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LIVE TESTING INSTANCE

Hayden is a 4chan / altchan archiver written in .NET Core for ultra-low resource usage and high performance.

It also doubles as imageboard software.

It was originally writen as a drop-in alternative toAsagi, however Asagi compatibility currently has no guarantees.

Developer documentation is inARCHITECTURE.md.

README for running the scraper

README for running the webserver / imageboard

Detailed information

• Much smaller memory consumption than Asagi.

  • For comparison, Hayden requires roughly 40MB of working memory to archive a single board (including all archived threads), while Asagi consumes several gigabytes to do the same.

• Uses a much more efficient algorithm to perform API calls, reducing overall network calls made considerably and eliminates cloudflare rate limit issues.

• Supports using multiple SOCKS proxies to distribute network load and allow parallel network operations.

• Supports writing to multiple types of data stores.

• Thread ID-based scraping system. Currently the only logic for thread archival operates on a per-board basis

I wanted to archive 4chan threads and display them, but didn't like what was already offered. As per usual, this turned into making a very large project to do so.

Yeah sure. Maybe you could get better performance / memory usage out of something like Rust.

But you could also just not be wasteful and be considerate of how you structure your data, and achieve very similar results?

I was listening to theDoom 2016 soundtrack as I was programming this.

I was not a fan of Eternal.