No.21860
>>21858When 4chan goes back up, will these social media users go back and repopulate that site or leave for good? Or maybe they will infest other places? Its nice to see slow altchans suddenly get a lot of traffic but I bet that will slow back down when 4chan goes back up.
No.21861
>>21860I imagine they'd come back, which personally I think is a shame since they typically don't add much to the conversation. They don't treat 4chan as a place to have a conversation but as something to put minimal investment into so for them the site going down for a bit isn't that big of a disruption and it coming back would be business as usual rather than shaking their faith in its presence. I figure the activity will go back down if the site comes back, yeah. I'd bet a lot of the increased traffic is from people who were already aware of whichever sites they'd migrated to and just preferred 4chan for its size, which isn't going to change if it comes back online.
Personally I've mostly just lurked on 4chan and rarely post because the environment typically feels unwelcoming. This situation feels like it holds some symbolic significance to me though, and I'd hope the same is true enough for others to see if not stable activity, then less of a decline if the site comes back. The second wind has been nice. Checking in regularly on sites I'd only look into monthly before has been really refreshing.
As a bit of an aside, I also think the nature of smaller sites does a lot to help deter shitposters who naturally are looking for as much attention as possible from as many people as possible. I can only imagine it'd be less satisfying for them to try and shitpost here than just making a second Twitter account for all their attention seeking.
No.21862
>>21860/pol/ and /trash/ refugee here. found 4chan in 2014 or so. i've only ever used 4chan and haven't rly tried any of the altchans. the only reason I found this site was due to it being an option in Kuroba. I would say another reason for us to head back would be the difficulty to adapt to a new culture. I lurked for a year or so when I first found 4chan.
No.21864
I haven't enjoyed an imageboard since 2019. Maybe some of that energy will come back now, but maybe I'm just old.
No.21865
>>21862you lurked for a year before posting on /pol/ and /trash/?
you must think those boards have way higher standards than they do
No.21866
>>21865I was 14 at the time. I wanted to be a '4chan 1337 haxor' and I memorized the rules of the internet. I like to think I'm less cringe now. Nowadays I just shitpost on pol and browse trash for porn and fanfictions. so I'm still cringe.
No.21867
>>21862I lurked for many years on before attempting to post, mostly out of shyness. As I've gotten more confident in my ability to contribute to an (at least online) conversation I've been steadily getting more active. Even before this recent uptick in activity I'm sure I've posted on altchans more but have lurked way more on 4chan.
No.21868
>>21808I just like to witness history.
No.21869
this imageboard could get some new users by capturing em 4chan refugees
No.21870
>>21869Hopefully not refugees from /pol/
No.21877
>>21871very much agreed meow
No.21896
I miss the Mokou poster
No.21927
>>21896I am here. I took a break from Sushi when Sei retired. I just felt like the site wouldn't be the same without them.
But I'll pop on here every once in a while. It's my home board, even if I'm not a big fan of how it has changed over the years.
No.21929
>>21927The transition is strange. Who even is our new owner? Has Sei retired as of that post or is he retiring in the next few days? It doesn’t look very good.
No.21950
This site is doomed. Sei's departure hails the apocalypse.
No.21962
>>21927> But I'll pop on here every once in a while. It's my home board, even if I'm not a big fan of how it has changed over the years.how do you feel it has changed most?
No.21964
>>21962A higher volume of users that want to change the site's culture. I first noticed it when the "how to attract more users" thread appeared. And since then I've seen quite a few threads from new users who want to drastically change the dynamics of the site.
"not enough people post"
"I keep refreshing and not seeing new posts"
"we need to get sushis into raiding"
"why is porn not allowed on kawaii"
"I got banned on WizChan, help me get revenge"
"sushichan needs to stop having queer threads"
"why doesn't anyone talk about religion here"
"we should accommodate 4chan refugees"
And more than anything else, just junk threads. One of the things I love most about Sushi is that threads are high quality, and can carry conversations across multiple years. Now there are a lot of shitpost threads outside of hell, or threads that could have just been a post in the random thoughts thread (or before that, the how was your day thread).
