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0 pointsbigfatkitten11mo ago0 comments

As far as I can tell, no real maintenance has happened since Poole sold the site a decade ago. Hiroyuki paid for it and then mostly forgot about it.

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doublepg2311mo ago

The current FreeBSD version the hacker displayed was from around the time of the sale so that tracks.

FMecha11mo ago

Nishimura for most part become a Japanese public personality - he has wrote for Japanese tabloids and has a YT channel.

amadeuspagel11mo ago

This in general is the main factor of the decline of the "old web". Many of the people who drove it, who run these forums, are simply happier running a substack, a subreddit, a facebook group, without worrying about servers.

bigfatkittenOP11mo ago

Certainly explains why 4chan fell way down his priority list.

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