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4chan's source code was leaked. Sourcecode: https://files.catbox.moe/d56ws8.7z

>>84466 I've wasted the last 9 years of my life on that site and now it dies unceremoniously.

https://nitter.net/_yushe/status/1911976973800272108 First time in untold years that I come back to lainchan

This is truly a glorious day. Praise this l33t haxx0r, the spirit of the ancients be upon him.

Нашел "гаранта" с лицом ангела . Только вот ангел этот хотел у меня деньги украсть. Запомните эту физиономию, чтобы не стать его жертвой!

>>84466 >4chan's source code was leaked. i am tech illiterate and dumb: what are the implications of this happening? >>84469 >First time in untold years that I come back to lainchan same lmao, feels so nostalgic

>>84474 Good old lainchan here to comfort me. :P

GIVE THIS MAN A MEDAL >>84474 >I am tech illiterate and dumb: what are the implications of this happening? Well, you can get or you can go back to bed

>>84474 with source code we can study how 4chan works. We also get a look at what kind of management tools they use which is kinda neat.

>>84478 To be fair; we already had a pretty good idea; and the fact that so many of the admins/mods had .edu/.gov emails. Basic suspicions have been confirmed. Perhaps a lesson will be learned; perhaps it will have a rebirth or lead to new image boards opening up.

You guys remember when Lainchan's server and backups got deleted? Whole thing brings me back

I don't know if it's just because it's PHP, but this soykaf is really awful to read. The admin panel looks kind of interesting, I kind of want to get the software running just to play around with it. It's probably a pain in the ass setting up ancient dependencies though so I probably won't bother unless someone else figures it out and posts instructions.

>>84480 Imagine being one of those who made an account to use 4chan lol.

>>84482 >>84482 Couldn't be me. I'm too smart for that.

>>84482 Absolutely blows my mind how any would even consider.

>>84484 years of signing into walled gardens will do that to a normal person i guess lmao

>>84466 At long last, I am finally free.

>>84479 Imagine using your school email to browse a website where you have to routinely clean up pizza and gore. What absolute retards. And some of those emails were also used on other sites like DeviantArt, Twitter and Tumblr. You can actually visit some of their blogs and see what glitterboys they are, it's all been leaked on the sharty. Oh how the mighty have fallen. It's crazy how the anonymous hacker known as 4chan has such bad opsec.

>>84466 the hacker comes from soyjak.party btw >>84479 >perhaps it will have a rebirth or lead to new image boards opening up. I doubt new image boards will spring up, 4chan will survive and continue existing however this happening is a pretty clear signal that the mandate of imageboard culture is passing from 4ch to sharty

>>84482 I found the dump of the moderator emails, 3 of them were using .edu domain emails

>>84482 >>84484 I'm glad that bitcoin roadblock was there. I got hard filtered as a adhd fool but ended up better in the end

>>84481 Actually it looks like the panel here >>84469 isn't in the dumped source code. I greped the release for for "owoto" "overview" and other things on the left panel but there are no results.

>>84468 Try 19 years. Wouldn't surprise me if it was done deliberately, it's been going downhill for forever.

>>84482 Apparently users are safe (?)

>>84492 They already announced the site will be back.

>>84494 >They already announced the site will be back. They announced it will be back in theory anon In theory

I can't believe they took down the infamous hacker known as 4chan

so is this where we hang out now or

>>84495 It would be too good for me it the site never popped up again, therefore I must continue to be haunted by its existence, so it will come back. Plus I think Hiro paid 20M for that soykaf.

I saw this post >>84493 and tried looking at the sharty to see if the cracker was really posting there, but they're down too. I guess their servers couldn't handle the influx of users.

>>84468 10 years for me qwq prehaps it would be for the better desu...

>>84500 it will be back we will not be free

Holy lmao. I wonder how the people that were calling others on /g/ schizos for not wanting to give their email to 4chan feel now.

>>84502 Sometimes you really do get what you fuarrrking deserve.

what the fuarrkkk happened while i was sleeping

>>84486 See you in a month Shame that there's no leak of the whole database. I would've really wanted to see what kind of people are moderating /vt/

>>84502 whenever you see a post like that you must automatically assume it's a fed

>>84500 That being said; 4chan definitely opened my eyes and shed the normal person veil for me. When I was a teenager I *walked* into it and quickly moonwalked out cuz I was scared; but now I realize I missed out on it in it's hayday. I am only here and know of lainchan purely because anons on 4chan mentioned it.

>>84500 it's better for all of us

these sickos cant keep getting away with it

>>84466 And, truly, nothing of value was lost.

>>84510 hahahahahahah just you wait

At least they are forces to take *some* kind if action now. The website was basically dead except for captcha updates

>>84513 assuming hiro even bothers to bring the site back up, I wouldn't be surprised if he sold it after this

>>84514 Who would buy a sunken ship?

pretty weird timeline, fun times ahead..

Every altchan admin is happier then ever, the only reason to why 4chan was the most active English imageboard was because of the edgy culture that it carried. I just hope that the /p0l/ /b/ /r nine k/ glitterboys don't come to ruin everything

any other good alt chans to fill the void?

>>84515 I've seen rumors Elon Musk has had its eyes on 4chan before, who knows

>>84515 >Who would buy a sunken ship? I mean, someone bought pets.com They could have Yotsuba Hocking Carvana or something

>>84518 I pray arisuchan returns. It used to be max comfy

Can anyone upload the source code to a Tor-friendly file sharer?

