>I would really like to see the concept of an image board divorce itself from Japanophilia/otakuism.

I totally agree with you, anonymous image boards is a great concept that has a lot bigger potential than swapping anime-images and porn between nerds.

MAEboard attempted to do this with a computer-board, but it was still reeking of otakuness. Also, I would like to see more use of anonymous discussion-boards, as those are a lot better than the "old-fashioned" forum-software (like Shii would say).

People in the west haven't realized how good this yet.