I believe it was about at this point ten years ago that one little man had one very big dream to create the perfect imageboard experience. To do this, he enlisted the most competent man known to him and surely to all of us, Joshua Moon, but unfortunately even Joshua's limitless intelligence and unwavering willpower was not enough to reach the promised land, and the result was a disasterous fifteen thousand dollars lost between both the little man and his benefactors supportive userbase. This crushed the little man's dreams, just as his little, brittle bones are crushed daily by the weight of his own blubberous body, but he has long since rolled on to greaters pastures and now enjoys a simpler, nobler life of routinely masturbating to anthropomorphized raccoons in diapers and constant substance abuse.
But that dream for a perfect imageboard, long trodden on, smashed, and slammed, remains.
As you will all agree, this website has a number of quality of life features that simply will never be implemented on 4chan under its existing administration. By that same token, the long-term posters here has grown accustomed to the bugs and quirks of the website, and the small userbase hasn't justified the development of additional features such as userscripts, extended functionality, and robust moderation tools. I am looking for some programmers, those familiar with JavaScript and Nose.js, to implement some of the features that have been discussed here in the past couple of days. The objective is to modify LynxChan and Aleph to improve the features and security while compromising as little of the usability as possible. Some of these features discussed include:
>anti-spam measures such as proof-of-work CAPTCHAs and heuristics analysis
>anti-samefag measures to preserve the anonymity of good-faith users
>a sound player to support existing 4chan files
>hotkeys to open and close reply boxes
>new CAPTCHAs that less obnoxious and no longer occasionally wrong
>recoloring the greentext to be a little less green
Most of these goals, aside from that last one, are attainable, and I heavily encourage those with the capacity to participate. This thread is to be used for discussing the implementation of the above and other desires in technical terms as well as set up correspondence. This project has no official sanction as I am just announcing it, so it will be maintained in separate repositories that would hypothetically be merged in the future. I stand ready, with my finger on the trigger, on an Easter Sunday to christen these two projects, but I hesitate, unable to think of a suitable name that so perfectly encapsulates the wonders we shall create.
The first set of dubs shall name the front end project , while the second set of dubs shall name the back end.
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