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No.428502
4chan just shit itself.Anonymous
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So how are you all doing?
No.428503
Anonymous
Replies:>>428539>>431216
4chan is shit now anyway.
No.428504
Anonymous
>>428502
doing pretty good, sir.
No.428505
Anonymous
Replies:>>428506
Another shooter or someone leaking government documents?
No.428506
Anonymous
>>428505
The captcha broke.
No.428507
Anonymous
Replies:>>428510
>>428502
I hope it never comes back, I wanna be FREEEE
No.428510
Anonymous
>>428507
It's back, you're fucked.
No.428539
Anonymous
Replies:>>431530>>431531
>>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.
No.430844
Anonymous
>>428502
I'm fine
No.430867
Anonymous
Replies:>>430868>>430869
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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
No.430868
Anonymous
>>430867
Let me guess, does the bug also say "4chan pass users are exempt from this"?
No.430869
Anonymous
Replies:>>430874
>>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.
No.430874
Anonymous
Replies:>>430875
>>430869
How can anybody use incognito mode to ban evade? aren't bans ip based?
No.430875
Anonymous
>>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.
No.431033
Anonymous
Replies:>>431040
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
No.431034
Anonymous
Replies:>>431040
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.
No.431040
Anonymous
>>431033
>>431034
Hey it works again!
No.431050
Anonymous
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.
No.431183
Anonymous
Replies:>>431424
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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 Swimyoutube thumb
No.431216
Anonymous
>>428503
It's been shit for awhile now even before recent times
No.431424
Mister Twister
>>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.
No.431530
Anonymous
Replies:>>431531
>>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.
No.431531
Anonymous
Replies:>>431532
>>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.
No.431532
Anonymous
>>431531
>Did I made this post?
"all posts are reposts" is one of the rules of the internet.
No.431533
Anonymous
Replies:>>431535>>431556>>431585
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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.
No.431535
Anonymous
Replies:>>431556
>>431533
No, it happened to me too, and I have no idea why.
No.431556
Anonymous
Replies:>>431557>>431585
>>431533
>>431535
One minute I can post again, the next I can't. What's going on over there?
No.431557
Anonymous
Replies:>>431558
>>431556
yeah, same shit happened here, I could do around 6 posts and then blocked again.

do you also automatically clean cookies when browsing?
No.431558
Anonymous
Replies:>>431559
>>431557
Isn't it more likely that some spammer is buying up IPs to ban evade?
No.431559
Anonymous
Replies:>>431560>>431649
>>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".
No.431560
Anonymous
Replies:>>431561
>>431559
But then wouldn't you get blocked on other boards too?
No.431561
Anonymous
Replies:>>431562
>>431560
No, the checks are done separately by board. I couldn't post images on /v/ for years now, but had no issues anywhere else.
No.431562
Anonymous
>>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.
No.431585
Anonymous
Replies:>>431586
>>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.
No.431586
Anonymous
>>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.
No.431587
Anonymous
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.
No.431589
Anonymous
Replies:>>431590>>431594
What's up with the Peridot spam on /co/?
No.431590
Anonymous
Replies:>>431591
>>431589
I don't know, but it's fucking hilarious.
No.431591
Anonymous
>>431590
Fuck off, its part of the cancer that is modern 4chan
No.431594
Anonymous
Replies:>>431599>>431649
>>431589
Supposedly the guy behind the spam is doing it because a janitor nuked one of his threads back in 2022.
No.431599
Anonymous
Replies:>>431626
>>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.
No.431626
Anonymous
>>431599
He's switched to spamming /aco/.
No.431649
Anonymous
Replies:>>431653
>>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.
No.431653
Anonymous
Replies:>>431654>>431668
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.
No.431654
Anonymous
>>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.
No.431668
Mister Twister
>>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.
No.431738
Anonymous
Replies:>>431739>>431740
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!
No.431739
Anonymous
>>431738
I am sure posts with great content such as yours will make +4 a pleasant place to stay, eh?
No.431740
Anonymous
>>431738
Chill newfag.
No.432107
Anonymous
Replies:>>434326
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>4chan just shit itself
Innocent threads, cut down in an instant, Moderator error or something more insidious?!
No.432108
Anonymous
Replies:>>432109
Looking forward to September and Fall. How are you?
No.432109
Anonymous
Replies:>>432110
>>432108
What are you talking about?
No.432110
Anonymous
>>432109
He's probably a child molester.
No.432193
Anonymous
Replies:>>432194>>432197
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>Why is *major website* worse now
No.432194
Anonymous
>>432193
It's funny how I rarely see any chinese, indian, russian and brazilian users online. I have to deliberately look for them.
No.432197
Mister Twister
Replies:>>432203
>>432193
People in Russia and China, when not completely retarded, use VPNs to access "western" Internets. Why should it be even detectable?
No.432203
Anonymous
Replies:>>432215
>>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
No.432215
Mister Twister
>>432203
That's believable.
No.432419
Anonymous
Replies:>>432421>>432428
OK, so 4chan put on a new rule on /vg/ that you need to wait 10 minutes to post, or verify your email.
This is now also used on /v/ and /pol/.
No.432421
Anonymous
Replies:>>432424>>432426
>>432419
>verify your email
What?

I haven't been on 4chan since I got banned couple of days back from a jannie who either was or who actively defends a spammer.
No.432424
Anonymous
Replies:>>432426
>>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.
No.432426
Anonymous
>>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.
No.432428
Anonymous
Replies:>>432429
>>432419
It now applies to all boards. What a crock of shit.
No.432429
Anonymous
Replies:>>432430
>>432428
Yeah saw that. This is completely fucking stupid and it won't stop the spambots considering you can just verify your email to get around it.
No.432430
Anonymous
Replies:>>432431
>>432429
case in point, the peridot spammer is still posting on /co/ *right now* despite the new measures.
No.432431
Anonymous
>>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.
No.432432
Anonymous
Replies:>>432435>>432442
Let the rotting corpse of 4chan finally collapse.
No.432435
Mister Twister
>>432432
No carts before horses, 4chan Prime is still doing okay.
No.432442
Anonymous
Replies:>>432443
>>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.
No.432443
Anonymous
Replies:>>432445
>>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.
No.432444
Anonymous
and now they messed around with the captcha again, breaking the auto solvers.
No.432445
Anonymous
Replies:>>432446
>>432443
I doubt the people who pay for premium accounts cover the bills, anons are money pinchers.
No.432446
Anonymous
Replies:>>432447
>>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.
No.432447
Mister Twister
>>432446
It is terrible to be reminded that either you have to be rich, or you need rich friends, to pay for 4chan to exist.
No.432582
Mister Twister
Replies:>>432614
Captcha seems to have upgraded, and it just werks for me on Pale Moon. FUCK YEAH!
No.432614
Anonymous
Replies:>>432625
>>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).
No.432625
Mister Twister
>>432614
Nice to be a more trustworthy user. Thanks, Hiroshim00t!
No.432631
Mister Twister
Replies:>>432866
Imagine making fun of a racist french artist by calling him a nigger (get it?) then get banned for 3 days for "racism".

I wonder if the mod was mad at something ELSE my IP shat out, and used the forbidden nigger word as an excuse.
No.432865
Mister Twister
Replies:>>432866>>432879
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So there is 1 janny that keeps deleting Secret Santa threads from /co/.

