The Society for the Study of Modern Image Board Culture

>>3
He was implying that you were >>1.

world2ch.org is NOT reliable. Nor is it's author. That guy is nuts.

good to know. i want to do more research on the topic (imageboard history, origin).

>>3

> Yotsuba Society

Oh god, that's you? I remember you coming to 4chan's /g/ (or perhaps /x/) and asking for something like $1000 (!) in donations to create a Green Oval clone.
Then someone else did it for free.

It's the same software as doushio hmm.

Unfortunately this site doesn't seem to be running properly at the moment.

This concept is intriguing to me. I was pondering real-time updates to threads currently being viewed, and possibly other notifications to ease navigation. I've read a little about the likes of socket.io and am wondering if that's the route to take, but I have not looked deeper into the implementation at this stage of my project.

I personally would not have used Redis in lieu of a RDMS, even for a real-time site. I generally use Redis in addition to a database more suited for persistence. I would store data such as post content in the database and use Redis to keep track of when threads were bumped, which IPs posted recently. It's a lot slicker than database lookups in some cases. I've never really thought of Redis as a replacement for a real database but rather a supplement to one, but that's just me.

I've looked at Node.js and Express.js in the past. One of the reasons was that there can be a lot of duplication between server-side and client-side code when you're using different languages for each, so switching to an all-JS environment might alleviate that. Ultimately I went with tools I am familiar with.

This is open source now.
https://github.com/lalcmellkmal/doushio

> I wonder if Japanese people feel the same way about English boards?

Since they probably have seen most of our content before - perhaps not.

Maybe they are amazed to see non-japanese people interested in anime and japanese culture.

As far as I have seen, they take us on like anything else coming up on Futaba or whereever: Some troll there, some talk shit, some troll here, some are interested, a few or more actually try to get involved, etc.

Japanese are cute.

I wonder what japanese think when they see us pondering the concept of anonymous posting when it's something they've used naturally for years (threads like http://wakaba.c3.cx/soc/kareha.pl/1110953600/).

>>11

"N00bs" (or their equivalent thereof)

There are actually a few boards on 2ch and futaba where tripcodes rule, for example the "Net Characters" board has been taken over by one "YOMI" who decided he was the supreme Net Character and demanded people flood the board with pictures of Yomi from Azumanga.

Well, /10/ is a pretty dead board anyway and was easily taken over by him.

Very interesting...

Ah, it seems I forgot to mention how in the general sense, delicious cake now refers to anything that should be desirable to a person whose tastes are not altogether weird. "It is delicious cake, you must eat it" may be used even if there is no actual cake, or any reference to it; the meaning has passed into the metaphorical long ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv-RQr0XZsk

>>5

I think the phrase actually started with something similar to the "cake = loli" meaning for the meme, "This is delicious cake, you must eat it." Two years ago, when I was researching what other people remembered about the creation of certain memes on 4chan, I came across one explanation. It originally came from a picture of a piece of cake photoshopped onto a man's penis. The text was edited to say, "This is delicious cake. You must eat it." He was talking to a female in the picture which I can't remember whether or not she was a loli.

Back in the spring of 2005 when I first started browsing 4chan, I remember that the Stephanie threads were mostly separate from the references to delicious cake. "Delicious cake" was still being used as something overtly sexual back then, even if it was actually about cake. The gif file of Stephanie "baking a pretty cake" eventually got connected to the delicious cake meme enough that it probably led to the "cake = loli" version. Without remembering the age of the female in the photoshopped image mentioned in the paragraph above, I can't be too certain of that, though.

>>7

> I can't remember whether or not she was a loli.

Only the face is visible. No loli, no man.
http://kei.iichan.net/sand/res/1393.html

The development of Sparta meme was entertaining and educating. First the various caps of Leonidas yelling "Tonight we dine in Hell!", that were still essentially a reference to the upcomig movie. Then the variations and shoops on Leonidas, such as "I forgot where we dine tonight" and "Hello Hell restaurant, I'd like a reservation for 300", and finally just Leonidas' face shooped to whatnot, which essentially isn't a reference to the movie anymore, but to the concept of Leonidas yelling.

I wonder if this is pattern that's applicable to the development of other memes as well?

>>10
Educating?

I would say most memes deviate from their source as time progresses.

>>6
It's possible to have an anonymous forum full of non-retards. The problem is demographics, not anonymity.

>>7

Yes that is true , so how do you go about directing a forum towards a target demographic rather than the stereotypical persons that use like for example "4chan".

>>8

Im talking about targeting a demographic of developers? rather than just up loaders of crap images, just a specific topic area, rather than ignorant immature teenagers.

>>9
Step one: don't call it an imageboard.

>>10 okay i take that onboard what do you call it then a forum?, but still an imageboard is a forum in ways.

http://blog.zige.jp/hanno/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RteC1LCe2a8

"Truth about war in Libya"