/poner/ - Ponies

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I'm happy as well to see more traffic than usual!

>>381
Yup, now I can rest at last.

>>327
We've had refugees and bunkers for Syria General, Anonfilly, My Little Human, heck didn't we have 8chan refugees when it got shut down after the Christchurch killings? There were the raids from/against endchan/sp/, we've raided /abdl/, one time we false-flag raided /mu/ but I forget who we were pretending to be. Yeah, it's been a wild 8 years.
The thing about Mlpol is that while yes, it IS slow compared to 4chan and many alts, but that also means you don't have to stay glued to the board to miss out on good content. You can go days, sometimes weeks even, and instead of a general in it's 34th edition, you can follow up from where you left off. There's less incentive for kow-quality posting, especially with the 5-image maximum (and more file and upload capability).
This is honestly as fast as I can recall the board ever being, and none of that is critical in the slightest.
And remember, /poner/ technically doesn't have any rules yet,....

And in case no one noticed, the absolute madlads on staff made an entire booru for all your ponyposting needs. Alas, the store has been kill for some time. There have been attempts to revive it, but getting merchandisers to commit to printing swastikas has proved difficult; A shame too, there was a cool anonfilly shirt that would have been nice to get one or more of.

Oh, there was the antifa leaks, we hosted alot of that when it was getting purged from 4chan and other places. They made the foolish mistake of telling us to STOP posting horsepussy and well, one can intuit how that went.

It would be cool if this site becomes the new location for most 4chan /mlp/ users. I've never heard of this site before and I already like what I'm seeing so far.

>>327
Hello, I am the evbl g%dogfag, boogeymare to all G4ers that some say I don't even exist. Spooky

I played a part in convincing Lotus to make the new board /poner/ and making more QoL suggestions. I know a lot of /mlpol/ already, so this thread is just dropping by. I still remember legendary glimglam's destruction of that oc, Silverstar was it? From Nigel.

Hope /poner/ has a better run than other alt pony boards. Cheers

>>398
*sensible chuckle*
You weren't the only person incentivizing Lotus, but good to know that it wasn't a solo effort.
>Nigel
All that new users need to know is that he was the anon who suggested naming the art pack from Faraneigh to Marenheit, back when Derpi went all anti-nazi and started purging art that depicted zebras rioting and looting.

>>327
God, I wish trannyfilly stayed banned and all trannyfilly posters got zapped out of existence. They truly are a blight on /mlp/ much like /ptfg/fags are.

>>401
I don't know, reading glimglam's deconstruction destruction is worth sharing with all newfags even if it's long. I know it's been archived for a long time, but I haven't ever heard if he went back and ever fixed such a fucking trainwreck.

>>407
Of course he didn't. Remember how long that was? With the 17x "Nothing personal kid, teleports behind you" IN A ROW? It was because I lost my shit and posted a section of the story that got GG to go over it in the first place

>>408
Did he improve at all? Does he still post on /mlpol/?

>>390
>The thing about Mlpol is that while yes, it IS slow compared to 4chan and many alts, but that also means you don't have to stay glued to the board to miss out on good content. You can go days, sometimes weeks even, and instead of a general in it's 34th edition, you can follow up from where you left off.
See I think this might actually be the biggest clash in culture between /mlpol/ - or any altchan trying to be a bunker - and the refugees.
Because you see on 4/mlp/ the board was fast enough that a lot of anons genuinely would check it multiple times per day. Even if only morning and evening, you'd usually have a handful of posts in the threads you were following, a bunch of new threads on the catalog (with honestly very little chance of missing one entirely), and that'd fuel the habit of just checking the board every single day. Multiple times throughout the day would not be a big stretch from there either. Say what you will about terminally online people, but I'm pretty sure "active" anons like this made up the bulk of the activity on the board.
So things like "oh, you can not check the board for weeks and come back and follow up from where you left off" seems almost downright meaningless. It's useful if you treat the chan as just something you check occasionally, but not if it was your main online home that you'd spend most of your time posting in. When /mlp/ is your main social interaction, being able to post in a thread and usually expect a reply within the day, sometimes within minutes if it's an active thread, and being able to carry on a conversation was crucial; if you leave for "weeks", having missed some content was par for the course, you wouldn't be expected to keep up with every single post made in your absence.
Meanwhile coming back in the evening, or even an entire day later, and seeing maybe ~5 threads in the catalog having any new posts at all - it just feels downright... lonely, honestly, in comparison.