I hope he gets arrested for something, and spends several years in jail.
No.432866
Anonymous
Replies:>>432867>>432880
>>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.
No.432867
Mister Twister
Replies:>>432868
>>432866
This only was happening for less than 2 days. If it keeps happening, I will.
No.432868
Anonymous
Replies:>>432869
>>432867
Please do. I really like 4/co/ but the moderation is just godawful; I'd love to see them here with better moderation and a better IB engine.
No.432869
Mister Twister
>>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.
No.432879
Anonymous
>>432865
why jannies are joyless cunts?
No.432880
Anonymous
Replies:>>432885>>433403
>>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.
No.432885
Mister Twister
>>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!
No.432899
Anonymous
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.
No.432904
mystery anon
Replies:>>432905>>432907>>432942
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Shit, for Christmas, etc.
No.432905
Anonymous
Replies:>>432906>>432907>>432910>>432942
>>432904
Plus4chan is a spam filter on /co/ now?

god fucking damnit.
No.432906
same anon
>>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.
No.432907
Anonymous
Replies:>>432909
>>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.
No.432909
Anonymous
>>432907
Someone will have to keep taking one for the team. I know I don't have seven proxies to hide behind.

Bigger problem is, if anons keep posting forbidden posts, mods will just start deleting threads.
No.432910
Anonymous
>>432905
>Plus4chan is a spam filter on /co/ now?
Anons, I'm starting to feel sentimental about the Inspector Redwood era.
No.432920
Mister Twister
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You cannot reverse bump threads anymore, it's haram. Allah said so.
No.432942
Anonymous
Replies:>>432945>>432951
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>>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?
No.432945
Mister Twister
>>432942
>Is it due to imageboard "competition"?
Yes. Mods want to abuse posters, but posters leaving means they no longer could.
No.432951
Anonymous
>>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.
No.432953
Anonymous
Replies:>>432955>>432968
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So is this place just like 7 and endchan, where apparently the same black nigger mods that run 4chan ban people for exactly as little nonsense?
No.432955
Anonymous
>>432953
No. There's like only one moderator/admin (Black Hand) here and that's that.
No.432968
Anonymous
Replies:>>432969>>432970
>>432953
I haven't seen Black Hand banning people at all here. Pretty clean so far, it's not attacked by pedo spammers either.
No.432969
Anonymous
Replies:>>432970
>>432968
Perfect, a lot of them get spammers I can't blame the mods for that
No.432970
Black Hand ## Developer
>>432968
>>432969
We do get a ton of spam but I managed to build an effective way of automatically blocking most of it.
No.433258
Anonymous
Replies:>>433259
Captcha has been dead on 4chan for awhile now, posting has been stopped cold.
No.433259
Mister Twister
Replies:>>433260
>>433258
How long did it take then to fix? I slept through it.
No.433260
Anonymous
>>433259
A good few hours at least.
No.433322
Anonymous
Replies:>>433323
Got banned for mentioning a /pol/ thread on /co/ was a /pol/ thread, they only banned me AFTER they had deleted it.

What a pisstake.
No.433323
Anonymous
>>433322
Once they banned me for shitting on Famicom and they left famicom unbanned. After that I left 4chan altogether.
No.433356
Anonymous
Replies:>>433358
I hope it shits itself for good
No.433358
Mister Twister
>>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.
No.433359
Anonymous
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>>428502
I can sure go for a glass of rum
No.433383
Mister Twister
Replies:>>433385
Quite a lot of AI """art""" shilling on /co/ Prime. I wonder who is paying for this.
No.433385
Anonymous
Replies:>>433386>>434070
>>433383
AI shills and Invincible spammers, not to mention the /pol/tards throwing up everywhere at random. Its garbage.
No.433386
Anonymous
Replies:>>433399
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>>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.
No.433395
Anonymous
Replies:>>433396>>433397
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?
No.433396
Anonymous
Replies:>>433398
>>433395
Probably the latter.
No.433397
Anonymous
Replies:>>433398
>>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.
No.433398
Anonymous
Replies:>>433400
>>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.

>>433397
Wouldn't surprise me.
No.433399
Mister Twister
>>433386
Damn, that clip is painful to watch to the end.
No.433400
Anonymous
Replies:>>433401
>>433398
>blocking the spammers' image hashes.

Technically impossible for several reasons.
No.433401
Anonymous
Replies:>>433402
>>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.
No.433402
Anonymous
Replies:>>433403
>>433401
Spammers don't give up since they get their kicks out of getting around such limitations.
No.433403
Anonymous
>>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
No.433405
Anonymous
Replies:>>433406>>433407
The AI spamming across all of 4chan prime is the worst, the constant AI generating Generals on so many boards is so blatant.
No.433406
Anonymous
Replies:>>433407>>433410
>>433405
Agreed, that crap should be banned.
No.433407
Anonymous
>>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.
No.433410
Mister Twister
>>433406
AI bros would just tell you you are coping badly.
No.433414
Anonymous
Replies:>>433417
}>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
No.433415
Anonymous
Replies:>>433420
4chan primes April Fools gimmick is fucking shit this year, all its doing is generating garbage shitposting.

In the past when they did stuff like fuse boards it actually caused interesting content that people looked back on happily for years.
No.433417
Anonymous
>>433414
Wow, that's incredibly low effort.
No.433418
Anonymous
Replies:>>433419>>433435
Congrats to the 4chan Prime staff for concocting the site's weakest April Fools' joke to date.

