Is it really impossible to make this piece of shit profitable.

delete /pol/

>>57193776
/g/ making logos on commision, part of the revenue goes to 4chan

>>57193971
>delete the only board that has probably more influence on american politics than reddit as a whole
great idea, m8!

>>57193776
It's already profitable. It already generates half a mil in revenue every year. But good gaijin, listen and believe hiroshima nagasaki. I'm sure he has your best interest in mind.

>>57194025
Influence doesn't pay the bills.

Update the look. Aesthetics go a long way.

>>57194042
but it attracts visitors, gets the name out. /pol/ might be hated by liberals and leftists, but it's buzzing and probably generates more unique visits than /b/ in it's prime.

Remove boards that have excessive consumption traffic but not enough contribution traffic.
I'd speculate these boards are the porn boards.

Porn is everywhere on the internet, the anonymous imageboard format doesn't contribute anything unique to the way people consume porn.

>>57194055
no.
part of the reason this works is because its not an overbloated piece of crap

sell .gif banners instead(no javascript tracking bullshit)

>>57194071
Yeah, and that just increases costs. Unless all the people visiting are clicking ads or buying 4chan passes it's not really doing shit for the profitability of the site.

>>57194073
this. a complete waste of infrastructure.

>>57194110
and how would you know? /pol/ is full of pass-powerposters (especially in the /trump generals/) and since you don't know how many visitors click on the ads, all you're doing is speculation.

Tell people in engrish that you need money for running the site, and add other useless boards like /vipshit/

>>57194134
I assumed that when you said 'attracts visitors' you were referring to non-regular users who don't have passes and are unlikely to click ads. I don't doubt for a second that /pol/ has plenty of 'pass-powerposters'.

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>>57194071

I'm a liberal and leftist and I love /pol/. It's the most vivid illustration of what is wrong with America. Too many retards that are easily brainwashed.

I also don't support Hillary Clinton. Real liberals and leftists support the Green Party.

>>57193971
>delete /pol/
>being this new

>>57193776
M00t never cared about profits. Money didn't matter until hiroshijew bought it.

>>57193971

No. /pol/ prevents retards spilling over and spoiling other boards.

Why can't 4chins get adult advertisers involved? Much of the traffic (and expense, as they're likely the most bandwidth intensive) is probably from the NSFW boards in the first place.

>>57194201
>No. /pol/ prevents retards spilling over and spoiling other boards.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA what? poltards are infiltrating all other boards..are you blind?

>>57194180
This. Even though in his address, hiroshima nagasaki explicitly said he didn't care about money, while moot never said such a thing. Really makes you think, huh?

remove the non-anime boards

shut it down

>>57194034
>It already generates half a mil in revenue every year
Do you have a source?

>>57194358
>Maki posting
>>>/r9k/

>>57194462
Leaks from a couple years back.

>>57194034
they seem to have lost the j-list as a sponsor, no? i don't see their ads anymore

Delete /b/, /pol/, and the porn boards. More advertisers (maybe) and less traffic = Less of a money dump

Hiroyuki is shoring up his personal finances in preparation for a long legal battle over 2ch.
Congratulations to all the dimwitted meme-gobbling retards who actually purchased a 4jew pass to post on /vip/, though.

>>57193971
>>57194523
>>57194073
Yeah, because that always works.

make the site run on p2p technology

>>57194545
What's your suggestion then?

>>57194545
Wasn't he an infamous shitpost on 2ch or something?

>>57194556
Moot already tried deleting /pol/ you fucking newfag

>>57194585
That's not a suggestion but whatever faggot

>>57194556
Nothing, because 4chan isn't actually going down anytime soon. If it did, that would've been a net positive for the internet and the world as a whole.

>>57194518
It's fake. Hiroshima removed it to try to scare people into buying passes to """support the site""". What a complete coincidence that he also added a new board (pass-only) when he's in such dire financial trouble! Not to mention the visible passes thing, another tactic to attempt to bully people into buying a pass to be with the cool kids (works exceedingly well with the current reddit-tier neo4chan userbase, but would have had the exact opposite effect if 4chan was anything like it used to be).

>>57194624
I don't thinkg it's going down anytime soon either. Just hoping they get enough income to raise the file limit again.