So "not having to stay glued to the board to not miss out" is not an advantage to people who want to use the board as their main online space and thus check it regularly anyway, glued or not.

That's not to disparage /mlpol/ or its current culture, and there's definitely a fair point to be made about post quality. Especially when compared to its other half - 4/pol/ was absolutely a cesspit and definitely the kind of place where you either have to be glued 24/7 or you resign yourself to browsing "causally" and just getting an overview now and then. But just in terms of being specifically an /mlp/ replacement, which a lot of people are hoping for right now, being slow doesn't really bring any advantages.

>>511
That is quite the cultural clash indeed. Now, if the speed on 4chan was organic, that would be one thing. And then there's the repeat/spam/bot threads. You may not realize, but 4chan has tricked you into low-quality dopamine pursuit under the guise of a fast-paced board, and thats without addressing the allegations of /mlp/ being dead and dying. /mlp/ wasn't a faster board, it was a board that was caused to move quickly to maintain the illusion of speed and content.

Now, it's a shock coming to grips with that, but given all that has gone on in the past 48 hours, why is it so hard to realize you've been had?
In fairness, it was a very easy decision for us to make and live with; we were unwilling to give up a red board of ponies AND politics. If that comes at the cost of a slower board so be it. We browse other boards and sources and bring back whatever we think the board might find compelling, wether discussion is generated or not. Just because one anon can go days or weeks without checking the board and not be lost to a discussion, doesn't mean no discussion is occuring in their absence, only that staying engaged to a discussion isn't the only way to be a participant.

>>534
I treat lainchan in much the same way. I'll browse and engage once every few months.

>>534
You cannot just dismiss any faster activity as "it was all bots/shills/spam".
Now mind you /pol/ and /mlp/ are not the same; 4/pol/ was indeed infested with plenty of spam, paid shills, or at best extremely low-effort threads. But I'm more talking about /mlp/ itself.
/mlp/ was far too slow to be "flooded" or "spammed". Now, was every thread a paragon of quality? Probably not. People did slide stuff, and in particular people did make shitpost threads. But in general in most threads in which discussion actually happened, said discussion was usually mostly organic. For example, plenty of generals had small communities of maybe one or two dozen anons - not going at any kind of bot speed, nor full of any kind of spam, but just enough to have a few posts every couple of hours. So you come back in the evening and the thread has a dozen posts to read and respond to, or you check in every few hours and maybe reply to one anon or another, or not, as the conversation goes. And this across multiple threads.

4/mlp/ objectively had far more active anons than /mlpol/ does, so I don't understand where you're coming from in claiming it was all inorganic bot spam. Look at /mlpol/ itself, its activity has shot up 10x-20x in the last two days just from a tiny fraction of /mlp/ refugees deciding to try coming to hang out here (and a portion is going to be on nhnb, a portion is still going to be lost, a portion might be taking a break and trying to wait it out, a significant portion might have come here but haven't adjusted yet or haven't found anything interesting or are waiting for their favourite generals to reappear or something and so haven't started posting, a portion might be faggots who closed 4chan and ran back to some discord servers... etc.). Your posts makes it sound like anything above the baseline slow level of activity you guys had was just shills, spam and bots ("/mlp/ wasn't a faster board") - do you also then think the current activity spike on /mlpol/ is also just purely bots and spam?

Again, I can understand your argument for /pol/, but not for /mlp/ which was "very slow" by 4chan standards, and mostly had genuine-seeming discussion on topics completely unrelated to most shill topics. It just had a few hundred active posters participating every day as opposed to a couple dozen posters with a mentality of "I'll check once every few months". And the allegations of /mlp/ being dead and dying were precisely because it was so slow compared to 2013-2014 for example, not because discussion felt inorganic or something.

>>552
I'm not dismissing the speed as JUST being because of bots, spam, and mods, but I refuse to ignore the affect that bots, spam, and mods have on the speed of the board, and that's without addressing the generals which devolve into repeat posting of the same images and memes along whatever topic. As a regular Bat Mare Quarrantine poster, I can personally testify to dozens of threads that don't ever really have much going on, they just get bumped when they're half or more down the catalog.
And make no mistake, there's no doubt that SOMETHING of 4chan will return eventually, and maybe you'll have the option of things more like they've been.

