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How did you come to lain?

A 戸川純 song on youtube had a bunch of comments about Lain.

Infinitechan /cyber/ I've only ever seen the first episode of SEL but I'm not big into Laotian shadow puppets so it doesn't really grab my attention. Pretty comfy place though that I like to browse every now and then at work on night shifts.

Literally searching for /cyb/ stuff a good couple of years ago

Saw some memes about it in a spanish fb page, asked what anime it was and they told me it was Lain.

Heard the name "lainchan" some 4-5 years ago, but never bothered looking into it because I wasn't too much into /g/-type stuff then (I programmed and had general tech savvy, but that was it). Then about a year ago I decided to watch Lain for the first time after being led to it by an existential crisis and some googling. Which then reminded me "wasn't there some imageboard themed around Lain?" And so I wound up here.

I saw it earlier this year, mentioned by someone who remembered it fondly.

wanted to find new places interested in sec&cyberpunk >watched lain anime in past for the same interest >figure this might be a common vector to find peers> try typing lainchan instead of 4chan >mfw it works

I watched SEL long ago, was young and didn't understood it, back when torrenting was the new way to watch anime. About the chan, I discovered it through an ubuntu phone webapp, I have always rejected android from the start.

I found the anime in either 08 or 09 through 4chan, I have vivid memories of watching a really low quality stream in my mums house I found out about Lainchan from /cyber/ a few years ago and it quickly became my favourite imageboard. Coming from the larger chans it was a pleasant surprise to see a tight community with niche hobbies having in depth discussions and doing projects together

8ch/tech/ died and I'm ronery.

Saw SEL at a very young age, didn't get most of it, but I got the feeling that it was very important for me. The only other piece of art that made me feel this way is that old movie that's called Vanishing Point. Since then most of my early internet research was about lain so I happened to find lainchan.

Someone recommended it to me about 5 years ago.

>>13029 Because I was derezzed from 4chan and then I started to search for alternative imageboards and I found lain

>>13029 I heard from DHS this was a good place to collect information about disgruntled social rejects with potential high tech skills that I could surveil. Thanks for creating so many low quality info gathering threads, BTW. Keeps me from having to use a proxy.

Friend nearly begged me to watch Lain, it was pretty cool and I eventually found lainchan. I like this community here.

I remember hearing about it for the first time many years back. After that, it just came up again and again until I finally tried it.

This will be the least interesting reply but I literally don't remember.

>>13085 You speak about it like it's a drug :-D

>>13087 It IS a drug

>>13087 The waifus of lainons will agree.

An old now defunct overchan listed this place. I visited a number of other sites from there, most of which were either ghost towns or just redundant and miniscule copies of 4/7/420 except for Lain and a few others. The others are all gone now. Mostly I'm here since megachan expired some years ago. Who mega here by the way?

From cerealexperiments

I was looking for somewhere to talk about Lain and how we should all love Lain, and it turned out there was an entire imageboard dedicated to the cult of Lain

I don't remember. I lurked around here a long time ago and posted a bit but then I stopped. I came back more recently 'cause I remember the first time, but I don't know what brought me to it originally. fuarrrk other boorus, I got enough here. I like how it's slow but not dead. It's nice. >>13089 I feel.. accelerated.

8chan refugee. I first went back to 4chan, went to bunkerchan, spacechan, sushigirl, some other obsucre chans with very small communities, and finally stumbled in here. This has gotta be my favorite of all the chans i've called home. Please don't make fun of me for being a newfriend. I promise I won't be annoying

>>13136 this place is definitely the best, moderately active underground chan I've been to. interesting that is was a fandom chan that became the best of them all

Saw anons mentioning Lainchan and and lainposting on /g/. Had an incredible experience watching it the first time, wish I could relive that. That was a couple of years ago and I've lurked here ever since, but I wish I was more active in the IRC, Mumble and such.

Saw it on another board and stayed.I like lain but not a lot

>>13029 I found about in on polish image board vichan or in some hacking related community, I don't remember correctly. Btw JEBAĆ KACZYŃSKIEGO!

>>13029 watched SEL last summer. Some guy mentioned lainchan on discord later so I decided to check it out.

>>13142 As your case but I founded "lainchan.org" in a dude's starpage.

was looking for niche communities online, since i've been looking to try to enter the maker/hacker community. sadly it seems like these sorts of communities are getting rarer and rarer online, but stuff like lainchan and the tildeverse gives me hope.

I was reading the source code of the Clover app and figured I'd check out the URLs hardcoded there.

>>13150 That's pretty legit, seems appropriate idk

Literally just heard about this place 5 minutes ago on Nanonchan.

>>13161 What's the address of that place?

Omnichan...please forgive me im only lurking.

>>13162 nanochan http://nanochanqwrwtmamtnhkfwbbcducc4i62ciss4byo6f3an5qdkhjngid.onion/

>>13167 Apart from the obnoxious OPenBSD fanbois nanochan is ok. At least the mods don't go around deleting posts they don't like with no warning.