Bring back moot.
No.433419
Anonymous
Image:174351508314.jpg(519kB, 2569x1928)moot bang.jpg
>>433418
You're gonna carry that weight
No.433420
Anonymous
Replies:>>433424
>>433415
"What if we did a prank that's funny to the mod team and no one else?" is an encapsulation of everything that's shit about 4chan right now.
No.433424
Mister Twister
Replies:>>433425>>433426
Image:174354287472.png(404kB, 1532x858)Department_of_4chan_Efficiency_2025-04-01_16-34-58.png
>>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.
No.433425
Anonymous
>>433424
>Would you throw away the chance to make the funniest April Fools prank since GPT-4chan?
Yes.
No.433426
Anonymous
Replies:>>433427
>>433424
It may be low effort, but it is entertaining, and therefore it works.
No.433427
Anonymous
Replies:>>433428
>>433426
>it is entertaining
Compared to monitoring liquid wall adornments becoming exsuccous, sure.
No.433428
Anonymous
Replies:>>433429
>>433427
It's being talked about on every altchan and discord I see, with people wondering what will happen next. So yes, it is entertaining.
No.433429
Anonymous
>>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.
No.433430
Anonymous
Replies:>>433431>>434366
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.
No.433431
Anonymous
>>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.
No.433435
Anonymous
Image:174366733735.png(2.20MB, 1510x895)united boards of 4chanada.png
>>433418
>Bring back moot.
No.433440
Anonymous
Replies:>>433450
Image:174375340237.png(513kB, 772x734)1743523755786904.png
Currently banned from Prime 4chan It's been so long since the last time I've been banned I cant even remember
No.433450
Mister Twister
Replies:>>433451
>>433440
What did you do?
No.433451
Anonymous
Replies:>>433452
>>433450
I posted a crudely drawn penis
No.433452
Mister Twister
>>433451
You would be fine in 2009. Damn.....
No.433482
Anonymous
something is going on, /qa/ is now open again and there's a sitewide announce about it.
No.433483
Anonymous
Replies:>>433484
Image:174468276196.png(121kB, 762x472)Image1.png
it's kind of sad though, if soyjaks managed to find hiro's password and all they used it for is to open a joke board.
No.433484
Anonymous
>>433483
This is how 4chan dies, right? not with a mass FBI raid but with a retard getting hacked.
No.433485
Anonymous
Is there any reason Hiro shouldn't sell the site at this point, and then commit seppuku?
No.433486
Anonymous
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.
No.433487
Anonymous
Someone please collect and share the leaks, I'll be unable to check the sharty thread nonstop for this.
No.433488
Anonymous
Replies:>>433489>>433490>>433890
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
No.433489
Anonymous
>>433488
Huh, I guess that would mean we'd finally have to find a new chan to congregate on, after all these years.
No.433490
Anonymous
>>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.
No.433491
Anonymous
Replies:>>433493
It's been five hours, surely the site will be back up and running by morning, right?
No.433492
Anonymous
Yea shits hitting the fan right now
No.433493
Anonymous
>>433491
Dev is a guy from the USA if I recall, he might just have put it into stasis for now.
No.433494
Anonymous
Replies:>>433495>>433529>>434114
Full source code has been leaked.
No.433495
Anonymous
>>433494
Isn't that literally how Moot made 4chan in the first place? By ripping 2ch's source code and copying it?
No.433499
Anonymous
Replies:>>433520>>433522>>433634
Image:174470683617.png(84kB, 767x301)Please God, kill the janitors.png
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
No.433501
Mister Twister
Image:174470822627.png(2.35MB, 1920x1032)The.Secret.of.NIMH.1982.1080p.BluRay.DDP.2.0.x265-EDGE2020-01:07:37.387.png
A quality NIMH thread was going strong for 2 days, and then 4chan Prime got hacked.

Sad.
No.433514
Anonymous
Replies:>>433589
Image:174471904389.png(669kB, 499x1700)Dante_3_StandingSprite.png
Anyone know where the /lcg/ guys are gonna go?
No.433520
Anonymous
>>433499
The retarded ban policy definitely wont get them any sympathy.
Got a perma for breaking a rule that didnt exist until my second appeal.
No.433522
Anonymous
>>433499
Stay here, you'll be safe from bad mods.
No.433529
Anonymous
>>433494
So what? It's not like it's a fucking nuclear submarine it's an imageboard, you're posting on one right now
No.433535
Anonymous
Replies:>>433543
I thought imageboards where done with a template, like phpbb forums back in the days
No.433543
Anonymous
>>433535
We are still trying to find our place on the internet filled with bots, retards and glowies.
No.433589
Anonymous
Replies:>>433632
>>433514
No, sadly. Dont even know where the Jumpchain guys from /tg/ or all the various horror generals are gonna go.
No.433632
Anonymous
>>433589
could always ask to have a horror board for here possibly
No.433634
Anonymous
Replies:>>433637
>>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.
No.433637
Anonymous
Replies:>>433638
>>433634
I highly doubt it'll be dead for good, but it's gonna take a while for them to fix everything. It'd be nice if we got an ETA.
No.433638
Anonymous
Replies:>>433640
>>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.
No.433640
Anonymous
>>433638
I don't know but given how he's made a plethora of retarded decisions in the past I wouldn't be surprised if he did.
No.433644
Anonymous
Replies:>>433646>>433648
dangit looks like it's over

I hate reddit so much
I know you guys are probably of the more ripened kind in comparison to me

but like fck this I wanna kill someone
No.433646
Anonymous
Replies:>>433648>>434094
Image:174474408800.png(575kB, 884x821)golgo bible.png
>>433644
just go play video games or something, this shit will probably be back with a 2025 version of FreeBSD in 2 weeks
No.433648
Anonymous
>>433646
yaaajj thank you nice man
>>433644
btw
check those dubs
No.433651
Anonymous
Replies:>>433652>>433708>>434089
Image:174474444672.jpg(147kB, 1280x1024)moot.jpg
>Miss me yet?
No.433652
Anonymous
>>433651
>leaves you with a year old version of FreeBSD
No.433654
Anonymous
>>428502
owari da
No.433708
Anonymous
>>433651
literally WHO?
No.433890
Anonymous
>>433488
>the april fools this year was foreshadowing 4chan's death
it all makes sense now
No.433958
Anonymous
Replies:>>433963
Image:174476951734.png(76kB, 2366x356)Screenshot 2025-04-15 at 9.10.37 PM.png
>try to go onto any board on 4chan
>this is all I get
anyone in a similar situation?
No.433963
Anonymous
Replies:>>433967
>>433958
Read the thread.
No.433967
Anonymous
Replies:>>434068>>434073
>>433963
I know, I was just confused since it felt like some people could still access the site
No.434068
Anonymous
>>433967
i could only access the index, but the boards are sending me to 404 pages.
No.434070
Anonymous
>>433385
>Invincible spammers
You should've seen the spam when the think mark scene was popular
No.434073
Anonymous
>>433967
People can only access the cloudflare cached pages. The server itself is down.
No.434075
Anonymous
Replies:>>434079
Image:174478114524.gif(807kB, 640x480)1740019644609463.gif
>>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.
No.434079
Anonymous
Replies:>>434090
>>434075
at least 8moe got rid of the zoophilia
No.434089
Anonymous
>>433651
I wonder what he doing now
No.434090
Mister Twister
>>434079
Wonder what had to happen to cause that.
No.434094
Anonymous
>>433646
thank you, aniki
No.434097
Anonymous
Replies:>>434100
Image:174479142107.png(301kB, 1200x700)screen-20250416-030609.png
PLUS4chan just shit itself.

I reloaded this thread and now I am unable to post in it.
No.434100
Black Hand ## Developer
Replies:>>434101
>>434097
This happens if the site is unable to load the stylesheet/javascript for some reason. I can't really do anything about it.

Ctrl+F5 will usually fix it.
No.434101
Anonymous
Replies:>>434103>>434105
>>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).
No.434102
Anonymous
Replies:>>434107
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.
No.434103
Mister Twister
Replies:>>434104>>434249
>>434101
Right now you can manually mute each +4 tab. I'm doing that right now.
No.434104
Anonymous
>>434103
Shut the fuck up, twister.
No.434105
Black Hand ## Developer
Replies:>>434108
>>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.
No.434107
Anonymous
>>434102
They made a twitter post.
No.434108
Anonymous
Replies:>>434111
Image:174479566922.png(24kB, 370x321)nedroid - reginald will sit perfectly still.png
>>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.
No.434109
Anonymous
I serve 4chan
No.434110
Anonymous
Replies:>>434113
apparently soyak party is behind this
No.434111
Black Hand ## Developer
>>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.
No.434113
Mister Twister
>>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.

