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Why is this board so dead everybody? Where do I go because of this?
▶ No.71219
After gamergate this site never got any spotlight unlike 4chan so it was already declining, I see news and memes about 4chan/reddit flooding the internet each couple of months while 8ch didn't made anything the last couple of years
▶ No.71225>>71238 >>71289 >>71355 >>81729
>>71196 (OP)
Cubfags ruined it, no one wants to be around pedos
▶ No.71231>>71233
8ch died because it's main culture was based around the culture from another chan (/furry/ being one of the main exceptions). That mixed with the site frequently being down and being generally unreliable cause most people to go back to halfchan
As for where to go next, there's not really any substitutes that feel the same. /trash/ feels hollow and is filled with normies while places like u18 are about as dead as this shithole
▶ No.71233>>81210
>>71231
>8ch died because it's main culture was based around the culture from another chan
4chan is a copy and paste copy of 2chan, there is no difference beetwen the 2 sites.
▶ No.71238>>71274 >>71289
>>71225
Absolute bullshit.
/pol/fags ruined it.
▶ No.71258
Everyone here is an insufferable child who shitposts too hard
▶ No.71274>>71310
>>71238
Only for you, but it doesn't seem that way because you keep coming back.
▶ No.71289>>71294
>>71196 (OP)
The original /furry/ went to shit because all the "oldfags" were obsessed with the idea to keep the board "free of furfaggotry". They would do shit like >>71225 and >>71238 in order to ruin threads that were not just porn dumps, at the end their little plan to avoid a cancerous circlejerk created an even more cancerous one, killing the board, then this one was created, but it was too late, nobody cares about this site anymore and /trash/ is just a better alternative.
▶ No.71294>>71298
>>71289
yes /furry/ went to shit for that reason but it wasn't what killed it, the bot spam for several months killed it entirely, it got so bad people just up and left. I missed /furry/ when it was alive but nothing is really alive on 8ch besides pol and /v/
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>>71294
Don't forget the solid four or five months where 8ch was just literally impossible to connect to because as a whole it was being hardcore DDoSed.
▶ No.71303>>71329
>>71196 (OP)
8 Chan as a whole is not that active. This board is active enough for me, and not as cancerous as most the furry community
▶ No.71304>>71309
For what it's worth, I also miss the higher activity. I don't understand how a place like this where we can be as degenerate as we want doesn't catch more wind.
▶ No.71309>>71311 >>71328
>>71304
Everyone is on discords now to get their boot-licking retarded fans to pay more for their shit.
▶ No.71310>>71369
>>71274
I keep coming back for attention.
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>>71309
I would us a discord but everyone posts their own shitty ones filled with dumb memers instead of intellectuals like myself.
▶ No.71314>>71329 >>71344 >>81722
This board died because its the remnants of a board that was already in its death throws (/furry/), the fucking spam, the lack of active posts, and pretty much everyone migrating elsewhere means that this place has only been bleeding users. That's not even counting the fact that 8ch as a whole has been declining in users thanks to places like google trying to hide its existence by not listing it in searches. And its a shame since we really don't have a good replacement. You can try /trash/ on halfchan, but that almost certainly won't be good. Most other chans are dead and most other places are just full of normalfags.
TL;DR This places is dead cause everyone hates us and you're screwed.
▶ No.71315>>71316 >>71329
The new website/app kids these days are using is something called "Furry Amino". Does anyone know if it's any good?
https://aminoapps.com/c/furry-amino/info/
▶ No.71316
>>71315
>Amino
Isn't that the place that shit youtubers have been shilling?
▶ No.71317>>71318 >>71323
:feet: There are a couple of important things to note about our community :feet:
•No sexual or fetish content is permitted on our Amino!
•We are very passionate about protecting the creative pieces and integrity of artists! Because of this, we do not allow users to have artwork that they do not personally own, or have permission to use to represent their account.
