"4chan" acquired by Hiroyuki of 2channel opening up crisis of closing due to insufficient funds



Known as an anonymous bulletin board rare in English-speaking countries4chan"I understood that there is a crisis in management. According to Hiroyuki Nishimura (Hiroyuki) who is currently the manager of 4chan, it is impossible to keep it as it is.

/ Qa / - Winter is coming. - Question & Answer - 4chan
http://boards.4chan.org/qa/thread/706294


Speaking of anonymous bulletin boards, "2 chan" is widely known in Japan. Born as a refuge for the "2channel", the image bulletin board called "secondary back" now has a lot of excitement, and "futaba ☆ chan" is the birthplace of many neta images and collage images .

"4chan" is a site composed of bulletin boards and image bulletin boards made by Mr. Christopher Poole (Moot), who was 15 years old at the time, diverted the source code of "Futaba ☆ Channel." 2 Channels, Futaba ☆ I am receiving a flow of Chanchan, so it is rare in English-speaking countries and forms a community where it is regarded as being anonymous.

The number of accesses,Alexa dataAccording to October 2, 2016, according to the vast number of 222 in the US and 573 in the world.


Since it is an image bulletin board, the amount of data transfer also becomes enormous to be proportional to the number of users, and on the other hand, since the use of the bulletin board itself is free, it is also a site where financial difficulties are often talked about.

In September 2015, it was acquired by Mr. Hiroyuki Nishimura who opened 2channel, and Mr. Nishimura became an administrator. However, it seems that the circumstances could not be improved, Mr. Nishimura will set up a thread called "Winter is coming" on October 2, about one year after being appointed manager.

According to this writing, Mr. Nishimura tried to keep the 4chan as it is, but as advertisements displayed in the center of the site and in the footer have not been released, the operation has not been successful so that the ad server Reduce expenses. Infrastructure, network, server,CDNThere are no more margins for various things like that, and revealed that there are three options in the future.

One is to reduce the communication cost by half. In this case, measures are taken such as restricting the size of images that can be uploaded, changing servers to those with lower performance, closing some bulletin boards, and so on.

The other one is to advertise further. Pop-up ads and pop-under ads (ads opening new windows on the back rather than on the front), malicious ads, etc. will be displayed.

Finally, increase the number of users with 4chan Pass more. When writing to 4chan you need to enter CAPTCHA. If you have Pass, you can write without inputting CAPTCHA, and you can avoid IP / country blocking. The price is $ 15 (about 1530 yen) in 12 months.

Looking at this crisis, Martin Sharri, a former hedge fund management company representative expressed as "Young Ace of the Financial Industry" "Horiemon of the United States" to WEDGE of the comprehensive information magazine, has raised a name for support of 4chan .



However, in 4chan is "prohibition of posting of child pornography (sexual abuse record)" "Gamer Gate problemThere is only a few rules such as "banning discussion on", sexism and racism (racism) rampant. There are voices of joyful closure as it is being carried out in peerless posting of threats and leakage of personal information.

4chan Is On Death's Door & That's A Win For Feminism
https://www.bustle.com/articles/187476-4chan-is-on-deaths-door-thats-a-win-for-feminism

As a concrete example of a terrible incidents, there are cases that 4chan users killed a woman and posted the picture, and 200 people watched burning suicide live and watched.

4chan Murder Suspect David Kalac Surrenders to Police - NBC News
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/4chan-murder-suspect-david-kalac-surrenders-police-n241806

4chan user sets himself on fire in live streamed suicide attempt as 200 people watch | Daily Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516641/4chan-user-sets-live-streamed-suicide-attempt-200-people-watch.html

Brianna Wu, who is in a position pleased closing, wrote that "the financial problem of 4chan is in a difficult situation and it will be closed at the end of the month", but the 4chan's fate that we managed to manage somehow Will it run out at last? Or is there something reversed hands ....

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