But yes, most annoying people did ONE good thing.
No.434114
Anonymous
Replies:>>434118
>>433494
That mean we can make our own with blackjack and hookers?
No.434118
Anonymous
>>434114
If you enjoy your hookers to be old and full of aids maybe.
No.434127
Anonymous
Replies:>>434129
How did they hack it?
No.434129
Anonymous
>>434127
Because of a (literal) PDF file. More details in this thread >>433496
No.434163
Anonymous
Replies:>>434169>>434192
Image:174483017480.gif(890kB, 245x180)1741826848286610.gif
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.
No.434169
Anonymous
Replies:>>434170>>434192
>>434163
Apparently tomorrow but that’s even scarier
No.434170
Anonymous
Replies:>>434192
>>434169
where did you get "tomorrow" from?
No.434177
Anonymous
Replies:>>434261
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...
No.434192
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434193
Anonymous
Replies:>>434275>>434279
I'm fucking bored.
No.434210
Anonymous
Just cummed.
No.434249
Anonymous
>>434103
See >>434248.
No.434261
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434275
Anonymous
Replies:>>434449
>>434193
Go outside, go to a mall, travel somewhere new, talk to your friends, so on and so on
No.434279
Anonymous
Replies:>>434288
>>434193
https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=11112571
No.434288
Anonymous
>>434279
this isn't even rule 34 wtf
No.434326
Anonymous
Replies:>>434331>>434333
>>432107
Losing /b/ would be the end.
No.434331
Anonymous
Replies:>>434332
>>434326
/b/ died a long time ago.
No.434332
Anonymous
Replies:>>434334>>434346
>>434331
It served the purpose of being a 'wild west' territory rather well. It was polluted to shit, sure, but that was the whole point.
No.434333
Anonymous
>>434326
It's weird how much foreshadowing there was, with the april fools event and the mod going full retard with thread wipes
No.434334
Anonymous
Replies:>>434336>>434342
>>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.
No.434336
Anonymous
Replies:>>434382
>>434334
I don't know how /trash/ had by far the best drawing advice general on 4chan (Drawing improvement general), but it was funny
No.434342
Anonymous
Replies:>>434347
>>434334
/trash/ felt like a better /b/ to me
No.434346
Anonymous
>>434332
It just turned to place posting porn
No.434347
Anonymous
Replies:>>434352>>434354>>434467
>>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.
No.434352
Anonymous
>>434347
these absolutely needed to nipped in the bud. they had their own offshoot *chan for a while and it got worse there.
No.434354
Anonymous
Replies:>>434355
>>434347
I'm not sure why discord advertisements aren't an auto-ban just like any other advertisement. That place is such a disgusting groomer website
No.434355
Anonymous
>>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
No.434359
Anonymous
Replies:>>434362
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.
No.434362
Anonymous
>>434359
Advertise thing I like = good
Advertise thing I don't like = bad
No.434366
Anonymous
Replies:>>434369>>434373>>434376
>>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
No.434369
Anonymous
Replies:>>434384
>>434366
Having practically nothing happen can never be worse than making the site unusable.
No.434373
Anonymous
Replies:>>434384
>>434366
I will happily take a lame April Fools' prank over one that totally removes your ability to post on your board of choice. Every time.
No.434376
Anonymous
>>434366
That was lame but harmless, I could still post on /tg/ without anything being affected.
No.434382
Anonymous
Replies:>>434383
>>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
No.434383
Anonymous
>>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
No.434384
Anonymous
Replies:>>434393
>>434369
>>434373
People always have this complaint about more active April Fools events, and I never get it. It's one (1) day.
No.434393
Anonymous
Replies:>>434398
>>434384
>People always have this complaint
There are exactly zero other 4chan April Fools events that this very specific complaint applies to.
No.434397
Anonymous
Any new leaks or info?
No.434398
Anonymous
Replies:>>434400
>>434393
Board merger, if you really want semantics, but people often bitch about boards being unusable (in a non-literal sense) on April 1.
No.434400
Anonymous
>>434398
Fair enough.
No.434402
Anonymous
I miss /an/. I hope Platyanon is OK.
No.434405
Anonymous
Replies:>>434409
Image:174494541912.jpg(23kB, 360x360)cloud-types-with-pictures.jpg
As the guy who prayed for this to happen, i am happy.
No.434409
Anonymous
Replies:>>434410
>>434405
Well thanks a REAL LOT for that, Satan
No.434410
Anonymous
Image:174494766182.jpg(52kB, 750x1000)bg,f8f8f8-flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.jpg
>>434409
>He thinks satan isn't on the side of 4chan
Yikes.
No.434411
Anonymous
Replies:>>434412>>434419
>>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.
No.434412
Anonymous
Replies:>>434420>>434548
>>434411
it's kinda sad that i felt like i had a bunch of friends on there
No.434419
Anonymous
Replies:>>434423
>>434411
Having none of the /vg/ generals I frequent for four days has really soured my afternoons. Those were my source of news for niche shit.
No.434420
Anonymous
>>434412
Yeah that kinda sucks but thankfully I generally avoid that.
No.434421
Anonymous
Replies:>>434425
I just want to talk trash about the new Mario Kart and meme around
No.434423
Anonymous
Replies:>>434426
>>434419
people give /vg/ a lot of shit but i miss /smtg/
No.434425
Anonymous
>>434421
>I just want to talk trash about the new Mario Kart and meme around
>>>/cog/
No.434426
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434428
Anonymous
Replies:>>434431>>434437
>>428502
The same 4chan that also enforced wait times to post and reply, some up to 900 seconds long.
No.434431
Anonymous
Replies:>>434432
>>434428
that timer is literally a "you" problem.
No.434432
Anonymous
Replies:>>434436
>>434431
The 900 sec timer was a problem for a lot of people, not just "you".
No.434436
Anonymous
Replies:>>434442>>434452
>>434432
no, it's not a real problem at all.it's literally a one in a lifetime thing.
No.434437
Anonymous
Replies:>>434438>>434442
>>434428
It's only an issue if you intend to spam or samefag.
No.434438
Anonymous
Replies:>>434439>>434442
>>434437
>Posting on a board more than once every 15 minutes is spamming
Are you actually retarded.
No.434439
Anonymous
Replies:>>434442
>>434438
If you have to wait the timer every time you post, you're doing something wrong.
No.434440
Mister Twister
Someone I know had the timer issue happen way too often, and it may be due to phoneposting.
No.434442
Anonymous
Replies:>>434444>>434445
>>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.
No.434444
Mister Twister
>>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.
No.434445
Anonymous
Replies:>>434446>>434448
>>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.
No.434446
Anonymous
Replies:>>434452>>434455
>>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".
No.434448
Anonymous
>>434445
eric's boyfriend on /v/ was so fucking obvious at time
No.434449
Anonymous
Replies:>>434451
>>434275
>talk to your friends
I can't, 4chan's still down
No.434451
Anonymous
Replies:>>434514
>>434449
I'll call you a gay nigger chud newfag to make you feel better, but just this time.
No.434452
Anonymous
Replies:>>434453>>434454>>434492
>>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.
No.434453
Anonymous
Replies:>>434460>>434464
>>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.
No.434454
Anonymous
Replies:>>434477
>>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.
No.434455
Anonymous
Replies:>>434456>>434457>>434460>>434482>>434487
>>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.
No.434456
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434457
Anonymous
Replies:>>434459>>434460
>>434455
Haha bro Skibidi toilet heckin WON! Isn't that FUNNY? Isn't that great to REPEAT over and over again?
No.434459
Anonymous
Replies:>>434460>>434462
Image:174499209403.jpg(34kB, 720x400)1522555325957.jpg
>>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.
No.434460
Anonymous
Replies:>>434466
Image:174499236215.jpg(36kB, 640x360)1733716231130202.jpg
>>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.
No.434462
Anonymous
>>434459
Now that I think about active schizos aren't here
People like Guy or industry fag don't seem to have popped up yet
No.434464
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434466
Anonymous
Replies:>>434471
>>434460
>The other half is on the anons making requests themselves given the discord leak from years ago.
Can you give us the general idea?
No.434467
Anonymous
Replies:>>434469
>>434347
Those threads were spambots, I swear. All the posts were random statements, none related to what others.
No.434469
Anonymous
Replies:>>434501
>>434467
i could have a real conversation on the furry threads but yeah, the discord threads just seemed like insane schizobabble
No.434471
Anonymous
Replies:>>434472
>>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
No.434472
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434477
Anonymous
Replies:>>434478>>434479
>>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.
No.434478
Anonymous
Replies:>>434494
>>434477
you sound like an hysterical faggot at this point, you got deleted for being an insufferable twat. no need of a mod conspiracy to see this.
No.434479
Anonymous
Replies:>>434485>>434494
>>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.
No.434481
Anonymous
Replies:>>434488>>434499
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.
No.434482
Anonymous
Replies:>>434486>>434493
>>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.
No.434485
Anonymous
>>434479
The problem wasn't the 15 minutes, it was the mismanagement and how they hated their own users.
No.434486
Anonymous
>>434482
Steven Universe was a crap show but it wasn't a core reason why the moderators and janitors at 4chan were bad at their jobs.
No.434487
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434488
Anonymous
Replies:>>434494
>>434481
I criticize when it's warranted. The moderation and janitors are absolutely incompetent, but not in this specific case.
No.434492
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434493
Anonymous
Replies:>>434498
>>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"
No.434494
Anonymous
Replies:>>434495
>>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.