>>558
Oh for sure, some generals were very much dead and bumpfests. That was a known problem. But far from every general was like that. Bat threads in particular have been struggling with staying active for years by now.
I would also play doubles advocate in that even for slow threads, the ephemeral nature of a constantly shifting board is not necessarily a bad thing: the thread being dead most of the time can lead to bursts of activity every few months as a new thread gets made and every interested anon congregates, posts any new content, and gets any pending discussion out of their system. Whereas if the thread can just stay alive for literally multiple years, at some point it feels like there's little else to add because everything else has already been posted in this huge existing backlog. But I can see that being a matter of preference. My main point really is that the slow generals were not everything, and there were plenty of active generals and plenty of spontaneous threads still worth checking and posting in. And, the overall aura of being a non-dead board, combined with a not-insignificant number of active anons, meant that you could post a thread and if it was good quality just having that existing non-negligible userbase meant you could get a nice discussion going pretty rapidly, whereas here even the best thread would end up getting a couple of posts per day simply due to not enough anons checking the board at all.

Bat Mare Quarantine itself is a very new thread that was only possible because the regular bat threads died for several months, and then someone made a bat-themed thread but with a different coat of paint and enough anons found it interesting enough that the first thread got a whole ton of activity, reached bump limit, spawned a second thread and then a third. And by then the steam kind of started running out and activity started getting slower and bumps got more regular, but the quarantine threads wouldn't even have been possible if there had been a two year old "bat thread" hanging around the bottom half of the catalog and getting one post per month. Nor would a board like /mlpol/ be capable of filling a thread with 500 posts of discussion in just a week or two. So even though bat threads were slow enough to become bumpfests and eventually fall off the catalog for months at a time, the fact that /mlp/ had a large enough amount of users still allowed a new, different type of bat thread to suddenly stoke up a lot more activity than before.

Regarding bots, I'm pretty sure they were a very minor part of /mlp/ speed at most. Well, there were some known bumpbots in particularly cancerous generals (cough ptfg cough), but it wasn't widespread to my knowledge and I'd never seen actual conversations look particularly botted. There's also not much to shill on /mlp/, again unlike something like /pol/ or even /g/.

Again, I'm not saying /mlpol/ is bad. All I'm saying is that /mlp/ being faster also did not make it bad or did not make it mostly shill bot spam or whatever. It genuinely just had a lot more anons in one place, allowing for much more discussion to happen.

>>401
>Nigel
I do kind of miss him honestly. Having to scroll past his walls of text is a feeling I rarely have today

>>583
>Bat Mare Quarrantine is new
I'm aware, was in the 1st thread. The reason it was engaging is because instead of "Another Bat Thread", it was presented in a funposty way as a caution against engaging with bat mares or else they will claim you as their own and fuck the shit out of you. Believe me, I can speak to it.
Meanwhile, at the risk of pointing fingers, I once counted 9 Linky threads at the same time, and that's not counting the other duplicate threads that usually have 2-3 of. Or lets go back further, when it was Glimmer spam. I'm not saying that /mlp/ was crap, that it's all low-content and low effort; I'm saying there is a not-insignificant amount of /mlp/ that is artificially inflated, dubiously, by staff. My point then becomes that a slow board like this one might seem less jarring if you were conditioned by the rate/content of the organic portion of 4chan activity, while ommitting the artificial.
>>593
Of all the memes, you didn't pick the best one. I'll look for it eventually. He's the kind of guy who's great in short increments.

>>607
Sorry I haven't saved all of them

>>607
>9 Linky threads
That's fair and FOTM memes sometimes do get spammed. I'm pretty sure that saying it's staff spamming it is just schizophrenia. Also for that matter I never paid much attention to a lot of it, I never counted linky threads because I just never cared all that much, so your assertion that "you get a fake idea of the speed due to it being artificially inflated" is also wrong since I didn't even pay attention to it. I am in fact mostly taking into account the organic discussion in those threads that I did post in.

Again, even the Bat Mare Quarantine thread was far faster than what you could ever get here (pre-refugees). You're admitting that you enjoyed it so presumably you don't think that it was artifically inflated.

