> Those arguments are great and all, but this time next year kuz will
> still be posting about how there are no PHP developers taking him up on
> his offer (not for more than 5 metaphorical minutes anyway) (´∇`)
> Remember, a site that was as big as 8chan had to go as low as relying
> on Joshua freaking Moon to develop their new software, because:
> 1. Nobody could understand the mess that was vichan/infinity and it was
> fundamentally b0rked/flawed
> 2. People with the skillset to create new imageboard software wanted to
> do their own thing (which at the time was basically just Stephen
> Lynx, and we all know how much lynxchan sux)
> 3. Virtually nobody wanted to work for Jim Watkins because he was a
> sketchy pig farmer, despite it being a paid position (hell, they
> even flew Josh out to the Philippines to live with them and provided
> him with food, drink, and "meds")
> 4. There was literally nobody else willing to take on the job despite
> the site having several thousand users (including many programmers)
> The real kicker? Josh's resulting software SUCKED and was immediately
> abandoned after it went live, and from then on everyone just put up
> with the very b0rked and unstable vichan fork instead. By the time of
> 8kun, the software was so b0rked that it barely loaded and everyone
> just abandoned it (´∇`)
> That's why Heyuri was a real golden goose when it had someone like
> lolico at the helm, who was working on the site out of passion and had
> enough sk1llz that he could fix bugs and add new features on a regular
> basis. Obviously he wasn't so great at security, doing things like
> "giving out root access to random people on the internet", but that's a
> whole other issue (;^Д^)
I dont know who's sketchier, pig farmer or russian gangster.
I wonder if these people would have more luck if they didnt use PHP
Reference: 2022/12/16(Fri) 13:43:50