Thread 283419092

I THOUGHT YOU WERE GONE FOR GOOD THIS TIME

4chan is so fucking slow man... can't get catpcha... connection error...

if only...

>>283419130
The downtime made me worried because the alternatives seem even worse.

We went down? When? I just got home.

>>283419359
You couldn't post for like 20 minutes I think.
YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GONE FOR GOOD THIS TIME

this site is dead

Stop being terminally online.

I was trying to dump a fucking storytime too
Took like an hour longer than it should have

>>283419359
Just posting for a bit
I'm really glad it got fixed and hope everything will be fine tomorrow for r/a/dio

guess I missed it

>be me
>storytiming
>site crashed

I was at the borderline of cut my balls

4chan would improve if all mods and jannies suddenly died.

>>283419816
Sorry that was rude. I deleted it.

the fuck has been going on with 4chan in recent weeks?

>>283419889
Shit's dying a very slow death.

>>283419889
Some asshats are using troll bot AIs to start retarded arguments in every single thread.

>>283419918
Really?

remember when it went down for like a month and everyone thought it was gone for good.

>>283419304
Yeah, no matter how bad /a/ gets, the rest is always so much worse.

>>283419956
I still wish it was

Posting has been fucked for a couple days now, it feels like. What did you guys do for the whole 20 minutes it went down? That's almost enough time for an entire episode.

>>283419889
Rise of AI-related shitposting, schizoposting, and general inactivity from the mods.
>>283419913
Less of "dying" and more of dead. 4chan has been culturally irrelevant for most of this decade and the site has shrunken down to less than a thousand posters on most boards (excluding /v/ and /pol/ but they are small now too).
You can safely assume if you are in a thread for a specific topic, it's the same 20 or so people posting about it now. I think getting rid of IP counts only worsened this, then again the mods of this site are middle aged and only host this for entertainment now.
The captcha breaking has been awful too.

Shitting itself really hard...
So where do we go?

>>283420072
Posting is still fucked

>>283420104
Nothing good comes from 4chan being culturally relevant.

We must be so close to the breaking point where they can't maintain "normal" operation.

>>283420104
>The captcha breaking has been awful too.

They've also had the new captcha style too, the one where you only type the letters with circles above them. Don't know how recent that is but maybe that's only for phoneposters.

>>283420108
Given how terrible every alternative was when the site properly went down in April, nowhere.

>>283420108
Well, let's see:
>half the site left for 8 chan
>said half split between k*wifarms and sharty
>rest on here who stayed are middle aged or bordering middle aged, stopped using the site
>altchans are all shit or run by pedos (bantculture for example)
I think the idea of anonymous imageboards is pretty dead. If it isn't, then someone sure hasn't made a good evolution on it.

Things would only be a tenth as bad if at least some of the mods didn't fucking hate /a/.

>>283420160
The problem is and will always be simply lack of a moderation that gives a shit. And that it's not schizophrenic, too. Moderation that actually wants to make the place, you know, good.
There's a reason so many people left and never returned from the alternatives they went to during the site's hack: They finally tasted what it was like to browse and post on an imageboard with actual fucking moderation where shitposters and bad actors are dealt with instead of being a privileged class.

I'm sure this thread will be deleted/banned because talking about the website itself always leads to that.
>>283420142
Wrong! Whereas 4chan founded modern internet culture, it didn't evolve with it and thus has died out, along with all discussion. You can't get anything new from talking about the same things over and over for years.
>>283420147
I don't think 4chan will survive this decade, and if so, will be the last decade the site is up. It will die a very shallow death, just like its father SA.
>>283420152
No, that's PC too. It's random.

>>283420152
>maybe that's only for phoneposters.
it's on desktop too, and it doesn't go away
i remember captchas would get simpler the more you got right, but i keep having to select the ones with dots until i get to the no verification point

>>283420199
>>283420210
Mods on other sites are just as bad, if not worse. The difference is they enforce their policies harsher and actively use the site they police.
Mods are always fags no matter what platform you go to, game, website, etc. A big difference too is people's political allignment now.
It's all so tiresome

>>283419550
well you still finished it good job

One wonders why they still bother. Do they have fun torturing their own users and acting against their interests?

>>283419304
>>283419958
What's the matter? You don't like posting with IDs?

>>283420264
From personal experience, they are completely sadistic or pedophiles.

>>283419304
What a retarded idea post IDs were
The fact it came to that so quickly destroyed any hope I had for a replacement if this place ever disappears

>post deletions
Aren't we petty?

>>283420251
>Mods on other sites are just as bad, if not worse.
Delusional.
>The difference is they enforce their policies harsher and actively use the site they police.
So they actually moderate their site. Oh, the horror. Now every thread won't be /dbs/ lite.
Sure, mods will always be faggots, but there's a reason people left in droves. If every other site was just as bad if not worse than here than even the super fast boards like /v/ wouldn't have threads that last for fucking days now. Even now here on /a/ we can easily have weeks-old threads.

>>283420305
It is astonishing that the culture of tripfaggotry has completely been forgotten.

>>283420210
It's not just about care, it's also whether they're passionate about the same interests as the users and involved with the day-to-day. You can't expect people who are out of touch with the culture and tangential relations of a board to effectively moderate it because they'll cull things that would otherwise be accepted and appreciated by the community. It's a wonder we still have certain events (/ss/, draws, sings, r/a/dio, 25 Days, even if the last one had threads deleted in the past), though many others have been killed. You have to contend with overzealous enforcement, double standards and shitposters all at the same time.

>>283420316
>they moderate the site
Name 3 imageboards where they do and doesn't have internal drama.

>>283420316
/v/ was split into several boards. It was fully intended to slow down.

>>283420305
There's still /animu/ as candidate.
But only as the mere idea that there could be a board without IDs.

>>283420251
>Mods on other sites are just as bad
Lmao.

>>283420339
I remember when /vm/ was launched and had post numbers at 15, 20, etc.
I also specifically remember not only the copyright, but the announcement wasn't updated for most boards, so a lot of us didn't even know it existed until visiting the front page.

>>283420343
Careful, anon. Careful what you say, or they will be mad.

>>283419956
>for like a month
Wasn't even two weeks

>>283420343
Hi justwannahelp.

>>283420343
You didn't refute my point.
There isn't one good site that's anonymous to discuss anime on. And 4chan wasn't good back then, but it had positive influence in some corners (Madoka).

Jannies I saw the /j/ posts where you talk about being depressed and feeling unwanted just know that I'm not being ironic when I call you fags I actually hate you

>>283420361
Fucking hate that faggot who destroyed all hope.

>>283420333
That's definitively part of the issue. And it's ultimately tied up to the moderation caring about the site. It's all about wanting to cultivate your garden. If the people in charge don't want to see the place to bloom, it will never do so.
>>283420339
Oh, please.
All of /v/'s splits were all dead as fuck boards and all of them were created years before the hack happened.
The only one that thrived was /vg/ and that's another one that slowed down considerably from how many people fucked off.
Just look at fucking /vt/.
The Hololive Global used to last 2 hours max. When slow. And now it can last for fucking days.
But sure, keep pretending people didn't left in droves and droves.

>>283420366
Same. It's unfortunate how the leaks didn't lead to anything.

>>283420361
>>283420370
I don't see any archives but recognize the name. Context?

>>283420383
It led to people realizing this place is beyond hope and nothing would ever change.

>>283420341
At the time it was difficult since threads and such were split but I guess in a worst case scenario if they're still around and dedicated to it I'd prefer that
It's still difficult since the retards are camping the recognizable and easy URL

>>283420390
While 4chan was down, he overtook the moderation of the largest potential alternative. He introduced IDs and all that shit.

>>283420361
>>283420370
Who?

>>283420396
This site hasn't changed since it was created.

>>283420370
It was mildly amusing how quickly they locked down on that decision. Almost makes you want to believe the conspiracy theories about "concerned one-time posters" lobbying for IDs.

>>283420379
Kvetch all you want, I'm just the messenger. Vtubers changed from one thread on /jp/ to having their own board. Of course it slowed down.

>>283419304
The site going down earlier this year was a brutal reminder that as bad as this site is everywhere else is still worse.
>Actually watch shit instead of shitposting
>Had nowhere to actually discuss it.

>>283420435
Delulu.

>>283420424
>largest potential alternative
I have no idea what site this is.

/dbs/ and its consequences have been a disaster for this site.

