Dear hiro,
when people are talking about textboards, they mean 2ch-style boards that were once hosted on dis.4chan.org, for example https://dis.4chan.org/prog/.
A year ago, moot decided to remove them completely. Before that time, they were in a read-only, archive-like state. While they never were as popular as the imageboards hosted on boards.4chan.org, they still had their small, active and dedicated userbase. I believe you should give textboards on 4chan another chance-- the more diverse, the better, right?
I honestly appreciate it that you responded to these requests with the creation of >>>/news/ -- but it just isn't the same kind of board I, and other users, were expecting. It basically is just an imageboard without the ability to reply with images.
Here are some archived links to get an idea:
http://archive.is/WeqO3
http://archive.is/5SDaB
http://archive.is/kBwnX
http://archive.is/FbZFR
http://archive.is/yiBtb
I know, I don't speak for everyone. But I believe the re-introduction of the classic textboards 4chan once had would benefit the community.
If you're a user who would support the re-creation of these textboards, you can state so in this thread.
I was never a fan of the dis.4chan.org boards, but I did post on Secret Area of VIP Quality for a brief time, and did like it. I'm down for this.
The only thing I'd say though is maybe keep the normal imageboard stylesheet -- those old textboards are butt ugly, even for the 90s and early 00s. I'd suggest forcing a consistent but small OP image as well, just to break up the vertical space and make it clearer where one thread ends and another begins.
I would actually be okay with this /q/post desu
A textboard counterpart to /g/ would probably be a pretty nice place since shills and shitposters wouldn't be able to bait as easily, and it would mostly attract autists who would keep plebs out
Even if it would catch some freetards, I'll take that over tech support any day.
>>541814
>The only thing I'd say though is maybe keep the normal imageboard stylesheet -- those old textboards are butt ugly, even for the 90s and early 00s.
I don't think the general format is that bad, that brick background and cluttered thread directory is awful though.
>>541819
Yeah, that's more or less what I meant. But on top of the brick, threads could be sometimes hard to differentiate from one another at a glance since it's all one long wall of text.
>>541844
>caring more about the form than the function
Are you one of those faggots who shill for your console because the games have better graphics?
Speaking of textboards
http://bienvenidoainternet.org/world/
>trying to explain hiro what 2ch-style textboards looked like
lmao
moot even said he had something planned for the vippers and now he's gone.
If it's popular, it'll suck. "just like regular 4chan except it looks like a PHP board from 1995!"
If it's not popular, it won't be worth it.
>>541940
Nice viruse, thank you?
>>542027
You're losse..
>>541940
Feels like /lounge/ but with country codes.
No sorry, we imageboard now.
>>541847
Stop trying to shill around your retarded idea everywhere. Its cancer and the idea is cancer.
Okay. I know what advantages Imageboards have over reddit, but what in God's name advantage do fucking TEXTboards have over reddit?
>>542123
Why are you bringing reddit into this? No one fucking cares about that shithole.
>>542123
who the fuck is even talking about reddit here
>>542123
Do people not know the basic history about this site anymore?
textboards never
your best options are 4-ch or >>541940
>niggas wanting to get rid of textboard aesthetics.
It works, so why does it matter if it looks like it's from the 90s?
Also if we need a good software, use bienvenido a internet's.
>>542217
>so why does it matter if it looks like it's from the 90s?
ITS NOT WEB2.0 ENOUGH ANON
IT LOOKS COMPLICATED, IT SCARES ME.
>>542217
I'm from Bienvenido a Internet, and yeah, the software's pretty good, lots of cool functions like 2ch's, it's python and it's fast, but the dev said the code needs a cleanup or something, and I doubt mrvacbob (who was in charge of the now defunct world4ch) or whoever the 4chan dev is now wants to bother installing it, even less getting help from their dev while installing it.
>>542217
Anyway I think Hiro isn't gonna add textboards, and if he does he's probably just gonna use 2ch's software for obvious reasons.
>>542005
4chan already looks like a "PHP board from 1995". It doesn't look outdated to you because you're used to it.
