There was always places where one could comm with backchannels. There were quite a few times where it turned out to be important, too. Corsi, Baruch, Pamphlet, Posobiec. What happened was it started winding down because Q stopped posting and high alert from attacks that actually turned out to be true, because by the time Q stopped posting every intel agency was present.
I'm sorry you had that notion but even back in 2016 it was a community on discord -in my limited view- and not primarily a board on 8ch.
There have been multiple waves with multiple people some new names, some old, some obvious repeats, riding the ups and downs of the boards and site relocations. It was inevitable that there would need to be offsite means of resynchronization. What you've gotta figure out is is the shittalking of that -assuredly necessary thing, because it was- in your best interest or not? In my view what happened was it used to be open, but with the dwindling that comes with no Q posts as well as a culling mentality (for better or worse) along with a personal 'shill defcon system' if I were to want to portray that as negatively as possible
I would portray it as antithetical to anon behavior but also I would attack identity itself so that I could get away with acting like those who actually follow my bad advice of relying on anon, in a position where one really must straddle the line or be psychopath.
Yes