>>283420456
You get banned for actually naming it.
It's almost like they're afraid...

>>283420443
I was not talking about /jp/ though?
Are you illiterate?

>>283420438
Oh it was 8 chan
lmao, yeah that site died in 5 years

>>283419480
If you're not terminally online (on a PC or craptop, phone doesn't count) then get the FUCK off my board.

>>283420470
>>283420475
Oh no...

What do you think moot is up to these days?

>>283420473
The vtumor fad is past its peak and half of them went to r*ddit anyways. I don't know what your agenda is grasping at straws like this.

>>283420493
Enjoying his freedom.

>>283420493
Getting high on jenkem and glue.

>>283420501
>D-Doesn't count!
I accept your concession.

>>283420396
>nothing would ever change.
I seriously hope this is the case.
I know you have some petty gripe about moderation or whatever but from a larger perspective, the format of this site and its anonymity is remarkably unique these days. I don't want it to ever go away

>getting warned for complaining about 4chan for a post ITT
Uh oh.

>>283419889
>>283419918
None of you have any clue, though perhaps it's for the best. There's been cheese pizza posting spree going around the site recently. The captcha might have tried to curtail that.

>>283420503
He fell off the face of the earth, I think he has a kid now.
>>283420529
The only thing I can say is that they don't hand out bans like candy anymore. I've gotten 15+ warns in the past 2 weeks, but at least I don't get banned.

>>283420527
So true bestie.
We should follow the example of /dbs/
Now that's what a real imageboard should look like.

>>283420553
Yeah, just don't post sophie and you'll be fine.

If this place dies, I'll just leave the internet altogether. I might lurk in some other places from time to time, but I've been here for way too long, so I can't wait for it to happen someday.
>>283420320
A different time for sure.
>>283420551
lol

>>283420564
grow up and stop blaming modmommy for every post or thread you dislike

>>283420553
Every few years, I hear about people running into him in Japan. Though the last time was quite a few years ago now. There's no way to know but I do wonder if he ever comes by to see how the site is doing and to post anonymously, like he said he would.

>>283420444
8 chan was a good enough replacement for /a/
Though all the added traffic from the outage certainly helped

Finding a replacement for /toy/ was the real challenge

>>283420320
Probably because /a/ has so few you can count them on one hand now. This isn’t the late 2000s where there were hundreds running around.

>>283420598
He got fired from Google a long time ago I doubt he is still in Japan

>>283420637
>Though all the added traffic from the outage certainly helped
Are you joking? One of the most active boards were crap like the adult diaper board. Their /a/ was deader than dead and had an average of like a post per day, over all 4-5 years the board existed.

>>283420649
That doesn't prevent him from travelling there.

>>283420649
i thought he quit

>>283420654
>adult diaper board

>>283420592
Sumimi will NEVER break up and 4chan will NEVER disappear

>>283420637
It was actually hopefuel until some nigger decided the board should have IDs.

>>283420598
It's so hard to find the image collages posted about him, such as his high school photos showing he really was a fat otaku to after he left the site.

Why do you still care about that retarded traitor? He may have been a couple of magnitudes better what we have now, but that's not an achievement or even notable.

>>283420438
It wouldnt suprise me if they were globohomo shills lobbying for ids on here and other anoymous sites. (((They))) really want everyone to have a digital id. The future is looking grim af lads.

>>283420716
He at least cared at first.

>>283420716
You're asking why people venerate the creator of a website on that same site? Come on now.

One wonders why they still bother. Do they have fun torturing their own users and acting against their interests?
Just what keeps them going and putting effort into it?

>>283420716
>>283420759
I don't care what he's up to, I just find it interesting to learn about. Moot was a highly priveledged kid who was in over his head and very much so created Something Awful.

>>283420646
one hand too many if you ask me

I'll be here for you, anon.

>>283419889
tl; dr: a cabal of pedos with infinite proxies (that mods helped to create by being incompetent narcissists) has been spamming CP on /v/, /g/, /vg/ and other boards, and recently have been launching DoS attacks (probably as a side effect of the shitty code of the bots that post CP) against the sys.4chan subdomain that handles post/report submissions.

>>283420766
Come on, it's an interesting question.

>>283420716
moot at least cared before he sold out, hiro never did

>>283420804
Strange how they continue with their petty micromanagement of irrelevant and harmless stuff that annoys them during all this.

>>283420804
>that mods helped to create
Now that's an interesting take.

>>283419341
good post

>>283420804
I don't care about that, I care about the gore spam. Anyone posting gore should be gored the same was as in their webm. This is a CUTE website.

>>283420836
Yeah, better get those mods and jannies working on DDOS protection.

>>283420836
The theory of federal agents reigns over all.
>>283420850
>i don't care about cp!!!!
>but gore is a no go!

>>283420838
The mods are petty assholes and love treating people in a way that makes them turn against them.
It just so happened that the people they annoyed are apparently competent enough to force 4chan's php spaghetti code into its knee. (Also schizo and deranged enough to spam CP.)

>>283420870
Yes that's what I said, retard. Why did you quote it with no additional comment?

>>283420759
You can't be smug if I take your eyes out faggot.

>>283420862
They still didn't delete the CP discussion in the u149 thread.

>>283420881
OH SHIT OH FUCK

4chan are bot and indian infested now

>>283420870
>The theory of federal agents reigns over all.
What would federal agents have against sophie?

>>283420910
Well shit, maybe you should report it then.

>>283420676
Fuck off Mana, there is a serious discussion going on here.
>>283420804
Nothing on /b/? Damn.

>>283420927
I did like half a day ago.

>>283420932
Spammers only care about the highest traffic boards because despite whatever they might claim they seek attention above all else. That's why it's all over /v/ and almost nowhere else.

>>283420838
It legitimately was their fault for not dealing with the cancer when it was still small. The cabal started as a general on /g/ dedicated to hoarding and sharing porn, but one day they found ways to hide all sorts of files on normal posts. Instead of doing something about it, mods ignored them for weeks, letting them spread to /v/ and continue hiding porn everywhere. It was only when they began to share CP through these tools that mods banned their general, but at this point they were coordinated enough to migrate to another site where with the help of another cancerous faggot with proxies they continued to exchange CP on /v/ and /g/, resulting in many of the anti-features that 4chan has today (more rangebans, timers, 3 different captchas, advanced shadowbans, using cloudflare to reencode files and strip their metadata making it harder to search them in archives).

They made the same mistake by letting /qa/ be overtaken by wojakfags until it became an independent community that eventually hacked 4chan and doxed part of the staff, or by letting /dbs/ generals fester on /a/ until flooding the board for attention became part of their "culture" and every many other generals in /a/ and other boards adopted their cancerous behavior (mods only began to crack down on /dbs/chizos when one of their resident spammers started to spam CP, btw).

>>283420932
I thought I was the only person who watched the acapella show

>>283420991
They need a reason to justify their own existence. Only when there are persistent ban evaders, they will desperately try to fight them, because they directly challenge their authority. If it's hidden or non-obvious, they don't have to care, because there's no problem,, right? Even better if they're CP spammers (instead of just "symbols" like frogs or jaks), because it directly gives them the feeling of fighting the good fight, instead of bullshit versus bullshit.

>>283420991
>mods only began to crack down
The CP came after the crackdown, for the record. They got real mad and decided shitting up their own thread was the solution.

The rest of this post is news to me and absolutely fascinating.

>>283420789
They’ll die soon, a few of the remaining ones did this year.

>>283421044
quit being a drama queen, they only go after pizza and ban evaders because that's the only job actually required of their lazy asses

>>283421059
If only. Wasn't /qa/ proof enough of their behavior? They let it fester and grow, they even had "fun" with jak stuff themselves there (this is proven). Only as it somehow became a problem, they tried fighting it.

>>283421054
I really hope so. I long since filtered them all but even seeing their names in stubs annoys me.

>>283421054
I only know of one.

>>283421059
This is the real answer. The whole site is run by volunteers, no shit they're slow.

>>283420952
>the highest traffic boards
>nothing on /b/
Always hits like a brick.Funnily enough, I think /b/ is still within the five fastest boards of the site.
>>283421001
We were a total grand of like 7 people here who watched. It was one of my favorites from last season.

