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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Uh oh... by MindPrison · 2012-09-09 06:33 · Score: 5, Interesting

You got to love it when 4Chan makes a headline here on Slashdot...
I never saw that coming, seriously...I didn't.

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1. Re:Uh oh... by Lanteran · 2012-09-09 06:37 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  You didn't see it coming? I thought this place was news for nerds?
  
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2. Re:Uh oh... by shiftless · 2012-09-09 06:54 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Ok, I'm a nerd...but...people in Slashdot, at least have something interesting to discuss, like world peace, new chips, new technology, new innovations...etc.
  I agree. I think this article should be removed, since some other article is clearly blocked from being published due to its presence. Worse still, approximately 762k of disk space and a mind numbing 3 million bits of data have been absurdly wasted on this catastrophe of a submission. My eyes are bleeding just imagining the horror. What were the editors thinking? Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go comment on some more interesting article on a real tech web site (like Kuro5hin), before recompiling my kernel. (I'm working on integrating the Metro UI to Windows 2000.)
3. Re:Uh oh... by vlm · 2012-09-09 07:04 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  (I'm working on integrating the Metro UI to Windows 2000.)
  This just cries out for a Gnome or KDE joke...
  
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4. Re:Uh oh... by Z34107 · 2012-09-09 10:18 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  You realize /b/ is only one of the boards on 4chan, right?
  
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5. Re:Uh oh... by arth1 · 2012-09-09 14:44 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Nice trips!
Today op by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-09 06:35 · Score: 5, Funny

was not a faggot
They were pretty much forced to by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-09 06:39 · Score: 4, Interesting

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)).
this would be a good time to invest in by circletimessquare · 2012-09-09 06:50 · Score: 5, Funny

eye bleach futures

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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.
1. Re:Original post by moot by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-09 06:58 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  >It's on 4chan...
  >shouldn't contain anything NSFW.
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.
4chan != /b/ by dontbemad · 2012-09-09 07:13 · Score: 5, Insightful

"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.
Re:This is great news! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-09 07:25 · Score: 5, Funny

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little fucker? Iâ(TM)ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and Iâ(TM)ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and Iâ(TM)m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. 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 saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA 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. Youâ(TM)re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and thatâ(TM)s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your little miserable life off the face of the continent, you little fuck. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little âoecleverâ comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you could have held your fucking tongue. But you couldnâ(TM)t, you didnâ(TM)t, and now youâ(TM)re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. Youâ(TM)re fucking dead, kiddo.
-/b/
Re:Meh. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-09 07:31 · Score: 5, Funny

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
Great by wbr1 · 2012-09-09 08:18 · Score: 4, Insightful

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.

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Re:We need a rethink by oakgrove · 2012-09-09 08:58 · Score: 3, Interesting

We need a rethink of forum/chat systems.
My suggestion is do whatever these guys have done to keep eternal September at bay as long as possible.

ITT: Others brightly chime in with awesome ideas of how to innovate in forums
As far as Slashdot, disallowing AC posts might help raise the level of discussion. Maybe remove the karma cap and make the number publicly available maybe beside the user name. Since the community is large and healthy, disallow new users from posting for at least 3 days to stop some of the hit and run trolling. Something else that could be tried is maybe make a person lose some karma points everytime they post. That way people would more likely post things they think will get modded up rather than "me too" type stuff. Last but not least, how about bringing on the mighty "hell ban"? When a user trolls and trolls until his karma gets terrible, instead of just starting off his posts at -1 from then on, you bring in the hell ban. From the posters perspective, he is posting as normal and he can see his posts like he always could. But from the perspective of everybody else, his posts never actually appear. What happens is the poster eventually seeing that nobody is feeding his trolling, moves on or starts another account hopefully with a better attitude.

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Re:The Internet cancer by Pseudonym+Authority · 2012-09-09 09:47 · Score: 3, Interesting

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!
EPIC FAIL SLASH-DAUGHTERZ by newbie_fantod · 2012-09-09 11:21 · Score: 4, Insightful

Six replies mocking the standard posting style of 4chan and all but one are modded Troll?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony/