>>8
I dont think so,
world4ch.org/x redirects to
dis.4chan.org/x and moot doesnt really seem to give a wet fart about the textboards.
>>9
Im sure some people listened, even if there were few or shitty replies.
I know i would have, even if i had nothing of use to contribute.
>>10
I don't think there's enough oldbies anymore that hang around world4ch to make it happen.
I disagree, using /prog/ as an example. I hang there often and people there can have very intelligent, deep aswell as funny discussion from time to time, even if its utter crap most of the time.
I dont think the "oldbies" are gone, the textboards have a much slower pace, you could only check them at morning and evening and would see all the changes that you have to.
While imageboard users "hang around".
Its not as tempting to leave the textboards as it is with the imageboards.
These boards are too flooded with clueless children from the imageboards that have no clue of the history, culture, or how to comport themselves (thus the level of quality pumped out of these boards these days evident).
Imageboarders come and go, those that stay eventually start to fit in, in one way or another.
I suspect most of the old users of world4ch are long gone (Xarn being a confirmed example)
Xarn makes the impression of being a bit of a defeatist and douchebag, just because he had a trip doesnt make him really relevant. For xarn that left there could 10 good anons have joined.
they've probably moved on to private mailing lists or even possibly some hidden 2ch-like board that they're not revealing to anybody (I don't blame them)
I dont think such place would have as much activity as world4ch does.
So where does that leave us? Well, to put it succinctly, the shithouse. Perpetually stuck between a rock and a hard place, forced to be part of the main site with its ever-increasing popularity (and thus ever-increasing flood of imageboard users finding their way here), and an old long-gone userbase of who enough don't care to muster up the energy fabricate a suitable replacement.
I think most do care, but the problem is with ideas and not producing enough good content.
When there is not enough new good content on sites people tend to force shit in order to compensate for lack of good post, i think i dont need to name an example to anyone who goes to /prog/.
Its often hard to come up with good and creative content without forcing it, so if some place has good content and people want it they will want more interaction with the place and will inevitebly produce lesser quality content in order to try to produce more content.
but until I see projects that go beyond the scope of what that "Tablecat BBS" guy is doing and the failed attempt by the short-lived world5ch.net (which some say was a Milkribs operation), I'm sorry if I'm a bit pessimistic about it all.
Liked World5Ch rip, but it just didnt have enough users and all the users it had were World4channers, so it would proly have ended in a disaster sooner or later.
Its good we can discuss these things, its shows we still can if we want to.