>pedokike strikes again
So for a brief historical refresher:
>Some months before 8chan went down Mark and I had a falling out, and I had been considering quitting imageboards due to the then-to-current shit state of the Internet as a whole
>8chan gets deplatformed and we all languish for months. 08 helps some anons reconnect but it has its own problems with spam and the uncontrollable nature of Zeronet
>Finally, 8kun comes online
>Like other anons I tough it out there for a while, putting up with the shit disclaimers on posts, and the ads, and the constant bugs and downtime
>But it gets old. It wasn't home anymore, at least not to me
>I'm like 3 days from saying fuck it and giving up when the lolipocalypse happens
>Have flashbacks to the fucking Exodus
>I had been sitting on pieces and parts for a large Lynxchan imageboard for years - pieces of an abandoned project called the GamerGate Omnibus
>I could bring a site online as a lifeboat to keep anons from being scattered, at least in theory, but I was living paycheck to paycheck and lacked the funds
>Reach out to Mark in the threads and ask to bury the hatchet - we talk and I explain my idea
>He and I find we're on the same page in terms of rules and the overall site idea
>We make a deal to split the server costs for 6 months to see if it would succeed or fail
>He asks for BOship of /v/ which I have no problem with, and some of his mods become our first set of globals so we don't start out shorthanded
>In return Mork, his staff, and /v/ become ad-hoc guinea pigs and bug testers for me
>I get a decent little server from Epik for about 70 bucks a month
>I get the Lynxchan backend up and running and steal 16chan's old frontend because it's open source and I liked how it looked and flowed
>Find out the frontend is a hacked together mess that requires extensive rework
>Get the site online 3 days later, in the early AM of April 25th, as 8chan.me
>Later that same day we get (((Esthered))) and Epik deplatforms both the domain name and my server
>I talk with their CEO via telephone and get told that the SJW media was leveraging Wikipedia against Epik and was literally destroying the company by getting all the Venture Capital pulled
>He won't host ANY imageboard site, not even 4chan if they were to ask, but he lets me get server access and gives me a window to move my shit
>Mark finds me a guy named Cube, who is a guru with CSS and Javascript
>Cube and I work together to get the site back online - me doing server work and Cube fixing up the frontend
>We pull a massive all-nighter, and after ~30 hours of straight work we relaunch the site as 8chan.moe with a bunch of bugfixes attached
>New host, new registrar, and we double up by also getting the .se domain online as a failsafe
>The .moe site is up and a few anons wander in and we test as much stuff as we can. Things seem okay, but in the interim much of /v/ including GG moved to Fatchan
>We get (((Esthered))) again but I'm not fucking having it - I lawyered up, explained the Esther situation, and cut a deal with our new providers
>Our shit stays online this time and Esther gets told to fuck off
>Like a day later Fatchan gets hit too and their site implodes
>A big chunk of /v/ comes here and the site takes off for real
>Bunch of shit happens. Someone makes Zch, Zch dies and becomes ZZZ. You guys know the story
>Around that time I met Codexx and made him the Software Admin after we got to know eachother. Now we could support the site properly, he and Cube could handle the frontend, and Mark no longer had to chip in funding
>Later on we meet Parias and he becomes the third Admin, in charge of BO and mod wrangling so Codexx and I can focus on tech stuff
>With 3 admins we move the server again - willingly this time, and we get a nicer machine with a more expensive, bulletproof host in Eastern Europe
>We divide admins duties: I take care of the physical server and the caching engine, Codexx takes care of Lynxchan itself, and Parias takes care of global moderation across the site, and the three of us decide misc shit by discussion, consensus or vote
>Works great
>Eventually we pay Mark back the money that he'd contributed to square things up
>The site has now been cruising for more than two years, and we met the Hispas
>You are here
It's hard to overstate how close this place came to never existing. I was sick of the Internet, tired of site drama, and pretty demoralized after everything that had happened. "Fuck it, not my problem anymore" was a really tempting path to take. It was you motherfuckers, specifically, that got me off my ass to do it. I guess #GamerGate really never dies. I'm glad now though. I never wanted to be an admin, but this has been a fun ride and hopefully I never have to stop.