>>1892601>Gearfag containment threadOk y'all, I'm going to bring a warning for you, listen if you want. It makes no difference.
Right now /out/ looks much more like when I first started to heavily browse /k/ over a decade ago, there is a semi large user base, it is moderately slow, and there are a lot of recurring threads. To combat the same thread being posted over and over again infinitium, /general/s started to develop to combat the thread spamming.
The threads were consolidated into generals and the user bases revolved around these more heavily. While it increased number of posts and interactions among users, it began to eliminate other threads from being made and to develop an over-familiarity among posters.
This worked for a very long time, until group chat apps like discord and groupme became widely popular. Once these took over, a large portion of the posting that occurred in the generals moved off of the website to these apps. This eliminated the anonymous aspect of posting and diminished what exactly this website was supposed to be for, whatever you may choose to interpret that as.
/out/ is only in the beginning stages of this happening, and it may never progress from where it currently is. To me this phenomenon destroyed /k/. It is now a board that has almost ONLY perpetuating general threads and those now act basically as a holding ground for discords. You almost cannot post anonymously in them any longer due to the familiarity of the regular posters. It is stale and boring. At the very least the board used to cringe with interesting threads thrown in. Now it feels like Instagram or Facebook without profiles, it's basically Reddit.
I'm not going to claim to be a /le oldfag/ or anything, but I hate to see good boards deteriorate like this. I would also blame this phenomenon on why there are so many raging liberals and retarded ecofascists in here now. If you give people a platform they can use to garner attention, it will attract those people.
