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4chan Undergoing Major Revision, Getting Public API
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."
You got to love it when 4Chan makes a headline here on Slashdot...
I never saw that coming, seriously...I didn't.
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
was not a faggot
They were pretty much forced to go the JSON API route. Every power user of 4chan (which is pretty everybody) uses the 4chan x extension, that pounds the servers for thread updates (it downloads the complete page and parses it every 10 seconds (default is 30, but most change it to 10 for doing well in troll chess)).
to link it with the googlemaps api. 1) download the pics 2) strip EXIF 3) get street address of child 4) PROFIT! Hold on 15 years guys, I see a really cool v& stopping in front of my window. Brb.
Now everyone can have easy access to the world's deepest cesspit of racism, misogyny, and murder-porn.
eye bleach futures
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
http://www.4chan.org/news#108
The original post.
It's on 4chan, but the page shouldn't contain anything NSFW.
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.)
Actually the management pays the underage boys and girls to strip and post pictures of themselves. Didnt you know this? (If you did post pictures you should contact moot for your share of mollah)
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
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
There are already third party 4chan apps like the 4chan browser extensions, 4chan mass image downloaders... I don't understand exactly what new doors the API changes are opening up. If anything, these changes will probably cause problems for 4chan. I was under the impression the whole reason that site had such a big community was it's simplicity.
> 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.
Time for the eternal summer to go up a level.
though probably not on the App Store.
Actually, Apple has allowed many forum reader and commenting apps on the App Store. Alien Blue is considered the best app for reading Reddit, arguably using the touchscreen is way better than browsing on a PC/Mac.
It's interesting to see the evolution of forums and chat as we continue into the Internet Age. As forums get larger and larger and number of messages posted increases, it quickly exposes the flaws of the current paradigm. We need a rethink of forum/chat systems. The old PHPBB/SMF/VBulletin deal is inadequate and does not scale. Slashdot has some of the right ideas, but I don't think it's the holy grail either.
ITT: Others brightly chime in with awesome ideas of how to innovate in forums, only to have their ideas shamelessly stolen err borrowed by err..someone who then goes on to make millions of bucks from it. Or just creates something fucking awesome and gives it away free to mankind....THEN people just hand him $20s all day long on the street cause he's so awesome. (Right...) I dunno exactly what the future holds, ladies and gentlemen, but when thinking minds come together I know we can figure out what the future should look like, then implement it. So let's hear it.
"Even the darkest corners of the internet" Why is that entire site synonymous with a single one of its numerous channels? And even dumber still, I would expect at least a decent number of slashdotters to understand the concept of user-generated content. Yes, 4chan has seen child porn, racial biggotry, and graphic images posted before, and it probably will again. For that matter, facebook has seen them, youtube has seen them, and numerous other sites where users can submit content without peer review have as well. The "omg 4chan so evil" hype created by the mainstream media and spearheaded by faux news is long over. Stop drawing undue attention to the site, stop creating FUD over absolutely nothing new, and stop sounding like children on a site designed to inform the more intelligent masses on the internet.
Sadly, this is no longer the case. Facebook and reddit have infiltrated to the point where you are more likely to get permabanned for pedo on /b/ than any other board. Moot is a fucking faggot and /q/ is a disastrous occupation of the moralfags that get all the attention. The post quality is even worse than shitholes like Zoklet. Such is life, I suppose.
-/b/
I'll kick your ass faggot. You think you're tough? lets see how tough you are with a couple rounds from my .45 lodged in your skull. Kinda hard to talk shit when I've blown half your face off. You better watch yourself faggots, I work for the fucking CIA, if I want you dead, you are dead. Its that fucking simple. Watch your god damned fucking mouth. I have over 30 years military training, I would rip your spine out while raping your fucking mother up her dried up old skanky cunt. I would then proceed to bundle up what remains of your body and shove my 12 inch cock down your throat and skull fuck you till my cum oozes from every hole in your body. Watch your fucking back. I'm coming for you.
listen you cunt, i cant call you fat but i can definitely call you a cunt because you're being one.
you are a fucking pathetic little faggot bitch, and i want you to come to my house and spew the same bullshit you post in here to my face.
