Holla Forums should just be renamed /gnuautism/ or something at this point.
Any mention of Microsoft, Apple or Google products that isn't bashing, including legitimate technical discussions, is met with autistic screeching and tinfoilhattery, with any meaningful discussion lost amidst the noise.
I threw the towel the day one decent thread with good technical discussion about Windows inner workings ended up ruined by gnutards shitting it up and the thread ended up deleted by some gnutard mod, this minutes after I made a pretty long post (relevant to the thread subject) that took me almost 30 minutes to write. This happened about a month ago and wasn't the first time I've seen a thread being purged for no apparent reason other than not being gnu autism.
How can you expect a board that's supposed to be about general technology discussion to prosper in such environment? Holla Forums managed to become a shittier place than cuckchan's /g/.Good riddance.
Why is Holla Forums so dead? Did everyone move somewhere else?
has been shitting on the customer for 20+ years now
shitty terrible technology with a faggot for a CEO
NSA subsidiary
h-here at Holla Forums we have a-ascended all these patheitc c-companies and we p-pray to the one and only institution t-that respects the c-consumer, GNU. d-don't be sad if we take a hot shit on you b-because of your i-ignorance. j-join us in the l-light and you won't r-regret it, a-user
stop stuttering faggot
a-user why do you have to b-bully me for m-m-m-m-my dis-dis-disability??
stop namefagging, faggot.
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Do we have any good, and alive, user programming communities?
No. Haven't you noticed that the internet is dead.
Normies turned it into real life where nobody shares your interests and you are surrounded by morons who constantly fuck up any kind of community you try to make.
Holla Forums is dying in stages. It started with the never-ending, agonising and paralysing posting problems which Josh failed to fix. That reduced the unique IPs on many boards by half. Then there was the increasing paranoid schizophrenia of Holla Forums, which might have begun with the shemitah nothing-burger, but anyhow reached its height right after the American election. This unleashed an army of retards, many of whom must have come anew from 4chan, whose vocabulary was limited to 'kike', 'nigger' and the (((echoes))). This really fucked the quality of Holla Forums, combined with the war with Holla Forums overspilling. Since the April hack, things have just gotten worse. Although user counts have recovered, I am almost certain these are not the same users as in 2016. Many of the quieter boards went completely unclaimed in the aftermath of the hack (some still redirect to /a/) and the PPH seem to have concentrated in the top boards more than ever before. This site is kept alive by imkampfy's autist army and the porn boards.
I am too wondering where, if anywhere, the people who left at each of those stages of decomposition went. But this place is as good as dead.
you mean (((Holla Forums)))
Textboards seem like a good solution. They also require very little bandwidth to host, making them easily deployable on even less powerful hardware/networks. The only problem is gathering the initial userbase. Another bonus feature of textboards is that it doesn't attract people with low attention span. Reading and writing text requires more effort that just posting same images over and over again.
Constantly bashing Windows is stupid. There are a lot of things one can learn by studying it even if it's "evil proprietary software". Also if someone mentions BSD license there has to be someone that responds:
Those posts should be deleted if they don't have any valid arguments against license itself.
It's strange. We all have high speed access to the internet, hardware is very cheap, there are tons of resources on networking and programming available and yet somehow there is a severe lack of places/communities on the web for people that want to discuss about technology anonymously. This has to change, otherwise one might as well quit using internet all together.