What the fuck happened to them?
Just until some years ago it was full of forums about every kind of topic and everybody had their blog which was sometime of really high quality, then slowly they started to disappear and now it's really difficult to find decent ones.
I blame this on fucking twitter and reddit cancer, twitter lowered the quality of blogging to the point that it's a waste of time to read any twitter feed, it also bringed all the normalcattle in, while reddit completely destroyed forums and most importantly it destroyed unique communities, now every subreddit is the same fucking shit, literally nothing of value remained.
Discuss about this issue and post good active forums and blogs if you know some, bonus points if they support tor.
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They were replaced by chatrooms and chans like hima etc. where everyone just posts in one thread (and where everyone is in the same chatroom offsite anyway)
People who publish artistic works still use blogs
>>15524 >They were replaced by chatrooms
Yeah also discord is to blame if you meant that.
>like hima etc
What is hima?
>People who publish artistic works still use blogs
Really? I'm not so sure about that.
I know an artist irl and she uses instagram, pinterest and deviantart to publish her stuff.
I even tried to convince her to set up a website with a blog, but i had no success.
Post good artists blogs?
>>15524 >They were replaced by chatrooms and chans like hima etc. where everyone just posts in one thread
My thoughts as well.
Also, people don`t go looking to actively read dense information anymore. You want an answer to a question? Just type it into Google and it`ll give it to you instantaneously.
The only long form blogs I read now are political and politically-adjacent, because it's the last place to get 'deplatformed', due to people's general disinterest.
Forums are oldfag media. Which means there still are some.
Blogs are alive still but hey, they are actually shit. It's a lot of information, sure, but the quality of sources and the material itself is questionable. How about reading a BOOK you web-obsessed moron?
>>15525 >artist
>she
>uses instagram, pinterest, and deviantart
Whatever the cumdumpster you know is, isn't an artist.
Have you dumped your cum on her yet?
I'm going to assume yes, because you pretend to put up with her shit enough to do it here, atta boy.
>>15602 >check pop site out of morbid curiosity
>katy perry has a ganguro tan and flamenco blouse
It's weird how k-pop girls ape white features while white pop stars try to be browner.
>>15604 There could be a simple explanation for this.
First of all, probably not all pop stars do it. At the same time, the contemporary (and honestly, all-time) trend for artists and showpersons is to be exotic. And one way to be exotic is looks. Obviously, pop stars will most definitely take that route, and some of them will remain more or less "traditional" as far as racial makeup goes, at least, because that would preserve variety and because there are probably more conservative audiences and shitting on your fans is beyond stupid.
>>15604 Explain to me, somebody, the appeal of popstars and consequently k-pop. Most of them are not even nice to look at. What's so interesting 'bout them?
>>15540 >Forums are oldfag media. Which means there still are some.
Can you gib links?
>How about reading a BOOK you web-obsessed moron?
It's not the same thing, blogs are not books and books are not blogs, i already read books and it's a different experience, also you can't find books on really niche stuff like a genre of anime or some weird technology or project(i still like books thou).
>>15545 >>15582 Yeah also no thanks, she is married and older than me.
>>15547 Post non-piracy links then or don't, whatever. On some anime piracy forums i used to lurk in, there was also lot of off-topic or anime discussion in general which i found pleasant, i don't even really need to download stuff.
>>15602 I'll give the links a look later \ ^_^ /
>gopherspace
I have yet to search there, thanks for reminding fren.
>>15608 Popstars and k-pop are normalfag stuff.
The ugly noises they make aren't music, and they're all whores. That's what normalfags like, ugly noises and whores.
>>15615 >Can you gib links?
I don't visit them. I just randomly end up on some forum quite often after looking up some stuff. Sometimes it's helpful, sometimes it isn't.
>it's a different experience
What I mean to say is that blogs are shit experience. That's all.
>really niche stuff like a genre of anime
Written by who? I have read enough moronic idiots without any education on cultorology or whatsoever spouting retarded meme bullshit. Just watch anime dude, it's hard to make conclusions about anime if you're not Japanese.
>>15608 >What's so interesting 'bout them?
A thirsty man really is a pathetic creature. I mean, people orbit chicks ONLINE without any hope for that pussay whatsoever, so that idol faggotry is relatively mild even.