>>57194518
>>57194629
j-list comes and goes every few months/years.

>>57194489
Are you talking about the /int/ leaks? That one Australian who got into moot's account and posted info about an /int/ mod?

>>57193971
This

if trips haruyuki MUST delete all non-anime boards

>>57194073
But it also attracts lots of lurkers, and most people interested in porn don't care much about blocking ads. A good idea to profit would be add relevant ads to each board, porn boards would probably get ads easily since it's not a respectable business to begin with.

>>57193776
Here are a few ideas to increase profit:
Make and sell an official 4chan app on play store. People would probably buy it even though there are free alternatives. (clover was banned because it wasn't marketed as an adult app and someone posted porn on /a/, which means a 4chan app can survive on jewgle as long as they don't fuck up). Put ads into it unless they have a pass (current chan apps don't contain ads)
Get ads back, especially on porn boards.
Obligatory 4chan pass to view images on porn boards, also merge them into a single board (or separate them between 2D and 3D porn).
Reduce the maximum file sizes.
Remove the High Resolution board, it's just a waste of bandwidth.
Force people to compress their files into webp and webm.
Let users donate.
Prevent banned IP addresses from downloading/viewing images other than thumbnails.
Host images on a separate site, or only provide users with thumbnails and make an obligatory image source link instead of them being hosted on 4chan. Optionally let only pass users see the full image directly on 4chan.
Let users repost an image/video directly from an image archive instead of uploading it. This would save 50-4000KB per image, which can add up since over half of images on 4chan are reposts.

>>57194201
>Why can't 4chins get adult advertisers involved?
We already went through this once.
NEVER AGAIN!

>>57193776
That hiroshimoot could just open a fucking 4chan store with dakis, masturbators and other weed shit, he is japanese anyway, i think he would find disturbutors quite easily at cheap price.

>>57194071
>but it attracts visitors
Yep, /pol/ is 4chin's ZOO with freeter untermensch playing übermensch on internet.

>>57193776
find a way to monetize /pol/, it has the most traffic

>>57193971
Delete all porn boards (including /gif/) and /wsg/. Thirsty ass niggas can fap elsewhere.

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The homepage should have something like reddit's homepage daily gold goal.
I don't think that everyone on 4chan is aware you can get a pass because it's not advertised and explained on the homepage properly.

>>57193971
/pol/ is pretty new. Not as new as you but still.

>>57193776


1. Accept that 4chan will never be a goldmine and at the very best will only be able to break even.
2. Accept that cost mitigation is more necessary than revenue generation.

Following this:

1. Open source 4chans codebase and allow pr's from /g/ to fix issues and update code.
2. Cache repeated images and delete images which are thumbnails.
3. Lean on third parties to provide archiving.

Donations.

1. Allow donations.
2. Because marketers will never want to put their content on 4chans pages, create a scheme whereby users can add their email address to a list to receive marketing emails from sponsors. Most people won't give money but would be happy to receive marketing emails if it meant they could keep the site going. The marketing emails should have absolutely no connection with 4chan.

User content

Other chans such as lain chan have made small amounts of money by providing merchandise. As 4chans userbase is a goldmine of creativity allow users to submit products such as tshirt/sticker designs to be sold via sites such as cafepress.

What users want

Passes work well but risk scope creep. Offer a service whereby for a few tens of $ you can be a moderator of a board complete with trip and name for a few weeks. Users will like it because they get to have a taste of power and it won't destroy 4chans culture because the mods have always been the biggest trolls.

>>57195463
>Allow donations

You can already donate.

https://www.4chan.org/donate

>>57194154
/pol/ is not a fucking mindset or political philosophy.
When will the average 4chan user get that?

And I just hate when pseudo intellectuals try to strip /pol/ apart and "expose" it for what it REALLY is.

>look at me, I understand /pol/ and they are dumb and I'm just above it

>>57195552

that was pretty recent tho

>>57195552
That way kinda sucks, tho. You don't really see the effect of your donation.
They need a progress bar with a monthly goal that all users can see.

>>57194025
they have other places, r/The_Donald or stormfront, for example. they should go there.

Patreon...

