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"Moot" Working On Reboot of 4chan Platform
Hugh Pickens writes "Nick Bilton has an interesting interview with Christopher Poole, known online as 'Moot,' founder 4chan, a jumble of content, hosting anything from pictures of cute kittens to wildly disturbing images and language. Poole, now 22, started 4chan when he was 15 after he discovered a Japanese image-board Web forum called 2chan dedicated to anime. 'The code for 2chan was publicly available and I took it and translated it from Japanese to English using tools online and I threw it up on the Web and sent it out to 20 people,' says Poole. 'I wanted to keep with the 2chan naming and the URL for 3chan was taken at the time so I just jumped to the next number.' Although 4chan gets 8.2 million unique visitors every month, 600 million page loads per month, and 800,000 new posts a day, Poole is working on a new project to reimagine what an image board should be today using the current technologies available."
They speak of 4chan and moot as if no one here knows about them...
Three sentences turned into a frontpage story..
Website creator promises to redesign his website. We'll be monitoring this story overnight and have a full report to you on the Saturday Really Early News. We start when normal people wake up.
For the web2.0 tubgirl experience.
We could discuss this further, but I'm afraid it'd be a Moot point.
Doesn't Moot know that it's bad luck for geeks to discuss software they're going to write before it's written? It's the Vaporware curse that has been dogging classics like Duke Nukem Forever.
That site is kind of like living with strange and often helpful people who leave you cryptic notes on your fridge, with pictures of your mom from some party you swear you don't remember being at. And yet all that is somehow comforting. A sort of magic 8 ball that both answers and re-enforces some of the lunacy and hivemindedness I remember from lambda moo. Also be sure to go there and ask people about the secret board where you can play "the game."
Needs moar pooper.
...Open the nExt." ...Just keep the plumbing going during the transition Moot, we don't want a spillage.
Although if that where to happen, I'd probably wind up more like poor Mika-chan than Lain.
"The other side is overcrowded. The dead will have nowhere to go.", indeed.
Emotions! In your brain!
"Chantards"? Man, aren't you cool. I bet you lurk there anyway.
/b/ may be the cesspool of the internet, but even sewage needs somewhere to go. I suppose you rather all that filth pool up in your backyard?
I often find it humorous that moot complains loudly when people spam 4chan, but turns a blind eye when /b/'tards use 4chan as a platform to attack other sites. Posting anon for obvious reasons.
first slashdot goes web2.0, and now 4chan? there'll come a day when you won't be able to look up man pages on the internet without a web browser with javascript and java enabled. mark my words.
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this is your id and this is your id on drugs /b/
see? same thing
and that's even if you don't know anything about drugs
it's not as if /b/ tries to be the wild wild west /b/ too deeply /b/ is there
it just is
what else is left that's like the old usenet?
or like a place without rules?
it's there.. not that one can continue to feel well
if one looks into
so it's funny to think that net freedom is healthy coz
yet.. there you have it
Sup /b/?
5chan
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
He's ranting because he can't do a Triforce.
So feds should shut them down because they create and contribute nothing? What law are you referring to?
/. and /b/ share a common history. /. is sort of a grandparent for /b/. And, read how I say /b/ and not 4chan. /b/ and the rest of 4chan are completely different places, with wholly different people. The difference is interests. Actually, people in other boards have interests, common interests. People in /b/ ... they are just /b/tards.
but ALL of you go to /b/, some more often than others. You all troll Omegle, and you all have vandalized wikipedia at least once. Every single one of you have gone into chatroulette to flash your dick, and engaged in a flame war with the retards that post on youtube, or spent hours looking at gross things at rotten.
This are the dark corners of the web. We all go there. Not all of us admit it.
All of this sites exist for a simple reason: Because they can. It's part of what we all are, and we have to eventually vent and let the daemons run loose.
So, don't be so critic of 4chan and accept it for what it is: A crappy board filled with self-righteous, ignorant, malicious and violent hypocrites. A quick hack that excretes nonstandard html code where lots of cruel and selfish uncaring monsters vent their frustration and anger. And we are those monsters.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
And this is why we need a (-1, Obvious) moderation.
Pretty sure the feds have already caught wind of them. Notice how nothing has happened yet.
/b/ and a /xyz/ back to ya!
I don't get the internet or sewage in my backyard, and never have.
4chan can back up their own sewage servers to their own backyard, thank you.
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/b/ and a /xyz/ back to ya!
I don't get the internet or sewage in my backyard, and never have.
