>>105796567>It's not just haters, it's stagnation too.Honestly, the site has been stagnating ever since >who gave this place to hiroshimoot. No real new features for nearly a decade (gonna be 10 years on sept. 21st btw) is gonna kill a site. Yes, the old Web2.0 design gives the site its charm, but most people use add-ons to make the site more usable in the year of our lord 2003 + 22.
>what's the point?I don't know, I come here out of habit.
>You could have more interesting conversations with ELIZA.KEK, funny that you mention that.
>>105797036>The culture in general in these image boards has shifted to be just pure gaslighting. I think 2016 was the tipping point some theorized there was some coordinated effort to make these places uninhabitableYep. At first it was "retribution" for humiliating >her by making the cheeto president. Then they realized that concentrated autism is water on the mills of free spiriting which is why they first tried subverting shit which didn't work but then turned the noise to information ration way up. At leas that's my observation.
>Whatever it was, there's been generations of newfags now that never saw the old gatekeepy elitist club we used to be, where we actually had some sort of etiquette and took internet as serious business in a funny wayEveryone used to be a newfag at some point, even me, but >LURK MOAR used to be the apex predator of chan culture back when I was new. I learned the etiquette and even had my own general thread on /g/ a few years ago. I know I sound like a boomer here, but people here aren't encouraged to learn the ways anymore, this
>All they've known is this cesspool of pointless spam and low effort bait, and think it's the norm.perfectly encapsulates it. And with certain orgs having access to unhinged LLMs the signal to noise ratio is forever in the gutter.