord I just made, I'm not attention whore frengot, I suggest not using your main acc, until something better is found or the site comes back
No.1971
>>1967take care kissu friends!
looking forward to our crossover
No.1973
>>1959It's not a matter of pride, it's just that when you're in a certain place for so long it's hard to let go, I've been on 4chan since the summer of 2006, I saw many eras of 4chan and witnessed the gradual decline of the website and its userbase.
Even still, 4chan was the only place on the internet I could call home, at least 2006-2009 4chan was, I saw generations of memes, the rise and fall of many boards, I storytimed manga on /a/, curated generals on multiple boards, generally did my part in upholding the original spirit of the website to this day.
Pride isn't something you'd feel for 4chan anyway, but to some people like me it was a refuge from the horrors of real life and a cool part of the old internet, at some point I realized that no matter how low the place sunk I had nowhere else to go, and even to this day it's still sorta true, altchans are nice but they're not the same.
No.1974
>>1973Nothing's ever going to be the same. Popular culture is different now. Being niche isn't bad, though.
No.1975
Remember iichan? That place was pretty cool. It had all kinds of weird niche boards like "sad girls in the snow".
No.1976
>>1942There's so many like that kek.
No.1977
>>1959Blame phone posters.
Fuck phone posters.
No.1980
>>1959It can't be overstated how much I appreciate the convenience of imageboards, their lack of account, and the large amount of information on display. Compact UI is an art that was mastered very early and was lost to a losing battle against phones.
I do not need to go on much further about the near inability to commit & produce as a phone poster, along with the many kinds of undesirables brought upon that site.
Such times may be demoralising at times, but with enough digging you may stumble accross diamonds in the rough, I admire the willingness of modern day wordpress bloggers to create a space to speak out on matters they enjoy, niche as they may be, same for more ambitious projects like altchans.
I may be candid, but you don't need to lose yourself in the bigger picture, especially when fighting to not be consumed by it is already hard enough as is. It'll only make you sad, or bitter, or worse.
No.1981
Anyone know how to "manually add wapchan" to 4chanx so I can over over reply links to see them?
I tried adding this but it didn't work.
// @include https://wapchan.org/*
No.1982
>>1979Wapchan's board is
>>>/digi/It's just not something the site is focused around, but feel free to make threads
No.1984
>>1979Smug and PLW are ostensibly about current anime, just really really really slow
No.1985
>>1768At least it prompted me to just use an app and plugin to block the website. I was losing too much time and nerves there.
I'm new here btw. Saw a link on Kissu. Hello!
No.1986
>>1981I'd love to be able to do that too
No.1987
>>1981Like this
You'll know it's working if you see "Wapchan" in the upper left corner
No.1988
>>1981On tamper, click on 4chan X, then Settings, and then paste wapchan into the User includes.
I'll use my own reply to ask how do you guys get randomized filenames?
No.1990
>>1946Are you gonna post this in the desuarchive thread? :>
No.1991
>>1987Fuck, formatting looks like r*ddit now when I enabled 4chanX.
How do I change this?
No.1992
>>1964niceu and cute baseball beer girl
No.1993
>>1991r*ddit as in the slur or as in the actual website?
What's your screen look like?
No.1994
>>1988>>1987I have it in my includes already I think?
My post here already mentions the include
>>1981and 4chan XT is on, but I don't think it's doing the hover thing right
Does it only work on particular wapchan site themes?
No.1996
>>1993nah I'm good. Well not really but i think its just my browser.
That and I'm new with everything about this.
No.1997
>>1995All that is happening is that 4chan admin might finally get their shit together while weeding out cancerous jannys. Hopefully (unlikely).
No.1998
>>1995let me know when they undoxx all their staff and delete all the leaked source
No.1999
>>1997Jannies got there because the mods, and most importantly, the admins put them there.
As long as people like ABIB and RapeApe are around nothing's changing, jannies are literally the bottom feeders of the ponzi scheme pyramid.
No.2000
>>1999But surely they see the silent ban shit as problematic right? That shit is why people avoid discord and shit like that and here they are doing the same shit.
No.2001
>>2000>But surely they see the silent ban shit as problematic right?bruh
>That shit is why people avoid discordAnon I'm willing to bet three of my nuts that the vast majority of 4chan users in 2025 also have a discord account
No.2002
>>2000The mods are the ones who dish out the bans. Jannies can't do that, at best they can nominate someone to be banned or temporarily block them from posting but it's actual moderators who were pulling the bulk of the bullshit.
No.2004
>>1999don't forget yournamehere 🤮
No.2005
>>1924https://marge.moe/>>1975Wakachan was the last gasp of that lineage.
No.2006
>>2000Bans are taken lightly because any retard can get around them now. My main issue is the blatant abuse of power and jannies turning generals and splinter boards into their own little highly curated pet projects. Almost nothing feels organic on 4chan or any other imageboard, too much leading newfrens around by the hand and molding them as they please, and you better not get in the way.
No.2007
was 4chan ever good?
No.2008
>>2007yeah like 20 years ago
No.2009
>>1709It was Hiro's fault for being such a lazy bastard with the site for a decade.
No.2010
>>2001neighbor, I had one nearly the moment it appeared for uni assignments, as it was intended for.
Then later it stopped being that and became ban central.
I've only been forced to use it recently and every time I just stop using it and social media. It's just no fun. You get banned for all sorts of esoteric nonsense. It really just becomes a ground for grooming and it's just no fun to use.
No.2012
>>2011
yes? read the rules.
this isn't 4chan 2
No.2014
>>2012Oh so it's a glorified raccoonhole like 4chan. Good to know.
No.2015
>>2007No but I wouldn't replace it for anything else.
No.2016
>>1777Shame this happened in the middle of the Jojo storytime lol.
No.2017
>>1979>>1983…though i wouldn't quite use the word "trash", i feel similarly, this place kind of intimidates me for that reason.
i like anime…a lot of my favorites have been fairly recent…
No.2018
@figamin ## sysop
This is a suggestion, but you should add that when you overlay a reply number it shows the post instead of having to click on it
No.2021
>>2013>>2019It seems the backlinks script is kinda broken atm
I will look into it
No.2022
>>2010I've never had an issue with discord but I only use highly specific discords for highly specific purposes, not glorified hang outs.
No.2023
>>2021thanks. if only the mods back at 4 worked half as hard as you, we wouldn't be in this mess.
No.2025
4chan must come back or its degenerate subhuman user base will fan out across the internet and infest every small imageboard they can find, choking post quality. Without 4chan there would be no way to contain this subhuman scum from colonizing and destroying everything they touch.
No.2030
>>1979Pretty much every time I read the current seasonals on Anichart none of them seem interesting enough to give it the time of day. It's usually just isekai, season 2/3 of a running show from last season or just something that doesn't sound good in the synopsis.
Even worse when you wait a few weeks and check back up on it and everything is ranked around a high 6 or something (usually meaning it's pretty crappy). I get the point of watching trash and laughing about it with others but the last few times I watched some seasonals (beyond the mega popular) I was bored out of my mind and the threads didn't improve the experience.
Not to say there aren't some good ones out there, I was pleasantly surprised by Sakugan and Ya Boy Kongming, and currently I've been watching Touhai and it's been a blast due to how insane it gets, it's a shame it's not being subbed by a random /a/non anymore.
No.2033
>>2029It depends on the thread. If it's mainly an image dump or someone posting a whole doujin then yeah, it works. But for discussion I'd rather not have to dig through a wall of images for it.
No.2034
>>2025fuck em just ban the weird ones on sight
No.2036
>>20314chan will be up in a few hours dude
No.2037
>>2036with zero jannies since everyone got doxxed and a leaked userscript? good one
No.2038
>>2036probably but this is a good excuse to cut and run. i know, and i think many longtime 4chan users know, that post quality has gone to absolute shit and has been that way for years, but dont want to leave becaue its all theyve got. hopefully this retard soy hack will be a wakeup call to all those living in the bot- fed- AI- mongoloid-infested hellscape that is modern 4chan.
i do hope the site goes back up if only as a containment zone for the aforementioned garbage
No.2039
>>2037Why would an email matter? This isn't the first time the moderation staff had their email leaked and they're useless at best anyways.
No.2041
>>1987To add onto this, if anyone is using Violentmonkey (since that's what I was using) you can go get 4chanX to work here by going to the gear icon, clicking to edit the 4chan script and then going to settings and including it in the "include rules".
I think tamper or grease stopped working for me years ago for some reason so I moved to violent and it's been fine since.
No.2044
>>2030i can't wait for 10 years from now when you suddenly enjoy anime from "10 years ago"
No.2048
>>2044Have you considered the possibility that maybe things have actually changed?
No.2050
>>2046long-running anime have been a thing for a while now…
>>2048part of it is also that nobody really does a good job of explaining how or why
i don't know what necessarily makes anime now being oversaturated with isekai necessarily worse than anime in the 2000s/2010s being oversaturated with ecchi, and it's kind of dickish to write off literally everything airing now because of that
No.2051
I will now primarily be a rude neighbor on this Chinese cartoon website, given the lack of alternatives.
No.2052
>>2050I'm not writing anything off, I've watched a lot of seasonals in the 2020s it's just that whenever I check the currently airing stuff outside of things that are season 2/3/4, or isekai there's not much that interest me. Cute girls doing cute things? Another Comedy Romance? Sometimes I want some fun Sci-fi Space Action but that's fallen out of favour so I'd have to look back to the 90s/20's
Even then one of the shows that I keep up to date with is Mushoku Tensei which is both an isekai and something that's long running so it's not like I'm intentionally being like "old anime is better, new anime sucks". I DO watch new stuff and I DO check the charts every season.
But you know, what for you, anon. I'll watch Apocalypse Hotel. Just saw it on Anichart now and I'll give it a shot, let's see if it'll be above average.
What are you watching this season, tell me about that, is it good?
No.2053
>>1844lol it never works, I member when 4chan went down for a long time around 2007 and 420/7chantards were doing victory laps and celebrating how surely this was what would revive their boards.
Then in 2016 during the exodus how 8chan was doing victory laps over 4chan going down for a while.
Where are they now? yeah I thought so.
No.2055
>>2050I feel like it's a subject that's actually been talked to death. Not that it even matters when you're talking about a single person's tastes.
No.2056
>>2042Got it
Force refresh the page and choose the "Urusei Tiger" style
No.2061
neighbor
No.2063
>>2060Honestly not sure why it looks like that.
Maybe force refresh and try switching between themes?
I haven't run into this issue myself before
>>2062It's a quick and dirty job for now but i'll bring it up to the same standards as the rest of the themes soon enough
No.2064
So here and 8ch.moe seem to be the only two places with a substantial amount of refugees. I'm hoping at least one of these two gets some decent traffic, 4chan has desperately needed a replacement for a very long time now.
No.2065
>>2063Background in tiger print and post boxes in iridescent green.
No.2069
so, theres no dedicated board to manga? I read mango and comics more than I watch anime.
No.2070
>>2069just post mango in >>>/cel or >>>/digi and comics in
>>>/media/ or
>>>/lit/there's no dedicated manga board because people like to discuss anime and manga together typically
No.2071
>>2069just post mango in >>>/cel or >>>/digi and comics in
>>>/media/ or
>>>/lit/there's no dedicated manga board because people like to discuss anime and manga together typically
No.2072
I'm tired boss. There is like 9 alts I can use, wap is now a 10th
No.2073
>>2072Well look at it this way
Wapchan has an admin that has been extremely active since the very beginning
But yeah you won't have one site to post everything on now
That's ok though
It's better for boards to focus on different things
No.2075
>>2074you could just make LGBT threads on
>>>/gens/ No.2076
>>2075I'd rather /lgbt/frens go to their own site.
