Nameless Youkai · 9d
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".