If ugly fat girls dressing up as anime characters can make thousands a month I'm sure 4 chan can do the same.

>>57196214
the patreon admins would shut that down within minutes

Once a year, delete the 5 most popular boards until there are none left. The people using those are reddit, anyway.

>>57196248
Why?

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Distribute the hosting, add an API mechanism to send thread updates incrementally instead of pushing the whole JSON representation every time, rewrite most of it in not PHP, remove porn boards.

>>57193971
> being this new

Lurk moar

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Just sell out to the marketers.
Give some of them admin/janitor access so they can censor what they please while posting positive things on whatever they are trying to shill.
The future looks shitty folks.

>>57196380
Threads are already updating client-side with the API which only pushes new posts through, retard. And obviously you have no clue what cloudflare even is.

>>57196434
>Just sell out to the marketers.
>Give some of them admin/janitor access so they can censor what they please while posting positive things on whatever they are trying to shill.
Already done (see well-documented previous incidents, as well as the d44m fiasco for a recent, more far-reaching than ever, example).

>>57193776
Shut it down, mine bitcoin with the servers.

Everyone is better off, problem solved.

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>>57196437
>which only pushes new posts through
My network analyzer says otherwise. Also there's no API endpoint to only request new posts. This is because of the way the 4chan software works.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6835888

>And obviously you have no clue what cloudflare even is.
>implying cloudflare is free as in free beer

>>57195172
This. I'm not saying it as a prude, but if we've got to cut back there's plenty of other places to get porn. Anyone suggesting getting rid of pol please go back to lreddit. There would be a massive shit storm from the clammy consipercy theory neckbeards if you got rid of pol.

>>57196499
Not sure if inbred or lobotomized.jpg

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>>57196538
I could say the same.

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>>57196320
they didn't allow 8ch to have one
here is patreon's founder. how do you think he feels about 4chan?

>>57196567
I accept your surrender.

>>57196573
Oh fuck I know that guy from Chicago

He used to make shitty pop music

No idea he found a way to make money off of other people's ideas

>>57193971
Nice derail

Migrate it to ipfs.

Or make a protocol similar to bittorrent to distribute the images. Everyone on the site acts as a seed. Someone uploads a file. It's encrypted with 4chan's private RSA key. It's distributed to seeds. You load a page, and receive a seed and hash list. It downloads the image and verifies the hash. If the hash check or peer times out, it moves to the next. When the hash check passes it's decrypted client side with 4chan's public key and injected into the page as a blobfile or whatever.

>>57194084
yeah because style implies bloat right??

>>57196603
yes it is the guy from pomplamoose. i think they do still make the shitty music on top of taking 5% from all of this
i don't know how he came to be the one to figure this out. he had a cofounder
do you do anything tech-related in chicago?

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4Spotlight: make your thread stuck on all boards. You can use this to advertise, and it looks like a regular sticky! Adblock-Be-Gone!

4File: Host your images on 4chan's infrastructure! Your family member's pictures are safe with us :) Quick & Easy™ Cloud Storage.

CloverBox: Setup a VPS instance on 4chan servers. You can sell these servers for one purpose: Imageboards! You get a Yotsuba ™ license with every purchase (Unauthorized distribution of the Yotsuba™ Imageboard® Software will be met with assrape!)

4Account:
Give users glittery usenames if they donate enough. You get a post count, other 4Account™ users can give you reputation points, along with leaving 4Likes© on your posts.

4Gag: Change a boards name for 7 days. Costs $30 USD. Ex: /g/ - Install

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>>57193776
Hiro is a scammer. He fucked over 2chan and now he's doing it to us. You're obviously a newfag so do your research. 4chan is not dying. There is no need to donate or buy passes. Do not line Hiro's pockets with your money. In fact, I suggest you enable adblocker and wait until 4chan actually needs extra cash. This will encourage that fucking Untermensch to sell the site.

Donations on front page, I imagine quite a few people would donate a little at least

Delete some/all of the porn boards, there are so many specific forums for that now


Delete gif


Get rid of the archive

I've proposed a few things in some threads before, but... I've been convinced that hiro is a scammer, so I'm not repeating it anymore

>>57196616
https://webtorrent.io/

Pay bitcoins to avoid captcha's/upload large images. $0.15/post, will solve the problem.

>>57196872
Alternatively, lets consult with /biz/ to see what they say.

>>57196872
>what is 4chan pass

>>57196864
I'd be concerned about scalability. You'd need to have some logic about how it distributes the files to peers. According to the front page there's 744GB of active content and 205,855 active users. That's 3.7MB for each user of the site to host. With some replication you could do like 50MB on each client and give bias towards people hosting images from threads they're in (if you're in image heavy threads using more resources, you get to serve more resources. deal with it fagit). After a period of time 4chan could prune the original images and just let the peers distribute them. Doing it this way could probably cut the bandwidth and disk space requirements by an order of magnitude or two.

>>57196930
Not paying per post

>>57193971
>implying this much
Lurk moar faggot, it's bad enough as it is.
/v/-tier and /pol/-tier cancer is always gonna be present on this website, you can't let them spill over to other boards.
If Naruto really wanted to monetize this shithole he should force webp, sell data to companies and use the ad banners intelligently instead of displaying memes from 3 years ago.

>>57196937
for better or worse this would really discourage mobile use, wouldn't it?

>>57194017
i smiled

>>57196980
Not really. Mobile clients just wouldn't adopt the system. It'd be written in Javascript. You can still have it gracefully degrade.

>>57193776
Easy.
Have an /ads forum where the advertisers can pay to post their ads and have them critiqued by the anons.
The anons will get lots of lulz and the advertisers will get lots of views along with a cubic mile of viewer feedback.

>>57195912
the donald is filled with retards

/pol/ is more cynical and at least half of it is satire

i've shilled for donald all over the internet and i cant stand the guy.

>>57194523
>delete the very essence of what 4chans always been about
yeah nah

>>57196774
The idea of users paying to change things on the site needs to be explored

>>57196937
The most sensible solution would be an opt-in way to only share the files you have accessed and those that you upload. Fallback to HTTP downloads for people that feel like this could threaten their privacy.
Of course there should also be an option to immediately stop seeding a file in case you get tricked into sharing CP with a misleading thumbnail. Maybe this could also be combined with a messaging system so that moderated files also get automatically removed from clients.

delete repeat threads. make megathreads on reddit. or combine 4chan into reddit. mind as well..

>>57194084
>He thinks a website must be bloated in order to look good.
Kill yourself.

>>57194798
All of these are terrible ideas.
Kill yourself.

>>57196939
It is. When you've posted enough, you get banned, which forces you to buy a new pass. It's $20 per 100 posts.

>>57193776
- remove all weebs and make all boards more attractive for non-autistic people
- add markdown support
- add karma

honestly if we couldn't see how boring and slow /vip/ is I would have totally bought a pass to go there day one

>>57193776
> Post your ideas how to make 4chan profitable.

Sell it to someone wealthy who thinks he can make it profitable.

It's the essence of the dot com bubble: people THINK it will be profitable since there's a huge amount of users.

This is what's happening with Uber, for example. It hasn't and won't be able to turn to profitability, but the current owners keep getting investors and will cash out soon enough just before the world finds out they can't keep exploiting their employees(partners) as much as they do now.

>>57198604
selling 4chan to someone who thinks it can become profitable isn't making it profitable. that's just making it someone else's problem. the asset is still a sinkhole.

and uber is a red herring, but they're profitable in the US and other markets where they're well-established. they're just spending hand over fist in all of the developing markets right now as they struggle to understand why their form of political pressure isn't working in places like china etc... (e.g. engulfing a politician's office in citizens' complaint letters might work in portland or NYC, but chinese officials literally don't give a fuck)

the fact that they're going to implode when they've exhausted the workforce of naive car-owners (and people who are potentially eligible to co-sign with uber on a lease for a car) is true, but has little to do with their business right this minute. their performance on paper doesn't tell an investor anything about driver attrition and turnover rates.

>>57195566
butthurt much?

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Kill normie boards, the degenerates will pay for a place like this live

>>57196573
>Here's patron founder
>How do you think he feels about 4chan?
He has the wife-beater beard so I don't think he's against it in reality. I mean he has to say he is to be politically correct but he hates women as much as any frog poster

Prune all the Shit.
There are way too many boards.

