Which other imageboards do you go to? desuchan? uboachan.net/ot/?
None really.
I check 4taba.net occasionally. Used to use uboachan, but it's become pretty shit.
>>35528 https://uboachan.net/ot/ just needs a push; same with wizchan
>>35532 Last time I saw wizchan it was both fast and garbage, seems like it already got a push but for the worse.
A few boards on what is known as the "webring" these days. A bunch of 8ch spinoffs that are forever stuck in the swamp of infighting.
>>35532 You can't fix a shitty owner.
Is 420chan worth trying?
>>35541 Sure, if you like hanging out with braindead lefty drogados.
>>35532 As far as I know wizchan bans people like me and only welcomes those engaging in fantasy monk role playing contest for the title of 'true wizard'.
>>35547 That's true, I got banned like that. Most funny thing is I suspect the "true wizards" were 20 yo or younger laughing their asses off of a few 30 yo virgins.
>>35541 420chan is insufferable. Their average IQ is probably like 10 points lower than on other imageboards. Maybe it's because of the sustained drug abuse over the course of decades.
>>35547 The fact that wizchan has a /b/ board (which is probably the most active board on the site and has the quality you'd expect from a /b/ tells you everything you need to know about their main userbase).
>>35547 I only use wizchan for the anime board because I like to share my thoughts on whatever I'm watching, sometimes I also use the hobby one to share my figures. Anything else is not worth browsing because they immediatly get angry if you don't pretend that you're a virgin purely by choice.
>>35551 Tohno-chan has an anime board. Why use two? >Anything else is not worth browsing because they immediatly get angry if you don't pretend that you're a virgin purely by choice. How does that ever come up in conversation?
>>35552 >How does that ever come up in conversation? It's the only thing you can talk about since literally everything else in existence is "normalfag shit".
>>35532 Uboachan has been dead for close to a decade. I don't lurk wizchan, but wasn't there a huge controversy with data-mining and ownership transferal there? >>35552 I'm not the person you're responding to, but the rate of posting on /an/ (and Tohno-chan as a whole) is not sustainable enough to be my only source of information. The posts here are more insightful and well-spoken than other imageboards, but that comes at the cost of being able to essentially 'finish' the board once all 24 pages are read because new threads are a rare occurrence. Either way it's better than the alternative, since larger imageboards have zero quality control and their /a/-equivalent boards are almost always filled with children and secondary otaku.
>>35527 Except this one, right?
>>35593 Maybe... https://uboachan.net/ot/res/20703.html
>>35528 >4taba.net Nevermind. There's only 2 stated rules, but the mods use unwritten rules too. They don't even have the courtesy to tell you why were banned. Avoid.
>>35632 >They don't even have the courtesy to tell you why were banned. I've noticed this is common practice even among established companies. The explanation/justification for it is to avoid making it easier for ban evaders to ban evade. Which I think is fucking stupid. The whole point of having rules is so people follow them, and if someone who was previously banned decide to follow the rules then what's the problem?
>>35633 >what's the problem? Elitism. I see "gatekeeping" as a good thing generally, but it's one thing when there's detailed rules and people get told which they broke, it's another when there appears to be no rules, but certain things are implicitly off-limits and you get banned if you don't "feel the vibe" correctly and act accordingly. An imageboard's demographic and stance on certain things should be transparent. >if someone who was previously banned decide to follow the rules I don't even know if it's permanent or not.Post edited on 10th Aug 2020, 10:30am
Anime about GateKeepers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vety5UgVbLU
Since I'm an Spanish speaker I use Wired-7. It has some Lainchan vibes and I find it pretty high quality compared to other Spanish imageboards. https://wired-7.org/
>>35689 Are you posting in /tower/ too?
>>35690 Haven't posted there in months. Why do you ask?
>>35691 Sorry, don't mind me.
>>35691 Bad-girl Biribiri is hawt. Should be a vodka bottle edit though. Haha.
I just want a anonymous forum where people are mostly polite....
Posting slowly is preferred here...
Samachan but it's gone now.
>>35770 I really miss Samachan, wish it didn't go under but damn.
>>35770 >>35775 I looked at it a few times. The range of potential discussion topics was too limited for my taste.
>>35775 Me too, there have been no other sites like it. >>35776 That's a plus for me, less is more. Nice picture btw.
https://zzzchan.xyz/ is new...
