3d5d3c No.2874
Dam. Everyone keep this in mind in case another low UID shitstorm happens. To remind everyone that it's fucking nothing.
05/10/2015 @ 570
05/12/2015 @ 550
05/13/2015 @ 530
05/14/2015 @ 487
05/15/2015 @ 475
05/16/2015 @ 520 r/a/dio saves UIPs
05/17/2015 @ 550
05/18/2015 @ 572
735064 No.2878
b-but /a/ was dead ;___;
this can't be happening!
e63d32 No.2879
837240 No.2894
If circlejerk threads save /a/, I don't want to be a part of it.
8ac98e No.2896
Post rate is slow as fuck though.
5c49d9 No.2899
8ac98e No.2915
>almost off the top 10 again
>PPH still low as fuck
I'm starting to think it was just the someone proxyspamming earlier. Board is still dying.
3d5d3c No.2917
>>2915
>499
I was wandering about that too. We have UIDs but no PPH. I can't hold a fuggen conversation with anyone right now unless it takes the entire day.
9abfa5 No.2918
>>2915
Dying is such a strong word, why not use another one?
3d5d3c No.2919
7c3f35 No.2920
d6dedb No.2923
I'm seriously sick of the constant mass hysteria over these fluctuations. My gut at this point says there's something to the fact that /a/ has traditionally had a lower PPH : UID ratio than other comparable boards, based on the ratio we DO have we probably have a core of ~300 active users and a contingent of casuals (read: from the other large boards) that make a post every other week. One week the casuals don't post and the UID count tanks, another they all happen to choose the same day to make a post and the UID count skyrockets. PPH has remained roughly constant despite the fluctuations, so I submit that the ones who 'left' were the casuals who didn't actually matter, and that they've likely been quite simply distracted by the rest of the site for a while (or maybe forever, who cares?).
The wacky races need to die already. Actually, at time of writing we're back above /co/ again. Do you think /co/ are sitting there shitting themselves thinking '/co/ is dying guys!'? No, they just sit there and continue to autistically do their thing, and that's why the board flatly won't die. We need to kick the /a/utism up a notch and follow suit already. I think most already get that and don't even read this board as a result. Last time I directly interacted with another /a/non about it the response was 'oh yeah I heard there was some meta drama happening on /ameta/, but that board sucks so I never read it'. This board is a bubble of a small group of anons continually hyping each other up in a vicious cycle of /meta/rdation, and it doesn't necessarily represent the feelings of the average anon.
0b9a74 No.2925
>>2923
Sounds like you are just trying to dodge the issue to me. The problem isn't going to go away if you ignore it. You NEED to do something about it before it's too late.
d6dedb No.2926
0b9a74 No.2927
>>2926
The board has much less regular users than it did before. Something is driving them away from there. Try to tiptoe around this point all you want, but if you don't start to at least try to address it you're going to lose even more.
d6dedb No.2928
>>2927
>you
>you're
Guarantee you're the same guy as >>2557. What we need to do is ignore your incessant defeatism and just get on with the board, your 'solution' is to just go back to 4chan, as you have continually promoted these past few months. Realistically, you do not and have never had any solutions, you are a master of Critical Theory and nothing more. I now view you on the same level as a typical SJW, you are here to try and demoralize the board and cause a collapse and will never have anything constructive to say. Since you've been detected, you'll inevitably shift full-tilt to the tactic of "guys everything's going to shit, we should all get upset and demoralized about it (haha suckers, they'll never suspect a thing)!". No, I refuse to fall for this tripe, how thick do you think we are?
0b9a74 No.2929
>>2928
Being this paranoid and calling anyone you disagree with a shill isn't helping either.
d6dedb No.2930
>>2929
>paranoid
Are you, or are you not that guy? Answer the question.
9abfa5 No.2933
>>2923
I think since /a/ is used to being one of the biggest boards on 4chan people here feel like they're entitled to be bigger
0b9a74 No.2934
>>2933
But the board WAS bigger a while ago. It started declining quite recently.
d6dedb No.2936
>>2933
This may be a very salient point actually, the idea of /a/ not being one of the biggest boards on the site still hasn't sunk in for a lot of anons yet I think. There's probably a good number of anons thinking in terms of 8ch being something to be 'won' by being bigger than /pol/ /v/ or /b/, when the correct criterea for success in my opinion should be more along the lines of for the community to 'make a board you yourself enjoy browsing'.
