Noted. I have added "(2010)" to the title.

A diff that compares the old leaked source to the "new" one: http://pastebin.com/KkeLzb6q.

>millions of pageviews/month

That is technically correct but does not covey the scale at which 4chan operates. According to http://www.4chan.org/advertise,

    Page impressions per month: 575,000,000;
    Unique visitors per month: 25,000,000;
    Posts per day: 1,000,000; 
    Alexa Traffic Rank: 836 (Global) & 371 (US)
    Quantcast Rank: 305 (US)
    Google PageRank: 6

Makes me wonder if WebM will increase or reduce 4chan's total traffic (when measured in bytes, not clicks).

I can't imagine WebM impacting 4chan anytime soon, it will probably reduce 4chan's load when(if) WebM takes off but I highly doubt more than a small fraction will choose WebM over a .gif in the immediate future.

WebM has caused longer animated content to be posted that wouldn't have been so possible as gifs (the limit is at 2 minutes iirc), so there will still be people posting large files.

>instead I found a thread full of guys trying to build a physical version of their imaginary chinese-cartoon girlfriends

Between this and the movie "Her", where's the "waifu" (virtual girlfriend) startup?

Occulus VR, of course.

Archived 4chan thread where the leak happened: http://rbt.asia/g/thread/S39865892.

-- Edit --

More logs got leaked at http://pastebin.com/7itGzitH. I have not read them yet, so cannot tell you if there is anything of value in there.

Can you calculate the average of those icons? I wonder if there is a pattern.

Cut it out. You are trolling. Your reference to "buttcoins" is a good indicator you're from /g/ and this isn't /g/.

Edit: FYI, http://rbt.asia/g/?task=search2&ghost=yes&search_text=dogeco....

I wonder what a similar poll about 4chan would say.

The list of (supposedly substantial) things /g/ has made as compiled by /g/, today [1], is as follows:

1. http://aloonix.neocities.org/

2. https://github.com/notuncivil/host-as-image [2]

3. https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch

4. https://4chan-x.just-believe.in/

5. http://tox.im/

6. http://biebian.sourceforge.net/

The above list is in no particular order.

[1] https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S35615929#p35616305

[2] Full disclosure: this code is mine and I am the one who proposed it for that list. I also submitted a Show HN for it.

I had forgotten about some of those. The various sites /g/ has put up are pretty good too.

That list doesn't have http://logicalincrements.com/, which may be the best thing to come out of /g/. It's great for picking PC configurations.

screenFetch was not a product of /g/. It was around before the Author even browsed /g/.

Creator of screenFetch here. sF is not associated with /g/ in any way. I created the script before I even started browsing /g/ regularly.

Don't get upset at the comments. They almost surely trolling from https://boards.4chan.org/v/ (NSFW). Look at, e.g., https://boards.4chan.org/v/res/202172198.

Yes. It's very sad that /v/ has it in for Fish. I thoroughly enjoyed Fez, and IMO it's up there with some of the best.

He might be a bit of a dick, but so was Steve Jobs. Interesting how Jobs is reveared and yet Fish is despised—perhaps it has to do with the "maturity" of the respective "fan clubs".

Trust me, a lot of people dislike Steve Jobs immensely.

I don't see any indications of coordinated trolling in that thread but rather, a lively discussion about Fish, his antics and Fez.

The ending to the article is touching. In light of that what I am about to say is going to sound all the more heartless and I expect to get downvoted for it but I think that it has to be said:

If you really want to get things done, consider not having children (yet).

In my experience this applies to both men and women in demanding technical fields. You may argue that having children is worth it in spite of what it may do to your career but that's a different argument.