"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."
Hmmm (Score:0, Interesting)
I call Vaporware! (Score:3, Interesting)
Doesn't Moot know that it's bad luck for geeks to discuss software they're going to write before it's written? It's the Vaporware curse that has been dogging classics like Duke Nukem Forever.
We are all /b/tards. Not all of us accept that. (Score:5, Interesting)
/. and /b/ share a common history. /. is sort of a grandparent for /b/. And, read how I say /b/ and not 4chan. /b/ and the rest of 4chan are completely different places, with wholly different people. The difference is interests. Actually, people in other boards have interests, common interests. People in /b/ ... they are just /b/tards.
but ALL of you go to /b/, some more often than others. You all troll Omegle, and you all have vandalized wikipedia at least once. Every single one of you have gone into chatroulette to flash your dick, and engaged in a flame war with the retards that post on youtube, or spent hours looking at gross things at rotten.
This are the dark corners of the web. We all go there. Not all of us admit it.
All of this sites exist for a simple reason: Because they can. It's part of what we all are, and we have to eventually vent and let the daemons run loose.
So, don't be so critic of 4chan and accept it for what it is: A crappy board filled with self-righteous, ignorant, malicious and violent hypocrites. A quick hack that excretes nonstandard html code where lots of cruel and selfish uncaring monsters vent their frustration and anger. And we are those monsters.
Re:We are all /b/tards. Not all of us accept that. (Score:1, Interesting)
/. and /b/ share a common history. /. is sort of a grandparent for /b/. And, read how I say /b/ and not 4chan. /b/ and the rest of 4chan are completely different places, with wholly different people.
There used to be a /prog/ board in one of the chans (strangely, fchan.us.) Then 2 years ago, it was pulled without an explanation. It was still filled with immature teens who were taking intro C++ courses and asking for homework help, but 70% of the threads were memes about "EXPERT PROGRAMMER" and python's sucking due to "the forced indentation of code."
And then, a couple times a week, a golden nugget would come out in the form of some interesting programming problem to be looked at, and giving or getting help on some legit non-compiling code, or a particular book to read. I miss that. Anyone care to inform where the board went, or whether there are similar boards? It was the closest that you could get to a /. system, with the benefit of flat threads, lack of censhorship (negative moderation will kill initiative, and I don't mid sifting through crap if the total threads are expunged slowly and aren't more than 30 or so.) There were no "news for nerds," but that meant everything was code-related, and complete noobs were somehow filtered out.
Thanks.
Re:I await they day that the feds (Score:3, Interesting)
well actually alot of people have been partyvanned from 4chan (for those not up with the chan's lit.; partyvanned is when the FBI task force trailer, the 'party van' shows up in your driveway.) They dont do much about raids and whatnot, although most of the people behind those raids are from 711chan and others like it. 4chan in a raid is usually just the fodder to get the job done. all the great hackers today are also great social engineers, and they make full use of the mob.