So old /prog/ is finally dead

http://blog.4chan.org/post/81998248943/goodbye-to-some-old-friends

Over the past 10 years, 4chan has accumulated many features and side-projects, but since the team has rarely consisted of more than myself, a single volunteer developer, and a handful of volunteer moderators, many have been neglected. Specifically the discussion boards (dis.4chan.org) and Fileshares board (rs.4chan.org).[br]Rather than continue to neglect these side-projects, we’ve decided to sunset them so that we can focus our time and energy into maintaining and improving the core of the site—4chan’s image boards.

So it's finally over. All we have left is this shithole. I feel like killing myself.

For the VIPPERs and “expert programmers” among us this may be a sad day, however we hope to accommodate you with some future image board features. Stay tuned.

Haha, no, get fucked, faggot.

will the /prog/rider guy allow us to have our own unmoderated /prog/?

/prog/ was a shithole. I am glad it is gone.
Here is an excerpt from the anti-foreword to the Unix Hater's Handbook. It is written by Dennis Ritchie, and I feel it applies if one were to talk about /prog/, too.

Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.

>>2
Well he did promise that when he made this board....

Fucking piss out my shitting dick ass

>>4
But he deletes fucking everything

Hello, I was sent here from /jp/. :)

/prog/ was the best board since the 0chan.ru/c/ got closed by Mr. Putin's censorship (Putin dislikes freedom of speech).

>>6
Yeah, we'll sometimes people don't keep their promises. Sometimes the power goes to a man's head.

since moot will delete the old prog...
http://bbs.progrider.org/prog/read/1383362137

>>10
It will remain in read only mode.

>>2
Yes. It's called /lounge/.

>>11
For now. Do you really trust him?

>>12
Fuck off, admin.

>>13
I'm not the admin. I've always wished for an unmoderated /prog/ as well, and it's currently at /lounge/.

>>12
It isn't /prog/ nor it's popular

that was the last /prog/ thread
https://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1396847195/8
;_;

>>15
you're literally one click away from /lounge/, what the hell is wrong with you

>>17
You seem angry

I really wanted to read a more detailed account of the anon raped by North Korean lolies. Damn you moot.

>>19
I was waiting a reply from L. A.

>>20

where will the legends go?

>>21
Most likely, Reddit or /g/. Some of the /prog/ celebrities, like Lambda and Cudder were unusually adamant to move here.

Tor Check 1, 2. Is this on? Admin-kunt better not have blocked Tor again....

>>19
Sorry, I tried to respond but got the 404 on /post and then went on to discover what happened. And now I've fallen out of character and can no continue that narrative.

But if there's any consolation for me, it's that my post about being raped by mutant N. Korean children will be forever frozen on the front page of /prog/

>>23

forever

Shalom! moot will remove /anus/ complitely

>>24
Well, all good things must end sometime. But given what a forgetful idiot joot is, it'll probably stay up as long as he's there to suck 4chan dry. The `sunsetting' was probably the result of the dev's (probably not MrVacBob-kun-sama anymore) struggle to implement something as simple as stopping necroposting. As long as nothing is there to remind him about, it'll be fine.

For example, the original dev blog was up until just last year when.... when I made the foolish mistake of telling him that the CSS on it was broke. Then it was 403'd in a day. Luckily, I had the foresight to save a copy of it. It's not very useful though, but if anyone wants it....

>>21

I hope Luke-kun stay with us

>>23

It was a grave loss to us all

>>25
share it

I'm thinking of creating a textboard in C and inserting the existing database into it and after that, joot maybe, if we ask him nicely will redirect dis.4chan.org to us

or just saying to joot that we will develop /prog/ if the issuse is what >>25
-chan said

/prog/ died long ago. The corpse has simply stopped moving because the mortician, tired of waiting, has duct-taped its extremities to the coffin walls.

Still, it had a good run.

>>28
I don't understand why you're offering an alternative to world4ch when you're posting on a completely valid alternative for world4ch's /prog/.

There's also Tablecat's Lounge, and nobody ever cared about the other spam infested textreddits.

>>30
I kinda cared about /sjis/ until the exodus gave me no cause to let that hostname darken my router's door again, and I would have cared about /book/ if it was a bit less terrible.

So actually, I guess you're right. I didn't care about the other texttumblrs at all.

>>31
/sjis/ has been stagnant for months. Archive it and use

http://archives.4-ch.net/ascii
http://4-ch.net/ascii
http://www.secretareaofvipquality.net/aastory/
http://progrider.org/lounge/read/1382286531

or, you know, 2ch.

