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.
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Anonymous2014-04-09 13:27
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.