>>11994I've literally been on small boards and forums since the '00s. Small communities are some of my favorites. What bothers me here is that this site somehow has less activity than
any of the other boards I post regularly on, and even some of the really dead ones I barely touch… and all of those are registration only, and at least one of them is a highly insular community which basically functions as a tiny friend group offshoot from a larger site, and it even had a period of heavyhanded purges which reduced its membership a lot.
By contrast, we're a registration-free completely anonymous site which is an heir to a large 8ch board, and a censorship-free alternative to .org. Yet I post news here and can be pretty confident that fewer people see it than if I post on the closed-off forums with only like 10 regulars. That's genuinely baffling to me, and so I'd rather dip our toe in first before advocating for creating any new boards which could dilute the site further.