>>57195623
>You don't really see the effect of your donation.
then what you want is an attention whore progress bar
(you) dont want to donate you want to be a special little snoflake that say "look at what i did!"
this isnt fucking facebook noone cares

>>57198756
Good goy good goy!

>>57197624
The reason I opted against that approach is because it would allow people to potentially deanonymize or DoS others in a thread. If images are distributed randomly then they just know an IP address is on 4chan and not in a particular thread.

>Of course there should also be an option to immediately stop seeding a file in case you get tricked into sharing CP with a misleading thumbnail. Maybe this could also be combined with a messaging system so that moderated files also get automatically removed from clients.
This is why files are encrypted before sending them to clients. You could probably even do AES with the file hash as the key. That means that people would have plausible deniability in the event there was any illegal shit floating around. They couldn't possibly decrypt it without scraping the entire website for hashes, so they couldn't have known what it was. This is similar to how Tor operators aren't held responsible when someone does something stupid. And yes, there would be a method to delete files, since you'd want to prune them when threads or posts are deleted anyway.

>>57194201
>/pol/ prevents retards spilling over and spoiling other boards.

/pol/ is attracting retards to the site like a magnet. Every day they have threads about things they saw on Reddit and Facebook for god's sake. Once upon a time it was /b/ that attracted newfags here, but now I really think it's become /pol/ which makes me worry about how the newcomers will view the site. I don't mind a politics board, but I don't want 4chan to be a political website.

>>57193971
Just how fucking retarded does one have to be to not realize that deleting a containment board is a dumb idea? Do you honestly believe that these people will simply go away?

>>57193776
pay 2 dollars to create a thread

>>57193776

Do some severe cost cutting
Profits are just another cost (with zero value added) from an outside perspective

>>57198816
People who post on /pol/ should just get 24 hour IP bans on every board except /pol/ /trash/ and /b/

>>57194055
>implying the Tomorrow theme isn't already on the cutting edge of aesthetics

It's right there in the name, anon.

>>57198914
stop complaining about boards you don't like autist

>>57196301
top kek

it really is what people are advocating

>>57198956
they're literal containment boards, it's about time that containment was enforced

>>57198914
I actually like this idea. It would do a good job of keeping /pol/tardation off of the other boards.

>>57194025
What if they sell /pol/ to Clinton?

>>57198992

Nah, they're good boards CTR shill

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Japanese Moot gets funding by selling IP addresses of each and every post to the NSA.

What, you think 25 autists with paid passes and some shitty sex toy GIF advert is all it takes to keeps this site afloat?

go on wallstreet?!

>>57194798
>>57195463
Aside from "pay to become a mod", good ideas. Also iPhones can't view webms, so you'd lose the normies who don't have adblocking which would reduce the profit.
>>57196937
Good idea.
>>57197435
It's already happening, look at how many pajeets are shilling crap here.
>>57198665
This is an anime website
>>57198665
>>57198914
I doubt this will solve anything.

Give each board a hobby-specific webshop.

>>57199697
Surely the NSA can get this information without paying mook any money.

>>57196585
What a faggot who deserves to die in the most painful way imaginable so that even people twenty miles away would still feel the pain.

Delete /wsg/, /gif/, /d/, /hr/, /s/ and /hc/

>>57200278
then you have less users and still no profit

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>>57193776
4chan ≠ Newgrounds?

>>57193776

make 4chan the non-profit organization which it already is and suck it up

>profitably break-even

>>57200278
I'm curious about the logic behind this

>>57200283
>>57200608
Remove bandwidth that doesn't add any value

>>57200616
true, the gif boards are also probably the most bandwidth heavy

sell mod accounts to CTR (hiromoot already did it)

>>57194201
Research proves otherwise: /pol/ is in fact a raid source, which technically means the mods there aren't doing their jobs fast enough, but perhaps no mods could. It certainly isn't acting as the containment board it was intended to be, it spills over not only to other boards but to other sites - it might as well be fucking stormfag-chan.