4chan can back up their own sewage servers to their own backyard, thank you.
Thank you for elaborating my point, Sir.
Go back to bed, Kimmo.
Anonymous Coward, do not be angry at Anonymous, for he is your kin.
'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' - Mao Tse-tung
If newfags can't triforce, and oldfags don't triforce, then who was triforce?
moot is like 100k in debt.
>I get a lot of e-mails from people that say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues-things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, off course not
>No, off course not
>off course
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yeah, everybody knows they call themselves /b/tards
Reboot macht Frei.
The guy buried in Grant's tomb?
You would think he could correct that by taking on a little bit more advertising. Not all his content is advertiser phobic.
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That's the problem with free speech. About half the people wasted theirs trying to get someone else's curtailed.
(FTS)> Although 4chan gets 8.2 million unique visitors every month, 600 million page loads per month, and 800,000 new posts a day
I was curious how this compares to /. Not sure where to find such numbers, but Alexa says 4chan is ranked 714th, and /. is ranked 1,263rd (three month averages).
At least on /. the comments are insightful, informative, and funny, although sometimes the stories are... .
How is this trolling? It's simply the truth.
I do not want to see what it looks like if /b backs up. It sure ain't pleasant...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If that's grounds to shut something down, a DAMN lot of TV licenses would be on the market for grabs! And domain names. Hell, half the internet would be dead and gone!
Not to mention we'd sure have less of an overpopulation problem... I think I stop before I give 'em ideas...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
i cant wait to finaly get my Gold account on the new chan2.0 platform.
Moot's paradigm shift in imageboards is actually just the promotion of the recently assimilated TinyChan, now on tiny.4chan.org. The purpose? To troll Kimmo Alm even harder.
He's my younger, stupider, brother...
/b/ has "backed up" (read: been unavailable) plenty of times. All that happens is the /b/tards swarm other parts of 4chan, or other chans.
Goatse is red, /b/ has three posters --
Mudkips are blue.
moot, Chris-chan and you.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
Hah! I've long suspected that 4chan was the result of someone throwing up on the web.
I already builded teh next-generation 4chan, but it sucked almost as bad as the current one, so I eated it. Now go to YouTube and watch a video you hate.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
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will be fresh meat for horny inmates after the lack of understanding of online law about what they post.
Very recent example of this is the student who posted his threat of a university massacre to 4chan. The Swedish police got the willing and eager help of moot to track him down and he is now spending time on a a few years paid vacation in Swedish jail.
In other news, a Swedish couple got fined for FAKE sex. It is not known if they would have been fined if they had actually had REAL sex.
When and how did 4chan start breaking even?
This concerns me somewhat, because I had been expecting that the kid would eventually run out his line of credit and 4chan would finally die its much-deserved death. If the site is breaking even now, there's a chance he will be able to keep it going for decades yet, and maybe even pass it along to someone who will keep it going thereafter.
That leaves me with the scant hope that eventually everyone will spontaneously realize stupidity isn't great, and then they'll stop propagating stupid 4chan memes. I'm not holding my breath on that one.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
He's probably referring to the rampant child pornography on the site.
I always thought "4chan" was an alternative spelling of "fortune".
well actually alot of people have been partyvanned from 4chan (for those not up with the chan's lit.; partyvanned is when the FBI task force trailer, the 'party van' shows up in your driveway.) They dont do much about raids and whatnot, although most of the people behind those raids are from 711chan and others like it. 4chan in a raid is usually just the fodder to get the job done. all the great hackers today are also great social engineers, and they make full use of the mob.
I know what 4chan is, and having seen its like many times before over the years have no intrest in visiting /b/
I didn't feel the need to behave like a 12yr old when I was 12, and still don't decades later. That you do is your problem. Don't try to make everyone else the same as you. That is another 12yr old boy thing. Everything must be exactly the same. Difference is evil. No thanks. No nerds visit /b/, they can't stand the rigid conformity of its visitors.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
* Windows: [alt-255] [alt-255] [alt-30] [enter] [alt 30] [alt 255] [alt 30]
* Mac: [option-space] + [option-space] + [option-J] + [enter] + [option-J] + [option-space] + [option-J]
* Linux : [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2] [Enter] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2] [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2]
Anon Delivars!