>>35978 Looks like 8chan spin-off #3434234
>>35979 8-chan is gone, man.
>>36026 8chan.moe 8chan.se 8chan.cc
>>36053 that's like that one kid trying to say his yugioh counterfait cards were the real deal
>>36053 Splitting up a userbase that had fewer than 500 users must be tough.
Is this any good? http://4-ch.net
>>35770 >>35775 Most of its userbase migrated to sushi. At the same time I'm glad they shut it down if they didn't enjoy it anymore. >>36217 Everything outside of /dqn/ is extremely slow. /dqn/ depends on person to person.
>>36218 /iaa/ and /net/ (internet addicts and internet culture) respectively are of decent quality. But yes they're quite slow.
>>36218 That's a terrible site and I'm not sure "most" of the userbase migrated there.
>>36220 I don't understand why both /net/ and /iaa/ exist except that they both have mid 2000s posts on them that are weirdly prophetic. >>36221 Never used it, but thats what I heard.
>>36221 What makes it terrible?
>>36231 It's nothing like Samachan. It goes against the few things Samachan tries to enforce.
>>36231 It's run by the same cali, druggie normalfag as uboachan.
>>36160 That comment made me chuckle.
>>35689 lainchan.org
>>35526 7chan. It's pretty fucking terrible, but at least it has an actual board, not just a bunch of immobile esoteric topic-logs.
>>35618 That I am...
>>37433 An interesting collection of boards there. I like zzzchan's /r9k/ as well. Looking at neet.moe, I remember that it's a site I visited once and bounced off immediately. I detest that posting style of /r9k/ polluting an /a/ board where you have this pervasive sentiment of "Wah, I don't like anime anymore and it's anime's fault", people applying anti 3DPD logic to all of 2D, and just in general people who hate anime talking about anime. I visited wizchan's /a/ some time ago and immediately bounced off too, should have seen that coming. One of the reasons zzzchan's /r9k/ is a decent place is that they don't talk much about anime.
>>37556 >pervasive sentiment of "Wah, I don't like anime anymore and it's anime's fault" I think that started somewhat recently. (Or recently for me, at least. My perception of time is messed up.) I don't appreciate it either but I can tell him and the other angry guy is probably just the start of the board's decline while the mod or admin will probably stand by and do nothing as usual or drag their feet for anything. >people applying anti 3DPD logic to all of 2D I might have been one of those people. I know for sure I made the post about main characters getting bullied by the girls for not being perfect. Not sure what else you might mean though and I'm not sure why anti-3dpd would be bad on imageboards when they probably need it now more than ever. >One of the reasons zzzchan's /r9k/ is a decent place is that they don't talk much about anime. I've thought about posting about it there myself but I don't trust I won't get shouted at over something minor. Their /r9k/ has had a habit of getting into arguments often and I just don't want to deal with someone laser focusing on a single minor point.
>>37556 neet.moe seems like it could have had potential if it was managed properly, but every other post on their is about 3D. Wizchan's /a/ equivalent is at least on-topic but the shows that get threads there don't overlap with my taste and I generally detest the wizchan userbase anyway.
>>37433 >>37556 I checked it out. Most anons there seem like perpetually pms riddled, self-deprecating assholes with some pol shit mixed in. It's ironic that people who call themselves robots complain so much. What's the appeal?
>>37561 Not him but I didn't find that r9k much appealing either (in fact at this point I'm wary of any r9k board since the topics discussed either devolve into discussion of 3D (all the while they loudly proclaim not to be a harbor for such discussions), or discussion of normalfags (while occasional discussion is fine, threads solely focused on how "superior" they are to normalfags are inane). And the fact that it's yet another lynxchan instance was already a bad sign (the "feature" that allows for attaching multiple images to a post is a great way to absolutely kill discussion and turn threads into imagedumps) ).Post edited on 5th Feb 2021, 5:23pm
>>37563 /r9k/ is a board about nothing really. It was like that from its inception. No other board has as much of an identity crisis.
>>37565 r9k was originally spawned out of one of the xkcd guy's suggestions, right [1]? It's hilarious in retrospect how wrong that hypothesis was. The space of "garbage discourse" is so vast that just preventing duplicate lines isn't enough. Also if none of the r9k spinoffs implement the filtering then there's not much point calling it r9k in the first place. [1] https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-attacking-noise-in-chat/
>>37561 >what's the appeal A place for robots to post at all without being 4/r9k/.
