Anonymous
11/8/2022, 6:34:38 PM
No.8805
>>7977
I miss old /b/ just as much as you do brother. But one thing you fail to understand is the old /b/ existed in a different time in the internet.
Today, the millennials who enjoyed 14 year old internet shitposting back in 2005-2010 are grown up. They can barely be bothered to venture away from Facebook and twitter anymore.
Why? because this is by design. The big social media companies used the mobile phone internet revolution to hijack the internet and mold it into what it is today.
Part of the reason, in my opinion, 4chan has suffered lately is because of these ridiculous captchas. There's been so many times when I access 4chan from my safari on my iPhone and try to make a good comment or participate in quality conversations but the insane sliding captchas are just soooo off-putting. The first time I get a "captcha incorrect" message after trying to type that long weird bullshit I just abandon the comment altogether. Are these captchas really necessary? Are they really better than standard recaptchas? have standard recaptchas been beaten by bots? They seem to be used everywhere else in the world so I tend to think not...
In fact, 4chan is the only website I've ever come across that uses these insanely difficult captchas.
You know who doesn't? Facebook, reddit, twitter, and all these other platforms that have taken over the internet. They actively encourage posting whereas 4chan actively makes it more difficult, leaving only the most dedicated trolls and shitposters left. No longer are there casual 4chan posters, the new captcha has weeded them out. All that's left are the bottom of the barrel posters who post the SAME "celeb" thread 10000x a day.
When did /b/ become a place to spam SFW pictures of celebrities from social media? When did /b/ become a place to spam SFW pictures of regular girls off Instagram??? It amazes me that a place that used to be the most vile collection of goatse, tubgirl, terrorism, beastiality, CP, and violence has
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I miss old /b/ just as much as you do brother. But one thing you fail to understand is the old /b/ existed in a different time in the internet.
Today, the millennials who enjoyed 14 year old internet shitposting back in 2005-2010 are grown up. They can barely be bothered to venture away from Facebook and twitter anymore.
Why? because this is by design. The big social media companies used the mobile phone internet revolution to hijack the internet and mold it into what it is today.
Part of the reason, in my opinion, 4chan has suffered lately is because of these ridiculous captchas. There's been so many times when I access 4chan from my safari on my iPhone and try to make a good comment or participate in quality conversations but the insane sliding captchas are just soooo off-putting. The first time I get a "captcha incorrect" message after trying to type that long weird bullshit I just abandon the comment altogether. Are these captchas really necessary? Are they really better than standard recaptchas? have standard recaptchas been beaten by bots? They seem to be used everywhere else in the world so I tend to think not...
In fact, 4chan is the only website I've ever come across that uses these insanely difficult captchas.
You know who doesn't? Facebook, reddit, twitter, and all these other platforms that have taken over the internet. They actively encourage posting whereas 4chan actively makes it more difficult, leaving only the most dedicated trolls and shitposters left. No longer are there casual 4chan posters, the new captcha has weeded them out. All that's left are the bottom of the barrel posters who post the SAME "celeb" thread 10000x a day.
When did /b/ become a place to spam SFW pictures of celebrities from social media? When did /b/ become a place to spam SFW pictures of regular girls off Instagram??? It amazes me that a place that used to be the most vile collection of goatse, tubgirl, terrorism, beastiality, CP, and violence has
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