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"Moot" Working On Reboot of 4chan Platform

Posted by timothy on from the weird-and-wacky-world dept.

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."

6 of 205 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Three sentences turned by lilmunkysguy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a real article about Moot and Times. http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/

  2. Re:I call Vaporware! by lilmunkysguy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Moot didn't discuss it at all.

  3. Re:We are all /b/tards. Not all of us accept that. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Why? fucking loser.

  4. Lol 4chan by Alex+Belits · · Score: 2, Informative

    Goatse is red,
    Mudkips are blue. /b/ has three posters --
    moot, Chris-chan and you.

    --
    Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
  5. Re:The sad truth about 4chan by pitchaxistheory · · Score: 2, Informative

    * 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!

  6. Re:Hmmm by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 2, Informative

    If by last attempt you mean almost every hour of every day for over two years...