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I'm just happy not wondering if I'm reading something from a person or not, the internet is depressingly automated.
Fair point. I look at Crunchyroll and remember how they used to be just like this forum and now look at them. Bought by Sony and giving the world a dogshit service for cashKinda controversial opinion: This site is so good because it is naturally gatekept by the fact it's a niche forum and it isn't that easy to find it. Most people that found it here found it because of CDRomance.
As long as this website don't get more and more popular we are cool, but if it goes well known be prepared for the same fate of most social medias out there, which tbh is going to be quite improbable to not happen because we are growing fast and people get hooked here easily.
Beep... bop... insert query.I'm just happy not wondering if I'm reading something from a person or not, the internet is depressingly automated.
You say that, but the numbers that really matter are how many people are viewing each subforum – I've never seen any of them over 50. As many people can join as they want, but the fact of the matter is that:tbh is going to be quite improbable to not happen because we are growing fast
Beep... bop... insert query.
Holy cow that’s good pulp.
But even so, it's an inevitable fate. We are already making content on youtube for this website/talking about this website, memes and stuff. Maybe one day someone will just share this type of stuff in other places and suddenly accessing RGT will be a "novelty" for "cool people".You say that, but the numbers that really matter are how many people are viewing each subforum – I've never seen any of them over 50. As many people can join as they want, but the fact of the matter is that:
The remaining people should remain pretty manageable. I remember back when this forum only got around 10 posts or so per day!
- 90% are making accounts only to access the Repo, and will never post anything.
- 5% will make one introductory post, then leave forever.
- 3% will make a few posts here and there in their first few days, then leave the forum forever and forget about it.
Yeah, I don't have a good way of getting real numbers for this, but it's a very small percentage actually posting.You say that, but the numbers that really matter are how many people are viewing each subforum – I've never seen any of them over 50. As many people can join as they want, but the fact of the matter is that:
The remaining people should stay pretty manageable. I remember back when this forum only got around 10 posts or so per day!
- 90% are making accounts only to access the Repo, and will never post anything.
- Of this percentage, an indeterminate amount (probably around 20% or so) are bots.
- 5% will make one introductory post, then leave forever.
- 3% will make a few posts here and there in their first few days, then leave the forum forever and forget about it.
Yeah, I don't have a good way of getting real numbers for this, but it's a very small percentage actually posting.
The actual sign-up/active user accounts tend to be consistent, but the forum usage is going up. January and most of February we would see 1000-1500 posts a day, about two weeks ago it shot up to over 3000. (The debut of the Forum Game/AMA subforum, basically.)
Currently we seem to get 1500-2500 posts in a given day, and funny enough? The weekends are often slower, it's almost like you nerds have plans on a Saturday night.
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our plans are to play the games that we find here during the weekdays while we do stuff like work at our jobs, do boring school work or things around the house.
Saturday night is the best night to game.
Ha ha, same for me, I'm spending much less time there. I'll never quit though: "Don't forget, you're here forever" ;_;but this site has helped me detox from 4chan almost entirely.
My perspective isn't quite as broad (my contact with such things started mid 2.0 if I had to place it anywhere, but as with everything you post, it was an illuminating read, thank you.I've been on forums since before Web2.0, so I have some frame of reference to compare things. I can start off with a review of the ones I remember.
Web 1.0:
Web 2.0 (that I used):
- UseNet: Chaotic, difficult to access, not user friendly. The internet with the gloves off. More useful for large file trading than discussion (and that use eventually became outdated).
- GameFAQs forums: Really interesting for its time (though extremely simplistic by today's standards), but heavily censored and controlled because of the kiddies in the pool. Moved on when others created more unique forums.
- IGN Forums: Surprisingly very well done. Really deep and informative discussions on a variety of topics. Unfortunately, the profit motive borked it all and sent people elsewhere.
- Random independent forums: Less censored in terms of content, but very cliquey and prone to ban people for not fitting the mold.
- Fark: A waste of time full of idiots outside of a certain tag that generated the only quality content. Said tag was deleted along with its contents to avoid being labeled a ? site, which turned the site into 100% useless garbage.
Web 2.0 (that I refused to sign up for):
- MySpace: An interesting novelty that ultimately was useless for anything other than posting music. Lack of things to do for non-musicians made it a waste of time.
- Wikipedia: Useful for readers, but a PITA for anyone who not only wants to edit, but has actual deep, academically solid knowledge of the subjects. A site that makes academics compete with ideologues to get research taken seriously and published is not going to build a real community no matter how useful the content ultimately is.
- Facebook: Useful at first, but enshittified pretty fast. Outside of college, it didn't do anything useful but allow you to tell which of your friends are actually ***h*les.