>>283420932
>Nothing on /b/? Damn.
/b/ has its own issues, like specially retarded pedos making session/kik threads there to share CP. Mods only banned these threads when a lawmaker was arrested for sharing CP (see https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.scd.305804/gov.uscourts.scd.305804.11.0_1.pdf) and a kik thread on /b/ appeared among the proof. But as usual, they only applied half-measures, banning kik an session threads on /b/ but letting kik threads exist on /soc/ and not even warning the rest of the site about it. And to make it worse, they lifted the bans on both boards a couple of days ago by deleting the threads telling anons not to post that stuff.

>>283420217
The thing is the younger generation no longer views anonymity as something great, so anonymous sites are mostly filled with schizos nowm

>>283421101
Moderation has always been slow to react. How long was the site flooded with ponies before they made a containment board? How long was /jp/ completely overtaken by vtubers before they made a new board? How many years were /v/ and /vg/ the fastest boards on the site before they split them? How long was the site running with clear vulnerabilities before a hack forced them to update it (I'll give you a hint: it's two digits)?

>>283419092 (OP)
I'm still here

>>283421054
tell me who died so I can laugh at them

>>283420305
Post IDs are based and make spamming shitposters seethe.

Genuinely, how do we fix /a/?

>>283421183
spammers already reset their ip constantly why would they care about ids when it wouldn't affect them at all

>>283420804
Uhhhh, in English doc?

>>283421183
post IDs literally made people like you spam threads because you thought everyone was samefagging.
People could not post more than once per thread without you having a meltdown looking for excuses to dismiss whatever argument you got your dumbass into.

>>283420305
What's wrong with post IDs? Like why shouldn't shit on your for saying something retarded in the thread previously. In an ideal world no thread should last long enough for you to meaningfully change

>>283420881
Still pretty smug desu

>>283421194
Because there's a captcha that require some waiting to solve every time you reset IP silly goose

>>283421191
Buy three nukes and Nuke China, Korea and India

>>283421183
If you aren't posting in a thread with at least three different personas, you're not really trying.

>>283421200
I cannot recall that happening, please post proof of the spammed threads accusing people of samefagging just for posting more than once per thread.

>>283421200
Why not just ban the people seething.

I don't give a fuck if someone is literally half the posts in a thread if they're actually saying something worthwhile.

The downtime this year was really hilarious.
>site gets attacked using a decades old bug
>it's down for like 3 weeks
>turns out the dev only needed like a day to put the site back up
>instead of carefully auditing all code, just disables pdf uploads and sets up a new server image or something
>but during the downtime, other people found new bugs in the leaked code
>one bug was moving threads by bypassing an access check
>when the site went up, suddenly random threads got moved from board to board
>it was the unfixed bug that was found during the downtime
I don't think the 4chan dev is incompetent, he just didn't give a wet shit. He probably ignored their requests for help until they offered him money, and then he did a minimum job.

>>283420551
The vast majority of that is mostly people using the embed thing to hide links to catbox'd CP that is picked up by their extensions/scripts to allow other fags to access it from images posted on 4chan, it's linked to one of the ban evasion sites along with some session and telegram circlejerks.

>>283421204
The whole point of an anonymous imageboard and the whole reason this site is active is the ability to say something retarded, like your post.

>>283421204
I agree with the first part but
>In an ideal world no thread should last long enough for you to meaningfully change
In an ideal world anons are flexible enough to learn and grow from interacting with each other

>>283421196
There's a bunch of pedo/zoo niggers with proxies spamming CP (sometimes hidden in images) on various boards and overloading the part of 4chan that handles posts/reports/captchas, making it harder for everyone to post.

>>283420649
>fired
He quit because they cut the thing they had him working on at first, then had him doing maps shit, and otherwise Google is shit and full of retarded faggots anyway

>>283421208
How would that stop the many schizos who obviously ban evade all the time? Hell, they may even reset their IPs more to have different IDs to appear as different people.

If there's anything I've learned from my years on 4chan, it's to dismiss suggestions in meta threads out of hand.

>>283421222
Trips of TRVTH.
>Verification NYOT required.

>>283421232
Your ability to say something retarded is not hampered thoughever

>>283420991
Funnily enough, every single instance of "cancer festering" (/dbs/, /qa/ -> sharty, etc.) is actually the few instances of rapid "cultural genesis" on this site, for lack of a better word. /dbs/ posting in particular has spread rather far through the internet and is like the only notable thing that /a/ has produced recently.

>>283421247
The idea was that every new IP that accessed 4chan without a cookie would have to sit in a 15 minute time out before being able to post. Of course people have found a way around it, but the idea wasn't bad.

>>283421247
It slows them down which deters weaker spammers, which is an improvement. Stronger schizo spammers couldn't be deterred anyway but they would be slowed down at least.

>>283421276
Because it's all just regurgitated memes from other places. They didn't invent any of that shit they're all children who bring it from twitter.

>>283421279
It used to be 15 minutes, but now it's 2 minutes.
Anyway I'm pretty sure these mechanisms hurt occasiobnal and new posters more than schizos, ban evaders, and bots.

>>283421292
I think this is untrue

>>283421247
The funny thing about thread IDs is, they only benefit the schizos that already IP evade.

Weird how they always seem to come up in meta threads though

>>283421290
You know what else would stop weaker spammer? If any anion could only make a post every 5 minutes.
It's a trade-off, and the nature of the site makes any trade-off shit.

>>283421276
None of that was created here. It leaked in from shitter and tiktok, because those posters are the kind to use those sites. You need to go back.

>>283421268
Say something retarded on 4ch, I can just abandon the reply chain, reconsider, and participate regardless
Say something retarded with IDs and I am now a permanent pariah and have to abandon thread or deal with the fallout weighing on me every post. For weekly threads this is especially painful
Worse, IDs for popular or good posts develop their own persona. Imagine if everyone ITT was a tripfag just for this thread.

>>283421221
Of course not, admitting that you're a childish retard would be detrimental to your argument.
>>283421222
are you actually 12? You want people to be banned for disagreeing with you?

>>283421191
there's no way of fixing a rotting corpse anon

>>283421311
>The funny thing about thread IDs is, they only benefit the schizos that already IP evade.
No matter how many times you say this, it will never be true. It saved the dragon ball threads, for example. GuP too.

>>283421330
You could just reset your ID. But then, people would call you out for being a new ID.

>>283421194
They'd have to reset their ips even more now if they don't want people to easily filter them out (hence making their spam futile) and even if they did the constant 1pitd accompanying their shitpost still easily flags them as a miserable faggot constantly resetting ips to try to get their spam noticed. Not to mention resetting ips is a hassle, no matter how fast takes to reset it still builds up in extra time wasted just to shitpost. It causes shitposters to hesitate for even a brief second and makes them think twice before they try to derail a thread.
>>283421200
No one gives a shit about how often someone posts in a thread as long as it's not done maliciously to derail. A single person could make up 200 posts in a thread themselves and at worst he'd only be thought of as an autist by others as long as he's not actually shitposting. I'm not ashamed if I post a lot in a thread, shitposters are because everyone can easily see all the derailing attempts made by them and can filter it.

>>283421253
>You know what would fix 4chan? Making it completely horrible and unusable!
the users here are literal drooling monkeys.

>>283421344
>You could just evade
So in what way does this actually improve anything, then?

>>283421315
No clue what your point is
>>283421330
Ok? Suck it up
>>283421332
So no proof?

>>283421342
These cancer generals can just go to a different site.

THE LAST TIME 4CHAN SHUT DOWN SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED....

>>283421311
>Schizophrenic "only one person would ever say I'm wrong" posters getting high off their own farts thinking they're being stalked because of thread IDs.
>When they went away, it made them even more schizophrenic.
it's kinda funny.

>>283421353
Damn you really sound like you care about the community here, friend

>>283421352
The anti-ID people are genuinely mentally ill and I have no hatred towards them but arguing with them is a waste of time. It's probably the same person I'm noticing the same typos and unhinged writing style as on the other side where they made hundreds of anti-ID posts per thread.

>>283420104
>schizoposting
Jesus fuck yes, not even some of the most obnoxious tripfags of old were as cancerous as some of the modern autistic fucks. Like, holy fuck the bikini schizo and the LRD schizo are a fucking blight to the board.

>>283421342
>It saved the dragon ball threads
The only solution to dragonball threads is to remove them entirely. /a/ was better before underageb& shounenfags flooded the board.

