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by moot 13y ago
More details here: http://blog.4chan.org/post/81896300203/webm-support-on-4chan
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by moot 13y ago
> I feel 4chan has become the 'porn' industry of the internet. This is the most flattering thing I've ever read about 4chan.
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by moot 13y ago
Quality contribution(s) in an anonymous community? Who'd a thunk!
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by moot 13y ago
> There's a _huge_ discrepancy between people's interpretation of what 4chan is like, and what it really is. > /b/ seems to be a "honey pot" for the more negative behaviors on 4chan. Double bingo!
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by moot 13y ago
This is the best day of my life.
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by moot 13y ago
I did in fact only just sit down after leaving that comment ~12 hours ago. Hope to have something up by tomorrow or Wednesday.
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by moot 13y ago
Also wrong.
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by moot 13y ago
This is completely and utterly wrong, and only furthers my belief that nobody in Silicon Valley actually "gets" anonymity. I'll try to write a real response tonight on my blog ( http://chrishateswriting.com )
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by moot 13y ago
My excitement is that Mark, who has been extremely staunch in his belief in "Facebook identity" (First Name/Last Name/Profile Pic, Online == Offline), is starting to consider alternatives to that. It remains to be seen
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by moot 13y ago
Circles was neat, but it solved the wrong problem. I gave a talk about it a few years ago: http://youtu.be/e3Zs74IH0mc
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by moot 13y ago
As I said, we're considering our options going forward, but for all intents and purposes, the venture-backed startup that was Canvas Networks has failed.
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by moot 13y ago
Much, much less :)
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by moot 13y ago
This is right. It was clear we weren't going to be able to raise another round of financing, and even if we could, it was unclear how that would enable us to change the state of the things, namely that our business didn't represen
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by moot 13y ago
This is mostly right. DrawQuest would make a fine lifestyle business for a few partners, but is unlikely to become a business that represents a venture-backed opportunity. However because we built it as a venture-backed business, that'
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by moot 13y ago
Another example from 4chan: http://chrishateswriting.com/post/68794699432/small-things-a...
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by moot 13y ago
This reminds me that the domain wildcarding we do for thumbnails probably isn't necessary anymore thanks both to SPDY but mainly how many parallel connections browsers open these days... We only do this on the imageboards though -- not
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by moot 13y ago
Wasn't aware of this (but was hoping it was in the works) -- thanks a bunch!
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by moot 13y ago
We get surprisingly little mobile web traffic -- only 16% in November.
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by moot 13y ago
BRB, switching everything now!
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by moot 13y ago
Yes, but every time I've investigated it, the tl;dr was "not worth it" given our requirements/constraints. Google Analytics has its shortcomings, but it's a great product and free.
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by moot 13y ago
I wouldn't agree. There are completely legitimate reasons to set cookies on *.domain.com -- it isn't "clueless/stupid" to do so, just less ideal.
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by moot 13y ago
Actually 78.75% of our users are on Chrome/Firefox! SSL is forced on our domain you post to (sys.4chan.org) with redirects and HSTS, and we set cookies with proper Secure and HTTP-Only flags. Maybe some day we'll force SSL site-wi
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by moot 13y ago
That's another thing YSlow and PageSpeed have complained about for ages, but hopefully the local resolver cache mitigates it somewhat.
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by moot 13y ago
Well it's a single kilobyte, but 100 KB in aggregate. It's almost entirely Google Analytics, unfortunately. Our ads are served from a different domain (4chan-ads.org) for specifically this reason (user privacy and cookie bloat).
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by moot 13y ago
We've had a surprising amount of difficulty maintaining this over the years, since FreeBSD's NFSv4 implementation kind of sucked for a while, and it doesn't support mounting a memory partition (tmpfs). But you can trick it by
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by moot 13y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. We minify production JS using Closure Compiler but sometimes that leaves room for improvement. There's definitely a tradeoff between inlining JS and small images, but I think in our case it makes more sens
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by moot 13y ago
We actually do this with reply loading already, but not by default. We have a read-only JSON API and use that to append new replies when you're browsing in a thread (click [Update] or [x Auto] at the top/bottom of a thread). We al
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by moot 13y ago
I've been meaning to write a post about all of the weird stuff we do in the interest of maximizing our limited resources. We've always had to stretch things as far as possible given server, financial, and time constraints, which h
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by moot 13y ago
Correct, but only if you don't set any *.domain.com cookies, which as it turns out most do.
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by moot 13y ago
We write pages to disk as compressed HTML, and make use of nginx's gzip_static and gunzip modules to serve them. So every time a person posts, we regenerate the applicable reply and index HTML. The high postrate boards are rebuilt with

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