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>Plenty have been hurt by Discord in a way that you can't blame migration from sites like reddit.
Wow,it even affected reddit. That´s saying something.

>you'll have a bunch of fags who are still posting on the site and and even significant groupings that the imageboard becomes there primary website.
that will always happen. Even with 3 faggots, you can create culture if there is some dedication behind it. You can have millions of people posting but the ideas are what make the cut in the end. Popularity brings more attention and spreads the content out much easier than a little circle. /mlp/ has lost a lot of anons in the way (and I am not explicitly talking about alternative sites) and they are still posting the old memes from the early years. Not everything is going to stay the same but those memes aren´t going anywhere.

>Discord? It discourages posting to the board.
say that to that anon who came to check this board. He was worried about Discord as well.
>Those who fall in will probably be on a bunch of Discord servers and rather than you having your own house, your now in a convenient yet constrained apartment with neighbors that could always move in and bring a bunch of stupid IRL drama.
nice analogy and it´s sad because despite having all you want....it´s not a place that you can call home. That apartment has cameras and those bots that interact with you on the chat, they are not posting with that personalized info out of nowhere. Normies don´t realize and I wonder if they have read their policies in the first place.

I am adding a little conversation with a contact of mine that lurked on /b/ around 2013-15 and he is using Discord for gaming purposes.He said more or less this: "Imageboards have died because they have failed at attracting people". I was going to argue with that statement but I simply shut up, he didn´t lurk other boards nor bothered to check the culture aspect behind the boards. Understanding that requires moving from /b/ to somewhere else and spending time lurking on how the thing works. If I put this argument on the table, I think he wouldn´t care nor understand it all that much.

Ironically, he introduced me to 4chan and described me how it worked in Autumn 2014...I´ll leave it at that.
>I can even think of a couple of /pone/ related websites where at least number 1 happened.
nobody is safe from it.