>>3
the live typing feature on 2chen freaks me out a little.

>>4
watching other posters' writing styles is kinda hypnotic
some know exactly what they want to write when they start writing (virile liveposting experts), some not so much
wish there was a read-only mode

>>5
It's technically impressive but the conversations seem to get convoluted when two (or more) posters start liveposting at each other. Looks great for shitposting though! What would a read-only mode be? Lurking?

>>6
yeah exactly, a lurk mode
tragic memories of accidentally clicking a post id on meguca and having to come up with a post on the spot
kidding, wasn't tragic, all in good fun; honestly only worried about passwords and doxx stuff

>>7
im a bit ashamed to admit it but i remember liking the erp on meguca, posted nice porn with their smut stories. I am not into erp as a whole, treated it like erotic literature. Anyways, where is meguca nowadays? I remember trying to get on it at some point and it couldn't find the url.

>>7
Disabling javascript is simple enough and would do the trick, but you don't get to bait other posters with phantom replies. Live interaction with strangers on the internet is risky business, mind your clipboard!

>>8

http://web.archive.org/web/20190123091535/https://meguca.org/all/

This one? Looks like the site has http auth up now, mysterious. I hope you can rediscover your ERP community somehow, there are plenty of horny posters out there still... somewhere.

>>8
honestly, not sure where they're at now. feel like it's been a long while and never really kept up!
>>9
that's the one, yep

I was hoping that 4chan's meta thread would be alright but it's trash!

https://boards.4chan.org/trash/thread/49607167

Anon is building a better 4chan.

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/87910311

4chan is great, I like to go on 4chan and spoon-feed posters who ask for sauce.

Lambdaplusjs is a pretty neat site that has a /math/ board. The site also allows for arbitrary board creation as long as the board name is 4-16 letters. The code running the site is slick!

Tor:
http://lambdaplusjs35padjaiz4jw2fugdoeutse262phqr72uf634s2wdbqd.onion/
http://z5lcip4dafatwwa6hvyibizpzwycvwp67cjga3hzjhxhwvuyaqavxnid.onion/
I2P:
http://l7jqnz3yfe2wtwietafoieadmgqbu7dcmzmey63ktbjtxal3he4a.b32.i2p/

Nameless Rumia's Wiki is nice

https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php

It has good articles on both imageboard and textboard scripts.

Backlinking 4channel's /g/ and their discussion on imageboards for fairness:

https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/87831790

So many would-be imageboard creators are terrified of CP, rightly so I would imagine.

https://kissu.moe/qa/thread/4165

kissu.moe's discussion on current imageboard events. Fortunately this site will never be mentioned since it lacks an imageboard heh heh.

https://bbs.jp.net/mona

They have the best bricks on the internet.

https://bbs.ax/

SchemeBBS is just plain neat!

https://sageru.org/kareha.pl/224444223/

BEES

1chan still exists, I hope you enjoy trains:

https://1chan.net/rail/

They also have an ancient directory for messageboards, depressing link rot...

https://www.1chan.net/overchan/

>>12
Might as well post this, enjoy your massive link lists:

https://github.com/ccd0/imageboards.json

https://imageboards.net/

http://chanverse.uwu.mx/
I want to hate CHANVERSE, but I just can't. Its navigation beats the hell out of the old frame method for browsing multiple sites. HTTPS still trips things up though, unfortunately.

https://wiki.bibanon.org/4chan/Successor

Bibliotheca Anonoma's article on developing a successor to 4chan, it's an interesting read! There are a handful of other articles on the wiki as well that are worth perusing, including their massive 4chan history article.

https://github.com/bibanon

bibanon really takes me back! their github organization linked above has a few archiving tools. surprised how active things still seem to be, but i suppose there will always be history to archive. maybe i'll get into archiving, too...

>>3
Thank you! I’ve been going at it for the past couple months, just decided I didn’t want to waste away the rest of my life in a factory being a fucking wagie.
A reoccurring altforum thread on /g/ would be great, better than 90% of the other shit that gets posted, like you said, just non stop snark. I’ll actually start one rn and see if it gains any traction, or if it even stays.
How did you go about setting this up? I’ve been wanting to start an image or text board for a while but wouldn’t even know where to begin. There’s some yt vids I’m gonna watch, I’d imagine it’s just copy pasted futaba code? I own a couple domains but would buy a new one if I actually set one up.

