/sci/ year end review
Anonymous 12/30/24(Mon)22:29:50 | 46 comments | 9 images
2024 wasn't good year on /sci/ as far as the numbers go, first in July 14 the single day all time low post count was broken, a record which had originally been set on January 22, 2018 and following that in November /sci/ recorded it's first day with under 1000 posts on the 28th. Then in December /sci/ recorded a series of 3 digit post count days the culminated with a new all time low of 750 on the 25th which was only 68% of what had been achieved on Christmas day in 2023. December 2024 is also the all time slowest month on record for /sci/.
What were the big events of 2024 on /sci/? What were the best threads? What were the best new science memes? What was the biggest or most surprising science news of this year?
What were the big events of 2024 on /sci/? What were the best threads? What were the best new science memes? What was the biggest or most surprising science news of this year?
Anonymous 12/30/24(Mon)22:37:20 No.16530455
>>16530453
What happened December 2024? Did all the anons get on the ship?
What happened December 2024? Did all the anons get on the ship?
Anonymous 12/30/24(Mon)23:34:24 No.16530479
>>16530453
we have memes on this board still? i thought they were a thing of the long past.
we have memes on this board still? i thought they were a thing of the long past.
Anonymous 12/30/24(Mon)23:52:23 No.16530486
Are we going to add AI shitposters to hide the decline in activity on /sci/ like they're doing on Facebook & Instagram?
Anonymous 12/31/24(Tue)00:16:30 No.16530495
>steady attrition of old users due to jannies banning everyone with a static ip for misgendering or saying the nigger-word
>overt hostility to potential new users with 15 minute waiting period with an upcharge to remove it
>"wtf why is traffic crashing?"
>overt hostility to potential new users with 15 minute waiting period with an upcharge to remove it
>"wtf why is traffic crashing?"
Anonymous 12/31/24(Tue)00:31:43 No.16530498
>>16530453
Mandlbaur
Mandlbaur
Anonymous 12/31/24(Tue)00:40:41 No.16530508
>>16530495
The replication crisis exposed science as the fraudulent study it is. In January of 2023 a Nature publication revealed that science is inundated with papers that present nothing new and just cite each other as nauseum because academics now follow the zeitgeist. They received funding for status quo research and stop producing anything post tenure because they have no faith in their own academic institution let alone the scientific method.
It's no coincidence that universities across the world bankrupting and closing down, college enrollment is consistently decreasing for the first time since recorded history of academic institutions, and large scale distrust in the scientific method is ever growing. It's also no coincidence that all of this started at the cusp of the me too movement around 2014 and the replication crisis around the same time. It was a real double whammy that destroyed the trust in both the social and fiscal aspect of intellectuals. There's no going back.
/sci/ isn't uniquely under attack contrary to your schizo autistic screeching. Its decline is emblematic and reflective of the cultural shift in the west. Society is falling.
The replication crisis exposed science as the fraudulent study it is. In January of 2023 a Nature publication revealed that science is inundated with papers that present nothing new and just cite each other as nauseum because academics now follow the zeitgeist. They received funding for status quo research and stop producing anything post tenure because they have no faith in their own academic institution let alone the scientific method.
It's no coincidence that universities across the world bankrupting and closing down, college enrollment is consistently decreasing for the first time since recorded history of academic institutions, and large scale distrust in the scientific method is ever growing. It's also no coincidence that all of this started at the cusp of the me too movement around 2014 and the replication crisis around the same time. It was a real double whammy that destroyed the trust in both the social and fiscal aspect of intellectuals. There's no going back.
/sci/ isn't uniquely under attack contrary to your schizo autistic screeching. Its decline is emblematic and reflective of the cultural shift in the west. Society is falling.
Anonymous 12/31/24(Tue)05:23:30 No.16530702
>>16530453
The room temperature superconductivity reports generated a lot of traffic here.
The room temperature superconductivity reports generated a lot of traffic here.
Anonymous 12/31/24(Tue)06:38:21 No.16530759
>>16530479
The container weighs 1 kg.
The n flies, enclosed in the container, weigh 1/2 kg.
The foregoing is on top of the scale.
Q:
What does the scale read?
A1:
If r flies are resting, then the scale reads 1 + r/(2*n) kg.
A2:
If f flies are flying, then the scale reads 3/2 - f/(2*n) kg.
The container weighs 1 kg.