>>57194798
>they'd ban it
>ever run a porn site? with user-posted material? do you know how tricky it can be to get/keep ads/payment processors?
>nope
>yes
>yes
>nope - transcode it server-side while thumbnailing, especially WebP thumbnails, I've done this on a *chan I adminned, it works
>he's already done that, but he has a reputation from 2ch of passing the hat even when rolling in money
>interesting idea, but would mean bans have to propagate to static servers and they'd have to do lookups in those tables - possible
>already happens, that's what i.4cdn.org is
>I don't know about that, but active deduplication on the image servers would DEFINITELY be a good idea - trouble is, the bandwidth is more expensive than the storage

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>57193776
Sell user data to highest bidder?

They don't need to know vast majority of us use anonymization techniques, and those that don't, are already passively volunteering for it.

>>57193776
require accounts to post and charge 10 bux per account. if you get banned then you need a new account. this would also prevent most children from posting here which benefits everyone

>>57200656
Play store probably wouldn't ban it, Apple definitely won't allow anything 4chan related. It's funny though, because there are plenty of Reddit apps, and you can subscribe to shit like /r/watchpeopledie /r/picsofdeadkids and /r/sexyabortions.

I would advocate for really low file size limits, which would shunt a lot of the high res and animated stuff off to external hosts like imgur and all those pomf clones.

Also some really transparent finances and a big meter showing how much money has been raised and how much is needed would probably motivate enough people to keep the site up.

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on 2ch he got most of his money from a Japanese reputation management company.

from my understanding they'd find posts that made their clients look bad and get Hiroyuki to delete them and ban the posters.

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>>57193971
>mfw aspies think deleting pol will unleash a flood
kek ip ban crossposters. 90% of pol is redditards who cant evade

>>57194073
But it does. 4chan is far better at showing images than plenty of image galleries out there, and you can put almost any kind of niche genre and have plenty of content for your viewing pleasure, whereas other sites are very rigid in what genres you can browse.

I want to kill you if you're seriously even hinting of taking my porn away.

>>57193971
/pol has the mosttraffic. But who would advertise on /pol?

/k should get some gun companies to advertise.

/g and /v ? why no computers or games respectivly.

I suppose the nuclear option would be to split the site between the blue and red boards, keeping the blue boards as 4chan and renaming the red boards something else. Advertisers would then flock to buy space on the blue boards.


that would be real dangerous

Make a post 1 cent.
Attach an image, +1 cent.
Start a thread. 10 cents.

>>57198914
this

>>57195912
>only my anti white leftist propaganda should be allowed!
Fuck off SJW

>>57198656
Sick cumback bro

The pass must become more desirable for the common user. Here's a few ways to make it happen.

- alert for every user on the site that anon from country X has become a superstar after purchasing a pass
- hire professional meme makers to create top notch memes exclusively for pass users
- cinema nights, a weekly movie stream only available for pass users
- pass users may modify non-passers posts
- pass users may hide their posts/images from non-passers
- pass users may stop a non-passer from posting in a certain thread
- pass users are allowed to insult non-passers and are given an insult guidebook to assist them
- a non-passer may not create a thread if it would mean the deletion of a pass users' thread

These for starters would bring millions in cash and the site would be profitable for weeks.

>>57194055
The simplistic, archaic look of this place is part of it's charm and identity.

>>57200904
>this is what SJW retards actually believe

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>>57194025
>influence on american politics
>a shitty meme board
Holy shit, do americlaps really believe this? Oh wow

>>57200636

remove /gif/ for a week or implement some lightweight captcha per video played and see the difference

script kiddies totally pull bandwidth

this website wasn't meant to stream simultaneously hundreds of prefetched webms, gifs were only used as memes and not vehicles for actual content

>>57201217
>ryan-gosling

>>57193776
its fake that its not profitable its like 500top in whole word. Its obviously profitable, just like leddit, which also is extremely profitable, while CEO's still whined that they dont make enough profit.

>>57201149
>I'm a special snowflake and my political propaganda should be allowed because I say so
gtfo you fucking retard

>>57193776
pay 2 tripcode

the money made from /g/ alone would keep the site up

cat /var/log/apache2/access.log > /dev/nsa

Delete /b/ it's only used for porn and where it gets attention

>>57196864
>Wanting to turn 4chan into a botnet

>>57193776
Unless you add ads everywhere and social media you are pretty much fucked in the long run

>>57203933

And how does that make it profitable?

