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No.435309
4Chan seems to be back, including posting.Anonymous
Image:174561722068.png(697kB, 1275x1551)Screenshot 2025-04-25 at 21-24-19 4chan.png
This is a lot sooner than I figured.
I'd have guessed somewhere next month,
No.435311
Anonymous
Replies:>>435317
>>435309
they quickly patched the pdf exploit and called it a day.
No.435312
Anonymous
Replies:>>435315
>>435309
They likely did the bare minimum to get the site back online and called it a day. You'd hafta be an idiot to start posting there right away.
No.435315
Anonymous
>>435312
>You'd hafta be an idiot to start posting there right away.
Yeah, couldn't have been me. Haha.
No.435317
Anonymous
>>435311
we all called that this would happen.
patch the exploit, make the code work on a modern server, and reset passwords. that's all. bare minimum to get it working and back online.

it's probably setting up the new server that took so long because they had to copy terabytes of active content for one, plus set up all the background processes the code uses.

patching up the SQL wouldn't take much time because you can write a wrapper around that shit (and they already had a semi-working mysqli implementation).
No.435326
Anonymous
Replies:>>435329
>>435309
The posts and threads over there seem worst than ever.
No.435329
Anonymous
>>435326
feels like all tertiaries, spammers and aggro retards are back, but none of the actual content creator/managers are there. I have the feeling dailies/perma generals went back instantly because they are bots
No.435330
Mister Twister
>>435329
At least Two Kinds generals are brand new, and made by 1 person.
No.435331
Anonymous
Replies:>>435332
4chan has a goddamn tumblr??
No.435332
Anonymous
>>435331
Their blog is hosted there, yes. It hasn't made any new posts ever since Hiro was caught lying about his server stats.

They also have their own news posts, but it hasn't been updated in a long time and they probably don't even know how it works, if it works at all (all they've been using it for is dumping the birthday pictures).
No.435333
Anonymous
>>435329
Yeah, I kind of wondered why none of those got posted neither here nor on 8chan.

>but none of the actual content creator/managers are there.
It just came back and it's during the night in the americas. Give it a day.
No.435337
Mister Twister
Well well well, FINALLY had an issue! Made a post where I said most miserable assholes on 4chan are not epic trolls pretending to shit on everything, but actual miserable assholes who really do think that way.

That simple statement offended somebody and thus deleted. Didn't get a warning or anything, but still makes you think.
No.435338
Anonymous
>>435337
I took a quick look at the archives and it's crazy how many posts are getting nuked.
No.435339
Anonymous
>>435338
Do you have a good example? I don't check the archives.
No.435342
Anonymous
Replies:>>435343
>>435337
>>435338
Deletions aren't uncommon.
I've seen comments and requests in drawthreads disappear.
No.435343
Anonymous
Replies:>>435344
>>435342
Drawthread posters tend to be the worst, as in the people who tend to make the requests.
No.435344
Anonymous
>>435343
Well, I haven't been on all the boards, so I wouldn't know.
No.435345
Anonymous
Image:174569769268.jpg(23kB, 708x705)1385493980780.jpg
Nothing has changed.
Nothing has improved.
The usual suspects are still shitting everywhere.
No.435346
Anonymous
>>435345
In short, there is nothing new under the sun.
No.435347
Anonymous
It's definitely a disapointing return. Moot would have stickied some shit to mark the event. Or play some music.
No.435348
Anonymous
Replies:>>435351
>>435345
I don't know what anons were expecting. It isn't even a case of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss". It's literally just the old boss. And the old boss is not worth going back to.
No.435351
Anonymous
>>435348
mods at least pretending to be there would have been nice. But all gore post was back day one and nobody was banned even once. Come on the last line in the "news" is from 2020.
No.435352
Anonymous
Image:174574461757.png(295kB, 798x636)1445068073882.png
/co/ still fucking blows. I thought the whole hack and jannies getting doxxed would've whipped the moderation into high gear, but the same low-quality crap is still rampant. I don't even know if I want to bother making a thread because it'll just end up being overrun with the same bot-tier derailing douchebags.
Maybe I'm just delusional and the userbase and current climate of the internet is the core problem that can't be fixed.
No.435354
Anonymous
>>435352
>would've whipped the moderation into high gear

Oh, they are very active. Active at banning anyone who complains.
No.435355
Anonymous
>>435352
At least prime 4chan being active should keep those types away from here...
No.435358
Anonymous
>>435352
4chan Prime rotted from the head down. It has the userbase it has today because moderation wilfully ignores or actively encourages low-effort posting, outrage bait and shilling.
No.435360
test !!nBaunM3u7oi
Replies:>>435362
test
No.435362
tea fren !!VcT+UEv+o4/
Replies:>>435363
>>435360
did it work?
No.435363
tea fren !!VcT+UEv+o4/
Replies:>>435364
>>435362
claiming for posterity.
*sip*

https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/search/username/tea%20fren/page/1/
No.435364
tea fren !!VcT+UEv+o4/
>>435363
impostering has become a problem as of late.
*sip*

this post constitutes an authenticated tea fren post
and is salvage for the archive:

No.4353632025/04/27 05:55:52
tea fren !!VcT+UEv+o4/

emphasis on "fren".

sweet delicious tripcodes.

i love 'em!

thanks for accepting my post.

all praise and honor to black hand.

*salute*
No.435412
Mister Twister
Image:174590429579.png(259kB, 358x339)Arnold happy.png
Well, this is pleasant. Got my first
>verification not required
on Post-Coma Prime.
No.435415
Anonymous
>>435338
What are they getting nuked for?

