/lit/ - literature

Idk but its cozy here. Whoever is doing the hosting is doing it right.

Could be kind of fun to have a dedicated /lit/ imageboard tbh. All the other splinter chans just dont really capture the vibe.

Anything goes, as long as it's not illegal. At least I hope those are the rules.

>>32
A rules page is still on the way - the litchan project was started very spontaneously, and a lot is still a work in progress.

>>52
Yeah, that's the idea. There should be as few rules as possible for /lit/ - apart from the obvious things like pornography, illegal content, and doxing, everything should remain allowed here, as long as it has something to do with literature. The board should stay free, and luckily, moderation efforts are still manageable given the current traffic.

The idea for litchan came about during the recent 4chan hack. In the past few days, 4chan - and with it /lit/ - went offline, a place many of us deeply appreciated. To preserve that place, we founded litchan - as stated on the homepage - to continue the tradition and culture of the board. In that sense, we are a kind of "clone" of 4chan - or more precisely, of /lit/. Litchan is meant to be a refuge for those who valued the exchange on /lit/ and don’t want to miss it.
Now that it looks like 4chan might be coming back online soon, this concept as a pure /lit/ replacement might no longer hold up.
There might be a certain readjustment to litchan’s concept. Because if we're being honest, the hack was only the culmination of many things that had been going wrong on 4chan. The site has deteriorated, and the discussion culture on /lit/ has worsened, to the point where I personally haven't been active there for over a year.
In this light, the litchan project still has its legitimacy - not as a simple continuation of /lit/, but rather as a renaissance of the "good old /lit/" and its board culture.
Our big advantage with our mono-focus is that we don’t have a /pol/ board or anything else that could spill over into /lit/.

We may steer moderation to avoid low-IQ posts, /pol/itization, dumb one-liner replies, etc., in order to maintain a certain standard.
Maybe there will also be other /lit/-adjacent boards in the future, but that’s still up in the air.
Our biggest hurdle right now is traffic. Because one of the best aspects of /lit/ has now become a problem for us - anonymity. Now that 4chan is down, the "herd" is scattered, and we don’t know who the /lit/izens are or where to find them to make them aware of litchan.
So if you know anyone, feel free to tell them about litchan - or let us know about places where we could spread the good word.

>>47
Thanks!

>>74
Keep doing what youre doing, this place is great and really feels like an actual successor to /lit/… like a rebirth of its good old days. I hate what /lit/ became, and I remember we used to talk about making a /lit/ seperate imageboard, this is probably the best opportunity we will ever have of making that happen.

I'll do what I can to spread the word and make a thread about it this weekend.

>>74
4chan is back and people will probably go there. But keep this place up, I think it will gain traction sooner or later.

>>74
I think /lit/chan really has potential. Thank fuck for the anthill getting kicked this week, because if /lit/ can't find a way to distance itself from containment boards, its days are numbered.

>>158
Christ, I visited lit a couple of times before finding this site after 4chan came back online and it's somehow worse?!

>>158
I think a little variation from the 4chan original could spice things up. Creating a seperate board for scifi and fantasy /lit/ for example.