>>17088 It's been shit for years. Just like glad you found this place.

>>17088 >Does anyone know why 4chan killed itself? Cos moot sold his soul to the dark side for money while chicken shit to the idea of fighting the (((authorities))), so simple like that. Remember, halfchan is under USA jurisdiction and being not compliant can get any American slave into trouble really fast. >Why is 4chan of all things collecting people's emails? Simple, (((they))) are making a dossier of every anon. Cross link the email with the mail provider and then with Cloudfare and your name and address is in the clear.

They probably don't make any money and want the site to slowly die so they can shut it down without causing a ruckus. I can't post there anymore even after I verify my email address, it just tells me my IP range is temporarily banned, for the past 2 years no matter how often I switch my IP, doesn't even work on a mobile connection. I live in a very low populated area so it's rather unlikely that some neighbor did anything bad. 4chan has been slowly dying for a long time. I've been active there for over 15 years but I guess that's over now. All good things must come to an end some day. Fuck you moot.

>>17110 This is my biggest concern, and the upcoming pass price increase doesn't assuage my fears. I genuinely don't know what I would do without anons on 4chan to """socialize""" with.

>>17114 There are plenty of altchans likes this one. Obviously, none of them are the same. They are all so dead, and the mods on some of them are insane. At least it's better than nothing?

4chan is a fed honeypot, that's why

>>17124 That's what I've always suspected, but it doesn't explain all the weird recent shit going on.

How do you even get people interested in alt chans? It seems like the potential audience is always a subset of 4chan. And that if 4chan were to actually disappear, most of the posters would effectively be lost to the void. Honestly I miss how 4chan used to be. As silly as it is, I used to get a feeling of "I'm home" when I posted on 4chan. Posting and having fun with people interested in the same topic as me. I could post freely my thoughts without fear of ban or deletion. Nowadays it feels like your walking on eggshells when you post anything. Even unintentionally you can earn their ire now. Say anything bad about one of the jannies sacred topics and it's a ban. Even automated bans and shadow bans if you use certain terms, terms that had previously been common on the board for at least the past decade. Now you got all these hoops to jump through just to post. And the boards are loosing posters and interesting topics. I get the feeling that a lot of people are getting fed up with it. And those that do stay tone down and sterilize their posts in a futile attempt to avoid the wrath of the jannies, not taking chances on posting new ideas. It's sad to see, the Anons don't deserve this. I can only imagine what feats Anons might have achieved if the boards were staffed with people who cared. Or even just staff who weren't actively malicious.

>>17233 >And those that do stay tone down and sterilize their posts in a futile attempt to avoid the wrath of the jannies, not taking chances on posting new ideas. As long as the servers and chan's owners are located in clownworld, there is not hope on sight.

I genuinely tried one time to go back to 4chan only once, and that was after the 8kunt debacle. I cannot believe how much it changed and sucked in five short years. You could type a normal post, not even anything just saying "I thought that game was pretty nice" and the reply would be all caps >"NOOOOO [bad faith interpretation or strawman of the thing you just said] YOU CAN'T HATE THIS THING NOOOOOO" or some shit like that. With a yelling wojak picture or something. Later I got permanently banned for saying nigger and rather than bother to reset my IP I just let it go. It wasn't worth it anymore. One thing I realized is just how popular 4chan is. As such it's astroturfed with feds and normalfags. Even though pre-exodus in 2014 it was extremely popular, it's now an order or two MORE popular now. People on normalfag social media see edgy greentext screencaps and flock to it to try to get meme glory. Modern 4chan users are the antithesis of what an imageboard user was 10+ years ago. They use modern social media such as TikTok and Discord, consume all forms of popular western media without a critical thought in their head, they forsake anime, and think it's worth bragging about if they engage in intercourse or get intoxicated on a regular basis. Mix that with federal agents trying to get edgy ones into trouble and you're in for one of the lamest fucking sites for actual discourse you can think of. People being paranoid about redditors in the early 2010's were right. If anyone still has an urge to use 4chan after this e-mail verification shit and the 3-word shadow ban, that is pitiful. Typical Stockholm syndrome. Just stop. You will miss nothing about 4chan if you stop browsing it and never go back.

>>17251 >3-word shadow ban What other words are shadow banned? The only shadow banned term I'm aware of is "barbiefag" on /mlp/. You can make the post without autoban (unlike some other terms) but your post will never appear.