>>435345
Hey, the timer went down! For the time being...
No.435423
Anonymous
I was hoping the activity would still stay on plus4, but it was probably for the best that most of the anons had fled back to prime. Honestly, we were almost getting close to having schizos reside here. At this point, prime works best as a containment imageboard.
No.435424
Anonymous
>>435423
>Honestly, we were almost getting close to having schizos reside here.
I noticed a few of them, but I don't think most of them would've put down roots here even if Prime had stayed down. Anons here know better than to give them the attention they crave. In any case there are literally no (You)s for them to feed on here.
No.435427
Anonymous
Replies:>>435428
>>435423
regular 4 chan still feels like it's botted right now, threads are really bad all over the place, and you can really feel schizo hours when it's the same exited faggot that spams 15 threads in the hour with random subjects that feels like DeviantARt obcessions. /co/ in 2025 shouldn't be 50% waifu threads from 2013 shows.
No.435428
Anonymous
>>435427
i'm not surprised the jannies didn't learn after the hack. prime is still the same as it was before like if the last few weeks never really happened. i'm so sick of seeing every "Can we admit X sucks now" thread, every ragebait, every skibidi, every loudfag, every notepad spam, every jak, i hate it. it's a miracle plus4chan isn't dead thanks to its successfully active /md/ board. during the hack, i learned that there are actually other imageboards that actually get their shit together, and some of them are where i frequently lurk now. i think i enjoyed them because i don't see an active /pol/tard nor a frequent schizo spammer in sight.
No.435432
Anonymous
I'm annoyed that a.i. art has infiltrated every single /aco/ porn thread. So much for "containment" threads, and they do nothing but get into arguments with other anons so it's so clearly just attention whoring.
No.435433
Anonymous
>>435432
4chan is just a hive for AI shills, bots and their unthinking consumers
No.435434
Anonymous
Replies:>>435436
>>435432
Tell them to go to >>>/pco/ instead. It was the original /co/ promotions board before /aco/ killed it.
No.435436
Anonymous
Replies:>>435437
>>435434
We don't want AI spam on /pco/, thanks.
No.435437
Anonymous
>>435436
You misunderstand. Have the actual artists and posters come to /pco/, and let /aco/ stew in the AI spam.
No.435438
Anonymous
>>435437
Now that's a motion I can second.
No.435459
Anonymous
>>435437
>Have the actual artists and posters come to /pco/
How though? Telling them about our drawthreads via 4chan itself isn't viable, since the mods nuke posts containing links to altchans.
No.435468
Anonymous
Replies:>>436481
The feedback page on 4chan is blank.
No.435472
Anonymous
Image:174658709110.png(205kB, 603x840)trash.png
/co/ and its mods are embarrassing, an absolute gutter-tier non thread with off-topic images and zero discussion has been up for 3 days straight, yet still hasn't been removed despite probably having multiple reports on it. Majority of these files have been posted as well in unrelated threads before, just pathetic.
No.435528
Anonymous
Image:174700762261.png(71kB, 1060x480)4chan stats.png
someone posted this and I don't know if I believe it.
No.435530
Anonymous
>>435528
>whoops all phoneposters
No.435531
Mister Twister
>>435528
On one hand
>phoneposters bad
On the other, I realize more and more, if like most people you're NOT working from home...... how ELSE do you monitor and bump your favourite threads? It's
>miss 50-80% of 4chan fun
>become a phoneposter
It's a tough choice.
No.435532
Anonymous
Replies:>>435534
Cheap smartphones and other such devices is why the internet has degraded
No.435534
Anonymous
>>435532
Eternal September is why the Internet degraded.
No.435535
Mister Twister
Replies:>>435537
Don't know about the rest, but for me 4chan Prime seems to be...... better? At least the only 2 boards I use.
No.435537
Anonymous
Replies:>>435543
>>435535
>better
How?
No.435543
Mister Twister
Replies:>>435544
>>435537
Less shit posters in threads I post in, and less posts deleted >RECENTLY<. Maybe a streak of good luck.
No.435544
Anonymous
>>435543
The rumour mill says that due to the recent hack and subsequent doxxing, some janitors quit. It was never confirmed if it is true or not, but it would explain things.
No.435596
Anonymous
Image:174811921195.png(79kB, 922x474)troll posts 2025.png
oh wow.
No.435597
Anonymous
Image:174812068444.jpg(82kB, 1280x720)432425.jpg
>>435596
That is a troll post, yeah.
No.435601
Anonymous
>>435596
/v/ is a lost cause. You can make 15 "shitch" threads full of lies an nonsense and the mods claps. You make 2 sentences in a post criticizing this and you are out in the hour.
No.435602
Anonymous
SSL handshake error for me this morning, is it only on my side?
No.435635
Anonymous
Replies:>>435636
Is it illegal to post 'jaks on 4chan yet?
No.435636
Mister Twister
>>435635
No one should spam that shit anywhere. There is a reason they got kicked out of polite* society.
No.435803
Mister Twister
Replies:>>435823
That 1 anon who keeps making "Shrek 2 is a bad movie" threads on /co/ really pisses me off.
No.435823
Anonymous
Replies:>>435824
>>435803
Prime /co/ is just a hive of spamming and shitposting.
No.435824
Mister Twister
>>435823
A necessary evil, a sacrifice to get more posters.
No.435909
Anonymous
Replies:>>435910
>>435309
Anyone know where I can find the leaks?
No.435910
Anonymous
>>435909
https://wiki.bibanon.org/4chan/History has them.
No.436220
Anonymous
I just noticed, 4chan wordfilters "soyjak" to "basedjak".
No.436222
Anonymous
Image:175549901225.jpg(111kB, 686x900)4chan ofcom.jpg
uh-oh.
No.436295
Anonymous
Replies:>>436296
>>436222
The way Ofcom are acting is nuts, they might as well be an invading army with the heavyhanded way they are trying to enforce their will internationally.
No.436296
Anonymous
Replies:>>436327
>>436295
It gets better.
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/4chan-kiwi-farms-sue-uk-age-verificaiton-law.pdf
No.436327
Anonymous
>>436222
>>436296
>suing the Bongs over their age verification crap
>while doing nothing when a bunch of the United States are trying the same thing
>and STILL banning VPN's
Come ON.
No.436330
Anonymous
>>436327
They are not suing them over age verification, they are suing them because OFCOM tried regulating and extorting a non-UK entity.
No.436481
Anonymous
Replies:>>436566
>>435468
>The feedback page on 4chan is blank.
It's back, but they removed everything from the drop-down menu except "Bug Report" and "IP Range Ban Issue". Either Surprise Sex Monkey lost more staff than he's letting on and the current team just can't handle the workload or "Team 4chan" wants to throw up as many walls between its users and itself as it possibly can.