>>3

>feeding my local pigeons

Pigeons are great! You should consider getting a pet pigeon/dove (same thing) if you ever wanted a pet. If you get them from birth, they are very friendly, easy to take care of, and mostly behaved. They are like the "cat" of the bird family. They make beautiful calls and are very soft too. Ideally you would get two, so they don't get too lonely, but they only care for one or two friends. They don't require a lot of active attention or maintenance to be happy.

>sharing personal sites and projects

One of my big goals getting into coding (besides working from home because im a hermit) was to make cool content and share it with others. Pony related stuff mostly though. I was also thinking of setting up a chatroom, like that mortis chat thing but expanded. I was born in '01 so I was never into IRC's or anything, it would be nice to make something like discord but personally hosted and invite only.
>>4

>>4
Fuck yeah, good shit. Seems like you've got yourself sorted going forward then.

>altforum thread on /g/

I would think that the web development generals would be a good fit for sharing and discussing personal projects. Unfortunately, from what I can tell they only really discuss the professional side of things. How to live in the biz or how to get in the biz. Hope your thread didn’t get immediately annihilated.

>How did you go about setting this up?

I set this site up with dated methods, it’s a VPS living on someone else’s hardware using someone else’s code (so yes, copypasta). Get comfortable with *nix CLI and understand that web servers are very obvious, juicy targets for botnet operators along with other bored/malicious actors. Try hosting something on your own hardware on your intranet, that should be a good introduction to things. Here are some lists that may be of interest to you:

>>5
>>6

>pets

I’ve always wanted a crow, or at least to rehabilitate one. I just have a cat and a bearded dragon right now. One thing I know is I never want a dog lol.

>setting this up

How long ago did you set it up? When I first came here when you posted it to /g/ it really was, like you said in that thread, just you talking to yourself lol. It’s cool people are actually coming back. Despite using 4ch the past 12 yrs or so I’ve only ever been on 8ch before and that’s about it, and I found the rumiawiki the other day.

I’ll check out VPSs and AWS, I’m always willing to try out free options lol. Hosting it on my own network would be cool tho, cause like >>5 I’m also looking for a small project I could eventually put on a resume or my application to this program I have coming up. Thanks for the suggestions and links man I really appreciate it. Is it about the same for setting up an IRC channel?

>>6

>dated method

There is nothing wrong with dated methods! I do a fair amount of Kubernetes stuff for work and, while it is very cool and a great fit for my team, the low-tech approach of slinging code onto a plain ol' VPS is way comfy.

>>6

>hermits life is tempting

It's the life I live already. The world is a beautiful place but doing some sort of boring labour or service is awful for the soul. I worked at culvers for a bit and I had a lot of good days there, but i got lucky with my coworkers and its a higher price range for fast food so less niggers and more nice old people. I can see running a food stand being fulfilling if you knew your community.

>mortis link?

mortischat.com Its down right now, but someone just wrote up something simple in js imagine based on the html code. Everyone gets a random id and you can't scroll up or down, like a live chat with little identity and no history. I would like something like that except WITH a history and all the discord functionality.

>matrix

>>9
Honestly I’d love to have a dog if I had time and the next couple years to train it if I wasn’t expecting my first here soon. I grew up with them but being around them recently has led me to absolutely despise them. Eating off the table constantly, eating wallets, constant barking, they fuckin smell. There’s nothing worse than an untrained dog with a shitty owner, and nothing better than a well trained well behaved dog. A family friend of hours has a ski SAR dog and it’s one of the coolest little dogs I’ve ever seen. Maybe when I’m older I’ll try, I’ll eventually need a buddy to hike with lol.

Where the hell would I get a pigeon? My fiancée has talked about getting one before but where do I find one besides downtown lol. Are there pigeon breeders?

>>10
A pet store might have one near by, if you have any. You can order birds online, I don't know if a hatchling is too delicate to survive shipping though. You need to get them young if you want them to like you, mistreatment on a bird sticks with them forever, and they never forgive, unlike some other animals that will love a new owner. There are dove breeders, though you probably aren't near one. You can google "pigeons for sale/doves for sale" online and there are a few big sites, never ordered from them. You can check classifieds for any local, which would probably be better. I wouldn't wanna buy from a breeder that mistreats their birds, otherwise your bird is gonna be an asshole.

