>>6257
Thank you. I don't want to sound ungrateful. I feel really blessed that I was able to find the fullchan board through an offhand tumblr link during a night of horny browsing in 2015, and that we were able to keep everything going through the migration to anon.cafe. I'm really just a child that doesn't want to give up their favorite toy even when I've been allowed to hold onto it for almost a decade now.
>Have you thought about taking up the torch, Anon? Your head seems to be in the right place, at least.
I have. I know myself well enough to know that I'm a pretty naive person, have exactly zero experience in doing any janny work, and am not the best choice for all of this--but I'm willing to give it a shot if no one else will. And if it's as simple as finding what looks like the most trustworthy altchan, submitting a board request, creating fallback bunkers where possible, being ready to see&delete CP/Guro/Dicks before anyone else does, following the current BO's example and learning the rest as I go--then I think I probably will try and create something, somewhere. I'm still selfishly holding out and hoping someone better than me will do it, though.
Going independent is trickier. I'm not a very tech-savy anon, and while renting a VPS and installing imageboard software seems simple enough, there's a number of basic questions to Imageboard hosting that I simply don't have answers for. What host do I use that won't abruptly kick us out because their normie owner thinks 'Loli=CP'? What do I do when we get DDOSed? How do I stop myself from getting hacked/doxxed from all the potential web vulnerabilities that pop up from my own technical incompetence? Do I just lie when I fill out the domain registration form so I don't get doxxed by a simple Whois query? Do you think someone would really do that, Anon? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?
I do think that, whatever we do--if someone here decides to step up and do it--we do have the benefit of time this time around. Compared to when 8chan and then Endchan both went down in short order, we have the advantage of letting some of the smoke settle before any big decisions are made. I'd just really, really like to avoid getting a bad actor or infiltrator as our next BO. Lest I have to experience the excruciating pain of watching another woman fuck the thing I love.