▶ No.71318>>71329
>>71317
I mean I'm certainly never going to install a "social media app" in my life. I refuse to use Telegram because it's geared towards phones, and let alone that, making it social media? Look, if you use that app, they're taking all of your personal information. "Social media" should be a big ol' fucking red flag right now.
I just want somewhere to shitpost and talk about furry boyfriends with other people.
▶ No.71323>>71325
>>71317
>:feet:
That doesn't work here, you dumb nigger
>No sexual or fetish content is permitted on our Amino
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>we do not allow users to have artwork that they do not personally own, or have permission to use to represent their account
Pathetic. You might as well shoot yourself in the head now for all the good this site will do.
▶ No.71325
>>71323
I was copypasting it you dumbass, they're the ones that used a fucking emoji like :feet:
▶ No.71328
>>71309
How I wish that shit was anonymous somehow. I don't want to even think of the content I'm missing.
▶ No.71329>>71331
>>71303
I feel the same. We've got a pretty nice community with some people who bring some fun/interesting discussions at times, but I understand how some don't like how slow things can be.
>>71314
I think you're somewhat right. /furry/ was much faster, but so was the shitposting. After the spam and whatnot, /fur/'s slower, and people still get pretty riled up over others' opinions over here, but I think a lot of the people here are chill and are fun to talk to.
>>71315
How long has this been a thing? This seems like a more normie reddit/8ch for phoneposters. How awful.
>>71318
Are you me? I feel too many people are willing, unknowingly or not, to give away their information to literally any entity. I realize that using any networked technology has this risk of information sharing to some degree, but I think it's a disservice to use these blatantly anti-user data mining applications.
furry gnusocial when?
▶ No.71331>>71333
>>71329
I mean I don't take the whole privacy thing to an absurd extent, because short of not using the Internet and living as a hermit there's not much you can do to not be tracked, but.. Seriously, Facebook is currently getting some serious shit over what we'd known they were doing for like a decade, and people want to trust this sketchy-ass shit? lmao
▶ No.71333
>>71331
Yeah, it's an almost impossible task, using the internet without having someone use your data for things you wouldn't consent to. In regards to these new platforms, there arern't many that help protect the users' digital rights either.
▶ No.71344>>71347
>>71314
I hope, someone here one day create a community like this in a site that is not hidden from google and fucked by it's own developer
I hate the fact how every single other furry site or board is pure autism with everyone talking like horny autistic 8 year olds with shitty emoticons and hugboxing
▶ No.71347
>>71344
We all do, Anon. We all do. The biggest problem is that announcing it would mean autism would surely follow after all, its the name of the game when it comes to this fetish. So we're basically stuck between flooded with autism or dead as a doornail.
Such is the cruel nature of life.
▶ No.71349>>71351
Turns out you can't survive entirely off of how badass it is to be part of a sekrit club
▶ No.71351>>71358
>>71349
Yes you can actually,2ch and 4chan are examples of it.
▶ No.71352>>71353
I miss /furry/ when it was good.
▶ No.71353>>81723
>>71352
same, though I did save some threads so i could look back on them later, Im glad I did it's a nice trip down memory lane.
▶ No.71355
>>71225
>2 easily hideable threads are to blame for turning people away from an entire board.
I doubt that's the case, but if it were, and they're seriously that touchy/reactionary, they didn't belong on this site in the first place.
▶ No.71357>>71361 >>71370
it doesnt exactly help that this is literally reddit but reskinned for 4chan
▶ No.71358
>>71351
4chan is for normalfags. Has been for a fucking decade. Don't be foolish. That's why it's so popular.
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▶ No.71363>>71366 >>71662
I've grown more interested in kemono because it doesn't have the fucking awful community that western furry does.
▶ No.71366
>>71363
This, honestly.
I'm sick of the highschool tier drama that goes on with furries overall, I'm just here to look at and create cute art, I don't give a shit about the identity politics, political politics, moral grandstanding, etc.
▶ No.71369
>>71310
You're a narcissist then.