Also I wouldn't bother responding to >>2934, from the way he sidestepped the question >>2930 hoping no one would notice I think the answer to his intentions is quite clear.
0b9a74 No.2938
>>2936
It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is that your board is facing a problem of quite some significance which needs to be addressed appropriately. Calling people who are willing to talk as to try to come up with a solution for it "shills" and turning a blind eye to it like you are doing is only going to make things worse for you.
The fact is: people are leaving the board. It was never this low as to almost fall off the top 10.
9abfa5 No.2939
>>2936
It makes sense and explains why you'll see many people on /a/ crying "board is dying" than compared to other boards. Though I would love to see /a/ sitting in the Top 5, maybe even 3 one day. Looking at /gghq/, I'm seeing a very sharp decline in UIPs. Hopefully that Reddit honeypot will just die already and stop clogging up the top 3.
Who knows, maybe something major like an Eva 4.0 trailer sill come out and lift /a/ in the Summer. Thank God there isn't any /co/ related shows for a while, and that GoT will be finishing up soon for /tv/. It is a little scary seeing both /co/ and /tv/ so close to /a/ in the rankings.
And yes, it's obvious that this guy is that /pol/ack from before. His typing style is so transparent he might as well put on a trip, or continue avatarfagging with Monogatari pictures. I wish he'd go away with his negativity and fear-mongering, not to mention treating /ameta/ as /4/a/meta/
ce5eda No.2940
>>2939
>something major like an Eva 4.0 trailer sill come out and lift /a/ in the Summer
Anon nobody would discuss that here. You would discuss things like that on 4/a/ where all the action would be.
0b9a74 No.2942
>>2939
>I wish he'd go away with his negativity and fear-mongering
Not really. I even congratulated you on your short-term 'recovery' only for you to start falling again. I'm just being realistic about your issues like you should be too.
7c3f35 No.2944
>>2936
>when the correct criterea for success in my opinion should be more along the lines of for the community to 'make a board you yourself enjoy browsing'.
Which is completly irrelevant when there isn't enough discussion to keep me lurking.
7c3f35 No.2945
>>2939
>Who knows, maybe something major like an Eva 4.0 trailer sill come out and lift /a/ in the Summer
Be realistic here.
The 4.0 trailer will boost pph on 4chan and next to nothing will be discussed here.
It'll be the same as UBW this season.
On 4/a/ there's massive discussion with multiple threads per day and here we are in the second thread since UBW cour 1 if I remember correctly
915d85 No.2946
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>>2944
Then why are you here? Contribute discussion, figure out ways to bring in new and decent users to generate further discussion, or go back to 4chan are the solutions to your problem. None of those include whining on /ameta/ about how /a/ isn't doing what you want it to do.
0b9a74 No.2947
>>2946
You can't come up with a solution to the problem without talking about it first. That's what me and him are doing right now. You should join the discussion too instead of being butthurt that we are criticizing the board.
f03a58 No.2948
>>2923
I agree that we need to stop obsessing over PPH. I think a lot of people are here browsing the board but not posting. I rarely post because I'm not invested in currently airing anime, so I don't have an opinion worth posting. Could it be that here people are more mindful of what they post rather than just shitposting like on 4/a/?
f03a58 No.2949
>>2948
Wow. what a gay ID colour.
a060c9 No.2950
pls no 500 internal server error
5c49d9 No.2951
>>2950
Seems like creating threads is broken.
5c49d9 No.2952
>>2950
According to /operate/ it's the posting of images that's broken.
ffb8e2 No.2957
Fuck this shit, I'm going back to halfchan. And fuck you too for giving me false hopes, OP. The board is fucking kill. There's nothing we can do besides watch it die slowly. It's only going to bring me even more pain if I stay here.
0b9a74 No.2958
>470
Maybe it's time for your board owner to allow meta discussions on the main board again? I think there isn't enough people here to be able to have a more in-depth discussion about the current situation. Desperate times require desperate measures.
ac8744 No.2959
>>2957
I think your mistake was reading /ameta/, this board will demoralize and upset you, you should think of that as its very purpose.