>>84522 https://sizeof.cat/notes/1744719282/ http://sizeofaex6zgovemvemn2g3jfmgujievmxxxbcgnbrnmgcjcjpiiprqd.onion/notes/1744719282/

>>84510 >>84512 I think RFK wants to put me in a camp.

>>84519 twitter already became another branch of /p0l/ more or less, 4chan already has /p0l/ infestation everywhere, I can only see things getting worse.

>>84521 Huh, I forgot about Arisu. It was very comfy, sad to see it gone. But then again Arisu spawned because of some drama in the very same chan we are currently posting in

>>84527 Yea but was still comfy. For a period it used to be for the c00l kids

anons...is this a bad time to be making a new chan reader on android? im having to refactor everything now so it works with multiple site, so i can continue work on it T_T

wow it's actually down for good holy soykaf. that was 250000 users daily on average with half of that on /p*l/ only. i wouldn't want to be one of their mods right now with all the leaked email addresses. i suspect the next days are going to be so fun.

>>84529 tried to make one earlier this year with jetpack compose but college took up too much of my time. What I found is that jetpack compose has extreme performance issues with using lazy rows i'm curious what stack are you using for your reader?

we love puff here. good riddance

>>84499 The sharty is up now They moved domains to soyjak.st They also require you to support webassembly, so hardened browsers like Vanadium will not work.

>>84491 You mean phpmyadmin? That's an opensource project.

>>84466 what is this php5 soykaf

I made my first post on 4chan last week in hope of good advice after just lurking for years and now this happened. But honestly after those edgy responses i got i also think that nothing really of value was lost. I'm glad we have lainchan that seems to be a pretty comfy community. It also felt like 4chan was just a bunch of kiddies randomly insulting people for nothing.

Well at least I get to hang out with lain again in what feels like years to me

Not sure how to feel, I don't really have any other places to talk to about things, I don't feel like I belong anywhere else, if 4chan is pernamently gone I'll be legimitely sad. I live for those moments when you actually meet a like-minded person who is just pasionate about things. It mostly devolved into political baiting though, but meeting that like minded person made it wortwhile and made me forget how alone I truly am, oh well, I'll get over it somehow, still stings.

>>84539 > I don't feel like I belong anywhere else, same here, I hope someone will restart 4chan fresh. Let the tourist users go away during the downtime.

>>84539 If a new 4chan sans polbait rose from the ashes it would be a blessing. I just want somewhere I can talk about animu and gaymin anonymously with relatively quick responses and cute pictures.

as dumb as it may sound many boards had good resources that made me productive. I miss /g/ lisp thread and /a/ man... that was a living relic of the 2000's

>>84541 why not just join the sharty and do that but with disgusting soyjaks instead of cute anime girls?

>>84528 True that. There were some interesting resources there, though I feel like I am remembering things with a hint of nostalgia. I am glad we have so much traffic here, feels like a bunch of visitors coming in for dinner. Make sure to check our webring if there is anyone new here

>>84540 Getting the bots and tourists out would save the site, but its still in the publics conscious. If they had to completely start on a new hostname, it would in theory be the fresh start they need

>>84544 Anime girls are non-negotiable

>>84540 femezen wife for my femezen

>>84543 /biz/ unironically had good calls ~7y ago. They even predicted covid 3 months ahead of news. I bet there are people who got rich off lurking biz at the right time.

i need to stop talking so much soykaf on the internet if my posts were associated with my identity it would be a nightmare LMAO its hard though its just too fun to be a hater. its my divinely inspired purpose on this earth

>>84539 4chan was already gone with the shift in culture and all the annoyances between CVCKflare, captchas and timers it's a good thing if it dies and the worthwhile parts of it finally move to altchans it probably won't though

>>84515 sites like 4chan needs someone who buys it on to have it running on principle. if someone buys it looking for profits then good fuarrrking luck lmao

>>84543 maybe we can get a good lisp/scheme thread going on λ. seems like it would align with the interests of the site (lisp code in the lain anime). But i was surprised there was only an emacs one

>>84543 /a/ was pretty useful still, I got some good anime to watch thanks to them, you just had to watch out for the slower smaller threads for really good ones. The bigger the thread got the worse it got. Those slower threads for smaller shows were quite sweet though. Though, maybe this is a good thing in the long run, I might be spending too muc time on these image boards, maybe that time is better spent on learning Japanese and watching anime more. I

>>84555 >Those slower threads for smaller shows were quite sweet though. As was always the case. Shoushimin threads were some of the most fun I've had in years on 4chan

crystal cafe is as dead as ever

>>84553 i would, if i didnt have a life that could be ruined by being the owner

>>84552 imagine this: 4chan stays dead 4chan normal people get filtered and resort to twitter, reddit and the fagman ecosystem, so altchans get their golden age without getting a massive influx of 4chan users cancerous internet culture gets wiped out from the wired, especially the memes and the p0l soykaf exported to fagman socials all the time yes i know it's complete delusion, but let me dream for a bit. >>84553 imo there's no way 4chan can get better. there's just too many users and connections to social media and politics.

>>84552 You're probably right, the users who actually make imageboards worth it to use are liable to just stop posting if they lose their main site. What I wouldn't give for a healthy, active altchan network... Internet discussion deserves so much better. I guess the only thing people can do on an individual level is be the poster they want to see more of.

>>84552 I'll be honest I'm here only due to the fact 4chan died. But just a few moments here and I already prefer the culture here over what 4chan has become. Hopefully the like minded will slowly migrate to altchans and give sort of a "rebirth" to outcasts discussing within themselves, that'd be beautiful, but I don't know. But, what I am scared of now is altchans like these being flooded by the current 4chan userbase.

>>84517 I'm a bit upset the quality of other altchans I lurk will get a flood of retarded quality posts from now on. Even in this thread there's some retarded people. Rip to the lainchan jannies working overtime. >>84521 Place was a insider trade for the admins Telegram group so no thanks.

wow rest in peace sweet prince

>>84559 >>84562 this kind of fragmentation also leads to less fragility overall. it's a huge shame it won't happen >>84561 I like to think your usual IB user is so hopelessly addicted they'll try to get a fix with alternatives. the only thing 4chan's always had is speed and that does come at an ugly cost

Well, thats unfortunate. Wonder what really happened though

>>84496 Wait, his name isn't 4channel?

guess that's about 12 years of my life gone in a blink huh where do i discuss anime and manga now though? reddit's moderation is too strict, comment sections in online aggregator websites are either dead or full of indian bots, and anywhere else the traffic is far from enough to keep an active discussion, I don't want to make a thread about today's manga release just for it to get 1-2 replies a day and be up for 1+ months

>>84568 >I don't want to make a thread about today's manga release just for it to get 1-2 replies a day and be up for 1+ months Was going to suggest sushichan but it is really slow rn. Tough sell, but I believe it's a good ship to jump on if more folks get around to posting there.

>>84568 I'm sure it will be offline just temporarily. If it's gone forever, only time will tell. The quality of Lainchan discussion is much higher than 4chan has been for the past few years, but the post rate is pretty low. Might be a good thing overall though.

>>84568 smuglo.li is pretty active from what I've seen, I don't really browse it enough to say it with certainty though.

>>84466 I thought it was just a prank, miku is so fun Nope. It's too bad, the boards moved so fast I could ask any question and get an answer and move on, I've never been inclined to join anything else.

>a sizeable amount of active, good-faith posters >a shared culture What else makes an imageboard successful?

>>84568 >>84569 Is Lainchan a good place to discuss anime/games/vocaloid just general otaku urelated stuff? I ask since I don't want to be that kind of a guy who randomly goes into an established community and makes a mess in it.

>>84539 Yeah, there's not really any other place I can think of that hosted so many different topics, and where, even if some of the posters you'd absolutely hate or were on an entirely different kind of boards, most of the users still talked and acted within a familiar range. And I just don't know what to replace a lot with in the meantime. One thing that gets me is thinking about how: when Mangadex went down thanks to a big hack and leak, /a/ started doing daily chapters, and it was such a fun way to share in manga together that there were several chains of dailies that continued for the next few years. Now /a/ is gone, I can't read my chapters, I can't discuss any new episodes this week, there's not a place to go for it, and with the scale of the leak, it's unsure if things will come back.

I regret using /p0l/ and some other boards, but I got a lot out of /a/, /int/, and /tv/. The reason I started learning a second language was because of /int/. I still lurked on /a/ until recently. I can probably blame my crippling obsession with tomboys on that fuarrrking site. However I don't feel that sad to see it gone (assuming it never comes back).

>>84574 you can get an idea from looking at the site but there's not much anime discussion here, at least the non fringe stuff I like lain as a tech adjacent site with good posters but more game discussion would be cool

Goodbye /a/. I'm going to miss you :(

>>84574 not otaku specificly, but lainchan does have a boards that fit those discussions there's /vis/ for shows/art, /music/ for music, /inter/ for games, /lit/ for books you could start a thread about whatever and get a few lainons talking most likely. :)

>>84577 >>84579 Noted, thank you a lot guys. You like a really nice community which is sweet. >>84578 It's truly gone this time...

>>84568 You could try wapchan.

Despite what a lot of people said about it, I actually really liked /ic/. I got a lot of good feedback on my beginner art. Seems like everywhere else I go, people are way too nice and don't give real criticism. Plus, I never felt shame posting weird sexual art, since there was always 100 people weirder than me in any given thread.

>>84579 >>84579 I relied way too heavily on /vgg/ and /vmg/ to keep playing terrible games. the other places I went for questions wanted emails and were filled with spam anyways. even as terrible /k/ had gotten in the last decade it was still the best place to see new tech and ask questions. I'm pretty sure operatorchan is dead. I don't think there was ever a kitchen.

>janiteam emails leaked Oh dear. On the one hand, fuarrrk jannies. On the other hand, I don't want anyone getting in IRL trouble for moderating a Chinese cartoon forum.

all this feels so weird. I've been a 4chan user for like 10 years, but I've only interacted in a couple boards and some very specific recurring threads, those that could last for days or maybe even a couple weeks. I lurked a bunch of boards but never engaged with them, so I don't really feel anything about it. I guess it would suck if 4chan never comes back, but we have some other altchans besides this one to waste our time at

>>84583 I was always afraid of /ic/ and just posted on relative board draw/oc threads, now I am gonna have to find a place that allows my kind of art.

>>84586 Yeah, they were annoying and I've heard they abused their powers, but I don't want anyone to actually suffer for that in real life. It is weird seeing people on Twitter/Reddit celebrate it.

>>84468 no no no... he's resting.

>>84586 > I don't want anyone getting in IRL trouble for moderating a Chinese cartoon forum. who gives a fuarrrk they are all trash anyway

>>84588 I mostly stayed in /beg/ and /sex/, and the OC redraw thread was cool too. Pretty intimidating, since there were some really good artists in there. I only recently discovered /i/, which was way more chill than /ic/. I made a thread for my OC with no fear of getting ripped apart.

>>84591 lol I hope all these niggers get doxxed

>>84594 If you use your .edu email to moderate a soykafpost site you deserve what's coming to you lol

>>84591 Kohlchan has the list and its pretty damning, if there was ever a reason to leave, that should keep you away forever. >>84593 Well all of my stuff pretty much was /d/, but I shared it alot with the /jp/ OC threads. I will probably have to go to chounyuu and beg them to whitelist my ip range since they have had it range derezzed for years now.

>>84586 i hope all the jannies get despawned

>>84596 it's all gmail though? i only see gmail, outlook, some proton and an edu, did i miss something? it's insane that some addresses have their actual name and surname. you would think applying for a janny position on the most popular and hated imageboard would get you some opsec considerations.

>>84596 Didn't need to know that you drew hyperpreg breast inflation but ok

>>84598 nah there are no .gov emails, the .gov email thing was a lie

Nobody will take anonymous seriously ever again. 4chan won't recover from this.

>>84598 You would think that, but looking through the thread, its likely students/interns, normal people, or anyone without any tech sense applying for the job. You would think its mainly protonmail or some slightly secure mails, but its not. Funny to think they had people who likely hated the site, moderate it for free nonetheless. >>84600 The good thing is, I won't post anything like that here, its kinda nice now to have seperate sites for different interests, without having to worry about the whole thing going down

I have not posted here in years. fuarrrk's sake, I just wanted to make a VTM:B thread.

>>84603 yeah i read through some of the janitor board and they look even more clueless than the users. there was infighting and low quality spam even in their board lol. basically a miniature 4chan where jannies were moderated by mods. it's funny that they were talking about the same stuff that had a thread every day in other boards: the internet was like this, we should filter that, this will fix 4chan, etcetera etcetera they also made threads to suggest features to "devs". i didn't manage to find out who the devs were though, doesn't look like other mods.

>>84602 People are pretty quick to forget, we'll see. I feel rather uncomfortable goin back on 4chan if it goes back up.

>>84466 Mook really needs to make a return or that place should get bought by Elon Musk. It was apparently really an FBI honeypot since the jannies got to have access and keep IP addresses and physical locations of posters. Supposedly they even kept personal notes about some posters too. One great thing about the hack was the revelation of filtered terms from the /v/ board allowing me to learn new insults.

>>84606 How big is that "if" anyway?

>>84539 Besides sitting in a few generals for games I play, I mostly just lurk threads that interest me, save some pictures here and there and maybe make a post every 5 threads. 4chan was always kind of like background noise for me for the past 20 years. I'll miss those yugioh threads though. I guess I won't be there forever after all.

>>84517 Honestly I think a lot of traffic on /p0l/ was bots anyways. There's so many there who have only ever known 4chan and wouldn't be able to find alt-chans unless someone seriously slapped them in the face with it.

>>84607 Ha, I was thinking the exact same thing. Apart from the novelty of peeling back the skin, I was really interested in seeing the full language enhancer list. Has anyone ever leaked the Lainchan language enhancers?

>>84603 >Funny to think they had people who likely hated the site, moderate it for free nonetheless. They obviously did it to mess with users. Activist preacher types seek mod roles to kill the wrong fun. Its been noted like years ago that they were deleting real posts over spam.

>>84608 I think it's a pretty big "if". Who the hell would want to moderate 4chan now?

>>84613 I would redirect 4ch to lainchan :D

https://bvll.neocities.org/j/ janitor/mod board archive

>>84613 You underestimate how desperate some losers are for any bit of power they can get.

>>84605 Makes you think the jannies in their infighting also spammed the boards with that to stir the pot, what a terrible idea... >>84612 Its telling when you can see certain threads stay up with the worst opinions while actual genuine discussion gets pushed to the bottom of the board fast

>>84613 It's already loading sometimes but very slowly.

It’s a real end of an era I’m gonna miss 4chan if it’s gone forever. Too bad the jannies let it go to soykaf and they didn’t care enough to keep the site updated

>>84521 It's been back for months now: https://arisuchan.xyz/

>>84466 Been on there since the end of 2008. After all the election tourists swarmed in for the 2016 elections and ESPECIALLY the 15 minute wait time they implemented, I say good riddance. I know the site is going to recover, but a huge part of me wants it to stay dead. 4chan was always one of the internet's biggest websites, but the internet is no longer niche, which attracted so many of the wrong kinds of people and just turned every board into a micro p0l. What that board needs is a fresh start under a new name or to leave it up to some other chan to take it's throne. Also nice dub dubs. >>84607 Couldn't they just change the user's message to all lowercase and test to see if it matches without having to test specific capitalizations? >>84614 Hell no, that would ruin this place.

>>84517 Pol as a whole? yeah, bad. PTG? *chef's kiss* The regulars, not the detractors and demoralizers.

>>84621 I just wanna go back to /wsg/ and see more of those Adult Swim-style bumper threads. Those were relaxing as fuarrrk.

>>84620 Is it really back if it's just a different group of people using the name and CSS? I'm interested to see if it'll have the same downfall anyway

>>84621 >i know the site is going to recover i don't know about that, did this happen before? i'm no netsec expert but hiro does not give a fuarrrk about his website and putting it up again now means exposing it to unknown vulnerabilities and it's just going to get hacked again, many jannies are probably scared away by the leaks now, so a complete rewrite is probably only going to happen if someone else buys it and changes the moderation. maybe musket is going to buy it and make it twitter 2 "for the americans" (p0l)

>>84621 /thread It fuarrrking is like kicking dead whales down the beach man, I can't post about tech or servers or ponies without seeing "troon" posted every other sentence. 2016 was when it died for me too, sure there were people spamming every slur occasionally, sure there was a thread here or there, but it just to be on-topic brewing soykaf, now it's just calling everyone "soy" or "troon" for literally no reason. I remember when you had to be retarded to get called slurs (or post pictures of your hand)

My last post on /agdg/ was that I'd get a lot more devving if 4chan went down...

>>84624 How else do you want it to be back? Even if it was the same group of people it would still be as active as it is now.

>>84626 >>84621 Election autism was the worst thing to hit the place. It became fuarrrking unbearable to sift through all the soykaf. I still have no idea how the hell I had the patience for that garbage.

>>84627 I might unironically start deving my game engine again now lol.

where was the whole leak posted?

4ch refugee, can you plz add a vidya board i want to soykafpost on my favvorite games

>>84632 There is a video game board.

>>84631 >>84524 body too short :(

>>84631 it wasn't Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

>>84613 I'd like to think that when he's needed most, he'll return

>>84636 >he thinks moot gives a soykaf he hates us :(

>>84636 Moot is never coming back

>>84466 This is bad. 4chan was containment center for all the soykafty political soykaft culture war cancer just like X and basically all of modern social media. Hopefully it gets back up in time and you chan users stay over there instead of bringing your cringe soykaft culture over here.

>>84519 If he buys it I'm never going back. Hopefully hiroshimoot dosent like him and refuses to sell it to that glitterboy

moot is too busy making those googlebucks to give a fuarrrk about a north korean forced labor forum

where's a good board for a /tv/ refugee?

>>84642 Outside something body it too short

Are /g/ bros sheltering here? I miss /gedg/.

>>84642 Turn off your tv and go outside

where's the lisp thead? also we need some other ib to go because i hate this body 2 short thing

>>84642 go to reddit, now would be a good time to ip filter new posters to be honest

Taking refuge in the wired until we get season 2.

>>84606 >>84613 I was wondering the same. Who would apply to be a janitor now? I surely wouldn't after knowing the whole staff got doxxed like this. I know it happened before but this time is even worse.

>>84644 I don't really miss anything in particular, /g/ had been pretty trash for a while

>>84649 If you really want to be a janny just use a burner email and/or Discord if they still require that, nobody told these people to use their personal gmails and school accounts but themselves >>84650 I liked the organization of the various AI generals but that was about the only good thing left outside of corporate spam and stupidity

>>84641 he left google 4 years ago after his stocks vested. Seemingly no one knows what he's doing now

4chan had some uses, even in its pitiful cùcked state. The doxxing of the jannies with an IRL example?... go for it. If only for the fact that the next batch of jannies will be scared or extra cautious about how they get int and what they do, if that cesspool of a website ever comes back again.

>>84652 /lambda/, learn how to use the site... >>84652 I had to stop using /g/ since the board was too fast, there were too many consumer product advertisement threads, and the post quality was at its absolute worst and completely incomprehensible at this point.

>>84649 That's an interesting question. I'm lurking in a couple of spots to see how the rest of the semi-anonymous internet is responding, and there is a broad "end of an rra" vibe. This might be a test for how flash in the pan the internet really is now.

News today was that OpenAI are making a social network. Coincidence!?!? The time for AI jannies draws near.

>>84652 yeah, of course we can't forget two thirds of the catalog became /p0l/soykaf

>>84601 It amazes me how fast and persistently this .gov myth spread. The amount of BS about the hack that has already permeated through the internet is as interesting as the hack itself

>>84610 >a lot more like 90% at least, and that's probably a low estimate it's been pretty much unusable ever since /p0l/ harbor

>>84500 >>84492 >>84468 12 years here. I don't know if it's just me, but did you anons also feel like something changed here within the last 5-10 years on 4ch? It felt like the atmosphere went from being laid-back and awful humor to new people that didn't realize it was just awful humor and were just genuinely awful people. I miss having a place to chat with people with insane humor that aren't actually insane.

>>84636 He made the right call. Who in their right mind wants to be associated with 4chan publicly?

>>84659 I would think the actual federal agents would have some foresight not to use their actual emails, likely their personal or backup emails, but could also be me giving them false credit

>>84469 >database dumped Where can I find it? Or not published?

>>84661 Yeah, I've felt that. I haven't started as early as you did (2014) but I noticed this change over the years. Usually I post and lurk on a very small general on vg on a turn based fantasy game, and the quality of posts declined over the years. Laziness, just AI slop and genuinely awful people post often and you can pick them out by the way they behave. All the good ones left and they took with them the ability to create funny posts and original content.

to all new people please read the faq and rules and LURK MOAR do i need to post that woman from the 90s explaining how to behave in forums

>>84661 >It felt like the atmosphere went from being laid-back and awful humor to new people that didn't realize it was just awful humor and were just genuinely awful people. Exactly my feelings. I remember a drawing of someone describing the vibes over the years. Wish i had it on hand rn.

>>84468 Eh it was always gonna have an unceremonious death, so if this really is the end I'm not too surprised

>>84665 not published I didn't find anything super interesting in the codebase. I got exciting when I saw language enhancers/ but that's just for mapping to be honest -> desu, and doesn't contain trigger/blocked terms like "vipergirls.to". I know there are a lot more you simple can NOT post, but that's just one example. Other terms that seem to summon mods are things like "shadowderezzed" Since we're at it, does anyone have a list of 4chans blocked terms?

>>84626 troon has replaced glitterboy in the edgy internet kid lex these days. Is not the insult the problem, calling each other "glitterboys" creates a weird comfy vibe because of the level of satire and sarcasm tje internet used to have, but now that vibe is gone, and people are being dickhead to each other because they think they have to, they believe to be in a war, and they'll keep fighting ghosts inside their heads for the rest of their lives. Is why the hacking happened to begin with

What's also funny is that I got derezzed literally yesterday for "violating US law", which is horseshit since I was clearly being ironic. Must be karma. In hindsight, I did make an error in not using a proxy for 4chan. Oh well, hopefully I didn't piss anyone off too much. >>84671 >not published That's at least good news for those like me who were sloppy with opsec.

The real problem with the insults and political charged atmosphere of literally everything on 4chan is the fact it's incredibly easy to dismiss anything by calling it "troon". You are not required to give any thought, you can just make an incredibly lazy post to dismiss anything and distrupt conversation of any kind, many people's sole existence on 4chan was to just distrupt conversation and destroy any meaningful conversation of anything, even if it was a cute slice of life comedy.

>>84671 wordfElters not language enhancers found a new lainchan word mapping ugh and now we gotta deal with the flood filter and can't have normal conversations cus we need to appear sophisticated and bloviate nothingness

>>84671 there's links in this thread, there's a specific /v/ blacklist with all the sonyggers and nintentoddlers terms that's pretty funny tip: search a term inside files in a folder recursively with $ grep -Rnw ./folder -ie term

>>84661 Yeah I also spent around 15 years over there, I feel more or less the same. It definitely felt like things were suddenly more serious, maybe it was bound to happen because one can only pretend to be a retard for so long before you start attracting genuine retards. But it was fun, brewing soykaf was kinda fun. Though I did find myself in a decent conversation at least once a month especially on the less populated boards. Also in the wake of this happening I decided to check out other places I used to visit, found out that the letterbox (afternoon.dynu.com) has been dead since last year too and that made me a little sad.

>>84674 >it's incredibly easy to dismiss anything by calling it "troon". You are not required to give any thought, you can just make an incredibly lazy post to dismiss anything and distrupt conversation of any kind Is that any different from calling everyone you don't like a nazi?

>>84678 Indeed, it's the same principle, hence why people point to 2016 as the year where 4chan truly lost something important. Once you throw politics into occasion, wher it shouldn't be, you have people who simply dismiss you, since they believe you or that thing belongs to the "enemy". So to speak. Different sides, same problem. I think this si what they call a horeshoe theory? I don't know. I hope the sudden influx of users on lainchan won't be too big or harmful. I would hate for this to repeat again.

revisiting for the first time in forever because im not sure where else to go, man its way more chill here

Damn. This feels like a real wake up call for me. I underestimated how much time I actually spend on the site.

>>84679 Doesn't seem to be a terribly big influx, at least compared to what I've been observing on other imageboards.

>>84680 This is the site to come to, that soyglitterboy site is so low quality, glad none none of those glitterboys know about lain.

>>84679 I probably won't stick around too long, I just needed somewhere to read about this, but it is very nice here

https://lainchan.org/faq.html https://lainchan.org/rules.html >>84679 we do have filters and mods that care though :D >>84680 welcome back, we usually get way less traffic than this but today is an exception

I've been using lainchan on & off for the past 8-7 years, it's pretty comfy here, just please don't treat it like twitter

>>84686 Yeah, I think many people just want to know what's going on and vent a little. It's not easy to just hop from one imageboard to another.

>>84676 nothing was returned when I search for viper, girls, or vipergirls.to. I know for a fact that that's blacklisted/blocked I wouldn't refer to nintenc-ck -> pcbro as being blacklisted. That's just a word mapping. I'm referring to words that will not allow you to post at all until you've removed them, and the 4chan feedback would not specify what term was triggering the spam/bot/reformat/disapproved alarm

>>84661 This describes the direction of the site for the 19 years I've frequented it.

I've been on the site for 18 years and I'm actually kind of mad, I want my brewing soykaf back

>>84661 The site went through massive culture changes in 2012, 2015, and in 2020+. The political culture war in 2015 ruined the site and the covid/AI slop mess in 2020+ made it virtually unusable.

Since everyone is here, any tips on how to reverse engineer / implement a bunch of encryption functions similar to rc4 from binary ninja pseudo c output?

>>84559 > memes and the p0l soykaf exported to fagman socials all the time the sharty >>84566 soyteen from the sharty had acsess for a year apparently, and was trying to get in since 2021. entire thing was revenge for the 4chan jannies locking /qa/ >>84574 there is a video games board >>>/inter/ but lainchan is more for tech discussions (but imo that could change) >>84639 meh, no one seems to be bringing it over. >>84695 the tech help thread should help you with that

>>84466 I have not seen any announcement by hiromoot... There's a real possibility that it does die. I don't know how to feel about that.

>>84697 As a power user, I can say that maybe I am a little glad. But I will still miss it.

>>84482 i always solved that captcha trash and ive become good at it kek

>>84697 Niche IBs will thrive. 8chandotszyslak will become a new home for the main discussion boards (a, v, g, etc) 4chan dying will be the best thing that could ever happen, for all imageboards. As they are now, no one can honestly say they prefer boards with 12 regular users; at that point, you might as well start up a small discord or irc chatroom

>>84697 One on hand I'll be glad a website I once loved but slowly rotted away was put to rest, on the other hand why must soyjak party be the ones responsible. The good times will stick with me and I can forget about all the rot.

