[bigfatkitten]

As far as I can tell, no real maintenance has happened since Poole sold the site a decade ago. Hiroyuki paid for it and then mostly forgot about it.

[doublepg23]

The current FreeBSD version the hacker displayed was from around the time of the sale so that tracks.

[FMecha]

Nishimura for most part become a Japanese public personality - he has wrote for Japanese tabloids and has a YT channel.

[amadeuspagel]

This in general is the main factor of the decline of the "old web". Many of the people who drove it, who run these forums, are simply happier running a substack, a subreddit, a facebook group, without worrying about servers.

[bigfatkitten]

Certainly explains why 4chan fell way down his priority list.