Holy shit you're Jim Watkins, owner of 8chan and 2channel? I thought you were just a random english speaking hick bum living in the Philippines that hotwheels met. This whole time I thought you were just some farmer that hotwheels introduced to the site, that had no idea how to use it or any chan site for that matter.
Jim, please take a look at this >>>operate/47140
The site was fine days ago, now it's as bad as it used it be after Josh sabotaged it. Why PPH is enabled? It's probably what's causing this (i.e., HW replaced Josh's implementation with another inefficient implementation).
I've tried 10 times to create a thread and still getting errors. Other users will just give up and move to cuckchan or endchan. HW clearly doesn't care because he is not paying for the hosting, so I'm posting this here.
Regarding ads and SFW boards
Hey Jim,
A while ago I started asking board owners what they would expect from the new software I'm building for 8chan. One of the boards I spoke with was >>>/christian/. They didn't have much to say, except that 1) they wanted to support 8ch by viewing ads, and 2) they were being punished for this by being shown NSFW ads on their board.
I mentioned this to Fred a while ago while he was building the softserve system with Racequeen's guys, and suggested that he should force advertisers to mark their ads NSFW, and then respect a board's SFW indicator. I think someone brought this up again recently and you said something along the lines that, "board owners should be happy that someone chose to advertise on their boards".
One of the core tenants of advertising is to be unobtrusive. If an ad negatively impacts a user's experience, they will block them. I think it would be beneficial to 8ch's click-through ratio and overall user experience if ads respected SFW status. I understand the importance of ads, but can only see benefits from only showing people the ads they want to see.
What do you think?
Jim, I've just quit my job and have unlimited amount of free time.
I'm thinking about coming to live in Philippines for 3 months or so, any idea where the best cheapest place would be to rent and how much would I spend monthly?
Would I be able to get by on say 1500 AUD a month?
any info would be appreciated, cheers :)
Philippines
Hi 🙋 Jim.
I like to spend time in the visayas at a small fishing 🎣 village where I swim during the day and sing 🎤 karaoke during the night :)
How do you like living in Phils? Is it really the simple life? Do you find yourself bored or frustrated with corruption or culture quirks? Do you trust your girl?
Bringing back 8chan to Google
Dear Mr. Jim Watkins,
As the official owner of 8chan, would you be willing to ask Google to bring 8ch.net back to their search index? Currently 8ch.pl is the first result when searching 8chan. Google removed this domain (8ch.net) from the index because grey area images from boards like /hebe/ and /phile/ were displayed on their image search. This is really cutting 8chan's potential traffic and ad revenue. Now that you, Based Jim, nuked those boards, there is no reason for Google to block us from their index.
2000 get! Also what is your take on this Jim:
https://medium.com/@infinitechan/the-smoking-cup-of-coffee-3ac35aa3234#.cxhei9wtn
State of the site
Hey Jim, I'm not sure if you've noticed how difficult it is getting to post, but it's really getting out of hand.
Fredrick has had little to no communication with us for some time, similarly to how there was no communication or action while Josh was running a muck.
These are logs posted originally on /tech/
>22:44:28 StephenLynx: btw, copypaste how is going vfec? any news?
>22:45:08 ~copypaste: i barely wrk on it since 8chan is so fast now
>22:45:10 ~copypaste: it seems not needed
>22:45:40 ~copypaste: i work on my emoji language, which is much more fun. it has been many years since i made a conlang, and this is the first one i've made that actually works well
>22:45:54 StephenLynx: but the IO issue wouldn't happen again if it gets the traffic it used to have?
>22:46:12 ~copypaste: sure, but do you see any indication of that every happening?
>22:46:17 ~copypaste: ( ???)
>22:46:56 ~copypaste: i am happy to wait for lynxchan to develop, and odili to write the migration since he volunteered
http://irclogs.8ch.net/rizon/%238chan-dev/2016-02-15
And to copy and paste from a bit of the thread on /v/
>Since Hotwheel's last action only deleting some form of logging Josh screwed up he has apparently done little to no work on the VFEC solution voted upon by the poll.
>He has worked on his manurepost language while waiting for endchan's Odli to develop a migration tool for him. This is without a word directly to the community of the site.
Here's the thread if it is still up by the time you see this >>>/v/8492138
Do you think you can get a hold of him and get to him address the community as well as get back to work on something? If he has to pass things off to someone else then so be it, but all this waiting without a word is terrible.
Help would really be appreciated, Jim.
Hey jim….
I made a thread exposing freech.net/intl as the ones behind the "cumskin" spam. As soon as I did the thread was bump locked.
/n/ mod is biased and now we know the reason he allows india posts, crabs and cumskin.
Thread on /n/ got bump locked almost immediately: http://8ch.net/n/res/403603.html#403639
The second thread i posted was deleted by /n/ mod
Here is the link to the original /intl/ thread
>Pics related
Also have the dump:
FLASHBACKS
/n/ Taken Over By COINTELPRO?
http://8ch.net/n/res/390432.html
/n/'s yogigot mod (COINTELPRO involved with spam?)
http://8ch.net/n/res/391054.html
http://8ch.net/n/res/391054.html
http://8ch.net/n/res/391054.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20160504023608/http://8ch.net/n/res/391054.html
AS OF RECENT
This is where the cumskin spam is coming from.
http://8ch.net/n/res/403603.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20160514110426/http://8ch.net/n/res/403603.html
/n/'s mod confirmed for an autism
http://8ch.net/n/res/403383.html
/N/ MOD TRIES TO FORCE CUMSKIN
/n/
/operate/ has been abandoned , so excuse me for posting this here.
/n/ needs to be moderated. Every couple of hours some f aggot bumps 20 Trump threads. It's also being spammed with crab, india and opinion threads. I would have switched to another board but let's face it, /n/ has monopoly on news in 8chan (because of the homepage section).
Also insignificant news (robbery, rallies, ..etc) need to be bumplocked/deleted.
Hey Jim,
Plz don't let the kids from /tech/, /operate/ and so on get you jaded. They are closed-knit internet communities, mainly comprising of young men who have severe mental disorders. So whenever someone on 8chan attacks you personally, understand that it's just some kid who's really bored, insecure, and wanting to get a reaction. Unfortunately Fred was unable to realize that and wrote off the entire 8chan userbase as being ungrateful and working against him simply because he let those few mean comments get to him. It's understandable, because the human brain has evolved to become hyper-focused on the negative as it's a way of alerting itself to potential threats in the given environment, which as a result makes the awareness of positive aspects to require a lot more deliberate effort.
Recruit stats for the last month
Some server problems on the 11th and 12th of March caused the 0 that was registered on each of those days.
I am not sure if ID has any effect at all on the amount of viewers of the board. There doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary after ID was added.
Cheese Pizza Thread
Lets talk about cheese pizza as suggested here:
http://8ch.net/jim/res/685.html#q774
Topic 1:
Did you know cheese was addicting?
Topic 2:
Did you know pizza is a vegetable?
Japan August 2015
Four hours in customs at KIX That is Kansai international airport.
The line was longer than my flight to Japan.
We did some low lunges on the streets of Shin Osaka.
Tom carried a weapon with him the whole trip. Nobody even noticed.
Dinner in Shanghai Chow Chu.
