Old school forum culture is dead

>>105673709 (OP)
Old school forum culture is dead. Old school forum culture remains dead. And we have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

Just find some boomer hobby like DIY speaker building, building patios/decks, early-2000s electronics (people still use Squeezebox), etc. Only old school millennial culture is dead.

>>105673709 (OP)
>gamefaqs
>gbatemp
The only two I know of that still somewhat resemble old internet forums, and you can get banned for saying the wrong things on either one.

The last forum I was on that used old internet rules (say whatever and no one gets banned) died in 2010 after a spammer posted cp and the admins didn't delete it in time. They lost their hosting and it never came back up. Things like this are probably why old internet died. You either keep tabs on your forum 24/7 or people with malicious intent will spam the most fucked up shit imaginable. It's easier to put your community on someone else's servers and let them handle the abuse reports. As an aside this is why I'll never say a bad thing about 4chin jannies even though I've been banned MULTIPLE times for no good reason. Because the truth is, without them doing it for free we wouldn't have a 4chan.

>>105673709 (OP)
no it's not, there are millions of various forum out there, that's stil where I spend most of my time online decades later

>>105673709 (OP)
At least we havent lost 4chan culture :)

jews

>>105673831
>You either keep tabs on your forum 24/7 or people with malicious intent
jews
>As an aside this is why I'll never say a bad thing about 4chin jannies even though I've been banned MULTIPLE times for no good reason
jews

>>105673878
Actually, it was the Iranians. That's why they need to be bombed.

>>105673940
You are jewish.

>>105673909
Nope, the Iranians were behind both of these things. Direct orders from the Ayatollah.

>>105673709 (OP)
I'm not joining your forum just to view one attachment.

>>105673842
hiding in plain sight
there's a natural barrier on account of people being too brainrotted by overstimulant media
active forums look dead to them

>>105673949
Nope, Iranian. That's why I need to be bombed.

>>105673953
Is being an extremely transparent hasbara kike a /g/ meme? I don't post here often.

>>105673968
Nope, it's an Iranian conspiracy. A false flag, if you will.

the only active forum I know is mmo-champion

>>105673968
>I don't post here often.
if anyone posts on /pol/ they should be autobanned from the rest of the site.

>>105673709 (OP)

>>105673980
>>105673991
Well, at least you're clearly losing your kike composure.

>>105674003
*Iranian composure

>>105673754

Pre-WWII Germany was in a state of complete spiritual confusion. It is the Catholics who preserve the torch of faith in God in Germany. The Protestants were misled into atheism and into strange cult practices, only amplified by the proliferation of drugs like methamphetamine. A collective delusion, a national descent into madness that gave rise to the political cult of Hitler.

>>105674019
>muh Hitler did meth
Wow, I didn't realize just how bad this board was. Holy shit. How do white men with triple digit IQ tolerate this?

>>105673709 (OP)
oldschool forums died with nsider

>>105674019

In the USA we see a similar strangeness. With the rise of secularism, politicians have taken on a cult status. In Mar a Lago stands a cult icon, a goat statue covered in dollar bills bearing Trump's visage. A man who open defies the sanctity of marriage, who promotes the sodomy cult for political points, who pledges loyalty to zionists which bomb churches in the Holy Land.

It is a tired cliche, but it is sadly true, the cult of Trump bears a lot of resemblence to the cult of Hitler. If you know your history, both supported the secular settlement project of the zionists in Palestine and both feigned Christian faith for political gain. The atheist right, the attempt to establish a secular world order, the cult of politicians who try in vain to become the substitutes of God.

Its dead and will never come back unless it has information for learning.
The forum format for media doesn't favour the ADHD driven media platforms of today, your post doesn't get instant replies or engagement.
Also the forum format is very intimidating to newbies.

The only forums that stay active are those that provide some kind of knowledge like forum.osdev.org .

As a passion project I started a simple shitpost forum with pHpBB and fucked around with some friends but my friends were never people interested in forums so they felt awkward posting things on their which I understand because I've felt the same way before.

After writing this reply I realize I've written this like a forum post....