>>283421326
>>283421292
I mean, if you insist they're really bringing it in from other sites then I can't argue with you. I myself don't use those sites you mentioned (Twitter, Tiktok) very frequently. Tell me, what corner of the internet did yabbaposting originate from?

>>283421342
>It saved the
It did what now?

>>283421383
All the anti-ID people are actually one samefag and he lives in your walls and only posts when you do.
Source: It's me, I'm the only anti-ID person ever. I need it so I can samefag and never, ever use flight mode on my phone to trick you (I promise!)

There should be more user moderation tools. Perhaps something to expose samefags by vote, or letting OP of a thread moderate his own thread, or letting OP choose whether a thread has IDs or not, stuff like that. But it's complicated to design tools in a way they're useful and can't be abused too easily. And most of all, neither 4chan nor inf-chan are willing to spend effort into implementing them at all.

>>283421383
>all anti-ID posters are the exact same person!!! Please believe me!!!
Holy fucking schizo
Everyone take a good long look at the mentally sound advocate of thread IDs.

>>283421394
But I thought you just said their inventions spread to other sites. Now you're saying you don't know anything about them. Who do you think you're bullshitting?

>>283421352
>>283421383
>>283421221
samefag.

>>283421383
Meanwhile, pro-ID people... >>283420438

Anyone arguing against IDs is the person you hate from three threads ago, and if only you had IDs you could call them out

>>283421409
This is what I mean by "unhinged".

>>283421430
Uh huh? What about them?

>>283421438
A joke is unhinged?

Reddit users tell me nobody cares about their usernames or post history at all.

>>283421413
Yeah that's a good idea. Letting the thread OP decide some things would be good.

Thank God
I thought my internet was being shitty

>>283421423
What I'm saying, nigger, is that I see ENTER memes once in a blue moon when perusing preddit and the like and think, "this wouldn't be here if not for /dbs/pics"

The real reason we can't have ids is it would expose those niche threads that get necrobumped for a week for being all the same couple people.

>>283421413
We have sage and you newfags literally refuse to use it, fuck off.

Guys, hear me out... what if there were a bunch of trusted anons, who get the power to simply ban the schizos and shitposters, and who take their job seriously?
Wouldn't that be great?

>>283421417
I meant that the same person from the other site is probably still butthurt about the issue and posting in this thread based on the mentally ill writing style and characteristic typos.

>>283421431
>Anyone arguing against IDs is the person you hate from three threads ago, and if only you had IDs you could call them out
That's an argument for NOT having IDs, anon.

>>283421488
I wouldn't trust a Gochiusa poster with the power of deleting posts and banning people

>>283421123
Yeah, I know about the kik shit, but I was thinking there could be something more interesting going on there nowadays. That's why I asked if /b/ was/is unaffected by all the pizza spam.

>>283421479
>those niche threads that get necrobumped for a week for being all the same couple people
I treasure these threads. One of the best things about this site is that they can exist. Sorry the necrobump pushed your shitpost off the catalog I guess

>>283421479
what's wrong with that? Post more threads then if you don't want other people's threads lasting so long.

What kind of person comes to an ANONYMOUS imageboard and then gets upset that users are anonymous? Hello? Am I the crazy one?

>>283421486
Using sage was pretty popular, until m00t decided to make sage invisible, and made announcing sage a banable offense.
These days, even posts that encourage others to sage and report may get jannied.

>>283421191
Step by step, first you get rid of storytime/daily threads.

>>283421451
A joke can be unhinged, yes. If you think "it was a joke" is a perfect defense against being accused of being mentally ill, that further counts against you.

>>283421474
Allow me to repeat myself: you need to go back.

>>283421498
thats not how bumping works retardbro

>>283421489
Ok I completely trust your judgement. Give the QRD on their writing style and unique typos.

>>283421502
Yeah can't have safe user soft moderation. People shouldn't be allowed to sage obvious marketing threads or pointless shitflinging argument threads, no sir.

>>283421479
Everyone already knows that and the people in those threads aren't ashamed of it either. So what?

>>283421493
>stating falsehoods with zero argumentation again

>>283421510
After you.

>>283421502
I've gotten banned more times just for telling people to report and ignore, not a specific post, just to report and ignore in general. We truly can't have shit in detroit.

>>283421498
? You can do that on any site.

>>283421191

/a/ is mostly fine. You need to fix the whole site first.

>delete every board that isn't one or two degrees removed from anime
>temporarily freeze the "problem" media boards like /v/ and /tv/ until the tourists wander off and find new homes
>completely disable phoneposting permanently
>ban anything associated to "generals" sitewide, discourage subcommunity circlejerking

We need to get rid of tourists who openly hate anime and return the site to its core userbase. Of course this means shrinking the post volume dramatically so the current ownership won't go for it.

The biggest lesson 4chan never learned is that containment boards like /mlp/, /vp/, and /pol/ don't perform their function. In fact, they do the opposite. They just give a home for cancerous subcommunities to grow and start drawing tourists, who then start to migrate to other boards, worsening the post quality. We need to excise it all with a sharp scalpel and then maybe the body can heal.

>>283421515
Sure, these really clued me in.
>anion
>I am now a permanent pariah
Hope he can disguise himself better next time.

Its funny not being terminally on 4chan anymore and seeing posts like this

>>283421054
Who died? I'm happy Pokemon Trainer is still alive and posting

>>283421545
You got the right idea, but the 4chan staff has opposite opinions.

>>283421506
What hugbox did you come from where you get upset about being called schizo while you're vocally telling everyone you're uncomfortable not knowing who is who on an anonymous site?
The trick is to just be sensible and logical. If you find yourself in a dumb nerd argument and you start thinking "oh fuck all these posts must be the same person!" ask yourself if that even matters. Did you say something a lot of people might disagree with? Is your opinion unpopular? Does it matter if it is or not? Should you care if one person is spending the time posting multiple times to you?

>>283421545
>このサイトについてー翻訳
Wait, what? Since when did we have a translated "About this site" page for Japanese visitors?

Hope the shartGODKINGS take it down again desu-nee~

>>283421505
>first you get rid of storytime/daily threads
>then you get rid of seasonal threads that exist for too long
>then you get rid of drawfag threads
>then you get rid of secret santa and annual watch threads (for good this time)
Finally, a board for only popular series I like, Frieren and JJK. If you want to post on /r/anime but say nigger you can just say so

>>283421557
How did you do this? Almost all of my social interaction is on /a/.

>>283421559
Verty.

My internet's bad, power went out in my building, my games keep losing sync. I don't know what's going on but it's freaking me out.

>>283421565
It's still there. Pretty sure it's almost as old as the site.

>>283421564
This is even more unhinged. Go talk a walk outside and relax.

>>283421180
Verty and Lelouch

>>283421559
>Happy
Why, he sucks

>>283421497
/b/'s users are so new and retarded that even malicious spammers prefer to use other boards (mainly /v/). At most there are spambots (some of them pedophilic in nature) shilling scams and malware.

>>283421505
That's the best part of new/a/ fuck off
>>283420305
>>283421204
Fuck post IDs, just bring back the IP counter. We still haven't got a reason for why it was removed

>>283421568
there are 16 daily threads up right now

>>283421568
I don't see the problem with 2, 3 and 4 though.

>>283421586
And that's a good thing.

>>283421583
>Lelouch
When and how?

>>283421585
It allowed people to argue over who was samefagging, reset their IP, etc.

>>283421543
Name another site where I can have a Super Cub thread that gets activity. Necrobumps are a utilitarian way of achieving this

>>283421583
>

>>283420320
I only tripfag on /v/ during .hack// threads to keep a gag running.
Like this thread I posted.

I don't get why there are so many defenders of daily threads whenever it gets brought up but those threads are complete ghost towns.

Without thread IDs how am I supposed to tell if something is popular or not? WHETHER I CAN LIKE IT OR NOT?

>>283421545
Phones and fully global internet access were the nails in the coffin for any decent conversation in any online community, not just 4chan. You used to actually be able to have fun shitposting with your bros on 4chan which would be called "reddit" these days by most who weren't actually there. When the internet was unironically a small group of social outcasts it was enjoyable and like everything else, it got infested by the masses and became a shell of its former self.

>>283421585
>We still haven't got a reason for why it was removed
We really don't know, but I suspect it's because of people pointing out "this post is by a new IP" posts.

>>283421614
Oh if you're talking about activity then yeah. It's here, or other places after here goes down.