No.2077
>>2076This. They were part of the problem anyway.
No.2080
First time here, just wanted to say, this place looks great and thanks for the welcome
As much as 4chan had declined over the years I really didn't want to go to Reddit after this site crash so might just stay here long term
No.2081
>>2072For me its wap and kissu right now
Shame I can't find a decent music board anywhere
There's 8chan as well but its kinda shit
No.2082
>>2078I remember the dark ages…
When the site went down due to a complaint to our host…
When I almost made this into a forum ..
When we had the failed wapnet move…
And yet, we endured.
For the wapanese spirit is one of perseverance!
No.2083
>>2081Music threads can go in
>>>/media/ for now
If they're active enough I'll probably spin it off into a board
No.2091
>I can't see /vt/ spreg out over Gura graduating.
Damn.
No.2095
>>2094Hopefully not an another war.
No.2097
>>2091She took the chance while she could
No.2099
Does Wap have a board for LNs?
No.2100
So how do I link to threads on "friend" sites
Is it simple like >>>/kissu/ or something?
No.2104
>>1973Are you me man? Fuck Just what i'm feeling right now.
No.2105
>>2100It's not that fancy lol, maybe someday (it actually might not be too hard with a regex). It's just a way for us to say "hey the admins of these sites get along, hopefully the users would too". For now you can just drop regular links to kissu threads
No.2107
>>2073>You won't have one site to post everything on now>That's ok thoughnta, but no, it isn't.
I liken 4chan to a (special-ed) school/clubhouse. Each tribe had their own classroom, but by aggregating them into one building, anons can take trips down the hall and visit other tribes with ease. This spawns a critical mass of posts, posters, and cultural exchange, spawning the network that raised me more than my own parents.
I don't mean to shit on wapchan, but I'm in shambles right now. There's a chance that my mentor will ride off into the sunset before giving me a final
>Ya done good, kid…And it terrifies me.
No.2108
>>2107I agree with you, but 4chan had been moving farther and farther away from that ideal with each passing year. Boards may as well be their own sites at this point and crossover even within a board is at an all time low. This isn't going to cost anything we hadn't already lost.
No.2109
>>2052>What are you watching this season, tell me about that, is it good?Nta but Yaiba, 2nd Shoshimin season and Apocalypse hotel.
No.2110
>>2107Yeah! The cool thing is thanks to this dynamic that I could learn japanese, become a programmer, and get into niche hobbies. Having a undiluted concentration of turbo autist into so niche things, made it easy to get into so many things and have active discussions.
Also I might be in the minority here but having things like /v/, /vg/, /vp/ and so on dilute the discussions. Being forced to discuss things in the same classroom made me learn about new games that are now my favorites.
No.2111
>>2110Too bad that current /v/ is so fucking bad
No.2112
>>2108The compartmentalization had its pros and cons. I do agree that even different threads on /a/ often felt like entirely different sites. Even for series I enjoy, some of their threads just turned into necrobumping and ritualposting, which I don't find particularly fun. But I also don't agree with the people that say you shouldn't be able to have threads focusing on specific shows and people should be essentially forced to intermingle. There needs to be a balance but I don't really know how to achieve it. Other than good moderation, but even /a/'s supposedly harsh mods left cancerous generals alone.
>>2110The amount of /v/ offshoots was retarded. I personally think a separate manga board could be good though. Despite being filled with shitty manga dumps, a lot of /a/ seemed to hate manga as a medium.
No.2113
>>2110> get into niche hobbies.What niche hobbies did you get into?
No.2114
>>2111I mean its a shadow from its former self but at least is so fast that you can find some gold there from time to time.
>>2112I think manga would be good only because manga almost has not traction on /a/ and manga is so much bigger. I remember One pages threads so much they were godly, because of them I read a ton of obscure manga no one else cares, even some I still follow.
But yeah I think we are just reminiscing about the good old days.
No.2115
>>2114> is so fast that you can find some gold there from time to time.Idk, threads for the games I am interested in always die fast.
No.2116
>>2114One Page Threads have been inundated with people posting hentai or borderline hentai. It seems like 90% of the manga people on /a/ read was smut, so unless you're like that too you have to wade through a bunch of bullshit in OPTs to find anything good. I did see posts by someone spamming hentai get deleted recently though which is good.
No.2117
>>2113I went from building tanks into building gunpla and then dioramas. I went from buying a already made computer to building my own. I went from watching anime to reading VNs. I went from streaming shit to having my own fucking NAS and good ass audiophile speakers and headphones. I could go on. 4chan really gave me a lot of shit to learn an appreciate and try, even if everything didn't stick. And when the madoka's movies were shown in my country met long lasting friends. So yeah I'm really in debt with that shit hole, that it might be shit but god dammit is my shit hole.
No.2119
>>2115I mean its not always, but at least something big like game awards or a nintendo direct gave the board a sense of how the people was feeling you know?
>>2116I'm a big coomer so yeah, I read a lot of smut ngl. But yeah before OPT were so good.
No.2120
>>2112> a lot of /a/ seemed to hate manga as a medium.Most of current /a/ is made up of the worst dregs of the internet's failed normalfrenits and no wordfilter on Wap will stop me from pointing it out, sorry Figamin but that's just how things are.
That said, making a separate manga only board, much like making the "much requested" /b2ka/ board for all the people who want to talk about old stuff won't fix anything, and you can already see it in the various /v/ diaspora where every single orbiting board outside of /vg/ is either a graveyard or just another minor cesspool.
The unreasonable amount of storytime threads on current /a/ is a symptom of a certain part of the userbase trying to desperately keep things together, we're all tired of xitter threads, multiple DBspics shitposting threads that I still do not understand how they're allowed, various offensive nonsense and generally shit that isn't fucking /a/, the idea that the board's topic itself is the problem is bullshit, it's the userbase that changed and refuses to behave properly due to the lack of culture and decency, the website administration only adds to this plight.
And not to glaze wap on this, but the reason why everyone here is on topic and actually discusses things is because the PEOPLE themselves want it, as with all imageboards their quality is directly proportional to that of their userbase, the truth about 4chan's downfall is that moot didn't gatekeep hard enough back in the days and attracted, no, invited people who didn't belong in there.
No.2121
>>2120I love comics of all kinds, simple as.
No.2122
>>2117I see.
>my countryIf you don't mind can you tell me the country?
No.2123
>>2122I prefer to keep it anonymous, but if you know me that post would me enough to find out who I am. LMAO
If you are looking for frens, maybe we can find a way to stay in touch.
No.2124
>>2107I truly, honestly can't understand how people can still think that. Best case 4gag has been on the way out since recaptcha 2 killed the reneighbor project, and that was over a DECADE ago. I mean I get it, I spent a couple years in denial just lurking because every time I tried to jump ship to 8ch they couldn't shut up about sjws and DA JOOZ. But altchans are the only ones actually carrying the torch. People appeal to the halcyon days of
>remember when /b/ was good?and this is it. This is what freedom looks like. All you have to do is emancipate yourself.
>inb4 /b/ was never good No.2125
>>2124The problem with alt chans is not freedom, it's the user size. Part of this neighbor program is the enormous size of people in there posting.
No.2126
>>2124/b/ was never good.
No.2127
>>2125they feed into each other
the slow death of cuckchan has been driven more than anything else by the erection of new barriers to posting
those barriers have also killed the spontaneity that made the site so creative and exciting in the early days
yeah any forum needs a minimum of posters and PPD but you can't have one without the other
No.2128
>>2127I agree fuck captcha, but when a fucking baord has such a important weight in things like presidential elections you need some kind of restrain at least in posting, since this kind of shit will invite good and bad attention and most importantly people with power kinda attention.
No.2135
I'm tired bros. I just want to do fun things but I can't…
No.2136
>>2107Honestly, my dream result of this would be these topic related altchans forming a webring or tightly knit connection to bring the /a/-/jp/ sphere together a bit more. Instead of losing anons like they've gone to a different state they're just down the street.
Decentralization has its perks but it's too disparate right now.
No.2137
>>1749im going to not4chan! i mean 5chan. i mean iichan. i mean… where'd they all go :<
No.2138
>>2136alt chans use to do that, then the glowies used the webrings to search out deadchans and spam them with illegal content.
No.2140
>>1791I don't know if "4chan" is taken. Call it 4Yatosuba though if possible please. We cannot lose silly green girl.
~T. Refugee
No.2141
I’ll be honest my only requirement for a good chan is the presence of cute and nice anons and the wapchan anons and admin fit this criteria pretty well.
No.2143
>>2136There's a pretty big webring around smuglo and zzzchan
Honestly what I really want is just an /all/ homepage aggregator site that posts the most recently bumped threads from my own selection of boards of various altchans.
There are especially a lot of /a/jp/ ones that I'd like to be able to keep up on without actively searching on every board on each of them.
I don't know anything about programming so I have no idea how to set up something like that though.
No.2145
>>2143That's actually an amazing idea anon, I might try making that a reality, but it's gonna take sometime.
No.2147
>>2116third worlders make money selling/running pirates manga/ln websites with ai translations. They crank out slop and advertise it all over the place. Now that china and korea are in the mix, we have to deal with pornwas and other low quality garbage being thrown into the same pile as japanese manga.
The problem is that porn is illegal in china and south korea, so they like to ride the line between whats acceptable/legal and so on, and they also like to secretly upload their illegal porn shit onto western servers so they dont get arrested. So you get lots of stories that sometimes devolve into porn or randomly inject porn to try and boost failing numbers.
meanwhile, japan is very clear on how their stories are classified, categorized, and divided. You have to seriously fuck up to accidently start reading an h-story from japan.
the sollution for this is pretty clear: just ban koreans and chinese content, but genz has this weird relationship with racism as a concept and refuses to do anything that might be seen in a negative light even when its the most obvious and logical sollution to a problem.
>>2112/v/ use to be the fastest moving board on 4chan because of all the viral marketing and shilling, at one point an active thread could go to page 10 and disapear within minutes even if it had active discussion. The board had essentially become unusuable. the jannies didnt want to give up lucrative vidya advertisements so they made abunch of shitty offshoots.
No.2151
>>2146If you post cute stuff then you are cute. I don't make the rules.
No.2153
>>2120This. 4chan is full of normals and kids who think you need to be a spiteful edgelord to fit in. The altchans (for the most part) actually feel like old 4chan, because the idiots making the site so bad to use just shrugged and went back to discord/reddit/X while the people who give a damn came to places like this.
No.2154
>>2153Don't pretend you know what old 4chan was really like.
No.2155
I wish I had real friends
No.2156
>>2120If thats how you really felt you would stay here when the site is back up, but you won't, you'll be back there on your hands and knees begging for attention from the most retarded and cancerous newfrens, and I can see here there is no discussion, there never was discussion, and there will never be discussion. If this looks ideal to you then stay here and do not come back.
No.2157
>>2152Wapanese just werks
>>2153Do imageboards even attract the youth that much anymore? They've been accustomed to such a different climate and are even more predominantly phoneposters. It had been ages since i've seen someone just reply to a post with rule 2 or underage b&, almost like its the sage of the "modern" era.
I may be unaware of whatever would pull in the youth to imageboards, then again, I abide to staying in my cave as Plato once theorized, the realities of our surroundings is so overwhelming that I feel i'd lose myself if I were to bother too much investigating.
No.2158
>>2157>Do imageboards even attract the youth that much anymore? I am relatively young(23) if that counts.
No.2159
>>2158You know "the youth" refers to teens old man
No.2161
>>2158Is 23 really all that young? If you don't have a job by 23 isn't your life essentially over?
No.2162
>>2154I was there since 2003, anon. There was always shitposting, but around 2015-2016 everyone became obsessed with winning points for their political team and the vitriol got insane.