>>37560 NEET very rarely posts about 3D, and are mostly joking because they are usually very playful there and know how to self-moderate. The bigger issue with it is that it gets only handfuls of posts a year, which is fitting for the userbase. >>36217 /dqn/ is an acquired taste. 4-ch is pretty notable for it's relative immortality compared to its contemporaries. >>37433 >smugloli Oh, man, those first few general interest threads when 8chan went down were real fun. Don't know if it's still fun like that. Seeing how anemic the userbase of that webring is depressing. Robots are a whole other discussion, they can be chill but a whole lot of things come with them, good and bad and it's interesting how polemic wizardchan is among western imageboard fans.
>>37433 I'll lurk their /r9k/ just because I would like to find a decent /r9k/ again. I actually thought the original discussions of how an extreme "outcast" group had been created in a certain generation was pretty interesting. I feep pike there's a pretty small window of time between maybe 2000 and 2010 where people hitting puberty had a chance to just become complete social dropouts in a way that you don't see anymore. It's weird how kids don't even have a chance of not being accepted by some group to some degree now. I wonder how much the internet taking over every aspect of life had to do with it. I see all these discords where even the biggest autist teenager can find people, and it amazes me. When I was a teenager I just didn't have anyone and that was that. I don't resent it, it just amazes me. I'm aware that in the 80s and 90s it existed but there was no great awareness of it outside of close hobby circles.
>>37582 >there's a pretty small window of time between maybe 2000 and 2010 where people hitting puberty had a chance to just become complete social dropouts in a way that you don't see anymore No, some people like myself still choose not to join any group because they feel too alienated, don't want the obligation, and don't enjoy that type of interaction in the first place.
>>37582 >It's weird how kids don't even have a chance of not being accepted by some group to some degree now. Man, no. You take one look at social media and every single person ever created is at each other's throats for no reason. Groups are more focused on who they kick out rather than who they let in. Everyone going "Wow we as a group are so accepting of people we like" is a front and they're bullshitting.
>>37566 The originality bot concept works better for chats than for imageboards, since chat messages tend to be smaller in size, their chance of being unoriginal is infinitely higher. With imageboard posts being anywhere between 10 to 10000 symbols long, the chance of being unoriginal, unless you're doing it on purpose either to spam or to repeat some stale meme is nigh-on 0, meaning it has no real effect. Maybe if you made the bot a lot more complicated, so instead of just banning posts that are 100% the same, it runs each post through a ML-algorithm that measures content similarity to older posts would work better, but the sheer amount of resources that'd consume make it impractical for now. It's not even efficient spam prevention because programming spambots to add some random word in the middle somewhere is trivial.
>>37589 >sheer amount of resources that'd consume make it impractical for now. Actually I think classical NLP techniques as well as "older" (relatively speaking) ML techniques can compute semantic similarity (it also goes under the name "paraphrase identification") fairly cheaply. You can see an overview of all the known techniques here [1], but clasically you could do something like tfidf, and traditional ML would be just using word2vec or similar word embedding and then using any vector similarity metric (probably the most bang-for-buck in terms of accuracy vs compute requirements). Newer, fancier techniques would be using BERT to do the embedding. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.03940.pdf
Text-only board https://4-ch.net/general/
>>37613 It feels like 4-ch shot up in relevancy with the imageboard crowd last year or so. Maybe because they're dropping like flies, and 4-ch is immortal, or maybe it's just interest in textboard sites and 4-ch is the fastest English one.
>>37630 Cos text is cheap in terms of band-width
>>37613 Ah fuck, I hope 4-ch doesn't get overrun.
>>37726 Dont worry about it, most never stay because of the slowness, and /img/ is always eh to bad.
Asides from a board on anon.cafe, i just sort of bounce from place to place. Most places are shit and the ones that are good have little to no activity to sustain them. I regrettably still post on 4chan because I can't bring myself to sign up for a forum just for a relatively obscure hobby. Honestly if 4chan had died before 2010 I think imageboards would've been in a much better place right now. Everywhere seems to be dead or dying unless you're userbase is made up of the type of people who use 4chan/8chan.
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