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This is such a huge blog post I actually had to split it into two posts. First part here, second part incoming:
/b/ was my first main board when I discovered the site in 2005. Only browsed it casually at first, didn't even know other boards exist. Got sick of it within a year and started exploring other boards. Haven't posted on /b/ since 2007. I have no idea what goes on that board these days and I'm a bit afraid to find out. How can people still go to a board I left literally a decade ago because of how boring and uninteresting and reposty was it? Does everyone leave /b/ after a year and it's like a revolving door of a board, or are there people who browse /b/ for years and never get tired of seeing the same things over and over again?
After I left /b/, I mostly wandered through different boards. Didn't have a real main board until /r9k/ was made. That one was pretty great for a couple of months, but then moot let roneryfags take over the board. I was glad to see it deleted and I wish it wasn't remade (new one should have been called /wiz/ or something, calling it /r9k/ is just adding insult to injury). I do have to admit that I sometimes lurk on that board because I have a pretty shitty, juvenile sense of humor and find all the frogposting and NEETposting there hilarious.
My next main board was /tg/ and while I always disliked the "you don't even need other boards anymore" meme because of how circlejerky it was, I can honestly say it was my most enjoyable period on 4chan. Then came the nazi mod and revolt against him that literally killed the board and drove off almost everyone from the board. That's when I left the board as well. I would sometimes revisit it to see if it got better but I don't feel like it ever truly recovered. Then came the quest thread flood and generals. I left the board entirely at some point, but I recently started lurking there sometimes after /qst/ was made and it made me remember /tg/.