No.2163
>>2154>>2156>>2159Make it less obvious, my man.
No.2164
>>2161> isn't your life essentially over?I hope it isn't since the only work I've done was as an intern.
No.2166
I will ask here as well. Are there any altchans with good /x/ boards?(I am more interested in the old creepypasta /x/ rather than the new pure schizo /x/)
No.2167
>>2159I started browsing five years ago when I was 17. Originally it was just for the humor (bad reason, but better than politics) but I grew to really like the format and everything I could learn from it. I quit social media two years ago and all I have left is an email for penpalling a few friends.
The problem is that most kids are going to view imageboards as edgy, which means an emotional reaction against them (because adolescents are self-righteous), or flooding in to take advantage of it, ironically or not (because adolescents are stupid). And as younger generations grow more and more disconnected from "old" internet and more and more attached to the most popular, lowest common denominator sites, the less they'll care about imageboards, or even be able to find altchans like this, even the ones who would benefit from them. Imageboards will be lost to "the kids," but there will always be individuals they appeal to.
No.2169
>>1717Haven't seen this in years
No.2170
>>2137>iichanGod I miss iichan so much…/azu/ had all the Kriegsaffe edits
No.2171
>>2161Who cares at this point? Normies are doing a pretty good job fucking up the society. There is so much you can do to adapt. Even getting a gf, an act that was supposed to come somewhat naturally is becoming increasingly impossible even if you go metrosexual trying to pretty yourself up.
No.2173
>>2137>>2170If you mean same iichan I mean it moved to iichan.lol
No.2176
where were you when 4chan is kill?
No.2177
>>2176Sleeping, I guess. Before going to sleep I was in bread baking thread on /ck/
No.2179
>>2176Eeping, it was like 7 AM.
No.2180
>>2176I was actually on the site on a different board and saw the ad about /qa/ and the hack but I didn't think much of it just thinking it fizzled out and before I could anything the page became extremely slow and I left only find out it was bigger than I thought. I should've posted something I could've been the last poster damn it.
No.2181
good job wapmin at taking the initiative.
seems noone else really has tried to provide an alternative place for 4chn boards.
No.2182
>>2181That's because 4chan will be back up eventually.
Most altchans don't have any delusion of grandeur right now, if there were an official statement of 4chan being down for good things would be different, but most altchan admins can't be bothered to move stuff around and make sweeping changes for a couple of days of mildly higher traffic.
Some of them like 8ch.moe have also other things to worry about.
No.2183
>>2182Didn't they announce delay in getting it up till late may?
No.2185
>>2112>The amount of /v/ offshoots was retarded.I agree for pretty much all of them except /vr/ and /vst/. Unfortunately /vr/ kinda went to shit as of late and became Doomworld 2.0 at times, but /vst/ was pretty much the best case scenario for strategy players.
/gsg/ frens needed their own containment board and thread, at the same time Total War threads on /v/ and /vg/ would be unusable because it would be flooded with idiots bickering about history vs warhammer instead of talking about the actual games. And /mbg/ was slowly dying. The creation of /vst/ was basically the best case scenario for anyone who wanted to actually discuss strategy games and it honestly felt far better compared to other vidya boards.
No.2186
>>2182>Some of them like 8ch.moe have also other things to worry about.I don't go on there, what problems does it have?
No.2187
>>2183Did they now?
>>2186Unironically too much traffic
No.2189
>>2188It was good honestly, but it devolved a few years back once they started allowing for 2000s era games, which I didn't mind, but I already had a feeling it would've made it more into a cesspit, a /v2k/ board would've been much better than what they went with, even if not a perfect solution.
The /doom/ general remained consistently good, but I didn't go there in a while, but last I checked it wasn't as good as I remembered it, but eh.
No.2190
lmao bye 4chan guess I'm here now
No.2191
>>2185For all the stupid warpig/jarpig shitflinging it had, I personally enjoyed /vrpg/ as well. When it had a good thread focused on a game, it really was the ideal to place to discuss it. And since I play a shitload of RPGs, I can always find something to discuss there.
No.2192
>>2185/vm/ to me is rather convenient, a slower catalog would let niche multiplayer experiences like say, emulation netplay for more unconventional titles, thrive & find their target. It doesnt solve an "issue" as in creating a board for a group of undesirable folks, but as a /vst/ enjoyer & 4chan user, I think you'll agree that offering a sanctuary for a few worthwhile users results in a better outcome than trying to solve an actual, wider issue, as seen with the failures of /vmg/ & /vt/ to offer relief to boards troubled by them.
Given the incompetence on display, its very likely that frequently requested boards to contain people would either accomplish nothing, or at worst the fall of the site altogether (before the events that led us here, my 1st guess as to an event that would have spelt the doom of 4chan would be a board for e-celebrities)
No.2193
>>2191/vrpg/ was good for like 9 months before metastizing into a Bethesda/FF tumor with the additional obsessive shitposters from other places like /fg/ that would ruin actual discussion.
That and the mentally unstable onimai avatarf@g janny being dead set on ruining threads for most of the board, it was basically a Codex lite with a bunch of backdoor discords like /urg/.
No.2195
>>2194>What is quick replyUmaruposters continue to be a blight on any internet community
No.2198
>>2195YEAH BUT WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE QUICK REPLY. WHY CAN'T I JUST SEE A BIG REPLY BUTTON SO I DON'T HAVE TO PUT IN ANY EFFORT.
No.2199
>>2191/vrpg/ started out fine honestly, I still remember the early days when discussions were pretty civil. It then devolved into wrpg vs jrpg shitflinging and I basically left around that time.
The few times I came back, I did find good threads (like the occasional VTMB thread), but I also found some very schizophrenic threads.
Saw one thread of one guy talking about making his own RPG and having some bizarre story about some shit about being a moderator for MLG and some weird stories about his father and he was constantly self-replying and going into incomprehensible ramblings.
I still have no idea what the fuck that was about.
Also RPGMaker threads devolved into people acting weird and behaving like Discord cliques, I had better experience on /v/ RPGMaker threads where one guy gave me advice for working on RPGMaker 2k3 with Maniac's Patch, which made me quite happy since I was feeling quite aimless about which RPGMaker to use and MV wasn't working out for me.
So yeah, /vrpg/ was more of a mess from my experience, but I can't deny it does have a good thread every now and again.
No.2202
>>2201I vaguely remember 4chan from 2005, and you're right. When I first saw a thread I didn't know how to post, and I didn't figure it out until after a week of lurking.
No.2203
>>2202You see this shit, Figamin?
Now remove the catalog and quick reply functions, also the only styles available should be Wapchan Classic, Urusei Tiger and Wapanese Forum for maximum filtering.
Let's bring back some of that old school imageboard hustle culture in here.
No.2204
>>2203Yeah, but that only works when you're a child who's never been exposed to an antiquated imageboard format. I was worried I was gonna break something back then, which filtered me from even poking around.
My whole gripe about replying has nothing to actually do with my mental capacity or ability to navigate a chan. I just think it's a very minor quality of life issue that I want to stamp out because I don't want to have to click a post ID, then delete the ID in my quick reply just to BEGIN my reply in cases where I'm not replying to a motherfucking SPECIFIC person. I'm very particular and there's nothing wrong with that.
No.2205
>>2199>I still have no idea what the fuck that was about.I got a similar experience on /int/: there was this guy that spammed insults and strong language against another user with no valid reason, it dragged for 12 hours until everyone else found out that the "user" he was angry with didn't even exist.
No.2206
>>2204I guess that might be clunky if you're not overly precise.
Jokes aside, chances are Figamin will do something soon about it after he reads your post, he's always tinkering live.
>>2205Schizoposting has been a serious problem for quite a few years on the whole website.
The most curious phenomenon of the new generation of 4chan users is that despite tripf@gs becoming an almost endangered species there's now anonymous posters who exhibit the same exact behaviour while pretending they're maintaining some sort of anonimity in the process, which also feeds into the aforementioned schizoposting for obvious reasons, in fact I'd go as far as saying that it was this behaviour that lead to schizoposting in the first place and I can pinpoint the origin of it in around 2015-2016.
The relatively recent removal of the IP counter amplified this issue further to the point entire boards are more or less unbrowsable as there's multiple individuals that are hell bent on their own psychotic witch hunts, and are more often than not accompanied by the aforementioned "anonymous trips" as well, it's a rather morbid environment.
No.2207
Duel won.
No.2208
>>2110>>2112I think the /v/ offshoots make sense.
/v/ is not a board you actually moderate. I did the math ages ago, but something like 1% of all posts made on /v/ gets deleted, and in the leaks we saw the report queues- for every 15000 reports, only 5000 are worth deleting according to moderation (take that as you will).
The /v/ offshoots likely exist with the first two for more board control /mlp/ style reasons, and then the following five for "I want to talk about this" reasons. Just look at them:
>/vg/Made to decrease the amount of generals on /v/- people forget that like a quarter of the /v/ catalog was just generals that always took up the first page.
>/vp//mlp/ style offshoot for games, manga, anime, and TCG.
>/vr/, /vrpg/, /vm/, /vmg/, /vst/Discussion boards for niche topics. They're clearly mod pet projects, especially outliers like /vst/, but they make sense because /v/ itself is not disposed to discussion and never will be in all likelihood.
As for splitting /a/, I really don't think it'd work.
This site itself partially arose out of a desire to talk about older anime, but an /ar/ or whatever wouldn't work that well, because at that point, it isn't just an /a/ offshoot- it's also an /m/ one, and it's for a topic that doesn't get discussed much on /a/ in the first place.
All that would happen is that /v/tards would take it over for constant "Remember Cowboy Bebop??" threads, or "Naruto is RETRO" thread, and of course /dbs/ would carve out a space there like they did on /trash/.
And a manga board is just needless. Most of what gets discussed on /a/ is based on a manga or LN.
No.2209
>>2208/a/'s issue is that there is too many people who find new anime icky and just want to use old things as an excuse to hang out and shitpost, but the fact of the matter is if they really cared about these things they would have discussed them to death years ago. I have always found this perplexing about people who deep throat old things. They always want to have some system where they are handholding a group of morons through their chosen garbage and telling them exactly what to watch or read, like some normalfrengy subreddit. The result is a bunch of boring newfrens who drank the Kool aid. Even here has the streaming, it's like an incurable mental illness independent of the subject matter.
No.2210
>>2188There's a Doom thread on /vnt/ here, perhaps we could move in? I'm not sure where everyone else went or if they're just waiting for 4chan to come back up. I like it here though and I could get the word out to at least a few of our regulars.
No.2212
>>2208/v/'s offshoots make sense insofar as the very nature of the board itself is concerned rather than the subject.
In itself there really isn't a reason to split /v/ even considering the late 00's age of constant generals clogging up the board (at least in most of those people actually talked about fucking videogames), or the more modern splits, in fact with each and every split /v/ did not get better, it got worse.
Then again /v/ is an extremely specific case in terms of board cultures as you did not really see similar splits in any of the major boards outside of maybe the old /a/-/m/-/jp/ deal but even that is arguable.
No.2213
>>2209I watch mostly older anime and I'm not even close to running out despite 20 years or so of doing it. I don't know why new anime enjoyers are so butthurt about it when you guys have a much easier time finding places to talk about your shows.
No.2214
>>2213>I watch mostly older anime and I'm not even close to running out despite 20 years or so of doing itThis is completely impossible unless you're either
1) watching anime once a week at best
Or
2) have been scraping the barrel for the last 10 years
I don't need to be reminded about the absolute worst things from 20 years ago constantly as people who find otaku distasteful desperately dig for scraps in old media.
No.2215
>Free Cider in the Back
Where exactly? I am getting thirsty?
