#soapbox

The #Soapbox frontend instance is back up and running.

The main #Soapbox frontend instance, fe.soapbox.pub, is down right now.

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@781a1527055f74c1f70230f10384609b34548f8ab6a0a6caa74025827f9fdae5 I read through the homepage and there's nothing about #rebased or the #Fediverse there anymore. So is #Soapbox not really designed to be a #Fediverse client anymore?

@realcaseyrollins @epsi @Stellar @NonPlayableClown

> Are they actually going to leave #4chan then?

There is no 4chan at present.

> Make a new forum?

There are a million chans (cf. https://edramatica.com/List_of_*chan_boards , https://edramatica.com/Portal:Chans ). There were also fake chans that would just present the regular frame interface but would like to a mix of boards, like the anime board from one chan and the video games board from another.

I left 4chan for 711chan way back in the day (some time between the start of Project Chanology and the Chanology backlash, back when Jewlion was running 711). 711 was comfortable: you post in a thread, you come back the next week, the thread is still there, people were interesting, the mods would actively fuck with people in entertaining ways. It was also semi-allied with zerochan, which had a pretty great /mu/ board.

They are probably mostly on those other chans. 4chan is like the mastodon.social of chans, it's full and it's shit and it's also packed with feds.

> their own #rebased / #Soapbox

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It's not even maintained any more. That project has been dead for like a year. Even Poast has migrated to the regular Pleroma backend. Even Akkoma survived longer than Soybox.

> Seems like many users are leaving for #8chan tho.

Feds.
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What does this mean in #Ditto / #Soapbox?

cc @0461fcbe @alex

#nostr

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For YEARS a nearly 1MB data file of all emojis in existence has been slowing down the initial pageload of #Soapbox, and I'm happy to say that FINALLY after weeks of untangling and rewriting, it has been moved into a separate chunk. This will greatly improve load times in Soapbox. https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox/-/merge_requests/3282