"Moot" Working On Reboot of 4chan Platform 205
Hugh Pickens writes "Nick Bilton has an interesting interview with Christopher Poole, known online as 'Moot,' founder 4chan, a jumble of content, hosting anything from pictures of cute kittens to wildly disturbing images and language. Poole, now 22, started 4chan when he was 15 after he discovered a Japanese image-board Web forum called 2chan dedicated to anime. 'The code for 2chan was publicly available and I took it and translated it from Japanese to English using tools online and I threw it up on the Web and sent it out to 20 people,' says Poole. 'I wanted to keep with the 2chan naming and the URL for 3chan was taken at the time so I just jumped to the next number.' Although 4chan gets 8.2 million unique visitors every month, 600 million page loads per month, and 800,000 new posts a day, Poole is working on a new project to reimagine what an image board should be today using the current technologies available."
Live from Slashdot, it's Friday Night! (Score:5, Funny)
Website creator promises to redesign his website. We'll be monitoring this story overnight and have a full report to you on the Saturday Really Early News. We start when normal people wake up.
I can't wait (Score:5, Funny)
For the web2.0 tubgirl experience.
Lame joke... (Score:2, Funny)
We could discuss this further, but I'm afraid it'd be a Moot point.
Anonymous post-it notes (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The sad truth about 4chan (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Anonymous post-it notes (Score:2, Funny)
The Game
Well played, Sir.
Re:The sad truth about 4chan (Score:3, Funny)
... i c wat u did thar
Re:Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lame joke... (Score:3, Funny)
We could discuss this further, but I'm afraid it'd be a Moot point.
Headline should've read: 4chan Redesign Mooted.
Re:The sad truth about 4chan (Score:5, Funny)
He's my younger, stupider, brother...
Re:I can't wait (Score:1, Funny)
Now with added corn!
Re:What I want to know is, (Score:3, Funny)
no, they will spill and bring the stupidity all over the net.