No.2216
>>2214I watch maybe 2 episodes a week on average. Sometimes more, sometimes less. My amount of watched shows and movies is in the 700s, and my backlog is over 800 entries long. Like most people, I have other hobbies and interests. I think it's only a very small fraction of people who are actually able to keep up with everything as it airs.
No.2217
>>2205Doesn't surprise me. But then again /int/ is /int/. I expect similar experiences on /x/ or even /v/. I just don't expect it on a smaller niche board like /vrpg/.
>>2206It's interesting that even though tripf@gs went away they evolved into something much, much worse.
No.2218
>>2216>I watch maybe 2 episodes a week on averageAnon, that's not even an hour a week. I spend more time every week pooping. You don't like anime.
No.2219
>>2209>/a/'s issue is that there is too many people who find new anime icky and just want to use old things as an excuse to hang out and shitpost,Somewhat true, but I find that to be less pervasive with people who post about older anime. That's more common among people who obsessively post about manga (and of course the /v/ crossboarders who want /a/ to just be another /v/).
>but the fact of the matter is if they really cared about these things they would have discussed them to death years ago.Somewhat untrue.
For a lot of anime, there is a layer of accessibility. I'd honestly say that the vast majority of /m/ anons haven't truly seen Victory Gundam simply because it didn't have accurate subs until RightStuf/Sunrise issued out the V Gundam BDs a few years back, but beyond that is the more common factor of most of these older anime taking ages to get subbed. Hell, Dr. Slump is a classic in Japan and we're still around 90 episodes off from it being fully subbed, and true classics like Sasuke and Ninpuu Kamui Gaiden still haven't been subbed (though AnimeEigo has thankfully picked up Sasuke).
>They always want to have some system where they are handholding a group of morons through their chosen garbage and telling them exactly what to watch or read, like some normalfrengy subreddit.Hit the issue right on the head with old anime thread. A lot of people don't want to discuss older anime- they want to discuss nostalgic anime. A lot of people posting the same five GitS and Patlabor 2 gifs, a lot of people jerking off Ranma, shit like that.
>Even here has the streaming, it's like an incurable mental illness independent of the subject matter.Groupwatch streams are fine though, those are merely an extension of broadcast threads.
>>2214It really isn't.
Consider this- there are 32 World Masterpiece Theatre anime. Obviously not all are subbed, but presume all of them are, these are all great classic anime, not even touching Dezaki or Takahashi, or the other Takahashi, or Tomino, just WMT.
That is roughly 1,456 episodes of anime. That's 582.4 hours of anime, nearly a month of just straight anime for one of the most acclaimed franchises in anime history.
Presuming someone watches just 3 episodes of anime a day (which is a lot, that's over 1000 episodes a year), they'd finish this monolith in 485~ days.
There's Joe, or Versailles, or UY, or Dragon Ball, or Xabungle, or VOTOMS in there, it's just one franchise and at a fast rate it would still take over a year. 20 years isn't unreasonable.
No.2220
Any news regarding 4chan?
No.2221
>>2220Still down, no news since the twitter post.
You could try looking at the IRC but it's probably going a mile a minute considering how high profile this hack is and none of the mods are likely to be on it.
>ETA?Two more weeks.
No.2222
>>2220Pool's still closed
No.2223
>>2220Kissu thread is saying that there's news it might take around a month for the site to come back up, no-one posting any sources though so it's probably all bs
No.2224
>>2220The official account on twitter made a post that says: "it takes time"
And then replied to a comment stating:
> We need time, cats, ponies and so on.Yeah this is gonna take a while.
No.2225
>>2210I know, I made it two years ago. We could certainly revive it.
No.2226
>>22193 episodes a day for 20 years in 21900 episodes of anime. That's a LOT of anime. People who have only been watching anime for 1 year should be lurking, not posting.
No.2227
>>2218Or I just like many things. Unless you have very narrow interests you simply won't have time to do everything every day.
No.2229
>>2227Yeah I dunno anon, if poop time outweighs hobby time I'm not sure it's truly a hobby. Maybe slim down your interests.
No.2230
>>2209>an excuse to hang out and shitpostWtf do you think people go on 4chan for?
No.2231
>>2223That comes from the fact that 4chan's code is completely compromised now.
A big benefit for management was not needing to secure a lot of the site because the code wasn't public- that and the assumption that 4chan would safeguard very well known exploits, like the pdf one that ended up getting used.
The idea is that this will require a complete restructuring of sorts internally to remedy- maybe even switching 4chan over from its current code to something else given how it's still running off shit moot and the others from SA made in 2003. We could, ironically, see a 4chan running off vichan (doubt it).
So, it probably will take a while to come back up, simply due to that. We might also see a preliminary janny application thing simply because a lot of janitors might have resigned after giving up all their personal info and signing NDAs only to get doxxed.
>>2226Still not too much.
For four cour anime, which are the majority of older anime, that's only 438. If one wanted to just watch every Dragon Ball anime that is 'retro', that would be
>508 episodes>22 movies/specials/OVAs (each one will count as a 3 episode day)That would take up over half a year, 191.3~ days at a pace like that.
Wanna watch ever 'classic' Gundam? Everything up to Turn A?
That's 418 episodes. 139.3 days. Add that to Dragon Ball, that's another year gone pretty much.
A bit over 2 years of your life and you've only carved out a relatively miniscule amount of older anime, just Gundam, Dragon Ball, and WMT, all BIG classics, and all SUPER long.
No.2232
>>2229I don't really care what you consider a hobby, the point is I've seen a lot of anime because I've been watching it for a long time. And yet there's plenty more for me to watch and discuss.
No.2233
>>2230Personally, I go there because there is nowhere else to really talk about 90% of seasonal anime. I have been on 4chan for 20 years, and if I had just that one thing I would never go there again.
No.2234
>>2232Perhaps if you watch anime on the toilet you'll be able to fit in more than 2 episodes a week. I'd rather hang out with retards that jerked off over school days and mai-hime back in the day than poseurs pretending speed racer is good or interesting, just because it's old and they vibe with it or whatever such BS.
No.2235
>>2233You could talk about modern anime on here or kissu. No need for 4cuck
No.2236
>>2235No, in the down time I will be effort posting on places far slower and more ancient, I'm not doing that in a place like this where people watch 2 anime a week lmao
No.2237
I mean I watch anime a couple times per week typically but read manga every day.
No.2238
>>2236Unless your plan is to go to the MAL forums where you can purity test everyone you encounter, you're gonna have a hard time.
Smug and PLW are perpetually dead.
8moe/a/ is just the dregs of /a/.
8kun/a/ is just people looking for where everyone else went.
The only imageboard options really are here and kissu.
No.2239
>>2238I already have a place.
No.2240
>>2237I only read manga. Anime takes way longer for less content. Even then, I'd say I don't spend more than 12 hours reading manga a week. And a lot of that is rereading old manga.
No.2241
>>2230I beg to differ young lad, once upon a time 4chan was used for actual discussion.
Yes, actual, honest to god exchange of information between likeminded individuals looking to broaden their horizons or simply sharing some time with their fellow nerds and enjoying things together in earnest, before the world got clouded in a veil of insincere and morbid irony.
Those were the days of the internet of old, the phoneposters were not a thing yet and the corporate whale did not swallow the net whole in its dark and sunless belly, those were the days of free, brave men sailing the worldwide web looking for brave fellows from distant lands to share bonds of camaraderie and scholarship, the golden age of web navigation, if you will.
And since I'm feeling generous I'll share another old man secret with you today, something the modern 4chan desperately doesn't want you to know: Reddit used to be the very same as well before Aaron got ousted and bullied into anheroing, that too was a place where you could find cool stuff and have actual discussions rather than vapid bar talk with strangers you'd probably furiously glass after 10 minutes were you forced to sit near them irl.
No.2242
Do you have any dreams /wap/ bros?
No.2243
>>2234Cool, it's a good thing we don't have to interact beyond this.
No.2244
>>2234>than poseurs pretending speed racer is good or interesting, just because it's old and they vibe with it or whatever such BS.Generally it's a sign of schizophrenia when you invent a person in your head and start talking to them.
No.2245
>>2243If your previous posts are to be believed you've already spent more time arguing with me than you will spend watching anime this week. That's how small your window of anime is.
No.2246
>>2241Shit, man. Don't say that, you'll have 18 year olds telling you you're just pretending to know what 4chan used to be like!
No.2247
>>2244It's funnier to say speed racer, as an exaggeration, than dorohedoro or some other such nonsense.
No.2248
>>2242Sadly not anymore. I've tried, although perhaps not hard enough, to lucid dream, and i've never succeeded.
I only have the occasional nightmare, not even imaginative, deeply rooted in reality instead.
It's quite a shame, I had such vivid dreams as a teenager.
No.2249
>>2241>simply sharing some time with their fellow nerds and enjoying things together in earnestThat's what "hanging out" in "an excuse to hang out and shitpost" is. Like, I get enjoying more recent anime and wanting a place to discuss it. I also get that some fans of retro anime are up their own ass about it and aren't really evaluating things objectively. But I'm not going to ask for everyone's anime card and evaluate how much of a proper fan someone is before I talk to them. There is still stuff to say about older series, because well, you sometimes read an older series for the first time.
I only read Princess Knight this year and I'm 34.
No.2251
>>2245It takes only 10 seconds to read and reply to one of your posts, so no I'd say that's definitely wrong. I'm on my way to play some TTRPGs now. Perhaps I'll watch an episode later tonight, perhaps not. I've more than likely seen more than 90% of people in seasonal threads on /a/ regardless. I have more and less active periods.
Anyway I'm actually off for real now.
No.2252
>>2247Dorohedoro came out in 2000 and lasted until 2018. Is this what you consider retro or did you mean Dororo? Dororo is good, man. I only read it recently and it had a lot of neat stuff.
No.2253
>>2252Sorry meant dororo, lizard brain lol
No.2254
>>2025Take the OPTIMISM PILL.
Most 4chan users will adapt to better cultures and in turn become better posters!
No.2256
>>2253Well, I understand why you might find the idea of Dororo as being some sort of old-fashioned thing that has no value or nothing worth discussing nowadays, but the thing got a new anime in 2019 and it apparently was pretty good. It genuinely is a cool adventure series with some interesting ideas and its influence is noticable in many other series that are set in the Sengoku period. Especially ones with yokai.
Plus, again, some people read or watched the series for the first time so it isn't like it is fully talked to death for them.
No.2258
>altchans are supposed to have cool unique features that give them personality
>there is no candy dispenser or anything like that
No.2261
>>2258Only cute little girls can accees the candy dispenser here, too bad for you
No.2262
>>2256I felt like Dororo (the manga) is one of Tezuka's lesser works. I know the new anime adds an ending (not sure about the old anime) but the manga really doesn't have an ending and while there were cool parts, overall I didn't really enjoy the series. I've been rereading some stuff recently so maybe I'll think about rereading Dororo and Princess Knight to see if my opinion of them improves.
No.2263
>>2256In the context of the reply chain, and the image posted earlier, I am referencing the world theater version, which is kind of just bad. I found the reboot to be kind of just average, with its main quirk being that it was absurdly edgy as far as I remember it.
No.2264
>>2262I'm a Tezuka newbie so I've actually only read the 60s Princess Knight and Dororo (since they've come out in convenient omnibuses). I'm not going to pretend they're the cream of the crop, but I do think they are both good and hold up.
Dororo was particularly fun for me because I could smell the influence it had on Inuyasha. Rumiko said that work is in her blood and it was one of her favorites during her childhood and while she didn't directly use it as inspiration, it was clearly a part of how Inuyasha and Fire Tripper got made.