It's difficult to pinpoint what's going through their heads, possibly they dream about some totally unrealistic intimate encounter with them until they grow up, and some people never grow up.
Also a few points on why asian hos are so attractive to a white man in the first place. As we all know, white wimmin are either whores or already taken, so a loser white man finds himself looking at Asian babes. Asian girls may be cold manipulative cunts (I suppose all women are to a certain degree, and the few who are not/a little are either terribly autistic or already taken) but they sure know how to attract a man. They know how to look good and they know how to behave, i.e in a pleasant way. Idols just take it to a degree of perfection. Do you see Western stars in all those cute anime outfits? You fucking don't.
What do you think of things like the Pleroma?
While its use of the twitter format makes it inherently more susceptible to short and vapid posting, the right niches are fun and have connected me with people who share attributes with me not found anywhere else on the normie web.
I want to see more things like neocities: bare bones enough for creativity, but enough provided to you to not make it too expensive an tedious in several ways.
I'd love for more people to have neocities accounts whom I could chat thoroughly with. That'd be neat.
>>15529 It's sad that the most thorough/detailed blogs & forums have to be the most political now, too. I miss the days of youth where I could just relax and learn about and talk about interesting, niche things where irl discussion wouldn't be possible due to time, contextual conflicts, etc.
Take me back. http://axqzx4s6s54s32yentfqojs3x5i7faxza6xo3ehd4bzzsg2ii4fv2iid.onion/watch?v=nDDLgSwVX-A&listen=1
>>15608 >What's so interesting 'bout them?
Honestly, not much. They're all just corporate dolls, carefully crafted to maximize profit.
The only group I've ever fell for was Crayon Pop, just because their energy is fucking contagious, it's impossible to be sad with them and their music (aside from bbb) is actually pretty good.
>>15634 I also like the tlmc blog, this post in particular is glorious
http://www.tlmc.eu/2017/05/next-gen-p2p.html wish he wrote more tech stuff like that, it's mostly about gachas now but like rwx makes a fucking gacha game that i don't even play sounds interesting, that's some blogging talent.
Another blog i read is
https://digdeeper.neocities.org you probably know it already, speaking of forums btw he made a post about them ranking their privacy, this is what he writes about 8chan(he categorize imageboards as forums which is not compeltely wrong i guess):
>This used to be a great imageboard I've loved posting on. Unfortunately, they recently have been framed into allegedly having a killer post on their boards (when in reality he posted his manifesto on Instagram and it was simply reposted by someone else). Their CDN (the evil CloudFlare) then took it down because of an alleged harm caused by 8chan (despite hosting actual criminals). I wanted to wait this whole situation out, thinking they will just get a new CDN within a few days (the admin posted an encouraging message on his twitter "We are using the downtime now to scale 8chan's servers, networking, and software to be stronger for when we come back online.") but it hasn't happened and likely won't - and that's because "8chan is voluntarily down until Jim attends a congressional hearing. The date is September 5th." He wil have to explain the situation with the alleged shooters posting on 8chan and probably be probed with a million other questions. This used to be a top tier board that will now likely die (or become government-controlled) because the elites hated actual free speech and decided to bury it. The users have scattered around in many different places that are not quite the same. We're losing the internet, and fast.
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/forums.html i wonder how nanochan would rank compared to the others in the list.
I don't always agree with him on political stuff, but tech content is good.
Yeat another blog i read, discovered though digdeeper is
https://rainheaven.neocities.org/ it's a really comfy blog about a military guy that is into music, anime and privacy, he used to write about news earlier this year, then he switched to a journal format.
>>15643 >I don't always agree with him on political stuff, but tech content is good.
Are you me? We hold such similar opinions in this post haha. Everything you said correlates with a stance I've ha at one point or another.
>i wonder how nanochan would rank compared to the others in the list
My bet is that he's already been browsing onion boards for awhile, but, is clever enough not to mention them on the clearnet so as not to ruin the communities.
I particularly like Digdeeper's software stuff. It's very difficult to refute his browser guide. I still have yet to see a single anon do a half-decent job at it. It's always butthurt excuses like "Palemoon is a made by a furfag lolll" and "it blocked uBlock origin that one time reeee". Going on that, I'm so glad to have found uMatrix. Digdeeper really lays out why it's the best well. I can't fathom why people would use uBlock or other one switch type blockers over it when they're more bloated yet do less. The only issue with uMatrix is that it's apparently hard for retards to use it, which I find mind boggling. People act like you have to know web dev to get it; here I am not knowing any programming of any sort and using uMatrix totally comfortably and efficiently.