>>30

valid alternative for world4ch's /prog/.

lol!

>>27
http://www.mediafire.com/download/in5kb69d17d1rl3/devblog.7z

>>30
It would be nice to have somewhere to go that had an admin who could figure out how to block spammers without managing a 95% false positive rate.

There's also Tablecat's Lounge, and nobody ever cared about the other spam infested textreddits.

/lang/ was an important place to redirect people, and /tech/ was slowly improving.

>>33
What are you doing here then?

>>35
What do you mean by 95% false positive rate? The admin only deleted a few spam posts. Yes, banning all Tor nodes was stupid, but it's reasonable to be paranoid after the spam at world4ch.

I'm not the admin, so I wouldn't know if he has deleted some of your well-intentioned posts, but he has never deleted my shitposts.

It's such a shame /jp/ can't redirect anyone to /lang/ anymore. In the same way we redirect people to Reddit and Stack Overflow, they could redirect the weebs to http://japanese.stackexchange.com/.

>>36

What are you doing here then?

Crying

but he has never deleted my shitposts

he did to me

Are the IP blocks for /prog/ only?

it's dead! I can't believe this shit (ﾟДﾟ;)

So it's finally over. All we have left is this shithole. I feel like killing myself.

This site might not even be up for much longer. I have to decide whether I want to renew the registration for everything in a few months. I might not really, not like I'm getting much out of this other than being called a faggot constantly by imbeciles who have contributed nothing.

>>6
I haven't deleted anything in ages. I honestly have better things to do than look at this site. I haven't even logged into the admin panel in about 2 months.

>>9
It's not power, it was frustration in the beginning. Try hosting a site like this and you'll see.

>>35

It would be nice to have somewhere to go that had an admin who could figure out how to block spammers without managing a 95% false positive rate.

What are you even talking about? The ``spam-detection'' on here is incredibly simplistic and retarded because I hacked it together in like 15 minutes when we were getting spammed once. I've yet to see any actual poster get tripped up by it.

Anyway, this site might die soon as well. Then you can all cry in the corner without having a place left to whine in.

okay then, since this site is going to die too what are our plans?
/g/ with vipper and hax my anus spam?

Actually, if I end up getting the full traffic of the old /prog/ here I'm fairly certain I'll end up just closing the site. If with just a fraction in the beginning there was so much hassle I can't imagine what kind of autistic turf wars will spawn as a result of world4ch going down completely.

I always just wanted a small site with a small textboard with a small, relaxed community. I probably should never even have posted as myself in the first place, that was a mistake. Too late now. I don't even know why you all seem to have made me your personal enemy, I'm just a two-bit programmer that wanted to give back a bit to the place I enjoyed browsing for years. I tried to keep the board clean and remove the stuff that plagued old /prog/ but no one's ever happy, especially with half of the old userbase thinking I was the one spamming it world4ch. If you didn't like it here there was nothing stopping you from hosting your own bbs.

Enjoy the remaining time on here. There's probably not much of it left.

came here to post http://phrack.org/papers/fall_of_groups.html (interesting article btw), didn't even bother going to the old /prog/. now come to discover it's gone i'm kinda sad though. i spent years there ;_;

Admin, fuck the haters! don't let this place die too! i'll take over if you want (with the same hands-off approach).

>>6
I've been shitposting and trolling in this thread and yet none of my comments have been deleted. Pretty good board.

I tried to keep the board clean and remove the stuff that plagued old /prog/ but no one's ever happy, especially with half of the old userbase thinking I was the one spamming it world4ch.

Great going, /prog/. You are given a Shiitchan-free alternative, one with a preview button, VIP quality posts, free of spam, free of captcha, and you keep calling the admin a faggot.

I fucking hate all of you for ruining a perfectly good thing.

Maybe this will finally open up some community effort to put together a real, moderated, not-dead, 2ch style site. God knows, there are enough half-dead boards sprinkled throughout the internet.

What we need is a kind of confederation of text boards.

>>46
Ideally, at least SAoVQ, Tablecat's Lounge and neet.to should make active part of it.

>>47
Fuck.

neet.nu is now an imageboard at uboachan. Nevermind that.

>>46

real, moderated, not-dead, 2ch style site

Personally, I find the internet too full of real, moderated things. That's why progrider is/was good, depending on how Admin feels. Not-dead? Well, I wouldn't mind more life, but not at certain costs.