>>283421573
>>283421583
Lelouch died? iirc Verty was diagnosed with cancer.
And Pokemon Trainer has always been great
>>283421586
Yeah and they're some of the best threads on /a/. Maybe read some manga faggot and actually participate on /a/
>>283421610
Yeah, because this site has a massive problem with samefagging and dishonest shitposting lol

>>283421614
I feel the same way about many shows. Even a necrobumped thread is better than complete death.

>>283421626
probably because you're in the wrong ones

>>283421609
He left the site because he couldn’t be a NEET at the ripe age of 35, worked for a bit, then according to his friend, died sometime this year

>>283421636
Kill yourself

>>283421636
It might have that problem, but arguing about it isn't on-topic. Without defending it I can't at least see the point.

>>283421627
By using your eyes.

Oh, wait...

>>283421628
Just start deleting low quality posts

>>283421616
>non-/sp/ NBA meme
go back to xitter

>>283421501
You're still anonymous with post ids. You don't have to make an account nor provide personal info to post and ids reset for each thread already so no autist can really track you, the only one's autistic enough would still try to track you even if there weren't ids. It only links posts you've made in a single thread, and if you have nothing to be ashamed of it doesn't even matter because no one will even bother checking your post count if you aren't shitting up the thread to give them a reason to want to filter you. Only shitposters get affected by having ids.

>>283421664
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

Vert died? I thought his cancer went into remission, great news.

>>283421659
What the fuck.
>starts working
>passes away
God damn it

>>283421686
His family confirmed it

>>283421670
lol u 2k him 2da bar|?

>>283421676
I didn't think there were people as retarded, blind and shortsighted as you on this site.

>>283421686
I've spoken with friends of his and he's confirmed to have passed. I can't speak for the others.

>>283421686
Take your edge somewhere else

Oh yeah, can someone explain why 4stats is fucked now? It doesn't update anymore and the activity graph isn't there at the bottom anymore

>>283421710
>friends
His obituary and extremely specific name and details are publicly available

>>283421700
you die if you work after all

we must make all the remaining tripfags get jobs

>>283421545
Good luck with that. Rapeape (mod manager and de-facto admin since Hiro hasn't been seen in years) bragged on twitter about how he and the mods actually were pro-gamergate and that without them Trump would have never become president. He wants more /pol/tards here.

>>283421715
It's not edgy I just didn't like him

>>283421707
You're being unhinged.

>>283421707
Try looking in a mirror Captain Argumentless Faggot

>>283421710
Did he commit suicide? He still seems to have posted at most dozens of days on the archive (4chan was down) before his likely final day.

>>283421584
>/b/'s users are so new and retarded
Pic related. Some things never change, although nowadays they might be a thousand times more retarded if that's the case.
>>283421636
>>283421686
Sup, Verty is dead
>>282662525

>>283421718
Yeah, but I didn't want to post those out of respect and technically being off topic.

>>283421676
>nothing to hide nothing to fear
every fucking time with you people, it's almost comical

>>283421559
>>283421636
The only good tripfag are the ones who post content like translations for a single thread, so no

>>283421724
This is our owner... a /pol/drone who hates anime.

>>283421724
>posting about /pol/ and muh Gamergate
stop larping faggot, /pol/ has been irrelevant since 2020 and is full with boomers and bots. Nobody cares about them and bringing them up just outs you as a normalfag

>>283421585
/a/ has been slowly losing traffic.
Toriyama's death thread showed us that.
Post hack /a/ period feels slowest from 2020s.

>>283421716
Probably they're trying to hide the decline lol

>>283421724
That's weird considering the gg crowd was extremely anti-moderation after they got kicked off of /v/. We sure that's even his real account?

>>283421724
this is just embarrassing

>>283421754
OK what does that make rapeape?

>>283419341
Well fuck you too then!

>>283421724
Holy mother of all out-of-touch boomerposts

>>283421716
one theory I've heard is that during the hack downtime mods contacted him and agreed for him to never bring graphs back because it exposes the dwindling userbase in plainest way possible, especially since post-hack the numbers have declined even further
people sharing around this kind of info isn't good for hiro's investors, and I wouldn't be surprised if 4stats itself ceased to exist soon due to external forces

>talking about RapeApe and /pol/ in 2025
You really can't get more normalfaggotry than that

>>283421783
Why do you believe such horseshit?

>>283421783
So he torpedoed his own site because mods asked nicely? Major doubt.

>>283421788
if you spent less time being a fag and more time fixing the site we wouldn't be talking about you rapeape

>>283421743
If you're posting multiple times in a thread who gives a shit people can see the posts you've made in that same thread and only that thread?

>>283421788
>talking about the owner of this website who has the final say about all decisions is normalfaggotry
What is even the purpose of your post?

>>283421768
A retarded dumbass, nothing more.

>>283421392
Moefags really need to get off their high horse. No, you are not superior because you only consume
>cute girls do cute things with the same jokes and tropes #5671
instead of anything with any substance.

>>283421815
Moe website. Cry more.

>>283421735
b-b-b-based

>>283421772
Right? This is actually scary. Does everyone become like that as they get older?

>>283421802
when you have people who dedicate their days to shitting up specific thread topics as much as possible you don't need to ever ask "who cares" about anything

>>283421815
Go back.

>>283421754
>/pol/ has been irrelevant since 2020
It literally is the second fastest board on the site (only behind /vg/, a board that is practically a mini-4chan inside 4chan with hundreds of independent communities) and even politicians try to do stupid shit like pic related to appeal to the kind of faggots obsessed with politics that browse this place. Not to mention that /pol/tards are extremely tech illiterate and rarely block ads, contributing to Hiro and Rapeape's revenue.

>>283421815
This post is like 10 years out of date
CGDCT stopped being a relevant genre aaaaages ago

>>283421800
The fact that RapeApe is just a retarded bumblefuck who doesn't do anything should disprove idiotic thinking about him directing 4chan to be anything more than just a carcass but no
>>283421809
If you think RapeApe being a rightoid schizo and " /pol/ are 4chan and /a/'s biggest problems at the moment, you are a retarded normalfag. That's all there is to it

>>283421850
Our world is a joke.

>>283420952
There was a while they were using the cat threads on /an/ for it, though that was probably mostly practice and to share enough between them to become a bigger problem.

>>283421793
it's just a theory, like I said
>>283421794
could have been more than a nice ask

>>283421864
>If you think RapeApe being a rightoid schizo and " /pol/ are 4chan and /a/'s biggest problems at the moment, you are a retarded normalfag. That's all there is to it
No, I'm just /a/-core.

>>283421783
Why can't anyone else just make a graph? How hard can it be? It's not like the 4stats guy had internal data access right?

Settle down, children. You're both eternal newfags.

>>283421881
So now you're >implying the mods threatened them? Brother are you underage or just dumb?

>>283421850
Oh no, a Xitter post using the meme arrow? The shock, the horror. Nobody cares about 4chan outside of its reputation lol. Newscum isn't appealing to /pol/tards, his staff is just signaling generic internetspeak to be " hip and cool. " /pol/ is full of boomers and bots, it has about zero influence in the current day.

>>283421815
It's always funny whenever shounenshitters think if something isn't shounen, it's moe

>>283421850
>donating tax money to himself
Glorious, love how dumb americans are.

>>283421829
I'd like to think it's preventable and also that a site admin is not really a good example of the best outcomes of the human condition.

>>283421850
>american dream
This has nothing to do with that post, but that reminded me of a post I saw on /a/

Shounen's fine. Moe's fine. Both are anime and belong here and you're a gigantic flaming homo faggot if you want /a/ to be purged of either one.

>>283421895
maybe threatened, maybe cut deals etc etc
mods doing shady shit should come as a surprise to no one, especially considering the events of 2014

>>283421970
Gateway anime, etc.

>>283421716
>>283421783
>>283421793
>>283421794
Real answer: The hack and the subsequent removal of /qa/ broke 4stats' spaghetti code, specially the part that makes graphs work, and the owner decided to remove the graphs from 4stats and rewrite the code. Currently a partially functional version of 4stats with graphs for most boards is available on https://dev.4stats.io/.

>>283421976
Now this is embarrassing.

I've already left /vg/ for altchan since that board is an unusable piece of shit, but /a/ hasn't reached that level yet, to be honest.

>>283421979
Your mom's mouth vag and asshole are gateways for my cock, faggot. Anime is anime, no exceptions.