oh wait,i dont need to worry about you coming to my house because you would never do it. youll just continue to sit behind a fucking computer screen and act like fucking mike tyson to every guy you meet, when in reality you are a fat virgin neckbeard loser with cheeto dust in his beard and a pillow with a hole in it that you fuck every night
seriously, its so god damn pathetic to just watch people like you. like, i want to try to be angry at you, but honestly i just want to be your friend out of pity because i know you dont have any besides the friends on your wow account.
you should honestly just draft up a suicide note right now and continue adding to it every day little by little as the failures of your life pile up day after day and you wil finally have an entire book worth of your failures and can finally kill yourself and make your family and online friends happy.
of course, you would probably fuck it up and miss your brain stem so you have to shoot yourself in the head 2-3 times while in agony to go out like a wounded dog, or you will try to mix bleach and ammonia but the room will be a bit too ventilated so you weel literally feel the chlorine gas burning away the lining of your lungs and suffer in horrific, unfathomable agony for 5 minutes as you literally burn and melt from the inside out after you start vomiting up your own lungs and liquefied lung begins pouring out of your nose and you slowly suffocate to death.
fuck you, ive raped people for far less than this. you think you can fucking come on OT and just act like a fucking hardass and order people around? Bad news for you, fuckface, but tonights the night your luck runs out. You fucking tell ANYBODY on these forums what to do again, and you're going to find out the hard way what a fucking baseball bat to the side of the skull feels like. Think I'm fucking kidding? I have your IP, I know who you are, and Im more than willing to settle this argument face to fucking face. You call yourself "Hooligan"? We'll see who's the hooligan when one of us is lying face down in a pile of their own blood, shit, and piss. Try and order someone else on here around, and see what fucking happens to you. I'm normally a calm guy but when I need to, I'm willing to break some fucking face to get my point across, just fucking test me you worthless sack of excrement.
I was mongling some cocks late one night
When my eyes beheld an awesome sight
All the tripfags' cocks began to rise
And suddenly, to my surprise
They did the mash
They did the 4chan mash
The 4chan mash
It was an internet smash
They did the mash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the 4chan mash
Leonidas!
From thermopylae where i fought so well
To my restaurant in the depths of hell
This is SPARTAAAAAAAA! I cried to my men
But the Persians all formed up and then
They did the mash
They did the 4chan mash
The 4chan mash
It was an internet smash
They did the mash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the 4chan mash
Raptor Jesus!
The Admins were dropping' bans
They party had just been vanned
The guests included Slowpoke,
Magic- and Rabbit-chans.
Pedobear!
The scene was rockin' when some loli came in
I wanted to commit a deadly sin
They party van had just arrived
But, though i was sure they weren't here to jive,
They did the mash
They did the 4chan mash
The 4chan mash
It was an internet smash
They did the mash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the 4chan mash
Moot!
THEN OUT FROM THE SHADOWS, MOOT'S VOICE DID RING
SEEMS HE WAS TROUBLED BY JUST ONE THING
AS THE TROLLS AND GAIAFAGS QUICKLY MADE TRACKS
"B&!", HE PROCLAIMED, "GET OUT OF HERE, SNACKS!"
SNACKS... DID THE MASH
HE DID THE 4CHAN MASH
THE 4CHAN MASH
IT WAS AN INTERNET SMASH
HE DID THE MASH
IT CAUGHT ON IN A FLASH
HE DID THE MASH
HE DID THE 4CHAN MASH
EFG!
I GOT IN ONE LITTLE FIGHT, AND MY MOM GOT SCARED
SHE SAID YOU'RE MOVING WITH YOUR AUNTIE AND YOUR UNCLE IN BEL-AIR
you feel like punching me in the face? bring it on you faggot. I know multiple fighting styles, and I also carry a switchblade with me at all times. Something fucking tells me that you'd be better off keeping your arms down at your sides. If you can't fucking put "cause" and "effect" together in that pathetic brain of yours, I'll help you out here. You'll be standing face to face with me, and let me fucking tell you, it'll already be too fucking late to back down at that point. You might decide "well shit, I might as well stay true to my word and throw a fucking punch". This is where you will go wrong. I hope you don't have a job that requires two fucking hands, because you're going to be missing one after I'm done with you. I'll casually divert your fist off to the side, as you suddenly realize you may have gotten yourself into something you can't back up. You'll try to regroup and pull your arm back, but that wont be easy when I jab my spear-pointed Benchmade switchblade straight through the bone in your forearm, and proceed to rip your entire fucking forearm and hand off in one quick pull. At this point, you'll probably spend 2 seconds in shock. I say 2 seconds, because thats the amount of time you'll have before I reverse the knife in my hand, and uppercut it straight through your throat. You'll spend your last few seconds gurgling blood, and wondering where you went wrong. After that, I'll be forced to take care of any witnesses who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nothing a few quick choke slams can't fix, followed by a nice gentle slice across the jugular with the Benchmade.