>>57193776
Get sponsorship from Cheetos, Doritos and Mountain Dew. Those guys must owe /g/ serious amount of coin for keeping them in limos and Champaign.

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>>57193971
Out, out, damned reddit!

we could switch the captcha system from free google maps interpreting to an ad that displays a phrase that needs to be typed

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>how to make 4chan profitable.
remove hiro
add moot back

>>57204462
so much this

>>57198844
Yes you fucking retard, people will leave cause they are millienial brats and brats qq and go elsewhere.

Any of the faggots left over can get perma ban if they go topic with pol shit.

now fuck off and suck my ass.

>>57193776
Sell it to some asian guy.

>>57194084
>its not an overbloated piece of crap
"Hi, I'm a tech illiterate and I have no idea what I'm talking about."
The CSS 4chan uses is for more bloated than something pretty would be. You can make the site better by removing lines of CSS. That's how bad it is.
Also, did you just imply 4chan isn't bloated? It's got JS just thrown around everywhere.
Holy shit, how new are you?

>>57204462
Holy shit. So much delusion in this post. Most /pol/ users are retarded (like in every board to be honest). These retarded /pol/ users are the ones that bring politics and opinions that have nothing to be with the discussed topic

>everyone who disagrees with me is a SJW CTR shill

You have to go back. /pol/ provides negative value to 4chan.

>>57196437
>Threads are already updating client-side with the API which only pushes new posts through, retard.
Kek, you're dumb and don't know what you're talking about.
It sends nothing when there are no new posts and it sends the entire thread when there are new posts.
Seriously, most browsers come with the means to see this action by default.

>cloudflare
>distributed hosting
Cloudflare only hosts static files, which aren't very important to an image board like 4chan, which is mostly dynamic.

You don't need to be on /g/.

Ban /v/ kiddies from /g/.
Ban attentionwhoring weebs from non-anime boards.
Authorize VP9 WebMs with sound globally.

>>57198914
>post in /sg/
>get banned
great idea m8

>>57206827
anime image board.
Normalfags aren't welcome

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>>57194071
>/pol/ might be hated by liberals and leftists, but it's buzzing and probably generates more unique visits than /b/ in it's prime
not sure anon

see https://projects.csail.mit.edu/chanthropology/4chan.pdf
>/b/ claims 30% of all 4chan traffic
>4chan’s first and most active board

/b/'s "prime time" aint bad neither, pic related

Pay to vote in stuff.


For example:
>DELETE POL?
>YES ($537 raised)
>NO ($612 raised)
>Therefore, POL will be DELETE

>>57207293
>no has $612
>still gets deleted
Just like the EU amiright?

>>57207378
I guess that's my cue to sleep lol.

>>57206895
>Technology
>Anime
Mentally ill people belong in hospitals.

>>57207423
>getting triggered by reaction images
Back 2 reddit with you.

>>57194231
would you rather have a dam with a few leaks, or no dam at all?

>>57196890
>BUY THE DIP

>>57196534
>>>57195172
>There would be a massive shit storm from the clammy consipercy theory neckbeards if you got rid of pol.

That's why they should do it. It would be funny as fuck

>>57196890
>>57208444
Made a thread on /biz/. So far, someone suggested a webshop on each board. That might actually work. Like craigslist for weebs. There's probably a market for used loli onaholes.

>>57193776
moot tried interstitial ads, they are quite trolling and I like trolling 4chan so I suggest bringing them back.

>>57193971
>the only way to stop ebola from spreading is to close down the quarantines!

lulz

Hiro just wants you to pay his debnts also managed to chase away J-List somehow.

>>57193776
Shut the whole thing down.

>>57193776
They could try product placement.

>>57194017

voluntary taxes in other words aka donations.

>>57194073
This.

Also, I'm not sure how 4chan is engineered, but I think the organization could benefit from on-demand scaling to cut infrastructure maintenance costs.

I don't think (in general) removing boards will fix the problem. Maybe they should consider advertisements that integrate with the content. Also, using cookies to try and have better targeted advertisements (that users can opt out of) could help the situation.

>>57193776
Open up the ad space for individual affiliates and not just website owners. That'd take care of everything