>>84697 >I don't know how to feel about that. Yeah, it's a complicated feeling. I'd be happy if it came straight back up, but part of me thinks if it dies then maybe it wouldn't be so bad. A fresh start.

>>84697 my biggest fear is that some of the communities and board/thread cultures that have developed over the years could really die out for good. Sure some of them were cancerous but there were some good communities which really would be a tragedy to die like this

i don't know why people are so excited about 4chan dying. there are no alternatives. schizoposting with my anonbros to unwind after a hard day at work was one of the few good things i had

>>84697 >I have not seen any announcement by hiromoot... Probably doesn't even know what happened yet, fuarrrking kek

>make April fools joke about shutting down >get shut down

>>84706 honestly they deserve it for not bringing back the candy teams competition

As a former janny, dodged that bullet The jannies are fine but fuarrrk the mods and rapeape in particular, they're ruining 4chan

>>84706 the department of 4chan efficiency really went too far this time...

>>84676 >>84675 >>84671 looking into the codebase further, the regexes used for each board which outright BLOCKED posts and resulted in a "Error: Our system thinks your post is spam. Please reformat and try again." we're stored in MySQL, so we don't know what prevented submissions on each 4chan board. Look at lines 697 to 843 of lib/postfilter.php

I've been out of the loop for too long. I used to come here in college like 8 years ago. What other altchans are there? I've been too busy in meatspace to keep up.

It's hard for me to believe what I'm going to say next but 4chan.. kinda felt like the only place left on the internet without being manifested by modern internet culture ? there was point in time when social media was actually usable, back in early 2010's before it become too excessive. I'm not saying by any mean or capacity 4chan had good culture influence on the internet, internet got to point of being everything but name to empty space that fills the gaps between few mainstream social media apps everyone use now. 4chan still has some of the spark it once held

>>84713 if anything it was sad going there because you saw some good posters amidst a sea of xitter/reddit screenshots and a whole lot of corpo shelling

>>84713 obscure imageboards dont have SIR HERE IS CRYPTO SUPPORT SIR HERE IS HOW TO GET BACK YOU WALLET SIR WEST HAS FALLEN SIR

>>84713 that's because you are a new user and you only used 4chan. you need to find other websites because they exist. trust me, 4chan is literally the nearest thing to social media there was outside the corporate ecosystem. you just miss the speed of it.

>>84704 We've always just had 4chan so people really don't understand the implications of it just not being there. And the whole people being excited phenomenon is built on ignorance of this, people don't realize the scale of 4chan.

>>84555 As it turns out, a lot of the jannies/mods on /a were ferverent mlp fans.....go figure. I hated /a because /a could've been awesome, but it was just onepiece and fuarrrking dbz and whatever mainstream soykafe that was hot at the moment.

>>84713 were we browsing the same site? because if you were a blind man you genuinely could not tell the difference between 4chan and modern twitter.

>>84713 This is also my concern. What other places are there that aren't run by some megacorp (or billionaire)? Kinda feels like part of the old web is going away forever. As fuarrrked up as it had gotten it still had its moments.

>>84714 I can't ignore the elephant in the room but I at least it's not on the same level of plebbit.

>>84715 obscure imageboards also don't have any users at all

>>84703 >but there were some good communities which really would be a tragedy to die like this This, for example, some of them were fan translated obscure JRPG eroges that came from fans with genuine interest and passion Gonna miss ya /vrpg/

>>84713 >kinda felt like the only place left on the internet without being manifested by modern internet culture 4chan is (was?) tainted to absolute soykaf with modern internet culture, just a dumber and more vulgar variant of it. Other imageboards have much better discussions since there is actually some effort put in posts, probably a side effect of being slower.

>>84717 So you think it's a "don't know what you got until it's gone" thing? Man, it'll be weird if 4chan does die, then in five years Buzzfeed does a sad retrospective... I am seeing a lot of "good riddance" reactions too.

The site will come back up within a week, new jannies will come in, some security holes might get patched. Overall, the site quality will continue its decline into steady irrelevance. Nothingburger, all in.

>>84700 i thought 8ch was dead or filled with feds, didn't know it was up. more text because filters.

>>84713 It was slowly being strangled to death by the ones who ran it and 'others'. So I kind of agree but feel this will probably be a good thing.

>>84722 to me lainchan counts as an obscure board. most people on twitter have no idea about it. not even the egirls who love lain asthetics etc

>>84716 I feel like it's going to be hard to find a comparable place for niche hobbies. I liked /p/ and /ck/, on another imageboard those topics would get like one post a week at best.

>>84725 Everyone cheering doesn't understand the idea of the "containment board" or in this case "containment website." The people they are cheering against have to go somewhere to post eventually, and if that isn't 4chan, well, only time can really tell.

>>84716 > 4chan is literally the nearest thing to social media there was outside the corporate ecosystem yea this. I'm sure there's alternatives with smaller userbase but I always preferred 4chan simple for this specific reason.

>>84723 /vprg/ and /ic/ are my only two real losses where else do i talk about my first-person spatially loaded cognitively overbearing dopamine dispensers and my isometric gambling machines?