Now, motherfucker, you sure you want to go through with that punch?
When you come in this fucking thread, you sure as motherfucking shit had better respect me. Actually fuck respect, you had better worship the motherfucking ground I walk on, motherfucker. You god damn think I'm just going to sit here and let you stomp all over me with your ignorance and disrespect? FUCK YOU dude, I am not going to be passive about this shit. You had better pray to fucking christ I don't find out where you live, or you might find out what a 12 gauge to the face feels like, you fucking bitch.
stay out of my threads, understand? i don't want to take this to fazle, but if you pull these shananigans again he will be contacted. mark my word.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little proprietry bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the FSF, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Apple patents, and I have over 300 confirmed bug fixes. I am trained in Free Software Evangelizing and I'm the top code contributer for the entire GNU HURD. You are nothing to me but just another compile time error. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am building a GUI using GTK+ and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can decompile you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my Model M. Not only am I extensively trained in EMACS, but I have access to the entire arsenal of LISP functions and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit Freedom all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking debugged, kiddo.
With Love from Our Lord Stallman,
-/g/
How can you believe that this is even remotely acceptable? It disgusts me how you pedofags have this unnatural attraction to little kids! Year after year you guys keep producing it and trading it and all that is doing is making it seem like it is OK, which it's not. Ok, maybe it's a disease and you can't help it. But why can't you guys just stop because these kids have feelings and they aren't even biologically ready to even engage in sexual activities nor understand it. These kids can't enjoy it, why do you think the organizations such as the FBI are so eager to stop it? It's all in your head and it's just a sick fantasy. Why not make a change today and put an end to CP? because even if it's just 1 person that will possibly make 1 kid happier. I'm not talking about 13+ really because everynewt gingrich knows some of them are actually ready and that goes down to society which I'm not going to discuss. Stop the suffering, stop CP!! You know it's wrong! Inb4 pedofag makes fail attempt at justifying pedophilia
you would be like a tv on mute with no volume button
That's some 4chan fabulous shit right there. Bravo!
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
4Chan can update it's codebase, but I still cannot post Unicode chars or have a decent editing box on /.. The mobile version breaks on me standard android browser more often than not, and no matter what I do, carriage returns have to be manually input as HTML. Really fun on a touchscreen keyboard.
Silence is a state of mime.
Is as silly as tech illiterate people's view of the internet. If you think Joe Sixpack's view of the internet being anyone who uses a computer being some insane hacker, why do you think the same of 4chan? While /b/ may be a large board, there are many other boards out there that do not partake in anything highly illegal every waking moment. If you venture onto any other board than /b/ you'll find that just about everyone despises the board for the name it brings us.
App store? Running binaries related in any way to a community that's all about trolling probably isn't the best course of action.
Hi Kimmo! How's your spamming and botnet's coming along? I hope you not still upset that moot put a CAPTCHA in to stop your Anontalk spam shit. Have a nice life!
You don't know how 4chan works, do you? Try linking to the archive next time.
DATABASE WOW WOW
Six replies mocking the standard posting style of 4chan and all but one are modded Troll?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony/
Have gnu, will travel.
Some mod-points, some mod-points, my kingdom for some mod-points.
I'm sick of clients asking for facebook and twitter and leaderboards and in-app-payments-and-ads and "usage metrics" (aka spy on the users) integration, but I'd add 4chan integration to my engine any day. Sounds like fun (seriously).
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Stay tuned for some shock and awe coming right up after this messages!
The musical?
Are they hoping the major websites will include 4chan in their social links? Click here to post this artical to 4Chan!
Now a [LIEK] button would be funny.