◆ [Date updated: 2022/12/17(Sat) 05:49:51]
■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
│
└■haha I remember this whole saga Infinity next TM had all these stupid features
│that no one asked for, and an ugly nue-age ui. I might still have recordings
│somewhere of the Inext test site and how totally broken it was. I would say
│josh accidentally killed 8chan, but if you looked into fred any time around
│that totally real trust me shooting that took the site off ciaflare you will
│see it wouldn't have been able to operate under his control for much longer
│to begin with. Anyway I think josh tried his best. He did make something and
│it was kinda unique and cool, it could have probably been fixed up over time
│to become something pretty good. ヽ(´ー`)ノ
│
└■The real, REAL kicker is that one of the big reasons 8chan ran so
│poorly in the first place (leading to INFINITY NEXT™) was because
│8/a/'s auto-moderation bot was effectively DDoSing the site for years
│without anyone realizing until after 8chan was already dead (´∇`)
│
│Anyway, Josh later did fix it up and used it for 9chan.us/9chan.tw
│after 8chan died - it wasn't too bad actually, but even that site is
│gone now (;´Д`)
│
│At the very least, it's open source if anyone wanted to use it
│(although I think jschan is probably the better choice now):
│https://github.com/infinity-next/infinity-next
│
└■thats fucking hilarious.
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