4chan has been unusable for like two hours now. They brought back /qa/ and it seems to have broke the site and no one can post. Hopefully the damage is permanent
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My hasty assessment: it's a bunch of people who don't actually want to fix their problems but instead use them to live out a weird fantasy of being a poor and pitiful isolated perma-online animu girl. How right am I?
>>652673>>652699Lainchan is bad.
t. former lainon
>>647071Semi-relevant academic sources on Japanese imageboard culture and the far-right.
- Akihiro Kitada. "Japan's Cynical Nationalism." Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World, Edited by Mizuko Ito eta al, Yale University Press, 2012.
- Fujioka, Brett J. and DeCook, Julia R.. "Digital cynical romanticism: Japan’s 2channel and the precursors to online extremist cultures." Internet Histories, vol. 5, no. 3-4, 2021. doi:10.1080/24701475.2021.1919966.
- Hack, Brett. "Subculture as social knowledge: a hopeful reading of otaku culture." Contemporary Japan, vol. 28, no. 1, 2016. doi:10.1515/cj-2016-0003.
- Learn about the Nanking Massacre with Haruhi Suzumiya
https://web.archive.org/web/20150302180759/http://beauty.geocities.jp/nankingharuhi/ >>649753I'm skeptical it's coming back. It wouldn't have taken much to patch the security vulnerability and get the site back online.
They could find new volunteers, but they'd have to trust them. I think some of the people that left may very well have been part of the (unpaid) technical staff, so without them Hiro's going to have to hire people ($$$).
If it's been determined the security flaws are so critical the entire software has to be rebuild from scratch then, that's an even bigger expense.
He may instead have added it all together, realized he might only earn it back after a few years, and is now cutting his losses and simply looking for someone to sell the domain to. There's even a chance he never made back his original investment.
So then here's another issue. The domain might only be worth say 6 figures or less. 4chan has no real accounts (analytics $$$), and it's rumored the ad +pass revenue wasn't that high. Anyone who buys it is then going to have to hire new staff, hire people to write new software, and rent new servers, etc.
Other than selling the domain, the most profitable course could very well simply letting the site die.
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