Maybe I've got rose-tinted glasses. I mean even back then, there were still low quality posts and the occasional "I'm new, what is this place" thread. But I didn't feel as disconnected from the community as I do now.
Or maybe I just got old, who knows.
No.21966
>>21927>>21964I'm not dead yet, and I'm not planning to disappear completely. Transfer's gonna take some time too. I don't want to be the owner anymore but that doesn't mean I will completely stop being involved in staffing, I just don't want to have to keep being the person with the last say on everything, it's exhausting. I expect I will continue to use the sites sometimes, continue to offer tech support, and continue to give input to the staff occasionally.
That said I have been very distant and not paying much attention for a while now. And now that you point out the decline in post quality, yeah I see it. There are a bunch of threads at a glance that need to be moved to /hell/ or deleted. I'll go through it in the next few days and show mod staff what I'm choosing to do with which threads as a training exercise, and I should also write a posting guidelines sticky on /lounge/ while I'm thinking about it. Sorry I've been asleep at the switch. Let's try to turn things around a little while I'm still at the helm. ^^
No.21970
>>21099shinys do not count
No.21971
There is no such thing as a high quality post on an message board. Like bigfoot, they are much talked about but seldom seen. Since the vast majority of people are fake and insincere, no amount of rules or shifting things to /hell/ will protect anything.
I am one such problematic poster and I will continue to post problematically until the inhabitants of this wretched board admit their wrongdoings. Even then it doesn’t matter, because half of them are Nazis anyway. They drop bombs on children and kick the homeless then go post on sushi pretending to be all nice.
>>21964I don’t see quality conversations anywhere. I go through the archive, I see nothing. Its like scribbles on a public bathroom, maybe more coherent but little better.
>”why doesn’t anyone talk about religion here”But I actually liked those religion threads. There wasn’t anything preachy about them. I learned new things by reading them even if they are wordy. Maybe you are just one of those teenagers from the 2000s who has to throw a temper tantrum because the government fed you clash of civilizations propaganda for your morning shot of cable TV.
>”we should accommodate 4chan refugees”I mean this is not the place that will attract lots of them. Sure, there will be a few since their rat nest burned down and nobody’s been doing any clean up around here. But the main conceit is that sushis are somehow different and better than the average 4chaner when there is little difference.
>>21966There’s nothing to turn around. A sleeping sys op is like a weak super ego, it lets everything spill out of the unconscious revealing what was always there all along.
>>21969If you’re going to lie, at least make it believable. You know perfectly well what that word means.
No.21974
Please move all of the meta discussions to /yakuza/. For this discussion in particular, a thread was created at
>>>/yakuza/1366.
Any meta posts under this notice will be removed and the user will be warned.
No.21978
>>21973I wonder whom that might be, There is a feeling that their name begins with m and ends with i
No.21990
>>21979I feel like this picture is a bit silly because Teto was always 30 so why would she have a growth spurt
No.21991
Huh the Pope died… suspicious. Very suspicious.
No.21992
>>21991he had to die sooner or later
No.21997
>>21991Given the times, we should certainly be looking for more developments in the rest of Eastertide.
No.22017
How do you maintain humility and calmness at all times?
No.22022
>>22020For quarrantine purposes, it needs to come back.
No.22032
Does anybody else find it gross that people grow in size? I don't know why, but it's really weird that you're very small in the beginning and then you end up big. Your whole body stretching and morphing over time is Disgusting.
No.22036
>>22032Isn't that how all multicellular organisms work? I never thought of it as being particularly gross myself.
No.22037
>>22036It's disgusting, imagine it happening at 100000x speed and you could feel it from when you were 1 till now, what the fuck.
No.22040
Does anyone else feels some kind of odd or unnatural feeling when they are attracted to a woman? I feel like there is something otherworldy in the sense that "I" am not attracted to the other person by myself, it's like an external force taking action
No.22041
>>22040Love is a metaphysical principal, not just something inside your head. Its natural you feel this way.