▶ No.71370
>>71357
upboated, here's your reddit gold
▶ No.71375>>71376 >>71663 >>71691
>>71196 (OP)
>Why is this board so dead everybody?
Some autistic faggot kept flooding the board with bot posting and something about mod powers. By the time /fur/ came along it was too late, everyone left.
>Where do I go because of this?
Now this is the real question.
>tfw someone saves your image
▶ No.71376
>>71375
you're a sweetheart
▶ No.71642>>71645
>Why is this board so dead everybody?
because the janny doing it for free is on a powertrip and a piece of shit. and the BO is a spineless fuck and lets it happen. Just have a gander at the log and see (((buzzmod))) try to turn the place into reddit.
>>69339
>>70896
>>69338
▶ No.71645>>71654
>>71642
I've never had any problems with the janitor, mod, or owner. Perhaps they're not the ones who're to blame.
▶ No.71646
death is a self fulfilling prophecy
nobody posts because the board is dead, so nobody posts... because the board is dead.
▶ No.71653
too many rules, rulecucks ruin everything.
▶ No.71654>>71656
>>71645
They're moderating this place as if it's somewhere that needs moderating. Like, first of all, this is a fucking anonymous imageboard, meant to have shitposting and bullshit like that. Even if you step away from that, half of the discussions that are actually sincerely relevant to us are considered "against the rules" because of the arbitrary bias from the janitor, which tends to lean firmly in "I DON'T LIKE CUBS OR /POL/" direction if you look over what threads he has anchored.
And then on top of all that, as if that weren't enough, we're not even busy enough to warrant it. It's not like there's a swarm of shitposters ruining the board. It's more like... One person, whenever they feel like talking about how a dog should rape their face (who, by the way, hasn't been banned or anything despite obviously attempting to be inflammatory, which you would think is against the rules from other moderation steps).
If this were any other forums, I would mostly agree! It's a moderation that makes sense for reddit! Or somewhere where your posts are prefaced by a screen name! But in a dead board tucked away in a corner of the Internet, crippled by years of DDoSing and spamming, a board which doesn't even beat out /zoo/ in activity anymore... Just why? What purpose is there?
▶ No.71656>>71657
>>71654
>Like, first of all, this is a fucking anonymous imageboard, meant to have shitposting and bullshit like that. Even if you step away from that, half of the discussions that are actually sincerely relevant to us are considered "against the rules" because of the arbitrary bias from the janitor, which tends to lean firmly in "I DON'T LIKE CUBS OR /POL/" direction if you look over what threads he has anchored.
No you fucking casual, anonymous imageboards like 2ch/4chan/8ch/lulz.net and all others have rules against derail, boards where you can flood the discussion with out of the topic bullshit/shitposts are /b/ and /trash/ and even those there is a limit of how far you can go and mods get full power to ban using only their common sense, changing the subject with 20 comments in a row kill any thread because it turn impossible to read the original content of the discussion in this site format.
▶ No.71657>>71661
>>71656
See, the term you used there..
> using only their common sense
Completely active and decent threads have been killed just because they were, for example, not in the cub thread (as if that thread is for any actual discussion instead of just dumping porn).
Obviously I'm not endorsing shit like the spam that helped kill /furry/, but I should be able to freely call you a double nigger or whatever without possibly getting banned because of a powertripping janitor.
There have been very few cases of a shitposting faggot who was going so far that it actually made the thread hard to read, and in that primary case the faggot was actually utterly ignored by people not taking his bait.
I guess I'll rephrase it for you though: There is a degree of self-moderation in these anonymous boards in how we're, theoretically, not censored. When someone's being a dumbass, we can call them out on it, and there's a lot of charm to seeing an entire thread shit all over someone that posted something retarded, even if it makes it less "readable." Assuming this were a regularly paced board, that's kind of irrelevant because we'd cycle through threads daily. Remember /furry/'s original relationship threads? They'd autosage after maybe two or three days at the peak, but here we are, with one decaying after 30 posts.