>>17251 >Typical Stockholm syndrome. Yup. Normalfags lack autism.

>>17252 The new rule is that you are not allowed to include tranny, nigger, and one other word I forgot more than 3 times in the same post or reply. Either the same word or a mixture of them more than 3 times. The post claims to be successfully posted yet it disappears into a void thus shadow banned. You could try it for yourself, but you would have to either wait 15 minutes to post or give 4chan your email. Not kidding or joking. 4chan sucks so much yet all the altchans area so dead. My web browsing is now just watching YouTube and not really going on any other website.

>>17252 >>17255 The third word is faggot. It took me forever to find it in the archives: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/102637777/#102658995

>>17255 >>17256 They've also set a cap on the number of quotes and links you can make in OP posts. A real pain because you can't do thread recaps in OP now. "barbienigger" is an instant auto 3 day on /mlp/. They also tried to do the same to ">no hooves", which has been in common use since board inception. They only rolled it back because they were accidentally catching barbiefags with the autobans. A mod personally appeared to apologize to them right after it happened, about the only time I've seen a mod on the board in recent years. I'm sure there's probably other one's I'm forgetting right now. Someone should really document all this somewhere because it gets complicated. And this is on top of the secret rules that you'll only know if you've been there for years. It's hard to believe there's any new people coming in, but it is the place to be if you want to talk pony.

Where would you even find new anons for alt chans if not from 4chan or other alt chans?

>>17259 It really seems like some tranny mod got fired from Reddit and started implementing all the same Reddit-tier shadow rules on 4chan. >>17260 I don't understand this reply. There is no disrespect to the OG. We are all longtime 4chan Anons that are displeased and disappointed with all the recent anti-4chan changes on 4chan and the direction 4chan is going. If 4chan wants it userbase back, then revert all the Reddit-tier rules implemented the past few months. To directly answer your question, I mostly use https://allchans.org/ but https://imageboards.net/ is also a thing. There was also an overchan directory, but that one must've died.

>>17251 >Typical Stockholm syndrome This is honestly a huge problem with tech in general and the reason people refuse to leave YouTube despite all of the bullshit they're pulling and screwing creators over. It's also why people are going to throw away perfectly good computers instead of switching to Linux once Windows 10 hits EOL because they just can't give up Windows even with the nonstop enshittification.

>>17263 >displeased and disappointed with all the recent anti-4chan changes No, I think halfchanners deserve the anti-user changes for being cuckchanners.

>>17283 There's still a lot of good anons at 4chan (as well as some bad). But I don't see why alt chan users should be so opposed to 4channers joining them. After all, it's their main source of new users. And if there are bad users something could actually be done about it on the alt chans. The main problem with 4chan is not the users, but rather the moderation. One thing I'll say is that one of my main complaints with the prior 8chan was that they never wanted to do anything fun, all they ever wanted to do was complain about 4chan.

>>17284 >they never wanted to do anything fun, all they ever wanted to do was complain about 4chan This happens all over alt tech no matter the platform. Back when the Reddit API drama happened, all of these Reddit alternatives popped up, but then everyone on those alternatives just complain about being banned on Reddit or how their posts were removed from Reddit. Some of them even have MeanwhileonReddit boards, which happen to be the most active. All that interests Crystal Cafe is complaining about Lolcow. It is so annoying...just stop going on Lolcow, Reddit, 4chan or wherever and start posting on the alternative instead.

>>17283 >No, I think halfchanners deserve the anti-user changes for being cuckchanners. This. Fullchan superseded cuckchan for a reason.

Halfchan is down right now, you can still browse but it's impossible to post, all of the most recent posts are from 12:34 am while it is now past 2 am (in my timezone)

>>17255 Just make an actual post instead of low quality spam. I'm typing it out now, but generally a post on some hobby board including tranny/nigger/faggot 3 times is likely to just be some 1 sentence variation of "kill yourself" flooding the board with spam. You can still call people all these things if you do it less than 3 times. You just have to actually think of creative insults instead of shitting up a discussion about, the best drawing tablet, or whatever with irrelevant "TRANNY TRANNY TRANNY TRANNY..."

>>17329 >You can still call people all these things >not properly meme those faggots to death Dude!!!