Admin-kun, what does it cost you to run this place and what would it cost with the traffic of old /prog/?

I might just throw up my old own bbs with this software. Anyway, I'm sorry for calling you a jew for not removing the site's javascript, but you really should have removed the javascript you fucking kike.

Also, I might just throw you some money every month to keep this place up.

Sorry about the sad news. But it was going to come eventually. The text boards were a liability for moot. Too many spammers. People with the time, skill, and autistic motives to find vulnerabilities in the very buggy text board. And rs is a copyright liability.

if this site goes down we can discuss the next /prog/ at tablecat.ipyo.heliohost.org/lounge

Good night and good luck.

>>36

What do you mean by 95% false positive rate? The admin only deleted a few spam posts. Yes, banning all Tor nodes was stupid, but it's reasonable to be paranoid after the spam at world4ch.

Well, to be honest, I haven't been here since the beginning, when it was an autoban to post more than once per, like, hour.

Is it still like that?

S-so MrVacBob-sama has betrayed us?

>>53
I don't think he's active any more. The last I heard, the developer of some 4chan extension was the new main developer.

>>52
lol no, that was like the first week anon

>>54
He's still on staff (more than likely anyway) as of September:
https://rbt.asia/con/thread/S1

Why not ｗｗｗ.4-ch.net/code/?

>>57
even /g/ have more quality in their dpt, but 4-ch DQN is a good places for VIPPERS

>>42
Please don't delete my home Admin onii-chan, I will be lonely without it.

So is this proggles now?

Don't be so dispirited admin-kun. All the accusations were actually just bullshit and we truly value this board and appreciate your work, even more so now that /prog/ is no more. And you know it.

le pedophile sage

If shit goes down, let's meet up in the Tablecat's shelter.

>>57-58
PHP and Javashit hate are explicitly forbidden there. I kid you not.

>>60
Yes, although it doesn't look like it will last much longer.

>>50
What?! areyou a faggot? Only sjw faggots hate javascript

>>64
Please stop using the acronym ``SJW''. Also, Javashit hate doesn't have anything to do with Brendan Kike being an anti-faggot. In fact, I'm glad he hates fags.

>>65
sjw

Admin-kike, I promise that mostly stop callin you names if you don't kill the new /prog/.

And no one seriously thought you were spamming old /prog/, that was just one /g/ autist who decided to stick around when '>le pedophile sage pissed him off and he reverted back to /b/ mode.

>>57
Gross. I don't remember why, but I really dislike that place (maybe Shii had something to do with that site?). If rather go hang out on FrozenBBS that post there.

>>67
You could take over the site if you have the money to pay for a new server.

'
so, we can greentext now on /prog/ without getting our posts deleted?
sounds cool

>>70
We already know you have nothing else to do, le pedophile sage-kun.

>>71 '
I am >>62 but I am not the pedophile sage guy. Stop calling me names kike admin
Also the number of sageposting in this site is terrible

>>72
By terrible do you mean too much, or not enough?

>>73
too much

>>50
Money's not the issue. It doesn't take much to host this site. It's just text. I don't really want anyone's money, more than anything I'd need people to help manage things / development help? The problem is the possible hassles that come with hosting a community of this type. Look at what happened to moot. I really don't need that.

If there really aren't any major problems I'll keep the board going and think and maybe changing server / server software over time.

I just really don't have the time to keep behind at this site at this point in time, so if it becomes a thing where I need to check it like every 5 minutes to keep it functional, then I will have to think about retiring it.

Otherwise, we really need to switch out this board software. It is some of the most obtuse perl I've ever seen and far too simplistic, it lacks too many features, is very rigid in its implementation, and I hate writing perl. If anyone can recommend an alternative I'll look into it.

>>75
Yeah, the poor guy, giving TEDx talks and getting investment capital. That 4chan really did a number on him. Seriously, what do you mean.

>>75
Sounds like a good /prog/ challenge.

sage is bad

>>23

But if there's any consolation for me, it's that my post about being raped by mutant N. Korean children will be forever frozen on the front page of /prog/

Link?

>>50

Also, I might just throw you some money every month to keep this place up.

Sounds like you're the kike m8.

>>75
What happened to that dist bb guy?

>>79
He's probably busy with University.

>>79
What's distbb?
some distrbuted shit?

Sunset them. Really, moot?

>>82

You just can't understand the genuis of moot's poetics

>>80
Yes, yes I am. Also a prof just unloaded a metric fuckton of research on me. Here's to never ending work!

