Comments on: 4chan gets real about software

By: benher

benher — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 05:31:00 +0000

4Chan is the Pompei, Great Pyramid, and Rosetta Stone of our era.

By: j c

j c — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:19:00 +0000

Most chans steal UI design and features from 420chan.

By: HorseIsAHorse

HorseIsAHorse — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:37:00 +0000

What is this I don’t even

By: equilibrist

equilibrist — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:25:00 +0000

static cache flushing

Why wasn’t this available in 1999?

Back then I ran a site that was very popular for statewide Friday night HS football scores. I had to use a comma delineated text database and PERL to serve the data.

Updated in real time.

If a new request came while an update was being posted the update was truncated at that point.

I became very adept at reconstructing those DBs, with surprisingly little data loss.

Still…

By: EH

EH — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:58:00 +0000

And so it goes.

By: Mantissa128

Mantissa128 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:12:00 +0000

V&, b& and shitc&.

By: allotrope

allotrope — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:23:00 +0000

The Japanese image board that 4chan is based on is 2chan, pronounced Futabachan. So moot decided that 4chan would be pronounced Yotsubachan (not that anybody really does…). Since yotsuba means four-leaf clover it became the symbol for 4chan and it’s mascot became an innocent manga character with the same name.

By: Theranthrope

Theranthrope — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 08:57:00 +0000

Ya’ll n****s is toasting in a Spidey-bread!

By: SoItBegins

SoItBegins — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 08:06:00 +0000

No. Note that /b/ still wasn’t listed as RSS-parseable.

By: drongo

drongo — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:13:00 +0000

Spiderman approves of this thread.

By: Daemonworks

Daemonworks — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 01:50:00 +0000

Interestingly, while /b/ may be the most popular board, it’s also the least popular board.

By: Ernest Valdemar

Ernest Valdemar — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:59:00 +0000

Gutenberg may be known for his Bible, but it was Decameron that made movable type practical.

If it weren’t for trolls, hackers, and pornographers, there would be no Internet. Forget Tim Berners-Lee; we owe the Internet to homosexual coprophilia.

By: elix

elix — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:29:00 +0000

Mootles has revived 4chan at least four times; I think he’s smarter than she was and understands his userbase well enough to not throw them away and go for the quick short-term cash grab.

Plus, they would dox his life in infinite detail. You and I would know more about moot’s credit history than our own in about three days.

By: HorseIsAHorse

HorseIsAHorse — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:13:00 +0000

POSTER WAS B& FOR THIS COMMENT

By: Art

Art — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0000

But the illustration shown here is good!
And I really like the Burberry necktie:)

By: Art

Art — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:51:00 +0000

4chan. The wood-veneer paneled, suburban basement of the internet

By: Dean Putney

Dean Putney — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Pretty much. But they also announced changes to the moderation system and openings for new “janitor” positions. It certainly won’t happen quickly.

By: jandrese

jandrese — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:49:00 +0000

It actually makes sense if you consider her the personification of the webserver. She blithely serves up whatever people ask for, cheery to help and unaware of the nature of the content she’s serving.

By: jandrese

jandrese — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:44:00 +0000

Clamping down on unruly content would seem to be against the very nature of 4chan.

By: zdislaw

zdislaw — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:29:00 +0000

It’s hard to over-estimate the degree to which my grandmother is not even dimly aware of 4chan. It is rivaled only by the size of her disinterest in the Internet or, in fact, anything that exists on computers. She will never forgive the infernal machines for the day they pulled the card catalog out of the college library she still frequents but requires librarians to look up book locations.

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:57:00 +0000

Girl.

By: Adam Greenfield

Adam Greenfield — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:56:00 +0000

“4chan, the Internet’s long-time dumping butt, is getting serious about software”

Minor correction for you.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:39:00 +0000

tl;dr. This thread is now about Yotsuba&!

By: EH

EH — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:38:00 +0000

Let’s just hope Moot doesn’t make the same mistake(s) the Encyclopedia Dramatica ~~guy~~ gal did.

By: HorseIsAHorse

HorseIsAHorse — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:38:00 +0000

I find it amazing that the manga character Yotsuba, the definition of childlike innocence, is the most recognizable symbol of 4-Chan. Yeah, I know that most channers only know her as 404-girl, but still.

By: Dean Putney

Dean Putney — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:23:00 +0000

I think they’re probably learning a lot of lessons from Canvas, and by introducing changes now while they can they may be able to guide away from and maybe eventually clamp down on unruly content. Whether they want to do that or not is a whole other question.

By: Robert Smith

Robert Smith — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:13:00 +0000

“Trolls and other obnoxious users may be effectively synonymous with 4chan—it’s part of why there’s very little money to be made there…”

Quoted for truth; there is no money in lulz. Is this a sign 4chan is finally ready to grow up and stop polluting the internet with offensive—and, let’s be honest, unfunny—content?

By: Bersl

Bersl — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:05:00 +0000

It’s the source of so many Internet-age cultural trends that even your grandma may be dimly aware that the clever picture she posted on her Facebook was trawled a thousand copies ago from the dark depths of /mlp/.

Considering that it’s one of the newest boards, a thousand might be the right number; of course, I daresay that none of the pony memes come from /mlp/, never mind Internet-wide ones. It was created because /co/ complained. Certain elements of /b/ still can’t handle the fact that there’s almost always one pony thread on the front page.

The author almost certainly means /b/ and /v/.

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:52:00 +0000

The little-known &mash; html entity, defined in
ISO-8859-1 as “editor’s state of mind before coffee”

By: Nonesuchplace

Nonesuchplace — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:47:00 +0000

You have a couple of spots where you were trying to put an em dash, but typo’d like a squirrel who had just a little too much speed.