I once used 4chan /g/ and when I decided to leave it was between 8chan /tech/ and Lainchan, both of which I learned of because they were spammed on 4chan for a while. I made the right decision coming here instead. Back then, 8chan was better than 4chan in some ways and worse in others, but it's dead now so it doesn't matter much anyway.

i found this place through neocities. i made a website on neocities to play around with html and css just for fun.I was looking for sites to follow and noticed a website called lainzine and from that website i found lainchan. I stayed because you guy are interested in the same things as i am: programming,technology,cartoons and other stuff

For /tech/ since 4chan /g/ is like kicking dead whales down the beach ass

I was looking for some drawing advice and found Yoshitoshi`s art, also likes Boa too much, I have to re-watch it this year

>>13179 I just searched the terms in that meme and found this: https://soundcloud.com/scummv/boa-duvet-scummv-remix Not bad >>13029 Hey mods some questions are profoundly brief and don't need any more verbosity imho just sayin

I came here way back, forgot how I first found it. Probably just obsessive net searching after doing a re-watch of the series. I stopped for a couple years or w/e and then came back on a whim when I remembered it. Still cozy. Also I like the various hardware hacking threads a lot. And the music board is top shelf soykaf.

Either 8ch /tech/ or wizchan /hob/. I can't really remember which one though.

saw some anons talking about this place some years ago on /cyber/

Kalyx used to spam it on 8chan /tech/ and /cyber/ long time ago

I remember being obsessed with Yume Nikki in 2014, when I discovered Uboachan and was NEETing through life. So, it was a pretty comfy place. Then I discovered this place. I watched Lain ages ago on TV, along with Ghost in the Shell, Soukyuu no Fafner, a Tree of Palme, and other rather obscure anime series (Yo may be able to figure out where I live). I fell pretty much at home. I stopped NEETing, but my grades at college are fuarrrking awful, and I feel even more depressed than being in a dark room for 23 hours a day... But such is life! Anyways, Lainchan is cool.

Omniechan introduce me to launch along with 420chan, and wizardchan. I came for 4chan and got better platforms

Some guy casually said "lainchan is good" and I thought hmm.. let's check it out and here I am.

I started programming and originally fell into /g/ but I kept looking for something decent, found nullchan (which was actually a forum) and tgen found this one probably mentioned there, realized the lisp thread that had gone missing in /g/ had moved here and though I don't follow the thread, realized that the people I wanted to discuss stuff with are here. I still feel the same way even after all that's happened.

>>13177 I got here through neocities too, but instead of lainzine it was https://fauux.neocities.org/ After that I watched SEL, and then found the chan through other communities.

Saw it on an app. Still have no idea what it is.

>>13029 Found it randomly while being online while high. I can't remember the exact details, but I know the next day I had it bookmarked. Started lurking around for a while and found a huge interest with everything here loved the in depth posting compared to other "chans" and made my stay ever since. Now still here 3 years later and I've learned a lot from this place and everyone. I'm truly grateful and I know there's always much more to learn from this place so I'll be coming back as long as I'm alive and this place is here to welcome me.

i don't have any recollection of how i found it.

I was bored, so I was typing a bunch of random chan ideas to see if any of them exist. Lainchan did and so I lurk until I don't find happenings here amusing anymore, but it doesn't seem to happen anytime soon

>>13029 I was part of /cyb/ threads on /g/, then Lainchain was born, helped with it a bit while being on IRC, then left because it became full of "cyberpunk aesthetic" posers and retarded Lain users, that had nothing to do with /cyb/.

Had a 4chan client that supported a handful of other sites, lainchan was included. Although, I didn't actually start coming around until watching the anime a bit afterwards.

>>13610 "cyberpunk aesthetic" posers and retarded Lain users, that had nothing to do with /cyb/. now only two people post there if that...

>>13029 >how did you come in lain What did he mean by this?

>>13618 comfiest pic I've seen all week

>>13051 Pretty much this... Lainchan is the only place I can really post on. 8chan died (rip), 4chan wants $$$ in exchange for some anonymity, and everything else is dead/ too inactive.

I tried out a bunch of image boards listed in Overchan app. Lainchan was the least stupid one. It also allows posting via Tor. I wish it was a lot more active, but effective moderation probably reduces the number of nonfat-soykaf drinkers. I don't know anythong about Lain or anime in general. Would be nice to see a math/sci section here. Regards.

>>13667 >Would be nice to see a math/sci section Math is to tech what masturbation is to sex.

>>13668 So you mean the fundamentals that everyone must learn in order to be satisfied? Agreed eh

i came here and stayed because at first it seemed as though anons from the two big famous chan sites were not posting here at all, and that was truly refreshing. but the last year of average post quality was really bad and i was clearly mistaken about my assumption. the bump rate seems higher now but a lot of those replies contain the same midwit language and ideas that turned those sites into dull monoculture. im hanging out less because im encountering quite a few more posts that that reek of that midwit anon. it feels like they crowd out high quality lainon posts, which were slower but of much higher quality. i'm pretty unsatisfied to share this space with yellow/blue chan refugees. what they see of value in lainchan is the appeal of being back in a relative shadow, but lainchan's appeal to lainon is much more than that. the morphing of lainchan into a reskinned 4/8 is quite a shame but that's just the sad nature of imageboards i suppose.

>>13677 >but the last year of average post quality was really bad I've been having the same feeling, though I couldn't be sure if I was just starting to see the true Lainchan after being around for long enough. Hopefully the administration will start enforcing more "subjective" forms of quality, but it seems like this rarely happens on chans.

>>13677 >reddit spacing >another ledditor complaining about muh board quality >i came here and stayed because at first it seemed as though anons from the two big famous chan sites were not posting here at all, and that was truly refreshing The same anons that post 'high quality' use multiple boards and dont stay in one spot. >i'm pretty unsatisfied to share this space with yellow/blue chan refugees. They were here all along whether you noticed it or not. Lainchan would be dead if it wasnt advertised on the same places youre complaining about.

Schumann resonance spike > YouTube > Lain > Blu Ray.

>>13682 Please be reminded of Rule 6 Do not whine and cry about 8chan, lainchan.jp, "quality", "invasions", "new users", mods, bans, or kalyx outside of /q/.

>>13683 to be absolutely fair its better off dead than littered with bugeater reply images like this. or not, lainons who dont like mainstream chanposting can go elsewhere. it doesn't matter. but the insistence that any imageboard would not be possible without subsisting on g and tech's sludge is a shoddy defense of your self-identity which is bizarrely connected to mainstream chan board culture. this kind of statement reeks of shame about what chan boards are, you're acknowledging it and feel like you have to defend it. why would you voluntarily just expose yourself like this. lainchan was around for long before /g/ and /tech/ was exposed to it and if you weren't this ashamed of yourself you'd know what that means.

>>13712 >to be absolutely fair its better off dead Then why havent you left? If you really hate the state of this place, leave or contribute high quality posts. Crying and whining about muh quality is gone will get you nowhere. >but the insistence that any imageboard would not be possible without subsisting on g and tech's sludge is a shoddy defense of your self-identity Poor attempt at strawmanning my point. Any imageboard would exist whether or not there was anybody to post, the ones who keep the site running will always be the one who pays the server bills. >this kind of statement reeks of shame about what chan boards are Youre being a hypocrite by posting your drivel in the wrong board is the very same low quality soykaf youre whining about.

I saw that the site's name was mentioned on uboachan.

i heard about it from somewhere, was into tech and was into lain and was slowly getting sick of and very disillusioned with the alt right identity i and the boards on 4ch had. It wasnt really like a decision I made, I just slowly started to enjoy posting here more than there. Now im not much into tech and am pro BLM, lgbtq, all of that. the embodiment of an sjw. This site because its slower has like a better memory you could say. When some debate on 4ch that normally would piss me off happens here it doesnt nearly as much, because, and I only notice this years and years later, people do read and kind of remember different viewpoints that are given. People either stop talking about it or the next time the same debate comes up everyone is engaging in higher level discussion. Also unlike 4ch I never really feel like im being forced into arguments about politics in every unrelated topic. it happens when it happens. I stay to keep in touch of what basically used to be my home. Internet and imageboards were my resting place more than my actual household. About the only other thing that gives me a sense of peace and feeling at home are cats and birds. I still do some tech stuff, mainly just html and css. I do a lot of art and design work these days. I still love lain, she still is a character I can oddly identify with in some type of way. I still love the userbase here, I love engaging with even some of the edgiest whiniest posts on /hum/ because I remember being there. Il be pretty sad when this site shuts down. My childhood home just burned down and I wasnt too devastated about it but it was this kind of deep sad feeling for a bit that I swallowed and paid my respects internally and moved on. I think id feel the same for this site.

was searching through different chans that weren't blocked by my school when i was there, got attached to the site and use it regularly now

>>13029 I found this website when I was browsing the list of comparable chans for the mobile app I use for posting on chans and decided to check out this one, and the rest was history.

watching sel and then obsessively searching out anything i could find about it online

when kalyx posted on /g/ in 2014

I found lainchan when surfing 8ch /cyber/, I'm still here cause I donated money to make sure this site stays up (also to help kalyx) and want to see how it all turns out.

>>14382 You do know that je used your donations for weed right?

>>14383 Who is je?

>>14383 Weed, nikes, and a macbook, yeah I know. I gave him money after too.

By using complex quantum computing and infinity chan

>>13029 Initially I saw this board on a reader app for image board, but I started coming here just a few week ago, in the hope of finding some thread that talk about SEL and now I'm just here for the atmosphere.

I came to lainchan through 8ch's /cyberpunk/ I stayed becaude it's nice.

I took a trip

I was looking for 4chan alternatives since it is b*nned (apparently it is censored as derezzed for some reason) in my country.

>>13029 Got sick of the internet, chans, social media, chats, etc. and looked for something smaller. Settled here from a list. I hope this place doesn't go bad because I'm very happy with how it's managed.

>>13029 Heard about it on 4chan, watched Lain and enjoyed it, so I headed over here. When 4chan started banning VPNs and exit nodes more actively and 8chan shut down I stayed here permanently. The site is significantly more comfy than either 4chan or 8chan but I do miss /out/. Oh well, better to actually go outside than soykafpost about doing it I suppose.

I saw a list of implementations of a booru program, and Lainchan was there. It interested me because the name referenced Serial Experiments Lain.

>>14537 Your country bans the site? Or the site IP blocks your country? Because I remember there were whole regions blocked by 4chan back in the day because of repeated abuse from those areas.

Offhand mentions on /g/, I’d wager a year ago. Staying recently to make good on a New Year resolution, to put that place behind me.

Social media isn't really my thing but I do enjoy talking with anons so I had a trip around various boards and settled here. Very nice atmosphere and I'll definitely keep visiting when I'm in the mood for some human interaction.

Always used to read /g/ and think "wow this is like kicking dead whales down the beach, its literally people just talking about GPUs and desktop wallpapers who gives a fuarrrk?" Then someone posted a link to lainchan and said its what /g/ should have been, actually talking about technology, digital culture, infosec...

Literally just got here, god 4chan /b/ looks like a nightmare compared to this chill place.

8 and 1/2 Chan are dumps so I found this place and it’s ok

Actually i don't remember how, i guess maybe an ad on 4chan? (idk if lainchan have had ads on 4ch) i stayed because i liked its "atmosphere" and its rules. This was all before appleman. I stopped visiting in mid '16 and came back a year ago.

Thread that is still active in 4channel, also rip arisuwhatever.

8chan /tech/

First Cambodian sock puppet theater show I saw was Ghost In The Shell SAC, liked cyberpunk ever since so it was inevitable I'd find this place. Although Chobits was better than SEL.

It was a post on /g/ 4chan. I liked SEL and was curious upon hearing about lainchan. Granted I was not disappointed, I almost never visit 4chan anymore (for the past few years), unless it's for some specific thread/general. Quality of content is so much better in here. I don't need to dig through piles of garbage and repetitive crap to find something interesting. I'm not even sure how many years it has been since I started visiting lainchan, many things have changed (and at the same not really, more like stabilized) but in the end it's for the better. It's odd how the passage of time starts losing its' significance as you keep growing older. >>14931 I recommend reading the manga of Chobits if you haven't done so already. It's been some time since I read it but the art style is good and the story expands more (ecchi is also superior in the manga).

i got bored with /g/.

because arisuchan died

Watched SEL and then when I talked to a friend on IRC about it,he mentioned lainchan. Before I used to go on /g/ or /r9k/ for 4chan.

>>13029 I think I heard about this place a good while ago (my brain says 2017, but I'm really not sure), but I only started posting a few weeks ago.

I posted in another chan about "what would be a chill chan were people actually have civil conversations". And ta-da.

Watched a video of someone on Youtube saying that channers do all kind of wrong stuff and by curiosity downloaded overchan-fork on my cellphone and start reading the list of avaiable chans, then I found Lainchan. I watched SEL before I started here.

I installed kuroba and I found it avalaible . before i used to go to /sci/ and /g/ on 4chan and still going to 420chan for programming and math threads

Infinitechan /cyber/

>>15838 I've been looking for a place like that for a while but nothing comes close. It was so damn comfy

>>13029 I made thread about eng speaking boards , and one anon advised me lainchan. So now I can train my English.

>>15856 What happened to it?

>>15858 8ch got shut down

>>15864 >shut down revived as 8kun

8ch got shut down so I went looking for other imageboards to find out what happened. I scoured through Creamy's list of imageboards and found Arisuchan (✝), which then led me here.

>>15866 It's really not the same though, unfortunately.

Omnichan App was able to add in boards from chan boards and Lain was one of them.

>>15967 It is exactly the same, an imageboard with subreddits

>>15981 we're talking about /cyber/

Before our lord-monopolist of all knowledge came to power, I, having misread his sousname, and only heard his surname, tried, unsuccessfully to learn more about the director of Hackers (1995). Eventually, my obsess\`ed search came to a page on a now-defunct forum whose topic was about our saviour, containing the other search term only on an advertissment about leisure-seats. (That advertiser likely misunderstood their meaning of the former my search-term.)

>>15857 >So now I can train my English. There's nothing wrong with this sentence. A native might say ``practice to improve'', but ``train'' more concisely conveys practice, shaded with improvement. (Beware to appearing natively at expense of intelligent intelligiblity)

I found it two minutes ago on http://allchans.org/ after the mods on 4chan rangederezzed me from posting images. I would have gone to 8chan, but it appears to be dead. And the chans I got to alphabetically before this were either not in English or had a catalogue system that didn't show the text of threads.

Being bored I googled why it is that the internet has gone downhill. Someone mentioned this place in a thread on stackoverflow about this topic. It seems people actually put thought and effort into their posts here, and I appreciate that. Being not too knowledgeable about most topics discussed here, I don't post though, because I don't want to ruin the atmosphere.

I was reading a PDF made in 4-ch, which was composed by a lot of imageboards, danboorus, textboards, among other, and i saw the "Cyberpunk" thing and it interested me, thus, i came to here and here i am. It's quite a good site. It reminds me of that sensation: when you were a newbie in the internet and had a lot of fascination with what was happening on it

>>16070 Feel free to post, most of us don't know what we're talking about most of the time. If we did, this wouldn't look at all like an imageboard.

>>16080 Speak for yourself. Many of us here post in informed earnest despite the format.

>>16070 >Someone mentioned this place in a thread on stackoverflow about this topic. I'm making this post because I'd be interested in the Stackoverflow link. I want to see how we're being discussed. I tried to search for myself, but Stackoverflow doesn't seem to like those who search over Tor. >It seems people actually put thought and effort into their posts here, and I appreciate that. I certainly do, even when I make a small post largely lacking deep thought, such as this one. Those posts about those topics I'm deeply entangled and familiar with are much larger and much more interesting. >Being not too knowledgeable about most topics discussed here, I don't post though, because I don't want to ruin the atmosphere. I'm sure there's some topic here you're suitably knowledgeable of. If truly not, then you could always learn and participate. There are threads on some of the boards specifically for beginners or the inexperienced to ask questions without cluttering the remainder of their boards. >>16080 >most of us don't know what we're talking about most of the time. I vehemently disagree with you here. If I don't know or don't have the time to make a good post and proofread it, I simply don't post. >If we did, this wouldn't look at all like an imageboard. An imageboard isn't necessarily a poor forum. I like this format, as anonymous forums are rather rare, and I try to make the best of it. I think it's obvious Lainchan is a step above other imageboards in several ways.

>>15996 thanks , good to know.

>>13187 your pic is music video of group named Tatu , just saying.

>>13029 I've been bouncing in between chans for years and years. I've known about it because I've always known about many anime shows that were famous and also have always known about many imageboards. At first of course in 2009 I was on 4chan but it's beyond garbage now. Since 2009 in fact I have been trying to find the best of the Internet before it's gone. I watch things dye. When they do an imageboard might come to life. I also don't go to bitchute often but hope it takes off. It's just one of the sites I bounce around checking on over the years until one fits my fancy. Honestly I can say that I hate most sites I go to and that's why I keep coming back here.

>>16096 *die Also, I was on 4chan the first time before 2009, but didn't have the Internet my entire life so not until 2009 did I go there often. To clarify. I mainly went in 09 for the SWF files because way before 2009 when I didn't have access I was introduced to newgrounds. That's what got me interested in imageboards, anime being intriguing and shockwave flash files because of their cool games and music on /f/ and other places like it. I collected them and only lurked back then. Then later, as a social outcast and hikikomori type, I ended up socializing on such anonymouse forums. I ended up posting 12 hours a day. I stopped once they became censoring social justice warrior, female moderated, capitalistically motivated, soykafholes of political propaganda. Then I went back becuase I still didn't have a life. Here I come every now and again to see if anyone is being converstaional about things and they generally are not as this is still a very slow chan. I last posted silly images about the pocketchip when I found a pocketchip thread once. That is one of the only times I've posted here was over that before next thing co went bankrupt. Also, there's something to be said about how posting a reaction image, and collecting them, is superior to other forms of communicating. I collected them and never lost them. The SWF I did lose. The cops banged on my door one time and so I gave it to a patsy and told him to go ahead and run ccleaner on it, 7 passes. RIP My files are still recovering from that event.

I just came randomly

>>13031 >Laotian shadow puppets what did he mean by this

>>13618 >>13623 I can't wrap my mind around the sexualization of children.

This was the last place I expected myself to be in. I knew about it last year while just searching for "imageboards/chans" and I pressed every link until I came here. At first I was seriously impressed by the UX on this site and the receptive, not to mention active, culture here. I was mostly on /lit/, and moved through /diy/ and /hum/, and now I'm here almost daily reading some interesting threads on /drg/. Which is a mix of mundane /hum/ with flashy /diy/.

>>16157 try /mega/ to see all threads

>>16149 Not him but >>16097 >>16096 It's a 4chan meme where you accurately describe a place's characteristics with thick implications but also do it ironically and childishly. Then use improvisation to make it purely an intuitive description. A meaningless poem like a Radiohead song's lyrics. For example, 4chan is a Taiwanese basket weaving forum. Lain likes dark theme and is a vague casting of what SEL is all about. Citizens of lain might be called Laotian, shadow puppets also meaning lain is in control of the vague casting. Why baskets for 4chan? Because I suck at the meme he used and cannot parallel it properly so mine is more autistic due to lacking his intuitive creativity. But it's a very 'read in between the lines' meme from 4chan. Every time it's used it is utterly rehashed to only vaguely imply what a place is, never typed the same way. Reddit does something similar also in their reply chains where they scramble every new message while going forward. With 4chan it strikes like lightning in comparison and never devolved into garbled messages as redditors would.

>>16206 It's not that complicated. People on 4chan used to say "chinese cartoons" referring to anime, to highlight to the person they were arguing with how little the outside world cared about this pitiful excuse for a subculture. Some of the boards were about hobbies other than anime so it became basket weaving or something else, and chinese became interchangeable with any asian nationality.

>>16209 It is that complex though. Baskets are made of basically threads. If you see. The metaphorical meme is very complex, and yes anime is made by Orientals and so they interchange the races because all that really matters is the gene.

fuarrrkin 4chan jannies. I knew about lainchan, (saw the anime like 10 years ago) but I like racier and more controversial stuff than most of what's on lain, but Lain mods seem to, at the very least, not suck hairy balls.

>>16259 Hey, you too? I was just derezzed for opposing the election of a racist sexist bigot who wants to remove Non Discrimination clauses from Open Source licensing The part about tor/vpn/proxy is just the excuse they used to remove me because they don't like the post

>>16268 I got derezzed for a day or two a few times in 2 weeks, for "replying to off topic garbage" No reference to any post or thread, or any other information. Cmon, even most 4 chan users are like "sauce?" "timestamp?" "post your ID to confirm you are certified to make these determinations." nope, no evidence, or chain of evidence, nothing. I've been getting derezzed I think, for being STAUNCHLY anti-authoritarian. For trying to give people the pill that, "The concept of authority is a myth" Ultimately, when everything else is removed, what "having authority" presumes to do, is change the way reality functions. Believers think that an evil act can be changed into a good one via regulations. They believe that writing down your will on paper can change the fabric of reality, so that a country can be economically prosperous without the infrastructure of production. And here is just 30 min of literally life changing perspective, information, IF you have an open mind, and are totally honest with your thoughts and feelings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k4pXwmis7A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwzKhXKyaro https://youtu.be/g_GaDjonC5M

>>16083 Sorry for responding so much later, but I was busy with exams and forgot the post here. Took me a bit to find it back, but the comment actually wasn't on Stackoverflow, but Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038327 Unfortunately, there is quite little about lainchan in the thread, and you might have to ctrl+f to even find the little convo. >I'm sure there's some topic here you're suitably knowledgeable of Well, probably. I'm into politics, history and philosophy, the only one of those tangentially important to this chan being philosophy. But even with that, I'm not very well read, I just have some ideas of my own that people tend to find very profound. But yea, if there is something that I think I can contribute to, I certainly will. >I certainly do, even when I make a small post largely lacking deep thought, such as this one Thanks for that by the way. It's rare to find some actual insight nowadays, I truely appreciate reading posts that expand my horizons. >>16080 Sure, you may not know, but at least you give a better impression than most people on most imageboards.

>>16268 >The part about tor/vpn/proxy is just the excuse they used to remove me because they don't like the post So you weren't posting from a VPN, proxy or Tor?

I was told about it when I was talking about how toxic and unwelcoming 4chan is on Discord. I really like it so far, I've been lurking mostly and have asked a few questions in the past few days :)

>>16371 Stop advertising 4cuçk

>>16369 No, from my residential ISP

>>16369 I also made a similar post at the OSI page here, https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/OSI+Board+of+Directors/Board+Member+Elections/2020+Individual+and+Affiliate+Elections/Ehmke2020 But the post was never allowed in the first place. Elections just ended. I suspect the fix is in and this person wins.

Was recommended the anime by a friend, loved it and searched for people to talk about it with. Ended up here and always appreciated the open, respectful discussion here.

>>16366 >Sorry for responding so much later, but I was busy with exams and forgot the post here. I don't mind. I've already seen this Hacker News discussion, actually. >Unfortunately, there is quite little about lainchan in the thread, and you might have to ctrl+f to even find the little convo. I wouldn't necessarily call it unfortunate. >Thanks for that by the way. It's rare to find some actual insight nowadays, I truely appreciate reading posts that expand my horizons. I'm glad you enjoyed reading my post and that's a nice way to put it. The next time you do, you may not even recognize me.

I can't actually remember now. Probably from some /cyber/ thread in either 8 or 4chan. Or some dude just mentioning it from a thread and me searching the chan.

>why did you come to lain because 8kun.top/g is still to anti semetic

Been here for a while but visited sparingly. Started browsing more when /tech/ and /cyb/ got shut down. I like lainchan a lot but any other tech boards or bunkers would be nice to visit too. The technology boards on 8ch were the only alternatives that I visited.

I found out this chan a couple days ago and I loving the mature way of content. very different from other classic websites of the genre.

I started watching SEL and heard about this place out of discussing SEL somewhere on 4chan.

>>17620 and as for why I stayed, I like the aesthetics and I also happen to like technology which happens to be a big topic here. I guess there's just something about Serial Experiments Lain and attracting tech enthusiasts.

been browsing lainchan regularly for a long time. I think Peardude bought it about 6 months - 1 year after the first time I posted. My memory is bad so I don't know for sure. I don't remember how I heard about it. Probably 8ch/cyber/ I never saw the show until after I'd already been a regular user of lainchan for some time.

I didn't come to lain, lain came to me.

I met a paedophile on omegle when I was 14 that I never spoke to again who said it was his favorite anime.

I didn’t choose Lain. Lain chose me

My journey all started in the spring of 2005. There was a girl I had been chatting with for a few months prior and I decided to ask her out for lunch. We were going to meet up in New York City near the train station around 2pm. My train would arrive 30 minutes early so I decided to walk around for a bit. On my way back to the train station I bought a rose and sat down on the steps. 2 0'clock rolled around, so I got up and stood in front of the steps leading into the train station. 2:15 rolled around and she didn't show up. So I figured maybe she missed her train. This was 2005, so cell phones were hard to come by for college kids. I checked the train schedule and saw the next arrival was for 3, so I waited. 3:15 came and went and she still hasn't shown up. I checked my next train to go back home was at 4:15, so I decided to give her until that time. 4:15 arrived, she didn't, so I left as I threw the rose into the trash. After getting back to my car, I started to head home, but I stopped at a bar on the way. Had dinner and couple beers. Then decided to stop at Best Buy and that's when I saw the 4 DVD boxset of Lain with a translucent blue sleeve. This boxset looked sick and I knew I had to have it. I went home and watched the entire series in 2 sittings. I instantly got hooked to it and rewatched it right away. I make it an annual tradition to watch Lain.

I'm building an imageboard for IT class with some friends and we were discussing the layout and how it should look like. I googled for opensource projects of imageboards and came across lainchan. Also SEL influenced me a lot.

>>17642 considering the demographics of this site, it checks out

I think someone shared the link with me years back, I don't remember. I like SEL very much, but otherwise many of the topics discussed here regarding cyberpunk, programming and such are not of my interest. The quality of discussion though is mostly high in comparison with other communities and I enjoy my moments here.

>>13029 This is one of the man chans I explored for alternatives to 4chan, which has either gotten irredeemably worse, or I have outgrown, or both. I usually visit Lain once or twice a day because it's slow, but there's almost always something interesting to see. That's more than I can say for my past browsing habits on other sites, meaning they were a giant waste of time. >>16270 I tried to watch video #2 and I ended up disagreeing strongly with the supposed first principles the lizard dude offered. There really is no such as passivity imo because everything is interlinked in terms of causality. In effect, just existing is a form of violence as it both supports and is supported by the status quo. Those are pretty general terms so maybe I did a bad job explaining what I think. I don't want to sound like a Nietzschean glitterboy, I'm not exactly talking about wills, but more so causal trajectories. I'm not a nihilist mind you, I can see why you might think I'm arguing right and wrong don't exist...I just think what I think is caused and that it's only real insofar as the effects of said causes reify it. That's not nihilism, because as I said all things are interlinked, so there is a competing system of causal influences with varying degrees of supremacy which translates to validity, hence everything is violence.

