>>428503 >now Left in 2017 and didn't look back. The bad thing is that some of the refugees spreading out to the smaller imageboards are taking the bad baggage with them and get pissy when they find out most boards are bored with edgelords. And it's only some, but by sheer numbers of the main imageboards it adds up to a large force on a small board.
Weird glitch going around 4chan where you can’t post on incognito mode, can still do it for op images but not on regular posting. Hopefully it’s not a sign of mods trying to make 4chan more elitist than before
>>430867 Apparently it happened because people using incognito mode kept spamming /vg/ with scat and evading bans that way, so they had to add a detection.
I am now curious as to how many users actually post that way.
>>430874 IPs are piss easy to change. That's why bans are locked to IP + cookie. That way even if you change IPs, 4chan can still tell its you from the cookie. If you use Incognito mode and close it, you get your cookies flushed, so if you change IPs on top of that 4chan won't be able to identify you and you can evade bans.
I haven’t posted an image on 4chan in a single month since I don’t feel not using incognito mode, also I think they did another weird thing with the captcha recently. Place is getting more elitist by the day
and right now the captchas don't even work at all. The network call returns a 500 error. The workaround is to remove the framed parameter from the network call (which will make it return the required data), manually call it, and paste it into the javascript function that parses it. ridiculous.
Its odd now you sometimes need to click a button to Prove You're Not A Robot but it only happens occasionaly, also sometimes the captcha is only 4 digits long which is more relaxing to type.
It happened again, this time now unless your page doesn’t automatically refresh there’s a one minute timeout after the cloudfair capcha, it’s almost worse than outright using ads because at least they last for about 5 to 30 seconds. There’s no point in restricting a user from not posting a single minute(but hey you can bypass this if you have a 4chan-pass) and now that’s a total of three anti spamming maneuvers that are outright useless. The captcha just gets worse every time This Deal's Getting Worse All The Time | Robot Chicken | Adult Swim
>>431183 Sometimes it is Cloudflare's fault, they are changing code for no good reason, and some browsers break more than others. At least they are fixing their own mistakes.
>>428502 I wish some 1337 h4xx0r would kill that site. >>428539 >Left in 2017 and didn't look back Yea, I wish I had left at that time. That site is a waste of 0's and 1's.
>>428539 Did I made this post? I have the same thoughts in regards of 4chan, but I left in 2020 in my case. I knew it was shit back then but at least you couls find some decent eurocomic or obscure cartoon if you lurked long enough, but what really made me cut ties with it was the lack of moderation. >>431530 I'm actually surprised how little proper attacks 4chan had and how little info from their mod team has been leaked. The site's software is ancient, it doesn't even support vp9, there's no way it isn't filled with exploitables to the brim. And yes, I'm looking forward for 4chan to finally die, internet would become worse, but at least we'll get smaller communities with better moderation and more curated content eventually.
I started getting this shit when posting on /co/, one minute everything was fine, next minute there's this. Can't help but feel like it was caused by me, even though I have not posted anything out of the ordinary, other than having my cookies cleared after every post.
>>431558 We are talking about IPs that belong to a commercial ISP, you can't buy them up, not unless a lot of them are infected by malware and on sale on the darknet.
I think it's more likely that they have a system in place that checks how many new user sessions were started from certain IP ranges, too many and it means the users are cleaning cookies to get around bans/identifications, which is the "abuse".
>>431561 Interesting info, thanks. Me, I'm not automatically clearing cookies when browsing and only have one or two user sessions per day, so I don't see that I'm blocked for either of those reasons.
>>431533 >>431556 I got the same message too, and I found it equally mysterious. I don't have a habit of posting controversial/ban-worthy stuff, plus I don't think I've even posted anything in a whole week before I got that error. The error doesn't specify any particular post as the problem. Yesterday I got that message, but today I can post again for some reason.
I heard people on /g/ talking about how posting on /biz/ now requires an e-mail address because of constant cryptocoin shilling. The board currently has a sticky talking about it. I was wondering if that could be connected to whatever's going on. Maybe some people keep scamming, shilling and switching their IPs so much that their bans are affecting lots of other anons too?
Or maybe it's a cookie problem or something, as suggested ITT. I was struggling with the captcha immediately before I got that message. Maybe the site thought that requesting multiple captchas in a short timespan seemed suspicious.
>>431585 >Yesterday I got that message, but today I can post again for some reason. Same. It's very strange.
>Maybe some people keep scamming, shilling and switching their IPs so much that their bans are affecting lots of other anons too? I've wondered about this too. Some trolls and spammers constantly ban-evade so they can target specific threads. Then there's the guy who ban-evades just so he can flood the /co/ catalog every day.
Yeah. First time i was posting normally, then a few minutes into it, IP blocked. Meanwhile the catalog was full of Peridot spam. This lasted some two days, then I could post maybe six times total, and got IP blocked again. Yesterday I could post normally, this time I turned off the cookie block. There were no problems. I'm putting back the cookie block now, let's see if that causes it or not.
>>431594 I read about that. Apparently the guy got into 4chan's mod team and took screenshots of the inner operations servers which; funnily enough, it was a Discord circlejerk of like 20 guys playing Dota all day. I don't what I was expecting but it wasn't that.
>>431594 I don't 4prime, but I've seen this kind of vendetta obsession before on other sites so it's no surprise. Someone thinks their post was unjustly deleted and then spends months or years attacking the site.
>>431559 >not unless a lot of them are infected by malware and on sale on the darknet. You say that as if there isn't an industry doing exactly that.
Something that I find suspicious is that the people angry against 4chan don't go beyond just flooding the place and be annoying users. The Peridot spammer did something else, he actually got into the mod team, leaked stuff and doxxed some jannitors. And even then that's light compared to deplatforming campaigns that happen on other places, heck I've even seen people getting killed on boards 1/1000 of 4chan's size. >>431649 Same. Some mod once told me he has to be very cautious when delivering bans, otherwise he can piss off the wrong autist and get his board raided all day for yeaf.
>>431653 >Same. Some mod once told me he has to be very cautious when delivering bans, otherwise he can piss off the wrong autist and get his board raided all day for yeaf.
Man I used to do exactly that, like, 20 years ago. Forum software at the time didn't even use salted hashes, so it wasn't even hard to keep getting back to a site on a yearly basis.
>>431653 >Something that I find suspicious is that the people angry against 4chan don't go beyond just flooding the place and be annoying users Because most of those people are just annoying period. Pray there will be no one who wants to take it on the next level. I don't know about you, but I want 4chan Prime to continue living.
This is old thread. I post anyway. 4chan is shit. 4chan has been shit. 4chan will be shit. 4chan died in 2015. Hiroshimoot has let 4chan become gay queer pedo fucktard paradise. I'm glad this place is here. This is what old 4chan (when Moot) was like. This is!
