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[_] Is 4chan running out of money? Anonymous 11/08/24(Fri)05:17:21 No.

  first, they put in a sitewide timer to reduce traffic from bots and shitposters
  now /gif/ is only five pages and the archive is gone.
  these must be attempts to reduce the amount of content 4chan has to serve and thereby lower
  costs. what does /f/ think?

>> [_] Anonymous 11/08/24(Fri)05:23:34 No.

  I think 4chan is funded by something like CIA these days and can't have money problems. They
  might fake having money problems to make it seem like it isn't a honey pot.

>> [_] Anonymous 11/08/24(Fri)06:25:42 No.

  I think they are currently low on the money, because in May 2022 the fee was 4400$ per month and
  now with inflation this fee must have escalated. And they try to filter many bots and shitposters
  as much is it possible because muh laws n shiet and probably hiromoot is trying to do two birds
  one stone by making users bying 4chan passes and remove shitters. As for /gif/, nothing of value
  is lost as is it too far gone.

>> [_] Anonymous 11/08/24(Fri)07:12:51 No.

  Not unlikely a shill post but I'll reply in earnest regardless:
  It'sorientedaroundmoneybutnotduetolackingcapacity,hiromootdoesn'texactlyseemtobelack
  inginfinances,andas>>3514804theinformationhiromoothasaccessto,ifputtouse,morethancove
  rsthecosts,nottomentiontheothersitesheowns.4chanusersmaytrytoobscuretheiridentitymor
  ethanmost,butwithenougheffortit'sfutileandeventhoughitmaybeasufficientdeterrentitsti
  llistheminority.It'salsoworthnotingthestructureof4chanandmostimageboardsisverylightw
  eightcomparedtootherdiscussionmediums,onlymatchedbyminamilistforumsinhowmuchathreadw
  eighs,whichislessduetoaninherentpropertyoftheformatbutmoresotheeraitcomesfromhavingt
  ightercoststhannow.Thefactthesitekeepsamaximumamountofthreadsandonlyarchivestoaminim
  umdegreeisalsoareflectionofthis,itensuresthatthereisavery
  predictable upperbound to how much data is stored on the server, which is constant, the only
  extra cost incurred is then not made by uploads which add to a total but only by requests. The
  largest of these being the downloading of files, hence why /gif/ being culled for monetary
  reasons isn't so implausible, everything there has large relative filesize and it's users
  download things more than most due to it being a board centred around the sharing of media. Even
  so, he only does so to gain more bucks, the same reason he added the 15 minute captcha which
  itself is merely a double down on the very first thing he did after buying the website. Spam? Why
  would he care? As I mentioned earlier uploads have no effect on the amount served here, as one
  thread is made another is killed, it maintains itself.

  Hypothetically, let's suppose however 4chan does face financial issues. If you are going to start
  paying money for this site then why not start paying for your own or going to an altchan and
  paying for that instead? Why remain?

>> [_] Anonymous 11/08/24(Fri)18:24:03 No.

  I for one welcome the change.
  It had a significant impact on average post quality.
  It's a very simple concept, that increasing the amount of effort or cost (in this case time or
  willingness to get a fat banhammer/dox on yourself) filters low effort shitposter, so that only
  people who REALLY want to reply go through it.

  I'm very v e r y happy though that /f/ was spared that measure as it would have been practically
  meaningless.
  Just another sign of the masterrace of upload board /f/ as opposed to the plebeian image boards.

  /gif/ and the archive though are indeed alarming developments.

  Even if 4chan probably doesn't have any money related problems anymore like in the olden days,
  cutting cost with no visible impact on userbase is alway something a coorporation will try to
  achieve.
  Now g00kmoot rakes in the 4chan passes while paying way lower cost. I mean he has to break even
  that aquisition price somehow.