There was an old board hikkichan which had the occasional intelligent and free thinking person on it and someone mentioned it there. 8chan was too evil for me and 4chan is too stupid. Lainchan leans dark and disconnected, but its better than the alternatives.

>>13029 Came with Omnichan, and now comes with Kuroba.

>>13136 i did the same is incredible how this chan unite all the people that visit it

I’m trying to find a new home but I’m too stupid for this website

I was an 4chan /g/ and someone posted a complain about /g/ (no content, the same threads repeated, senseless hostility, you know it). Someone answered "what did you expect? This isn't lainchan". Well...

I was looking for a dirty hippie nerdy NEET gf to lure into my trap. It doesn't work out, you don't see who the ladies are.

I saw her face on a t-shirt and bought it. Then I watch the series.

I was actually searching for a imageboard aesthetically based on Lain, I can't recall the name, if somebody please knows that, its a sort of a secret image board where you have to attach some handmade draw in order to get accepted on.

>>13086 Interesting...

>>13136 same, i followed refugees to spacechan, bunkerschan, julayworld, fatchan and the webring in general, then here

>>13629 8ch.moe, don't you dare say it's dead !

came from wizchan because someone mentioned this place on there. this place is pretty comfy and it has no porn for the most part and some deep and interesting topics being talked about. i personally like /hum/, /λ/, /vis/ and occasionally /r/.

>>19228 TSUKI

I came to this chan's /lit/ after giving up 4ch/lit/ in disgust. Halfchan is pretty bad, but their /lit/ is especially offensive.

I came in right after the restart in 2017 or 2018, I cant remember. Everyone has their two cents but this is the only site I come to regularly. This is the only place I feel like I can talk to people online. I feel like there's an understanding here that I just don't get anywhere else.

>>13029 ahh... It may be a little uninteresting but I actually found it when using the omnichan app to browse 4chan when I didn't have a computer. It didn't really catch my eye at first, but I did enjoy watching (some of) SEL. When I built my computer I started browsing again and I enjoyed the unique aesthetic the site had, and I especially enjoyed the cyberpunk theme on the site. I also really like the cyberia radio and the magazine, so that's why I stayed.

I think back in 2014, one of the earliest alt chans but post counts were still slow. The admin then sold this site to someone at some point and I thought lainchan was never getting back up. It used to have a different homepage like lain in her bearsuit (was it) with sunglasses.

>>16369 >2020 >still using nord VPN and Thor >not using residential proxy

I dont remember. It was in 2014. I guess I was searching for cyberpunk stuff.

>>13029 Just stumbled upon it through omnichan a few hours ago. I think it had passed the periphery of my consciousness before. I never quite understood the phenomenon that is Lain, but feelings I can't verbalise are my favourite. A few years ago, I somehow found fauux.neocities and wished there was more within its memetic sphere. I have a thing for cyberpunk aesthetic and finding this pile of topics that fascinate me is quite the surreal experience. It feels like something I myself came up with and forgot while it materialised in silence.

>>13029 Found it on omnichan some years ago, like many other nulainons that are unknowingly contributing to the decline of this board. But i guess the generational change is hitting lanchan too, without nulainons this site would have 1-2 posts a day at most

first, i discovered the anime. watched a few episodes and left it collecting dust in a folder, but i really liked the aesthetic started investigating a bit and found arisuchan, on wich i lurked for the last few months before it died. Before that page died, i found out about this one. Then i finished Lain and started really loving the anime, and nowadays i spend some minutes everyday lurking ands sometimes writing comments on /diy/, /tech/, and /λ/ I really like all of this so far, and EVEN MORE now that i discovered that the /r/ section of this site is not filled with porn like the /r/ section of all the other imageboards!(4chan, etc)

2018-9 >be 8ch/tech/ user looking for /tech/ IBs that aren't complete soykaf >kernel dev classmate recommends lain >paused using imageboards during finals, never got around to posting here This week >anon mentions lain, including the community projects like radio/zine/etc. >lurk >post

>>20091 welcome. do you have anything to contribute?

>>20092 I've made a few posts already and haven't been insulted yet (but this is lainchan), plus I posted an original bumper to the radio. It's ok. Hopefully someone hears it.

>>13029 I was visiting the CCC Congress in Germany with a friend of mine for the first time. I was 22 at the time. This friend showed me many hacking tricks and introduced me to deeper linux understanding and also to lainchan. I did not like it at the first time, because the UI is ... special ;) and i did not understand much of the topics in lambda/tech/sec. Nowadays its my only imageboard i visit. I love the various topics and you have mostly people that understand you. Its quite hard to find people like you find here, because the most people i know do not care about technology and how it operates.