Fact of the matter is /a/ has remained roughly constant for 8 months now, it now has its own brand of momentum. Yes, it'll gradually lose the cruft of users over time, that's something that was to be expected. The is the case with any of these types of sites, it hits a peak and from there user counts plumet, and then steadily start decreasing as per my shitty pic related. The rate of decrease however becomes slower and slower over time as per a standard long tail, until eventually an equilibrium is reached and perhaps even begins to slowly climb. I don't think /a/ or 8ch in general has reached that point yet, but I do know there's a large contingent of anons who refuse to give up and capitulate.
It bears reiterating that the statistics http://stats.4ch.net/8chan/displaytable.php?file=4E7ELLB9PVg_EQUALS_ clearly show that /a/ has not actually dropped in PPH, and furthermore as has been said before even the UIDs haven't actually dropped beyond what's normal - on switching from the old IP counter to the new we 'lost' about 100 UIDs overnight, so where we were fluctuating between ~500-650, we'd now be fluctuating between ~400-550 with exactly the same number of actual users (this is very rough, it'd be nice if I had better data to work with). Personally, I'm going to trust serious statistics over the defeatists to tell me how things are actually going.
If your problem is that the board is just too slow, that's another matter, but things haven't actually changed for the past 8 months in that regard, people have been making exactly the same complaint since the very beginning when we were still /anime/, and yet the board kept ticking along anyway. The board isn't going to slow down majorly or stop any time soon, and realistically it's not going to randomly suddenly accelerate either (barring a shitfit on the part of the 4chan mods). Those of us staying on are in this one for the long haul, properly growing the place has to happen naturally over time, and yes it is work and does take perseverance. Though personally, I actually don't mind the speed, it's still miles faster than the actually slow/dead boards out there and it's meant that I'm able to engage with more threads than my old 'read half a thread on 4chan a day and then it 404s' approach. Maybe I'm just getting old, but 4chan was way, way too fast for either I or the board culture itself to keep up with anymore. It's not for everyone though, if you were thinking of /a/ as 'this thing that generates a fast, constant stream of funny content for me to look at' then 8/a/ quite honestly probably wasn't right for you to begin with.
For the rest of us staying on, we'll still be waiting here for you when you realize what was wrong with 4chan and why you left to begin with. I'll give you a hint: now that 4chan is up for sale it's only a matter of time until a corporate entity takes over and starts sanitizing the site with their Enterprise Grade paid moderators. Without actual mod accountability with serious direct consequences the situation will invariably get worse over time, not better. Their fear over anons jumping ship to here is keeping them from creating any major shitstorms lately, however they'll keep pressing riiiight up to the line of what the community tolerates and slowly moving that bar over time, without moot quite frankly the site no longer has an actual direction or ideal keeping it on track.
882d4e No.2960
Damn 471 UIPs, the slumps are only going to get lower and lower at this point
ffb8e2 No.2961
>>2959
Sorry anon. I can't accept staying on a chan where it's anime board is barely staying in the top 10 ranking. This is way too humiliating. Enough with getting upset about this. I'm packing my things and leaving already. I just want to forget everything.
I will accompany the /a/nons in their migration to wherever they go if halfchan ever goes to shit.
ac8744 No.2962
>>2961
>I can't accept staying on a chan where it's anime board is barely staying in the top 10 ranking. This is way too humiliating.
Well that's the stupidest possible reason to pack it in but whatever.
>>2960
>471 UIPs
As I literally just said, this can be pinned on the switch to the new tracking system which ate 100 UIDs overnight.
Do I need to spell it out? We are currently at 571 IPs. This is still normal for us.
I swear is everyone on this modforsaken board completely fucking retarded?
Also I'd stake good money on you being the same idiot as >>2958 with a different proxy.
882d4e No.2963
>>2962
If the tracking system is completely inaccurate, why use it?
0b9a74 No.2964
>>2962
>As I literally just said, this can be pinned on the switch to the new tracking system which ate 100 UIDs overnight.
I don't know about that, but it doesn't look like it's increasing to me and there was more than enough time for it to happen already.