>>432197 I'm not sure about Russians, but IIRC PRC chinese use Taiwanese vpns to access blocked content so they could be detected as chinese regardless
>>432421 You either press the "get captcha" button and wait 15 minutes, or you register your email. You have to have cookies turned on to save your session.
so you are either forced to expose yourself via session cookies, or by registering.
>>432421 >>432424 These are the threads https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/485224786 https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/692313952 The fact this is happening just before USA elections doesn't seem to be a coincidence.
>>432430 Didn't he say that one of his goals was to force 4chan to implement email verification? If so, he must be beside himself with smugness today, because the mods have given him what he wants and gift-wrapped it too. Now he can spam the catalog in the small hours with a guaranteed 15-min head start over any early risers who want to use the reporting system but do not want to accept 4chan cookies.
>>432432 I wonder how that site is even afloat. Hispachan payed $1000 a month and it had 0.01% of 4chan's activity, there's no way 4chan generates enough money to keep it financtially viable.
>>432442 Assuming it has a few hundred people buying premium accounts, that should cover a large part of the bill. And Hiro has many other projects, it's not impossible he is taking some loss on 4chan but keeps it afloat from the income from other stuff.
>>432445 The site makes 750k posts a day (down from 1M in 2022, lol), which has to mean tens of thousands of regular users, if a half percent of those are regular buyers of premium accounts then you are already racking in several thousand $. Plus the ad revenue.
Granted, that's not so much considering that they are using petabytes of bandwidth. I'd really love to see the finance side of this.
>>432582 It wasn't upgraded, it's just that if you use it often enough, you'll get ranked as a more trustable user and get the old style captcha (for which the solver still works).
>>432631 Most people like to think there's a personal vendetta from some janni when they are constantly banned but more often than not it's just incompetent moderation. >>432865 That's terrible. You can tell them to jump over here and set their secret santa thread.
>>432868 I did mention, but the post may be ignored. Most people either plan to give up, or switch to current rules from /toy/ and /mlp/, where organizers do lots of things off-site, and you have to wrap your gift personally.
>>432866 >it's just incompetent moderation. This. The quality of moderation over there has been going downhill for years, but it reached its lowest point to date in August when the mods tripped over their own feet and wiped every thread off a dozen boards.
Maybe it's nostalgia talking, but I don't remember incompetence on that scale happening when moot was running the show.
>>432880 >Maybe it's nostalgia talking, but I don't remember incompetence on that scale happening when moot was running the show. It's not nostalgia if your memory works fine (you're not senile and your brain isn't falling apart). Usually if you remember things being better, they really were.
In other news, there is now a spin-off thread over at +/co/, so Christmas may be saved yet!
I'm trying to make a thread on /wsr/. >"Posts successful" message shows up >It redirects me to https://boards.4chan.org/wsr/thread/1505300 instead to my thread >Thread isn't anywhere to be found on the catalog It's the second time I try, does anyone else have a similar issue? and now that we are in topic, does anyone know a decent alternative for /wsr/? I mean a place where I can ask pretty much anything, I don't mind if it's a subreddit or something.
>>432905 1 or 2 mods who have power on /co/ are complete assholes and decided to cancel Christmas themed gift giving, because posting Amazon wishlists is now "begging". I hope they get turbo mega canceraids.
>>432904 >>432905 >Plus4chan is now on filter God fucking damnit, that's low, even for 4chan standarts. What now? do we spam /co/ with plus4 links until everybody is here? I know the Peridot spammer can easily ban evade, so it should be doable.
>>432904 >>432905 >Plus4chan is filtered on /co/ I don't use /co/ that much, but why? I genuinely cannot find any good reasons for it to be filtered there. Is it due to imageboard "competition"? What else could it be?
>>432942 plus4chan is /co/'s bunker in case shit hits the fan, as a result several /co/ projects linked it on their OPs, namely the tournaments and weekly creative too IIRC. When mods went bananas and started banning the tournament threads, people knew they would have to reorganize here, so the came here and Black Hand gave them a board. Something similar happended later with the sonicfags and the muder drones anons, but then the Secret Santa happened and they outright put Plus4 on the black list. It's pretty much abuse of power as Mister Twister pointed out, they just want to mess up with anons as much as they please, but they don't want them organized setting up their bunkers with their own independent moderation.
>>433356 Hey, hate the mods, but not the site. It gives home to lots of posters. Many actually gr8 people. You think you want 4chan Prime to die, but you don't really.
>>433385 /pol/ is inevitable given that all /co/ content is political, and Invincible gets spammed because the show is popular. Avatar used to have 30 threads whenever a new episode dropped too. All of those are normal.
AI shit has no excuse though, that shit belongs in the garbage.
Does anyone know why staff response times on /co/ Prime are so slow now? Do they have a new behind-the-scenes system in place for processing user reports, or is it just a new/incompetent staff team?
>>433395 It was often found that the janitors/mods themselves are the ones doing rule breaking. So the staff responds fast and deletes any reports from the queue.
>>433396 That would explain why they keep banning the same spammers over and over again instead of doing something actually effective, like blocking the spammers' image hashes.
>>433400 Is it? I recall one drawthread spammer on /aco/ had to resort to posting increasingly fried versions of his refs because he couldn't post the originals anymore. Eventually, he gave up.
>>433402 The guy I mentioned resurfaced a few years ago, but he doesn't post in the drawthreads anymore, and has been noticeably docile in the few threads he does post in. I'd call that a positive result, one worth repeating, except that today's staff are obviously not being selected for technical know-how >>432880
>>433405 >>433406 They won't ban it because a decade of boneheaded policy decisions has cut traffic to the site in half, and letting a handful of AI spammers and bots flood every board with slop creates the illusion that there's more user activity on 4chan than is actually the case.
Best case scenario is that anons will get fed up and pressure staff into creating a containment board, with an option to report "slop content outside /ai/". But staff will never do that because modern 4chan is run like a business. Money matters; anons don't.
}>In order to maximize productivity and eliminate abuse, the Department of 4chan Efficiency is reorganizing certain 4chan boards. I wonder what they are planning to do
>>433420 >"What if we did a prank that's funny to the mod team and no one else?" I think it is very funny, and also well timed. Sure, it sucks for a while, but that's the difference between comedy and tragedy (you cry when it happens to YOU). Plus, there is ONE chance in this timeline to make this specific joke. Would you throw away the opportunity of a lifetime, just because it pisses off some..... even most people? THERE IS ONE CHANCE.
>>433428 >what will happen next. This gimmick has two tricks: close a(nother) board, then add l33tsp34k. What happens next is not difficult to work out.
The mods could escalate to showing dogs card tricks, but if this is all it takes to get anons buzzing, they've already got that angle covered.
It's honestly the worst April fools so far. Just nuking everybody's communities and forcing them to hang out feels scummy to me. The board merge was based on jokes people were already making back then. One more year, plus4 shows it has better ideas for April fools jokes than 4prime.