Kareha is the board software to use, just uses a variant of markdown rather than BBCode.

>>54
I replied to moot once when the captcha-shit on /prog/ was broken.
He forwarded what I said to the email "mrvacbob@4chan.org".

>>85
No dice, ^_BBCODE or bust.

>>86
would emailing mrvacbob help?

>>1

For the VIPPERs and “expert programmers” among us this may be a sad day, however we hope to accommodate you with some future image board features. Stay tuned.

Wow, what a slap to the face, really.

>>30

and nobody ever cared about the other spam infested textreddits.

/newpol/ had some decent discussion going on it And /sjis/ and /vip/ were occasionally amusing with thoughtful discussion sometimes. /comp/ and /tech/ were kinda redundant, /food/ had a good thread pop up once in a rare while.

>>53
>>54
It looks like VacBob betrayed us. This was his response to my question. http://ask.fm/mrvacbob/answer/111468489368 (https://archive.is/6Ef5m)
This is my response to him (in case he doesn't answer it): http://pastebin.com/yMWK0mjQ (https://archive.is/Td8JY) I guess it's not surprising, moot's bullshit has now metastasized and infected VacBob too. I expected better from him, at least.

>>88
You could also try e-mailing him at astrange@ithinksw.com or his AIM sn: feanoraim Doubtful that anything will come from it. I'll try shooting moot an e-mail too, but it's probably a lost cause.

>>91

Did you know 4-ch.net is still up? That's a pretty good website, I think.

What's wrong with MrFagBob-kun-sama

If this ship sinks again, let's meet up at the usual place!
http://tablecat.ipyo.heliohost.org/lounge/read/1373068543/1-

>>94

read/1373068543/1-

why do you do this? read/1373068543 links to the static .html file. adding /1- unnecessarily generates the page dynamically.

>>95
Sorry, won't do that again.

Isn't it kind of weird that once the offshot board is made for the other large board on world4ch, moot shuts everything down? Are we incredibly lucky, or moot just really opportunist?

>>97
This board was made in response to captcha, which was regarded as a death sentence. Now the axe has fallen. Not much has changed. Rather than being inconvenient to post, it is no longer an option.

>>45

calling the admin a faggot

I thought that was obligatory.

(It's okay, we love you admin-kun :3 )

>>99
I call my boyfriend a faggot.

❤He's such a sweetheart❤

>>100
You are a ``faggot''

Now that old /prog/ has been murdered, we have the responsibility of carrying on /prog/ culture so that it can live into the future rather than becoming a forgotten relic of the past. I will increase my shit posting rate by 2x.

>>102
HAX MY ANUS

The old /prog/ was nothing but a cespool since 2012, almost only succesive spam of imageboard talk with the variation of a shitty spambot. There was nearly no talking of programming at all, it was sort of like trying to sift out small patches of gold from a river of diarreah.
Moot should have shutdown the place when he realized that nobody gave a crap about it, im glad of its long overdue death.

Dont think nobody appreciates what you did admin-sama, i certainly liked this board, but just had little to contribute.
Please dont shut it down just becuase some people badmouth you, i know its not very rewarding and motivating, but i think this place means alot to some of us. Im sure there is a silent majority that like this place and how you run it.
First neet.nu and now this, i hope textboard culture isnt dying for good. ;_;
If you do decide to shutdown this place, then i thank you for the time i could spend here and hope it doesnt leave a bad taste for you and id hope all of you here are going to find some other place to feel comfortable (except for the shitposters who ruined it, they should rot in the hell of the burned testicles).

Thanks for the positive responses, goyim.

No shitstorm has happened yet, which is unexpected. I wonder where all of world4ch's userbase has gone. Perhaps there weren't that many people posting there after all, or most of them didn't know about this place (hopefully).

I will ride it out and see what happens. I don't really want to kill off the site, but I don't want to see it turn into a pile of shit either.

I won't be deleting anything at all anymore from either board or banning anyone unless it's truly spam (i.e., complete garbage posts / same post everywhere all over the place). So have fun. I don't see myself appointing moderators in the foreseeable future, either.

Feel free to make threads on /lounge/ or reply on here if you have suggestions, I will look into switching board software or maybe making something myself. Need to write something to export these posts from raw HTML into an actual database first, though. If someone could make a script for that, it would be greatly appreciated, so that I don't have to waste my time doing it (modifying tablecat's thread presentation function and then partitioning the output is probably the easiest route).

This is probably the last post you'll see me make for a while.

