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With the death of 4chan and it's /lit/ community, it would be good for us to share our memories of the site. So respond with what you loved, what you hated, the highs and the lows. Use this as a way to articulate the impact the board had on your own life.
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▶ No.17705
>>17703 (OP)
It was the site the introduced my to a whole new world of literature. All I had read until then was Star Wars novels and my fathers Clive Cussler novels.
My earliest memories from /lit/ was being convinced to read Homer and the big Russians. Completely changed my life. Like I had been living in grey-scale and now in technicolour.
The author, recommended from /lit/, who most changed my life was probably Chesterton. I was in a bit of a rut, and that author really helped me rediscover that youthful love of life.
Now I just relax and read old pulp novels lol
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▶ No.17710>>17712
>>17703 (OP)
Rest in Piss amicus mius.
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▶ No.17712>>17714
>>17710
Real talk, when as it last good? 2014?
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▶ No.17714
>>17712
Idk I never used that board until about '16. The place was still better than a lot of blue boards that lost their way though, looking at you /o/.
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▶ No.17724
/lit/ revived my love of books that I used to have as a child. For that, I thank 4channel and I thank hiroshimoot for keeping the website alive. I pray that it comes back, not even better than before. 4chan being down makes me feel glum, it feels I've returned to my hometown and found that my favourite playground has been bulldozed.
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▶ No.17727
/lit/ introducing me to Arthur Schopenhauer was incredible. Got sucked into his essays he wrote in the 1850's and enjoyed his thoughts and approach on things. His analogies are peak.
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▶ No.17730>>17747 >>17749
Like every board, it had degenerated into tradcath-larping cringe. And so many posts of shit like there being no good female/nonwhite writers, "Should i read x?" instead of just taking the time to read something for oneself, etc, etc, etc.
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▶ No.17746
>>17703 (OP)
/lit/ was my favorite 4chan community except the politics obsessed weirdos
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▶ No.17747>>17759 >>17771
>>17730
/lit/ wasn't tradcath larping, it just became a /his/ colony but instead of anglo-saxon LARP it was just spengler mussolini esotericshit LARP. rarely saw tradcaths there.
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▶ No.17748
I miss /lit/. I don't really give a shit about the rest of 4chan but /lit/ was home.
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▶ No.17749>>17751
>>17730
They didn't crawl out of their general all that often, I didn't really mind them. If anything, it seemed as though people would spam their general for no good reason. Maybe it didn't belong on /lit/ but wtf, if there was a Christian board like this place used to have it wouldn't be a problem.
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▶ No.17751>>17771
>>17749
The lack of a separate religions board ruined /his/. The /history/ general on /lit/ was the only place I could get good recommendations for history books. Everything else there was constant religion and genetics bait.
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▶ No.17757>>17760
>>17703 (OP)
F Gardner's rise to fame was probably the most significant thing it accomplished. I remember he appeared with Etan Ralph and a other alt-right figures due to his notability there
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▶ No.17759
>>17747
>/lit/ wasn't tradcath larping
There was a really obnoxious period in /lit/'s history where they posted about trumped up chodes like GK Chesterton pretty much nonstop.
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▶ No.17760
>>17757
>F Gardner's rise to fame was probably the most significant thing it accomplished
No, it was this imo
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▶ No.17763>>17765
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▶ No.17765
>>17763
it will, they made lots of money with the ads, but i think the userbase will be alredy too diluted on other forums and around a 20 percent wont come back.
also all the code got leaked so they need to rebuild everything.
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▶ No.17768>>17779
I got some good recommendations from /lit. Without it I would just be reading slop. Finding a good classic book is like finding a diamond in a sea of shit nowadays
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▶ No.17771>>17780 >>17789
>>17747
I don’t think /his/ colony is quite accurate but it did become a colony of some sort for sure
>>17751
>history general
It honestly never even occurred to me to look at /lit/ for recs like that, sucks I may not get the chance to ask at this point because like you say finding good ones is a challenge.
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▶ No.17779
>>17768
I found some great books from /lit/ over the years. I would be very sad if I can't discuss Shadow Ticket with my bookbros.
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▶ No.17780
>>17771
>sucks I may not get the chance to ask at this point
We can try to get a modest thread going here. I started a general. If you’re looking for something in particular, then I can try to recommend something. If it falls outside of my wheelhouse though, or that of the few anons here, then you might be just be out of luck.
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▶ No.17784
>>17703 (OP)
pls give me back my 4chin i can't live without it
>4chan, light of my life, fire of my loins. my sin, my soul. cua-tro-chan
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▶ No.17789
>>17771
Just use the archive. You'll find more stuff than you'll ever be able to read
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