>>433430 >One more year, plus4 shows it has better ideas for April fools jokes than 4prime. Yeah, I've been really pleased with this site's April Fools jokes. It's the kind of thing 4chan used to do back when it was still run by people who were actually creative.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250415022002/https://www.soyjak.st/soy/thread/10615723.html https://archive.is/c9Q5g Confirmed it was a hack by the sharty. The janny database is getting dumped and leaked.
Call me a schizo but this seems like a planned burn of a useless asset. USAID money gets pulled and other government shit gets gutted and now 4chan can't justify its excel budget line
>>433488 lol, 4chan taking USAID money is something I could see, but you can actually look that up on a public database so it would've been mentioned already if it was.
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To hell with that AIDS-ridden shithole and all the fugly freaks who pretended to maintain it. Just got banned this morning for saying this in reference to the drawthread spammer while he continued unabated. https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/148324116/#q148326270
>>433499 Yeah I gotta say, I don't want 4chan to be dead for good but I don't exactly regret the jannycide taking place, those fuckers had it coming. Maybe this was all a long time coming.
>>433637 Jap Moot's basically gonna have to fire everybody, right? The Jannies and the Mods are all compromised, all their info got leaked. Their social media is getting leaked as we speak.
>>428502 >Don't like 8moe since it's degeneracy central and /gif/tranny refugee camp >Don't like KiwiFarms since you have to sign in and give your info to the jew >Have to settle for plus despite hating /co/ faggotry >despise Reddit I guess this is my new home for now.
>>434100 I suppose it's because I use (what is basically) a netbook as my dedicated shipost machine. This Red Alert thing makes the browser lag like crazy. Is there a way to turn it off?
To use the site, I need to switch between tabs where threads were loaded before it was implemented (to post) and duplicates of those tabs with scripts disabled (to check for new comments).
There has been no official statement from 4chan has there? It's been down for some now already. But maybe a quiet death is what would have been expected.
>>434101 Yes, it is most likely because your system does not support hardware acceleration. What browser + hardware are you running? I can't see it from my end.
If it is indeed what I suspect then you'd have a lot of lag anyway because many threads here are 500 to 1000+ posts long.
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>>434105 >you'd have a lot of lag anyway because many threads here are 500 to 1000+ posts long It was working fine before the Red Alert started. >because your system does not support hardware acceleration True. But I shouldn't need that to browse a website. >browser + hardware I think it should be obvious why I'd rather not mention this.
Thanks anyway. Guess I'll just have to wait it out.
>>434108 >I shouldn't need that to browse a website. plus4chan isn't a website, it's a musical adventure.
>I think it should be obvious why I'd rather not mention this. Yes, and that's why I asked, because it looks like you are using Tor but I know for a fact that I have that blocked.
>>434110 Fun fact: you spelled it more correctly. Since Polish is not read as you do written English, it was always voYak (male soldier). woJak came from English speakers reading Polish incorrectly.
So it's pretty clear from the Twitter account that 4chan is going to be back up eventually, it's just a question of when. I hope it's not more than a week.
I'm here from soyjak party (soyjak.st) and for some reason, the site itself won't load. It's either just all the new migrants coming to the site or some salty anon decided to cyberattack the 'party back. Idk and idc really, I just like seeing this unfold. What do y'all think?
Also I like all the Red Alert stuff, it's cool, but I wish there was a way to turn it off...
>>434163 >>434169 >>434170 It's not gonna be tomorrow that's for sure. Their entire source code was leaked, that's gonna take a bit. Probably weeks or even months.
>>434177 Sharties should be lucky they haven't had people contracted to kill them yet. You fuckers caused all this bullshit, don't think you'll get anything but hate. I'm surprised sharty's admins haven't been doxxed themselves yet.
>>434332 >served the purpose of being a 'wild west' territory rather well No- /trash/ did that way better, even after it got flooded with fetish generals.
>>434342 /trash/ was okay if you stayed out of all the discord grooming generals, but those were real bad. The "pussyfree" general was some of the most horrid shit I've ever seen on the clearnet. Imagine sexually fetishizing being a failure.
>>434354 I've browsed a couple of official discords for indie video games and they seem fine, presumably those are the minority unlike random chatroom style discords
Since someone brought it up... If 4chan Prime consistently applied its "no advertising/begging" rule, then every outrage bait threads with a YouTube video preview image in the OP would get vaporized on sight, because the OP is obviously trying to direct you to that video/channel.
Mods presumably allow such threads because omitting direct links to the video/channel technically means no rule has been broken. That, or the mods just like the traffic/ad exposure generated by bait threads.
>>433430 Nah, it's lower tier but still runs circles the one year where literally nothing happened other then adding a "GPT" label to your posts. Now THAT sucked donkey dick
>>434336 If you're not autistic enough to love the art of drawing per se you have to be a shameless enough pervert to ask the specific questions you need Why wouldn't that fit /trash/'s description
>>434382 Well I'm both an autist that loves the art of drawing and a shameless internet pervert, so I guess that's why the general meshed so well with me
>>428502 >4chan just shit itself (again) >So how are you all doing? I'm legitimately about to lose my shit. I knew I was addicted but I didn't know I was this bad off.
>>434423 vg is alright when you hit the sweet spot in between not being too popular with 800 posts per hours unreadable threads, and not niche enough so 2 faggots avatarfag with each other all day.
>>434436 >>434437 >>434438 >>434439 The timer showed up whenever you cleared your cookies, which made private browsing impossible. It also made it impossible for new users to contribute because threads may be deleted/archived by the time the timer finished. It essentially locked in the existing userbase, and did barely anything against spammers.
And from the source leaks we now know that 4chan gave its users a spam score and made its captcha appear worse on a lot of factors such as blacklisted countries, and even made it randomly fail once in a while.
The antispam measures at 4chan were literally designed to annoy users into posting less.
>>434442 >new users got fucked Never thought of it like that. Perhaps the hack and the leak was 200% well deserved, and so was the 4chan forest fire that ensued.
>>434442 Jannies were also spammers or friends of spammers, and would pause your posting when you called them out since they didn't have enough authority to ban you outright themselves only put a temporary block to give them time to cry to someone higher up.
>>434445 This appears to have been especially true in /co/ drawthreads. Anons said they would report obvious samefagging, then get warned or temporarily banned for "filing misclassified reports".
>>434436 >it's literally a one in a lifetime thing With the leaks, it turned out to not be the case. The timer only appeared if: a) You weren't posting from a list of approved countries b) You were phoneposting c) You were a new ip And as another anon said, if your connection resetted you get hit with another timer, even right after the first 900 sec timer ended. Also, to all the idiots that gave their email to bypass it, they didn't delete them after verification. The hacker is not releasing them because of morals.
>>434446 I wouldn't be surprised if those autistic requests spammed FOR YEARS were from jannies themselves.