The n flies, enclosed in the container, weigh 1/2 kg.
The foregoing is on top of the scale.
Q:
What does the scale read?
A1:
If r flies are resting, then the scale reads 1 + r/(2*n) kg.
A2:
If f flies are flying, then the scale reads 3/2 - f/(2*n) kg.
Anonymous 12/31/24(Tue)15:26:16 No.16531105
>>16530453
It seems most boards are in a multi-year decline, that is all boards except /bant/, [s4s], /news/, /vm/, /t/, /trash/ and /vip/ (I didn't include the really new ones because it isn't fair), which is really really pathetic because all of those are shitholes.
It seems most boards are in a multi-year decline, that is all boards except /bant/, [s4s], /news/, /vm/, /t/, /trash/ and /vip/ (I didn't include the really new ones because it isn't fair), which is really really pathetic because all of those are shitholes.
Anonymous 12/31/24(Tue)17:41:22 No.16531233
>>16530508
>The replication crisis exposed science as the fraudulent study it is
Also the years and years and decades of zero progress in exchange for trillions and trillions of dollars in wasted research funding
>The replication crisis exposed science as the fraudulent study it is
Also the years and years and decades of zero progress in exchange for trillions and trillions of dollars in wasted research funding
Anonymous 12/31/24(Tue)18:08:28 No.16531271
>>16530508
Except the decline is every board, not just /sci/.
Except the decline is every board, not just /sci/.
Anonymous 01/01/25(Wed)11:53:51 No.16531800
it gets worse when you zoom the graph out
Anonymous 01/02/25(Thu)00:22:12 No.16532292
>>16530453
It is over >>/x/39470286
It is over >>/x/39470286
Anonymous 01/02/25(Thu)00:23:13 No.16532294
Anonymous 01/02/25(Thu)12:25:59 No.16532765
2025 is off to a weak start, only 758 posts on Jan 1st this year, the 2nd slowest day in all of /sci/'s history, less than half of the post count the board recorded Jan 1, 2024
Anonymous 01/02/25(Thu)12:36:57 No.16532793
>>16532294
Kind of ironic, considering that contra most other boards on this site /x/ actually has MORE traffic now than it did in 2016. Must be the uptick in conspiratorial thinking following cringerona
Kind of ironic, considering that contra most other boards on this site /x/ actually has MORE traffic now than it did in 2016. Must be the uptick in conspiratorial thinking following cringerona
Anonymous 01/02/25(Thu)19:27:02 No.16533352
Anonymous 01/03/25(Fri)14:34:23 No.16534233
>>16530453
All of the spikes in activity last year were Shartship launches. Nothing else noteworthy or exciting happened in all of science in 2024
All of the spikes in activity last year were Shartship launches. Nothing else noteworthy or exciting happened in all of science in 2024
Anonymous 01/04/25(Sat)13:35:24 No.16535273
>>16534233
b-b-but isn't science advancing at an accelerating, ever quickening pace? the singularity is just around the corner, right guys!?!?!
b-b-but isn't science advancing at an accelerating, ever quickening pace? the singularity is just around the corner, right guys!?!?!
Anonymous 01/04/25(Sat)14:05:30 No.16535307
the retarded "wait 600 seconds to post" is what fucked shit up later in the year
granted, /sci/ has been dying for a long time, but that timegating bullshit surely didn't help
granted, /sci/ has been dying for a long time, but that timegating bullshit surely didn't help
Anonymous 01/04/25(Sat)15:34:48 No.16535407
Anonymous 01/04/25(Sat)18:04:49 No.16535545
Anonymous 01/04/25(Sat)18:27:00 No.16535576
>>16530495
>>16535407
Not that anon, but I frequently abandon posts because I don't always have 15 minutes to sit around. Sometimes I outright forget about my post during that time because I've gone on to something else. Other times I simply decide not to write up a post because it's not worth the wait.
I would say my post count has dropped by 75% because of the timer. I never post frogs, wojaks, or other low-quality bullshit, and I usually try to back up my arguments with a few sources. This is to say: /sci/ is missing out on higher-quality content. I am sure I'm not the only one.
There is a good chance you won't even see this post.
>>16535407
Not that anon, but I frequently abandon posts because I don't always have 15 minutes to sit around. Sometimes I outright forget about my post during that time because I've gone on to something else. Other times I simply decide not to write up a post because it's not worth the wait.