No.2266
>>2263Well, my argument is that if people are remaking it, there clearly was something worthwhile to the original and there's value in discussing it (at the very least as comparison to the newer one). It isn't something like The Dull Sword where the only aspect that is interesting is how old and visually crude it is.
Dororo as a whole is very edgy despite the Tezuka art style, so it doesn't surprise me that the remake is too.
No.2268
>>2204Huh, that's a pretty decent point.
No.2269
How we managing folks
>>2184You can use the "embed" field but it will overwrite any images.
Alternatively if you manually enable 4chanx it will give you the same youtube embed style was 4chan.
>>2190Hi
>>2198I could probably add one
>>2215You just gotta look for it…
https://wapchan.org/cider.html>>2258Good idea! I just hope I can find some good stuff… I'm sure you wouldn't just want twizzlers…
No.2271
>>2266The value of the original is found in the manga, and the point is that it's retarded to say that watching the entirety of world masterpiece theater is necessary or commendable. We're talking about a period where anime was still called japanimation and the west, and I'd argue quality back then is a lot worse than what we have now, even if a handful of good shows came out of it.
No.2272
>>2269Thanks for the cider.
No.2277
>>2269I still haven't started using 4chanX. Hey, is there any reason why I can't drag the Quick Reply box around?
No.2279
>>2271I'm really more of a manga guy, so I agree with you there. But I'm sure the original anime has some strengths (I wouldn't know…) To be honest, it was called Japanimation for a lot longer after Dororo… I feel that lasted until the 90s. I think we just fundamentally disagree about the quality, but again, I'm talking out of my ass, I haven't seen the anime.
I also enjoy old Disney cartoons though, so maybe you just prioritize other aspects of animation than me.
No.2280
>>2277Just forgot to add a JS file. Should be good now if you force refresh.
No.2282
>>2280Honestly, figamin, I should've told you all this stuff from the very first time I visited this site. Sorry for delaying. Much better.
No.2283
>>2280Oh my God thank you, the damn resize corner was stuck under the scroll bar and I couldn't get it out.
>>2282I'm glad he's willing to accommodate. A major issue I had was the character limit for posts being tiny and he expanded it fairly quick.
No.2284
>>2269Honestly, this still feels weird. 4chan has been hacked and gone offline for a week or so before, but it hasn't happened for a long time. I love the alts but it'll take some getting used to the slower pace.
No.2285
>>2284>but it'll take some getting used to the slower pace.That's what your gf said about you lol.
No.2286
>>2284Since it's been enough time to palate cleanse, I'm wondering if it's not that we have to get used to altchans being too slow (though there are certainly glaical and dead ones), but that we were too used to 4chan's frenetic speed?
General culture certainly hasn't helped that, most of those people mained one or two generals simply because it was impossible to keep up with more, much less an entire board.
No.2287
>>2286Indubitably, fried dopamine receptors have something to do with it. And board culture.
No.2289
>>2286It is no doubt addicting that you could post and get a reply within a minute, let alone fifteen. And that was the norm, that's been the norm for so damn long.
Who knows, maybe I'll finally get a fucking hobby for once in my life. I saw Black Fog in /media/ (and it's great, I hope to have a submission for Issue 4), but anybody know any other online fanzines? That seems like a good start to branch out from.
No.2292
>>2290I read up to 981, since that's about as much the official VIZ app had translated for a while. I need to pick it back up. A Detective Conan storytime is a monumental task.
I guess I'll do Rinne here but just redo it when 4chan is back up. It'll be like a practice run. It won't be as natural the second time around, since on these rereads I am genuinely reading alongside as I post, but what can you do?
No.2293
>>2286For /v/ or /vg/ stuff I definitely don't mind a slower pace, most of what's posted in those is drek anyway.
But for /a/, it's really hard to replicate what makes it so fun. An episode drops, most people download it then and there, there's a frantic burst of activity for 2 or 3 hours while people talk about the latest episode, post caps, live react, then it just dies down and everyone does their own thing till the next episode.
Some complain but the way people post their continuous chain of thought makes it like a weird asynchronous watch party, you just don't get that anywhere else. Even coming to threads late, it's still fun to read people's reactions after the fact. Unfortunately, you need a pretty high population watching a lot of different shows at all different timezones for this to work.
No.2294
>>2176I>>2290
>We're likely gonna see a big dropoff on 4chan activity regardless so… here's hoping it's the spammers that leave?Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but I could very well imagine some of the worst posters permanently fucking off to Discord/X/whatever else there is.
No.2296
>>2290I suspect the spammers and dedicated trolls will return, but we're likely to see a small glimpse into 4chan's past with decent threads with some light shitposting for a short period until the retards swarm back.
No.2297
>>2294>>>2176I>>2290
Shit. I only meant to quote
>>2290.
No.2298
>>1709It sucks that only 4chan filled the niche of being a kitchen you can shit in at while eating.
No.2299
>>2293if the kissu/wapchan/hikari3 alliance comes together (which it seems like it is) that will be a pretty decent replacement for /a/ provided they find a way to crosslink threads
No.2300
>>2286>I'm wondering if it's not that we have to get used to altchans being too slow (though there are certainly glaical and dead ones), but that we were too used to 4chan's frenetic speed?>>2289>It is no doubt addicting that you could post and get a reply within a minute, let alone fifteen. And that was the norm, that's been the norm for so damn long.Maybe on fast boards, but on slower, more niche ones you could easily keep up with most of the board. Check the threads after a longer break in half an hour, maybe hour at most. Post something in some of them. Do something else, check hour or two later and you would see few more posts, maybe one or two of them being a reply to you. It was a nice pace, with occasional faster threads acting as a curiosity and gathering of posters. Slower boards also were more generous to putting effort in your posts, as the subject wouldn't run away before you finish your couple thousand characters long post and you didn't need to rush posting either, afraid that the thread may even die before you finish.
No.2301
>>2295Oh my god you're just like me. Want a hug?
No.2302
>>2286I was not generalfren but mostly a lurker for interesting (and fast) threads in the site.
I'm still not used to the speed of altchans so I've been lurking every single thread I come across (excluding the gay ones).
It's like I want to "know" all the information that is happening at the moment, does anyone feel the same?
No.2303
>>2302Yes, you are part of the hivemind. MUST REACH CONSENSUS.
No.2304
>40 users lurking in the last 10 minutes!
Why is that important? Do I get to have sex with those lurkers?
No.2305
>>2304I wouldn't worry about it…
No.2307
>>2306That's right. Altchans are sweet little innocent cozy pillow forts and you have to be nisu.
No.2309
>>2304I just don't have much to say right now
No.2310
>>2304Yes you do, but as soon as we reveal ourselves, we're no longer lurkers, so we can't bang.
Quite the catch-22, really.
No.2312
>>2306On one hand I'm not fond of hugboxes since they take the teeth out of some discussion.
On the other it keeps the threadshitters out and encourages higher quality posts.
But I get it, sometimes you really want to belt a guy one when he deserves it.
No.2313
>>2306Nah, I get it. 4chan attracted the kinds of people who outright should be riled up and unhappy, the kind of people who exist to do nothing but spread their own misery. These places just want to chill out and do their thing.
No.2314
>>2313This. There are people that refuse to leave their computers until they had the last word. I would rather stay away from them.
No.2315
>>2314I made a rule very early on when I started browsing, only reply 3 times in an argument.
Doesn't matter how deep you get or angry you are or whatever, I only reply three times in a single chain and then I'm out.
No.2316
nanodesu
No.2317
>>2314>There are people that refuse to leave their computers until they had the last word.This always baffled me about 4chan in particular. Half the posters seemed to have the mindset that last word = you won the argument, no matter how stupid your point or posts were. It's the mentality of a child. The more I think about it, the more confused I am over why I even want to go back.
No.2319
>>2315NTA, but I use a variation of that rule.
Whenever an argument turns heated and the other poster starts spouting vitriol instead of arguments, I reply to someone else instead.
Most of them never catch on, and it usually improves both the thread and my mood.
No.2320
So I guess all of my favorite sites are just gone forever now? Thanks for "welcoming in" all of these people and ruining one of the last few usable places on the internet. I can only hope that the otaku posters stay and the rest of you die by mass suicide.
No.2321
>>2312i want to agree, but a hugbox would probably improve my declining mental health
No.2322
>>2321Everyone loves you! *hugs you*
No.2323
>>2320people who came here for refuge for the most part already knew about the site and its the same for most other sites like these, i doubt anything will change except you'll get more user activity than normal, which is a good thing
No.2326
>>2321*gluck gluck gluck*
No.2327
>>2320Why the vitriol? Very few of us have said anything resembling a shitpost and I'm pretty certain the people who made 4chan awful didn't come here. They're presumably too busy flooding reddit and various discords.
No.2329
>>2328I don't use 4chan that often nowadays so I am not really a battered wife but I am not ready for a divorce either.
No.2330
>>2327most of them went to soyjak.party i assume
i had a look earlier and the traffic is so bad that the site was crawling to a halt, and the thread made by the guy responsible has tens of thousands of replies
No.2331
>>2291https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4sh_NjNoJcOOOOOOMORI RICE BOY
MOTTO DEKKAKUNARUN DA
YUME FURIKAKE OKAWARI JIYUU
OOOOOOOOOOMORI RICE BOY
No.2332
I feel dirty touching the virgin threads on this chan
No.2333
>>2328Yes alt chans have way better tech, but with xchan/oneechan, almost all my gripes are over.
I don't feel like a king a feel like a refugee
No.2334
>>2330>most of them went to soyjak.party i assumeThe first two pages of the anime board have FOUR threads made by the Kensuke spammer. I truly am thankful that the bottom of the barrel has gone to that site rather than here.
No.2335
>>2185>Unfortunately /vr/ kinda went to shit as of late and became Doomworld 2.0 at timesI've said it before and I'll say it again, adding 6th gen WAS the start of the decline for that board. I get that it's good to move on with the times but the problem with adding the rest of 6th gen was that is significantly dropped the average age of that board and with it the posting quality. /v/tards wanted to get away from /v/ to discuss 6th gen games on the better /vr/ only to bring all their shitty /v/tard discussion aspects to the board instead.
It was probably inevitable anyhow with the general decline of the 4chan and the internet in general, but you can really pinpoint a before and after on /vr/.
The only board we ever actually needed was /incel/for internet celebrities so we didn't have to have twitter screencap threads on /v/ anymore which would've helped that board tons.
No.2336
>>2320Don't worry, they'll be dead again when 4chan comes back
No.2337
>>2335>The only board we ever actually needed was /incel/for internet celebrities so we didn't have to have twitter screencap threads on /v/ anymore which would've helped that board tons.I will die on this hill this would be tons better like /mlp/ was a good containment board, they only don't do it because it would invite the lowest denominator and from there you would have e celebs checking that shit daily, and even comparing it to kiwifarms.
No.2338
>>2292We've been talking about it in Con/a/n threads occasionally, but my thought was doing "Daily Detective Conan" with one case per day, since there's around 340~ cases currently.
Would be faster to do one volume a day, but sometimes three cases happen in a volume and they end on cliffhangers all the time, so it'd be better to do it by case. After all- they Shounen Tantaidan do prefer that.
>>2294>>2296For a lot of people who do this, it's just trolling, and weeks without a primary place to troll will cause them to inevitably drift and establish new routines.
I'm sure it won't magically be super better and we absolutely will still have spammers and schizos, but it will almost certainly be less active. A lot of people linger on 4chan simply because it's a daily routine.
>>2335Another board wouldn't solve /v/'s issues. People use ecelebs as a preface for offtopic banter, like, /v/ constantly has /vg/ offshoots, /pol/ offshoots, even /a/ offshoots on its catalog. It has porn and WEG threads, all of these have their own boards, but they're still there.
