It's been so long, but I wanted to give closure to this board's archival project in some way, so here I am.
I'm not who originally started this board indexing process, of course. Someone else did, and then gave up for time reasons. I decided to step in when I saw the board up for claims, determined to give to any newcomer, or any user looking for content, an updated and reasonably working index of active communities to pick from on 8chan. Sadly, over and over Jim - and by reflex CM - with their reckless actions drove away users upon users. A bleeding that started with the Infinity Next fiasco. HotWheels turning against us, even organising hate campaigns and trying in every way to sabotage what he once created and administrated. But now, I think I see why he did it. He knew Jim would've driven this place to the ground. He knew that the only reason he was trying so hard to own 8chan was to compete with Chinamoot and 4chan. To have influence and money out of it. He never liked, or appreciated chan culture, board communities, or even aknowledged our needs in the right way. Always half assed, always far and hard to reach. And always pointing only towards appeasing the whole Q shitshow, and /newsplus/ - his failed news forum.
I remember, and saw, all the betrayals, the backpedals. From how /news/ headlines got removed from the homepage, replaced with /newsplus/ until mass protesting made him backpedal - to the whole loli debate, where CodeMonkey and Jim kept contradicting themselves, pointing fingers at each other, and blamed in the end the US laws when no one sane would actually follow that reasoning. Not to mention how they ruined /pol/, or how at least half of the boards from 8chan didn't migrate to 8kun, and many more. Hell, even /boards/, that was used to advertize boards sitewide, has NOT been migrated. That's literally absurd. And speaking of /pol/, the reason given for its absence on 8kun was that "the admin of that board didn't request it", when Jim knew PERFECTLY that CM made that board global, so with no admin. Total bullshit.
On the topic of not migrated boards, one especially hurted me: /scenic/. Not many knew that board, but it was a massive, massive catalog of /c/ landscape wallpapers. Literally thousands of images, even including ALL the laPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
Post last edited at 10/08/23 (Sun) 00:51:11