>Also I'd stake good money on you being the same idiot as >>2958 with a different proxy.
And I'd bet you're a mod trying to do shitty damage control to give people a false sense that everything is okay for them to not bother discussing important issues affecting the board. The drop in users you're facing might have something to do with how your board is moderated after all.
6b81f2 No.2966
>>2959
>>2962
Why is /k/ and other boards staying stable if this is true? Why is it only /a/ that fluctuates massively like this?
837240 No.2968
I don't know how anyone could put up with cuckchan/a/. I can barely tolerate cripplechan/a/.
0b9a74 No.2969
>>2968
At least it has discussion :^)
5da66c No.2970
>>2968
What's it like, growing up on reddit and funnyjunk?
837240 No.2971
>>2970
No idea how you thought of that.
f2ca68 No.2972
>>>/a/243936
How does 8/a/ even has the audacity of trying to act superior towards 4/a/ when they have these same shitposting threads there too? Which is taking forever to be deleted, mind you.
f2ca68 No.2973
>>2972
>there are even people supporting OP's point
Sasuga 8/a/. Forever destined to be a hopeless shithole full of /v/ermin.
f2ca68 No.2974
Okay, it's deleted now. But the thread already demonstrated that 8/a/ has tons of cancerous faggots too, maybe even in a higher rate compared to 4/a/, so the superiority complex and arrogance is completely unwarranted in this aspect.
509ac5 No.2975
>>2973
>>2974
Why aren't there 300+ post Naruto and Bleach threads like there are on 4chan /a/?
f2ca68 No.2976
>>2975
Did you missed my last post in the thread before it was deleted?
509ac5 No.2977
>>2976
The "/v/ermin" are keeping us from the high quality levels seen in these current threads on 4chan.
509ac5 No.2978
Is modern anime shit?
There's a 500 post thread on 4chan /a/ discussing that.
837240 No.2980
>>2978
I don't know why anyone would listen to Anno now.
509ac5 No.2982
>>2975
>>2977
I love great /a/ memes like "cuck".
0b9a74 No.2983
>>2977
You know these threads are very different compared to the one I linked. Why would you think the Holo one is shitposting by the way?
>>2978
Not shitposting too. It's the opinion of someone who's extremely relevant and influential to the anime industry and warrants discussion about it. There might be shitposting in it, but it's not the same thing as the thread I linked previously.
By the way, this was my last post there in case you missed it:
>4/a/ has shitposting and cancer too, never denied. I just think it's hilarious when you try to act superior towards them when you're basically the same shit in this aspect.
0b9a74 No.2987
The Holo thread is no more shitposting than these ones are btw:
>>>/a/219317
>>>/a/228371
>>>/a/227332
I think the last one along with the Cross Ange thread on 4/a/ both deserve to be deleted though, so you're in equal terms with them.
c1e70d No.2996
>thread is becoming a dick measuring contest by comparing OPs between 8/a/ and 4/a/
Yup, I'm out. Hope you guys realize that even the shittiest of OPs might be able to get some great discussion
3d5d3c No.2999
>>2959
Anon no. PPH is 16. Fucking 16. And it is only the top 10th board.
97977b No.3013
>>2954
>Implying that being able to watch whole animes between posts isn't wonderful
9778bc No.3014
I agree.
I think it's the faggot shitters from other boards trying to undermine the quality and peace of /a/ by making it a shitposting friendly zone that are driving people out.
9778bc No.3015
>>3014
I mean, speaking honestly? Why not just stay on /v/ if you want to shitpost? Mark is fine with it, it's /v/ culture to shitpost. You can have all the fun in the world on /v/, you can even talk about anime there if you want while shitposting because there is no set topic or guideline of what to post on /v/.
69df8b No.3017
>>2977
>Woof
>500 posts
I feel like 4/a/ has the exact opposite problem than us.
f38f80 No.3018
>>2978
That's a shitposting thread, and one of a very frequently reposted type too.
9abfa5 No.3019
>>2978
>>3018
And on Anno's birthday as well, for shame 4/a/
5da66c No.3021
Why are faggots working so hard to divide the boards? One of them even admitted to doing it in another thread on here, and yet it's like nobody cares anymore.