It feels like the entire internet is dying as of late. Not just this site

>>283421992
Oh thank god, so it'll be fixed soon on the official 4stats? Appreciate the deboonking anon

>>283419092 (OP)
I didn't even notice because I'm still at work. Someone put me out of my misery already.

>>283421992
>That slight downward trend on /a/ since August

Things really are grim, huh?

>>283422014
Zoomers do nothing but scroll tiktok all day, thats why

Wasn't there supposed to be a r/a/dio for Halloween

>>283421850
>It literally is the second fastest board on the site
It's also the most botted board.

>>283421992
Goddamn I thought it might have recovered but no

>>283422028
hasnt started yet

>>283421964
I wonder how he learned how much money the Starbucks was making.

>>283422020
>since August
It has been declining since 2023. The hack and increasingly annoying posting limitations (new captchas, timers, shadowbans) added in late 2024 and that increased this year only accelerated the fall.

>>283422061
is this show worth watching even if I'm not a huge shoujofag?

>>283422027
Stop blaming zoomers. It's not like anyone's forcing you to not make OC anon.

>>283421931
>he thinks his politicians aren't corrupt
lol
lmao

>>283422066
Bro /a/ is down by 33% in 1 year
This is Titanic tier

>>283422028
Speaking of r/a/dio the mood of the last new years one was noticeably worse I'm scared this one is gonna be shit

>>283421829
>Does everyone become like that as they get older?

Becoming out of touch? Absolutely, it's pretty natural if you ask me. But one thing is no longer knowing all the trends or being part of them, and another is becoming a complete retard.

>>283422078
Counterpoints: Zoomers are students. They don't have full time jobs. They should be making memes and creating most content. The old heads already had their productive output period.

>>283422070
If you're interested in the historical value it's great. It's going to be a bit slow otherwise.

>>283422085
it's also up 33% by the amount of brown posters

>>283422100
Zoomers are almost 30

>>283422111
I mean metaphorically
>>283422108
kek. oof.

>>283422100
Were you making memes and creating content as a student?

>>283422061
lol
>>283422070
It's an experience. I would say it's worth it just for that.
>>283422066
From 2023 until August of this year it was more or less a steady decline. 2025 August saw a pretty noticeable dip.

>>283422085
The slower boards had it much worse. Almost half of the boards nowadays have less than 1000 posts per day, with many of them becoming desert towns with the hack and the annoying captchas and timers.

>/a/ is returning to late 2000s traffic
>this is somehow a bad thing
This site was going to go under eventually, what’s the problem?

>>283422118
Yeah.

>>283420435
>This site hasn't changed since it was created.

Spoken like the newest of newfags or someone willfully blind.

>>283421352
I'm anti ID because I'll funpost a little at the same time I effortpost but then nobody will take me seriously...

>>283422172
Late 2000s traffic with a modern internet userbase

>>283422172
Cause 60% of that remaining traffic is schizos doing retarded bits 20 hours a day

>>283422172
How many times do we need to explain this?
More good people are leaving and more bad people are coming in. This means that as the number of people drops, the ratio of good to bad decreases.

>>283422189
And who are you to judge who is good or bad?

>>283422189
Can you do anything about it?

>>283422090
I wasn't there for last year, can't imagine why it would be bad though
>>283422058
>>283422066
>>283422085
I feel like it's going to stabilize but honestly I really don't miss 2022-2023 /a/ or anything given that it was incredibly cancerous and the most normalfag concentration I saw on /a/ post-COVID years because of JJK and CSM

>>283421330
>Say something retarded with IDs and I am now a permanent pariah and have to abandon thread or deal with the fallout weighing on me every post. For weekly threads this is especially painful
This makes you come across as an unbelievable bitch. I still post on the other site, and you know what happens when I say some stupid shit and get called out? I just keep posting, what are they gonna do, ban me? No they aren't.

>>283422203
What is wrong with the JJK fanbase?

>>283422189
Let me guess, you still don't want IDs?

>>283422203
Yeah, we lost SnK and OP is past peak popularity (and the anime is winding down too). I think it's inevitable, and ok, that we lose a few.

>discussion about OC
>no one posts any they made
Very curious.

>>283422172
The problem is that the people left are post-covid fellas while older people post less and less.

Why is this ID faggot just jumping in to shill his retarded shit every possible moment, yet claims he's not a schizo?

>>283422248
Can you prove that?

>>283422240
The problem with OC these days is there's such a disincentive to make any.

>>283422172
The newfags that still do come here are really really bad, but I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment. The modern internet userbase just hurts.
>>283422186
>>283422189
I actually wonder what the concentration of /a/ is between people who starting post pre-2020 and post-2020.
>>283422233
COVID era /a/ was really bad on a day to day basis, maybe the worst but because of the activity you saw a lot of creativity and funposting like what happened with Eva 4.0 and SnK ending. The aftermath of COVID on 4chan and /a/ might have been worse than the actual experience of it.
>>283422223
...the worst kind of normalfags?

>>283422315
>I actually wonder what the concentration of /a/ is between people who starting post pre-2020 and post-2020.
that's probably an extremely depressing statistic

4chan is reclining...

>>283422248
I don't get why some post-2020 zoomer would even come here when they have their Discord circlejerks and whatever the hell else zoomers do. I always assumed most posters were 30+ year olds stuck here since the 2000s. "Post-COVID newfag" is just the latest boogeyman. Before that it was the 2016 election before that it was gamergate before that it was Fox News, before that it was summer.

>>283422108
Nah, to be fair I genuinely think they have been pretty hard hit by all of the added rules, the hack, and the fact that 4chan is irrelevant and not even worth botting as much, especially this board and some others like /m/.
>>283422189
I think the worst larping normalfags on here are the under eighteens who still come here thinking that 4chan is relevant and act like fifth columns like that one Bluesky QCucks faggot

>>283422347
It's a comfy kind of end.

I don't know where I'll go once this site dies. I don't want to discuss anime culture on other websites

>>283422344
I actually don't think it's *as* bad as people assume but yeah
>>283422365
They're not a boogeyman, gamergate and 2016 election tourists used to be fair insults back then, but obviously not anymore. Same reason why it's delusional for tourist normalfags to still spam >muh /pol/. Zoomzooms come here because some of them still believe this place is relevant and like it or not, this is sadly the best remaining large forum for anime discussion

>>283422400
Join my roblox server.

>>283422404
there are definitely a lot of oldfags around and I do see good discussion regularly, especially if you stay away from shows that attract a lot of shitposting. You just have to pick and choose, same as it always was.

Seeing how you fags are sperging out, here's my retarded way on how to fix the site and get rid of all the normalfags.
1. Make lolis accepted site-wide and encourage people to post them on all boards.
2. Make /pol/ unusable by doing the following:
2.1. Put a hard limit of posts per day totaling 80% of the current daily posts on the board, meaning: if the board currently has 88k posts per day, users would now be only allowed to post 70k messages per day, and once that limit is reached, new posts won't be allowed to be made.
2.2. Make a bot that actively creates new threads and fills them with images of lolis
2.3. Put a disclaimer stating that if you post on /pol/ you are a retard for EVERY post made.

>>283422430
I'm too old for you anon-kun

>>283422315
They are really not that much of normalfags given how many times I posted that JJK was a stupid manga and didn't even get a reply.

>>283422400
/a/ probably has the highest percentage of oldfags from the main boards even if it's not much. /v/ has more in quantity, but they also have a lot more dogshit This season is full of meh shows so I hopefully it kills a lot of the shitposting from last season like with the rock and KyoAni show.

>>283422379
The current state of /a/ is a very cozy apocalypse

>>283422435
1. Post lolis on all boards.
2. Delete wojacks and twitter threads from all boards, not just /a/.
3. Just delete /pol/, /int/, /r9k/, etc. A website for discussing otaku interests doesn't need a politics board. It needs only nerd boards like anime, mecha, video games, etc. (although /v/ is a massive problem area it's still an otaku-relevant hobby)

>>283422487
Meant to reply to >>283422434

>>283420732
Just get a digital ID. It's not hard.

>>283419304
there are alts without IDs
the biggest problem with the good alts (not cripple 2.0 or the webring) is niggers who just won't fucking post

>>283422537
all me

>>283422537
How ymdo you exoect me to post if there is no threadwatcher

>muh oldfags
They have designated threads for you fags, it’s the year end shit. You can take solace in the fact that everyone that left this website for the other 364 days of the year is back to participate in a community they no longer care about.