>>11

Shit I’ve actually got a bird store right near my house lol, got my mom a conure from there. I’ll ask the guy if he knows of anyone that has em. I love their cooing, it’s so peaceful. How are they with cats? Would I have to keep ‘em seperate?
Btw are you in IT? I’ve been dying to ask someone familiar with it about the amount of schooling and certs that I should be seeking out.

>>12

>are you in it

I am not in IT. I am trying to get into software/web/gamedev through self-study. I have no idea what the path would look like, it took me weeks of asking on 4ch to finally get enough answers from people to decide my own study path. One thing I imagine might align with IT and dev is that projects and experience probably matter more than a degree (not sure about certs). If you wanna do sys admin stuff I bet setting up your own vps/vpn (not purchasing one through a provider), and understanding shell would be a start. But that would be about all i know from secondhand knowledge browsing.

>how do they do with cats

I am not sure, i've never had cats when i have had any other pets. Trained dogs shouldn't have a problem with more vulnerable pets they are familliar with though. If a dove feels stressed or threatened it will sometimes wing-slap whatever is threatening it if it can't fly away safely, I might be worried about a cat "playing" a bit too rough because of that. You should ask around more, and i bet it depends a bit on the cat too.

>>5
Do cartoon ponies brush their teeth? You learn something new every day. I'm only familiar with the show from the 80s.

>>6
Well, they take baths, go to spas, have brushes, pens, books, all the amenities of a an industrializing society. If brushing teeth were something left out of their lives i imagine it would be because some amazing physiology that stops them from rotting or smelling awful.

>>7
Where do you go to discuss ponies? Is 4chan's /mlp good enough or do you associate with other pony-related communities?

>>8
sadly /mlp/ is probably one of the worst boards on 4ch. There really isn't anywhere good to discuss ponies other than trying to pick out the few anons that are tolerable. /mlp/ is full of elitism, gatekeeping, and downright assholery. My little pony has legitimately good messages about being kind to others, being patient, understanding, that most adults need to learn. And yet, these faggots will try to make people feel awful for not liking the things they do, just as the main body of 4ch did to them. and just like in mlp, im not saying you should let evil people or pricks do whatever they want, but if people want to be good or they don't have malicious intent and do no harm you are making the world worse by inciting malice against them most of the time.
For example, if you suggest using a site to do something with ponies that isn't the board itself, people will call you a faggot retard for "wanting to take things offboard". If you like a character they don't like, they will call you a nigger (starlight glimmer is a good example). its all just so silly. And this malice is self fulfilling too. People act like faggots and i call them faggots after I lose my patience, justly in my mind, but maybe not. Its an emotional state. Assholes create assholes, and its just a shame that trying to be patient and kind with people just doesn't work the same way it does in fiction, even though there is no rational reason it shouldn't.

tl;dr sorry for the blog, i do browse /mlp/ but mostly just keep to myself, watch fancontent, try to make my own.

>>9
4channel has 150 threads dedicated to My Little Pony right now (barring the off-topic threads) and no good discussion is to be had? That's a shame. MLP seems like the sort of IP that could easily sustain an anonymous community, maybe one that isn’t full of rude posters like /mlp/ on 4channel seems to be. I wouldn’t want to host that myself even if I were interested in the IP, though. I’ve seen so much hate directed to MLP that I would imagine an alternate community would be under constant attack by spammers.
I have noticed 4channel posters are very hostile towards posters who suggest taking things “offboard” as well. Perhaps rightly so at this point with how Discord has sapped so much attention away from imageboards. Many posters on 4channel aren’t too terribly interested in slow discussions on obscure websites.

Be patient, but respect yourself, Anonymous! Posters on 4channel like to be dicks because that’s what’s fun and what gets responses, the culture itself is a little rotten. Also, I think blogging is probably fine here, the whitelist seems laid back.

