zlacker

I don’t do 4chan, but I know people IRL who do. They seem to think it’s pretty good.

Is there a chance it’s getting better?

>>pyuser+(OP)
I’ve used it off and on since 2005 and /b/ has always been bad, while the tech and music boards have been pretty good.

>>pyuser+(OP)
4chan will never "get better" because if that happens it'll cease to be 4chan as we know it. /b/ has always been an open pit sewer that the occasional nugget of gold flows through. /trv/ is where I like to hang out, but /pol/ can't help itself and likes to crap-post in there on the regular. /gif/ and it's blue board, "safe for work," version /wsg/ are fun to browse, but the 4chanX extension and some filters are needed to hide a lot of the trolling and truly awful stuff while browsing.

>>pyuser+(OP)
I remember my /b/tard days, in the mid 2000's. I drifted away from it many years ago, but I remember ir fondly.

4chan was horrible and excellent at the same time. A sea of garbage that was also full of gold.

Probably the only online community I ever enjoyed to be a part of. All else was shit.

>>surgic+EA
It was a good time for the internet, back then. I do miss those days. I've tried to visit 4chan a few times in the last decade, but the community is... different now.

>>bearmo+KC
I had the same experience.

But I'm also much older now. I wondered if the community changed, or if I was the one that changed and can't appreciate it for what it is anymore. Maybe both I and the community changed in different directions.

I probably will never have an answer. But I still remember the old times there fondly.

In a sense, 4chan in the mid-2000's was probably my final experience with the old web, in a time before walled gardens, before social media trying to lock everyone in and tracking the shit out of everything to shove ads down the collective throat. A place still not neutered by contemporary political correctness and value systems. Full of extremely smart people and extremely dumb people in equal measure. It was maybe the ultimate form of the prior iteration of internet forums and irc chat rooms.

Nothing lasts forever, entropy dictates that on a long enough timeline all things become shit. Oh well.

>>yosham+ea
Are these things like subreddits?

>>surgic+cE
Mid 2000s - that was pre-Facebook. Did other social media companies draw folks away?

>>Ulus+87
Seems tech neighborhoods are pretty good everywhere.

Twitter and Reddit tech neighborhoods have good reputations.

>>pyuser+Qz1
Yes. On 4chan they're called boards. Some boards are focused on particular content. Other boards are focused on the type of media posted.

/b/ = random /trv/ = travel /pol/ = politically incorrect /gif/ = .gif and .webm files /wsg/ = the work safe version of /gif/ (its toned down but still not actually safe for work)