The true "solution", as much as people hate to admit it, is intense and severe moderation on /v/ to the point where over half of all posts result in a ban (because that is the state /v/ is in), but that isn't done for very obvious reasons. Even currently, with as light as /v/'s moderation is, people constantly complain about "trigger happy janitors".
Btw, can figamin link me to the exact guidelines for uploading webms? I tried to post a clip of Conan ED1 (retro btw), less than 4mb, webm, with sound, and I got the invalid webm error.
No.2339
Do you think it would be cool for 4chan's /a/ to also have a "Streams" category where you can see all the yearly streams?
No.2340
>>2339It would be cool except for the fact that 4chan goes out of its way to ban anyone mentioning streams since it's "advertising"
Meanwhile this site actually runs streams sometimes. Totally different mindset.
No.2341
Refugee here. Not to criticize, but why are /cel/ and /digi/ separate boards? Seems like their population could easily fit into one.
No.2342
>>2338Weird, that should be perfectly valid. You mind sending it over on catbox so I can test it for myself?
No.2343
>>2338I can't imagine doing so much every day. Wouldn't that be several hours?
No.2344
>>2342Issue might be that I'm using the mpv webm-maker script, and it's always a bit weird.
https://files.catbox.moe/3zqj76.webm>>2343I responded to three ideas, but I'll assume you mean the trolls on /v/.
It's dozens of people, maybe even a hundred, who use /v/ purely to troll. It's not organized, it's just lazy dopamine highs. I myself troll /v/ occasionally and I see how people get addicted to it- you get reactions quickly and they're always over the top, and all you have to do is make a couple provocative posts.
If you want to see the mind of a troll, go on /pol/ (well, if it ever comes back) and actually look at which IDs make more than one post in a thread, it is fascinating, and apply that to other boards. Look at when the first reply to an OP is made if it's some form of "epic own", and you'll notice it's made within two minutes after the thread is made- this is all just trolling to get reactions and get dopamine highs (or increase that (You) Counter.
No.2345
>>2341"segregated but equal"
No.2346
>>2341This was because /cel/ was originally /ar/, as the site was centered around retro anime. /digi/ (formerly /a2k/) was added later on by user request.
Since the userbase of the site is massively changing, I'm open to merging the boards if its popular enough.
>>>/lum/ will always remain separate though since that's where the site sprung out of.
No.2350
Quick Reply
No.2353
Is it just me or hovering at replies sometimes not works?
No.2354
So how are you doing guise?
No.2355
>>2339I would leave 4chan forever if they pulled some garbage like that
No.2356
>>2312Hugboxes never encourage higher quality post, unless you mean dicksucking your favorite poster as that
No.2359
>>2356>dicksucking your favorite posterwould
No.2361
>>2334I hope they stay there. Sharty is basically what normies think 4chan is
No.2364
>>2338Figured out the problem. For some reason the webm script for vichan dosen't like when the audio stream is first rather than the video. I will try to fix this in the near future but for now you can just do something like
ffmpeg -i 3zqj76.webm -map 0:1 -map 0:0 -c copy conan.webm
and that should fix it
No.2366
>>2328You can't be a king without a kingdom, even if it's a land filled with shitposters
No.2368
>>2351>people who used 4chan to be part of the culture and/or to feel cool and specialThis is a strange take. 4Chan wasn't created for free speech activists. It was meant to be a place for misfits. Naturally, culture would emerge from that, and it did.
No.2369
>>2359Please don't be gay
No.2370
>>2364Hey figamin could you add that when you overlay with your mouse a reply number from a post you could see the post itself instead of having to click on it?
It only works in reverse
No.2372
>>2351>also people who used 4chan to be part of the culture and/or to feel cool and special should not be welcomed any altchansI don't even know what you mean by this. Who the hell did this? If anything, the real problem was culture war idiots and younger posters thinking they had to be spiteful morons at all times to fit in who were the real issue.
No.2373
So, if there are any people from /a/ who read the Rumic World storytimes and don't realize, I am going to do them in /lum/ on my usual schedule (1 volume, alternating between Wednesday and Saturday) until 4chan is back up. And then I'll do them again on 4chan.
I got some responses from people in /lum/. Seems we got three-ish people from those threads over here. A bit less than Inuyasha, but that's to be expected. I imagine a lot of the people who just joined for Inuyasha don't actually know abotu wapchan…
No.2374
>>2371Oh thank you so much!
No.2375
Guys are the jannies ok on the 4chins?
No.2377
>>2375Like conduct wise? It varied by board. The smaller hobby boards had some decent honest jannies that did good work keeping things clean. The bigger boards had the shitters who just deleted whatever on-topic threads they didn't like while letting blatant rule violations go unchecked. There were anime/manga series you just weren't allowed to have threads for on /a/, and video games you couldn't post on /v/, not because their content was breaking any rules but simply because they'd get deleted on sight whenever particular jannies were active. The real problems came from higher up though, bad jannies were just a symptom of shitty moderators.
No.2378
>>2377/v/ was especially bad. Want to make a vidya thread that wasn't ragebait, culture war point scoring or Nintendo? Good luck.
No.2379
>>2375I think their salary should be doubled after having to deal with such a crisis!
No.2380
>>2377Could you give me a quick example of an anime or manga you couldn't discuss on /a/? I never encountered this.
No.2381
>>2380Off the top of my head, Strike Witches was heavily persecuted. It's not a series I was ever too invested in but I saw talk of that a lot.
No.2382
>>2380I saw a Bobobo thread get deleted once because a janny/mod thought it wasn't anime.
No.2383
>>2346If you want me to be sincere, I kinda prefer them being separate boards.
No.2385
>>2379Doubled?
Crisis?
Why, they're not facing anything that wasn't already mentioned in the contract, moreover I assure you the 4chan.org staff is already going above and beyond in terms of salaries, how else would they be able to afford the copious amounts of hotpockets they gorge themselves with otherwise?
No no no, we're not running a charity here, this is a service and God knows the janitors receive exactly what they deserve for their work, not one cent less.
No.2386
>>2346>>2383I wonder if would be possible to do how kissu does it with their /qa/ and /jp/ split. Separate boards but can be viewed together through an overboard; a have your cake and eat it thing.
If not or not worth the trouble there's no problem with leaving them as is. If it aint broke don't fix it.
No.2387
>>2234Lucky for you that imageboards allow people to make their own threads and enter as they please.
So you DON'T have to enter the Speed Racer thread! How convenient.
No.2388
>>2249The best thing about anonymous imageboards is that there ARE no anime cards.
No worthless history attached to every post.
So I can just state my raw unfiltered dogshit opinions independently of each other and not get stalked by power-hungry loser with 30000 posts and a Dawkins quote under his name.
No.2390
>>2389that's stupid. i love strike witches, more people should watch strike witches.
No.2391
>>2390You're alright anon
No.2392
>>2312It's important to feel like you can be as mean as you please without fear of being banned or stalked by a vengeful poster.
Without that, any "nice" posting feels ingenuine.
I rarely post particularly vitriolic replies but if I thought that I COULDN'T without consequences, I wouldn't enjoy the site.
It's rather similar to friendlies in TF2.
"Friendly" servers where you're punished for killing them are utter fucking dogshit.
But sometimes you run past some hoovy or some guy civilian posing or some fucking conga line and it's actually funny. Why? Because they're doing it in SPITE of knowing you could brain them.
No.2394
>>2332Okay you wait while I touch all those threads first. Then you can have the sloppy seconds.
Okay?
No.2395
>>2338Unfortunately the threads for each new anime episode only get very few replies.
No.2396
>>2338Just start the storytime here, I wanna read.
Case by case is much better than having a daily chapter, I can't stand chapter a day threads. I wanna READ.
No.2397
>>2386Having an overboard that you can customize would be best.
Want All boards to show? Go ahead. Want to take out /lum/ because you're a philistine who doesn't like Rumikino? Go ahead.
Etc.
No.2398
>>2388>No worthless history attached to every post. Actually, according to recent leaks years of post history are attached to your IP on 4chan. And here too of course.
No.2400
>>2398at least on here you can torpost
No.2401
>>2398meme
no evidence to back it up
they have the past few weeks of your IP which everyone has always known
and besides which most peoples' IPs change pretty frequently
and BESIDES which the important thing is that average users get to interact without baggage.
No.2403
>>2386/latest/ is the overboard.
>>2397>Want to take out /lum/ because you're a philistine who doesn't like Rumikino?Just click (hide threads from this board).
The only thing missing IMO is a way to set a sitewide theme from the overboard. Switching from light to dark themes constantly when you open a thread is kind of jarring.
No.2405
>>2398I don't care what the jannies see, so long as the other regular users can't see it and be a schizo about it thats good enough
No.2406
>>2404Most alts permit VPNs anyway.
No.2408
>>2176I was in the middle of studying for a Quiz I had the next day. Popped in briefly to see the site got hacked, and then it was dead.
No.2409
This place being a decent place to discuss anime makes me wish there was a a decent place for /co/ related stuff but they're all dogshit, I just want talk about cool obscure comics damn it.
No.2410
>>2409I think this is the biggest /co/ spinoff alt
https://boards.plus4chan.org/ No.2412
>>2409This but for japanese vidya. There's a board here for older vidya but I'm playing XCXDE right now and it would feel out of place there (on top of being glacially placed)
No.2413
You know I'm not saying we should have one here because it might turn out bad but shocked 4Chan never had a /YT/ board with all the damn YouTuber/YouTube talk on the site and people always got banned talking about them.
No.2414
>>2410Yep and it still sucks.
No.2415
>>2409wish there was a place to make storytimes. one of plus4 mods said they don't have the functionality to prune threads and dumping a lot of images might fuck it up.
No.2416
>>2412/vr/ was too bad, I slightly miss it.
No.2417
>>2415A storytime chan actually not a bad idea.
No.2418
>>2413This is something I mentioned earlier, but I think this goes far beyond what 4chan, especially in its modern state, would be able to handle. The amount of eyes on what could easily turn into an accountless KF & the overall rammifications of it is not something the rest of the userbase wants to deal with, no matter how much they may despise these people & wish to contain them.
>>2409I've considered making a thread on /vnt/ or /gens/ for my own interests, but out of respect for its existing userbase, i'd rather contain myself & lurk more until i've gotten a better grasp of things.
No.2419
>>2418Christ if every poster thinks like you this site will just go back to being glacial when 4chan comes back.
The admin has opened his arms and his heart. He wants you here. Go make yourself at home.
No.2420
>>2413The AVGN threads were kinda fun though.
No.2421
>>2398>>2401>>2404I am a bit concerned about that, is it just bans? Or is there records of every single post ever made? To be honest, I am not as concerned about anything else, just about schizos because I did make quite a fair amount of people pissed with my shitposting back in the day, and given how schizophrenic some people are nowadays.
>>2405This.
No.2422
>>2417I wish. all of my best time on 4ch happened on storytimes. I've seen anons microwave a book, do extensive academic research on minute topics, make OC to rival great artists, all while reading good manga and comics. now it's over, like tears in the rain…
No.2424
>>2418I appreciate your concern, but this site is going through rapid changes with all the new users. I'd encourage you to make your threads even if you're new here - the majority of the users on here are new as well. Honestly if you're just a decent guy you'll fit in fine.
>>2415>>2417I'd love if more folks did storytimes here. I ran storytimes a long time ago (I did the original Urusei Yatsura and Ranma storytimes as well as a few others).
>>2409I proposed a
/co/ style board a while back but the userbase at the time wasn't for it. Maybe things are different now though - you can always make /co/
threads on /media/ for the time being
No.2425
>>2390Strike Witches got nuked in the waning days of mods actually giving a shit and was a good move to shut down the absolute cancerfest it had become because the general itself had made it impossible to discuss Strike Witches. Unfortunately, the only way to shut down generals like that is to prevent the users from congregating for long enough that they give up on trying. What was retarded was keeping that ban active while allowing dozens of other generals to grow into exactly what the ban was meant to prevent.
