/late/ - Late Nights

>>1888 (OP) 
In September we turn 10 years since some of us got out of the 4, also find funny how many forums got axed right before the pandemic
>Would it have grown in more users or bled users?
It was already bleeding hard but there were some boards which had a sweet spot of constant users contributing and things/ideas being made or developed often.
>What would the culture be like in 2024?
Very hard to predict to my guess is that it would've been very similar to the one in 2019 but more sarcastic, a bit more jaded, not that much if any new OC which is still rare nowadays but the few there is around was made because we changed sites often.
In my opinion the most fun i've ever had in the last years continued later because the boards involved got saved, problem was the webring skirmishes that settled in stone until today a certain animosity between users, events that happened because some users behaved like nigger cattle and the shit-stirrers got into good positions inside the smaller sites.

>>1888 (OP) 
It was so glowed by late 2017, I only came by /late/, /4am/, and /tg/ after that, and only rarely. So, I don't know. I can't imagine what it would have looked like in the peak Qboomer years, or rather what Facebook and modern political discourse would be with a flood of 70 year olds who spend 8 hours a day on /b/.

>>1889
>In September we turn 10 years since some of us got out of the 4
Hey that's true. Exodus in 2014.

>>1889
8chan was the first imageboard I ever posted on.

>>1896
I started using image boards long after 8chan's death.

>>1889
>In September we turn 10 years since some of us got out of the 4
It's almost hard to believe. It doesn't feel like that long ago. The golden age of 8chan was probably the best time I ever had on imageboards, although 4chan around 2011-2012 has to be up there too.
>>1892
>It was so glowed by late 2017
It did feel like the site was just limping along after a while. One thing that stuck out to me other than the lower amount of activity was how badly /cow/ went to shit.

I think there would have been a general increase of users from 2019, due to highly publicized happenings. These users would be more political in nature, and more prone to exhibit new habits, whether high quality or not. Think of more Qboomers, more young people who heard about 8chan from halfchan or social media. More crossposts/reposts from Twitter or 4chan. And I'm sure older folks would start to stay within their niche boards and communities. Perhaps a lot of boards may have developed a stronger "elitist gatekeeping culture" (by way of memes and catchphrases) to defend against these new types of zoomers and Qboomers and their posting habits. 

That's another thing. 8chan 2024 may have had hundreds of small but flourishing communities. There would be a niche and rich cultures that would cater to anyone. 

I could see another scenario where the site starts bleeding higher quality and older folks due to incessant meta happenings.
Things like complaining about the quality of X board much, then creating a new board that splits users.
Such things happened countless of times with /intl/, /animu/, /b2/, etc, but perhaps it may have happened a bit more past 2019.

And another timeline where Jim starts to favour QAnon over gaymergate, thereby shifting the tide of the entire site. Implementing more rulecuckery to uphold non-boomer frenly content. Freezing board creation. Destroying infrastructure, etc. It may lead to a similar result as our current timeline. 

Overall, I would like a site like 8chan to come back. For a time in 2020, infinityNext seemed really promising, but multiple factors drove everyone away. And the site was killed.
Of course, the users would be different, given that they are new, the old 8chan ones aren't coming back. 
Though, I'm not entirely sure how to get a mass-exodus of people from halfchan, like gamergate did. Or like how null got his kiwifarms / iFunny base over to 9chan.tw for a while.

We'll see how this plays out, but it's really regrettable that 8chan lost.

>>1901
>Of course, the users would be different, given that they are new, the old 8chan ones aren't coming back. 
When a site goes offline, some of the users never come back because they are posting in that forum or imageboard out of habit. And when it disappears, they don't search a new one because they lost interest a long time ago.
If you want to keep it running, you need newfags. The thing is, the young autistic weirdos are a lot less social than we were in the past. I don't think we will have again communities like in 2010-12.

Hard to say for sure. I kinda figured there was a /late/ on 8chan, but I didn't know about it. Unless it was /nightwalk/, that's the closest thing to /late/ I can think of.

Seeing as it was run by Ron 'Q' Watkins, an incompetent shill, it's for the best that edgy /pol/troons got it killed.

>What would the culture be like in 2024?
We would all have taken the brownpill. It's a hard pill to swallow! Sir Reginald Brownpill developed th

>>1901
>That's another thing. 8chan 2024 may have had hundreds of small but flourishing communities. There would be a niche and rich cultures that would cater to anyone. 
This is actually one of the few values it had - cross-pollination. The downside was regular raids from evangelist spammers, but it did actually help me find some small but good boards that needed a general purpose IB to incubate and find an audience for their niche. And fortunately some of the good ones found their own bunkers. But you would get drawfags seeing your site in the top-board or attention hungry games and come do requests.

The webring, as currently implemented, does not compare. Maybe if the implementations added a recently-bumped list across the top bar so more people actually see it, it would work. But of course, that contradicts the jschan and lynxchan design where we don't have boards up the top.

>>1888 (OP) 
What went wrong? This was the promise chan. Now we are fractured and divided.

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>>1935
>we
Sad times, a-am I right, Fellow White-man?

>>1931
>We would all have taken the brownpill.
Forget red and blue pills, brown pills are the way of the future.

Woe

>>1938
Woe! Woe to you who are crowned with the crown of the King in Yellow!

We had COVID, J6, and then Gamergate 2. It's possible 8chan would have blown up again and logged 5 or 6k users continuously.