>when it was Glimmer spam
Yeah obviously when a board is having a problem that's not a good thing. But it happens everywhere, and I'm talking about /mlp/ as a vehicle for discussion in the decent threads, not /mlp/ at all times in history in every thread ever including obvious shitposter attacks. Even this board has gotten spammed by sharty or whatever from what I'm hearing. Obviously this is not taken into account when discussing current posting rates.

>>610
No need to apologize, it's just a question of which device it's saved to
>>614
>Quarantine thread was far faster than what you could ever get here (pre-refugees)
Technically speaking, that depends on whether or not the roleplaying game is actively going. That thread can easily clock 500 posts in a day, especially if you factor the OOC thread. Also if one particular poster is sperging at the moment (not talking about Nigel, for any wondering), but I see your point. This is probably the most traffic the board has seen, excepting maybe when the antifa leaks were being anayzed,
And here's the thing most if not all of us went into this debacle knowing that 4chan will very likely always be the more attractive option and that much of this will likely prove to be temporary. But hey, never forget that when 4chan got nuked, Mlpol build a whole separate, brand-new board. We know politics is a deal-breaker for alot of people; we know 'ponies' is the same.
The only discussion threads I frequent are the Convention threads, and even then I'm usually only encouraging the "I've never been, I'll be alone" posters. Great respect for the green authors and the artfags, but I go to ponerpics and FiMfic for that.
When I say that some of /mlp/ is spam/w/e, I mean a minority, but a not insignificant one. And I do think that places like Mlpol would be more attractive if there wasn't, simply because the board speeds would be MORE comparable. And, in that the speed of this board might seem less jarring, perhaps lads like you might come around when there ISN'T an emergency. Xp

>>617
>But hey, never forget that when 4chan got nuked, Mlpol build a whole separate, brand-new board.
Oh for sure, again it may sound like I'm disparaging /mlpol/ but I'm really not, I'm only arguing against your seeming assertion that "slower is better, actually".
>I go to ponerpics and FiMfic for that.
Incidentally the /fimfic/ general for example is one of those I frequent at times. It's got easily at least a couple dozen active posters checking in a few times a week, and easily 10+ people in any given single day, and gets several dozen posts per day. It's comfy and nice for discussing fanfics.

As for board speeds being comparable, I see your point, but I think you're still overstating it. /mlp/ gets on average nearly 4000 posts per day. If spam is a minority (which I agree with), you're left with at least 2000 posts per day being genuine. /mlpol/'s statistics are of around 10 posts per day, looking back at recent times, correct me if there's a better estimate. A 200x differential is not dramatically different to a 400x differential: it's still roughly two orders of magnitude. (And again I'm going to assert that I, as a regular /mlp/ poster, barely ever looked at or participated in threads that some might call spammy, so for example I fully believe that my impression wouldn't even change at all if you removed all the "spam".)

I do plan on sticking around even inf 4/mlp/ goes back up, by the way. This place is comfy.

>>622
>seeming assertion that "slower is better, actually"
My intention wasn't to assert slower as being better, if anything it comes down to individual preference. Slower threads that last longer before concluding or needing rebaking are naturally available to more people (on a potential level at least) in that the discussion is likewise easy to follow.
Now, to qualify that as well, that position is precipitated from trying to run a business while trying to participate in the chan community, which is both something I no longer have to worry about and a luxury that alot of Mlpol posters don't have; professionals in very prestigious and respectable (but quite demanding) positions amongst their communities.
And no, I'm not saying "we don't have time to post cuz we're working", but I am saying that trying to keep up even with /mlp/ sometimes becomes troublesome.

>>390
>but getting merchandisers to commit to printing swastikas has proved difficult
someone should contact Kanye West

>>634
didn't he literally have the exact same problem with his own shop getting shut down lmao

>>327
Ancient anonfilly refugee here, this place really is the best in the sector. The ride never ends faggots!

>>634
Oh fuck, thank you! I had the same thought on the most recent Timcast with Milo Yiannopolous, but the bald bastard put the episode behind the paywall and I forgot!
>>641
Welcome back fillyfilly!

Bumping this just to make sure people see it

Poking my head in the door here now that 4chan is ded, hi oldfrens