>>434452 >I wouldn't be surprised if those autistic requests spammed FOR YEARS were from jannies themselves. My most schizo take on this topic is that at least some of the mass spam deletions in drawthreads were being done by the janny spammers themselves to fuck with the userbase, or by rival jannies as part of some behind-the-scenes turf war.
>>434452 >literal rooms full of scammers and shills with computers hooked to banks of cellphones with dynamic IPs to ban evade in "certain" countries >constantly posting CCP, .ru, mossad, and disinfo propaganda >constantly posting pump and dump scams, trying to steal personal info through bad links and redirects, and malicious catbox files >somehow managing to make a literal ocean of piss and shit and cum WORSE Its almost like the timers were needed and anyone who couldn't figure out a workaround or have patience without being banned was either an idiot or deserved the aggravation. >threads falling off boards Not every board is b, pol, int, or trash. Theres threads that lasted months on /an/, /diy/, /out/, etc.
>>434446 the unfairness with these so-called jannies had me lose interest in checking out /co/ more. they punish anons for mentioning ponies explicitly, yet allow some gmod toilet obsessed schizo to shit up every thread involving indie animation.
>>434455 replying to myself because man we're glad to have plus4chan so we can talk about homestuck more or have proper drawthreads that gets shit done without those incompetent jannies abusing their powers to spam requests.
>>434457 Totes, BRAH! there goes the skibidi guy off his meds again and shitting himself!!1
god it was fucking infuriating. shit like this is why we had to use 4chanX to filter these mental asylum patients ourselves because the jannies won't do shit about everything except for petty reasons.
i'm almost glad 4chan got nuked so that we can actually have discussions here without the /pol/tard tourists or everything else that made 4chan the literal corpse it is.
>>434455 >>434457 >>434459 >because the jannies won't do shit about everything except for petty reasons >mfw those might as well been made by jannies
>>434453 Not so schizo with what we know now. Fuck, I'll put half of the blame on them for the deplorable state of the drawthread (a handful of drawfags left, little to no deliveries on a sea of reposted requests). The other half is on the anons making requests themselves given the discord leak from years ago.
>>434453 On vg they had the guild wars 2 general be spammed by a bot for years because the janies said the guy running it bought a 4chan pass for it. They onky would temporary ban it when it broke and spammed multiple gw2 threads in the catalogue. I think the janies were lying and moot/hiro were getting paid by NCsoft to keep gw2 general threads active.
>>434466 Years ago, someone in the drawthread posted screencaps of the drawfags' discord, with someone asking "what do you think of today's requests?". Let's say most of them were less than enthusiastic of browsing through wave after wave of "Draw my heckin' waifu in [insert meme outfit of the month] so I can jerk off again" for the Nth time. The jannies, of course, went scorched earth on the thread. To this day, the one drawfag in the discord just replying "THUGGERY" in all caps to the question still makes me laugh
>>434471 >"Draw my heckin' waifu in [insert meme outfit of the month] so I can jerk off again" Back in the 00s, when /co/ drawthreads were still in the process of changing from art share threads to begging threads, I gave a drawfag shit for always feeding this specific breed of request spammer and got shouted down for it. Kinda vindicating to know that today the mere sight of this stuff is enough to reduce an entire drawfag collective to groans of despair.
>>434454 >Not every board is fast. Get fucked by a cactus. You obviously realized anon had a point there but you're too much of a shitbag to admit it. Idiots like you should be banned before you get the chance to make any other discussion worse. >or deserved the aggravation *I* got around it by having a dedicated 4chan machine. It would not reset the timers when the IP address changed but it would still rarely happen if I didn't post after 48 hours or some janitor/moderator just felt like silencing my ass. That was still enough to screw me over many times.
It absolutely was a problem. You or anyone else having disposable e-mails, being a paypig or wasting all your life posting constantly does not mean it was just a "skill issue". Piece of shit.
>>434477 >throwing this much of a shitfit over having to wait 15 minutes once in a while Get a life, go make a coffee or something while you wait. Maybe even get off your fat ass and do some stretches.
The whole reason you people are posting here right now is because of how badly 4chan classic and its systems was being run, you seem pretty quick to lick the boot.
>>434455 >these so-called jannies had me lose interest in checking out /co/ more This. I got banned every other time I visited /co/ for the pettiest reasons.
And I just KNOW those fuckers were the tumblr rejects that came to the 4chan because of Steven Universe and other crap that involved R.Sugar in some way. Fans of that shit almost always show clear signs of mental illness. The 4chan staff were fucking idiots for not removing that cancer before it literally took over the site.
>>434455 Oh yeah for sure, /co/'s jannies are fucking worthless at best and actively malicious at worst. I've been saying for a while that they need to be completely replaced, just the fact they let pet schizos run unchecked and punish everyone in a thread EXCEPT for the schizo is a sign they need their roster gutted.
>>434452 >spoiler The hacker isn't releasing them because they all use a specifically assigned hash once you give them to the site, making that basically impossible. And even if it wasn't, the hacker still wouldn't because tgst's an entirely different problem than simply doxxing the mods and jannies.
>>434482 >And I just KNOW those fuckers were the tumblr rejects that came to the 4chan because of Steven Universe and other crap that involved R.Sugar in some way Back in the height of that slop of a show, a Mod (which you know, aren't supposed to be visible unless necessary) reared its head in the SU general just to say something on the vein of "Guys, remember to use the spoiler tag because some of us will be working while the episode air and we don't want to get spoiled, please!". You can trace comblr at least all the way to Inspector Redwood since he was the nigger that went on record saying he wanted the userbase to change and be "more like reddit's"
>>434478 >>434479 >u mad I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
>hurr yes the idiot is you No. Shit-stains that "argue" like this deserved to be wiped. Converstations should be about reaching conclusions, not endless shit-flinging.
Assholes like >>434488 only care about having the final word, they will ALWAYS ruin a discussion.
>>434501 I think that's just the case when you try and move away from anonymous posting and attempt to form a "community". Especially when you have so many schizophrenics, once you move away from it being scattered threads and try to form generals with etiquette and hierarchy and such the narcissism just overflows.
Reading through this thread reminds me of this one shitposter who was an actual underaged, since their trip could be traced back to their pages, but they were never banned or had their threads/posts deleted from what I recall. I'm pretty sure it was even screenshotted and posted in a thread as proof once and nothing came of it. I don't know what enjoyment moderation gets out of allowing blatant rule-breaking to persist for so long.
>>434501 The following is how I felt about some threads on /trash/ before the hack: >/mfat/'s doing okay but I'm not gay enough to give a fuck >/femfat/ has been coopted by a schizo autist with an mspaint winnie the pooh fetish, and any attempts to scare him have been rendered totally moot because he is too fucking stupid to know when he isn't welcome >/feed/ has become Vinluv central >/inf/ is barely clinging to life, it can sometimes be good though >/snoot/ is great but goes by way too fast >/acrg/ is the funniest thread on the board >the kpop threads are either populated by trannies or autistic women, I can't tell anymore >ignore all AIshitter threads >/hmofa/ is based and the Squigga guy posts in it sometimes, but I've only scrolled through it a few times There was also a Naruto storytime on the board last week. I thought it was kinda cool. Just having Naruto on the board catalog for no reason. It was a good read. Nice blast from the past.
