◆ [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^)
　│
　├■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.
　│　　　
　└■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