>>607013
>I have no idea where the stigma against 4channers come from. Most people probably came to 8chan after hearing it on 4chan its not like people just jump to here from normie book.
It stems from the gamergate fiasco. Most people who left during that time were fed up with the moderation and left for greener pastures, much to the derision of those who stayed. Like >>607183 said, the people who stayed behind pretty much implicitly accepted the shambles the website was in. They kept saying we'd be back within weeks, and the fact we persisted made us smug. We tried hard in the beginning to start something new and mocked the people who said it wouldn't work. Naturally that bred some animosity.
Now that 8chan is established, we attract halfchanners who come here without knowing any of this. We have a different overall culture here and people who don't know that stand out. Plus, the 4chan we knew even a couple years ago doesn't exist anymore. Every year the site gets bigger and the communities it had get more and more diluted by users unwilling to lurk and learn about unwritten culture (now nearly 15 years of it). Immigrants are less acclimated to imageboards than ever before for this reason.
All that goes without even touching on the notion of slow/dead boards – regardless of the website traffic, given the way boards are made here it's natural that a lot of them would end up slow. If you check Alexa, 8ch has been on a steady incline of users for a while now. We're very far from being dead, though I readily admit that we could do more to promote smaller boards. The list at the top that switches out every week or so is a good start.