"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."

Comments

Three sentences turned

[lilmunkysguy]

Three sentences turned into a frontpage story..

Re:Three sentences turned

[j_presper_eckert]

Could that article possibly be any more lame??? So...Moot ponders some nebulous concepts about 4Chan: The Next Generation for about five seconds. Some other dude then bloats it into a puff piece in hopes of warping reality by placing the concepts of "New York Times" and "hip blogger" in the same sentence, with his own name on top. Riiiight. Journalism, we hardly knew ye.

Call me when a *real* article on the subject appears. Until then, forward my calls to /s/. :P

Re:The sad truth about 4chan

[satoshi1]

"Chantards"? Man, aren't you cool. I bet you lurk there anyway.

Re:I await they day that the feds

[lilmunkysguy]

/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?

et tu, 4chan?

[Punto]

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.

/b/

[Darth Cider]

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
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 /b/ too deeply
so it's funny to think that net freedom is healthy coz /b/ is there
yet.. there you have it

Re:I await they day that the feds

[sopssa]

So feds should shut them down because they create and contribute nothing? What law are you referring to?

Re:The sad truth about 4chan

[OrwellianLurker]

Anonymous Coward, do not be angry at Anonymous, for he is your kin.

Re:I await they day that the feds

[tsotha]

That's the problem with free speech. About half the people wasted theirs trying to get someone else's curtailed.

Re:We are all /b/tards. Not all of us accept that.

[Ethanol-fueled]

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.

Problems arise when the dark side is swept under the rug instead of acknowledged and understood. The repression and cognitive dissonance has a way of catastrophically exploding in peoples' faces -- just ask Larry Craig, Mick Foley, or the Catholic priests. The assholes who dedicate their lives to fighting and speaking out against what they fear most about themselves.