4chan Undergoing Major Revision, Getting Public API 166
AdmiralXyz writes "Even the darkest corners of the internet aren't immune to the Web 2.0 boom: BoingBoing reports that 4chan is working on the largest codebase update in its history. The new 4chan will include as standard the functionality of popular browser plugins for using the site, as well as a JSON API so- hooray?- anyone can have immediate access to the contents of 4chan for any purpose they like. This represents a significant update to the heretofore haphazard development process of 4chan, and opens up the possibility of third-party 4chan apps... though probably not on the App Store."
Re:This is great news! (Score:5, Funny)
-/b/
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listen you cunt, i cant call you fat but i can definitely call you a cunt because you're being one.
you are a fucking pathetic little faggot bitch, and i want you to come to my house and spew the same bullshit you post in here to my face.
oh wait,i dont need to worry about you coming to my house because you would never do it. youll just continue to sit behind a fucking computer screen and act like fucking mike tyson to every guy you meet, when in reality you are a fat virgin neckbeard loser with cheeto dust
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fuck you, ive raped people for far less than this. you think you can fucking come on OT and just act like a fucking hardass and order people around? Bad news for you, fuckface, but tonights the night your luck runs out. You fucking tell ANYBODY on these forums what to do again, and you're going to find out the hard way what a fucking baseball bat to the side of the skull feels like. Think I'm fucking kidding? I have your IP, I know who you are, and Im more than willing to settle this argument face to fuckin
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When you come in this fucking thread, you sure as motherfucking shit had better respect me. Actually fuck respect, you had better worship the motherfucking ground I walk on, motherfucker. You god damn think I'm just going to sit here and let you stomp all over me with your ignorance and disrespect? FUCK YOU dude, I am not going to be passive about this shit. You had better pray to fucking christ I don't find out where you live, or you might find out what a 12 gauge to the face feels like, you fucking bitch.
EPIC FAIL SLASH-DAUGHTERZ (Score:4, Insightful)
Six replies mocking the standard posting style of 4chan and all but one are modded Troll?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony/ [wikipedia.org]
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you would be like a tv on mute with no volume button
That's some 4chan fabulous shit right there. Bravo!
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What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little proprietry bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the FSF, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Apple patents, and I have over 300 confirmed bug fixes. I am trained in Free Software Evangelizing and I'm the top code contributer for the entire GNU HURD. You are nothing to me but just another compile time error. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mar
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Uh oh... (Score:5, Interesting)
You got to love it when 4Chan makes a headline here on Slashdot...
I never saw that coming, seriously...I didn't.
Re:Uh oh... (Score:4, Interesting)
You didn't see it coming? I thought this place was news for nerds?
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Yeah yeah...but 4Chan? ...drawn Rule 34 stuff?
Ok, I'm a nerd...but...people in Slashdot, at least have something interesting to discuss, like world peace, new chips, new technology, new innovations...etc.
But Drawn pron? Rule 34 Pron? And 4Chan? You know, if I wasn't so intoxicated by a 6-pack of light beer right now, I'd say that this conversation where taking place in a secret place in bizarro world in my head right now ;)
Re:Uh oh... (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, I'm a nerd...but...people in Slashdot, at least have something interesting to discuss, like world peace, new chips, new technology, new innovations...etc.
I agree. I think this article should be removed, since some other article is clearly blocked from being published due to its presence. Worse still, approximately 762k of disk space and a mind numbing 3 million bits of data have been absurdly wasted on this catastrophe of a submission. My eyes are bleeding just imagining the horror. What were the editors thinking? Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go comment on some more interesting article on a real tech web site (like Kuro5hin), before recompiling my kernel. (I'm working on integrating the Metro UI to Windows 2000.)
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The funny bit about your post is that I can have more discussion about technology related things on 4chan than I can here.
I understand how that can be quite the horror to you.
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Have you ever even been to 4chan's tech board? It's all Install Gentoo, ThinkPads vs. MacBooks and anime/MLP shitposting.
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Nobody mentioned /g/, here.
While /g/ used to be good even just a couple years ago, it went considerably downhill due to lack of moderation.
Hopefully the new moderation that is incoming will fix it.
I miss the good programming threads and esoteric hardware designs and discussion. (they still happen, just rarer)
Sadly on 4chan, "board culture" took over the actual damn separate boards. Of course, the same even happens on here occasionally, such as actual stories being posted in idle and the other way too.
When
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Check, check, check-back the fuck up, it's Motherfuckin' Pinkie Pie, bitch! [youtube.com]
(No, really, it has a /mlp [4chan.org] board. Even I thought it was a trap when it got created, but it's still there and still going strong as we await Season Three.)
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Don't be absurd. Nobody actually goes to 4chan, in the sense of looking at the site with human eyeballs.
The way it works is, Anonymous has a set of shell scripts and Windows batch files that randomly select content (or what passes for content on 4chan) from the various other boards and reposts a percentage of it on
Re:Uh oh... (Score:5, Funny)
(I'm working on integrating the Metro UI to Windows 2000.)
This just cries out for a Gnome or KDE joke...
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Gnome, KDE, and xfce walk into a bar, and ... well, you know the rest.
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Gnome is the joke.
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What do you call a dwarf who plays drums in the Paris Subway?
A Metro Gnome.
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a real tech web site (like Kuro5hin),
Kill yourself.
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new chips, new technology, new innovations...etc.
I think the point of the summary is that even the seedier side of the internet sees itself benefiting from new technology. That has policy implications (Faux News Headline: Is web 2.0 really just a way to hide Child Porn from police? Popular seedy site 4chan ....), and whatever you may think of it, 4chan is certainly a fascinating exercise in community organization.
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4chan is more than /b/
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You must frequent 4chan often to know the contents so well :p
you wouldn't have given yourself away, /b/ro.
Re:Uh oh... (Score:5, Insightful)
You realize /b/ is only one of the boards on 4chan, right?
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I'd guess he doesn't. Neither do half the people on slashdot, for that matter.
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IMHO, /b/ is nothing but chaos, anarchy and pedobear... My preferred hangout was/is /s/.
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IMHO, /b/ is nothing but chaos, anarchy and pedobear
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Re:Uh oh... (Score:5, Funny)
Nice trips!
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Ummm ... what? 4chan started in 2003 [wikipedia.org]. That's pretty much a decade after some of us started using Netscape.
And internet addressing goes back well before that (because the Internet is not the World Wide Web).
There's simply no way 4Chan can be one of the oldest Internet sites. There's just too many years of the internet before 2003.
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Today op (Score:5, Funny)
was not a faggot
They were pretty much forced to (Score:4, Interesting)
They were pretty much forced to go the JSON API route. Every power user of 4chan (which is pretty everybody) uses the 4chan x extension, that pounds the servers for thread updates (it downloads the complete page and parses it every 10 seconds (default is 30, but most change it to 10 for doing well in troll chess)).
We need a rethink (Score:2)
It's interesting to see the evolution of forums and chat as we continue into the Internet Age. As forums get larger and larger and number of messages posted increases, it quickly exposes the flaws of the current paradigm. We need a rethink of forum/chat systems. The old PHPBB/SMF/VBulletin deal is inadequate and does not scale. Slashdot has some of the right ideas, but I don't think it's the holy grail either.
ITT: Others brightly chime in with awesome ideas of how to innovate in forums, only to have their i
Re:We need a rethink (Score:4, Interesting)
We need a rethink of forum/chat systems.
My suggestion is do whatever these guys [ycombinator.com] have done to keep eternal September at bay as long as possible.
ITT: Others brightly chime in with awesome ideas of how to innovate in forums
As far as Slashdot, disallowing AC posts might help raise the level of discussion. Maybe remove the karma cap and make the number publicly available maybe beside the user name. Since the community is large and healthy, disallow new users from posting for at least 3 days to stop some of the hit and run trolling. Something else that could be tried is maybe make a person lose some karma points everytime they post. That way people would more likely post things they think will get modded up rather than "me too" type stuff. Last but not least, how about bringing on the mighty "hell ban"? When a user trolls and trolls until his karma gets terrible, instead of just starting off his posts at -1 from then on, you bring in the hell ban. From the posters perspective, he is posting as normal and he can see his posts like he always could. But from the perspective of everybody else, his posts never actually appear. What happens is the poster eventually seeing that nobody is feeding his trolling, moves on or starts another account hopefully with a better attitude.
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I've got about 50 sleeper accounts stored in my MS Access database, ready for trolling.
Of course you do and you've probably got a script that rotates them for you. Of course most people write similarly even when they're using different troll accounts so a sufficiently sophisticated Bayesian spam filter would catch some of it and a dedicated mod crew of oldtimers would sniff most of the rest out like bloodhounds on a 3-day meth bender.
If karma is ever a problem, you can just scroll to the bottom of the page, find something that looks good, and post it at the top to steal mod points.
Cue up the Baysian filter again to check how similar a post is to what's already in the database so even ripping material from other stories will get you busted
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If geeknet really cared, it could make trolling a lot harder
Please. You are giving these guys way to much credit. They can't even figure out a way of stopping look-alike names without completely blocking unicode. CSS and half-functioning AJAX is about the limit of their abilities.
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"The Internet, where men are men, women are men, and children are undercover FBI agents."
— Anonymous
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Hm, I've heard of a couple of new things called "Internet Relay Chat" and "News Network Transport Protocol".
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Hm, I've heard of a couple of new things called "Internet Relay Chat" and "News Network Transport Protocol".
Both these protocols are too primitive to do what people expect of modern web forums. IRC is too evanescent (it's designed for real-time chat). It also doesn't support file attachments or other HTML features (yes, you can DCC files, but that doesn't help in a forum context). NNTP lacks the moderation and administration features that forum users want. Also, attachments are a hack rather than an integ
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The point is to advance on the state of the art, not just keep implementing the same shit. Surely there is a better way to moderate and administrate? I do think we can use some ideas from NNTP, such as its decentralization.
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I think the biggest problem with forums, chats, mailing lists etc is the linear format where all the focus is on the most recent topics, jumping from topic to another but not getting into depth on much. Quora seems to be the most succesful I've seen so far at breaking this.
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Thanks for the recommendation, I'd never heard of that site.
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A nice, distributed, client/server system already existed. It used open APIs, and allowed clients to have neat things called 'killfiles' and 'scorefiles' to organize the things/posters they were interested in. It could even interact directly with email.
It was called 'usenet'.
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And yet, today nobody uses that. Care to come up with some kind of theory as to why that may be? After inevitably concluding that usenet is dead for good, would you mind perhaps expending a little effort on the task at hand? i.e. ideas on how to improve forums and chat, not doggedly insisting on doing things the exact same way they were done two decades ago?
Can't wait for the first app (Score:3)
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You mean, you dont already have a chrome extension for it? newfag
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>using google's botnet
I shiggy diggy
Oh Boy! (Score:2, Troll)
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hi slashdot 4chan here i need advise about if i shoud tell my parents that david , my bf , is hiv +
david has been a poz for 3 years and im a neg who want to stay this way! but my parents is kinda homophobic and i dont think that they will take it alright. i need to have their aprovable cuz i live with them thou i have my own job and shit but they coul dthrow me out and david isnt ready for me 2 move in
we have had sex lots of times saftly w/ condoumes and im still a neg and all so dont wory bout me! :~)
also
this would be a good time to invest in (Score:5, Funny)
eye bleach futures
Original post by moot (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.4chan.org/news#108 [4chan.org]
The original post.
It's on 4chan, but the page shouldn't contain anything NSFW.
Re:Original post by moot (Score:5, Funny)
>It's on 4chan...
>shouldn't contain anything NSFW.
News Update (Score:3, Informative)
Here's the original link to Moot's news update regarding this.
JOINING THE FUTURE, ONE COMMIT AT A TIME [4chan.org]
(It's SFW, but I wouldn't blame you if don't take the chance.)
Whats up with /.s RSS feed? (Score:2, Informative)
Even the darkest corners of the internet aren't immune to the Web 2.0 boom
Holy Shit! You say Slashdot's getting UTF-8? Finally my life is complete, I can post the UTF-8 goatse symbol on /.
Oh, naw just a bunch of repetitive whining about 4chan being "full" of CP. I don't personally every remember seeing anything objectionable in /fit but whatever. Maybe if you find a low-carb diet morally reprehensible ... (insert valley girl voice pattern) whatever.
Oh no wait its just the /. RSS feed not updating for the last 12 hours. (per goog reader, the terminally ill igoogle home page,
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Slashdotters seem to have really weird ideas about what really goes on at 4chan. It's not a haven for child porn and general illegality. /b/ used to be a lot more "Wild West" but it isn't anymore, it's pretty much a memetic recycling bin now.
The rest of the (non-pornographic) forums are pretty tame and relatively good at staying on-topic.
Honestly, I tend to see better discussion on 4chan than I do around these parts.
Ehhhh.... (Score:1)
There are already third party 4chan apps like the 4chan browser extensions, 4chan mass image downloaders... I don't understand exactly what new doors the API changes are opening up. If anything, these changes will probably cause problems for 4chan. I was under the impression the whole reason that site had such a big community was it's simplicity.
Web 2.0? (Score:3, Informative)
> Even the darkest corners of the internet aren't immune to the Web 2.0 boom
Web 2.0 denotes websites where the content is posted by the users, not the owners. 4chan (an image board) has always been Web 2.0.
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But by that definition, "Web 2.0" was happening back in the... mid 1990s. I mean, you had WWWBoard back then, which was primitive compared to modern forum systems but still relied entirely on user-generated content (posts.)
I consider "Web 2.0" to be the iteration of Web interactivity that brought us JSON/AJAX-based page updates and SOAP/REST interfaces. Those weren't really possible back in the '90s, since they hadn't been specified yet and browser supported no similar functionality. Those didn't take off u
Hold onto your butts (Score:1)
Time for the eternal summer to go up a level.
App Store (Score:2)
though probably not on the App Store.
Actually, Apple has allowed many forum reader and commenting apps on the App Store. Alien Blue is considered the best app for reading Reddit, arguably using the touchscreen is way better than browsing on a PC/Mac.
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There WAS a 4chan app on iOS, but it was removed for having access to NSFW materials. Simultaneously, there are at least 3 competing ones on Android. And Windows Phone doesn't have any apps.
4chan != /b/ (Score:5, Insightful)
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U MAD BRO?
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moar liek /g/ is slashdot, retard edition.
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moar liek /g/ is slashdot, retard edition.
So it's just like Idle, then!
Great (Score:5, Insightful)
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Or Zalgo. Or reversed names.
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You don't need to allow Unicode in names, though.
Public's View of 4chan (Score:1)
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And the Roman Catholic church is still thought to be full of pedophiles, even though it's only a few priests who actually are, and all government officials are accused of being corrupt, even though most are making an honest effort to do their jobs right.
All groups become stereotypes, based on whatever the most well-known characteristic of the group is at the time. It's a human mechanism for simplifying the complexities of a diverse society. 4chan, at least, has an administrator who could clean up or close /
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And the Roman Catholic church is still thought to be full of pedophiles, even though it's only a few priests who actually are, and all government officials are accused of being corrupt, even though most are making an honest effort to do their jobs right.
Though they all do cover up the crimes of the few pedophiles instead of bringing justice. The same happen cops, a few bad cops and every other cop supporting them. They are all equally evil in my opinion.