>>434510 >Naruto on the board catalog for no reason OP got a 3 day ban on /a/ for being "off-topic" (joined a conversation about a local schizo in a single thread).
>>434412 I liked the Keng/a/n Threads, they became the only reason why I'd still bother to read that shitty manga since it felt like we were all on the same page and it made conversation pretty good Since 4chan prime is gone I don't feel a need to read it anymore
Newfag(started on /a/ and /m/ in 2009) here. I hope it stays down for a long time. The only advantage it had was that everyone was there. I've had a more engaging discussion and effort posting in the last 3 days, than i've had in the last 3 years. The only possible gripe anyone could have is having to open a bunch of tabs to keep track of 8moe/+4/smug/lain/kissu/wapchan - all these places are great and deserve the traffic. Rape ape and his cabal of redditors had this coming for a long time now . Shills, bots, and outright trash have been spilling onto every board since 2015, and those faggots did nothing. In this whole fiasco, the only people who deserve sympathy are the guys who kept the niche boards rolling - I hope they find their way to a place that doesn't shit on them 24/7.
Out of curiosity, which boards you check there? I know /co/ migrated here (at least partially), I wonder what boards moved to what other site. It would be nice to have a list of this.
>>434557 If the leak is real, there was a third-party archive for /b/. Also, if you ever suspected the hotpockets banned for personal reasons, you were right.
>>434550 >Shills, bots, and outright trash have been spilling onto every board since 2015, and those faggots did nothing If anything, this debacle proved they were fanning the flames of the dumpster fire, arbitrarily enforcing the rules while protecting their clique of cocksuckers across the boards.
>>434560 I have a feeling when the site gets back up, discussion about the leaks will be an absolute no-go. Otherwise a LOT of people are going to vocally pushback against Janny corruptiom
>>434567 I already made up my mind. When/If the site comes back, and everyone from rapeape downwards aren't passed through the guillotine, I'll go to the generals I frequent in /vg/ and motion to leave for this place or one of the spinoffs. These fuckers were outed as corrupt and having fed's dick so far up their asses they spew glow in the dark gunk while talking.
>>434567 first week of return will be impossible to discuss anything because everybody will be in schizo paranoia poltard mode and they will make everything be "about the leak" no matter what.
>>434567 >I have a feeling when the site gets back up, discussion about the leaks will be an absolute no-go.
given how head-in-the-sand the 4chan moderation is, this is practically a guarantee. I just wonder if this will result in some other chan becoming more prominent, like when 8chan became big after the gamergate shit.
>>434567 You'll likely get an insta-ban just briefly mentioning it. I have no doubt that none involved will have learned their lesson from this event and will continue to act with the kind of apathetic, callous hostility that garnered them zero sympathy in the first place
>>434554 8moe for /v/ /co/ /b/ /k/ /a/ and the general /meta/ threads on each board. Even the sitewide /meta/ has a decent number of posters. /wooo/ /t/ and /m/ are still somewhat slow.Also has an active /vt/ board, but i'm not into that and i believe most of those guys jumped on their own site. smug - /a/ and /kohi/. It's /a/ is slow, but the post quality is worth it. lain for /mu/, but the /tech/ and /lit/ have a few dedicated posters. kissu for the /qa/ board wapchan also for shooting the shit in the /meta/ threads They are all by no means fast compared to 4chin, but it's refreshing to have a normal conversation with people, and not have every other post be "cope" "seethe" or "tranny".
>>434582 I always joked that "soy" and soy-prefixed words ended in the wordfilter because too many anons called the jannies soy-slurping, soy-faced, soyboys and made fun of those retarded "soy helps you transitioning" articles. Turns out, it might not been a joke.
>>434584 While I hate wordfilters, I don't think any single word caused as much chaos across 4chan as "Soy". It was absolutely insanity. I still very remember a /v/ exchange that went something along the lines of >enjoying God of Soy on your Soyny Soystation 4? Which garnered a response along the lines of >Well at least I'm not playing Soyper Mario Oddysoy on my Soytendo Soywitch
>>434586 this just goes to show the "ebin troll" shitposters are the most sensitive motherfuckers on the site. they can't handle being the butt of the joke. when 4chan comes back up, when we see people getting caught by the wordfilters, we gotta start raking them over the coals.
>>434589 Yeah I love how every fucking conversation ends up being consumed by people accusing everyone else of being a black trans corporate cuck shill simply because someone had the temerity to not agree with the hivemind
>>434599 They long since became empty buzzwords to use when you couldn’t just come up with anything witty as a response, anyone claiming different is either in denial or so fixated in using them that they’re myopic on the subject
Congrats? That still leaves countless other people who absolutely did that all the time to a point that all it does is out them as sad losers with an extremely limited vocabulary
>>434615 >fucking trannies have panic attacks when you see brown people >go back and dilate with your shark pillow, chud Well shit you're right. It IS funny if they filter into each other
>>434530 Too many refugees multiple image posting seem to be overloading the place, but the admins seem to be rushing to get hardware to handle the load On that note I genuinely think if they get a handle on that before gookmoot restores 4chan and specially if it takes too long, 4chan could easily die or become alt-chan slow as anons get comfortable using 8chan and other alts.
Honestly, I find people who use words like tranny, chud, nigger, kike, and soy to just be extremely low-quality posters who don't ever add any value to a board and instead bring down the mood of any discussion. There is an art to being crude and funny and the majority of people online lack that talent so they should stop trying so hard.
Can't they just use 4chan's remaining code to make some sort of spiritual successor? I think it would be far better if we start somewhere fresh and hopefully, it will have that familiar feel to pre-2016 4chan.
If not, we can just give this place a huge make-over to make it look more like the old 4chan with all of it's familiar features and boards.
>>434699 The mega slow boards like /po/ that wait days for a reply ust seem like wasted server space, that could be a general on /jp/ or /ic/ There just needs to be an AI porn board already, there's so many fucking slop threads on /e/ and /trash/ when I just wanna jerk off to actual art
>>434677 Words are just words, and it's fine to use slurs as insults or whatever if you feel it's getting your point across. It doesn't have to be intended to be funny. That said, a lot of people just use them as a downvote ("shut up chud/tranny/kike") because they're niggerbrained tranny faggots from fucking plebbit and I wish they'd kill themselves.
>>434705 So to summarize "you have to have a point worth getting across before sentence enhancers come into play", which is what 90% that rely on edgy naughty words like faggot, kike, nigger etc. fail to do
>>434705 people who try to shut up others with those words are usually random aggressors and obvious false flags. It's not even a downvote because that would imply a little interest in the matter of the thread.