The sitewide Search page still takes you to a 404 page though.
No.436492
Anonymous
After three years they finally fucking un-shadowbanned me, I can post again.
>>436327
>Implying they actually care and that "sue" is anything but an attempt of getting good PR
No.436566
Anonymous
Replies:>>436567
>>436481
Checked for an official statement on the rationale for this, but of course there's nothing. God forbid 4chan Prime staff post-moot should ever engage with their own userbase or be transparent with them.
No.436567
Anonymous
>>436566
I suspect the staff does not hold any executive power over the site, ie. they are tasked with running it the way it is, but never make any changes or even speak on behalf of the site. And with Hiro not giving a shit, they can't do anything.
No.436570
Anonymous
>>436567
Yeah, I'm probably unfairly blaming staff in general for problems that are really down to RapeApe and Hiro.
No.436571
Anonymous
Replies:>>436589
>>436567
How is it that Hiro hasn't received a lawsuit that forces him to do something with the page?
or why are we all blaming the janitors instead of hiro?
No.436574
Anonymous
No one with any power cares. They don't even care about a bad reputation hurting their goals or product alot of the time, can just power through or quash it and there will always be more idiots to bilk.
No.436589
Anonymous
Replies:>>436594
>>436571
>a lawsuit
For what?
No.436594
Anonymous
>>436589
shitty security system
No.436615
Anonymous
Replies:>>436617
Other people able to post on 4chan? Captchas seem to be down for me.
No.436617
Mister Twister
>>436615
They always fix themselves.
No.436626
Anonymous
Replies:>>436627
Seems OFCOM wants to block 4chan in the UK.
https://archive.ph/fXmzW
No.436627
Anonymous
Replies:>>436643
>>436626
Fuck OFCOM, its almost straight out of fiction the level of control they want over the net.

They won't rest until the UK has a china-style firewall.
No.436637
Anonymous
Replies:>>436638
Image:176080822919.jpg(100kB, 1170x469)1760738647538488.jpg
Last update on the matter:
https://prestonbyrne.com/2025/10/16/the-ofcom-files/
No.436638
Mister Twister
Image:176080890325.png(1.69MB, 1920x1080)Mystery Lane (2023) - S01E07 The Octopus Trap [WEBDL-1080p][AAC 2.0][EN][8bit][x264][EN]-IVIEW-00:06:17.800.png
>>436637
>would make nice bedding for my pet hamster
Based beyond belief.
No.436643
Anonymous
Image:176088148686.png(15kB, 1426x220)lockdown.png
>>436627
No.436679
Anonymous
Replies:>>436680
Image:176157624758.jpg(39kB, 920x343)1761515161958568.jpg
No.436680
Mister Twister
>>436679
Amazing soulful 4chan humour.
No.436728
Mister Twister
Replies:>>436737
The sheer amount of threads with single sentences in the /ca/talog ending in ? infuriates me.

