4Chan’s Moot writes rare update after billionth post, opens new /q/ board for site discussion

4Chan creator Chris Poole (known on the site as Moot) has issued a rare status update in the wake of his site’s billionth post, revisiting the site’s history and discussing its future. Besides numerous server changes and a 2010 battle with spam, the site has faced major distributed denial of service attacks, leading to the changes he discussed last month. Poole says that he still doesn’t run 4Chan “in a way that any sane business person would,” but a 2009 advertising deal apparently allowed the site to start breaking even, though it’s unclear if that’s still the case.