A few days ago, an article was posted how WhatsApp has scaled to nearly a billion users and is still running with only 50 engineers. Isn't running 4chan more impressive feat being run, if I am not wrong, by just one engineer, and that too from a time when web development tools weren't anywhere close to what we have today.
Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan
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The start of it, sure. This is all public record at this point. Judging what exists now by what existed over a year ago is hardly fair. People who actually harass people are now loudly shouted down wherever they're seen doing it.
GamerGate was sharing photos of Zoe Quinn from her old modeling profile as recently as a month ago. This is a continuous problem.
Citation needed, and even if true, posting pictures of someone that they made public years ago is not "harassment".
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Much of the dank memes that have become completely mainstream in social media can be traced to 4chan in one way or another. Something Awful also used to be responsible for a lot, but lost relevance a long time ago. I don't know if this is "great" as in implying a positive value judgment, but it is great in magnitude.
Something Awful is also the only reason that 4chan exists in the first place. It was created as a refuge for the SA anime forum (ADTRW) after Lowtax purged the users from Raspberry Heaven (the SA DC++ hub for anime). Nearly every founding admin/mod was a permabanned SA user.
Not really. A lot of the mods were current or former FYAG/FYAD posters. Only a few were banned, and the big anime witch hunts came much later.
Raspberry Heaven was kind of a splinter from the semi-official SADCHUB. Lowtax never had any influence on either.
RH and ADTRW actually both had their own off-SA fora created to avoid the overall SA attitude, though neither was used much. When moot created 4chan it was more out of the general fascination with 2chan's image boards, particularly /a and /b, which were mostly random (but not 4chan /b random) artwork, without much commentary.
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So some research and it is easy to see the beginning of the GG movement was mainly a force to harass people like Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian.
This reminds me of attempts to discredit planned parenthood by pointing out the views of some of the founders. Even if it is true, should something be judged based on where it came from instead of what it currently is?
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I am curious, could you think of some examples of the great ways it influenced the internet?
Look past the media slant and you will find one of the last true bad lands of the internet, mired in post irony, where speech is free and each poster's opinion is as equally without value as another. Where unpopular opinions are given as much weight as popular ones (i.e. barely any). Its equal parts a utopia and a cesspool. Without it, there would be no such thing as "internet culture".
> one of the last true bad lands of the internet
Absolutely true, and a great way of putting it.
Re: Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan
#67A few days ago, an article was posted how WhatsApp has scaled to nearly a billion users and is still running with only 50 engineers. Isn't running 4chan more impressive feat being run, if I am not wrong, by just one engineer, and that too from a time when web development tools weren't anywhere close to what we have today.
I wasn't aware that they made a Fundamentals of Engineering certification exam for web developers.
Re: Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan
#68All hail chinese moot!
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#69Re: Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan
#70A few days ago, an article was posted how WhatsApp has scaled to nearly a billion users and is still running with only 50 engineers. Isn't running 4chan more impressive feat being run, if I am not wrong, by just one engineer, and that too from a time when web development tools weren't anywhere close to what we have today.
Most of the chans (2ch/8ch/4chan/420chan ect) are just FreeBSD boxes and cgi/perl scripts
http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/interviews/moot-4chan.h...