>>5854
Having arrived here a couple months after all the drama had taken place, I only discovered the other board like half a year later and lurk there sometimes.
They have a higher activity, but also post soyjaks (and embrace their sharty past) and seem to gatekeep.
Not going to go into details and go over the events as reconstructed from the posts saved on web archives and they would be incomplete anyway, but maybe the current arrangement isn't that bad. One foo gets the jaks, other other gets hmofa and everyone is happy. Well, not everyone, as there appears to be some animosity present; people take things too seriously.
Still, perhaps this could've probably been solved by making two boards on the same website, not splitting it. Then again, maybe not: Sharty culture seems to include intraboard raids and rivalries, does it not? I just want to browse anthro girls in peace, discuss artists and anthro-related content.
>maybe i should start my own foo
Well, the engine itself is open-source so it shouldn't take too much effort to get it running but then you'd slam into the same issues the admins of the existing two have, as setting and enforcing the rules over long periods of time and with a lot of edge (hue) cases is not easy nor fun, especially as complaints and grief starts to mount. And then there is the question of recruitment and generating activity so that the place isn't DoA. Imo people not being able to compromise and tolerate each other when dealing with altchans is why they so seldom take off and why 4chan still reigns supreme due to just the sheer number of posters it accumulated during its golden age. Fragmenting a community is as likely to cause harm as it is to cause good so imo it should be a last resort. I'd just pick one of the existing two (or both) and nurture that.