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Because it's true. There are some niche topics for which you can't really find similar discussion elsewhere, and I like checking those threads, but I only need to do that once a week at most because of how slow they are.
But as a whole, in order to use the site you need not just an addon to filter like 90% of the threads on the board because they're general that offer no value, or a bait thread, and then once you find a thread you gotta filter another 30% to get rid of the inane shitposting that's easily filtered. Then you need to read the 60% of the other shitposting that you can't filter, and then you're left with something that actually has value.
The quality of almost all the boards is at an all time low. /n/ is almost dead, /g/ is complete trash. /v/ has been trash for a decade.
/lit/ is completely worthless. The only good general on that board was removed by the jannies. /sffg/ isn't quite as bad as the big subreddits for discussing fantasy/sci-fi. But the smaller ones like /r/rational are way, way better.
/vg/ has some good threads on niche topics. But here's the thing, if it's too niche, then it'll get kicked off the board by yet another gacha general. Which means even good threads still have to have some sort of shitposting to fill the dead air, which in turn just lowers the thread quality.
Would I prefer to have a good 4chan alternative with better site design and more attentive moderation over our current set up of having isolated Discords and subreddits and other sites instead of having one site for everything? Of course.
But at this stage of the internet, I don't see how you can grow a community for a site like that. 8chan was built on being for the kinds of people that were kicked off of 4chan, and in turn it means its quality will forever be low.
I still check the 4chan archives regularly because you can find a lot of useful info there, but the site itself is just not worth using for me.
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