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Comment by sbierwagen | Hacker News Reader

For those few of you not conversant with 4chan, the dis subdomain is text only, like the original 2ch. The textboards tend to be disdainful of the imageboards, and incidentally, they get much less traffic, since it's impossible to post porn on them.

The mailto:sage links in some of the posts are essentially public downvotes; from the Japanese "下げ", meaning "down", and pronounced "sah ge".

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I consider myself conversant with 4chan, and I had no idea that the dis subdomain existed.

I always wondered if there was a chan for hackers...now I realize there is. And oh boy, what a chan it is.

Most decent sized chans have their /prog/ board. See shii's Overchan[1] for a comprehensive list of chans on the WWW.

Shii personally runs a pretty nice chan called 4-ch[2] with a large and decent DQN[3] textboard. (S)he founded this chan after being banned from 4chan and SomethingAwful. I don't know whether shii still frequents 2ch or Futaba.

I don't consider the English chans online for programming to be all that great. Most (if not all) are textboards with few postings and lots of trolling over the last 3 years. I don't know the state of the huge Japanese ones however, as I do not frequent them or read the language.

[1] http://shii.org/2ch/

[2] http://4-ch.net/4ch

[3] 4-ch.net/dqn/

Squeeks runs 4-ch, not shii.

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also, shii doesn't run overchan either--Mohey Pori does

from what I remember, someone DDoS'd it in their war against all imageboards (can't remember who) and shii ended up hosting it

Have you read your SICP today? You'll fit right in if you have.

So long as you're an EXPERT PROGRAMMER who despises programming SEPPLES.

It should be noted though that on /prog/ it is considered good manners to use sage as not to bump the thread endlessly to the top of the list. So one can tell which posts are made by outsiders by their overt... impoliteness.

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