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Re: 4chan source code leaked (2010)

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Post by Robadob » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 4:01 PM UTC

NotUncivil wrote: post #70

goshx wrote: post #67

Ask HN: Would you rather have a beautiful source code with 1000 pageviews/month or an ugly source code with millions of pageviews/month?

>millions of pageviews/month That is technically correct but does not covey the scale at which 4chan operates. According to http://www.4chan.org/advertise , Page impressions per month: 575,000,000; Unique visitors per month: 25,000,000; Posts per day: 1,000,000; Alexa Traffic Rank: 836 (Global) & 371 (US) Quantcast Rank: 305 (US) Google PageRank: 6 Makes me wonder if WebM will increase or reduce 4chan's total traffic…

WebM has caused longer animated content to be posted that wouldn't have been so possible as gifs (the limit is at 2 minutes iirc), so there will still be people posting large files.

Re: 4chan source code leaked (2010)

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Post by freshyill » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 4:31 PM UTC

mkoryak wrote: post #105

freshyill wrote: post #85

? ? Man, 4chan is worse than I thought.

whats wrong with ?

is for tables of information, not for layout.

But seeing as how I was downvoted, the important thing to remember is that any hint of levity strictly forbidden on Hacker News.

Re: 4chan source code leaked (2010)

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Post by dang » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 5:17 PM UTC

freshyill wrote: post #112

mkoryak wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

whats wrong with ?

is for tables of information, not for layout. But seeing as how I was downvoted, the important thing to remember is that any hint of levity strictly forbidden on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289

Re: 4chan source code leaked (2010)

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Post by aaronem » Fri, Apr 25, 2014, 3:46 PM UTC

aaronem wrote: post #102

onion2k wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the fact that you can drive a multi million user website that was once valued at $1.2b (by a VC admittedly) on 2600 lines of pretty bad PHP code when most of the users are exactly the sort of people who'd try to hack it is actually a testament to how good PHP is. Redeveloping the site in Go, Dart, Python or Node, or whatever language you like best, wouldn't increase 4Chan's value in any discernible way. At th…

Please, please tell me you're joking about 4chan having been valued at $1.2 billion dollars by anyone .

This itched me -- I've never gotten the impression that Christopher Poole was particularly stupid, and I couldn't imagine him reacting to a genuine offer of $1.2 billion for 4chan in any other fashion than by demanding cash on the nail and then taking it -- so I scratched it.

The only thing I could find was a year-old thread from 4chan itself [1], in which the supposed VC never identifies himself, and in which (someone who is probably) Poole had the following to say:

>>this thread

>>my sides

>>the stratosphere

>

>If this is actually your profession, you should probably find a new job.

The advice never to believe everything you read is good advice in general; with regard to anything you read on, from, or about 4chan, it's indispensable.

[1] http://4chandata.org/q/VC-estimates-4chan-worth-1-2-billion-...