>>36766653/a/ used to have actual intelligent human beings but around 2013 the entire site got infested with the same normalfag retards shitting up every single board to push their political ideology. you may not find much quality in the catalog but occasionally /a/ can have an interesting discussion, provided it's about an anime none of the normalfags are aware of. there's still threads about shinsekai yori at least once a month for example.
/v/ is a lost cause though, that board only ever existed as a quarantine and moot even considered deleting it entirely at one point.
>>36766755I think the worst sign of the times is what /g/ has become. You can't even talk about open source software or developing for desktop without some contrarian zoomer coming in and calling you a tranny for not using proprietary corporate spyware and mobile apps for everything. It's so fucking garbage.