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I tried doing something like this a couple years ago: I created a "local" board, gave the link to my friends. *Everyone* I talked to had similar sentiments about the anonymity aspect: why would you want to post anonymously if you know everyone, why would you be anonymous in the first place unless you have something to hide, etc. I didn't even really draw attention to it, and didn't say anything about tripcodes either for fear of confusing people --- I had tried introducing tripcodes to a certain online community once and they were mostly confused by them, and most people said that they seemed pointless because you could just as easily log in. The concept was entirely lost on them :(

Most people, sadly enough, also said that Facebook offered everything that they wanted in terms of keeping in touch with people.

It was a huge, disappointing failure.