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