No.2426
>>2424Just as long as we don't get storytime of pain here.
>Usually not that bad or just boring No.2427
>>2425I don't think it was ever even half as bad as just about every current general on /a/, and plenty of OC came out of it. But whatever, the real issue is that the same treatment was not applied to any other general.
No.2428
>>2425>>2427It's fucking insane those threads of anons getting off with each other didn't get taken down, I forgot what they were under but people but it was like a damn roleplay shit.
No.2429
>>2378The fact, that /a/ had better videogame discussion, than fucking /v/ won't ever stop being funny to me
No.2430
>>2424>I'd love if more folks did storytimes here.for real? you see, I was running an annual storytime on /co/ but it got cut short. I might continue it here, if the other anons would like to. it's a mighty good comic too, in my opinion.
No.2432
>>2430>annual storytimeUsagi Yojimbo, no doubt. Glad to see you hear, anon. I always meant to get into it, but never got around to joining the storytimes. Everything I have read has been great though.
No.2433
>>2431like anon above said, Bodyguard Bunny. it's a classic for a reason.
>>2432you can jump in in at any time, most stories are standalone.
No.2434
>>2433Oh nice, I read random bits of Usagi here and there over the years since I'm pretty big Turtles fan.
No.2435
>>2269I wanted to start using wapchan more, so now's as good a time as any.
No.2438
>>2413We could call it /incel/ - internet celebrities!
No.2440
>>23624kek had enough activity on general topic boards to cover for my niche interests, but the alt /x/ and /lit/ are all dead even after the exodus. Other boards I would otherwise liked are still commanded by e-celeb spergs I despise since before 8chan croaked.
No.2441
>>2438/incest/ - internet celebrities, spergs, tiktokers
No.2444
>>2413From what I saw in the janny leaks of the private board, jannies kept trying to suggest it be made but mods were always afraid of doxxing
Ironic considering they eventually made /vt/ and we all know how autistic THAT can be.
No.2445
>>2424You know, it'd be cool to see a /co/ that's been purged of a chunk of its schizory. It used to be such a fucking comfy board.
No.2446
>>2317To be fair, that's a general Internet thing.
No.2447
>>2412>This but for japanese vidyaAren't there other active vidya boards on other altchans? The 8chan.moe one seems to be pretty good.
No.2450
Added a fun little space theme from our friends at 39chan.
Try out "starry" sometime!
>>2449Hope rads is doing well. Was a cool little site for sure.
No.2451
>>2450nice. i will be using this theme now, it's cool
No.2453
I'm taking it easy
No.2454
>>2437> Though, I'm surprised my IP was whitelisted in bun, which I think is the "sekrit club" some of you tease about.Fun thing, I found out about it month before I ended up in /japan/ and was very confused about the sekrit club thing.
No.2455
Figamin, could you please add a SauceNAO search function?
No.2456
>>2375Absolutely useless on /ic/.
Spam and bait threads were up all the time. They seemed to care mostly about the loli general and maybe /DAD/ if janitor indeed was posting there.
No.2457
>>2453taking it easy and posting on wapchan
No.2458
>>2457comfy wapchan and comfy hikari3
I hope everyone here is doing well :D
No.2459
It's that cider alcoholic?
No.2460
>>2413that would turn into kiwifarms 2
No.2461
Please, for the love of God, let's not contaminate this site with e-celebs.
They are fake people starting fake dramas to have attention and to advertise themselves, they bring shitty rage bait content to feed on the people who are addicted to outrage.
No.2462
>>2459Agreed. Keep that shit on KF where it belongs.
No.2463
>>2462Meant to quote
>>2461.
No.2464
>>2456They were quite active when you call out indians spamming AI trash bait
No.2465
>>2449That's a real shame, that site is pretty neat. But tbf it has always been dead as fuck whenever I visited, even after the 4chan exodus this week.
No.2466
>>1709I wish this place had a general discussion board, I like the aesthetic here more than the other alts
No.2467
I'm basically chanwhoring with kissu, smuglo, /ghost/ and 8moe
No.2468
>>2467Oh and this place too. I actually like this place more than 8moe cause it doesn't have an interracial and a diaperboard
I will never touch the fucking sharty
No.2469
>>2468this place actually has a soul and culture unlike 8moe which is just a bunch of random boards
No.2470
>>2467>>2468Same, although I'm using ZZZ's /v/ too. Not sure if I like that place, it feels mean spirited even by /v/ standards.
No.2471
>>2469>>2470Its enough that I want 4chan to be down for a bit (like a month), if only to encourage people to stay and actually readily post on the various chan rather than stay on ghost. We can really get something here
No.2472
>>2468> cause it doesn't have an interracial and a diaperboardAnd did you avoid 4chan because it had /trash/ and /gif/?
Spoiler alert anon, that shit got posted there all the time too.
No.2473
>>2466You can post on
>>>/kind/ or
>>>/gens/ for general discussion (/kind/ is basically just a nice random board)
No.2474
>>2470Yeah, it has activity but I don't like the culture there one bit.
No.2476
More changes
- Added a bigger catalog button to the top of boards and threads
- Added post search functionality
No.2478
>>2476Any plans to rangeban certain countries? Just in case.
No.2481
>>2480This link leads to both,
https://bunbunmaru.neocities.org/. But it doesn't seem to be connecting now. Either their domain changed, my IP changed, their site is down, or my IP got taken off the whitelist.
No.2482
>other altchans get invaded
>kino/slop/other buzzwords start appearing
So all this time we were the bad guys…
No.2483
>>2481I've been on all except /bun/.
Thanks Anon for exposing the tengus.
No.2484
>>2482Always have been. All the talk of containment boards on 4chan was simply an obfuscation of the greater truth: 4chan was the containment website.
No.2485
>>1709ZOOMERS WON!!!
WOOHOO
No.2487
>>1731I normally never save anything and just jerk it to /e/ and /b/ stuff.
Nothing saved for years, save 5 images and the site goes down.
At least they're very good and well worth killing 4channel for.
No.2488
>>2485Congratulations, you proved you're even worse than we originally thought you could be.
No.2489
How many of you are even planning on staying?
No.2490
>>2489I'll stay if the board has a steady enough speed like it does now. Although, I do wish there was a little bit more board variety but it isn't so bad.
No.2492
>>2489I'll keep it bookmarked for as long as my thread stays up on /vnt/. Lum is cute so that's a good reason to stay too
No.2493
>>2490This, really. Depends on how fast the boards are once all of this blows over.
No.2494
>>2489I've had wapchan bookmarked since launch, but never really had anything to contribute because I've been too busy to (re)watch older shows.
(That, and the site looked dead because I bookmarked /all/, which apparently became a static cached page after the board reorganization. Oops.)
Now that it's picking up speed, I'll use that as my excuse to give my backlog some much-needed love.
No.2496
>>2490admins already shown they're more than willing to add boards provided there's enough interest and it's not politics
No.2497
>>2489I was lurking here for the last two years anyway. Even if this place goes back to being dead I'll be staying at some level.
No.2498
>>2489I like it here better than anywhere else I've looked. It's a bit on the outer edge of my specific interests but it's comfy and that's what counts.
No.2499
>>2489I'll be real with you, I'm only in /lum/ and this thread and I don't see /lum/ getting more active.
No.2500
>>2489It seems pretty nice except for actual activity, which is a damn shame.
No.2502
>>2501this whole incident seemed to cause kissu and wapchan to work more closely together so we may eventually end up with a merged site or one where you can reference boards on the other site
No.2504
How do i stop the music loading on every page
No.2505
>>2448I'll be honest this seems like a fundamentally dumb idea for a imageboard that's supposed to be all about Japanese culture.
If its just to provide refuge for /co/ users while 4chan is kill that's one thing, but I don't think it should be permanent.
Definitely gonna use it while it's there though :P
No.2506
Any /bjd/ fellas here?
No.2509
>>2503This is great, thank you.
No.2511
>>2502A merged site sounds unlikely, one because differing site architecture would be a pain to merge, and two it's been made pretty clear that a single centralized site is a bad idea; but, I can see your idea of referencing boards in a way like treating these sites as different boards under 4chan. I never went to /g/ or /m/ or many of the smaller hobby boards because I didn't have an interest in them, but it's simple enough to go there if I desired and I can point people who do like those things in their direction.
Even before this it's not like there was some unspoken rule that you could only post on one site. I've used alts in addition to 4chan. As someone put it, they're like your home away from home.
A solitary alt-chan will most likely die with a wimper, but associated chans can act as a lifeline like fire ants making a raft. The "Net Friends" thing is a great idea that could be taken a step further. Like how 4chanX allows you to put boards from different sites up in the top bar maybe have them listed there too, concept image attached.
At the end of the day, I think that even if the activity on wapchan falls off the site will be fine. An alt chan lives or dies based on the owner's commitment and spread knowledge that its niche exists. As long as people know this is the place to talk old anime and manga + Rumiko Takahashi works and we keep directing those interested here, it'll work out.
The wave may subside but word of mouth is a powerful thing and all the newfrens learning about places like this will have some long term effects.
>>2506Big Japanese Dolls? A few of them made a thread here:
https://kissu.moe/qa/thread/142615 No.2512
My posts are hanging up at 100% sent without actually sending. Am I bumping into a filter?
No.2513
>>2482Kino is an inherently funny word.
No.2514
>>2512It's probably just the sudden higher activity on the site. I'm a mod and even I had trouble logging in for a few minutes.
No.2515
>>2510I'm a bit disappointed this wasn't a rickroll.>>2482When people call it "cancer" they weren't kidding.
>>2513No, it's not. Its a meaningless slogan that allows you to express your uncontroversial approval or ironic disdain for something without actually having to justify it or elaborate on your opinions. Its a frogpost in textual form.
No.2516
>>2513I consider it a mindless buzzword, but to my surprise, there's a cinema near me literally named Kino. It's been around since long before that word became a meme, and it screened Miyazaki and Satoshi Kon movies and hosts a yearly Japanese film festival.
Dare I say anons are behind the curve?
No.2517
>>2515>No, it's not.The smile on my face disagrees.
No.2518
>>2489I was pretty much here already before since I found out about it almost a year ago, but I kept gravitating back to 4chan mainly because of how slow Wapchan was. I think I only posted here once or twice, I didn't mind slow sites or boards, but I just didn't see a reason to stick around too muchwhen most people were not really posting.
Now that 4chan is out for a while and it seems activity is in that nice zone of not being too fast to be filled with rampant shitposters but also not too slow to be dead. Even if 4chan comes back up, I think I'll still stick around here and only go back to 4chan for the niche boards that I frequented anyways.
>>2513I found kino amusing when it was used in that semi-ironic way of mocking pretentious film critics who found the concept of using the word "cinema" or "film" or "movie" to not be sufficient enough, so they'd rather use the more German/Central-European word "kino" to describe a film's artistry. It was amusing, but then it started to be overused by people who really didn't understand the origin of the whole thing.
>>2516If you live in Central Europe, the word Kino is just the word for a cinema/theater.
No.2519
>>2489Been lurking since 2022 and occasionally contribute.
I don't post a whole lot on imageboards generally and prefer the lurk experience- big reason why 8ch was my home before it died. I could just open the catalog on any board, go to a random thread, and see long extended thoughts from dozens of people in a thread spanning years.
Wapchan is, without a doubt, the best imageboard aesthetically though, which is why I stay here. figamin gets it in a way a lot of others don't and I find stuff like the etiquette rules lends a lot to maintaining a quality atmosphere, whereas other *chans just feel like 4chan derivatives in nearly everyway- seriously, the big one of the moment is just all the absolute worst aspects of 4chan on a single site.