I've been in the process of making my own neocities site for awhile now. Here's to you one of you maybe reading it someday
>>15651 uMatrix only blocks element types per-domain not specific ads.
I prefer uMatrix+uBlock, as you get a more complete job if you have to enable stuff in uMatrix.
>>15659 The whole point of using uMatrix instead of uBlock to block ads is that you can just block all third-party requests or even better all javascript, 99% of ads are loaded from third-party domains scripts, so if you block all third-party requests you block all ads without needing any list.
It's the difference between blacklisting(uBlock) and whitelisting(uMatrix).
If you want you can still use uBlock on top, for example to prevent WebRTC leaks or for cosmetic filters, but i suggest to block all third-parties with uMatrix regardless.
just my two cents
>>15659 Can you give an example of this combo's superiority? So far, every ad I've encountered has been linked to a blockable domain, and every instance where I've had to block that domain in order to block the ad has not broken virtually anything about the site. The only instance I can guess uMatrix doesn't suffice in effectiveness is when it blocks an ad and there is a giant blank space where the ad used to be. This has only happened to me on the shittiest, most bloated sites, though. I can't see why uBlock's additional features of being able to block a trivial set of aesthetic elements and ability to block WebRTC is worth the bloat. You must have to browse some really retarded and homosexual sites to want to spend resources on such a redundant addon.
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/addons.html#adblockers
I'm a big fan of HTTPS Switchboard as far as security browser plugins go. You get a lot of control over what is and isn't blocked. It has a lot of customizability.
Forums aren't as popular as before because people now prefers eating their own shit on social medias, although it still seems to be very popular in my country (France)
>>15660 I agree, however there are some instances where you have to enable third party things which results in specific elements (not domains or types of elements ie JS/CSS/XHR) that need to be blocked.
Usually uMatrix is first defense, there are cases when you need to enable other domains that bring unwanted elements or the domain itself is the problem (see below).
>>15661 www.amazon.com/gp/ would be one example of a domain you can't exactly block with uMatrix.
Note: amazon.com is the use case, not an Amazon ad on another site.
If you block that, you are blocking the entire site (JavaScript actually has nothing to do with it in this case).
I could be wrong about the structure of the site, though, in which case; please enlighten me.
StackOverflow gives similar behavior as well (I have noticed anyway).
Even if I am completely wrong or if nothing else: this setup is more convenient, and allows access to the (mentioned in posts above) specific blocking of elements and the WebRTC blocking afforded by uBlock Origin.
>>15651 What is that music (it sounds good)?
>palemoon
Personally I just don't like Palemoon.
I find it's UI cheap looking, and if I recall it's HTML5 support is lackluster compared to other browsers (though maybe that has changed).
With options like Ungoogled-Chromium around I don't see much of a reason to use Palemoon, but that's JMHO.
Many blogs and forums went away because it's hard to compete with free. You do not need to setup hosting and software when using Faceberg, Twatter and the like. Using one of those services also allows you to use one profile/login to access many different topics, whereas in the past, you'd need to create one for each forum or blog. This is likely why imageboards became a popular alternative, since they're not user-identity oriented.
Just discovered that www.hongfire.com died :(
And to make it worse the page now redirects to some shit trending video network, fuck this is depressing.
https://colddarkstars.wordpress.com/ I read only the first blogpost. I'm more than capable of writing blogpost like that. Where do they get the der Wille zur Tut?
Just until some years ago it was full of forums about every kind of topic and everybody had their blog which was sometime of really high quality, then slowly they started to disappear and now it's really difficult to find decent ones.
I blame this on fucking twitter and reddit cancer, twitter lowered the quality of blogging to the point that it's a waste of time to read any twitter feed, it also bringed all the normalcattle in, while reddit completely destroyed forums and most importantly it destroyed unique communities, now every subreddit is the same fucking shit, literally nothing of value remained.
Discuss about this issue and post good active forums and blogs if you know some, bonus points if they support tor.
My interests are technology, anime, videogames and piracy