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Goodbye to some old friends

Yesterday we welcomed two old features back to the site—the 4chan Blog and Blotter—but today we’ll also say goodbye to a few.

Over the past 10 years, 4chan has accumulated many features and side-projects, but since the team has rarely consisted of more than myself, a single volunteer developer, and a handful of volunteer moderators, many have been neglected. Specifically the discussion boards (dis.4chan.org) and Fileshares board (rs.4chan.org).

Rather than continue to neglect these side-projects, we’ve decided to retire them so that we can focus our time and energy into maintaining and improving the core of the site—4chan’s image boards.

The discussion boards will continue to live on in a read-only state, while the Fileshares board will be shut down. Both will be frozen and de-linked soon.

For the VIPPERs and “expert programmers” among us this may be a sad day, however we hope to accommodate you with some future image board features. Stay tuned.

—moot

Notes
  1. doppibro reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    /RS/ IS GONE, FUCKING FUCK SHIT FUCK
  2. kaileighblue reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    My life is over. She says, two weeks after /rs/ goes down showing how much she actually used it. But seriously I needed...
  3. happ-e-holly-days reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    Thanks, No where do I go when 4chan is frozen?
  4. t-e-r-a-n-c-e reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    I’ll miss you /rs/. I stopped using you when megauploaded imploded since 99% of your links became dead, but once you...
  5. whomthegodswoulddestroy reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    Seriously moot? You’re killing /rs/? I know it hasn’t been as useful since Megaupload/Megashare/whatever went down, but...
  6. enigpartyhaus reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    Damn it moot, you had one fucking job man, one fucking job, but nope you let TPB obsolete /rs/, and where the hell will...
  7. leveechan-blog reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    but /rs/ is still usable and useful, even if you discontinue the updates. please let it stay.
  8. infkncredible reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    Goodnight sweet prince.
  9. antimnemonic reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    WHERE WILL I GET ALL MY FREE COMICS AND HOMESTUCK MUSIC NOW NOW MOOT
  10. phineyharlock-blog reblogged this from smktty and added:
    I can only imagine the fallout this will bring.
  11. kitaaaa-jisakujien reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    THIS IS NOT VIP QUALITY
  12. ikepartdeux-blog reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    true story I used to get almost all my porn from /rs/ That was many moons ago.
  13. bitbybyte reblogged this from 4chan
  14. holdmybee reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    no. /g/ is not sufficient for ridiculous programming arguments. why are you doing this mott. I need /prog/.
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