>>434711 I've noticed that. One anon will post something totally inoccuous and some other dude will come in and start going on psychotic rants for no reason. Not the autism rants I'm used to, either, where someone is passionate about Yugioh or whatever and gets heated about his waifu's tits. It's just blunt hostility. It skeeves me out.
>>434716 So you endorse the type of board culture that has dominated the website for the past decade where the objective isn’t to have funny conversations and share interests but to complain endlessly, farm outrage through lies and misinformation and in general it’s accepted and encouraged to come in to any given thread to post your random angry rants and diatribes against minorities, women and whatever pet peeves you have, even when it has little to no relevance to the topic at hand?
Not replying to anyone specific, but want to add my 2 cents to the pile of cents in the room. Shitty behaviour is to be expected on an anonymous imabeboard, and it is something to live with. Trying to censor it leads to Reddit, and most will agree because it's true.
YET, at the same time, that does not mean being a shit person who shits on everyone and everything must be seen as "cool" and encouraged as desirable behaviour.
>>434718 I'm anti-word filters, but if I had to play the devil's advocate I'd say that filtering certain words or phrases does help create the impression that there is a standard that posts must meet
>>434721 I don't really see why. everybody knows that onions means soy, you achieve nothing with word swaps. weeaboos for wapanese even just made it used more, not less.
>>434718 It’s not censorship, it’s standard moderation to keep the platform functional so that the entire board doesn’t turn into a pile of shit where having any type of conversation outside of simpleminded circlejerks and shouting matches is impossible. When you do nothing but encourage spammers and schizos it ultimately ruins posting for everyone.
>>434722 Wordfilters work. You don't really see desu senpai or onions much, do you? It's too much effort to dodge them all the time and accepting the filter makes you look like a newfag. Anons are lazy and insecure.
>>434725 >You don't really see desu senpai or onions much, do you? Yes and no. People just type "soi" or "söy" to get around the wordfilter, or straight up write "based onions" sarcastically.
"soy" isn't even used much these days, since it was tied with the popularity of Soylent, and that nasty shit is not really advertising all over the net anymore.
>>434749 >Seemingly with the approval and encouragement of staff >Seemingly We are reaching the week since the hack and people still don't get it through their thick skulls. One of these clowns' whole schedule, while not shilling Apple products in /g/, was turning /s4s/ into his personal playground and using his mod power for GETs. Then had a massive autistic meltdown when /qa/the sharty took the 10000000 GET
>>434749 >>>/co/473954 this is a good point, but I'd argue that 4chan was always a content aggregator to a degree. Back in the 00s you had YTMND reposts and motivational posters, then you image macros, etc etc etc. Today it is just twitter reposts. If there was a time when 4chan was a content creator, it had to be the mid-late 00s back when the boards still had their own hivemind, and a big enough user base that anything you posted could get replies.
>>434757 Who the fuck shills crapple "tech" on a place as bitter and cynical as 4chan? Literally everybody knows it only serves as a status symbol for brown people. Even the normiest of normalfags make fun of iphone users and people with Mac "computers", it's a completely locked down OS with worse specs and insanely overpriced proprietary hardware that's outperformed by no name budget shit.
>>434677 it goes back to the whole concept of pissing in an ocean of piss. there are places where being disgusting and offensive would disrupt whatever equilibrium is in place. there are communities that need to be taken down a peg with a reminder that this is the internet and nothing is sacred. 4chan is not them. you are not accomplishing anything by being offensive on 4chan.
>>434761 >Who the fuck shills crapple "tech" on a place as bitter and cynical as 4chan? The kind of people who can also ban you for merely disagreeing with them. Typing the fucker's name apparently resulted in a 30-day autoban on 4chan
>>434767 Well yeah, PC "building" really means "which electronic lego part do I buy to plug im", most people aren't building shit unless they design some custom water loop
Any word on the sites status yet? I always assumed 4ch would just spring right back up when something like this happened, but this WAS a pretty intense hack that exposed major vulnerabilities.
>>434800 >this WAS a pretty intense hack that exposed major vulnerabilities. It's pretty damn hilarious to me that the only way to severely damage the site is by digging up their dirty little secrets and watch them panic to the point that the hackers were able to take over the place. It's like the only thing Jannies are more concerned of is their own precious privacy rather than the site itself.
>>434823 Not very. Hiro and the mods don't seem to think it's a particularly big deal. Might take a month, though - it'll be interesting to see how many users never come back.
>>434846 If it's true that they sat on the source code for 10 years without updating it, you'd have to be an idiot to start reposting the day 4chan goes back online.
I want more people to come here, all of the 4chan refugees want to 8chan but that site is super buggy. I've only gotten a single successful post there, every other time the capcha fails to load
Well, that's it been officially one week since 4chan went down. Personally, I've enjoyed seeing the /sssr/ board's increased activity and my newfound free time. 4chan really has been an unhealthy time sink for me
>>434893 Tell me why 4Chan still haven't made a Sonic board after all these years? They can make a Pokemon board, but why not a Sonic board? Considering that the series has always been one of /v/'s most biggest punching bag since day one.
>>434893 That's an easy one, ABIB is a massive nintendofag and has been seething about the blue rat since the console wars of the 90s. Towards the end of our Archie Sonic storytime on 4/co/, we had at least one moderator autosaging and outright pruning our threads. It didn't help that we had a schizo shitting up our threads that was under the protection of the mods. Fun fact: that schizo outed himself as a janny over on /sthg/ https://archived.moe/vg/thread/414233664/#414242537 We also discuss it here: >>>/co/453767
Once we finished the Archie Sonic storytime on 4/co/, we just moved here full time
>>434901 That's about the same amount as I did ;_;
>>434907 What was there to seethe about? You play Genesis for arcade-esque fast paced balls to the wall 20-70 minute games like Sonic and Ecco, and you play SNES for big long adventures like Donkey Kong Country, Super Metroid, Chrono trigger etc. The consoles really weren't anything alike, sure they shared multiplats but they were almost always radically different and clearly better on one console. SNES street fighter is better, Genesis Mortal Kombat is better. Xbox 360 vs PS3 is a way more compelling fight, because those were pretty damn similar, but also different enpugh that buying one over the other was more than "preference".
>>434908 I'm not sure if you were around in the 90s, but I remember actual schoolyard fights breaking out over whether the SNES or Genesis was better. Personally I like both consoles, although the Dreamcast will always be the coolest, most futuristic console to me
I'm not sure why ABIB's been malding for decades, but I'm guessing he was bullied for liking Nintendo in school
>>434910 I honestly find my time here much more constructive. The slower pace helps a lot since no one expects an immediate reply so instead of making quick one line replies, I can do fewer, more well thought out responses. Being able to just do one storytime a week also makes things easier to plan around, since I don't need to worry about the thread dying or having to type out captchas.
