4chan Undergoing Major Revision, Getting Public API

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4chan Undergoing Major Revision, Getting Public API

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 9, 2012 @06:28AM from the waiting-on-the-verticals dept.

AdmiralXyz writes "Even the darkest corners of the internet aren't immune to the Web 2.0 boom: BoingBoing reports that 4chan is working on the largest codebase update in its history. The new 4chan will include as standard the functionality of popular browser plugins for using the site, as well as a JSON API so- hooray?- anyone can have immediate access to the contents of 4chan for any purpose they like. This represents a significant update to the heretofore haphazard development process of 4chan, and opens up the possibility of third-party 4chan apps... though probably not on the App Store."

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Original post by moot by Milharis · 2012-09-09 06:52 · Score: 5, Informative

http://www.4chan.org/news#108
The original post.
It's on 4chan, but the page shouldn't contain anything NSFW.
News Update by Riddler+Sensei · 2012-09-09 06:54 · Score: 2, Informative

Here's the original link to Moot's news update regarding this.
JOINING THE FUTURE, ONE COMMIT AT A TIME
(It's SFW, but I wouldn't blame you if don't take the chance.)
Whats up with /.s RSS feed? by vlm · 2012-09-09 06:57 · Score: 1, Informative

Even the darkest corners of the internet aren't immune to the Web 2.0 boom
Holy Shit! You say Slashdot's getting UTF-8? Finally my life is complete, I can post the UTF-8 goatse symbol on /.
Oh, naw just a bunch of repetitive whining about 4chan being "full" of CP. I don't personally every remember seeing anything objectionable in /fit but whatever. Maybe if you find a low-carb diet morally reprehensible ... (insert valley girl voice pattern) whatever.
Oh no wait its just the /. RSS feed not updating for the last 12 hours. (per goog reader, the terminally ill igoogle home page, and Just Lookin At It as below, its not just caching gone wild on my side)
2012-09-09T06:52:32+00:00 (as of this posting its about 18:54 UTC, so thats about 12 hours, either metric or english, whats the difference)
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot

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Web 2.0? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-09 07:06 · Score: 3, Informative

> Even the darkest corners of the internet aren't immune to the Web 2.0 boom
Web 2.0 denotes websites where the content is posted by the users, not the owners. 4chan (an image board) has always been Web 2.0.
Re:App Store by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-09 07:21 · Score: 2, Informative

There WAS a 4chan app on iOS, but it was removed for having access to NSFW materials. Simultaneously, there are at least 3 competing ones on Android. And Windows Phone doesn't have any apps.
Re:Uh oh... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-09 08:08 · Score: 1, Informative

What the fuck did you just say to me motherfucker? This is how faggots like you get handled on 4chan
Re:Uh oh... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-09 08:24 · Score: 0, Informative

>2012
>implying anyone is safe from /g/

ISHYGDDT