P.S. I don't understand why some of you think I get some strange power trip from being the administrator of this place or that I'm somehow emotionally invested in the bullshit you end up posting. Most of the time I was acting according to general consensus, hosting a site like this is incredibly irritating, especially when you get spammed and are running on software that you have to code solutions to the spam in real time on top of a horrifying perl codebase that literally parses HTML with regex, all while everyone is shitting themselves complaining constantly expecting you to do everything while contributing nothing (your shitposts aren't a valid form of currency). There is no real personal benefit to hosting this site other than seeing /prog/ continue by proxy. Also, stop whining about Tor being banned, if you want it to be unbanned help develop something that counteracts spam without requiring constant moderation and that doesn't use IPs as a filter. Submit it. I will implement it and if it works I will unban Tor. This goes for any and all features you want, implement it and do most of the work and I'll integrate it, but please refrain from requesting / submitting anything that would just benefit your personal tastes, because I will not even respond.

>>105
Thank you so much for letting us live, Jew-sama.

>>105
I just wake up. I saw kike-admin-sama in my dream where he deleted all of my [i]legimate[/i] posts!

complete garbage posts

so, you will delete the hax my anus?

anyway, thank you. I wish /porg/rider will be as good as 2008-/prog/ (but with funny maymays)

>>107
No, complete garbage posts means unicode spam or what someone was doing a while ago, copy pasting random sections of the page / certain threads / posts and stringing them together and just flooding the board with them. In general as long as it wasn't automated it won't be deleted.

>>107
...and less ```back to /g/ please''

>>108
How about one greentexted doge as a reply to a fig?
also, does this mean that you will delete the pedophile sage guy?

anyway, thanks

>>110
The short of it is I don't care anymore. I'm not going to patrol the board. Spam will be deleted because it is obvious and easy to pick up at least behaviorally (abnormal increase in the rate of posting, sustained rate well above normal levels, burst posting from disparate ranges, etc.) so I can have the server ``notify'' me if it happens and I will deal with it.

Beyond that I'm not deleting anything. I won't be on the site enough to catch most of it and so it would end up seeming like arbitrary / opinionated deletion. I'm not personally annoyed by any of it. You can filter things yourself using userscripts (or whatever) pretty easily if it's repetitive stuff that annoys you.

>>111
How can I show you my love admin-chan? :3

Would you accept to hear about things to improve/request to help with development?

>>112

>>113
?

(sorry, accidentally pressed submit)
>>112
I'm not entirely sure how to parse that. As I said if you have suggestions you are free to post them here, or in lounge. Preferably keep it in one thread because I'll be more likely to come across it then if I know where to look.

Also I usually idle in the IRC in one way or another. You can just leave a message there and I'll eventually read it.

>>115
okay thanks

Anyone have VacBob's modified form of Shiichan? It was posted at http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1325957099/7-8 but the file is deleted.

>>117
If we can't find it, we can always create scripts that will output the same html in between the dynamic content. Then it'll be like the same thing, except secure. Was the <> bug that leaked the poster's ip address ever fixed?

>>118
I remember the file was called "mrvacbob.7z", I'm sure some /prog/lodyte still has it.

>>118
I don't care about anything except the BBCode parser being 100% comparable. It's like COBOL, the code should never be changed; instead, the system should be designed around it, bugs and all.

>>120
Unfortunately we don't have a live system to test against anymore. We'll have to reimplement the bbcode parse from memory. That and the over 1000 bugs. Shii_tchat was quite an enigma.

>>105

on top of a horrifying perl codebase that literally parses HTML with regex

>>109
What about /polecat kebabs/?

>>46

What we need is a kind of confederation of text boards.

I'm here to remind everyone that the textboard overchan still exists. Even the author seems to have forgotten about it.

I had Shiichan installed on my laptop, along with an html to bbcode decompiler. But I got drunk and lost it ;_;

I think I may have downloaded shiichan a while ago but I have no idea where I could have saved it.

>>119
Here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19402169/mrvacbob.7z

Czech my 10000000.

>>127

Nice 01111111!

>>127
There's a file inside the shii4chan.tar once you un7z this that's named ``shii4chan.tar.bz2'' but it's corrupted halfway through, so about a 900KB chunk is missing. Seems to only be the .dat files in the anime/ folder, though.

There's a lot less to this than I would have imagined.

