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world4ch had its own culture, but the lack of the Temporary Solution™ made it mostly noise and very very slow outside of spam. /prog/ was sometimes fun, but I
by stats-then-now 8y ago
world4ch had its own culture, but the lack of the Temporary Solution™ made it mostly noise and very very slow outside of spam.
/prog/ was sometimes fun, but I could never really spend much time there before getting bored. There's only so many times you can see SICP snake and fizzbuzz haskell before getting tired of it.
I'm sad the text boards are gone, but looking back after they went read-only I couldn't find much I actually wanted to read again, and I can't really blame moot for not wanting to deal with a slow spam-filled relic any longer.
- qop 8y agoI don't blame him for not dealing with it, I blame him for not fixing it with the https+captcha the rest of the site got. I find some interesting stuff in the readonly. Fibonacci buttsort is always good, sicp stuff is nice to remember. Idk, it's a nice nostalgia for me.
- stats-then-now 8y agoFair enough, I can't say I don't wish he kept it. That said given moot's nonexistent proficiency in PHP, he probably had enough things on his plate just keeping the site running, I can't imagine integrating recaptcha in the world4ch codebase would have been very fun..
- qop 8y agoSure, but it's also not like he didn't have any opportunity to better himself. Moot never wanted to be leet, but if you're running the world's most popular Internet cesspool, maybe you should push yourself here and there to at least be able to contribute to the code. I don't envy the challenges of non-technical founders/ceos/managers, but I also don't sympathize with them very much. The Internet is an amazing resource for learning things.