File: gensokyo-soon.swf-(3.65 MB, 1450x1046, Japanese)
[_] Touhou *day Anonymous 04/11/25(Fri)10:59:41 No.3524117
Care to explain what the happened on 1st april? I wasn't around.
>> [_] Anonymous 04/11/25(Fri)13:24:33 No.3524139
Bibliotheca Anonoma has the scoop:
>TheDepartmentof4chanEfficiencyisestablishedto"maximizeproductivityandeliminateabuse".Startingat4
amUTC,severalboardsareshuteveryhour,startingwiththeslowest,includingthehiddenboards/
asp/(despitealreadybeingclosed),/qa/(theindexwasn'tupdatedbutthemaintenanceerrormess
agewaschangedtomatchtheotherclosedboards)and/test/./mlp/'scurrentpostingactivityon4s
tats.iosoarstoover1285%withinthefirsttwohoursinacoordinatedefforttopreventtheclosure
oftheboard,butstillgetsshutdown.Bytheendoftheday,theonlyboardsleftstandingare/b/,/ba
nt/,/f/,/r9k/,[s4s],/trash/,and/vip/.Individualthreadsonclosedboardscanstillbeaccess
ed,butpostingisblocked.Theboard'sindexpagesandcatalogsredirecttoapagewiththemessage"
ThisboardhasbeenclosedbyorderoftheDepartmentof4chanEfficiency"andapictureoftheDo4Ese
al(theexceptionbeing
/j/, which leads to a 404). Eventually, /b/ gets a sticky saying "To achieve greater efficiency,
redundant ASCII characters are being phased out", forcing everyone to start posting in leetspeak.
/b/ temporarily cures itself of its cancer, with actual random threads instead of just porn
dumps, and pretty much everyone agrees that it's the best /b/'s been in a long time. Mods also
interviewed /v/.
>> [_] Only cultured men itt. 04/11/25(Fri)19:08:09 No.3524166
>>3524117
>no boards
>only /f/ remaineth
That was about it.