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4chan Is Running Out of Money and Martin Shkreli Wants To Buy It (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The infamous message board 4chan is struggling to stay afloat and will have to make changes to reduce costs, the site's owner wrote in a post on Sunday. "4chan can't afford infrastructure costs, network fee, servers cost, CDN and etc, now," writes Hiroyuki Nisimura, who bought the site from its founder last year. Nisimura says ads haven't been effective enough to support the site, nor have subscriptions offering additional features. "We had tried to keep 4chan as is. But I failed," Nisimura writes. "I am sincerely sorry." There are three options for 4chan to survive going forward, as far as Nisimura sees it: sell more subscriptions, include "much more" -- and potentially even malicious -- ads, or cut traffic to the site in half. That might be done by closing message boards, slowing down the site, or reducing the size of images that can be posted. Nisimura makes it sound bad (his post is titled "Winter is coming"), but he also proposes changes to save the site. Meanwhile, another infamous name -- Martin Shkreli -- says he's interested in buying 4chan; he's in touch with Nisimura, so maybe we'll see how that remarkably bad combination turns out. Martin Shkreli tweeted: "I'm open to joining the Board of Directors of 4Chan. @4chan." Not too long after, Hiroyuki Nisimura replied: "I have replied your DM. Thank you for supporting 4chan @MartinShkreli twitter.com/MartinShkreli/...."
8chan seems to be getting by and they have twice as many chans.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Notch now looking into buying 4chan Anonymous 10/03/16(Mon)19:51:42 No.56909338â->>56909384 >>56909411 >>56909683 >>56909721 >>56910005 >>56910058 >>56910195 >>56910297 >>56910483 >>56910593 >>56910655 >>56910945 /b/ got quads, summoning Notch to look into buying 4chan.
A lucky anon on
"Assuming it's not too expensive, and assuming I don't have to do any actual work myself, I'm in."
Who here would work for notch maintaining the 4chan codebase ?
Anonymous 10/03/16(Mon)19:56:06 No.56909384â- .jar
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>entire website will be Java based
>everything inside one
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BMO
why should we help them stay afloat?
Lets hope 4chan stays afloat, because otherwise 4chan posters will be dispersed throughout other sites and communities. Like a cyst bursting into bloodstream.
A match forged in the deepest levels of Hell I guess?
4chan board of directors: Martin Shkreli, Palmer Luckey, ...
It's just a different spelling for the same name.
Wikipedia says his name is ... um, Slashdot doesn't like Kanji - look it up here.
The most commonly used transliteration in English is Nishimura Hiroyuki, according to the Hepburn system of romaji. It's Nisimura when written using the Nihon-shiki or Kunrei-shiki system.
(Knowledge totally stolen from https://www.italki.com/questio...)
He's somehow not telling the whole story, he shut down the site's ads without warning, complaining about ad serving costs and urging people to buy 4chan passes. My guess is that he wants to be done with the site, causing a surge of subscriptions before claiming it's unsustainable and closing the servers. Moot was very clear about leaving the site with a solid foundation so this wouldn't happen, yet a year later the site is apparently on the verge of collapse. With Hiroyuki's track record, this seems highly suspicious and there might be something shadier going on.
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a fark theme, too, of course.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
I can't imagine a more perfect match for 4chan than Martin Shkreli. They absolutely and completely deserve each other forever.
Containment forums are a proven good
I can't think of a more perfect person than Martin Shkreli to buy 4chan. It's ideal, really.
You are welcome on my lawn.
what about /r/blacklivesmatter? was that also shut down? of course not.
Lets hope 4chan stays afloat, because otherwise 4chan posters will be dispersed throughout other sites and communities. Like a cyst bursting into bloodstream.
>Implying we're not already here
Boogiemanposting aside, a lot of the boards are pretty useful. /g/, /fit/, /diy/, etc.
If you want to help keep 4chan the way it is and not have it all crapped up with ads, a crowdfunding campaign has been set up here.
If someone behaves like an asshole, online or offline, he is an asshole. Any further distinction is irrelevant.
People behave like assholes on 4chan to drive away the overly-sensitive. Many are refugees from other forums, where you get banned for diverging from the groupthink/using the wrong pronoun/supporting the wrong presidential candidate. They created an environment where people who complain about their feelings getting hurt by words on the internet get laughed out the door. Personally, I find its honest abrasiveness more refreshing than the passive-aggressive politeness of other forums.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
So Shkrelli wants to have one company that causes cancer, so his other company have more people to sell overpriced cancer drugs to.
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
what about /r/blacklivesmatter? was that also shut down? of course not.
I'm quite disgusted that this has been modded up. There is definitely an element of blacklivesmatter that is subversive and just looking to stir up trouble, but they were formed as a counter-measure to several famous cases of cops shooting young black males when there were other and better courses of action. The point of BLM is equality, not racism. You can't piss on the whole movement because of a few asshats who align themselves with it.
It is not accurate to compare a white supremacy to blm.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
People behave like assholes on 4chan to drive away the overly-sensitive.
That doesn't make them not assholes. If the only way you can come up with to stop people from complaining about what you're saying constantly is to ante up on being a fuckhead... you're an asshole.
Personally, I find its honest abrasiveness more refreshing than the passive-aggressive politeness of other forums.
And personally, you like assholes. That's OK, but don't pretend something else is true.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I was ignoring 4chan before it was cool.
You don't act like an asshole to drive away the overly sensitive, you ignore them. Eventually they get fed up that no one is listening to them whine and move on. This is the tactic we use on the boards I moderate and it works really well. Being an asshole drives away regular people too.
Lets hope 4chan stays afloat, because otherwise 4chan posters will be dispersed throughout other sites and communities. Like a cyst bursting into bloodstream.
Do you really think 4channers aren't already at sites like Slashdot? When I see the odious behavior of some ACs here, I generally assume it's another bored kid with no social skills.
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