>>105674070
>leftoids control all media universities and banks
> cult of Trump bears a lot of resemblence to the cult of Hitler

>>105674083
Neither of these statements are wrong.

>>105674025

I am a white man with an IQ in the top 0.1% and am also of German ancestry. The nazis were insane people and they were also zionists, read the Haavara Agreement.

Meth use was incredibly common and even children were given meth chocolates. The nazis were crazy people. That is what happens when you abandon God and load up on addictive and neurotoxic amphetamines.

>>105674097
nigga this aint /pol/

>>105674073
GameFAQs is fine for talking about games, it just obviously has the globohomo rule of no talking about jews that literally every single website has including this one. Also
>The forum format for media doesn't favour the ADHD driven media platforms of today, your post doesn't get instant replies or engagement.
this is a good thing. It filters low IQ, high time preference retards.

>>105674101
You are jewish.

>>105674101
Does meth increase iq? temporarily at least?

>>105673709 (OP)
Oh no not the heckin wholesome forums full of power-tripping mentally ill retards

>>105673709 (OP)
the reason is moderators became dictators.

usenet died too
totse was always better than 4chan
let me tell you something kid, everything you can inagine aill wax and wane.

Gordon Ramsey is a horrible chef. But idiot Americans made him rich and famous.
Americans ruin EVERYTHING

>>105673709 (OP)
Sometimes I miss oldschool forums but then I'll pop my head into the Dragon Ball General forum on Gamefaqs and I remember that, in all honesty, it's like being surrounded by a bunch of retarded gimmicky tripfags on a PG-13 4chan, complete with the staff being power-tripping tards who actively babysit their favorite lolcows while everyone else is on thin ice

>>105673709 (OP)
nothing is stopping you from talking to wendel on the level1 forums

>>105674112
That doesn't modern platforms are all filled with drooling retards (though they are), as in someone with something to say will resort to Twitter or something like that as opposed to GameFAQs or CBoard

>>105674121
Cope.

>>105674152
English. Do you even speak it?

>>105674083
>>leftoids control all media universities and banks
Ah yes, remind me again how the left controls the banks. That is to say the people who want to tax the rich as much as possible, possibly even to abolish private property.

Kf exists and so do many smaller communities unfortunately most are totally compromised by cabals of autistic trannies.

>>105674134
With great power comes great tomfoolery

Also this nigga has the most aura ever

>>105674070

Why are so many people demoralized in our time? It is not about nostalgic culture. Simply put, they have abandoned God. It is atheism and secularism.

If you are disillusioned by religion, I would seriously recommend Islam. It is where the Gospel leads us: Monotheism.

Read Luke 4:8, this is the First Commandment. Consider logically the religion of Jesus, he did not worship himself.

Islam is the Truth of God. We are only meant to worship God. It is the religion of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus.

What is your life missing? Old forums? Old video games? CRTs? No, it is missing God. Submit to God and you will not only find your inner peace but you will find beauty and vibrance in the world.

>>105674172
Ah, very easy explanation. See, all leftists are delusional retards who are lead around by the nose by jews. Everything they think is a jewish fabrication.

>>105674172
The left have been promoting endless scab immigrantion and neo-feudalism for decades. They're the biggest corpo bootlickers on the planet.

>>105674166
My dear idiot, shut the fuck up.

>>105674197
Upvoted.

>>105673878
>>105673909
>>105674112
>>105674184
Like, come on, I get your point but you can't blame literally everything on the jews. Bad things can occur simply by happenstance, not everything in this world is planned

>>105674193
>>105674184
Those aren't leftists.

>>105674249
True, it was the Iranians!

>>105674274
You need to stop trying to gatekeep leftism because leftism is whatever the majority of self-identityiny "leftists" say. Which is globohomo corpo useful idiot shit. They've genuinely evolved into an aggressively anti-worker political ideology in the name of idpol and socjus. Like feminism, it's just another ruse to get more bodies in factories at lower wages.

>>105674309
>hurr durr they just want to make money, goy
No, they want all whites dead.

>>105674317
Why do white people want to self-exterminate so bad?

>>105673709 (OP)
>hasnt been on ARFCOM
you just need to find out where the boomers hang out if you want vibrant forum culture.

>>105674332
Generations of jewish brainwashing.

this thread feels like dead internet theory.

>>105674345
that's every thread on current 4chan. genuinely unusable.

>>105674345
Bots and jeets do not talk about the JQ.

>>105674345
What do I need to do to make you believe I'm a real person?

Argument to the contrary:
I admin one old school text based forum. At most it had about 50 people online. Now it's 3 being the most per day. Quality improved.
Peoples brains are just on fast moving low quality slop now.

>>105674367
Explain why the JQ is important.

>>105674376
>slow dead circlejerk good
stay there then.

>>105674345
/g/ has fucking plummeted in quality over the last year

>>105674380
I'm sorry, but I can't help you with antisemitic requests. Is there anything else you'd like to know?

>>105673754
>>105674019
>>105674070
>>105674181
Bot or schizo

>>105673709 (OP)
I hate that everything is a discord now. Every youtuber has their own discord, every random twitter user, tutorials for anything out there are locked behind discord, a ton of reserouces locked behind discord.
It's fine for talking to friends. But it's horrible for actuall finding and asking shit.

>>105673709 (OP)
You haven't been able to call someone a retard for the last 12 years.
And now you're even at risk of being banned for being anything but supportive of even the most ridiculous of assertions.

Forum culture's BEEN dead.

>>105673709 (OP)
>one hour and 56 minutes ago
STOP NECRO BUMPING THREADS

>>105674249
zuckerberg is a jew, google is from the jews and youtube was ruined by the jews

>>105674101
>read the Haavara Agreement.
the document where they peacefully emigrated thousands of jews to the middle east where they belong? before war was declared on them? the thing that basically proves they were the good guys?

>stimulants
that kind of thing was sold over the counter to anyone that wanted it in nazi germany. you could go buy meth and a soda at the store.
there still wasnt a bunch of meth addicts lingering around the streets like degenerates. it was a tool, for responsible people, who had more freedom than you do now.

and that stimulant was used mainly by the luftwaffe military pilots. who were outnumbered and had to stay in the sky for longer periods with less men. its generally said they were outnumbered 4 to 1.
that didnt stop them from dominating however:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_aces_credited_with_100_or_more_victories

>>105674101
Du lügender wichser. Hab noch niemals so was gehört von meiner Großmutter als sie im Krieg aufgewachsen ist.

Wie viel bezahlt die JIDF pro post?

>>105675443
>Nazi Germany makes super soldier pilots with everything they need
>US, Britain, and Russian send poorly trained pilots in poorly made machines in wave after wave against them
Who are the bad guys again?

>>105673709 (OP)
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>>105674309
So not real leftists...

>>105673709 (OP)
i wonder how it would play out if you gave people signature space again on these social media. maybe text only.
thats one way to bring a glimmer of it back.
a lot of it would be used for ads these days. forums would police that and make you pay if you wanted to use your posts as an advertising spot.

>>105673709 (OP)
Get used to it. Fairly soon everything that is the old internet will disappear, and more importantly those who remembered what it used to be like will decrease. The powers that be want to gaslight the world into thinking that the internet was always the modern day hellscape that it is today.

>>105673709 (OP)
everything good about forum culture was BBS culture and it was dead before either of us could type a complete sentence

What is it about meta threads that attracts jackasses with nothing to say aside from making inane statements about Jews and trannies? They cant' even be assed to elaborate either, they just leave it at that. Why do they act like people aren't already aware of these things?
>>105673709 (OP)
There are plenty of old-school forums still up and running--moderate engagement on them too--just that there really aren't that many forums or imageboard adjacent sites that are good for just shooting the shit where you don't have to worry much about the format of your post or one of the many rules you have to keep in mind for posting. That's a good way to gatekeep and maintain a certain standard for posting--one of the forums I had looked into had a rule against ebonics, vernacular, or leetspeak. There just aren't any--*many--"casual" forums with enough activity on them that don't have one post a month.
>>105673831
>Things like this are probably why old internet died
Why do belligerent fucks feel so compelled to spam every attempt at branching off from globohomo social media and pre-established imageboards/forums with CSAM? I can't see how anyone would get any entertainment out of it.