I would say my post count has dropped by 75% because of the timer. I never post frogs, wojaks, or other low-quality bullshit, and I usually try to back up my arguments with a few sources. This is to say: /sci/ is missing out on higher-quality content. I am sure I'm not the only one.
There is a good chance you won't even see this post.
Anonymous 01/04/25(Sat)21:12:19 No.16535724
>open /sci/
>scroll through catalog and find the few posts that are interesting in the sea of bullshit
>post in them
>few hours later they're all 404
literally every time I ever come here
>>16535407
>the 15 minute wait only applies every time janny gets a hair up his ass about something you posted
>scroll through catalog and find the few posts that are interesting in the sea of bullshit
>post in them
>few hours later they're all 404
literally every time I ever come here
>>16535407
>the 15 minute wait only applies every time janny gets a hair up his ass about something you posted
Anonymous 01/05/25(Sun)23:19:19 No.16536900
>>16534233
people will get bored of starship launches soon enough, nobody even notices the falcon launches anymore
people will get bored of starship launches soon enough, nobody even notices the falcon launches anymore
Anonymous 01/06/25(Mon)17:25:39 No.16537627
>>16536900
Musk blew all his social capital on H1b visas, nobody cares about his bullshit anymore
Musk blew all his social capital on H1b visas, nobody cares about his bullshit anymore
Anonymous 01/08/25(Wed)09:39:01 No.16539127
>>16530455
they implemented those gay "wait 900s before posting" timers for some reason which deters brief phoneposting when bored, leadng to consistently lower usage stats.
they implemented those gay "wait 900s before posting" timers for some reason which deters brief phoneposting when bored, leadng to consistently lower usage stats.
Anonymous 01/08/25(Wed)15:35:46 No.16539480
>>16537627
he just made people hate jeets even more than they already did
he just made people hate jeets even more than they already did
Anonymous 01/09/25(Thu)23:04:56 No.16541022
>>16539480
Maybe that was his plan all along
Maybe that was his plan all along
Anonymous 01/11/25(Sat)15:23:33 No.16542889
Anonymous 01/11/25(Sat)15:42:10 No.16542909
>>16530453
/sci/ has always been a mix of unearned elitism and /pol/-faggotry, but it got really bad in recent years.
/sqt/ has become boring off-topic or undergrad homework.
Interesting threads die because nobody knows anything substantial about the topic.
No wonder it's dead.
/sci/ has always been a mix of unearned elitism and /pol/-faggotry, but it got really bad in recent years.
/sqt/ has become boring off-topic or undergrad homework.
Interesting threads die because nobody knows anything substantial about the topic.
No wonder it's dead.
Anonymous 01/11/25(Sat)23:58:03 No.16543369
>>16531800
>>16542909
>but it got really bad in recent years
All the twitterfags coming to 4chan in general and /pol/acks coming to /sci/ specifically has displaced a lot of the actual discussion and fun OC with people with twitter screencaps and politics. When most of the board in 2020/21 was just here to talk about current events and doesn't actually care about science or math otherwise it drove out the people who did, and when most of the tourists got bored they left leaving a few tards that are going to post the same things over and over again
>>16537627
The problem for the MAGA types is that Musk already hitched his wagon to Trump, and Trump won.
>>16541022
He replaced 2600 american workers at Tesla's site in Texas with H1Bs last year. Like a lot of silicon valley billionaires he's left or libertarian adjacent and probably doesn't actually care about the concerns of right wingers he was trying to appeal too last year and was probably just telling them what they wanted to hear.
>>16535724
It doesn't help that I've had on topic threads deleted by the jannies. I can remember in late 2023 where the mods came by for suggestions for the new sticky, but didn't do anything about all the threads that weren't even tangentially /sci/.
>>16542909
>but it got really bad in recent years
All the twitterfags coming to 4chan in general and /pol/acks coming to /sci/ specifically has displaced a lot of the actual discussion and fun OC with people with twitter screencaps and politics. When most of the board in 2020/21 was just here to talk about current events and doesn't actually care about science or math otherwise it drove out the people who did, and when most of the tourists got bored they left leaving a few tards that are going to post the same things over and over again
>>16537627
The problem for the MAGA types is that Musk already hitched his wagon to Trump, and Trump won.
