>>/3575/
> I'm getting authentic 56k experience ever since that downtime, which is why I dropped out of posting for a while.
> lol like I need another excuse not to post
well, that sure serves enough for a PoLS as usual. Either way, we all know that you are checking this. Only by checking the post after the maintenance period gives an idea that you are lurking over here. 

 >>/3576/
> Makes it feel both /confy/ and a little haunting. Which is one of my favorite feelings.
as if you were the only one. In fact, I have looked for those feelings as well, finding comfort and beauty in those places that in theory, shouldn´t happen.  Not the flower that shines the most but for sure it gives you some hope and relief. 
 
> Reminds me of a couple of fanfics with abandoned ruins. 
you don´t have to go that far away or at least that´s what I imagine with pic related.

> who cares about downtime with cute ponies anything is possible. 
well, for sure I needed them for shiposting over 1400 posts or so over here. I don´t know their actual power but for sure, they lead us to this post number and staying together after one entire year. Is friendship magic or is the fact that Fim is what makes it magic? *thinking emoji

> Only thing that comes remotely to mind in the chan world is the ongoing hiro vs jim drama and formers attempts to possibly corporatize 4chan
that movement sounds way softer than this. Receiving money for making it more company friendly? That drama wouldn´t come with any surprise left, much less these days. 

> What is going on?
mostly I tried to post it yesterday  >>/3582/. THQ did an AMA thread on 8chan and the mainstream media (internet press) have tons of articles (including ones from my country), repeating the same 4 things over and over about how controversial is when someone posts on website that is known for having CP. That´s like the most repetitive argument that you will find whenever you search it along with the Google ban. They think that 8chan is some kind of underworld or a close website to the (so scary for normies) Deep Web. 

By doing this, they have exposed 8chan for the first time by getting lots of headlines as if they were talking about a /pol/itical phenomena. THQ got away with all this controversy, they have earned more fame by doing this marketing strategy....but so 8chan, which has turned into a mainstream imageboard (as if it didn´t reach that status before) 

Now getting more into my view: what stands out the most is that there is a certain difference between the journalists and the comments. The users say that 8chan has little to no difference in terms of CP because they will ban you (which is true and don´t think that you can get with it on Endchan either. Any site would get shut down if they allowed it openly)

And that´s what I agree with them but I wonder if journalists are offended that THQ didn´t do an AMA in the usual sites for it (Reddit, Facebook...) and chose an alternative path for it or that they have short brains by not thinking that Tumblr, Youtube and the mainstream social media have also had CP. Should they ban those sites as well? We all know how well they solved it up on Tumblr...right?  

So yeah, both parts have received a boost of popularity and a few people claim that 8chan /v/ has had AMA´s before from indie developers....