>>105675975
Nuh uh, actually you're not a real leftist :^)

>>105673709 (OP)
Forums sucked balls.

>>105673709 (OP)
>I miss my barely alive place where I had to wait days for a post

>>105673709 (OP)
It's coming back, baby: the zoomers are getting DRAFTED.

>>105676875
In comparison to everything being consolidated into a half dozen social media platforms, Reddit, Telegram chats and Discord chats with pedos, gays, terrorists and children, it was paradise. I'm at the point where I mostly just use this site, a couple alt chans and a forum for a private torrent tracker.

>>105676900
nah forums were awesome. for example this was nexopia, a canadian myspace. everyone used a real picture and had a profile with more pictures. it was a dating/shitposting site. i dont think i wouldve lost my virginity without having that site

>>105677012
looks trans

>>105676923
How will Zoomers getting drafted bring back old forums if that's primarily an oldfag thing? The only benefit I can think of is less queerjak spam and low-effort posts.

>>105674337
Seriously, where do they hangout? I don't think high iq white boomers would use facebook.

>>105674073
Wrong, some of my favorite forums had plenty to learn from and still died. TOTSE for example.

>>105677691
totse lives on
https://niggasin.space/latest-threads

>hey I'll invite you to the discord XD

Most forums for calculator software are dead. Biggest one (at least for my calculator) is plànette Casio, I hate french people and I've been involuntarily learning french because I want to do math in my calculator

>forum culture died because I can’t be an antisemitic racist piece of shit
whatever forums you were on, they were fringe scizo places where you probably traded gore and cp.
meanwhile, on every other forum, people stayed on topic.

We already discussed this in another thread. I'm closing this one.

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H4xx0r | May the force be with you.

>>105673709 (OP)
you're to blame
you did nothing to prevent it
sad!

>>105673709 (OP)
>105673754
>105673831
>105674064
>>105674073


No it's not; Just make your own forum. Self host everything, and keep it away from the masses! You think it's dead, because the forums worth a damn are trying their hardest to make it easy for normalfaggots to discover their haven. It spreads and grows by word of mouth, not through some algorithm or search engine. You get there by typing it in manually on your keyboard, not following behind some automated machine. It's just that easy.

You want a forum? Let me spoonfeed you anon:
https://cy-x.net
Do you want more? You'll need to do some research yourself. I think the front page of that little thing will give you all of the hints you need to try and look further if you aren't satisfied. Otherwise, enjoy what I just gifted you. You might be part of something legitimate for the first time in a decade.

The following anons are correct:
>105673842
>105673964
>105674345


Additionally, please note how this thread has been coincidentally derailed by political sperging irrelevant to this thread. Lets get this fucking thread back on track, please. This is one of the most relevant threads /g/ has ever had in a while (including this post) and it doesn't deserve to go down like this.

>Our system thinks your post is spam. Please reformat and try again.
No (You)s for a couple of posters here, then.

>>105674337
>>105677616
It's a pretty niche hobby but apexspeed is pretty good. The boomers there have a lot of secret knowledge about making open wheel cars run reliably and go fast.

Kind of shocking how this thread just casually died. What the fuck is going on here?

>thread is derailed from this specific moment
>>105673878
>all at once, within less than five minutes
>the thread is both a mix of "different people" talking about the fucking jews and people who are actually interested in the post topic
>it immediately dies, not even on the fucking catalog anymore

Would anyone mind explaining this? This thread should be fucking face first at the top of the fucking board given its subject matter and its relevance to 4chan as a imageboard yet it's just fucking not???

What causes this?

>>105679417
>What causes this?

jews

>>105674112
>the globohomo rule of no talking about jews that literally every single website has including this one
There is an extremely vocal subsection of the internet that is incapable of any discussion that isn't screeching about jews if the topic is allowed. It's like bronies or furries.