Are anons really that blackpilled to believe that without low effort engagement bait questions they will get no replies? Or are these indians paid to make low effort /co/ threads??
No.436737
Anonymous
Replies:>>436743
>>436728
for every "what's the appeal" and "can we admit X is Y", I become more grateful that plus4 and other altchans still exist. i don't EVER want to look at prime/co/'s catalog again, let alone think about it.
No.436743
Mister Twister
>>436737
Hey...... I was complaining, but it is not THAT bad. If Prime was without good /co/ntent, I wouldn't be anonposting there almost every day.
No.436767
Anonymous
Replies:>>436768
So in latest news, 4chan fucked up their spam filter and it keeps triggering the "your IP range is banned for abuse" for nearly all users who are not using Chrome.
No.436768
Mister Twister
>>436767
It happened to me, and I got around it. Basically, I was posting from 2 browsers because my main one is less supported by Cloudflare (shit gets fixed much slower). So the site thought I was sus, and blocked my IP range. I deleted the cookies from my backup browser, and waited between 15 and 30 minutes for the CloudSHITflare verification to complete on Pale Moon. It eventually decided to work, and since my IP was posting from ONE browser, I was no longer sus and allowed to post.
No.436793
Anonymous
Replies:>>436794
When you get a temprorary 'block' on posting but aren't banned that's just proof you've personally upset a jannie so hard he's had to react somehow while off trying to get a staff member with actual power to have you banned right?
No.436794
Anonymous
>>436793
Depends, what is the error message? If it says your range is blocked for abuse, that's just their bot check making false positives.
No.436826
Anonymous
where were u when 4chan was kill
No.436866
Anonymous
Replies:>>436867
Image:176590576586.png(14kB, 1043x184)autism test captcha.png
4chan rolled out a new captcha.
No.436867
Mister Twister
>>436866
And it just werks on my machine, which is nice.
No.436869
Anonymous
Replies:>>436870
Video:176597038781.mp4(600kB / 0:00:25 / h264, 720x812)4chan captcha solved by AI.mp4
and it's already broken by bots.
No.436870
Mister Twister
Replies:>>437218
>>436869
I swear, bots are like nuclear bombs now. They contribute fucking nothing to the world, but now we cannot get rid of them.
No.436889
test !!IoVAFc/k+CS
Replies:>>437042
test
No.437042
Anonymous
Image:176788264463.jpg(357kB, 1280x1024)1767837706878627.jpg
>>436889
What were you testing?
No.437191
Mister Twister
Replies:>>437217
Image:176985181275.png(11kB, 298x114)Screenshot 2026-01-31 at 04.28.42.png
The Captcha I'm getting after mandatory cookie deletion (to make the site unbreak itself) is very interesting. I know it will probably go away after a while, once I'm "trusted" once more, but still. If this does not prove bots are a menace 2 society, nothing does.
No.437217
Mister Twister
Image:177029634968.png(11kB, 300x142)Screenshot 2026-02-05 at 07.58.09.png
>>437191
Only now did I get less strict Captcha.
No.437218
Anonymous
Replies:>>437219
>>436870
Bots and AI are literally a cancer that is destroying the world. Not just online but in aspects like the economy and the environment.
No.437219
Mister Twister
>>437218
Once nuclear becomes more accepted........ maybe not the last one.
No.437226
Anonymous
Replies:>>437235
Image:177039261296.jpg(252kB, 1284x1284)1770392113857198.jpg
Turns out you have Epstein to thank for /pol/, as if there needed to be another reason why the entire board needs to be torched.
No.437235
Anonymous
>>437226
Best part of this is both left wing and right wing people fighting over who's the pedo psyops. They don't need to fight, both are pedo cabal puppets.
No.437299
Anonymous
Image:177144247135.jpg(10kB, 518x58)wellthatdoesntlookatallsuspicious.jpg
No.437300
Anonymous
Replies:>>437301
>>437299
What the hell?
No.437301
Anonymous
Replies:>>437303
>>437299
Yup saw that like ten minutes ago. That's a new low.

>>437300
4chan Captcha now asks you to unblock ads before you can post.
No.437302
Anonymous
Replies:>>437304
I'm not getting that problem, I'm using uBlock Origin
No.437303
Anonymous
>>437301
>unblock ads
That's the least of it.
No.437304
Anonymous
>>437302
It's not on all boards and not on all captchas. I only got it once on a red board, but never on blue boards.
No.437305
Anonymous
Replies:>>437310
Image:177144734644.png(14kB, 666x129)spur.us.png
>>437299
No.437307
Anonymous
Image:177145827592.jpg(61kB, 552x272)whut.jpg
No.437310
Anonymous
>>437299
>>437305
If your extensions have these domains blocked btw, consider that there might be a good reason for it and take it as a sign to ditch 4chan Prime permanently. The version of the site that you knew and loved has been dead for years anyway, and it isn't coming back.
No.437313
Mister Twister
Replies:>>437318
>there is no spur.us blocked on my end (or showing up even)
Am I uninteresting for the CIA?
No.437316
Anonymous
It all comes
TUMBLING DOWN
TUMBLING DOWN
TUMBLING DOWN
No.437317
Anonymous
Image:177156027782.png(16kB, 500x314)compreacface0.png
>Gaia Online is going to outlive 4chan
No.437318
Anonymous
>>437313
Considering the number of anons getting banned for even mentioning it on Prime, you probably aren't supposed to see it.
No.437320
Mister Twister
Image:177157075689.png(13kB, 408x130)Screenshot 2026-02-20 at 01.57.48.png
I won't elaborate, I won't apologize.
No.437321
Anonymous
Replies:>>437322
I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned on the Bibliotheca Anonoma yet. Usually they update everything within the hour, this has been up for 2 days and not mentioned there yet.
No.437322
Anonymous
Replies:>>437323
>>437321
That's one surprise, certainly. Another surprise is the reason why so many anons are unaware of this spur stuff: they're rawdogging the internet in 2026.
No.437323
Anonymous
Replies:>>437324
>>437322
I'm surprised when I hear anyone talking about ads these days, since I can't imagine someone not using adblocker. Its incredibly simple to get a basic blocker and makes a huge difference.
No.437324
Anonymous
>>437323
Same. I don't know if it's down to a lack of communication between generations (people who've grown up without receiving basic online safety tips from their elders), or if it's simply down to there being more normalfags online than ever before (people completely incurious about how anything works). Either way, you'd think anons would know better.
No.437328
Anonymous
Image:177163434395.png(173kB, 589x589)uwu.png
>>437299
>4chan we're going to put a little man in the browser. ohhh he's just a little sausage man and don't do anything. please be very careful of him as he can't anything and just very scared in general. he watches 100% of browser at all times.
No.437349
Anonymous
Replies:>>437351
Image:177185022170.jpg(125kB, 872x238)1771797588319311.jpg
Apparently it blocks the proxy site, but it also costs 4chan $40k a year.
No.437351
Anonymous
Replies:>>437352
>>437349
>$40k a year
Assuming the info is reliable, where on earth did "Team 4chan" pull all that money from? They're always telling the userbase they're broke and need pass cash just to keep the lights on.

Hell, the stated reason why the April hacker was able to do what he did was because 4chan was ostensibly "starved of money for years by advertisers, payment providers, and service providers", preventing them from purchasing new servers, etc.