>>16541022
He replaced 2600 american workers at Tesla's site in Texas with H1Bs last year. Like a lot of silicon valley billionaires he's left or libertarian adjacent and probably doesn't actually care about the concerns of right wingers he was trying to appeal too last year and was probably just telling them what they wanted to hear.
>>16535724
It doesn't help that I've had on topic threads deleted by the jannies. I can remember in late 2023 where the mods came by for suggestions for the new sticky, but didn't do anything about all the threads that weren't even tangentially /sci/.
Anonymous 01/12/25(Sun)00:07:49 No.16543378
Anonymous 01/12/25(Sun)00:11:20 No.16543387
>>16543378
Sorry, I didn't mean to get into a political digression.
Sorry, I didn't mean to get into a political digression.
Anonymous 01/13/25(Mon)14:41:30 No.16546329
>>16542909
>/sci/ has always been a mix of unearned elitism and…
…people who point out the unearned elitism
and you resort to name-calling in order to try and dismiss the people who point out your unearned elitism because they make you butthurt because you can't dispute them on any other grounds
>/sci/ has always been a mix of unearned elitism and…
…people who point out the unearned elitism
and you resort to name-calling in order to try and dismiss the people who point out your unearned elitism because they make you butthurt because you can't dispute them on any other grounds
Anonymous 01/15/25(Wed)23:46:54 No.16549056
>>16546411
the n word is racist
the n word is racist
Anonymous 01/16/25(Thu)11:33:29 No.16550558
I miss 2017 /sci/ when tooker was the only schizo shitposter
Anonymous 01/16/25(Thu)14:19:24 No.16550828
>>16550558
Do you know what happened to him? I haven't seen him for a long time.
Do you know what happened to him? I haven't seen him for a long time.
Anonymous 01/16/25(Thu)15:03:52 No.16550918
>>16550828
Either killed by the cia or hired by nasa
Either killed by the cia or hired by nasa
Anonymous 01/17/25(Fri)17:10:02 No.16554357
Is /sci/ going to see a resurgence now that TikTok has been shoah'd?
Anonymous 01/18/25(Sat)18:44:02 No.16555746
>>16554357
the latest shartship disaster caused a slight uptick in posting, as long as shartship continues to fail on grand scale and humiliate musk and his army of h1b jeet slaves, /sci/ will attract people who want to gloat over it.
if shartship ever becomes as boring as falcon then the board could easily drop to 500 or less posts per day
the latest shartship disaster caused a slight uptick in posting, as long as shartship continues to fail on grand scale and humiliate musk and his army of h1b jeet slaves, /sci/ will attract people who want to gloat over it.
if shartship ever becomes as boring as falcon then the board could easily drop to 500 or less posts per day
Anonymous 01/18/25(Sat)19:21:35 No.16555787
>>16535407
On desktop, sure, but on mobile, I frequently have to wait for this timer every time I want to post.
As other anons pointed out, this has killed the bored mobile poster when on the toilet.
It's also very unwelcoming to newcomers that will see this and just go back to Twitter or Reddit. I know gatekeeping is good, but we still need to let some fresh blood in if we want this board and the website to survive.
On desktop, sure, but on mobile, I frequently have to wait for this timer every time I want to post.
As other anons pointed out, this has killed the bored mobile poster when on the toilet.
It's also very unwelcoming to newcomers that will see this and just go back to Twitter or Reddit. I know gatekeeping is good, but we still need to let some fresh blood in if we want this board and the website to survive.
Anonymous 01/18/25(Sat)20:13:02 No.16555822
Anonymous 01/19/25(Sun)22:14:36 No.16556885
>>16555746
musk will just build a bigger pointless spacecraft if he can ever figure out how to make starshit reliable
musk will just build a bigger pointless spacecraft if he can ever figure out how to make starshit reliable
Anonymous 01/21/25(Tue)16:03:31 No.16559114
Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)20:02:04 No.16560654
>>16559114
TikTok made criticizing Israel a banworthy offense and so America now allows TikTok. See how that works?
You can still shit talk America on TikTok as much as you want. Israel has never banned a social media website because the users were criticizing America, but when people start criticizing Israel then suddenly its a big problem?
TikTok made criticizing Israel a banworthy offense and so America now allows TikTok. See how that works?
You can still shit talk America on TikTok as much as you want. Israel has never banned a social media website because the users were criticizing America, but when people start criticizing Israel then suddenly its a big problem?