>>128
Check your 8bit aligned privilege

One of our friends from /g/ wishes to archive /prog/. I am touched somewhat.

https://boards.4chan.org/g/res/41348743

>>131
Go back to /g/

>>132
I have been searching /g/ and /jp/ for refugees.

/g/ is interesting sometimes. Take this thread on energy:
https://boards.4chan.org/g/res/41347494

I could find the information there by clicking through links in wikipedia, but their discussion is still somewhat impressive.

Which message board software do you guys think is the best?

Is kareha any good, or is shiichan better?

Would it be worth making a new BBS software that combines good aspects from other BBS software?

>>134
Kareha's quality is below average.

Why the fuck are you even considering Shiichan a viable alternative? What have you been smoking?

>>134
Monaba!
https://github.com/ahushh/Monaba

>>135
You're right, I don't know why I was considering shiichan.
What alternatives do you have in mind?

>>136
That's funny.

>>135
I like shiichan. I would consider hosting it inside of a jail, or on an untrusted machine.

>>136

cabal clean && yesod configure && yesod build

Shalom!

>>135
I'm curious what group this average comes from. About the only thing I can think of that might better is Matsuba, but the source for that was never released.

And honestly, having another shiichan board wouldn't be a terrible[i]![/I] thing. But yeah, don't run it on a machine that you can't just reimage easily.

>>140
failed at your bbcode nigger!

>>141
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>>143
we should make a prog challenge on writing sepuku solving programs

>>144


(defun solver (actor)
(let ((sword (ready-item actor 'sword)))
(ready-position actor sword (get-target actor 'belly))
(plunge actor sword)
(die actor)))


For the VIPPERs and “expert programmers” among us this may be a sad day, however we hope to accommodate you with some future image board features. Stay tuned.

I just realized he put expert programmers in quotes. I just can't take an insult like that from someone as incompetent as moot. This can't stand.

>>146
Yeah that fucking sucked. Quite disrespectful for a whole community. Most text boards might've been dead but /prog/ was alive.

>>146
What are you going to do, lambda knight? Write s-exp compilers until moot surrenders?

>>148
He will hax his anus


(hax (get-anus >>150))


>>150
(hax (anus-get >>150))

If most progriders are here then where are the rest?
Where are VIPPERS are?

>>143
Is a TUI game for a VT100 emulator, like xterm?

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:[h]elp
:[gen]erate another puzzle
:print as
:[s]olve
:[e]xit
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>>152
Tablecat's Lounge.

>>91
I wouldn't have been so hard on vacbob. It sounds like he hasn't been a part of /prog/ for a very long time. Maybe the /prog/ he knew would have fit in better at 4-ch.net/code. /prog/ today is like the anti-christ of that sort of discussion.

>>148
Move on I suppose. I could stop browsing /jp/.

>>147
old /prog/ was picking up steam too. It was finally beginning to return to normal. Despite my never posting there again, it would have made me happy to know that /prog/ lived on and was enjoyed by a new set of users. Now the continuation of /prog/ is in our hands alone.

>>154
But he does not have a VIP board!

>>155
Mooty is just a coorporate faggot. He killed what he didn't understand. There was no notice. He should had officially notified us so that we could prepare an `unofficial official' fork for the community. He's a bitch.

>>155
>>157
I had just started posting on /prog/ a week before it's death and even I was able to make it here, without having heard of this site before. I'm sure most will be able to do the same.

>>156
Try /saovq/ or /dqn/.

>>158
How did you find out about the site?

On the bright side, this place is more active than last time I visited ye olde /prog/, so the drama has sparked some life into this place.

>>160
Searching around in archives

>>161
Here here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA

I've synced up to the latest /prog/. It didn't take long. There are a few threads I need to review manually to make sure everything is loaded. I only have the first 175 posts from the 1-GET thread for some reason (thread id is 1). Once I'm sure everything is there I'll upload it somewhere. Where do we upload things again? Does archive.org accept submissions?

>>164 I don't think it does but one of the most permanent ways for it to exist would be to use a free google account and upload it there. sounds stupid but works fine.

I finally managed to scrape https://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1 maybe my http parser is fucked, but there were multiple points in that document where tags didn't match up. At some points, the extra starting tags had to be dropped. At other points, the extra ending tags had to be ignored. I eventually parsed the whole thing by making the parser non deterministic in these cases and repeatedly parsing the document until 2948 posts were recovered. It would sometimes get stuck at 66, 175, and 2920. It took about 30 parsings until it made the correct decisions to get all the posts.