No.2520
>>2518Whenever I see "kino" I just think back to the Russian musician.
>>2516Kino means cinema in several languages.
No.2521
>>2489I'll probably check back occasionally if the site slows down again. I think this alt has a better UI than Kissu so that's a plus.
Unfortunately I'm not a big Rumiko fan so /lum/ isn't my thing. No.2522
>>2520>Whenever I see "kino" I just think back to the Russian musician.Oh yeah that too.
Also Kino No Tabi as well.
No.2524
>>2523Fixed (make sure to force reload by holding down shift to get the new CSS)
No.2525
>>2518>If you live in Central EuropeI don't. Hence my surprise when curators who might as first glance appear to be ironic memelords actually had good taste.
>>2520>Whenever I see "kino" I just think back to the Russian musician.Summer may be gone, but good riffs last forever.
No.2529
>>2528Just moved servers, getting everything fixed up.
No.2530
hello world
No.2532
>>2521I like Ranma and Maison Ikkoku but everything else I could never really get into. Nabiki "Cash Money" Tendonis best girl.
https://youtu.be/xLn53M_cxMo No.2533
To make things a bit easier to navigate, I've added
https://wapchan.org/a/ which aggregates posts from /cel/, /digi/, and /lum/.
No.2535
Just came here to tell the other anons that get used to altchans since pic related seems that tech is not the real problem here.
>>2533Now this is something we needed. Maybe I can get used to this place.
No.2539
If you don't mind me asking, how does the captcha for zzzchan work?
No.2542
>>2524Not sure if it was you or it fixed itself somehow but dollchan posting works fine now, thanky either way
>>2172 No.2543
>>2540I've realized that but it only started working now for some reason. I guess I had to reset the page.
No.2545
>>2535>Me and Hiroyuki are working>Hiroyuki>workingYeah, this is fake.
No.2547
>>2530Hello everynyan!
How are you?
I'm fine, thank you.
No.2548
>>2489I doubt any altchans will satisfy my niche needs, but I'm definitely not going back to 4flop or any descendant of 8ded.
No.2549
>>2548>my niche needsWhat are those?
No.2554
>>2551Chance is they will move to 8chan
No.2555
>>2546He missed his calling. He should have a truck-related altchan.
No.2556
>>2551I for one miss the goold poster on /tv/.btw ive been to all the altchans and wapchan has the best UI out of all of them.
No.2558
>>2557The yellow altchan rebellion is real my dude.
Do not forget that the wapchan logo is yellow!
No.2560
Who is the Dong Zhuo of altchans? I want to go there.
No.2562
>>2535I can believe that a lot of staff are leaving, but I'm skeptical of the "legal action" warning. Could they get away with pressing something against sharty? Maybe. Would it be worth the effort? Doubtful, I think Hiro and co. are just going to take the loss and walk away.
>>2551I'll miss the once-in-a-blue-moon threads of that one Argentinian schizoposting about Italians on /int/. It's like when 8ch died, lots of micro-communities got fucked over and scattered across the web.
No.2564
>>2556i miss being banned on /tv/ for talking about movies and film because the janny would get upset that boomers were making movies about having sex with minors well into the 1990s. And then I got permanently banned for 'pedoshit' for simply pointing out that age of consent in some usa states was still 14 all the way to 2001 because one anon was trying to understand why nobody flipped out over leon the professional featuring an underage sex plot. The anon could not understand that the knee-jerk reaction to relationships with people under the age of 18 is a completely modern phenomenia that has literally only existed in our life time and thats why boomers could make those kinds of films because only our generation cares about it and explaining the reason why, a historical fact relevant to the discussion, was magically against the rules.
i know its autistic to point these things out but it shouldnt be against the rules. how can you discuss an issue if you cant talk about part of the issue. but i dont think jannies want effort posting on their boards, i think jannies just want shill threads and spam.
No.2566
>>2564That topic is one of the most taboo ones these days. Reminds me of a post declaring lolis to be a symbol of free speech.
Though I feel it's a bigger issue in America than in Europe or elsewhere. I had a classmate who had an 11-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 or so, and while his friends would sometimes tease him about it, they didn't stop being his friends over it.
No.2567
>>2368>4Chan wasn't created for free speech activists.supporting free speech was the default position of 200x internet users. Anonymous posting representing the highest form of freedom of speech because you could say what you want without being personally criticized.
zoomers really dont understand just how far the political compass has moved over the past 20 years. It use to be that libertarians/leftwingers/all the fringe groups desperately supported the idea of free speech while the right wing (the dominant group at the time) low key suppressed it. Then when the left took power in 2008, and even more so in 2012+ they started the whole 'freedom of speech doesnt mean freedom from consequences' meme, and free speech started being killed off because our corporate overlords much prefer a world in which you just silently consume whatever they provide you with, never questioning or criticizing anything.
No.2574
>>2569Oh, you got a link to that track? Sounds based.
No.2577
>>2575Oh, I meant the remix, haha. I love YMO. Naughty Boys is one of my favourite albums.
>>2576Thanks.
No.2578
The only thing from 4chan I'm missing is /wsg/, specifically the comfy threads. I have a place to talk about modern anime. I'm not watching Gavv, Gozyuger, or Gcucks, so I can do without /m/ for the time being. I would shitpost in the Destiny general but the game is so dead, there's little point.
No.2579
>>2564Whats really interesting to me is that the jannies didnt have a strict code of conduct, as in they enforced the rules as they saw fit and each had their own interpretation of the site rules. For example /gif/ was the most chaotic board on that hellhole, with the most amount of schizo spam like the fligugigu ylyl threads,the bbc and trap threads, the sissy hypno spam and as of late indian-ragebait threads etc…. and the janny did nothing to stop it.NOTHING.NADA.
However i once started a music thread on /gif/and it was instantly moved to /wsg/! we are talking about warp speed here.its like the janny was waiting for me to press send so Xe could move my thread and make room for more fligu threads.
Same with /tv/,the janny was very fickle.
>discussing actual movies? Warning,ban,permaban
>Making a thread about sydney sweeneys tits for the umpthteen time? Crickets
And on /trv/ we had an indian janny who would permaban anyone who spoke ill of his precious subcontinent.This was proven fact btw.
Also as a sidenote i dont understand the american obsession with pedophilia,abortion and sex in general.
No.2580
>>2579>Same with /tv/,the janny was very fickle.I got banned on /tv/ a few months ago or so for simply writing "test".
No.2581
>>2580I was banned for saying "cocksucker" . In hindsight the janny might have had a prostitute for a mother and was therfore offended. Which makes me the guilty party.
No.2583
i feel like an idiot but how do you start threads?
Is it just a subject/comment/file entry that is required?
Also cheers to figbro for being so welcoming
No.2584
>>2583Subject isn't required
You just need a file and a message
No.2588
>>2587happens to the best of us
No.2592
>>2295whats more terrifying is how hard it is to find similar communities now that search engines have been transitioned into advertising platforms.
No.2593
>>2579there's a /j/ thread leak where one of the jannies was basically talking about how he felt it was his personal mission in life to make sure all SAFE FOR WORK content stayed OFF /gif/ and was exclusively only posted in /WSG/ because in his mind, /gif/ existed exclusively for porn. This kind of mentality is extremely deranged. In all my years of posting on 4chan not once did I ever see anyone ever say:
>hey, this board is not safe for work so…. all your content cant be safe for work lmao
>Also as a sidenote i dont understand the american obsession with pedophilia,abortion and sex in general.It's a consequence of millenials failing to have lots of kids. So what happenedin the usa was, the baby boomers were the last 'big generation' with large families. And they were a very selfish generation that engaged in a lot of drugs and sex and birthcontrol, which resulted in lower birthrates. They also refuse to give up power so it took longer for gen-x, their kids, to have kids of their own. Gen-x normalized the idea of starting a family in your late 20s and early 30s in the USA. When it came time for the millenials, millenials were basically taught that "you will work hard, pay off all your debts, then you can have all the young teen pussy you want in your late 20s/early 30s' because gen-x also didnt want to give up power and let millenials have oppertunities. It was kind of a trick, but since millenials grew up with internet porn they fell for it. Finally, millenials have kids but they are having them in their 30s and even 40s… which means their family size is typically 1.
What does this mean? It means zoomer kids grew up with no sibblings. They interacted exclusively with their own peer group growing up. They didnt go to older or younger kids birthdays, they didnt have older or younger cousins to hang out with. And since their parents only had to raise one kid, there was no reason for their parents to dump them on relatives so they stayed relatively isolated from the rest of society. Since their own parents had smaller families, there was less oppertunities to interact with cousins, uncles, or aunties. This means that older and younger generations are a complete mystery tothem. All they know, is what they are told. And what are zoomers told? Young people are stupid/ignorant. Old people are manipulative/evil.
This in turn, created this extremely weird cultural belief among the zoomers that you should only have relationships within your own peer group. They can't comprehend the value of being around older people, and they firmly believe theres no (legitimate) reason to interact with younger ones and anyone who does is up to no good. All because theyve never interacted with other groups. As zoomers got older, they started coming up with insane copes for societies problems, like artifically extending their own childhoods to absolve themselves from responsibility. Zoomers created the meme that 'your brain isnt developed until 26' and things like the 'height of consent' to side step memes like 'loli is a body type' or 'shes actually 3000 years old'. They are an unfortunate generation taught maladeptive survival strategies by a highly corporatized generation that wishes they could just replace them all with forign immigrants because using dirt cheap labor is one of the last ways possible to squeeze out more profit in our failing inflation-fueled economy.
No.2595
where did everyone go
No.2599
>>2595Doing my homework. It was on the statement of cash flows.
No.2600
>>2595learning html for literally just one assignment. at least I will know how to make my own personal website afterwards.
No.2601
>>2599I hated economics class. My professor was never clear how to run functions and had some specific annotation in his slides that didn't work well with excel
No.2604
>>2593>like artifically extending their own childhoods to absolve themselves from responsibility.Phenomenon at least as old as the industrial revolution. Read The Problem of the Puer Aeternus for more.
No.2605
>>2595The mood kinda soured when the folks showed up to talk about how people get too worked up about pedophilia and how the left are the people blackbagging people for free speech or something idk
No.2606
>>2595I'm right here.
>>2605I'm glad I was too lazy to read any of it.
No.2608
>>2595The happening happened, and then we got to the thing that happens after the happening. It's just the natural diffusion as people either lose interest or finally decided to attend to their neglected responsibilities. Things are supposed to return to normal, but since that can't occur under the circumstance, we are starting to establish the new normal.
In short, this
>>2596 No.2609
>>2595>>2608Yeah its mostly
>>2596 and also the fact that 4chan's been kill for 3 days now and it's likely gonna be a bit before it goes back up. If ever.
So things are slowing down and chilling out a bit. Which I like. Altchans are supposed to be more laid back.
No.2610
>>2608>Things are supposed to return to normal, but since that can't occur under the circumstance, we are starting to establish the new normal.Foxdick Farms says that the ETA on 4chan coming back is "15 to 25 days". That's catastrophic for any website that wants to retain their userbase, they're lucky there's no viable 4chan replacement to pick up all the anon stragglers after wheeliechan imploded.
No.2611
>>2593>there's a /j/ thread leak where one of the jannies was basically talking about how he felt it was his personal mission in life to make sure all SAFE FOR WORK content stayed OFF /gif/ and was exclusively only posted in /WSG/ because in his mind, /gif/ existed exclusively for pornI KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! I
KNEW I WAS RIGHT I KNEW I WASNT CRAZY! Thank you anon i finally feel vindicated.