- YouTube: Started good with people using it for fun. Went downhill when monetization and the psychotic algorithm made it so you would get recommended extremist political content because you watched gaming and anime stuff (or anything for that matter).
- Digg: Was like Fark if the articles were actually worth reading. Ruined by a certain overzealous, doomed-to-fail political campaign being allowed to spam it and enshittification for profit.
- Reddit: Was reddit ever good good? It went from a weak Digg clone, to a good Digg clone with a subreddit for trading grossly illegal content, to better Digg, to the site that allows racist subreddits ("racism is okay" as Spez famously said), to hosting terrorist subreddits, to enshittifying so they can go public, to slowly edging towards the Great Value™ Meta that Spez always wanted.
- LinkedIn: Wanna give your resume to random people who should never get it? How about some scam job offers that will never pay you fairly for what you do? F*** the people who insisted I "needed" to have an account there to "move up".
So that brings use to this site. Is it better than the others? When compared to the Web 2.0 era, yes. There's no enshittification, no allowance for Nazis, no attempt to get people addicted, and no algorithm. There's definitely some comfort there in that there's no worry of my choices being artificially decided for me by malicious actors and/or machines.
- Twitter: Not that useful on launch, filled mostly with abandoned accounts and bots. New management came in and changed that to Nazis and bots.
- TikTok, Instagram, etc: Briefly looked at the Zoomer fentanyl sites and decided that I never want anything to do with those opium dens.
- WhatsApp: I hate this one with a passion. It's hard to get a woman's number when she insists she won't communicate with anything but WhatsApp, even when you explain that Signal is more secure and won't get in the way of using WhatsApp.
- Anything owned by an authoritarian government: Not going to give my personal info to any organization that is already known to be malicious in nature.
At the same time, we do sometimes have some issues from the Web 1.0 era. We get some people here who simply do not read the rules, not even the first one. Granted, we have the ignore feature, but that only hides the behavior without stopping it. (When I click "show ignored content" out of curiosity for the context of another's response to something, I find that I still sometimes have someone screaming into the æther at me for some weird reason.) And new ones continue to arrive. (I'm up to 7 people on my ignore list now, which I guess is statistically not too bad, but a bit discomforting.)
So I can say it's chill here with a caveat. I'm mostly fine with it for now; we'll see where it all goes.
My strat is only going on /c/ now. People are usually more chill and talk less(unless you are into those ultra popular waifus of the season then i'm sorry). I can't put myself to use any other imageboard anymore, the further you go from the mainstream, the more absurd it gets, specially the regional onesHa ha, same for me, I'm spending much less time there. I'll never quit though: "Don't forget, you're here forever" ;_;
Here kinda reminds me of posting on gamefaqs ~02-06 and is lots of fun. I like being able to talk about games with images :3
Other than anonymous image boards, this is pretty much all I do online. I do not use social media. No facebook, twitter etc.
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Guess you gotta pick your type of crazy: quiet backwater or breakneck bustling. You'll find crazy either way, I'm sure.My strat is only going on /c/ now. People are usually more chill and talk less(unless you are into those ultra popular waifus of the season then i'm sorry). I can't put myself to use any other imageboard anymore, the further you go from the mainstream, the more absurd it gets, specially the regional ones
See you just described the problem with most communities: they aren't communities at all, they are a bunch of tightly sealed echo chambers where rabid hyenas laugh only for their little group to hear - it becomes a monotone and soon enough no one has a voice, it's just noise.plus im not just yelling into a brick wall about what i enjoy, im actually around like-minded people.
A commendable act friend.Tbh I deleted everything that wastes too much time ,facebook,reddit, and youtube I even blocked the sites in my browser too ,these stuff can consume your soul ,but this place is chill I like to come here when I want some online interactions
As much as I hate to say it, those people were right — you do need a LinkedIn profile for a lot of today’s white-collar jobs, especially if they don’t involve coding. The site’s userbase is completely disingenuous, and it pushes waaaaay too much paid BS on you, and the Jobs board is atrocious, and there’s a ton of spam… but employers do look at it when you’re applying for a job, and having an updated profile is very important. I can tell you that from personal, first-hand experience.F*** the people who insisted I "needed" to have an account there to "move up".
The responses that I got were a combination of "work in [country I'd be afraid to work in]" and "we'll pay you less than $120 a week for our job, and if you do really good, we might increase it to $200." Nothing of real value ever came through, while my own research found jobs that were neither scams nor in hostile environments.As much as I hate to say it, those people were right — you do need a LinkedIn profile for a lot of today’s white-collar jobs, especially if they don’t involve coding. The site’s userbase is completely disingenuous, and it pushes waaaaay too much paid BS on you, and the Jobs board is atrocious, and there’s a ton of spam… but employers do look at it when you’re applying for a job, and having an updated profile is very important. I can tell you that from personal, first-hand experience.