Oh and fun fact: looking at the 4chan code breech, there's a small chance that the captcha will reject even if you get it correct. I think a lot of us assumed that was happening, but it's nice to have confirmation
>>434846 >Hiro and the mods don't seem to think it's a particularly big deal. Or maybe they're just projecting an air of confidence because they don't want to see an advertizer exodus.
>>434905 >It will return. I hope it stays down. Many of the quality posters have found their way to altchans like this one, and relatively few outright morons and malcontents have followed them.
>>434908 The Console Wars of the 90s were not fought for rational reasons, anon.
>>434913 >I honestly find my time here much more constructive. The slower pace helps a lot since no one expects an immediate reply so instead of making quick one line replies, I can do fewer, more well thought out responses. This. It's also nice to not have to keep bumping good threads to keep them alive, something you had to do all the time on 4chan Prime due to posting addicts speedrunning the catalog.
>>434907 >ABIB is a massive nintendofag and has been seething about the blue rat since the console wars of the 90s Ah yes, I AM "Smash is a Cultural Phenomenon" ABIB... hope he's the mod that bit the dust. I wish I saved the screencap when some anon went to irc to bitch about something and that nigger and another mod/janny were too busy erping. >"place the grape upon my mouth, slave"
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>>434967 >This. It's also nice to not have to keep bumping good threads to keep them alive, something you had to do all the time on 4chan Prime due to posting addicts speedrunning the catalog. Yeah, it's a lot more like a forum in that way, but without the forced registration and join date/post count/updoot nonsense. The fact that you can't bump your own thread on 4chan made storytiming an absolute nightmare. No one should have to post "bump if reading" just to keep a storytime thread alive, especially not on the comics board. It's been almost impossible to keep the webcomics general up on /lgbt/ due to the absolute hurricane of threads filled with pure madness. We actually celebrate when one of our threads manages to reach the bump limit >>434968 Looks like Kiwifarms worked out his name, but haven't found any confirmed pictures of him (yet). I just know he has the greasiest of greasy neckbeards and am eagerly awaiting confirmation >>434992 I've had to switch to the 4 week view on 4stats.io (pic related) instead of the 1 week since that graph's now blank
Can we at least update this site to be the next 4Chan? From how I see it, this is clearly the only Altchan that has the potential to be the real replacement since it's the closest thing to the old one.
>>435040 Considering plus4chan's only a year younger, it serves as the perfect case study as to how 4chan could look if it had remained relatively obscure, had moderators removing schizos and bait threads, and actually updated its codebase ;)
Plus has a very classic 4chan feel to me, back before being a contrarian irony-poisoned misanthropic was the only acceptable outlook. It's nice seeing anons make things together, and build communities. I'd love to see it grow, although not to the extent 4chan did. Ideally, if 4chan stays down (and I kinda hope it does), there would be several popular imageboards, each specializing in their own niche (here for media creation and discussion, lainchan for tech, sharty for all of those hideous reaction images so I never have to look at them ever again, etc)
>>435054 Eh, I'll rather have this site create all the boards (except for /pol/ and /int/ of course) from the old 4Chan and add further things like it's own archive site for looking at older threads.
Plus is actually alot older than that by the way; it existed back when 4Chan was still at it's prime time. That's why it felt very much like the older days and thus, there's very little autism and shitstorm.
Let's give 4Chan about three months or so to see if it's truly dead as everyone says it is. If it is, then we really need to upgrade this site and find ways to attract more users without bringing in normies and poltards here.
>>435062 >create all the boards >attract more users Strongly disagree that these goals are worth pursuing. Smaller chans with close-knit communities are the way to go. We've seen what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket, and what happens when so many of the eggs are rotten. Let's not make the same mistake twice.
>>435085 Because the anti-/pol/ fags are just as, if not more obnoxious, as the people who constantly talk about politics. Extreme ends of the same spectrum, just on opposite sides.
>>435085 constant schizo posting, unable to not call anybody nazis if they don't like your things. "nothing should ever be political" is also a literal sect mindset.
>>435170 My guess is that they are testing the new site and hope to reopen soon I guess? I'm just curious to see if they just patched the old one or went for something new with a complete database flush because who the fuck cares of 4chan "conservation"
New codebase means new bugs. An update does not inherently mean it will be more secure or even usable. Even something as simple as changing the css style/theme was glitchy for well over a decade.
Also, it will probably make most archive sites useless until those get their own updates.
>>435211 >New codebase means new bugs. I assume they'll be using one of the more established open source codebases, although who knows how well that'll hold up at 4chan's scale Who am I kidding, we all know they'll do the bare minimum to patch the existing codebase to run on modern php/bsd and disable pdf uploads >Also, it will probably make most archive sites useless until those get their own updates. That's easily the worst part of it >>435224 Not only can I explain it, I can do so with a graph! The interesting people come first, and anyone looking to start shit gets banned or shouted down by the existing userbase, but then the hordes of newcomers arrive, drowning out the original users with their dogshit opinions. This has been an issue on the Internet for 32 years now and why I hope plus4chan doesn't grow too big https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
>>435279 Oh. That explains why everything else suddenly died. >posting sometimes doesn't work +4 just ate one of my posts for the sake of another joke. I'll take my chances.
lmao, after 8 years 4chan finally updated its tumblr blog seriously, it's literally hosted on tumblr. There's even tumblr users reacting to it at the bottom of the post: https://blog.4chan.org/post/781845918774394880/still-standing
>Still standing
>On the afternoon of April 14th, a hacker using a UK IP address exploited an out-of-date software package on one of 4chan’s servers, via a bogus PDF upload. With this entry point, they were eventually able to gain access to one of 4chan’s servers, including database access and access to our own administrative dashboard. The hacker spent several hours exfiltrating database tables and much of 4chan’s source code. When they had finished downloading what they wanted, they began to vandalize 4chan at which point moderators became aware and 4chan’s servers were halted, preventing further access.
No mention of the sharty, although that's to be expected. They did admit to the pdf exploit though
>Over the following days, 4chan’s development team surveyed the damage, which to be frank, was catastrophic. While not all of our servers were breached, the most important one was, and it was due to simply not updating old operating systems and code in a timely fashion. Ultimately this problem was caused by having insufficient skilled man-hours available to update our code and infrastructure, and being starved of money for years by advertisers, payment providers, and service providers who had succumbed to external pressure campaigns.
Didn't mention that the servers hadn't been updated since moot left, a bit misleading methinks
>We had begun a process of speccing new servers in late 2023. As many have suspected, until that time 4chan had been running on a set of servers purchased second-hand by moot a few weeks before his final Q&A, as prior to then we simply were not in a financial position to consider such a large purchase. Advertisers and payment providers willing to work with 4chan are rare, and are quickly pressured by activists into cancelling their services. Putting together the money for new equipment took nearly a decade.