>>13029 At some point on 4Chan, when I heard regularly that people were moving to "7chan" I think, I had a thought where I wondered what all of the various chans were so I googled "list of imageboard chans" or something and I found some kind of "overboard chan" or something which had precisely that: (what seemed to be) a list of every chan. Lainchan was listed there and so I came. Later on, I started browsing /a/ more regularly and so that's where I came to know of SEL. Without knowing what SEL was, I thought Lainchan was just a different site. Since Lainchan wasn't getting 4Chan's and 8Chan's post rate however and during this phase of my life, I lived primarily as a consumer and lurking threads was my main form of consumption, I saw no value in it beyond the occasional peek here and there. I think the number of times I'd come to Lainchan in a single year could be counted on two hands during those times. I'm definitely going to be browsing Lainchan more frequently in the next following years or so. My life is fundamentally different now and so I am very interested in actively striving to be a creator rather than a consumer. This change has also caused me to desire to possess Lainchan's expertise with /sec/urity as I predict not making such preparations will come with heavy consequences. I strive to be productive as well as create software so the fact that Lainchan has a programming board and a /diy/ board is great. /lit/, /music/ and /vis/ are good too, of course as I have interests in, for the first time in my life, seriously delving into these fields as well. With the course my life is on now, I seriously intend to integrate Lainchan into my self-development. A thought on my mind however is that due to Lainchan's conflict with my new life direction, I might want to create my own variant of the site that would also be tailored to my needs however, for the time being, I'll leave this as a thought in the back of my mind. This conflict I speak of is completely a non-issue with regards to my self-development purposes after all. All of the boards I'm interested in are primarily centered around some kind of activity. Nothing much is required of you other than the fact that you're interested in this activity. This whole website can, in a sense, be thought of purely as a hobby-site so I think that perhaps overall, maybe things are okay as they stand. Time will tell.

>>20090 You know that 4Chan has a /wsr/ (work-safe request) board, right?

>>13096 I remember megachan. I remember some cyberpunk stuff on megachan but it's too long ago for me to remember anything specific. All I remember was looking at pictures of girls on really tall buildings and thinking about how amazing it would be if I got fit and got into urbex and parkour. The possibilities would be endless. I remember fantasising about being some kind of tech-literate ninja or something. I'd break into high-rise buildings and implant bugs or steal data from companies or stuff like that. I never thought too deeply about what I'd do with the data because my primary interest was the breaking and entering. I don't know why but I really love infiltration.

I understand the meaning of Present Day, Present Time, but is it a language enhancer here or just a common meme?

I heard existance of this site a couple years ago thanks to some anons in 4chan. However, it wasn't until today that I decided to lurk here. This seem to be a good place for real discussion.

>>20377 Welcome, Lainon. This is one of the few decent altchans remaining. Don't fuarrrk it up :)

>>15866 it's a poltard board now

>>16372 but they aren't

>>20570 >it's a poltard board now Good. I'm a big fan of the containment-board concept. Let them insider trade there, so that they don't try to it here.

>>20317 watch SEL

I was looking for open-source chan boards and this was the first one I found. I'm also a weeb who likes Serial Experiment Lain and the internet radio here is fuarrrking on point. Also it seems like there are far less nazis here than on 4chan or 8kun.

>>20573 Eh, yes and no. p­ol boards have become less of a containment board than an incubation chamber. >>20574 read the first half of the sentence

I didn't come to lain, lain came to me in a dream.

>>13029 Pretty funny, I was poking around the Gentoo wiki and saw an entry on Appleman, it was pretty much a rabbit hole that captivated me, I saw a couple of cool /diy/ and /sec/ threads and been here pretty much daily ever since

Another old Halfchan wanderer here, found some /cyber/ threads on /g/ and they led me here. the cyberradio here is comfy af

i found out about arisuchan first, somehow, and then learned it was a spinoff of this site

From 4chan /g/, saw this mentioned a few times years ago but only started using it recently since I've been looking for a place with fewer windows/iOS users and cooler heads

I decided to revisit systemspace, signed up and just kinda left until now. Led me to arisuchan and their rules recommended watching Lain. I looked it up and it seemed interesting and something I would be into so I ordered a DVD of it and watched it. Enjoyed it more than usual anime and like most things I enjoy developed an obsession cuz autist

I watched SEL in May '14, was a bit hyped and then my ex pointed out there's apparently a "lain chan". So many wasted hours, damn.

I saw a comment in a /g/ said that said, "Lainchan hates /g/." I didn't understand it at the time or why, but I came here and it's so much better.

>>24861 We don't really think about them.

Stumbled upon fauxx forever ago and saw mentions of Lain here and there, bit never really knew what it was (an anime, a game, an ARG?) Then saw lainchan when setting up the Kuroba app one day. Lurked a bit and eventually decided to finally watch SEL

i actually found it at weird time in life in late 2018. i was against taking medication but i was starting to feel bad enough that i was thinking about potentially killing myself and so i got medication and felt fine ever since. i wish i'd gotten help sooner because i spent years thinking psych drugs were evil because of internet stories about them. reading about drugs on here and even some ssri experiences helped me to take the plunge. now it's just a comfy place i like to hang out in sometimes, it has good vibes and many people here have similar interest as me.

One site called Digilord recommended

I deliberately searched for alternative IBs after the fall of 8chan following the tarrant incident, compiled a list of potential new places. Before that, I was a frequent lurker on the /cyber/ board on 8chan, enjoyed the general atmosphere there, and learned a bit about the lingo. After the fall, I worked through the aforementioned list, found anon.cafe, lurked a while on the /comfy/ board as an intermission, and after a while took a look at the list again, saw this address, and made a visit. This is my first post in 3 years, and I must say that this IB is pretty schway. Now I frequent Lainchan and anon.cafe's /retro/ board, looking for interesting posts, sorta drifting along. Hope y'all doin' good, chummers.

Somehow, I don't remember how, a long time ago I found Prettyboy Yumi's personal web site, and on his start page he has many chans, one of which was lainchan. Right now as I'm typing this, 2021-07-22, this is the first time I've visited lainchan since about two years ago. I got kinda nostalgic. I was mostly lurking though. Hi guys.