"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

Irony

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

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

[Khyber]

Easy, because rotten.com is one of the original good shock sites that any geek would've encountered long ago, you premature pre-pubescent prick.