4chan hack

damas · 2025-04-15T12:01:54+00:00

4chan got PWNED. Thoughts and payers?

Mandersonian

I am a refugee once more. 420chan my beloved...

DrakefangTalisman

Incredibly sad. Wondering if it will ever come back, and if it does wondering who will even return and if it will even be the same. If this is the end, it died in the most 4chan way possible. Possibly the end of an era.

whatever

I wasted too much of my life there, and /v/ was almost irredeemably bad, but I was enjoying the Linux Gaming General threads on /vg/ and I have no replacement for those. For that reason alone, I hope the doomsayers are wrong.

Seeing "current status: unknown" in the infobox on Wikipedia's 4chan article is pretty funny.

Pedestrian

Id be very sus on the type of rumors like "mods were 3LAs" and other related stuff. nothing is confirmed and ever will be so you can just make stuff up

Xenoanthropologist

Site has been dead for like 8 years as far as I'm concerned. If you're a real old beard then it was way before that.

damas

Xenoanthropologist I think that's pretty disingenuous to say. Replace 4chan with Reddit and see how your statement sounds.

Rakka

The site will probably come back by virtue that it's profitable for Hiro to run. I'd say I miss it but the truth is I haven't seen creative posting there in some years, the last time I truly enjoyed a board was /biz/ back in the 2017-2021 era when it was affecting internet culture with new memetic contributions.

Pon

I use both 4chan and reddit, but avoid Twitter and tumblr(outside of following artists, but I never engage in the platform). I feel like a huge hole would be left with spontaneous and very niche discussions if 4chan were to die, even if the site was much better 15+ years ago.

Never understood places like TikTok or Instagram. Just doomscrolling I guess, mindless and without any real social interaction. But I never liked streamers or vtubers either and influencers feels even faker and gayer

Sand

I specifically liked 4chan for niche and anonymous hobby discussion and I'm not sure where to go to now for that.
I mostly want to avoid reddit by all means

TheEmeraldSea

Pon i gave in and bought a pass. I don't mind paying but I don't think timers are good for 4chans long term future

sonoko

If/when Hiro shocks the site back into life, I wonder if it will ever really be the same. I feel like now that it's happened once, copycats will be common. And I don't know, but it feels like this is the symbolic death of 4chan, one way or another.

Fantasy

damas Lain chan?

sonoko I imagine it'll be the exact same but with the known vulnerabilities patched up. The people posting on the site might be different and that could be a good thing. If the site is down for 20-30 days like I've been seeing as an estimate that is long enough to break a lot of habitual posting. It's easy to see people moving on and finding new places and not feeling a need to go back.

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sonoko

It does for sure feel like a symbolic death for 4chan.

The site hasn't felt the same for me either, and admittedly, I found it to be quite repetitive, though this might vary from board-to-board dynamics.
On /r9k/ for instance, it was just the same whining and insipid and needless pornography, not a fan at all.

From a technical standpoint, it's marvelous how it hadn't been hacked sooner, PHPMyAdmin as the DB interface and the it being operated and written entirely in PHP? Yeah, this was bound to happen in my opinion. Inevitable.

damas

Are there any altchans with active /tech/ boards? I am experiencing withdrawal.

genki

i kinda miss shitposting on /mu/ but that's about it. that 900 second counter rly made it tough on me since i always went on 4chan in a private browser

Ayayaya

Fantasy

If the site is down for 20-30 days like I've been seeing as an estimate that is long enough to break a lot of habitual posting. It's easy to see people moving on and finding new places and not feeling a need to go back.

It's going to be interesting to see how this might affect the wider intarwebz similar to that Tumblr debacle a few years back, although I think that 4chan's modern userbase is too small to really be noticeable on most of the "big few" websites we all are stuck on now.
I'm quite the newfag, I only started intermittently lurking between 2014-2018, and only became a regular in 2019-2021 maybe, so this is just going off of the dust of internet history, but 4chan really used to be much more influential cultural space online from what I can tell, and not in the awful /pol/ way you could argue it has now. I suppose it could just be that internet culture was absorbed by whatever "global culture" the world has developed with modern SNS. Most people will just seep through into various big social medias and become ironically far more faceless than they ever were.
I found a freshly registered account of a /pol/fag, talking to no one about all the typical stuff. I imagine many people from that board will end up like him. At best, lots of insular discord groups; those really can't be escaped anymore.

Somnolence

Somnolence
Did want to correct myself.
Those rumors of .gov and .edu email addresses for mods and staff seem to be exaggerated. There were a few .edu addresses, but from what I can gather it was only a small handful.
This has been going around though and should provide more info. ...Maybe.

I still don't actually know how much of this is true, it's not like I've seen this post myself or even have enough background information to verify the authenticity of the trip;
but we are living "post-truth" anyways and who cares to begin with.

Faust

Jannies are in control, stand back and stand by, site will be up by the end of the week. Hopefully. Tabun.
Somnolence Pretty funny that the hack was a .pdf injection. I remember saving some pdfs from /sci/ and going "wait, you can upload those here?". Kinda shocked me the first time because I didn't read the filename and clicked on what I thought was an image only to instantly start a download. Fun times.
Immediate solution will probably be to nuke that option sitewide so we'll just have to litterbox files instead.

Nickname

Somnolence some leaked gmail accounts were tied to their owner's university system. It's actually mindboggling how these new powerjannies ended up being so incompetent.

Pedestrian

Somnolence and the proof of that is...uuh nowhere! As i said none of this will ever get any form of confirmation/proof in anyform so people are free to make up any sort of tale about this
Also can someone confirm danbooru i think was lagging hard hours(or a day?) before too right? kinda sus.

Lumeinshin

The 4chan hack and downtime is a pain for sure.

My finger isn't really on the pulse of imageboard stuff lately, so aside from our friends at hikari3/wapchan/rottingangels etc i'm not too aware of what other imageboards there are. I did see kissu which looks very nice.
Have any of you been browsing any other places that you'd recommend or is there stuff you're missing that sheepishpatio could accomodate?
I've been toying with the idea of an anonymous posting area, either on site or separate anyways.

I do hope the site comes back though.. i've got ads to run!! (lol)

Faust You can do a surprisingly large amount of stuff via PDFs, great format for reading stuff (not the making them part), but kinda risky to allow

frijole del alta You can say that again, I always felt like you had to develop a knack to skim read all the thread header/images and skip all the usual filler junk on there. Even /v/ or /g/ gets the occasional really good thread/set of posts in an otherwise rubbish thread

philtheePEASANT

I frequented the /wsg/ board alot. Sometime /ck/ and /co/. say what you will about 4chan, I'm gonna miss it.

frijole del alta

Lumeinshin
It seems as every year goes by the site degrades in quality and fluctuates throughout its post cycles, especially now considering the amount of shitposters/bots. as someone whos been lurking the site for more than a decade its always been the same as in its both a shitty place and also one of the funniest/interesting places on the internet to read stuff. /sp/ always gets a laugh outta me.

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