/baw/ - General Discussion

>>435309
they quickly patched the pdf exploit and called it a day.

>>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.

>>435312
>You'd hafta be an idiot to start posting there right away.
Yeah, couldn't have been me. Haha.

>>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).

>>435309
The posts and threads over there seem worst than ever.

>>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

>>435329
At least Two Kinds generals are brand new, and made by 1 person.

4chan has a goddamn tumblr??

>>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).

>>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.

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.

>>435337
I took a quick look at the archives and it's crazy how many posts are getting nuked.

>>435338
Do you have a good example? I don't check the archives.

>>435337
>>435338
Deletions aren't uncommon.
I've seen comments and requests in drawthreads disappear.

>>435342
Drawthread posters tend to be the worst, as in the people who tend to make the requests.

>>435343
Well, I haven't been on all the boards, so I wouldn't know.

>>435345
In short, there is nothing new under the sun.

It's definitely a disapointing return. Moot would have stickied some shit to mark the event. Or play some music.

>>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.

>>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.

>>435352
>would've whipped the moderation into high gear

Oh, they are very active. Active at banning anyone who complains.

>>435352
At least prime 4chan being active should keep those types away from here...

>>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.

test

>>435360
did it work?

>>435362
claiming for posterity.
*sip*

https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/search/username/tea%20fren/page/1/

>>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*

>>435338
What are they getting nuked for?

>>435345
Hey, the timer went down! For the time being...

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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

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.

>>435432
4chan is just a hive for AI shills, bots and their unthinking consumers

>>435432
Tell them to go to >>>/pco/ instead. It was the original /co/ promotions board before /aco/ killed it.

>>435434
We don't want AI spam on /pco/, thanks.

>>435436
You misunderstand. Have the actual artists and posters come to /pco/, and let /aco/ stew in the AI spam.

>>435437
Now that's a motion I can second.

>>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.

The feedback page on 4chan is blank.

>>435528
>whoops all phoneposters

>>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.

Cheap smartphones and other such devices is why the internet has degraded

>>435532
Eternal September is why the Internet degraded.

Don't know about the rest, but for me 4chan Prime seems to be...... better? At least the only 2 boards I use.

>>435535
>better
How?

>>435537
Less shit posters in threads I post in, and less posts deleted >RECENTLY<. Maybe a streak of good luck.

>>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.

>>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.

SSL handshake error for me this morning, is it only on my side?

Is it illegal to post 'jaks on 4chan yet?

>>435635
No one should spam that shit anywhere. There is a reason they got kicked out of polite* society.

That 1 anon who keeps making "Shrek 2 is a bad movie" threads on /co/ really pisses me off.

>>435803
Prime /co/ is just a hive of spamming and shitposting.

>>435823
A necessary evil, a sacrifice to get more posters.

>>435309
Anyone know where I can find the leaks?

>>435909
https://wiki.bibanon.org/4chan/History has them.

I just noticed, 4chan wordfilters "soyjak" to "basedjak".

>>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.

>>436295
It gets better.
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/4chan-kiwi-farms-sue-uk-age-verificaiton-law.pdf

>>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.

>>436327
They are not suing them over age verification, they are suing them because OFCOM tried regulating and extorting a non-UK entity.

>>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.

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

>>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.

>>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.

>>436567
Yeah, I'm probably unfairly blaming staff in general for problems that are really down to RapeApe and Hiro.

>>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 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.

>>436571
>a lawsuit
For what?

>>436589
shitty security system

Other people able to post on 4chan? Captchas seem to be down for me.

>>436615
They always fix themselves.

Seems OFCOM wants to block 4chan in the UK.
https://archive.ph/fXmzW

>>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.

>>436679
Amazing soulful 4chan humour.

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??

>>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.

>>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.

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.

>>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.

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?

>>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.

where were u when 4chan was kill

>>436866
And it just werks on my machine, which is nice.

>>436869
I swear, bots are like nuclear bombs now. They contribute fucking nothing to the world, but now we cannot get rid of them.

test

>>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.

>>437218
Once nuclear becomes more accepted........ maybe not the last one.

>>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.

>>437299
What the hell?

>>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.

I'm not getting that problem, I'm using uBlock Origin

>>437301
>unblock ads
That's the least of it.

>>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.

>>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.

>there is no spur.us blocked on my end (or showing up even)
Am I uninteresting for the CIA?

It all comes
TUMBLING DOWN
TUMBLING DOWN
TUMBLING DOWN

>>437313
Considering the number of anons getting banned for even mentioning it on Prime, you probably aren't supposed to see it.

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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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?

>>437351
Maybe they are just liar shits in the first place.

>>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.

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.

>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.

>>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.

>>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.

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")

>>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.

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?

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>437374
ohyou.jpg

>>437377
Follow these steps:
1. Do not use the spyware cookie website.

>>437377
The aliens are tripping balls.

>>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?

>>437382
no idea, feel free to look it up. it happened many years ago in the win-o threads.

>>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.

>>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?

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.

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?

>>437389
>And what if this is not even avoidable?
It can be avoided very easily by not posting on the spyware cookie website.

>>437390
If Prime dies and at least 5% of the people move here, so will FBI and CIA.

>>437391
Well, I tried.

Hello spur.us, my new friend
I come to talk with you for the first time