meta thread

This thread may be used to discuss issues relating the /prog/ itself, both old and new.

So, it's been a while since the unfortunate series of events that happened at old /prog/. I think most of the old community has posted here a least a few time, with the exception of cudder and that one person that probably spammed this /prog/ when it was first made, who I believe is still banned from this /prog/. I would like the following things to happen, although they may not be possible:

1. The old /prog/ community, or what is left of it, may continue bbsing using some medium.
2. I would like to be able to use this medium without disclosing my ip address.
3. A little bit of exposure to new people is healthy. While we had a lot of homework threads in old /prog/, some of them ended up being interesting. It's easy for us to run out of things to talk about if there isn't much activity other than us.
4. The connection to /prog/'s entire history helped shape the culture of the board. It would be nice to have that again.
5. Add more wants here.

And some possible ways of getting these things:
1. Write a captcha solver and integrate it into a userscript for old /prog/. Moderation appears dead there again, so things would be like how they were for the most part. Moderation could always come back again though, and it would not be possible to obscure ip addresses, so it's pretty far from anonymous.
2. We all create twitter accounts and tweet.
3. We can create an irc channel.
3. We wait for distbb to be completed. And then we'll have a distributed text board that can self moderate and...well, as cool as that would be, it'll be different from old /prog/. The medium isn't complicated, and replaceable, but the people, the customs, etc, are what make /prog/ what it is.
4. We create facebook accounts and like each other's pictures of fibs code.
5. We go to reddit.
6. Insert more ideas here.

>>40
I'm ok with the variable length lines, I just prefer the old style larger serif fonts (i.e. dis.4chan.org). It's not a big deal, I was just putting it out there.

>>40,41

All of us should endeavor to write lines that terminate at precisely 70
characters. While this may be hard for some (and they may compensate by
inserting doubled or tripled spaces as appropriate), by the time /prog/
and /lounge/ have adjusted to this new writing style, we will reap many
benefits of such proper communication.

Of course, 70 characters per line may permit exceptions (quotations and
end-of-paragraph lines spring to mind), but for the body of a paragraph
a fixed limit should be observed.

>>42
What will we call this new form of monospace art?

Someone is spamming the shit out of the DistBB thread. I wonder who and why.

>>44
Did Admin-sama just delete those posts?

>>43

This form of posting is a voluntary and somewhat mathematically imposed
restriction upon text, which reminds me of the French masters of Oulipo
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo for those interested). I would not
want to foolishly compare my 70-character line limits to the brutal and
ingenious methods of Oulipo's composition, so I'll not put forth such a
name as ``Oulipost'' - I would reserve that for something nobler.

Perhaps, though, this could be called the ``Usenet Constraint'' to draw
a parallel with the ``Prisoner's Constraint''; the latter restricts all
letter choices to make the lines fit within a small vertical space, the
former restricts more general structure choices to fit the lines into a
[not quite so] small horizontal space.

>>42,46
Not sure how I feel about justified monospace text.

Emacs M-q at default fill length is good enough.

Spammer-kun could you please spam just one thread?

Preferable spam just one thread on world4ch.

>>22
How is the RSS going?