>durr projecting much?
Go die in a fire.
No.434495
Anonymous
>>434494
>hurr yes the idiot is you
That'd be correct
No.434497
Anonymous
Like clockwork.
No.434498
Anonymous
>>434493
I remember Redwood being a pretty chill guy back when he was just a tripfag. Guess the power went to his head.
No.434499
Anonymous
>>434481
hysterical faggot might be an understatement at this point holy shit
No.434500
Anonymous
And the clock keeps ticking.
No.434501
Anonymous
Replies:>>434502>>434510
>>434469
The general rule with /trash/ seems to be 70%-80% of generals are awful, while 70%-80% of one-off threads are great.
No.434502
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434504
Anonymous
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.
No.434510
Anonymous
Replies:>>434518>>434529
>>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.
No.434514
Anonymous
>>434451
I dunno, man, it's just not the same, but I appreciate you trying.
No.434518
Anonymous
>>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).
No.434529
Anonymous
>>434510
/acrg/ is hilarious when it's artist meltdowns or scams getting exposed.
When it's just seething and moralfagging it's lame
No.434530
Anonymous
Replies:>>434636
8moe seems to be buckling under the increased server load, or is having problems for some other reason.
No.434546
Anonymous
first 4chanless week-end, let's see if the world implode.
No.434548
Anonymous
>>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
No.434550
Anonymous
Replies:>>434554>>434560>>434562
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.
No.434554
Anonymous
Replies:>>434581
>>434550
>8moe/+4/smug/lain/kissu/wapchan

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.
No.434557
Anonymous
Replies:>>434560
So. Any news?
No.434560
Anonymous
Replies:>>434567>>434618
Image:174507163835.jpg(83kB, 628x628)4chanbanmenu.jpg
>>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.
No.434562
Mister Twister
Replies:>>434583>>434592
>>434550
>2009
>newfag
>been poasting for 16 years
>newfag
Show yourself some love, anon.
No.434567
Anonymous
Replies:>>434568>>434570>>434571>>434578
>>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
No.434568
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434570
Anonymous
Replies:>>434593
>>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.
No.434571
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434576
Anonymous
>>428502Doing allright, thanks.
Bit of a bother with the theme?
You?
No.434578
Anonymous
Replies:>>434579
>>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
No.434579
Anonymous
Replies:>>434582>>434621>>434628
Image:174508906484.jpg(211kB, 863x620)New Double-Plus Good wordfilters were coming.jpg
>>434578
>I have no doubt that none involved will have learned their lesson from this event
That a certainty.
No.434581
Anonymous
>>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".
No.434582
Anonymous
Replies:>>434584>>434586
>>434579
Geeze, this just confirms to me that they deserved the hack/doxx. Maybe they should hack them five or six more times for good measure.
No.434583
Anonymous
>>434562
It's the rules anon. Anyone who wasn't there when moot flipped the proverbial switch on, is a newfag.
No.434584
Anonymous
Replies:>>434585>>434596
Image:174509126725.jpg(353kB, 935x948)1738472715752145.jpg
>>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.
No.434585
Anonymous
>>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
No.434586
Anonymous
Replies:>>434588>>434589>>434590>>434595
>>434582
Oh no, they were going to word filter the most spammed buzz words that would have cut down on schizoposting? Can’t have that!!!!
No.434587
Anonymous
Imagine if it came back on Easter. Symbolism.
No.434588
Anonymous
>>434586
Found the tranny.
No.434589
Anonymous
Replies:>>434594
>>434586
Maybe 4chan is just not for you then because that shit is hilarious.
No.434590
Anonymous
Replies:>>434591>>434595>>434603
Image:174509446789.jpg(69kB, 1280x720)gape.jpg
>>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.
No.434591
Anonymous
Replies:>>434612
>>434590
So true xir
No.434592
Anonymous
>>434562
2008 /co/mrade here. I still consider myself a newfag.

Shut the fuck up, twister.
No.434593
Anonymous
>>434570
>schizo paranoia /pol/tard
You don't know what those words mean, even if paranoia is close to being correct.
No.434594
Anonymous
Replies:>>434599
>>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
No.434595
Anonymous
Replies:>>434607>>434612
>>434586
>>434590
1. You're an idiot, which makes you unable to write posts that will be taken seriously.
2. YWNBAW.
No.434596
Anonymous
Replies:>>434600>>434603
>>434584
the soy wordfilter was way to fast to be a coincidence. It was definitely personal for some mods.
No.434598
Anonymous
The low-effort posters have arrived.
No.434599
Anonymous
Replies:>>434601
Image:174509649652.jpg(45kB, 550x474)things-that-never-happened.jpg
>>434594
Only the sharty did that and it was extremely obvious when they did. Everyone else used the terms when needed.
No.434600
Anonymous
>>434596
Definitely. Fast or not, it was too disruptive to be a reasonable measure.
No.434601
Anonymous
Replies:>>434604
>>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
No.434602
Anonymous
Replies:>>434605
>too disruptive to be a reasonable measure.
Speaking of, when will the Red Alert stop?
No.434603
Anonymous
Replies:>>434612
>>434590
>Um actually you're the snowflake sweaty

>>434596
It absolutely is. One of the mods was showing off his keyboard on /g/ and everyone there kept calling him a soyboy.
No.434604
Anonymous
Replies:>>434606
>>434601
No. I only ever used "nigger" when some had claimed to be black and was being obnoxious. None of the others.