I think that was the last thread with errors in it, so I will start compression now.

yay :D

Thank you oniichan, use xz or gzip for compression please and post it in this thread

Here it is

https://archive.org/details/prog-20140418.db

If you sign up for an account you can upload files at archive.org. You need an email to verify but mailinator works, using one of their alternative domains.

If there are issues with the file post here and I'll try again.

it looks like the .xz got mangled. It's a 61MB xz file.

>>169
Thank you!

>>171
(´ ･ω･`)

>>169
Thanks for that!
I tried browsing the 1.4Gb db file with sqlitebrowser. This wasn't a good idea. I could browse the threads table, but the posts table was way too big.
What do you recommend for browsing the database?

>>173
I've been using the command line program, sqlite3, to browse. I haven't written a browser yet. There is another person that has scraped /prog/ and has written a browser. The db schema is a bit different, so some names would need to change in the program or the db. It would be nice to have a browser. And heck once the browser is there, you basically have a sqlite powered text board with all of /prog/'s old content.

My current browsing experience:

$ sqlite3 prog.db
sqlite> select * from threads order by lastbumptime desc limit 5;
1396847195|J programming language |prog|2014-04-07 01:06|2014-04-07 11:44|2014-04-07 11:44|8
1396838670|teledildonics |prog|2014-04-06 22:44|2014-04-07 11:40|2014-04-07 11:40|9
1396882906|That was VIP quality! |prog|2014-04-07 11:01|2014-04-07 11:28|2014-04-07 11:28|2
1304381575|/prog/ Challenge #9002 |prog|2011-05-02 20:12|2014-04-07 11:24|2014-04-07 11:24|75
1339576156|An OPEN letter to Lambda A. Calculus |prog|2012-06-13 04:29|2014-04-07 10:42|2014-04-07 10:42|74
sqlite> select * from threads order by lastbumptime desc limit 5 offset 5;
1396850495|Abelsons fat schlong |prog|2014-04-07 02:01|2014-04-07 03:00|2014-04-07 03:00|5
1360383053|The worst thread of all time |prog|2013-02-08 23:10|2014-04-06 23:10|2014-04-06 23:10|125
1396813424|Trying to get friend back into C++ |prog|2014-04-06 15:43|2014-04-06 21:06|2014-04-06 21:06|12
1369714221|Magical Computing |prog|2013-05-28 00:10|2014-04-06 20:58|2014-04-06 20:58|57
1396648721|4chan now supports video uploads |prog|2014-04-04 17:58|2014-04-06 18:40|2014-04-06 18:40|20
sqlite> select * from posts where threadid=1396847195;
1396847195|1|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 01:06|
J is one of the most widespread programming language with an insane level of difficulty that I personally have ever seen, not including esoteric programming languages (i.e. brainfuck, whitespace).<br/>
<br/>
Are there any languages that /prog/ has found to be widely deployed but insanely difficult to learn? inb4 ASM

1396847195|2|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 01:23|
Programming languages are for faggots. Either learn circuits or fuck off.

1396847195|3|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 08:17|
*bump*

1396847195|4|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 10:44|
<a href="read/prog/1396847195/3">&gt;&gt;3</a><br/>
<i>bump my anus</i><br/>
sage

1396847195|5|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 10:49|
<a href="read/prog/1396847195/2">&gt;&gt;2</a><br/>
Circuits are for faggots. Either learn physics or fuck off.

1396847195|6|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 11:26|
Well, this thread went nowhere. Thanks fuckers.

1396847195|7|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 11:30|
<a href="read/prog/1396847195/5">&gt;&gt;5</a><br/>
Physics is for faggots. Either learn pure mathematics or fuck off.

1396847195|8|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 11:44|
<a href="read/prog/1396847195/5">&gt;&gt;5</a><br/>
circuits is physics, dolt

sqlite> select * from posts where threadid=1369714221 limit 5;
1369714221|1|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:10|
Would it be possible for a wizard to create a universal Turing machine that had an infinite amount of memory?<br/>
<br/>
Also, if we could master magic, do you think that it would be possible to create a separate pocket universe for a computer, that could perform exhaustive searches of an infinite problem space in a way that would seem instant when observed from this universe?

1369714221|2|Anonymous|mailto:sage|| |2013-05-28 00:17|
if we could master magic, computers would be boring as fuck

1369714221|3|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:19|
<span class="quote">infinite amount of memory<span class="o"></span><br/>
infinite problem space</span><br/>
Ahmed is 5..4..3..