Doesn't the second space [alt-255] in the first line completely screw the alignment? Surely you'd want: * Windows: [alt-255] [alt-30] [enter] [alt 30] [alt 255] [alt 30] * Mac: [option-space] + [option-J] + [enter] + [option-J] + [option-space] + [option-J] * Linux : [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2] [Enter] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2] [Ctrl+Shift+U + a0] [Ctrl+Shift+U + 25b2]
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
Also you'd want some actual linespacing there.
Why the fuck am I back to HTML Formatted without me knowing?
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
How about a tool that automatically melts your hard disk after visiting /b before the FBI turns up?
obvious troll is obvious /thread
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Depends on the current font.
The alignment looks correct pitchaxistheory's way on my display.
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So feds should shut them down because they create and contribute nothing? What law are you referring to?
I'm not a big follower of theirs.... once I went to the forum to see all the random image/stuff, and the second page I loaded had a photo of a baby with an adult penis in its mouth. I will never visit 4 chan again because of that. and I hope the person who posted that got caught and beaten up in prison. but I doubt they got caught....
No, you retard. It's not the true. Now STFU and GTFO.
The problem is that half of 4chan are geeks, so they've got adblockers installed*, and the other half are so dumb they run javascript that gets posted on 4chan. Whilst the "click everything, do exactly what the TV says" crowd might be appealing to advertisers, they're also self-pruning, so tend to go extinct before they can actually click on any ads.
* Incidentally, how does slashdot make its money? Is it bored workers on corporate browsers with no ad-blocking? Do we have a lot of users using some obscure browser or the latest hot new browser that no-one's (yet) written an ad-blocker for? Slashvertisements?
Anyone care to inform where the board went, or whether there are similar boards? It was the closest that you could get to a /. system, with the benefit of flat threads, lack of censhorship (negative moderation will kill initiative, and I don't mid sifting through crap if the total threads are expunged slowly and aren't more than 30 or so.) There were no "news for nerds," but that meant everything was code-related, and complete noobs were somehow filtered out.
Thanks.
I'll second the Stack Overflow suggestion.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
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The obvious question that Moot has avoided answering: where's the money coming from for this code rewrite?
There's got to be at least $25,000-$30,000 involved. AJAX sites aren't cheap, and programmers know how much moola is involved when the site 'becomes the next Facebook'.
> The /b/-tard is but one aspect of us. Most of us are caring, empathetic, logical, intelligent and/or educated, and function in real-life. Embracing, expressing, and living in harmony with one's dark side is a sign of balance and health. Having masturbated in private to depections of questionable situations or posting insanely clever racist jokes based on reality are not abnormal.
So, you're saying they wouldn't have been pedophiles if only they had masturbated (and you really believe that they didn't?).
So were gonna see a Moderation system like Slashdot in which you can browse at >2 or >3 scores?
Who am I kidding; people would just all browse with "view all messages" and call people "modfags" if they mod anything up OR down.
Then again, they already have the "sage" system...
Ginga no Rekshiya Mata Each page.
/b/ has "backed up" (read: been unavailable) plenty of times. All that happens is the /b/tards swarm other parts of 4chan, or other chans.
Seeing the horrified posts on other boards as people realize they're about to be swamped by /b/tards almost makes /b/ being down worth it.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Moot's pockets are thoroughly empty. 4chan runs at a loss.
For as much bullshit as they generate, 4chan's boards provide a damn neat culture. Much like Slashdot, its pretty easy to attack if you don't go there or recognize the jokes.
"Joy is contagious," he said, peering into the microscope.
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There are no karma whores, only moderation johns
It's the truth that the feds should shut down sites that create nothing, contribute nothing, and make someone money?
Are you on crack?
Why are you letting these clowns ruin our country?
GPL software was used, modified but the code not shared back to the community.
It's even easier to attack if you do occasionally go there, know all the jokes, and die a little inside every time you hear them screamed by 14 year olds in stores.
Yeah try it with Arial Unicode MS (via character map) if you're having problems.
/b/ *cough* itself.
Displays correctly on youtube (though you oddly have to precede it with some text) and *cough*
And that's saying something!
How is this trolling? It's simply the truth.
It hardly seems to be true that they "create/contribute nothing", since half the memes on the internet (and usually the funniest half) apparently come from 4chan...
We live, as we dream -- alone....
You're a 14 year old fucktard, so go choke on a dick.
Web 2.0 image board http://wtfchan.org/themes/simpler/ (absolutely NSFW)
STFU FGT
he is now spending time on a a few years paid vacation in Swedish jail
lol no. this is Sweden. he'll be told not to do it again and then sent home.
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