Maybe that old Vice article with the claim 4chan is being partly funded by Hollywood money was true?
No.437352
Anonymous
Replies:>>437353
>>437351
Maybe they are just liar shits in the first place.
No.437353
Anonymous
>>437352
Indeed. And if scuttlebutt is true, the April event isn't even the first time a hacker got the drop on Surprise Sex Monkey. If so, we can likely attribute what happened in April to carelessness instead of a lack of funds.
No.437354
Anonymous
Someone mentioned that they've been getting crypto donations for a long time (decade+?), if they did not spend any of that, it would've ballooned up to a considerable size.
No.437355
Anonymous
>an anon on Prime makes a post saying anons should spam gorhill into unblocking spur.us and mcl.io
>a couple of days later, the domains get mysteriously whitelisted in uBlock Origin
>anons using uBlock are now being served spur cookies without even knowing it
>archives show Prime mods and jannies are still nuking all spur discussion threads and handing out bans
>most anons have no idea that any of this is going on
It's all so tiresome.
No.437356
Anonymous
Replies:>>437357
>>437355
>a couple of days later, the domains get mysteriously whitelisted in uBlock Origin

... so that's why it's no longer asking for that. huh.
No.437357
Anonymous
>>437355
>>437356
For "an anon", we can perhaps substitute "staff member", since they were also showing anons how to whitelist the domains themselves in the meantime.
No.437360
Anonymous
Replies:>>437364
So is Spur and that just anti-VPN stuff?
If that's the case guess its less relevant to me since I don't use em but it is just the ramp up of everyone trying to openly destroy anonymity and gather information on people that's been getting kicked into high gear recent history (like with the various age verification pushes across the globe, to "protect the children")
No.437364
Anonymous
>>437360
>So is Spur and that just anti-VPN stuff?
It looks like it does browser fingerprinting and network benchmarks to determine if your connection behaves like VPN/Tor or not. You can see what data it collects on spurdebug.com.

Most of the fingerprinting is not "serious", and it also does things like measure your cpu performance and what javascript/html features your browser supports. I suppose these can detect automated bot posts which would necessarily show some of these features as either missing, or be incomplete compared to what the browser user agent suggests. However bots can use straight up browsers to call a page now (thank you so much, Google, for that). It also compares javascript region info to geoip info which is a red flag but not anything concrete (for ex. if you travel from denmark to norway for work, your laptop would then show the wrong region compared to the IP).

What's more interesting is that it also runs a bunch of connection tests to a few urls to test how fast it takes to resolve the DNS, or to connect to the address, etc. So it benchmarks your connection. Which I suspect is how it detects VPNs reliably. I'd be really curious as to how this is done, but it seems to run in the background through a websocket and I'm not familiar if those would allow a server to connect two separate connections together.
No.437365
Anonymous
Did some quick digging in desuarchive... In early December, somebody already knew about RapeApe's intention to use Spur:
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/107476500/#107476611

Could there be a mole on Team 4chan?
No.437367
Anonymous
Replies:>>437368
>>437365
Not impossible, there's a precedent for that happening whenever some divisive decision is made. The first big /j/ leaks came at a time when moot decided jannies need to show ID.

But it's also possible that post was just throwing shit at the wall, saying that they'll add whatever popular detection tool. We may never know.
No.437368
Anonymous
Replies:>>437369
>>437367
Given the high turnover rate among staff, I imagine there's also just plenty of animosity toward RapeApe going around behind the scenes. When jannies and mods aren't getting fired, they're quitting. Working with that guy full-time must be unbearable.

That said, it'd be interesting to learn what work he actually does on the site, considering he seems to spend all his time on xitter and reddit.
No.437369
Anonymous
>>437368
But is the turnover rate high because RapeApe is an arse or because most people just naturally quit, or get fired for not doing their job? Being a janitor is basically just a power trip with how badly managed the site has been so there must be some janitors who just join so they can manipulate the board.
For example there was a a /co/ janitor who kept posting his own affiliate links in the win-o thread, deleted any post mentioning this, and cleared the mod queue of anyone reporting his own posts.
It's also possible some janitors just see that the site actually gets a lot of CP spam, and they don't want to see that.

>That said, it'd be interesting to learn what work he actually does on the site, considering he seems to spend all his time on xitter and reddit.
Wouldn't be surprised if he could just use the 4chan income to live comfortably doing fuck all except moderation. Development is handled by others.
No.437373
Anonymous
Replies:>>437374
>>437369
IIRC, the first round of mass layoffs happened not long after moot quit, allegedly to get rid of all staff members who didn't share RapeApe's politics. Can't be having differences of opinion on the outlaw Internet website!

>But is the turnover rate high because RapeApe is an arse or because most people just naturally quit
Probably a little of column A, a little of column B.