Boo hoo hoo, we're so poor ;_;
>In April of 2024 we had agreed on specs and began looking for possible suppliers. Money is always tight for us, and few companies were willing to sell us servers, so actually buying the hardware wasn’t a trivial problem. We managed to finalize a purchase in June, and had the new servers racked and online in July. Over the next few months we slowly moved functionality onto the new servers, but we had still been relying on the old servers for key functions. Everything about this process took much longer than intended, which is a recurring theme in this debacle. The free time that 4chan’s development team had available to dedicate to 4chan was insufficient to update our software and infrastructure fast enough, and our luck ran out.
Pretty misleading to imply that things would've been fine if they'd finished migrating to the new servers. Without updating the os/php/codebase they'd have still been hacked
>However, we have not been idle during our nearly two weeks of downtime. The server that was breached has been replaced, with the operating system and code updated to the latest versions. PDF uploads have been temporarily disabled on those boards that supported them, but they will be back in the near future. One slow but much beloved board, /f/ - Flash, will not be returning however, as there is no realistic way to prevent similar exploits using .swf files. We are bringing on additional volunteer developers to help keep up with the workload, and our team of volunteer janitors & moderators remains united despite the grievous violations some have suffered to their personal privacy.
lmao, even their developers do it for free
>4chan is back. No other website can replace it, or this community. No matter how hard it is, we are not giving up.
Well, hopefully they'll be a little more proactive with their updates at least
>>435327 >tumblr blog To be honest, it's free, and you don't want them to host and update their own blog (the server would've been picked clean already by 1001 wordpress vulnerabilities).
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>>435350 >This reads likes forced optimism They have been in full "NO NEGATIVITY IN THE DOJO" mode since the site went up and enforcing rule 8 like never before (people have been banned from even saying "fuck/fucking jannies"), as if trying to swep under the rug the whole shitshow. Also there's the rumor circulating that they hired a batch of pajeets from Hyderabad for new jannies
>>435378 Suddenly disrespecting heckin' pajeets is verboten, the CURATED bans they are listing in the bans page are showing either an extremely zealous or extremely retarded moderation (even worse than pre-hack): A motherfucker got banned for off-topic on /v/ FOR POSTING TOUHOU (and one in /co/ got banned for saying he didn't like black bitches kek).
More graph time! I've had a look at 4stats.io and 4chan's recovered around 80% of its pre-hack userbase, which is a lot higher than I expected. Interestingly it's only some boards that have reduced posting numbers. These boards are around the same: /a/, /co/, /g/, /mlp/, /lgbt/ And these have reduced to around 80%: /b/, /bant/, /biz/, /fa/, /fit/, /int/, /mu/, /pol/, /rk9/, /trash/, /tv/, /v/, /vg/, /vt/, /x/ Some interesting divisions here. Personally, I've not been back, since the site's almost certainly compromised
In terms of site decline, the pattern (for the last 3 years) has been that it holds steady for the first half of the year but gradually declines by around 100k posts a day until the end of the year. During the breach, daily posts went from ~705k to 560k, which is something that would usually take 1.5 years to happen normally. It's almost certain that by the end of the year the post volume will be half that of the start of 2022. Still, it's only been a few days so maybe things will recover
>>435350 I hate to admit it, but I'd be huffing the copium and putting out something similar if I were in RapeApe's situation. I can't imagine "head janitor of the infamous 4chan" is gonna look good on a CV, and you can't exactly leave a decade+ gap in your employment history >>435378 It certainly tracks. India exceeded the number of Americans online in 2019 and now it's more than double. All the ones online can (to varying degrees from moderately to abysmally) speak English, and have been flooding into Western sites for a while now. I'd be surprised if at least half of their jannies weren't by now. Twitter's the same, where you can just ask to be unbanned in Hindi and they'll do it no question >>435380 >Suddenly disrespecting heckin' pajeets is verboten Has been for a while, particularly on /g/. All that AI art of them filling server rooms with shit and launching toilets like rockets did them irreparable psychic damage
>>435391 >These boards are around the same: >/a/, /co/, /g/, /mlp/, /lgbt/ Is understandable for all of those holes except /g/, you would expect the supposed tech board to be more savvy of what the fuck happened during these 10 (or 11, I lost track) days and the leaks. >/vg/ The two generals I frequent did seem to have lost steam (one more than the other). The shitposters, however, seemed unfazed and are spewing their ritualized posts like nothing happened.
>>435392 >you would expect the supposed tech board to be more savvy It's pretty embarrassing, but not unexpected. I've definitely noticed fewer and fewer actually knowledgeable anons posting over there in recent years. I still remember when they used to actually make things >The two generals I frequent did seem to have lost steam (one more than the other). The shitposters, however, seemed unfazed and are spewing their ritualized posts like nothing happened. /sthg/ (Sonic the Hedgehog General) seems to have split, with the bots/schizos/shitposters moving back and many of the actual users seem to have stayed on /fast/ over on 8chan.moe Honestly, at this point I don't distinguish between bots, schizos and shitposters anymore. It's all just noise really
>>435391 >4chan's recovered around 80% of its pre-hack userbase Sorry for the stupid question, but do we know how much of this increased activity is simply botposting?
>Personally, I've not been back, since the site's almost certainly compromised Ditto, for the same reason.
>>435397 >Sorry for the stupid question, but do we know how much of this increased activity is simply botposting? It's actually a really interesting question, but as much as I'd love to know, there's no easy way to find out (in theory you could sample a bunch of threads before and after the shutdown and count the number of posts that seem to be from bots, but ain't nobody got time fo' that). My guess is the amount of bots is about the same as before, and almost all of the reduction is from actual people just not going back >Ditto, for the same reason. I'm almost impressed it's been able to limp along for this long, but then the next group to gain access might not do anything immediately obvious
>>435391 > I'd be surprised if at least half of their jannies weren't by now. According to the leaks most janitors were from the US. Of course if they really hired indians, it could be different.
I remember the jokes in the 00s that 4chan was ran by mexicats. Oh how times have changed.
>>435392 > except /g/, you would expect the supposed tech board to be more savvy of what the fuck happened
/g/ isn't about technology itself, it is about whoring for consumer technology. They rarely even have good old fashioned tech humor threads, it's all just "(consumer goods) general" threads. Headphones general, mechanical keyboard general, computer building general, etc.
>>435398 on the topic of botposting: According to https://eylenburg.github.io/altchans.htm plus4chan /co/ and /md/ together made up of around 12% of 4chan /co/'s post count. Keep in mind that - we have a rule to block image dupes, so there was a lot less image spamming (drawthreads, waifu threads, etc) - we didn't have practically any AI threads, I don't even remember any /pol/ baiting threads either, and there was a death battle thread but it didn't get many posts? - things like storytimes happened normally (increasing post count) - 8chan.moe /co/ also got quite a lot of posts, almost as much as we did. - we had the red alert thing going for half the time that prevented a lot of people from posting
So between those three (co, md, 8chan co), we got a fifth or a fourth of 4chan /co/'s traffic... but how much of the shit that came with it?