On the other hand, it's very obvious you have a chip on your shoulder over getting called out for whatever you are.
No.434605
Mister Twister
>>434602
Either in a few days, or when 4chan Prime comes back from the kill. Sorry for a non-answer.
No.434606
Anonymous
>>434604
>well I didn’t

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
No.434607
Anonymous
>>434595
Cry fag
No.434610
Anonymous
Replies:>>434613>>434614
'Chud' ought to get wordfiltered.
No.434612
Anonymous
Replies:>>434617
>>434591
>>434595
>>434603
you know you're only further proving my point
No.434613
Anonymous
Replies:>>435322
>>434610
chud is good, you always know that this post can be discarded instantly.
No.434614
Anonymous
Replies:>>434615
>>434610
Filtering chud and tranny would immediarely improve site quality by at least 75%
No.434615
Anonymous
Replies:>>434616
>>434614
Filter them into each other lol
No.434616
Anonymous
>>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
No.434617
Anonymous
Replies:>>434630
>>434612
You wish.
No.434618
Anonymous
Replies:>>434619
>>434560
Private reason =/= personal reason
No.434619
Anonymous
>>434618
... which is why they shouldn't be using it for personal reasons.
No.434621
Anonymous
Replies:>>434623
>>434579
That's fine, new buzzwords will be found.
No.434623
Anonymous
Image:174510699102.jpg(74kB, 1024x592)You Keep Using That Word.jpg
>>434621
No.434624
Anonymous
So how is the maintenance and restoration process going?
No.434628
Anonymous
Replies:>>434629
>>434579
they should filter "tranny" to "faggot" out of tradition
No.434629
Anonymous
>>434628
If only it were still pre 2007.
No.434630
Anonymous
Replies:>>434640
Image:174511057443.jpg(228kB, 1126x1074)if the shoe fish.jpg
>>434617
I fish.
No.434636
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434637
Anonymous
Replies:>>434642
>Bring back 4chan but remove /r9k/ & /pol/
How pissed people would be?
No.434640
Anonymous
Image:174511361165.png(374kB, 1000x1000)GillMe.png
>>434630
No.434642
Anonymous
Replies:>>434741
>>434638
>is an ascended /pol/tard
More like a caricature not even /pol/ could come up with. Holy shit.

>>434637
>What if we delete a containment board?
Nigga, this whole disaster started because the mouthbreathers in charge erased /qa/ four years ago
No.434677
Anonymous
Replies:>>434678>>434688>>434705>>434762
Image:174511657179.png(35kB, 768x663)4chan_haet_co.png
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.
No.434678
Anonymous
>>434677
that's the real problem and if they call you a tranny for pointing it out, it only proves you right
No.434679
Anonymous
Image:174511708059.jpg(5kB, 137x130)5283618863910.jpg
the /qa/tards are raiding here again
No.434683
Anonymous
Replies:>>434687
is it being done manually? kek
No.434687
Anonymous
>>434683
i don't fucking know, but it sure is a part of why there's a red alert status. someone please get rid of them for the love of fuck.
No.434688
Anonymous
>>434677
Truth nuke.
Most people simply can't pull off what Filthy Frank could
No.434698
Anonymous
Replies:>>434736
any recent news?
No.434699
Anonymous
Replies:>>434704
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.
No.434704
Anonymous
Replies:>>434710
>>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
No.434705
Anonymous
Replies:>>434707>>434711
>>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.
No.434707
Anonymous
>>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
No.434710
Anonymous
Image:174513892757.png(5kB, 400x400)1739216662035928.png
>>434704
It should be banned wholesale rather than creating another fucking ghetto board
No.434711
Anonymous
Replies:>>434712
>>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.
No.434712
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434713
Anonymous
Replies:>>434715
>insults are used to insult people
Woah, you don't say.
No.434715
Anonymous
Replies:>>434716
>>434713
>walking at random into places I don't care about and barking at strangers makes me so tough.
No.434716
Anonymous
Replies:>>434717
>>434715
An anonymous imageboard is not real life.
No.434717
Anonymous
Replies:>>434718>>434804
>>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?
No.434718
Anonymous
Replies:>>434719>>434721>>434724
Image:174514616789.jpg(82kB, 384x313)1423596339907.jpg
>>434717
Censoring people isn't going to stop that from happening.
No.434719
Anonymous
>>434718
This.
No.434720
Mister Twister
Image:174514805552.png(107kB, 260x260)Leiji looks at you.png
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.
No.434721
Anonymous
Replies:>>434722
>>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
No.434722
Anonymous
Replies:>>434725
>>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.
No.434724
Anonymous
Replies:>>434726
>>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.
No.434725
Anonymous
Replies:>>434728
>>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.
No.434726
Anonymous
>>434724
Censoring the words "nigger" and "tranny" doesn't stop schizos and spammers.
No.434728
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434729
Anonymous
Replies:>>434763
Wordfilters have an effect but schizos and spammers are a different issue.

Not like you even need to type words to spam empty threads with a troll OP image over and over again.
No.434731
Anonymous
"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.
No.434736
Anonymous
>>434698
No, nothing new
No.434738
Anonymous
Now that some time has passed I think I'm actually enjoying the break.
No.434741
Anonymous
>>434642
They alowed /qa/ to fester instead of putting the hammer down from the start.
No.434744
Anonymous
Replies:>>434745>>434746>>434749>>434750
Banning twitter and reddit screencap OPs would do more good than any word filter
No.434745
Anonymous
>>434744
That would be amazing.
No.434746
Anonymous
>>434744
God yes.
No.434749
Anonymous
Replies:>>434753>>434757>>434760
>>434744
You're right, but they're unlikely to do that because...
>>>/co/473954
>>>/co/474043
No.434750
Mister Twister
>>434744
>LITERALLY WHO SAID THIS ABOUT A CREATOR
>ON TWITTER
>WHAT DOES /CO/ THINK
No.434753
Anonymous
>>434749
And this is why the hack was deserved.
No.434757
Anonymous
Replies:>>434758>>434761
Image:174517209456.png(59kB, 1283x296)Blacked Ape.png
>>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
No.434758
Anonymous
>>434757
RapeApe is vile
No.434760
Anonymous
Replies:>>434793
Image:174517472595.png(636kB, 1930x526)memes over the years.png
>>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.
No.434761
Anonymous
Replies:>>434766>>434767
>>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.
No.434762
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434763
Anonymous
>>434729
i’ve been saying for years that dotposting should be an autoban
No.434766
Anonymous
Replies:>>434768
>>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
No.434767
Anonymous
Replies:>>434771>>434772
>>434761
>Who the fuck shills crapple "tech" on a place as bitter and cynical as 4chan?

