Bokete To End Posting Service After 18 Years, Top 100 Bokes Published
The closure reasons named in July, aging code, maintenance costs, server expenses, and unregulated submissions, describe the economics that end long-running free posting services, and the office has said it would like to build a new Bokete from scratch, possibly next year.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
The posting service for Bokete, the photo caption app, ends on September 30 at 20:00, closing 18 years since the service began in 2008. The official X account thanked users and published a Top 100 bokes ranking, led by Otona Tencho-san with 56 bokes past 10,000 stars. The highest single total was 103,335 stars. After posting ends, the web version stays as a Hall of Fame site.
The shutdown was announced on July 15, and the operating office named the aging of the code, bloated maintenance costs, and soaring server expenses as reasons. It also said inappropriate topic submissions and abuse of the system increased year by year, making it hard to balance free posting with regulation.
Bokete began as a web service in 2008 and became an app in 2012. More than 110 million bokes have been posted. After the posting function ends, the web version is scheduled to remain as a dedicated site where Hall of Fame bokes from Flickr topics can be viewed, around mid-October. Official social media such as X and Instagram are expected to continue operating.
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