Might be alone in this but I did appreciate 4chan for chatting about niche topics that don’t really work elsewhere. Reddit is just the same 3-5 topics over and over mixed with horny shit and you can’t really have a conversation on Twitter, so unless there’s some forum that’s been running for 20 years about your hyperfixation, 4chan was the best option. Gonna miss weekly manga dumps and some of the smaller videogame generals.
If 4chan had shut down a decade ago it might have been nice, since the culture was more confined to the website, but now even Hexbear has fucking wojaks so what’s the point?
Losing the /tg/ archive has been a tremendous loss for the TTRPG enthusiast community. I fucking loved reading random games in there or the weird supplements in it.
Maybe people will keep donating to it. As long as the rebrandly stays up, the tg thread basically only exists for user support and content requests.
I tend to obsessively read a large number of these, like way more than I could possibly ever run, but the things I do run I buy because I don’t want to lack a physical copy at the table, and everything I buy I pirated first because big ass books made on small production runs are expensive and I’m not buying something I don’t know I can get to the table (or at least desperately want to get to the table).
Their culture sucks a lot worse than ours. It’s not as bad as 4chan proper (which I haven’t used in over a decade because of how bad it is) but there are enough endemic bad takes that I can’t stand leftypol either.
In the same way that Hexbear was formed from Reddit refugees, leftypol was formed from 8chan refugees, and 8chan was probably the worst large site on the internet while it was operational. I don’t hate leftypol but I have a pretty thick skin, wouldn’t expect most people to want to deal with that culture
I didn’t use /g/ so I wouldn’t know.
IMO the boards with generals or weekly threads were more tolerable. Less likely to have random people come in to shit stir, although it certainly still happens sometimes.
Yes, there are some niche communities in /toy/, /ck/, /sp/, and /sci/ that I appreciated. It gives “old internet” vibe of niche hobby, slow forums instead of everything gets swallowed by the “everything app” that is reddit, Facebook and twitter.
Like for example, there is always thread about people showing photos and collection of their army men figures and dioramas. I personally don’t collect them and don’t participate in the discussions, but I like seeing people touch grass, play with army mens and post their photos posing the army men in their backyards, with sometimes hilarious scenarios and scripts. Same deal with /sp/, people coming together to dunk on Manchester United losing never gets old.
Might be alone in this but I did appreciate 4chan for chatting about niche topics that don’t really work elsewhere. Reddit is just the same 3-5 topics over and over mixed with horny shit and you can’t really have a conversation on Twitter, so unless there’s some forum that’s been running for 20 years about your hyperfixation, 4chan was the best option. Gonna miss weekly manga dumps and some of the smaller videogame generals.
If 4chan had shut down a decade ago it might have been nice, since the culture was more confined to the website, but now even Hexbear has fucking wojaks so what’s the point?
I’m still glad to see the people who used it regularly lose their digital hangout.
I will miss the tg PDF share thread, not aware of anything else that comes close in terms of organizing RPG and wargame piracy
Losing the /tg/ archive has been a tremendous loss for the TTRPG enthusiast community. I fucking loved reading random games in there or the weird supplements in it.
Maybe people will keep donating to it. As long as the rebrandly stays up, the tg thread basically only exists for user support and content requests.
I tend to obsessively read a large number of these, like way more than I could possibly ever run, but the things I do run I buy because I don’t want to lack a physical copy at the table, and everything I buy I pirated first because big ass books made on small production runs are expensive and I’m not buying something I don’t know I can get to the table (or at least desperately want to get to the table).
I was just thinking about this earlier today :(
I liked the image board format. 4chan’s design with Hexbear moderation would be my ideal social media site.
I think I remember there being ideas of a hexbear adjacent image board in the youth of the site but that never panned out sadly
is that not what leftypol is? idk I can’t stand the format
Their culture sucks a lot worse than ours. It’s not as bad as 4chan proper (which I haven’t used in over a decade because of how bad it is) but there are enough endemic bad takes that I can’t stand leftypol either.
I wonder to what extent the format itself informs how the culture develops.
Superstructure: website culture
Base: website format
In the same way that Hexbear was formed from Reddit refugees, leftypol was formed from 8chan refugees, and 8chan was probably the worst large site on the internet while it was operational. I don’t hate leftypol but I have a pretty thick skin, wouldn’t expect most people to want to deal with that culture
And so was /g/, nothing new just the same shit over and over and over again
Sometimes /g/ had some good stuff, but yeah you’re right
I didn’t use /g/ so I wouldn’t know.
IMO the boards with generals or weekly threads were more tolerable. Less likely to have random people come in to shit stir, although it certainly still happens sometimes.
So was /lit, etc.
Yes, there are some niche communities in /toy/, /ck/, /sp/, and /sci/ that I appreciated. It gives “old internet” vibe of niche hobby, slow forums instead of everything gets swallowed by the “everything app” that is reddit, Facebook and twitter.
Like for example, there is always thread about people showing photos and collection of their army men figures and dioramas. I personally don’t collect them and don’t participate in the discussions, but I like seeing people touch grass, play with army mens and post their photos posing the army men in their backyards, with sometimes hilarious scenarios and scripts. Same deal with /sp/, people coming together to dunk on Manchester United losing never gets old.
I don’t personally use it but what about Tumblr?
There’re also matrix spaces, sometimes
I never used Tumblr but my understanding is that it’s more Twitter-esque in terms of interaction. Don’t know anything about Matrix tbh