/g/ was one gigantic consumer garbage shill board so it's not that surprising, and apple events always had their own sticky there.
No.434768
Anonymous
>>434766
>Typing the fucker's name apparently resulted in a 30-day autoban on 4chan

wait, what? Whose name was that?
No.434771
Anonymous
Replies:>>434774
>>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
No.434772
Anonymous
>>434767
>and apple events always had their own sticky there
Now you know why
No.434774
Anonymous
Replies:>>434777
>>434771
It wasn't just PC building but also crap like headphones and artisan custom keycaps for mechanical keyboards.
No.434777
Anonymous
>>434774
I used /g/ and there's some decent stuff. Friendly Windows thread is getting for getting a free Win 10 activation
No.434780
Anonymous
Replies:>>434787>>434789
Image:174519045794.gif(3.17MB, 480x321)mr-krabs-spongebob.gif
DAY SIX
GIVE IT UP FOR DAY SIX
No.434787
Anonymous
Image:174519538957.png(636kB, 853x480)the crying on the inside kind.png
>>434780
No.434789
Anonymous
Image:174519598757.jpg(147kB, 853x1024)1744750484674.jpeg
>>434780
owari da.....
No.434791
Anonymous
Replies:>>434797
HURRY UP AND COME BACK ONLINE I WANT MY COOM THREADS!
No.434793
Anonymous
>>434760
the funny thing is that moot used to complain about this WAY before he sold the site
No.434797
Anonymous
Replies:>>434798
>>434791
This, drawing porn for horny anons is way better when you get a response in minutes, not hours
No.434798
Anonymous
Replies:>>434799
>>434797
DRAW A BUTT!
No.434799
Anonymous
>>434798
I'm trying to
No.434800
Anonymous
Replies:>>434802>>434803
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.
No.434802
Anonymous
Replies:>>434805
>>434800
As always, the 4chan administration treats us like mushrooms; they keep us in the dark and feed us shit.
No.434803
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434804
Anonymous
Replies:>>434813
>>434717
Post nose.
No.434805
Anonymous
Image:174521250068.gif(755kB, 250x250)sensible-chuckle.gif
>>434802
When (or if) the site comes back, that post should be a banner or something.
No.434808
Anonymous
Image:174522353982.jpg(82kB, 398x592)IMG_20250421_095423.jpg
maybe it's good for me that 4chan will be down for some time
No.434813
Anonymous
Replies:>>435020
>>434804
>Don't point out the issues of the site, just keep my bastion of shit.
Way to prove his point.
No.434823
Anonymous
Replies:>>434826>>434846>>434905
How likely is it that 4chan is permadead?
No.434826
Anonymous
Replies:>>434827
>>434823
It died a long time ago.
No.434827
Anonymous
Replies:>>434832
>>434826
Smartass
No.434832
Anonymous
>>434827
True though.
No.434846
Anonymous
Replies:>>434848>>434900>>434967
>>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.
No.434848
Anonymous
>>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.
No.434855
Anonymous
Image:174526217645.jpg(137kB, 540x540)1452240376024.jpg
>>428502
>So how are you all doing?
I'M FINE HOW ARE YOU
No.434867
Anonymous
>4chan died
>the pope died
You win some, you win some.
No.434881
Anonymous
Replies:>>434888
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
No.434888
Anonymous
>>434881
A lot of them also went to kiwifarms, and probably reddit/xitter if I had to guess.
No.434893
thirstposter ## VIP
Replies:>>434895>>434901>>434907>>434910
Image:174528736982.png(42kB, 1002x702)Silver_just_look_at_the_time.png
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
No.434895
Anonymous
Replies:>>434897>>434898
>>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.
No.434897
Anonymous
>>434895
Pokemon is quite a bit bigger than Sonic.
No.434898
Anonymous
>>434895
Sonic has never been quite the cancer on /v/ that pokemon was at the time of /vp/'s creation.
No.434900
Anonymous
>>434846
godwilling, the most cancerous posters will stay on sharty
No.434901
Anonymous
Replies:>>434904>>434907
>>434893
Yeah, I probably average 2 hours a day on 4chan for the past 7 years now. That's a LOT of time.
No.434904
Anonymous
>>434901
That really does put it into perspective.
No.434905
Anonymous
Replies:>>434906>>434967>>435063
Image:174529209712.jpg(38kB, 435x201)4chan eternal.jpg
>>434823
It will return.
No.434906
Anonymous
>>434905
Too bad the whole place got taken over by normalfags from social media since 2020 due to Covid-19.
No.434907
thirstposter ## VIP
Replies:>>434908>>434968
>>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 ;_;
No.434908
Anonymous
Replies:>>434909>>434967
>>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".
No.434909
thirstposter ## VIP
>>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
No.434910
Anonymous
Replies:>>434913
>>434893
+4chan has been kind of like using methadone to kick a crippling heroin habit
No.434913
thirstposter ## VIP
Replies:>>434921>>434967
>>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
No.434915
Anonymous
will we get a new thread to celebrate the weekversari?
No.434921
Anonymous
Replies:>>434922
>>434913
Like what kind of small chance? Because I've felt it's done to me several times in a row on occasion.
No.434922
thirstposter ## VIP
>>434921
It's been a few days, but I think it was 10%? Also, they had a list of whitelisted countries that would get the easier captchas
No.434935
Anonymous
>4chan didnt resurect for easter
Its chocolatover
No.434967
Anonymous
Replies:>>435036
>>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.
No.434968
Anonymous
Replies:>>435036
>>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"
No.434992
Anonymous
Replies:>>434994>>434996>>435036
Any news?
No.434994
Anonymous
Image:174535680280.png(19kB, 621x437)this shite cant be reached 4chan.png
>>434992
No.434996
Anonymous
Replies:>>434999
>>434992
https://wiki.bibanon.org/4chan/History#cite_ref-197
No.434999
Anonymous
>>434996
>Just found out that George Foreman died last month
Damn it...
No.435020
Anonymous
Replies:>>435024
>>434813
POST. NOSE.
No.435024
Anonymous
Replies:>>435028
>>435020
What's wrong polfag? Miss your hugbox?
No.435028
Anonymous
>>435024
Hypocrite.
No.435032
Anonymous
Image:174537363699.gif(607kB, 400x211)b28f1e6f-2027-4b40-84e4-136d0f5c3b79_text.gif
>/pol/ faggots
No.435036
thirstposter ## VIP
Replies:>>435057
Image:174537706204.png(89kB, 2394x998)stats.io - live 4chan board & thread statistics.png
>>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
No.435040
Anonymous
Replies:>>435054
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.
No.435054
thirstposter ## VIP
Replies:>>435062
>>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)
No.435057
Anonymous
>>435036
>The fact that you can't bump your own thread on 4chan made storytiming an absolute nightmare.

I just switched IPs/cookies after the initial post whenever I did that. Unfortunately the 90000 second timer made that impossible.
No.435062
Anonymous
Replies:>>435064>>435065
>>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.
No.435063
Anonymous
>>434905
it will be it will be
it will be as it will be

lesz lesz lesz
lesz ahogy lesz
No.435064
Anonymous
Replies:>>435066
>>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.
No.435065
Black Hand ## Developer
Replies:>>435066
>>435062
It would be beyond my means alone to make the site grow that big.
No.435066
Anonymous
Replies:>>435067
>>435064
But it's no fun having to wait for hours, or even days just for one reply.

