So after awhile of contemplating this places death, lets just take time to first realize this place is dead, but it CAN be revived!
What Made Holla Forums so great anyways?
Lets all brainstorm people, what made Holla Forums so great at first? GamerGate had brought in the first wave of people, followed by other groups like /sp/.etc
We were after a place of free speech, we all wanted to be "Internet Revolutionaries" so to speak, we thrived on publicity, on exposing SJWs to the world, but it wasn't just that! We were a community that felt like we were in control, we finally had things 4chan never allowed us to have, like larger upload sizes and webms with sound
So what happened?
Technical reasons AND shills aside. One could simply count the fact the platform of discussion had shifted, GamerGate had fullfilled its primary goal so-to-speak, we exposed SJWs and got people talking, and people are talking and giving critique on the American left now more than ever, and I do honestly feel GamerGate greatly contributed to this conversation. Platforms didn't just shift figuratively, but in a literal sense too, in 2014, Holla Forums was the only imageboard with board creation and an emphasis on self-moderation, that is no longer the case, Holla Forums isn't that special anymore.
On Chan exceptionalism
In the beginning we felt as though Holla Forums was in the very least an exceptional chan board because of its novelties. Shills such as freech/intl/ felt themselves as realists over exceptionalists and that's where everyone clashed, because we knew we could be exceptional
Making Holla Forums Great Again!
So when all is said and done, how do we make Holla Forums great again? The answer is obvious, we need to make Holla Forums exceptional again.
People had originally flocked to 4chan for its exceptionalism, because there was very little places like it online, the same reason people had initially flocked to Holla Forums, for its exceptional ideas.
How do we make Holla Forums exceptional again? To do that we must prove it has an exceptional userbase, we need to do something extraordinary again, land the news again, turn heads again.etc In order to become exceptional again, we need to get people to start caring about the community again, a strong sense of a community makes us all more united, as of right now the boards are starting to become more and more divided