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>Github maintained by someone with a troll username?

>Comments like this

>> IMPORTANT: release two major sanctioned UIs, one for autists, one with inbuilt support for the previous list so that plebs can't get confused with setting it up and autists don't complain about it getting in their way. de geso > I would suggest a "Advanced options" where the autists can rejoice with all kinds of options (and it doesn't frighten the normalfags, since it's not shown by default). Also, 2 UIs would be chaos to maintain.

The project originated from 4chan's /g/ (technology) board. It works differently from Reddit and HN, since there's no karma, and the comments are anonymous.

This caused it to develop a unique culture. On one hand, it enables people to express their real opinions without being afraid of getting downvoted by hivemind. On the other hand, it attracts trolls and causes a lot of rudeness and offensive behaviour.

I like the website, because you can see the true nature of people, and you don't feel the pressure to say what everyone else wants you to say.

>Talk about not needing to be an expert to use it, but then a "learn more" button sending people to github?

We were working on this for only about a month, and Tox is not even in the alpha stage yet. Once we get the GUI working properly, we will surely upload binaries to the website.

> The project originated from 4chan's /g/ (technology) board. It works differently from Reddit and HN, since there's no karma, and the comments are anonymous.

Thanks for this.

I was there in rec.arts.anime.misc with m00t in 2002 when he decided to set up 4chan.

"User was banned for this post", in red, is my idea. "Bring back snacks" is my meme. I had the 10,000 GET. I created the first C-C-C-Combo! post, but not the first C-C-C-Combo Breaker! post. I'm still in contact with Cracky-Chan. I am a BBCode master, and I have read my SICP today. I helped keep the pool closed; I hate GaiaFusers nearly as much as I hate furries. I don't visit 4chan much anymore because, you know, newfguys, but I hope you kids are enjoying the place and not stinking it up too much. :-p

> We were working on this for only about a month,

I tend to be really harsh on crypto projects. Please, ignore anything I say. There are, however, some experts posting in this thread and I hope their advice is useful.

And another thing: /g/ in particular is known for much pointless banter arguing over the best GNU+Linux distro or giving minor tech support to non-natives of /g/. Attempts have been made before to make something substantial on the board and this time it seems we can do it.

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.

>/g/ in particular is known for much pointless banter arguing over the best GNU+Linux distro

You mean arguing about the second best GNU/Linus distro. Everyone knows the best distro is Gentoo.

People have evolved to communicate with identities. Never in history have people communicated on such a large scale anonymously. To say it is "true nature of people" is interesting because anon communication isn't natural at all.

The Japanese founder of 2ch said that anonymity was to allow people the freedom to say what they really meant. (Wikipedia.)

> A: Because delivering news without taking any risk is very important to us. There is a lot of information disclosure or secret news gathered on Channel 2. Few people would post that kind of information by taking a risk. Moreover, people can only truly discuss something when they don't know each other. If there is a user ID attached to a user, a discussion tends to become a criticizing game. On the other hand, under the anonymous system, even though your opinion/information is criticized, you don't know with whom to be upset. Also with a user ID, those who participate in the site for a long time tend to have authority, and it becomes difficult for a user to disagree with them. Under a perfectly anonymous system, you can say, "it's boring," if it is actually boring. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

I think you misinterpreted what he meant by "true nature" - it is not "true nature" of people to communicate anonymously; however, doing so exposes the "true nature" of people.

Like Oscar Wilde has said: "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

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