>For example there was a /co/ janitor who kept posting his own affiliate links in the win-o thread, deleted any post mentioning this, and cleared the mod queue of anyone reporting his own posts.
Hadn't heard about that guy, but sadly it doesn't surprise me.
No.437374
Anonymous
Replies:>>437375
Image:177205708570.jpg(268kB, 1920x1080)baklavaaaaaaaaaaaaa.jpg
>>437373
>a little of column A, a little of column B.
HOW ABOUT A LITTLE MORE BAKLAVAAAA
No.437375
Anonymous
>>437374
ohyou.jpg
No.437377
Anonymous
Image:177207767731.png(18kB, 304x173)captcha wtf.png
what do you even do here?
No.437378
Anonymous
>>437377
Follow these steps:
1. Do not use the spyware cookie website.
No.437379
Mister Twister
>>437377
The aliens are tripping balls.
No.437382
Anonymous
Replies:>>437383
>>437369
>there was a a /co/ janitor who kept posting his own affiliate links in the win-o thread, deleted any post mentioning this, and cleared the mod queue of anyone reporting his own posts.
Any desulinks showing this?
No.437383
Anonymous
>>437382
no idea, feel free to look it up. it happened many years ago in the win-o threads.
No.437385
Anonymous
Replies:>>437387
>>437365
>Did some quick digging in desuarchive... In early December, somebody already knew about RapeApe's intention to use Spur:
According to https://archive.palanq.win/bant/thread/23598244/#23613443
it was already implemented in 2025 November in at least the sign-in page.
So it's entirely possible someone just saw that message and extrapolated that it would be used site wide.
No.437387
Anonymous
>>437385
Thanks, completely missed this! It's interesting that the mods were nuking posts related to Spur even then. They really don't want anons to know or talk about it, do they?
No.437388
Anonymous
Replies:>>437392
So what can we do besides spreading the word? I'd love to go there and post spam plus4 and other similar sites we can't even spam the without encountering spur thingy.
No.437389
Mister Twister
Replies:>>437390
And what if this is not even avoidable? 4chan is based in the US, and allows Free Speech™. You expect CIA and FBI to not monitor the place?
No.437390
Anonymous
Replies:>>437391
>>437389
>And what if this is not even avoidable?
It can be avoided very easily by not posting on the spyware cookie website.
No.437391
Mister Twister
Replies:>>437394
>>437390
If Prime dies and at least 5% of the people move here, so will FBI and CIA.
No.437392
Anonymous
Image:177223686419.jpg(73kB, 500x500)has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like.jpg
>>437388
>I'd love to go there and post spam plus4 and other similar sites we can't even spam the without encountering spur thingy.
No.437393
Anonymous
Image:177224802811.png(550kB, 369x720)1772214187059583.png
>>437377
Oh, now it makes sense. I haven't gotten this one so I couldn't tell, but it seems all the arrows point to the actual slider itself. Except one, which coincidentally is also not in order going left from right. So it is tied to the UI and if you check it from a mobile app, it becomes less intuitive.

That's a pretty clever way to fuck with app users.
No.437394
Anonymous
>>437391
Well, I tried.
No.437399
Mister Twister
Hello spur.us, my new friend
I come to talk with you for the first time
No.437450
Mister Twister
Image:177288489494.png(26kB, 470x191)Screenshot 2026-03-07 at 06.58.47.png
Not complaining, maintenance is good. Just cannot remember the last time I caught one live.

There was no need to black out anything.
No.437451
Anonymous
Yeah was curious when it was gonna get mentioned in this thread.
No.437452
Anonymous
Replies:>>437454
Bets on what they will install this time to fuck with their users? Newer, stupider captcha? More israeli spyware? Account-only posting?
No.437454
Anonymous
Replies:>>437455
>>437452
I expect a few new banwords and that's it.
No.437455
Anonymous
>>437454
No, historically they only take the site down when making bigger changes to the actual php code base. The banwords can be (should be) database managed and javascript changes can be pushed online without taking the site down. I think the last downtime was when they changed the captcha from unreadable garbage with slider texts, to the current IQ test thing.
No.437456
Anonymous
Replies:>>437457
And curiously, desuarchive and palanq are both down...
No.437457
Anonymous
Replies:>>437458
>>437456
Wait seriously? Is this another hack like Sharty last year?
No.437458
Anonymous
>>437457
Not that I know of, I'm just saying they usually take down the site when doing bigger codebase changes. For all I know they may be only running PHP upgrades.
No.437459
Anonymous
Replies:>>437462
I wanna make a post why is the post i wanna make not uploading?
No.437461
Anonymous
Image:177289259707.png(1.86MB, 2216x922)Le redditorfag the bull.png
>>435309
Apparently, Bull Jannies exist here on plus4chan. The bovine locked my thread about the sudden outage.

But yeah, shit hits the fan when Desuarchive went down. Suddenly 4chan went down. What the fuck?
No.437462
Black Hand ## Developer
>>437459
Did you not get an error message stating that the image was already uploaded?

>>437461
>Apparently, Bull Jannies exist here on plus4chan. The bovine locked my thread about the sudden outage.
Everyone is discussing things 4chan does in active threads, which is already sort of off topic but at least related to how the thread in question is doing over on 4chan. But when you make an entire thread about nothing else but 4chan status on the Comics board, I have to put my foot down.

Look on the bright side, if it happened on 4chan, you'd get a 3 day ban, no appeals, and zero feedback.
No.437463
Anonymous
Image:177289410894.png(46kB, 808x237)Ah sweet.png
>>437461
This is where my theory comes in handy. I have terrible nightmares of this happening. The schizos of /co/ won.

There had been too much schizo threads throughout this week. In fact, we had a thread involving some anon self inserting as a My Life as a Teenage Robot character, who is, well, clearly not XJ-0, one of the first OCs the internet made for the show, named Excelsior.

It was so bad, I had to ramble how bad the mods have become since the last time we had a extensive downtime in these threads. I mean, they've removed a Rugrats thread in mere minutes, but avoided the schizos. I guess Excelsior led some army, with Bull Janny helming it, and Barneyfag, Sharkfag, Minimoyfag, Hazelschizo, Kuckyweck, Manateeanon, Listroon, Image Dump Fag, Sallyfag, Cubeyfag, and Scornfag are a part of said army that successfully killed 4chan. I mean, had nightmares of it happening, and now there is real schizo raid.
No.437464
Anonymous
The downtime could be related to datacenter outages. I heard that AWS datacenters in the middle east got hit in retaliation of the latest israeli terror attacks.
No.437465
Anonymous
>>437464
gamers oppression knows no end....
No.437467
Anonymous
Replies:>>437470
>>437462
>Did you not get an error message stating that the image was already uploaded?
Oh really? That's a thing even across different boards?
No.437468
Anonymous
>>437464
Probably explains why desu is also down. Which sucks, I was busy reading a story time
No.437469
Anonymous
Replies:>>437470
>>437462
Hey, since that /co/ thread is locked down anyway could you deleted my post in there so i can post what i said here?
No.437470
Black Hand ## Developer
Replies:>>437471
>>437467
>Oh really? That's a thing even across different boards?
You first tried making a thread here, where the image was already posted. Then you used another image but posted it on /co/ instead.

