dir - Catalog

Although the only one I can think of right now is /chanel/ being missing from the female-centered boards list, being that it's what most of /beauty/ apparently moved to after the nuking of /beauty/.

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/dir/ is closing for now

When those around you aren't willing to take a stand for what's right, sometimes you have to be the one to strike first.

As some of you may be aware, there's an issue involving /gamergatehq/'s board owner, and whether or not he may be an FBI informant. What is known are these things by his own admissions: he keeps files on those that post on his board, and that he's good with an FBI agent on a first name basis. He used this dossier as well as cross-referencing post histories made on his board with the information he gathered on these people and shared some or all of this information with an FBI agent. Couple this with the deal he made with Hotwheels in which he's allowed exceptional treatment in the form of extra pages in return for not fucking up his board, and we have a bit of a dilemma.

Hotwheels said that Acid's admission that he wasn't an informant was good enough here.

https://twitter.com/infinitechan/status/670247018040717312

https://twitter.com/infinitechan/status/670247211507150848

Now, I don't know the exact details of the situation. I've heard that he was swatted, and that it was a simple knock and questioning. I've also heard that there wasn't anything resembling a swatting called in, but tips regarding the BO trading some rather illicit information on another board. This is all irrelevant.

What is relevant is that HW just gave someone implicit permission to use a popular board regarding a controversial topic to combine personal information and posting history of users and report them to the FBI.

I don't know whether or not Hotwheels is apathetic or what's going on, but recently, he's been content to lead from the back and not address any sort of issues involving his user base or anything more than the technical end of the site. In 2014, I respected him since he was much more of a man of the people than Moot was, happy to engage users, to directly address issues brought up by those supporting his site even if they were on non-global boards, and show that he was one of us. That's gone now. He had an opportunity to show that he was willing to lead from the front once more and handle something as egregious as a popular board being treated as a honeypot, and he instead chose to listen when the one involved said he "dindu nuffin," even after Hotwheels gave his board preferential treatment in return for not being a complete fuckup.

I created /dir/ as an attempt to make the site better, as a supplement to /boards/ and the board.html page. Something to benefit the site and the user base as a whole. I'll keep the information I amassed, this isn't a nuke. But I can't keep supporting the site as long as the admin is going to allow board owners to abuse their privileges and inform on users that post anything controversial. A tolerance for honeypots is not something I will tolerate. You all deserve better than what Hotwheels is giving you right now and /dir/ will remain mothballed until he finds some of the spine that made him so respected in 2014 and stands up for anons.

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Update Thread

Decided to have a thread with my updates to the board.

-Added >>>/d20/ in light of /tg/ getting raided. Will reintroduce /tg/ when it clears up.

-No reviews means I'll remove reviews at the end of the week if we don't get any.

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Error in alts.html

>https://8ch.net/dir/alts.html

>/b/: Only moderated by global mods

This is incorrect, most of the globals dislike touching /b/ if they can help it

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I appreciate the autism

IATA

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Add /hope/

Board owner of >>>/hope/ here. We would appreciate if you could add us to your listings under "Lifestyle Discussion: Health and Self-Improvement", as that seems to be the closest fit for a board dedicated to organizing charity and assistance for depressed, mentally ill, NEET and hikki anons. We're kind of a cross between /improve/ and /kind/, with a dash of /christ/ thrown in.

Thanks, and if you add us we'll add you to our board ring as the first entry!

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Board Reviews

Post board reviews in this thread

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What an awesome idea for a board

Seriously, good on the Board Owner for making this, definitely keeping this faved.

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Board Owner appreciation thread

What subject says.

I think board owner has done great job in creating a non-biased board list, alternative to the one presented by 8chan's inherent system. Since 8chan was all about user-moderated boards, why not have an user-moderated boardlist as well?

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Board Reviews

How about board reviews?

A brief description of the board that show more than just the topic and name, but factors including:

>General Quality of Posting

>Speed of the Board

>CSS

>Board Owner Behavior

>Best Traits

>Worse Traits

>You might like this board if you like…

>If you like this board you might also like…

and so on.

These could either be made by the board owner or made by the users and approved by the board owner. Naturally, there should be a set of standards, like maximum length. Preferably, they would follow the idea of the stickies, with different threads for different topics, and perhaps one review per post. If possible, a comment by the board owner of the board being reviewed could be included.

It is predictable that this could be abused in some way, but as long as the BO keeps a close watch, it could be a valuable resource.

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?

Why is /kind/ categorized as "Not shitpost-friendly"?

Take note that I'm not asking you to change it.

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Religious Additives

Hello, /dir/.

A pleasant and orderly directory.

I would like to recommend four boards to be placed underneath the Religious section.

>>>/eris/ [discordian board, riddles and popes abound]

>>>/satanic/ [lhp and occult-oriented discussions and philosophizing]

>>>/satan/ [anti-abrahamic satanic conversation]

>>>/satanworship/ [open spiritual/religious cyber-prayer/ritual board]

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Announcement

Just did a cleanup, removed some dead boards. Gonna make a few guidelines for what I use to count as a dead board.

If you want your board put back up, or have a board you see that's missing, drop me a line!

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/bunker

>>>/bunker/

Can /bunker please be added to General shitpost friendly?

It's a backup/raid time board for /b. It's meant to be like the old bunker sub domain.

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>this site

>no posts for a week means the board can be claimed

Seriously m8?

Posting to keep this from being stolen

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Board organization

neofags goes under gaming.

hobbies and lifestyle have some mix ups too I think.

countries should be their own directory.

I have some other issues with the ordering too.

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/desu/

please add /desu/ to the web culture section, thanks and Desu~

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waifus

>Waifus

> >>>/ashleyj/ - Ashley Jones Discussion and More

>>>/mai/ - Waifu

> >>>/rose/ - randytaylor69

> >>>/vivian/ - Vivian James

>>>/waifuist/ - Waifuist

>>>/wff/ - Waifus for fun

> >>>/yulch/ - ТОТ Юльч (Russian Yulia waifu board)

There is now /waifu/, also please take all the ones about stalking women off the "waifu" category, maybe celebrity section or something?

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Missing categories

There are some categories that would be useful to not be misc.

First of all. Directories under general. >>>/dir/ >>>/boards/ and any number of other redirection based boards would be here. Not much, but I could see this being a really relevant category that people would use a lot.

The "I don't want to talk just give me the goods" category if you will. >>>/n/ might be useful with it's format here.

Next. Meta. You know what this will include. >>>/operate/ >>>/meta/ obviously. But also things like >>>/polmeta/

There are a ton of board specific metaboards and it would be a shame not to have them in a directory.

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?

What about >>>/e/?

Maybe rename "Fetish" to "Sexual Interests" or something more general? Fetish = "a form of sexual desire in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, item of clothing, part of the body, etc.", for example some yurifags object strongly to having yuri labelled as a fetish.

Or maybe just "Adult" like halfchan does. (What about SFW boards that may be themed around a sexual interest, like a SFW /cuteboys/, /y/ or /u/?)

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ls > dir

dir is okay but ls is superior

Why don't you step away from your DOS based hell and embrace the freedom of *NIX?

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Waifus

You forgot >>>/wff/