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Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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Post by lumberjack » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 1:56 PM UTC

qwertyz wrote: post #6

citricsquid wrote: post #5

Not really related, but this is the first time I've seen 4chan stats posted properly (although they do measure with quantcast) so I feel like saying this. These are our stats for minecraftforum.net (last 30 days): > Visits: 33,793,899 > Unique Visitors: 11,094,806 A forum for an indie game is half the size of 4chan; the biggest western forum. Pretty neat. We're also bigger than 4chan in the UK. I'm not sure if this m…

If you look at ClouldFlare's report, Google Analytics misses at least 30% of the pageviews, so there's a good chunk of unaccounted visitors. You are more like a third/quarter the size.

A lot of anons are actively blocking online tracking technologies, much more than the usual 1% that run NoScript.

Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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Post by Karunamon » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 2:03 PM UTC

talloaktrees wrote: post #16

I've always seen 4chan as the scumhole of the internet. It scares me that it's so huge. Do I have a wrong impression of it?

Sort of. Each board is more or less its own community (much like how different subreddits are independent of each other on Reddit). /b/ and /v/ (Random and Video Games) contain the cause of the great majority of 4chan's esteemed reputation.

The other boards are a lot more calm and enjoyable. But some people enjoy the chaos :)

Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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Post by astrange » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 2:17 PM UTC

franzus wrote: post #20

swah wrote: post #11

Its down now, right?

yeah. has been slashdotted!

It's not down for me. content.4chan.org's traffic level is hardly going to be affected by something like that.

Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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Post by jsavimbi » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 2:18 PM UTC

studio625 wrote: post #14

4chan's comment system is awful. I still don't really understand how it works. It seems like they could improve the design and pipe in new comments as they arrive, thus negating all the extra server load caused by browser extensions refreshing every second. Of course, I have no experience dealing with ~1B page views/month.

The chaotic comment system IS the application. There's nothing else and that's what makes it so unique.

Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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Post by mdpane » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 2:19 PM UTC

franzus wrote: post #20

swah wrote: post #11

Its down now, right?

yeah. has been slashdotted!

nah, it's been Farked

Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 2:22 PM UTC

smackfu wrote: post #15

citricsquid wrote: post #5

Not really related, but this is the first time I've seen 4chan stats posted properly (although they do measure with quantcast) so I feel like saying this. These are our stats for minecraftforum.net (last 30 days): > Visits: 33,793,899 > Unique Visitors: 11,094,806 A forum for an indie game is half the size of 4chan; the biggest western forum. Pretty neat. We're also bigger than 4chan in the UK. I'm not sure if this m…

Minecraft videos are regularly in the top 10 most viewed on YouTube. I think it's that Minecraft is huge plus the players are very engaged on the internet with it.

Say what you want about the quality of the game (I personally detest many of its more recent changes and its loss of clear direction), Minecraft has a huge and very, very active community. Notch might not have cracked designing a game, but he's certainly cracked making a game community.

Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 2:24 PM UTC

lumberjack wrote: post #21

qwertyz wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you look at ClouldFlare's report, Google Analytics misses at least 30% of the pageviews, so there's a good chunk of unaccounted visitors. You are more like a third/quarter the size.

A lot of anons are actively blocking online tracking technologies, much more than the usual 1% that run NoScript.

And heck, some access 4chan over Tor, which means any statistics about latency and location are quite probably wrong.

(You might think Tor is slow for image-heavy sites, in my experience it isn't. Tor is high-latency, but throughput is reasonable)

Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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Post by dudurocha » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 2:34 PM UTC

talloaktrees wrote: post #16

I've always seen 4chan as the scumhole of the internet. It scares me that it's so huge. Do I have a wrong impression of it?

I would recomend the /fit. Is a great place to get tips and encouragement for exercises.

But go away from /b, it's a mess.

Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 2:40 PM UTC

studio625 wrote: post #14

4chan's comment system is awful. I still don't really understand how it works. It seems like they could improve the design and pipe in new comments as they arrive, thus negating all the extra server load caused by browser extensions refreshing every second. Of course, I have no experience dealing with ~1B page views/month.

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Re: About 4chans current stats and infrastructure

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Post by blhack » Fri, Jul 06, 2012, 2:41 PM UTC

studio625 wrote: post #14

4chan's comment system is awful. I still don't really understand how it works. It seems like they could improve the design and pipe in new comments as they arrive, thus negating all the extra server load caused by browser extensions refreshing every second. Of course, I have no experience dealing with ~1B page views/month.

>4chan's comment system is awful.

They better change it to be successful.

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