>>283420836
I was surprised when I found out ryona threads still get deleted. I wonder if the mod who hates Strike Witches still deletes threads of that show.

>>283422365
it's cause 4chan is a very rare 'big' forum that doesn't need namefagging or login bullshit.

>>283420108
I like kissu
it's kinda slow but it's probably about the speed of a medium-sized 4chan board now which is respectable

>>283422511
4chan hasn't been centered around otaku interests for over a decade, you'll have to accept it sooner or later.

>>283420108
I like kissu because you can be racist there

>>283421743
>just let me keep bumping my dead Hidamari general for weeks on end
No.

>>283421276
Almost like the few times 4chan posters are still allowed to have fun it remains an overwhelmingly dominant force on the Internet. But that contradicts the globohomo narrative this place is irrelevant that some demoralizers are pushing ITT so they don't want to emphasize that.

>>283422654
You mean the best thread on the board? Stay mad tho, Miyako will forgive you anyway!

This is the perfect chance to ask this question:
Why's 4chan so slow on weekend? everyone should be free to post a lot on 4chan. is everyone actually GOING OUT WITH THEIR FRIENDS, GF OR FAMILY on weekend?

>Ban Twitter screencap
>Ban General esque threads
>Ban Gookshit and Chinkshit despite their protests
There, I make /a/ slightly more tolerable

>>283420424
The IDs were nice. The best "argument" anyone could think up against them was how they were too insecure with being noticed for samefagging.

>>283422118
I honestly have no idea where people pretend college students have any free time are coming from. I could only do all of the things people say they do in college AFTER graduation and getting a job.

>>283422745
IDs are nice because they only apply on thread-ly basis and they reset after a few days anyway. it's to prevent shitposting samefagging.

>>283421911
>pol/ is full of boomers and bots, it has about zero influence in the current day.
Nigger the day after charlie kirk was killed all of the internet was spreading a faildoxx from /pol/

>>283422720
This is a normalfag website so yes. If you aren’t going out on the weekend, you’re in the minority.

>>283422756
Either you live in a country that takes education seriously or you’re a retard, dumber than people who spent time making OC instead of studying.

>>283422724
xitter screecaps never really got as much traction on /a/ and were deleted but even the remaining have mostly died down besides official announcements shit I thought

>>283421191
In order to fix /a/ you need to fix 4chan
In order to fix 4chan you need to fix the internet as a whole
In order to fix the internet you need to commit genocide on several group of people
The fastest way to commit genocide is by buying nuke
In order to buy nuke you would need money and connection
You can gain money by working
So you need to get a job in order to save 4chan

>>283422780
Or maybe he was in engineering. Engineering majors are infamous for having zero free time.

Question: would Elon buying 4chan make it worse or better?

>>283422787
Some of them reached 500 posts

>>283421676
>You're still anonymous with post ids. You don't have to make an account nor provide personal info to post and ids reset for each thread already so no autist can really track you,
IDs make that much easier, and in conjunction with archives they could connect to more of your posts across multiple threads or even boards, some of which show flags like /int/.

IDs are fucking retarded and dangerous to anonymity.

>>283422817
Yeah, 4chan in 2025 was really bad, no question. IP counter removed, the hack, and it really seemed like moderation took a step back for a while

Sometimes I feel like this place hate the Japs way too much despite being an anime and Manga board. And it's not just a "I don't like them now because they changed" thing either, it's like some people here really despise the Japs and unironically, anime/manga

>>283422822
wrong. your posts on thread A and thread B have different IDs.

>>283419092 (OP)
Gone where? I was asleep

>>283419304
IDs are retard if anyone wants IDs just go to discord or twitter

>>283422822
>some of which show flags like /int/
There's no need to be ashamed of being Bulgarian, Georgi, no one's going to bully you for it

>>283422814
I'm trying to imagine 4chan with grok integration... I really don't want to think about that. If anything though, he would respond to all sorts of bait with the admin tag which would be fucking hilarious.

>>283422846
If you post images with unique filenames they can still be linked across different IDs, and then in conjunction with each thread ID they can link that image with other images, put those together and you could make a profile. You're either not thinking or playing dumb, I am not sure which is worse.

>>283422822
You have to be repeating the same exact opinions with the same exact typing style for a very long time for that to be a risk. That's even a problem here without IDs and you should have developed skills to camouflage with.

>>283422897
My point exactly. If IDs were added into the mix you could get even more information.

>>283420444
There are good places, you just fucking suck.

anyone else remember the "bug" where the 8ch archives somehow had a way to link all your posts together with the right button clicks

>>283422927
I don't see why you have to become a completely different person every time just to not get stalked.

>>283422927
No, filenames alone could put you at risk and IDs make that risk much worse. Instead of expecting everyone to camouflage how about we just don't make it riskier with IDs which won't actually stop spammers anyways?

>>283421423
You're the one saying /dbs/posting came from somewhere else, motherfucker. That other anon is only seeing it in other places after the fact.

>AWS was down
>azure was down
>now 4ch was down
What the FUCK is happening??

>>283422982
>filenames alone could put you at risk
To a point that's more the MD5 hashes, which are also often used for filtering

>>283422990
hopefully the entire internet falls apart

>>283422977
Schizos are fucking crazy all over the internet.
>>283422982
>what are randomized filenames

>>283421453
How many of you anons bothered to remember the names of every student in your classroom? Why would people bother to remember an even higher number of usernames? It all blurs together

>>283422982
You're right, Hiro should send a cease and desist to Desuarchive and all the other archive sites because people will use them to track filenames and link posters to posts they made in the past.

>>283422982
There's option to delete file name and info on 8

>>283423013
>>283423024
>randomize files
>cease and desist
How about we just don't make it easier by using IDs which won't solve the problem anyways?

>>283421964
America is fucked but I hear bad things about everywhere, Brits with their shitty government, Canada with their housing crisis, etc. The only nice spots I'm aware of are mid-Europe like Norway and Finland, and I bet you need a really good work visa to emigrate.

>>283421568
>>283421585
Half of the daily shit is for mainstream shounen series. Again, that's one chapter a day for 300-500 ch long series that everyone already knows about. Storytimes have been shit for quite a while.

>>283423055
Stop deflecting, filenames are a non-issue.

WHY CAN'T I POST!!!!

>>283421575
i think you've been cursed

>>283423051
That's good, we should have more things like that and less things like IDs which erode anonymity. Filename stripping might not be enough if IDs become a thing though, if the same groups of images are made by a single ID in any thread, you could infer that it's the same person.

>>283423094
FIX THIS MOOT!

>>283423106
Couldn't post in my own thread. Had to change IP

>>283423101
If you cared about anonymity as much as you said you did then finding a way to remain anonymous and undetected would still be extremely easy for you even with thread ids and filename /image hashes used against you.

>>283423068
>Half of the daily shit is for mainstream shounen series
It's just Naruto and One Piece and maybe Detective Conan

>>283422365
Gamergate and the election brought in a lot of people and changed the tenor of the site. Just like the Chanology days, beefing with Gaiafags, and horsefuckery

>>283423142
Why make people jump through hoops to be anonymous on an anonymous imageboard?

>>283423142
>for you
Okay, so putting aside that it makes all of that more difficult, what about every newfaggot or casual poster who is completely clueless? They have to find out the hard way that they need to scrub everything just so we can satisfy your urge to ID people and not even stop the spam? That is retarded.

>>283423201
Why are you so afraid of people being able to hunt down your shitty posting? Try not being a faggot instead of engaging in your paranoid delusions of traceability.

>>283421740
>Sup, Verty is dead
Damn, feels weird. On the one hand, I didn't like the guy, at all. but I don't think he deserved to die this early.

>>283423227
this has to be bait

>>283423227
My posts are of the highest quality. I'm just worried my obsessive fans might start stalking me.

I'd be fine with IDs if they also triple down and force you to have usernames, profile pictures, social security numbers etc. At least it would really force me to move on.

>>283423214
>it makes all of that more difficult
For you, maybe. It's extremely easy for anyone who truly wants to remain anonymous. I already walk on eggshells and make sure I don't post in a way that will out me across threads or boards. Thread IDs wouldn't affect me.
>what about every newfaggot or casual poster who is completely clueless
Not my problem, if you're that retarded then get fucked.
>not even stop the spam
Greatly reduce and hinder it nonetheless.
>>283423201
Think of it as a form of gatekeeping. Those that can keep up can post comfortably and carefree, those who can't are subject to be publicly ridiculed.