1369714221|4|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:29|
infinite memory errors

1369714221|5|Anonymous|mailto:sage|| |2013-05-28 00:39|
Wouldn't it be interesting if we found a technique to do the latter.

sqlite> select * from posts where threadid=1369714221 limit 5 offset 5;
1369714221|6|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:41|
When the singularity happens (still waiting, Kurzweil and Kaku), I'm going simulate my own private universe where I am a cute little witch and wear cute Touhou dresses, but everyone else is normal. I'll give them hope, then crush their dreams right in front of them, keeping them in perpetual misery. I'll curse them with ambitions, but make those ambitions impossible to fulfill. I'll give them a good life, then smash them right in the middle, just to give them a taste of the happiness that they never have. I'll delude them into thinking that they are free, then reveal to them that they are only my slaves. I'll torture and kill them, just to resurrect them and do it again, until their mind is completely broken and there is no shreds of a human left in them, then discard them and move on to the next victim. I'll make Hell, and condemn those who resent my evil ways to eternal agony. I'll teach them concepts of justice just sneer in their faces as they try to reconcile my words with my actions. I'll reward those who emulate me with riches and power, and punish those who don't with starvation, sickness, and the death of those around them. I'll make them toil for their entire lives to build monuments to my vanity. I'll give them brief reprieves of love and contentment, then kill off everything they loved and leave them wondering what they did wrong.<br/>
<br/>
This will be a very fun and very intellectual game -- I am very much looking forward to it.

1369714221|7|Anonymous|mailto:sage|| |2013-05-28 00:50|
<a href="read/prog/1369714221/6">&gt;&gt;6</a><br/>
G-d is a little girl?

1369714221|8|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:54|
<a href="read/prog/1369714221/6">&gt;&gt;6</a><br/>
You've got some pretty serious issues, YHWH.

1369714221|9|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:58|
<a href="read/prog/1369714221/6">&gt;&gt;6</a><br/>
but once you get to wear the cute dress you would probably stop being angry and wanting to hurt people am I right?

1369714221|10|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:59|
I'm no physician, but I'm pretty sure that quantum mechanics allows for this.

sqlite>

>>173-174
http://bbs.progrider.org/prog/read/1383362137/9
I do not think it needs many modifications

>>174
Where did you get the updated .db? Mine is old.

>>176
Read the thread you dickface

>>177
no bully

>>178
*bullies*

>>179
Reported.

I love how it ended with threads like "Abelsons fat schlong" being all over front-page.

>>181
It's frozen in time like an artifact in a museum, to be remembered as such for the generations to come.

>>181
I wonder if moot opened up /prog/ on the 7^th and saw Abelsons fat schlong, The worst thread of all time, ＡＴＴＥＮＴＩＯＮ： New Meme and decided to kill the last scar Shii left on his precious business.

>>174
If you want I guess I could make an effort to clean up and release the code for the viewer and search engine running at ivasiwlrjq5dxk6b.onion

/prog could have at least gone to its deathbed with its greatest threads on the front page . Now it will be remembered only as the cesspit of shitposting that resulted from its long decline.

It is like putting an emaciated photo of a cancer victim on their coffin. moot has gone too far.

>>185
The J programming language is the greatest thread

>>185

You are wrong. The immortalized front page is objectively the gratest page on page. teledildonics, Abelsons fat schlong, and An OPEN letter to Lambda A calculus will all serve as fine monuments to the old /prog/

'> how do I epic green.txt

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>implying you are not a nigger faggot

newfags can't "GRUNNER"

>>190
You spelled it wrong. Blah now we're going to have a bunch of Fjölnir memes.

As an aside, I have no fucking clue how one pronounces 'ö' followed by 'l'.

>>191
Like the ``irl'' in ``girl'', but with less ``r''.

*
"GRUNNUR"
;

>>188,189
who are you quoting?

>>194
whom not who idiot

>>195
Although whom may be correct, its usage is seen as pretentious in most dialects of English.

>>194
Somebody is so flustered about being told off for quote abuse that he starts necrospamming, amazing.

>>197
I know, it's just like old times.

>>197

Truly a nigger.

>>199
Wherefore?

>>200
Because I said so.

BUUUMP!

that feel when textboards will never be popular.

>>203
Why, so you can circlejerk with your Facebook friends about textboard culture while destroying it? Learn how to write, nigger.

don't know if it was mentioned here but they were deleted some time in 2015 after being in read only mode for some months

>>205
yeah it moved here https://dis.4ct.org/prog/ in late 2014