0b9a74 No.3030
/co/ and /k/ are now accompanying you on your way to the grave if that gives you any comfort.
Also, what the fuck is happening on /pol/? Is it getting mass-spammed or raided or something? I don't go there anymore to know, but shit isn't looking normal to me.
79a67b No.3035
CONSENSUS CRACK
THE THREAD
3d5d3c No.3054
I think it has stabilized to around 480.
23b786 No.3058
>>3054
no one is posting.
there's a culture of fear around posting which puts off potential posters.
what is the point of posting on a much slower but much more moderated version of 4chan /a//
888f4d No.3101
>>3058
>back up to 512 active users
Are we just going to have retards push this shit every week? When it starts to dip every Tuesday they turn up sperging out over how ITS REALLY DYING THIS TIME GUYS and then it climbs back up over the weekend (and whenever r/a/dio threads pop up) and they go silent as usual? Fug me.
>>3035
Pretty much man. It's comical to see people push this over and over and over again as it reveals how utterly new they are.
0b9a74 No.3102
>>3101
>board is dead through the whole week unless there's circlejerking faggotry happening
And you see nothing wrong with this?
2a6779 No.3103
>>3102
>fun is bad
Fuck off. I'm in favor of "4/a/ is better than 8/a/", but radio threads is the quirky kind of thing that should be encouraged instead of condemned as circlejerky shit. Actual circlejerk deserves to be condemnded, but this is fine.
837240 No.3114
>>3103
Circlejerks for me and not for thee, I see.
3d5d3c No.3125
>>3101
PPH has just been really slow. It's at 22 right now in broad daylight. It used to be 40. And threads were more active. Now there is a bigger distance between replies.
7bf4c5 No.3126
>>3125
Hush, it's all in your imagination
c24a8a No.3127
>>3125
The board's always been real slow for the number of active users it has man. Looking at >>2899 we're a bit lower than normal (4.6k posts last week) but considering the downward spiral after moot's resignation (down to 3.6k posts a week) and later bounce up I wouldn't really be worrying too much. That period was much worse than what's going on now, with way more defeatist metafags pushing their bullshit on everyone else and yet we came back just fine.
Things have never been that fast here and given 8/a/'s pretty wildly fluctuating PPW (it's still young as fuck as far as boards go) the only thing to do is to wait and see what happens. And post whenever you have something to contribute, of course :^). Take it easy and try give some of the other boards a shot if you want something new to look at as well - there's plenty of interesting small ones on 8ch to dig through.
Shit's supposed to be fun yo, don't just hang out on /ameta/ (or any of the other /meta/ boards, really) giving yourself an aneurysm over every little thing.
3d5d3c No.3131
>>3127
I've seen a very obvious decrease in quality and discussion. Just refer to the old pics: https://8ch.net/ameta/res/838.html#864
Compare the number of posts and subject per thread compared to today with this pic. They are an indicator of discussion and quality.
I'm off to 4/a/. I'm not shilling or anything but I can't withstand this board anymore. I've been here since October and I really have felt how it has changed besides PPH and UIDs and I have contributed many long threads. I was even the Anon trying to make the /a/ Animates an OP. I had some fun here but It was just a pain most of the time. Later.
9abfa5 No.3132
>>3131
See you in a couple days
0b9a74 No.3133
>>3132
See you there, anon.
I guess the drop in quality is because more people are starting to realize the same thing as you did, leaving the board only to the /v/edditor newfag userbase to shit all over.
A word of advice though: don't make the same mistake as I did of browsing 4/a/ during early Euro time like right now; they have no janitors/mod on during this period. Go masturbate, watch anime or read manga or something instead, okay?
0b9a74 No.3134
>>3133
Of course I had to misquote that: >>3131
5e1b98 No.3142
>>3131
>I was even the Anon trying to make the /a/ Animates an OP.
If you had chosen any OP other than Watamote's I would have helped.
3d5d3c No.3268
>>3142
It wasn't my decision it was majority vote. But you probably wouldn't have liked the rest of the options. They were very shallow entry level show OP or ED. Not surprised really. But I tried to slowly continue the project since the thread is still on 8/a/ and gradually attempted to reintegrate back into 8/a/ but I forgot how shit it is.