>>283422814

Worse. Never mind what idiotic policies he might adopt around here, the sole fact that it would attract an enormous amount of Musk fanboys would make the whole site decline in quality.

>>283423286
That's just sad, imagine being this fake.

>>283423286
>>not even stop the spam
>Greatly reduce and hinder it nonetheless.
It doesn't even do that on the boards here that have them. Also you can already just change IDs if you know the basics when posting on the boards here that have them.

>>283423286
>I already walk on eggshells
Sounds fun.
>Not my problem, if you're that retarded then get fucked.
Thank you for admitting that there will be problems but you just do not care because they will not hurt you specifically.

>>283423348
>It doesn't even do that on the boards here that have them
This.

>>283419092 (OP)
I didn't even notice it went down

>>283422212
>This makes you come across as an unbelievable bitch.
i've suspected this about some anons, that they're too thin-skinned to handle some downvotes
most people aren't going to remember who made what comment, and the ones who do are schizos that take things way too personally

>>283423291
Yet I don't see you putting a unique name into your Name field either. If you actually did care about being anonymous you'd put in the slightest effort. You're just a casual anonymous.
>>283423348
Boards like /pol/ have a lot worst problems than samefagging. The main problems /pol/ has and the main problems /a/ has are extremely wildly incomparable. You're not even taking into account how even shittier that shithole would be without IDs.
>just change IDs if you know the basics when posting on the boards here that have them
And it'd be obvious if you immediately start spamming on a 1pbtid which people will then filter, combined with annoying captchas for IP hopping there's more ways for spam to be deterred.
>>283423357
>that there will be problems but you just do not care because they will not hurt you specifically
Correct, problems for the retards. If you want to maintain even a semblance of quality you need gatekeeping.

>>283423380
It was for a few minutes I think.

>>283422843
I have also noticed this and it is extremely weird. Of course you can ignore the low effort shit posters, but I have seen high effort posts like you are describing as well.

>>283422977
>become a completely different person every time
i thought that was half of the fun of this place

>>283423495
It's fun to do that because it's a choice, not so much when it's soft-forced by an ID system.

>>283421238
In a 6 hour thread lifespan even if you say sorry people will still and rightfully should just continue to shit on you. Do better next thread or grow thick skinned enough to live with it

>>283423385
>>283423519
>i'll just shame them into accepting IDs!
no thanks, you are free to go be a big tough guy on some other website that has them, though!

>>283421332
No you fucking illiterate dumbass.

I want people banned for going "Uh you posted 10 times in this hundred post thread, you're clearly same fagging and couldn't possibly be having a genuine convo"

If /a/ with IDs is so great then why are you still here?

>>283423556
People should he shot upon for being retarded. Name one board incident that wouldn't have been prevented by just shitting on the posters harder

>>283422756
I'm assuming you did a degree where you couldn't party and still do well (i.e engineering)?

>good morning fellow oldfags!
>wouldn't you agree that 4chan would be much better if we implemented IDs and upvotes and banned those stupid nazis on /pol/?
Not falling for it.

>>283422720
Because the site is fucking dying retard, haven't you been paying attention

>>283423556
Bro you are literally advocating "Uh I know better now that I've been corrected please don't shit on me"

What is the fucking point of this site if not to shit on people doing dumb shit and hopefully allowing the people who have thick skin (who have implicit moral superiority than thin skinned people) to grow by accepting the community bullying.

Being against bullying is literally being against gatekeeping which has casualized anime. Cause guess what there has NEVER been a single time polite gatekeeping has worked.

>>283423588
yup, it's funny how hard they're shilling it

>>283423286
Fuck off, fed

>>283423605
>What is the fucking point of this site
anonymity

>>283423739
I thought it was being called a wapanese faggot by people moot liked instead of ones he didn't like until he got bothered by that too and wordfiltered it.

>>283423564
Have you never heard of keeping multiple tabs open?

>>283422916
If you are THAT paranoid then just get off the internet retard

I wonder whether the word onions is still being filtered. I don't remember what the last word filter added was.

>>283423265
Nigga younare anonymous, no one can stalk you.

>>283423930
Loving that cute little shift from denying that it's possible to calling people paranoid for having concerns about it.

>>283423974
There is no shift since I'm not that anon you paranoid schizo.

>>283423850
So why are you still here?

>>283424005
so you saw that anon get proven wrong, you agree with how he was proven wrong, and yet you decide to attack the person who was correct?

>>283422062
When does it start?

>>283422347
Whole world is reclining.
Post what you're listening to.
https://youtu.be/0lTaFgQ2DFE

>>283420551
I thought that was mainly a /v/ thing?

>>283420104
Mods host this site because they make a lot of money on it. Chief mod rapeape rakes in around 500k a year in ad money and possibly glowie cash while jannies do all the work for free.
There's speculation from ex staffers that the reason for no show jannies and why only blatant porn and racism (against certain groups) gets banned is due the fact that rampant shitposting is still site engagement and thus allowed unofficially to help with falling userbase (a shitposters spamming on several ips still count for more "anons" than a good anon) and keep the income up.
They even fired the 2 decades long chief programmer a while before the hack to cut costs from their paychecks

>>283424075
Yes

>>283419889
>weeks
Try 10 years of dilluted board culture and retarded teens coming here resulting in the loss of whatever magic this website once had.

CONNECTION ERROOOOOOOOOOOR

IDs should only appear after you make a lot of posts in rapid succesion, or if the ratio of your posts overall in the thread is considerably big. Even then, it should not be too obvious: like, moving the cursor over the post number reveals the temporary ID if you're a spamming faggot, or something like that
That way you can safeguard anonymous posting while discouraging retarded shiposters by making them easier to find with much less schizoposting, and it doesn't disincentivize nice slow threads too much either.

>>283421618
Sup buttrice.

test

>>283424125
Worse, now that retarded teens aren't wandering in anymore it's retarded out-of-touch millennials screaming at clouds and fighting their own shadows. And complaining about the lack of inventive and funny threads, which they themselves either fail to produce -- or, on seeing such a thread, immediately descend on it like vultures to chastise OP for not making a ritualpost that resembles a thread from 20 years ago. Because of "board culture".

>>283424162
Test

>>283424229
I suppose that doesn't sound too bad.

テスト

hello can i post images?

>>283424454
FUCK.
I CAN'T POST IMAGES

>>283424459
I can post images but not videos

>>283419111
>connection error...
this is fucking irritating

>>283424229
Another advantage to this is it would allow OPs that are chapter dumping to be highlightable without them needing to namefag

Just wanna post an image

>>283424459
I got the "connection error..." trying to post an image like 20 minutes ago. I said hmm weird, but I hit the 100% button again two times and I managed to evade it.
No problem to post anything again so far except for one particular image (which I don't think is shadow-banned).
I'm an ignorant about computing/IT but I suppose it's because of the website being re-designed to the Halloween theme thing. Notice some threads and even the catalog of the board still remain the original /a/ theme.

>>283424635
Nothing over 1mb works

This website's netcode is a fucking joke. The Halloween thing keeps bugging out.

>>283424663
The image I can't post is ~600kb. But it's kinda high resolution if that matters though.

I CAN'T FUCKING POST AGAIN. WHAT THE FUCK!!?!!?!?

I just want my fucking mato chapter

I just want to post webms. Why can't I post webms

>>283422437
How old? UwU I'm no DK (danshi kouseki) either.
Will check for replies in desuarchive tomorrow so if you reply please monitor desuarchive for 24 hours afterwards if you feel like it!

>>283420320
do newfags even know how to make a trip?

>>283424600
Exactly, it's probably the best compromise.

Our only hope by this point is to get adopted by a rich autist who cares.

>>283420991
>but one day they found ways to hide all sorts of files on normal posts
How? Can you dl them by accident?

>>283425104
no

>>283423227
>nothing to hide, nothing to fear
fuck off fed

>>283425095
Please let GME pump already I'll buy it then

>>283425157
>still being unhinged

>>283425095
>the monkey's paw curls
>elon musk buys 4chan

>>283425167
>bro, just take this federal identification number, it's actually good for you, stop questioning it so much

This is new

>>283423227
Because fuck your feelings

>>283425182
>>283425298
Thank God there's no IDs so no one can tell you're the same unhinged person...