I used to frequent said imageboard as well! I owe to it a lot of my initial curiosity in technolo/g/y that ultimately led up to the career I have now, but I couldn't ever go back. There's a certain "voice" attributable to the board as a whole, the same way HN is known to have a voice (e.g. "HN would think X about Y"), and its infectious cynicism started to take root and corrupt my daily thoughts, eventually becoming the voice of my own depression. I lost of lot of time and energy thinking that repeatedly exposing myself to that was making me stronger, when all it was doing was wearing me down and destroying me.

If you're still enjoying it, more power to ya! I sometimes still miss it myself, and whenever I drop by I remember both why I spent so much time there and why I left. Just a fair warning to anyone who might want to give it a try. That saying isn't kidding... it really does stay with you forever.