>>437469
Why do I need to delete what you said there so you can say it here too?
No.437471
Anonymous
Replies:>>437473
>>437470
>Why do I need to delete what you said there so you can say it here too?
So i can also upload the image.
I can't delete it myself and i can't post that image again if it's still there.
I question why this one image limit thing is even a thing, especially when it's across multiple boards and not even limited to one image per thread. That's very limiting, what if someone wants to post the same image in two different boards? Why should one board only have that one image?
No.437472
Anonymous
Replies:>>437476
Word on the grapevine is that it was taken down as a response to AI deepfakes posted on /r/:
https://openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-deepfakes

The 4chan.org/legal page also got updated with a "Take It Down Act" legal notice and contact info. This took them half a day?
No.437473
Black Hand ## Developer
Replies:>>437474
>>437471
Don't be dumb. You can say what you want without uploading an image. Or you can use another image. Do you not have more than one image saved on your machine?

>i can't post that image again if it's still there.
Your post on /co/ is not what's blocking the image, what blocks it is that you already posted it on THIS board, here: >>434405

>I question why this one image limit thing is even a thing, especially when it's across multiple boards and not even limited to one image per thread.
It's there so you post new images instead of ones we've already seen.

>That's very limiting, what if someone wants to post the same image in two different boards? Why should one board only have that one image?
You can already post an image on multiple boards.
No.437474
Anonymous
>>437473
>Don't be dumb.
Don't be unpolite.
>You can say what you want without uploading an image. Or you can use another image. Do you not have more than one image saved on your machine?
I simply want to say what i want to say with that specific image.
>Your post on /co/ is not what's blocking the image, what blocks it is that you already posted it on THIS board, here: >>434405
First of all, no need to put words in all caps like that, i know why people do it but it doesn't look right to say the least.
Secondly i still say that even having a one image per board limit is still something that should not happen.
>It's there so you post new images instead of ones we've already seen.
That sounds like a problem that you yourself have as multiple other image boards don't do this (This website is literally the only image boar i have seen do this.) and all of those other websites have no problems with repeated images, all this does is limit what users want to post, especiqally those who really do not mind or even want the same image posted in multiple thread,A.K.A. the majority as proven by the success of those other image boards and i'm sure this website would be more successful as well if it wasn't so limiting. If 4chan ever does go down for good then most if not all of its users would not want to use this website as an alternative due to how limiting it is, honestly i'm convinced that the only reason why people put up with it is because this website allows side tournaments.
>You can already post an image on multiple boards.
Something you already established in your very same post and something i have already responded to in this very post.
No.437475
Anonymous
>If 4chan ever does go down for good then most if not all of its users would not want to use this website
Good, most of the users of 4chan these days are pond scum and an all around lesser class of internet inhabitant.
No.437476
Anonymous
>>437472
Maybe they should start culling all the AI spam across the websites, starting with all the 24-7 ai generation threads started on various boards by paid shills.
No.437477
Black Hand ## Developer
Replies:>>437480
>>437474
Nigger are you trying to get banned?
No.437478
Anonymous
Replies:>>437480
>>437474
Respectfully, your "I think Jesus did it" post isn't terribly insightful or helpful, vis-à-vis shedding light on the reasons for the downtime. It's not like we can DM God to verify it.

Also? In the time it's taken you to write out your several querulous replies, you could've opened your pic in an image manipulation app, tweaked it many times over and reposted it without issue. Just sayin'.

>in b4 a request for more spoonfeeding
You're online and there's a billion image manip tutorials out there. Use a search engine.
No.437479
Anonymous
Replies:>>437480
>>437474
>This website is literally the only image boar i have seen do this.)

The "one image per board" rule comes from classic 4chan, which plus4chan is based on. So, basically, you admitted to being a newfag.
No.437480
Anonymous
>>437477
No offense but i say if you're willing to ban someone over them making a reasonable complaint then you're starting to sound like a dictator. You didn't even try to refute my point you replied with a thought terminating cliche at best, a threat at worst.
>>437478
>Respectfully, your "I think Jesus did it" post isn't terribly insightful or helpful, vis-à-vis shedding light on the reasons for the downtime. It's not like we can DM God to verify it.
OK, see now this is a good and respectable response, i appreciate it, thanks.
And to answer, God is known to mess with groups of people, and/or one single person, when they go against His Will.
>Also? In the time it's taken you to write out your several querulous replies, you could've opened your pic in an image manipulation app, tweaked it many times over and reposted it without issue. Just sayin'.
Oh i know that, i've even done it before myself countless times, i simlpy don't want to do it in this case because one, i shouldn't have to do that to post the same image in a single board twice, and two, i don't wanna do that to any of my Christian images.
And since people already do such a thing to upload the same images and since Black Hand is fine with that then why have the limit in the place?
>>437479
Well yeah this website is based on 4chan, that's obvious, and what i said still remains, this is the only website that has such a limit. 4chan had that limit in the past but not any more. What you said doesn't prove me wrong it proves that Plus4chan is outdated.
Also i have been here since the tag tournaments got banned from 4chan like the majority of people on this website.
No.437481
Anonymous
Replies:>>437487
>>437480
Friend, I won't presume to speak for our host, but you're asking him to alter this site to accomodate you personally. That ain't reasonable, especially when part of plus4chan's charm for its userbase is precisely that it functions a lot like Old 4chan.