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And the Roman Catholic church is still thought to be full of pedophiles, even though it's only a few priests who actually are, and all government officials are accused of being corrupt, even though most are making an honest effort to do their jobs right.
Actually, you are wrong. Every priest is a pedophile, as in....they are ALL attracted to little boys, not that they've all necessarily acted on those impulses. Think about it, who in their right mind would ever submit to a life of celibacy when one could simply be a preacher in another christian religion and be able to marry a woman? Who actually makes that choice? (the answer is: pedos). It's like those guys that say homosexuality is a "choice". Ummmm....yeah....it is a choice for you because YOU'RE GAY
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Think about it, who in their right mind would ever submit to a life of celibacy...
Anyone who thinks that their religion is more important than sex. That was easy.
It's like those guys that say homosexuality is a "choice". Ummmm....yeah....it is a choice for you because YOU'RE GAY
There's a wide spectrum of sexuality, and some folks are indeed in a place where they can choose their preference. Others aren't.
Thanks, though, for illustrating my point nicely: Regardless of facts, people (including you) often defer to stereotypes to make assumptions about a whole group.
App store? Running binaries (Score:2)
App store? Running binaries related in any way to a community that's all about trolling probably isn't the best course of action.
And nothing of value... (Score:1)
...was gained.
(kidding)
At first ... (Score:2)
I'd take "4chan integration" any day (Score:2)
I'm sick of clients asking for facebook and twitter and leaderboards and in-app-payments-and-ads and "usage metrics" (aka spy on the users) integration, but I'd add 4chan integration to my engine any day. Sounds like fun (seriously).
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Actually the management pays the underage boys and girls to strip and post pictures of themselves. Didnt you know this? (If you did post pictures you should contact moot for your share of mollah)
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Re:Meh. (Score:5, Funny)
I was mongling some cocks late one night
When my eyes beheld an awesome sight
All the tripfags' cocks began to rise
And suddenly, to my surprise
They did the mash
They did the 4chan mash
The 4chan mash
It was an internet smash
They did the mash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the 4chan mash
Leonidas!
From thermopylae where i fought so well
To my restaurant in the depths of hell
This is SPARTAAAAAAAA! I cried to my men
But the Persians all formed up and then
They did the mash
They did the 4chan mash
The 4chan mash
It was an internet smash
They did the mash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the 4chan mash
Raptor Jesus!
The Admins were dropping' bans
They party had just been vanned
The guests included Slowpoke,
Magic- and Rabbit-chans.
Pedobear!
The scene was rockin' when some loli came in
I wanted to commit a deadly sin
They party van had just arrived
But, though i was sure they weren't here to jive,
They did the mash
They did the 4chan mash
The 4chan mash
It was an internet smash
They did the mash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the 4chan mash
Moot!
THEN OUT FROM THE SHADOWS, MOOT'S VOICE DID RING
SEEMS HE WAS TROUBLED BY JUST ONE THING
AS THE TROLLS AND GAIAFAGS QUICKLY MADE TRACKS
"B&!", HE PROCLAIMED, "GET OUT OF HERE, SNACKS!"
SNACKS... DID THE MASH
HE DID THE 4CHAN MASH
THE 4CHAN MASH
IT WAS AN INTERNET SMASH
HE DID THE MASH
IT CAUGHT ON IN A FLASH
HE DID THE MASH
HE DID THE 4CHAN MASH
EFG!
I GOT IN ONE LITTLE FIGHT, AND MY MOM GOT SCARED
SHE SAID YOU'RE MOVING WITH YOUR AUNTIE AND YOUR UNCLE IN BEL-AIR
Brilliant post. (Score:1)
Some mod-points, some mod-points, my kingdom for some mod-points.
Re:The Internet cancer (Score:4, Interesting)
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You don't know how 4chan works, do you? Try linking to the archive next time.
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Are they hoping the major websites will include 4chan in their social links? Click here to post this artical to 4Chan!
Now a [LIEK] button would be funny.