4chan needs better software!

If you use the wonders of distributed computing you could simply buy 10 or more shared hosting packages from various providers such as 1&1, go daddy, dreamhost, etc. and easily cover all the bandwidth costs.

They just need distributed software. Seriously all the bandwidth issues are from static images and flash files. The board software doesn't even need to be distributed just the images.

>>26

Eh, the SQL's pretty good. 4chan's is better but trevorchan is a lot worse. You take what you can get and then you add some indexes to it.

(I used a name so I could use "we". Otherwise I wouldn't!)

>>27

I agree, that's a problem with Kareha (the one that doesn't use SQL), but his html is clean enough that it probably doesn't need much modification. I had some pain upgrading a board from wakaba-zero once though :(

Wakaba doesn't have that problem anyway.

Shiichan is hard to read but secure, except for the bbcode library which is easy to read and not secure. The local version is a lot cleaner and I might release it once I'm finished.

>>31

w4ch isn't an imageboard and this is CLASSIC JAPANESE STYLE sir!
I'm going to make a new design sometime but I am sticking with 0ch 4 lyfe

There aren't any complex queries being run at all, and the only problems flat files would introduce are difficulty pruning posts and no global numbers. 2ch and this script don't use SQL. I would use MyISAM as count() is slow. Really, don't do premature optimzation.

Also if you're going to do it right use Rails or something

>>33

Opinion seems to be divided :(