>Also i have been here since the tag tournaments got banned from 4chan like the majority of people on this website.
You don't know what "newfag" and "oldfag" mean.
No.437484
Black Hand ## Developer
Replies:>>437487
>>437480
>ou're starting to sound like a dictator.
Now you are getting it.

>You didn't even try to refute my point you replied with a thought terminating cliche at best, a threat at worst.
Which should've given you a clue on how much of an obtuse, whining little bitch you are being. Take a moment to reflect on that, or I will do it for you.

>why have the limit in the place?
So you post new content. We've already seen the image you posted before. Post something new instead.

>it proves that Plus4chan is outdated.
Good. Modern websites suck. plus4chan is pursuing the glory of the past.

>Also i have been here since the tag tournaments got banned from 4chan like the majority of people on this website.
You are bragging about being here for a few years, on a 20 year old site, based on a 23 year old site?
No.437487
Anonymous
>>437481
When every other image board has no such limitation then why should this website have it? If it really is supposed to be like old 4chan then there's a reason why the majority prefer new 4chan.
>You don't know what "newfag" and "oldfag" mean.
The meanings refer to how long someone has been around for.
>>437484
>Now you are getting it.
You'll only be proving me right if you do.
>Which should've given you a clue on how much of an obtuse, whining little bitch you are being. Take a moment to reflect on that, or I will do it for you.
This coming from the guy who says such things? How about you reflect on yourself instead of abusing your power?
Seriously, treat others the way you want to be treated. Believe it or not but how i was responding to you was with respect and i was being polite about it and this is how you respond in return. I will continue to be respectful and polite towards you but i would appreciate an apology at least for this line of yours alone and i hope the rest of this discussion can go by more civil and polite.
I have no ill will towards you, i hope you can see that.
>So you post new content. We've already seen the image you posted before. Post something new instead.
No, i don't have to, i don't want to, and i shouldn't be forced to.
And as established people already post the same images over and over and over again yet you have no problem with it, this rule of yours clearly doesn't apply to that so why aren't you telling this to those people as well? Feels like you're faking this only to defend yourself, not because you actually believe in this.
>Good. Modern websites suck. plus4chan is pursuing the glory of the past.
And the majority of people on this site still use 4chan, they only come here for the tournaments, without them this place would have never had the traction it has now. And speaking of the tournaments, a big chunk of people who participate are RPers, and apart of RP if posting images, the same images over and over again, why make them jump through hopes to RP? Why limit the people who use this site because they love RP and tournaments like that especially when they're still posting the same images anyway? And like i said, if this whole "post new content" thing is really an issue to you then you would have been telling us this during the tournaments years ago. Go on, go over there and tell them now, ask for their thoughts on this. I'll even go and do it myself if you want.
>You are bragging about being here for a few years, on a 20 year old site, based on a 23 year old site?
When the majority of users arrived here at the same time as me then why not?
User was banned for this post.
No.437488
Anonymous
>>437487
What a darwin award winner.
No.437489
Anonymous
>>437487
And nothing of value was lost.
No.437507
Anonymous
Replies:>>437508
Got banned on /co/ for mentioning a previous sinfest plotline in a sinfest thread, that's some demented shit.

The ban only lasts one day, is that something jannies can do? Did I personally upset someone?
No.437508
Anonymous
>>437507
Sinfest threads on /co/ are huge minefields. I don't even know if you can discuss them anywhere on 4chan...
No.437514
Mister Twister
Replies:>>437516
4chan Prime no longer compresses files via Cloudflare. At least for now.
No.437516
Anonymous
>>437514
Just tested this, can confirm.
No.437541
Mister Twister
Image:177393417883.png(7kB, 284x147)Screenshot 2026-03-19 at 11.27.50.png
Not sure what is happening with Prime this time, first time getting THIS error.
No.437542
Anonymous
Replies:>>437543
4chan 403 for everyone else at the moment?
No.437543
Mister Twister
Image:177393493034.png(5kB, 457x138)Screenshot 2026-03-19 at 11.41.13.png
>>437542
Now back to your standard variety message.
No.437544
Anonymous
What a fucking joke.
No.437548
Anonymous
Replies:>>437551
Image:177395487511.jpg(287kB, 2186x1162)4chan ofcom1.jpg
meanwhile
No.437549
Anonymous
Image:177395493727.jpg(196kB, 2098x1140)4chan ofcom2.jpg
No.437550
Anonymous
Image:177395499846.jpg(194kB, 940x1410)4chan ofcom3.jpg
No.437551
Anonymous
Replies:>>437552
>>437548
I really don't get why so many websites have bent over for this moral-panic act when it has every appearance of being unenforceable outside the UK.

Also, isn't online safety the duty of parents and teachers? Where did this idea come from that it should be the duty of websites? The Internet isn't a babysitting tool, and the only people who'll actually benefit from forcing it to behave like one are data monetization leeches and hackers. Surely this much is obvious?
No.437552
Anonymous
>>437551
All governments seem to want to push so-called 'online safety', even America is gearing up for it.
No.437553
Mister Twister
>imagine anon on /co/ laughing at germans drinking beer
>imagine me responding, correcting anon, since drinking beer has been a big german thing for hundreds of years
>imagine me then getting a warning from a janny for being off-topic with my post, since german beer is neither comics nor cartoons
Not exactly what happened, but the analogy I wrote here is VERY close.