>>435065
Doesn't have to be as big as the old 4Chan, maybe some bit of categories that could mix well with others.
No.435067
Anonymous
>>435066
>But it's no fun having to wait for hours, or even days just for one reply.
So entertain yourself while you wait.
No.435071
Anonymous
Replies:>>435074>>435085
>Sonic fan
>unreasonable expectations
>anti-/pol/
>awkward English
>4Chan
This idiot is clearly underage.
No.435074
Anonymous
>>435071
Or a janny from the dead site
No.435085
Anonymous
Replies:>>435086>>435165
>>435071
NTA, but why is being anti-/pol/ a problem?
No.435086
Anonymous
Replies:>>435094>>435096
>>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.
No.435094
Anonymous
Replies:>>435095
>>435086
Dawg I just wanna talk about video games on /v/.
No.435095
Anonymous
>>435094
>>>/cog/
No.435096
Anonymous
>>435086
/leftypol/fags are as obnoxious as /pol/fags, but people who just want /pol/tards to fuck off are my friends.
No.435165
Anonymous
>>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.
No.435166
Anonymous
Replies:>>435213
Image:174548042819.png(3kB, 256x192)horrible night you.png
>you're the schizo not me!
That shit never gets old.
No.435170
Anonymous
Replies:>>435174>>435180>>435181
Trying to go to 4chan gives you the message "see you soon". So how do we interpret that?
No.435174
Anonymous
Image:174548627880.png(615bytes, 129x39)4790283096843.png
>>435170
>what the fuck is anon talking about
>check
>it's real
scary
No.435180
Anonymous
>>435170
It's 420chan all over again?
No.435181
Anonymous
Replies:>>435193
>>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"
No.435193
Anonymous
>>435181
I hope they use the data to make a new imageboard.
As much as I miss 4Chan, I think it's even better to start fresh all over again.
No.435211
Anonymous
Replies:>>435216>>435234
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.
No.435213
Anonymous
>>435166
The real irony eludes you.
No.435216
Anonymous
>>435211
This.
No.435224
Anonymous
Replies:>>435234
The quality of posts on desu's /meta/, 8ch's /v/, and the Kiwi 4chan thread have all steadily declined as time has gone on. Why?
No.435229
Anonymous
I CAN'T SHIT
No.435234
thirstposter ## VIP
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>>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
No.435279
Mister Twister
Replies:>>435286>>435325
Well, it came back today. A little rusty, posting sometimes doesn't work, but it's back.

Guess I'll anonpost some more.
No.435286
Anonymous
Replies:>>435323
>>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.
No.435322
Anonymous
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>>434613
>chud is good
The jannies say otherwise kek
No.435323
Black Hand ## Developer
Replies:>>435349
>>435286
Damnit, again? I thought I got it fixed. Did you get any errors?
No.435325
thirstposter ## VIP
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>>435279
I figured there'd be more activity considering it's been down for a week
No.435327
thirstposter ## VIP
Replies:>>435328>>435350
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
No.435328
Anonymous
Replies:>>435334
>>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).
No.435334
thirstposter ## VIP
Replies:>>435335
>>435328
Yeah, it's not a bad idea hosting there, but it is pretty funny
No.435335
Anonymous
>>435334
It is one of the less funny but more sensible things we've learned in the past weeks about how 4chan operates.
No.435349
Anonymous
>>435323
Many. But it only happened once, so whatever.
No.435350
Anonymous
Replies:>>435376>>435391
>>435327
>No matter how hard it is, we are not giving up.
This reads likes forced optimism.
No.435376
Anonymous
Replies:>>435378
Image:174577512693.png(462kB, 1197x1197)You doxxed and exposed my corruption, but here's a drawing of me as the Chad and you as the soyjak so I won.png
>>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
No.435378
Anonymous
Replies:>>435380>>435391
>>435376
lol wat, where did that rumor come from?
No.435380
Anonymous
Replies:>>435381>>435391
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>>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).
No.435381
Anonymous
>>435380
>(and one in /co/ got banned for saying he didn't like black bitches kek).

That happened to me before the hack too.
No.435391
thirstposter ## VIP
Replies:>>435392>>435397>>435400
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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
No.435392
Anonymous
Replies:>>435393>>435401
>>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.
No.435393
thirstposter ## VIP
>>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
No.435397
Anonymous
Replies:>>435398
>>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.
No.435398
thirstposter ## VIP
Replies:>>435404
>>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
No.435400
Anonymous
Replies:>>435491
>>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.
No.435401
Anonymous
>>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.
No.435404
Anonymous
Replies:>>435491
>>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?
No.435491
thirstposter ## VIP
Replies:>>435492>>435493>>435548
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Well, it's been 2 weeks since 4chan's been back, and things seem to be holding steady at the new reduced posting rate. I've mentioned a few times before that while the hack did result in fewer posts, it's really just exacerbating an existing trend.

Most graphs just plot the post count as one long line, but that hides the yearly cycle, which is I think is what should actually be looked at. Plotting every day just looks like a mess, so I've averaged the daily posts into months, which shows some interesting trends. I always figured it was the second half of the year where most of the drop-off occurs, but it's actually at the start and end of the year, the middle's pretty steady.

Since it's popular (and fun!) to predict 4chan's doom, I've calculated the average month-to-month change in post counts (ignoring the hack, since that's an outlier), and assuming the trends hold steady, posts will hit zero around November of 2025. Of course, that's pretty unlikely, as the remaining posters will be way more likely to stay, leading to a more gradual decline

>>435400
Most are from the US, but some of the leaked emails said they were hiring them
>>435404
That's fascinating, I didn't think we'd get that much traffic! For whatever reason, we don't get much of the schizos/bots/shitposters. Either they know they won't get the desired reaction, or they're just deleted. There's always been tacit approval of their antics over on4chan, so they may not know what to do when faced with actual moderation
No.435492
Anonymous
Replies:>>435494
>>435491
>some of the leaked emails said they were hiring them
Which ones? I only remember two or so emails from rapeape.
No.435493
Anonymous
Replies:>>435494
>>435491
>That's fascinating, I didn't think we'd get that much traffic!
It's a bit misleading because /md/ alone gets quite a lot of the attention, even now they are as active as before, they made 215k posts in less than 11 months so far which is some ~650 posts per day, or 19k posts per month. They also get raided by sharty every once in a while.
No.435494
thirstposter ## VIP
Replies:>>435495
>>435492
It was one of his emails, saying they were hiring from some province in india
>>435493
I've never seen the show (looks fun though), but I checked out their board and it moves extremely fast. We still haven't passed 20k over in /sssr/ and we've been around for a year now. Of course, we've got more Sonic comics, which is the real metric for success!
No.435495
Anonymous
Replies:>>435496
>>435494
>It was one of his emails, saying they were hiring from some province in india

Which one? It may have been fake. There was also a mail where rapeape says he is talking with Hiro about legal repercussions, but that one may also be a fake.
The only sign pointing to indian jannies is that a lot of posts talking bad about india get removed, but that's possibly just the "no racism" rule (lol) being enforce, not that it means much for ex on /g/ any tech worker thread will talk about problems with indians.
No.435496
thirstposter ## VIP
>>435495
I honestly can't remember, there was so much stuff going around and in hindsight I should've saved it.
I'm inclined to believe that there's more indian jannies now because if nothing else, there's over twice as many of them online as there are Americans. As for /g/, it only takes one janny banning whatever hyper-specific thing they hate for it to seem like every janny's enforcing it
No.435548
Anonymous
>>435491
>I always figured it was the second half of the year where most of the drop-off occurs, but it's actually at the start and end of the year, the middle's pretty steady.
I don't have data to back this up, and it probably doesn't mean anything anyway, but my anecdotal experience is that this activity cycle corresponded to the periods when the worst drawthread spamnmers would vanish and reappear.
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