Very few old school forum suggestions on here. Either suggest something or lets make one together

Fuck the feds

>>105679634
/g/

4chud is the closest to an old school forum we have today but it's been captured by trooncord jannies that allow all sorts of faggotry to run rampant

RIP internet forums ;_;

>>105673709 (OP)
>90% of the page is signatures and banners
>You must be signed in to view links
>Your account must be verified my a moderator
>You must have 25 posts to view files
>You have been warned for posting too fast
>You will be banned if you necrobump threads
>dm'd you the fix
I don't miss it.
The only good thing about forums is that they are indexed by search engines, assuming the info wasn't gatekept too hard.
Discord isn't much better sadly. The servers I've seen aren't usually as bad in most ways, but the fact that you can't view/search the info without an account kills any praise I could possibly give it. It's a black hole of information and a tragedy for the wider internet.

test

>>105673709 (OP)
I wanna cuddle

>forum culture
now playing: lil jon ft ice cube - real nigga roll call

>>105676497
attention. just look at the 4gae admin

<<105677967
bad bait

I wish I'd died along with it.

>>105679440
*Iranians

>>105677724
That’s like saying my braindead tube fed comatose grandfather is “alive”.

>>105673754
NEETzsche pls

>>105673831
>Say whatever and nobody gets banned
Did we use the same internet? Forums are infamous for being ran by petty kings who would permaban someone for necroing a 3 month old technology thread by posting news about the invention of antigravity.

>>105680912
they invented an alt-narrative about the old internet.
who knows why. schizo chud things.

>>105679417
The same dynamic that prevents old school forum culture to prevail in the open - people that enjoy breaking stuff other people enjoy just for the sake of taking their joy away.

I've experienced it multiple times and would otherwise feel bad for those fuckers that act this way for they don't know (and never will) the joy that building something together with other people can bring you. Even (especially) if it is only something meaningless like a niche online forum.
I wish them all an untimely death by their own hands.

>>105678066
why has this motivated me to restart my foruM....

>>105673842
>>105673964
like what?

>>105679417
>boohoo old school forum culture is dead
>*classic example of a flame war breaks out*
>boohoo i hate this why can't off topic discussion be instantly banned
and now you see why old school forum culture died out

>>105680912
It varied by forum but there was definitely a higher percentage of mod-free forums in the early 2000s.
>>105681097
People used the term "wild west" to describe old internet as early as the mid-2000s. It's not a retcon. There's a reason a lot of oldfags put 2008 as the cutoff date for when the internet was still good. That was when a lot of advertising companies started pulling ads based on the content of the sites they were being advertised on, which forced every website to enforce politically correct moderation policies.

>>105673709 (OP)
>Old school forum culture is dead
In english.
For some reason a lot of euro countries have managed to maintain it, I at least know of the finnish, germans and french, probably a lot more I just can't read those others so I wouldn't know.

Good fucking riddance. If you think the jannies here are bad, you never met a forum mod on a power trip.

Can somebody explain to me why is necrobumping bad? In what world is creating multiple threads for the exact same topic better than having it all in one thread?

>>105682691
it's bad when someone tries to hijack an old thread for their own use. Continuing threads for the same discussion wasn't a problem. Except for the most uptight nazi mods.

>>105673709 (OP)
time marches on

>>105673709 (OP)
thank god

>>105681097
kill yourself disingenuous tranny.

>>105683646
> started a thread
> got his answer
> still mad
I get it though. You kids need answers spoonfed to you in patronizing tone, a soulless GPT reply such that your feelings aren't hurt. That's what's important in the year 2025.

>>105673709 (OP)
Not only forum culture died, but culture in general died too.
I used to be on various forums throughout the 00s, from gaming to PC and politics. It was common to get into arguments, even technical, throughout hundreds of pages easily without slipping into adhominem or one side starting to post memes and ridicule/turn everything into a clown fiesta.
People seem to no longer tolerate if someone disagrees, they see it somehow as a personal attack?! Also they immediately cry for mods who act like dictators, I can't remember being banned even once back in the days yet I'm banned constantly today even for no reason at all. And it's certainly got nothing to do with age, we were all young teens back then yet most got along just fine

So really 4chan is the best i know now which is a shame because this site always was porninfested dogshit

you have kiwifarms

>>105674249
t. jew

>>105673709 (OP)
You're only noticing this now?

