>>2911194I don't see the relevance of discord. more non-sequitor. you've got to be realistic. I'm not aware of any relatively active english language image boards that do not have cores of non-anonymity outside of 4chan(which had it for the first couple of years). all 8ch boards had this, 7chan has this, 420chan is made of this, all of the /jp/ spinoffs are dead or limping. you want something that is not tangible, a spontaneous growth of anonymous activity in a dry desert. there is no incentive to use the website. there is nobody to interact with. you can post links all you want, but most people will ignore the website entirely and a few might make a post and leave when they realize nobody is there. it is a husk. there is no alternative to building off of a core of activity. you don't even have to be a part of it, if you are too misanthropic to make friends. I've seen that work, where the owner of a website isn't a part of its foundational group. when there is a group of people there visibly having fun and interacting with people that post, suddenly posting links to the website has meaning and actually accomplishes something.
I have not once witnessed an anonymous community arise without a non-anonymous foundation, in twenty years of using the internet. you are skipping a step, and that is (partially) why your website is a failure. not sure if the other parts of why it's failing can be helped without significant worldview changes.