Rumia appreciator, hobby translator, reluctant internet anthropologist, and complete jerk.
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Nameless Youkai · 3mo
Hello, and thank you for hosting and making ongoing updates to the wiki. I saw 810channel mentioned in one of the Cookie☆ articles and I was wondering whether you had any comments on the site or have any plans to write about it?
It's an interesting place. Some of the posts remind me how much humans are alike, in an amusing way.
However, I don't really have any plans to write about it, or its parent website, as their community seems rather small or obscure. In addition, I don't think a place advertising itself as "a lawless place where almost anything goes" is necessarily asking to be found, considering that I initially discovered the place through a false bomb threat earlier this year.
Nameless Youkai · 4mo
hey thanks for putting the discord ember fixers page on your wiki. and now i'm spending my afternoon reading stuff about touhou and bulletin boards haha.
i'm guessing you get a couple of hits from people looking to solve discord embed issues so i wanna ask, what's the most unexpected way someone found your wiki?
I don't really have that data. The current control panel does the bare minimum, showing the logs with no statistics page anywhere, and the hit counter just records hits.
Nameless Youkai · 3mo
Judging from your wiki and old Society for the Study of Modern Image Board Culture threads, I get the impression that in the 2000s there was a much bigger ecosystem of different imageboards and texboards competing with each other at a much more equal level than today where 4chan totally dominates and textboards barely exist outside of the dozen or so people who use DQN. Is this a fair judgement or am I completely off the mark?
It's a fair assessment, but I wouldn't exactly say that the ecosystem 'barely exists' now. You do have to consider that The Society closed in 2015, which was the start of a dead period where imageboards weren't really compelled to innovate when you could just go to 8chan, much like how people complain that Reddit killed internet forums, so the more recent 'developments' are left out.
Furthermore, the wiki is more of a 'last resort' on the matter, and there are a handful of 'newer' websites that don't have their own article yet. I'm just one person and I prefer to keep things on an 'intentional delay' for others to pick up, since I'm not going to be an expert on "anime-themed imageboard that has barely existed for three months or two years, with zero recorded incidents".
Nameless Youkai · 4mo
Do you know anything about the Touhou Suika Combination game? Information about it and why it got taken down seems scarce lately. I'm surprised it isn't documented in your wiki as well.
I recall that there was an implied financial cost of keeping the online leaderboards up, followed by vague issues with the Chinese translation around April 4, 2024 that was never formally archived. However, I can't say for certain if either were factors in the game's discontinuation on June 18, 2024.
Nameless Youkai · 4mo
thank you for still caring about kokakoi
It always felt weird to leave that article on a cliffhanger, but I do hope she's in a better headspace.
Nameless Youkai · 4mo
Hi, I recently found your wiki and got curious - are you currently in process of researching anything new? Your wiki looks nice and I really like reading it.
Thanks for the response in advance :)
I have a list of things in mind to pull from, but I don't have a set routine or anything.
Nameless Youkai · 5mo
your wiki page says "im tired of the internet", also it says that you got acces to the internet in the 2000s.
im worried that you might get off the internet or have problems because of old age/health issues, so please dont, you are very smart and valuable person, i just found this wiki while randomly browsing the internet. are you alright?
When I originally wrote the tagline, I had the mindset that the internet felt 'predictable' and most of the public conversations were looping in the same identifiable patterns. One might come to the conclusion that 'internet culture' has been 'stagnant' since the late 2010s, but I prefer to view it as a natural point in time where the internet stops feeling 'new' after enough experience.
A decade has passed since then. I don't think I'll completely vanish, considering how the internet is now part of everyday life, but I do get the feeling that I am on borrowed time.