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>>71657
>I guess I'll rephrase it for you though: There is a degree of self-moderation in these anonymous boards in how we're, theoretically, not censored. When someone's being a dumbass, we can call them out on it, and there's a lot of charm to seeing an entire thread shit all over someone that posted something retarded, even if it makes it less "readable." Assuming this were a regularly paced board, that's kind of irrelevant because we'd cycle through threads daily. Remember /furry/'s original relationship threads? They'd autosage after maybe two or three days at the peak, but here we are, with one decaying after 30 posts.
This don't work with many people, some people simply don't give a shit if people are calling them a faggot or if they're killing the thread, we have in this board an example of this, a guy who out of nowhere post several walls of texts with dozens of lines in a row about politics, makings a dozen comments in this format in minutes and when people give up the thread he simply move on to an active one like a parasite. Such behaviour can't be ignored by moderation, only one user doing it is enough to kill a small board like this one, even big boards like 4chan ones are forced to ban people like this, this "no moderation on 4chan/8ch" is a myth, no anonymous board ever adopted this policy.
Also that's why we have separate boards, /pol/ is about politics and /fur/ is about furry
▶ No.71662>>71720
>>71363
The thing that annoys me about kemono is, that even their faces look human. Japan is incapable of changing styles.
▶ No.71663>>71664
>>71375
>your images
Oob pls, draw more mascot art for me... uh... us.
▶ No.71664>>71666 >>71668 >>71711
>>71663
You have to bully him first.
▶ No.71666>>71668
>>71664
He can knead my totally straight butt. :3
▶ No.71667
>>71661
That's why I rephrased it: Saying that this is a place that doesn't need moderation isn't quite accurate to how I feel. Of course some stuff is outright obnoxious spam and doesn't belong, but for everything else we have that degree of self-moderation.
The janitor, IMO, oversteps and as a byproduct makes this board less active. Telling someone to go to /pol/ to talk about their furry politics is about as stupid as telling someone to go to the /r/politics subreddit, which is to say they're both insidiously and hilariously blinded towards a very specific bias and contain incredibly narrow subjects. These threads that are getting anchored ARE relevant to our board, and not wanting them on this board is absurd because they are easy to ignore (I've personally not clicked most of the popufur drama threads and I don't know most of what's going on in there) and also it's not like there's even the threat of sliding threads off of the catalog - the bottom threads haven't been posted in in three or more months!
Like, obviously the janitor isn't the sole reason the board is dead, but it's really discouraging to be one of maybe two dozen people left that visit this board regularly after the like year straight of this Website getting DDoSed and the six months of /furry/ getting spammed to unusability, to find the sole remaining semi-active community to have threads arbitrarily locked with a very noticeable bias. Tacklebox's drama thread got locked almost instantly, meanwhile we have like fifty other popufur threads just shitting around? It sure fucking accomplished a lot not letting specifically that Tacklebox thread bump.
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>>71666
>>71664
oob if I punch you will you draw my oc =w=
▶ No.71691>>71695 >>71701
>>71375
You best me drawing N8 bully molesting some boys for us Oob.
It's a bit off color compared to what you usually do, but I think you can manage.
▶ No.71695
>>71691
N8 bully molesting all like three or four of us.
▶ No.71701
>>71691
Nate is the bulliest bully.
▶ No.71711>>81735
>>71664
I would bully a cboy n8's boypussy hard
▶ No.71720>>71852
>>71662
that entirely depends on the artist. Some are guilty of human face with sidemouth on snout, yeah, I'm not a big fan of it either.
▶ No.71852>>71868
>>71720
Ironically, I can't draw snouts either. I wasted my life in this fandom.
I started because I can't draw humans, but I can't even draw snouts either - time to become avian or scalie.
▶ No.71868>>71871
>>71852
You need to work on your conceptualization of 3D objects in space, then. It'll come down to finding some way of seeing the shapes in 3D that makes sense for you to depict in art.
▶ No.71871>>71917
>>71868
It just doesn't work. I didn't grew up with a love for 2D and hate for 3D to use 3D now to draw 2D... ugh confusing. I tried before, it didn't work.