I feel like a lot of people would have got up and left anyway considering how untrustworthy and weird the current administration of 8kun is.

hi people

>>2096
Hey. We're running out of places to find refuge.

>>2096
>>2099
We have the places, just not the means to make ourselves known to the rest without being extremely obvious to the point of being honeypotters

>>1896
Same. I was lurking cuckchan for a year before GG and when it popped off and 8chan came about. I went there instead and started posting there. It is sad that 5 years after 8chan's death. A replacement has still yet to grace us.

>>1888 (OP) 
>how would things be?
Eyes would have flooded the site after Tarrant, propelling 8chan out of obscurity. /a/ would have had its shit slapped over Hoihoi. Infinity Next would still be dead. /qresearch/ would be an in-joke board. Ads would still be pushed onto the site, causing an exodus or two but to a more centralized imageboard. BOs would buy adspace on 4um. The Sharty would have started and stayed there. There would be a TikTok board and an Analog Horror board. Mark would proclaim /v/ the home of GG2. /co/ would be keeping Ongezellig on life support. /x/ and related boards would be flooded with posts about the latest e-celeb videos, but a few ARGs would start there, including the BEN DROWNED continuation. Liveposting would be the norm.
>What would the culture be like in 2024?
Far more normalfags alongside an aging oldfag population. Soyjaks and political content would be plentiful on mainstream boards.
>Would it have grown in more users or bled users?
Overall, it would grow in users, but it would bleed its original userbase for years. Think 4um post-Occupy. Lockdowns might have exploded user numbers, but not in a good way.

>>2103
With the amount of attention it got from the news and from glowies right there at the end, it will probably be quite a while longer before it can happen. Maybe when the pendulum swings on this current cycle of instant gratification 0 second videos, but it won't be until 8chan is a distant memory.

I for one think it would have been better.

Wish we could have found out. It would have been more interesting I think. Hopefully it would have meant moving less, at least.
>>2165
>sharty gets contained on 8chan
>/co/ keeps ongezellig on life support
Oddly enough I like this.

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I really fuckin miss it bros

>>1901
>I think there would have been a general increase of users from 2019, due to highly publicized happenings
Can you what it would've looked like on Cct. 7 ?
>it's really regrettable that 8chan lost
The actual victory is the friends made along the way!

>>2412
This video just makes me sad now more than anything

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>>2472
Don't cry cause its over, smile cause it happened

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>>2472

RIP 8chan

test

I remember the fracture after /b/day when SnacksMootxico drama/chanology/b-day came to a head and people migrated to the 7 in similar waves to as we saw in the 2014 meltdown to the 8. I followed the /i/ board and eventually the original /int/ from 7>711>99. 99 got nuked because half of the boards were dedicated to LARP posting as gilded age barons, 1920s commies, stalinists, etc. Word was the /reich/ board got the attention of a few governments and the owner shut down the servers rather than give over the user base. it literally was all a larp in the run up to 2010/2011. After the doldrums, 4 seemed to be having fun again and /new/|/pol/ felt as close to the old /b/ and /i/ until the quinspiracy. We have seen this before, we will see it again.

>>2575
>/new/|/pol/ felt as close to the old /b/ and /i/ until the quinspiracy
I was new to 4chan when /pol/ was introduced, and at that time I remember thinking that /pol/ was a much closer match to my ideal mental image of what /b/ would be like more than /b/ itself actually did.
>We have seen this before, we will see it again.
I hope so, but it doesn't seem like imageboards have a very bright future ahead of them. Hopefully there will be a resurgence with non-cancerous users at some point.

I'm surprised no one has posted the /dir/ message left by the last (current) BO. Really hits you in the feels.

https://8kun.top/dir/res/1196.html

>>2634
I know there's replies, but this post feels like a final testament written on a cave wall from a time forever out of reach.

>>1888 (OP) 
It likely would have experienced a resurgence with soyjak.party newfags and then Gamergate 2. It would have continued being the big 4chan alternative. Jim would be making money off of it. 

It would be way better than the webring.

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>>2634
Here's a screenshot.

>>1939
All those pipe dreams ITT presupposes that the tech wouldn't crap its pants like a inbred Habsburg attending rave and was actually updated. Remember how shit Infinity became over time? This is why the cripple hired N00l as sole developer of Infinity Never to begin with. I will ignore his actual motive for joining the Infinity dev team of finding out who was talking shit about him on /cow/ so I can rant more about Image board software Therefor I think it is impossible to have any idea how the culture would have changed over the last 5 years, because the the site itself would be different. For starters there might had been a working over board. Do you have any idea what a blessing this would have been? There would be more communities besides /pol/, /cow/ and /v/. Soyack.party newfags would have filled the place with shit that feel edits. What some don't even know that the soyack party itself was a good target for mockery due to its sped admins. Then there are the people involved. You have no idea how Mork and Nepfag would have reacted to a flood of tourists or how CM would have run the place if the cripple didn't sabotaged it by criminial means. Yeah, there is a reason why he is living in California instead of the "best country in the world" right now.

>>1901
Isn't 8moe like that?

>>1926
>When a site goes offline, some of the users never come back because they are posting in that forum or imageboard out of habit. And when it disappears, they don't search a new one because they lost interest a long time ago.
This strikes a chord, it really does.