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>That's just the modern internet in general. Website owners know once they have dominance quality doesn't matter because the network effect means that the site and its features aren't what people look for, but many people using it. In fact decreasing quality only benefits them.
>Even on 4chan you see it, being the dominant english imageboard and still making money 4chan and its owners don't have to give the faintest shit. More than over a decade since new board banners were added. Site code as a whole untouched until a couple of bored soijak posters took it down.
>Sure other sites are there and some with better features like altchans, but no one will even look, why would they, slow site. Network effect at play again. So no reason to care, but plenty of reason to enshittify, increases retention. >Even google does it, more time needed to find what you want equals more ads served.
Cyberix is a forum/imageboard hybrid that prioritizes quality over quantity.
Many individuals within Cyberix respect the contributions of anonymous posters.
These same individuals also give respect for posters who go out into the wastelands of 4chan, find good threads, and repost them here in the pursuit of true permanent archival and rejuvenated discussion of the relevant topic.
This last point is what I believe will kickstart a slow but consistent exodus from 4chan's massacred boards to Cyberix.
What we do know:
4chan has a public API that allows you to grab everything you can see as visited on boards.4chan.org
This API is well documented and has been present since 2012
This API is so open that it was also used as a way for pedophile CP spammers to easily torture the site since 2022
With this in mind,
Cyberix could, easily implement a new tree for certain 4chan boards, where:
1 - Every 10 minutes or as manually triggered with an (heavily cached and ratelimited), retrieve 4chan data from certain boards of related Cyberix interest along with thread contents.
2 - Implement a community moderation system that allows garbage threads and posts to be naturally filtered out.
2 (alt) Implement vote-to-archive, like the old 4chan-archive website from 2005 where the community would vote for whether or not a thread deserved to be saved, but, vote-to-archive is more like vote-to-absorb, where the thread is now taken and absorbed into the Cyberix Network, added seamlessly and permanently as its own standalone thread, serving as both an archive and a permanent way to save what 'gems' do persist on the wasteland that is modern 4chan, allowing newcomers to contribute easily.
If enough attention is brought to the presence of this system, it could easily allow anons to abandon their home boards and post on Cyberix instead. Why?
1: The same threads are present on Cyberix, along with everything else Cyberix provides.
2: Only the good threads remain present on Cyberix, because Cyberix acts more like a traditional forum instead of letting threads bump off of page 10
3: Threads can be moderated post-save, allowing flamewars and garbage to be cleaned out from good threads
4: Perhaps if a community voting system was implemented, downvoted posts would not make the save prior to archival, which allows the community to act as the true janny in places where 4chan's moderation fails
>That's just the modern internet in general. Website owners know once they have dominance quality doesn't matter because the network effect means that the site and its features aren't what people look for, but many people using it. In fact decreasing quality only benefits them.
>Even on 4chan you see it, being the dominant english imageboard and still making money 4chan and its owners don't have to give the faintest shit. More than over a decade since new board banners were added. Site code as a whole untouched until a couple of bored soijak posters took it down.
>Sure other sites are there and some with better features like altchans, but no one will even look, why would they, slow site. Network effect at play again. So no reason to care, but plenty of reason to enshittify, increases retention. >Even google does it, more time needed to find what you want equals more ads served.
Cyberix is a forum/imageboard hybrid that prioritizes quality over quantity.
Many individuals within Cyberix respect the contributions of anonymous posters.
These same individuals also give respect for posters who go out into the wastelands of 4chan, find good threads, and repost them here in the pursuit of true permanent archival and rejuvenated discussion of the relevant topic.
This last point is what I believe will kickstart a slow but consistent exodus from 4chan's massacred boards to Cyberix.
What we do know:
4chan has a public API that allows you to grab everything you can see as visited on boards.4chan.org
This API is well documented and has been present since 2012
This API is so open that it was also used as a way for pedophile CP spammers to easily torture the site since 2022
With this in mind,
Cyberix could, easily implement a new tree for certain 4chan boards, where:
1 - Every 10 minutes or as manually triggered with an (heavily cached and ratelimited), retrieve 4chan data from certain boards of related Cyberix interest along with thread contents.
2 - Implement a community moderation system that allows garbage threads and posts to be naturally filtered out.
2 (alt) Implement vote-to-archive, like the old 4chan-archive website from 2005 where the community would vote for whether or not a thread deserved to be saved, but, vote-to-archive is more like vote-to-absorb, where the thread is now taken and absorbed into the Cyberix Network, added seamlessly and permanently as its own standalone thread, serving as both an archive and a permanent way to save what 'gems' do persist on the wasteland that is modern 4chan, allowing newcomers to contribute easily.
If enough attention is brought to the presence of this system, it could easily allow anons to abandon their home boards and post on Cyberix instead. Why?
1: The same threads are present on Cyberix, along with everything else Cyberix provides.
2: Only the good threads remain present on Cyberix, because Cyberix acts more like a traditional forum instead of letting threads bump off of page 10
3: Threads can be moderated post-save, allowing flamewars and garbage to be cleaned out from good threads
4: Perhaps if a community voting system was implemented, downvoted posts would not make the save prior to archival, which allows the community to act as the true janny in places where 4chan's moderation fails
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