The right way is to copy the 2 or 3 poses of other artists so often that you can copy them from your mind... but noone notices because most artists seem to do it like that.
▶ No.71917>>71923
>>71871
are you incapable of rotating a cube around in your imagination?
▶ No.71923>>71937 >>71938
>>71917
Furry heads aren't cubes you idiot.
▶ No.71933>>71937
If you can't solve each of these mental rotation problems in 15 seconds, it means you don't have the type of spatial cognition required to become a good artist. You'll always have a stressful time drawing and you'll only ever be mediocre. Unfortunately spatial cognition can't be learned, you have to be born with it.
▶ No.71937
>>71933
It comes with practice.
>>71923
You have to treat it like a 3d modeling program. You think of it as a cube to position it properly, then to subdivide/sculpt it into a proper shape.
▶ No.71938>>71941 >>71942
>>71923
No, but if a cube is too much for you, then how would you ever be able to handle a furry head?
▶ No.71941>>71942 >>71954
>>71938
I can't, didn't I just friggin tell you?!
▶ No.71942>>72345 >>72935
>>71941
>>71938
I learned to draw fast and like doodles, because I'm a comic artist. If I actually put science in each friggin pic I'd take years for each. But then I'd be the perfect Patreon, right?
▶ No.72334
>>71196 (OP)
I've checked out every other furry imageboard I'm aware of but always wind up back here. It's by far the least cancerous of them all, even though it feels like the number of active posters is in the single digits. Rather a dead community than a cancer one.
▶ No.72343>>72359 >>81272
Things said here I agree with:
- Board is overmoderated, and it hasn't caught up to /zoo/ - which is consered more niche than /fur/. I've had problems with mods when talking about FA's CoC and all images were deleted from my IP when I posted [relevant] cub pics in a "cub ethics" thread.
- 8chan was already in decline due to lack of news and gg being dead
- Spam bot ultimately killed /furry/, and few migrated to /fur/. /furry/ used to be one of the most popular boards. Also, many people that left cross-visited other boards which led to the entire site into greater decline.
I really miss /furry/
I'm not sure where most people migrated.
I know a few went to lulz and 4/trash/ .
I don't know, but I'm guessing a few moved to telegram and discord groups instead of imageboards.
I wouldn't call lulz and /trash/ an exact replacement, but I would say the board culture seems more related to /furry/ than something like u18chan.
▶ No.72345>>72353
>>71942
I wanna draw doodles uwu
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>>72343
>I know a few went to lulz and 4/trash/ .
neither are good options at all
▶ No.72935>>81272
>>71942
Every time I think I'm going to simplify my style, my autism gets annoyed at the lack of detail I usually put and I start obsessing over clothing folds and lighting on individual hairs again.
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▶ No.81210
>>71233
Except y'know, this massive one about one speaking Japanese
▶ No.81272
>>72343
>it hasn't caught up to /zoo/
That's because half of what's posted on /zoo/ is either porn dumps or shitposting by anti-zoos. It's problem is that is has close to zero moderation, which means the trolls run roughshod and basically have ownership of the place at this point. When it comes to actual good content, there is basically none. Most of the remaining posts are people bumping old topics or begging for more porn in porn threads.
But you didn't hear it from me.
>>72935
Don't confuse detail with clutter.
▶ No.81722
>>71314
>/trash/ on halfchan
Don't waste your time/effort. /trash/ is another godless containment board, but this time with no moderation. Have fun contending with unopposed spamming/flood.
▶ No.81723
>>71353
i used to have an archive folder until it was absolutely purged. remember the athus annihilator?
▶ No.81735
>>71711
God damn!
I didn't know how bad I wanted to see that until now.
▶ No.81857
The ongoing spam killed it, everything else was irrelevant and we had a nice thing going. Either way this is still better than most communities who are going full communist and SJW. This place and Xanadu are the only furry communities I participate in.