>>105683917
gotta start somewhere

>>105673709 (OP)
https://lttforums.com

>>105673709 (OP)
https://linustechtips.com/

>>105673709 (OP)
I know nothing about old school forum culture.

>>105680912
>>105681097
They're trying to retcon from the fact that right wing forums were full of CP. Most forums were strictly moderated for reasons. Any board that didn't deal with its nazi problem was inevitably overrun by pedo skinheads. Nobody ventured there. Most people knew those were no go zones. Everyone else who didn't know at all were better off in the dark about it all.
That's basically what reddit was in its early years. It was on a technical basis an evolution of the message board paradigm but culturally it carried on from the wild west unmoderated "free speech absolutist" boards.

>>105673754
/lit/ is over there

>>105683853
People in general were more open to accepting and integrating alternative viewpoints in the past in my opinion. Whether that was because early internet users were more open minded, or whether knowledge of bad actors who will only accept their own rhetoric was more limited and successful, or due to online echo chambers creating radicals, who knows, all I know is you’re either a chud or a troon and there’s no in between.

>>105673709 (OP)

values still lives on, just gotta build something new instead of surfing.

Meshtastic network. Run local AIs. Meet in real life. Have LANs.

The future is now grandpa.

>>105684851
>all I know is you’re either a chud or a troon and there’s no in between.
letting the political board take over your entire site for years with zero repercussions and making every single discussion political will do that.

>>105673754
>save meeeeeee nietszche

>>105673831
>people with malicious intent
feds* with malicious intent ftfy 4chan only stays because /pol/ is too big a honeypot

> old internet: cult like niche cliques
> new internet: cult like global politics
some times i fantasize about leaving all this going innawoods forever

>>105684851
I think it has more to do with the way people interacted with the internet. Because it used to be like an alternate reality, a sort of game where you pick up a pseudonym and explore your interests without bringing in your daily problems. Like a bigger version of your nerdy hobbyist gathering.

But with social media and the likes, not only has it attracted all sorts of people, but people started to use it as an extension of their lifes. They saw how to make money, they saw how tweets change politics. Thus naturally it stopped becoming just harmless pasttime and now people treat it as even more real or more important than reality. just look how people can't function without a phone outside

discord, twitter and reddit ruined it.

>>105682618
Fucking this

>>105673709 (OP)
How about ITT we post forums that are still useful and alive?

photrio.com/
I use this for photography (specifically film photography) and it's pretty active, and very helpful. I know more technical details about film than like 99.9999% of people or more, which doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things but it is cool, I guess.

tapeheads.net
I use this one less often but I listen to cassettes and I collect/repair/maintain a small variety of cassette tape audio equipment. Also has been fairly useful to me in the past.

>>105686854
>I think it has more to do with the way people interacted with the internet. Because it used to be like an alternate reality, a sort of game where you pick up a pseudonym and explore your interests without bringing in your daily problems.
That is a very good point. I've experienced the change in interaction with the internet to an extension of the reality the users live in when I was moderating an IRC channel some 15 years ago.
To give an example, some new users were getting mad that they were being "misgendered" (without any reference to trannyism) just based on their nick while the older ones saw potential for a little lighthearted trolling.

>>105680336
Altchans are more popular now and kind of feel like how 4chan should be, but they all have this terrible pseudo-modern UI. It's like in the neomorphism uncanny valley.

>>105673754
Based

>>105674184
You mean like how Zion Don is being lead around by Israel

>>105673709 (OP)
some examples:

programming communities (perlmonks, board.flatassembler, basic-converter.proboards)
windows modding communities (winclassic)
game modding communities (gzdoom for doom, jkhub for SW jedi academy, phrozen keep for diablo 2, spellhold for IE (baldur's gate, icewind dale etc))
game communities (gamefaq)
emulation communities (epforums, forums.pcsx2, forums.dolphin-emu)
anime/manga communities (MAL, AniDB)
linux (linuxquestions, forum.puppylinux, archlinux forum)

basically based communities have forums, normies social activities switched to discord