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>>/212/ Someone asked when http://tgboard.rf.gd will be back. Well, I'm sorry to say that I haven't heard back from my former tech support partner for a couple of weeks, so it is possible he lost interest in restarting it. By any case, the regular forum experiment didn't work out nearly as well as I had hoped either. There doesn't seem to be enough widespread interest in the site's goals. Interest in contributing to the following has been lacking: 1) another "regular" tg forum, 2) a tagable tg encyclopedia in English 3) several kinds of tg content in one place 4) a system of bunkers and trenches for keeping tg content that's deleted elsewhere 5) FM didn't hop aboard. (Meaning, loli/TG writers haven't jumped at the chance to migrate from a "safe space" to a forum that is open to criticism, and google, which doesn't exist on FM or caption sites.) 6)Most significantly, free speech also doesn't matter as much to the majority of the tg community compared to me. I'm used to unapologetically presenting views for consideration even if they don't agree with what is considered common sense. I align neatly with the principles of freedom that endchan endorses, and so I'm quite surprised how far away the tg community in general is from accepting free speech and file sharing. I have no problem with moderate leftists; it's only the so called "regressive left" who refuse to allow many forms of criticism or open debate while stressing multi-culturalism at the expense of intellectualism. Unfortunately, I suspect that the tg community has a larger percentage of the sorts of regressive people who choose to stay at 4chan after moot censored his website. I was also hoping a chan format would let people speak more freely and allow the contrarians to come back and enrich the fold, but I have come to believe that maybe it's a lost cause, because there just weren't enough of those people here to begin with. Although we had 72 or so sign-ups on the old forum, there were not nearly enough active members. A forum needs to grow organically, and without enough people there wouldn't be enough content to sustain it. I find it discouraging enough that if the endchan reboot doesn't take off I might wind down my involvement in the tg community again, at least for a while, as I focus on some non-tg weeb matters. However, I will continue to upload anything for anyone who wants to remain anonymous, and to save files posted here on behalf of bitching artists if they're deleted elsewhere, just as I had planned. The board will remain online and maintained as long as endchan does. (There are a couple of hands off global moderators at endchan too who can handle reports for CP or whatever if I do step away. Plus if I don't log in for a few months, 8chan and endchan both have a feature that lets anyone claim the board and become the new admin, so I feel very confident this board would run itself even if no one actively monitored it anymore.)