>>542228
Also the shitty functions moot added to make it more 2.0, the 10pt Arial, and the border-that-looks-like-a-shadow to post boxes.
>>541810
>they still had their small, active and dedicated userbase
>active
nope
>>542123
Textboards have nothing to do with Reddit?
>>542227
>and if he does he's probably just gonna use 2ch's software for obvious reasons.
That wouldn't be a bad thing, right...? Or am I wrong there?
2ch's current software is pretty good actually, don't know if it's open source though. If not then the guy who owns 8ch owns it.
>>541810
I'm down.
>>542385
The people behind the curtain could still keep developing the software and eventually merge it with Yotsuba.
Just imagine the fusion between these giants, 2ch and 4chan, it would be great.
Maybe additionally register some domain like 4ch.org, if that's not available and you could even market it as something different enough to gain a bigger userbase, too.
...
I'm probably exaggerating things again.
>>542472
>Maybe additionally register some domain like 4ch.org
http://4-ch.net/
>>542485
Except I wanted to avoid that.
4-ch unfortunately has nothing to do with 4chan.
>>542472
The software 4chan uses is just a clone of the software 2chan uses, which was just a clone of the software 2ch uses but with a focus on allowing embedded images in posts and altering the layout slightly. There's fuck all difference between them.
The software 4chan uses has had fuck all "development", aside from frequent incompetency and making fucked up alterations and reverting them to get the site functioning again.
>>542557
Pretty sure 4chan's script was remade one of these years.
>>542217
http://bienvenidoainternet.org/world/read/1464244836/
>what if someone finds an exploit and haxes Hiro's anus? It'd be incredibly embarrassing for us.
They've got a point
>>542137
Did you miss the part of our site's history where people gave up on the text boards and completely stopped using them before they were eventually deleted alltogether?
The crossboarding on /g/ is getting unbearable. Please bring back /prog/.
>>542385
I think Kareha is better at this point.
>>542581
>Futaba threads are only deleted automatically when they reach their expiration date (varies by board), though only the first ten pages are listed, all threads past this can be seen in the catalog, and some boards have a 10,000 post limit (この板の保存数は10000件です) which, when exceeded, deletes the oldest thread in the board.
What the fuck why doesn't 4chan work like this? It'd help a lot with shitposting and spam.
>>542963
it'd render the "is sage a downvote?" debate meaningless too
>>542581
why don't they add soko/shuffle commands to /pol/ for the lulz
>>542664
No there were people that still posted on the textboards. There were a few that didn't have an exact imageboard counterpart. I would assume that the code was no longer maintained for a long time and I've heard that the report system there was busted or no one like moderating it to that effect.
>>542963
That coupled with actually good moderation would benefit "niche" threads that 404 far too quickly because of threads with popular topics.
>>543074
Did it have more users than xeogaming.net?
Give up.
>>543417
No u
How do we get Hiro to pay attention to us?
>>544313
Call this guy.
>>544313
learn korean
>>544661
Nobody who can do anything cares.
Having /prog/ back would be nice. /g/ is so filled with /v/.
>>545477
Were you even around for that? /prog/ was basically text-mode /jp/.
>>545477
and make it look like this
http://bienvenidoainternet.org/tech/
>>545754
>not pseud0ch
Nah.
>>545823
To be fair that's exactly 2ch's style (I don't know why some call it pseud0ch) with cyberpunk colors.
>>545827
It's such a tacky recolor though.
>>545880
What's the deal, kid......... too cyberpunk for you...................?
>>545884
No. If you want a good cyberpunk layout color scheme, go to Lainchan.
>>545886
lainchan hurts my eyes desu
>>545886
Tiny font size and high contrast is terrible, really.
>>545754
wtf is this http://bienvenidoainternet.org/0/
>>545983
holy fuck this is the best thing ever
>>545999
Hello redit.
>>545983
http://bienvenidoainternet.org/0/junk/cero_mix.webm
What anime @ 0:52?
>>546094
Chibi Maruko-chan.
>>546489
Thanks
>>546489
underground
>>545983
Mexican korea