>>10
I suppose its a bit of an exaggeration maybe. There are good discussions, fun greentexts, fun threads. But out of 150 threads, if you hide all fetish content, furry content, and only mlp-adjacent content you would literally have about 50 threads left, the majority of which still have t hose issues. But there are nice threads. Discord is fucked and i deleted my account recently, but there are functionalities tools have that 4ch doesnt. voice chat, screen sharing, sharing files directly, are all things that expedite doing something like a collaborate animation or game. I love imageboards and never want them to disappear. I am all for a little bit of trolling, i do it now and then of course : ). Theres a difference between being friendly and shitposting and fucking with people now and then and being completely malicious.

>>11
Sounds somewhat like what /vt/ is about to go through. Glad to hear /mlp/ isn't a complete cesspit yet. With regards to Discord it has its uses but it's closed off a lot of previously public hobby spaces, it makes lurking that much more of a pain in the ass and seems to make the web more opaque than ever. There will always be a need for screen sharing, voice chat, and general bullshitting with buddies but I wish Discord didn’t clobber more open communities in the process of providing these features. Sometimes you just want to shitpost and come back to see it in half a decade, all on clearnet.

>>12
there are other options besides discord. It's such a silly argument to me as a whole.

>hey i want to collaborate on a music video, I play piano and sax, anyone else wanna join in?
>sure! send me some sheets or tell me what to play
>anyone wanna do some sfm animation for it or visualization?
>yeah, i can
>okay great! where do you guys want to share files and practice?
>wtf? fucking nigger tourist, stop trying to take things off board
>*uploads some fucking vocaroo of him playing some random bassline on a kalimba

You simply can't collaborate and work efficiently using an imageboard alone. It is possible, but they just wanna do things the hard way, mostly to fit in. they never have a good reason and just say "ur taking stuff off board it takes away discussion" like nigger im not trying to discuss anything with randoms i want to collaborate and correspond and see and hear production from a group of people

>>13
Discord (among other tools) work best for collaborations and projects like that, it absolutely blows for hobby community replacement though. It seems like every large Discord server I've been in has time-wasting bots and do-nothing posters producing a low signal-to-noise ratio, the small groups are usually okay thankfully.

Was this on 4channel's /mu/ or elsewhere?

>>14
I've heard good things about matrix. Google docs is excellent, and so is google teams. Hell, you can even set up your own p2p chat and alert system through the freenet if you are paranoid.

>was this on /mu/?

no I was talking about /mlp/. I love music but i rarely see performers on /mu/ that are guitarists, though i don't visit often.

>>7
I am learning c/c++ in my freetime to escape wageslavery. Maybe you should try that too? IDK what you do with your offtime, but learning something like coding can be incentivized by the thought of having a comfier well paying job, and while stuff like games and youtube are fun they don't make you better in the long term most of the time. Stuff like that is important! it makes happy memories. But its worth investing some time into developing yourself too, like in between videos try creating a simple program exploring one bit of syntax, then back to a game for a bit.

>>10
It really isn't friend. Most people aren't that smart/good at problem solving in reality, but they don't really need to be. If you put in time and effort into understanding something, you will get better at it. Genetic intelligence and IQ exist, but they are trainable, and a lot of things that seem complex don't actually require a lot of dynamic thinking or problem solving, its more pattern recognition, which humans are great at! I bet you are also underselling yourself. Once you live the dull cycle of waging or just getting up browse sleep, on repeat, its very easy to forget what you are capable of because you don't push yourself to do things or try. For me, at least, its almost like a downward spiral. The worse you feel the harder it is to get better. But it works the other way around too. Programming may or may not be for you, but I bet there is something out there you can dedicate some time too instead of ingesting more meaningless media every now and then.

>>11
I'll claw my way out of the hole one way or another, I've limited myself to excessive scrolling at the very least. For now I'll be assisting my lovely customers as always.

What can I do now that I am on the whitelist? Where can I go?

>>13
I imagine you can post here and be friendly and talk. (\

>>14
You guys are alright, all two of you. 🤣

>>15
Then keep postin friend, I like comfy places so I check up on here a few times a day.

>>16
I can only post so much before it feels like spamming! Eventually I'd like to spin up an imageboard as well, but /whitelist/ is cozy all on it's own.

>>17
Well if you ever do, you oughta post it here and ill check it out. : )