>>84726 Correct, I have no idea why so many people are acting like this is some epochal moment that has already killed the site

>>84731 i kinda hope most of the user base (remember it's 250 fuarrrking thousand people) go to twitter or reddit and we just get the effort posters, but i know i'm basically gambling. >>84732 it's so fuarrrking funny that you interpreted it as a good thing i'm spilling my soykaf

if anyone's interested, i made an altchan refuge for /lgbt/ https://lgbtchan.org supports /lgbt/ board flags it uses some board software i've been working on that imo is better than vichan. you don't need to be LGBT/care about LGBT stuff to post on it

I found the password hashes lol

Alt chans might be in greater danger if 4chan does die. I'm not talking about the exodus of refugees but of raiding parties. 4chan is like Jupiter, taking the attention of bored discord groups and sites like soyjak away from the smaller chans. Where do you think they'll go when 4chan is no longer around?

>>84738 Taking down 4chan is a flex but you'd think they go bigger not smaller, why to try taking down twitter next lol

>>84738 Unfortunately it may be time to get some more staff to fight those groups and harden code.

>>84735 Most of the newer users and those who only visited every now and again will go to bigger platforms and make their own communities, who knows how well that'll go. Maybe they'll just end up on that soyjack site that pwnd 4chan in the first place. >>84738 Hopefully they'll turn their attention to Kiwi Farms or something and leave the smaller chans alone.

>>84739 This. Who would really care about taking down Lainchan. It has a handful of users most days. I can't say I totally understand their psychology but it seems like a waste of time to me.

>>84738 I don't really see if this place is going to be a target, it's small and not so well known. It's too niche. 4chan was a big "everything" board with a lot of people and a notoriety which attracted a lot of unwanted attention. I don't think this place gets that much unwanted attention. Then again, I saw afternoon.dynu.com, another relaxed text board, often get all sorts of spam in waves. So make of that what you will. With some vigilant mods I think it's going to be fine.

>>84726 >>84734 I totally get you two. But I don't think this is the end of 4chan for the reason that it's possibly going to be dead or not. It looks like the others agreed on >>84661 and i wouldn't be surprised if they don't really want to go back to 4ch after what it's become over time either. I don't really think I'll be back myself. I think i just needed to see something akin to what it used to be like 10+ years ago. Slower, actual discussion, reaction images and little to no posters using 19 different slurs for no reason. People with dumb humor that aren't actually dumb. 4chan in that sense will probably be dead for good with the last remnants of us older users gone. If that makes any sense.

Finally... We are truly >ded

>>84562 this place is dead as hell. the threads on >>>/λ/ have been there for 4+ years

>>84646 https://lainchan.org/%CE%BB/res/36959.html

I'm guessing most revisiting anons here are from /a/ or /g/.

>>84713 that's why it has to die. A segmented internet is much better than having everyone in one place. 4chan shouldn't be the internet, same way twitter or facebook shouldn't be. People should be free to find a place and interact with whoever they want, kill 4chan and people will spread again, and the spark to the internet as a whole will return.

>>84744 I will probably pop by every now and then to check on /wsg/ and /po/? was it, the papercraft and origami board. The gondola threads have remained comfy as ever even if they are once in a blue moon

>>84562 reporting in. always wanted to post here, but kept forgetting. i guess i have no choice now.

>>84752 I hope that's what happens... It does sound idealistic though. I feel like in reality most of those people are going to just go to Twitter. And the centralized internet will become a little bit more centralized. There might be some token migration to other imageboards, and maybe a few new ones will pop up. But the future remains unseen.

>>84754 Bro what a day I never thought I'd live to see. I can't believe it. I know it'll be back though.

>>84744 Fair enough. It could be an acceleration of an existing downturn, where users that were already getting sick of the bullshit finally bite the bullet and quit. It's already rare to see a good post, sometime soon it may be virtually impossible.

I think I've only lurked here a couple of times, but it seems to be a good place. If 4chan is gone for good, which is a non-zero chance, then I will miss (some of) /vr/ and /jp/. Do not fret, I have read the rules.

>>84747 i do not see the problem

>>84562 Same, reporting in. Former janny of /g/ Got fired for no reason lol.

>>84752 The flipside to this argument is that 4chan seemingly acted as a gateway into chan culture, and niche forums in general. We can see in this thread, and in similar threads on other altchans, how most of their users spent some amount of time on 4chan and learned about other chans through of posts on 4chan. The death of 4chan could lead to a further decline in new users, as edgy teens will stick to Discord servers and X, and a further centralization of the internet.

>>84751 both for me /g/ in particular was so horrible, i hope a new era of decentralized imageboards for different topics is in order

>>84747 Threads aren't deleted afaik. I created the C++ thread like 8 years ago shorty after the wipe and it's still there.(Threads do get deleted, but lambda has a higher page count than default, so some threads live longer before falling into graveyard.)

>>84704 Which is why part of me is hoping it just comes back up. I have been visiting here for a good 7-8 years but ultimately 4ch is something I expected would always be there.

>>84747 Let's hope it goes this way lain, hopefully people will learn to create instead of consuming all the time. our webring is just an example of what many different decentralized (occ)cultures can do. hopefully this leads to a renaissance of the Wired. Remember, we're all connected.

For the past year, 4chan has been making small changes to push users towards using their email and purchasing passes, so I'd rather see it die this way than be Reddit 2.0 in a year or two with an account requirement and mtx. If the site's stack was in as bad a state as they say, the server was definitely compromised before this.

>>84767 i honestly never had a problem doing the captchas

am i the only goodgoy who bought a 4chan pass? found it ironic after many years of posting, i only got 2 weeks value out of my gold account.

>>84763 /biz/ here granted it's been dead and overrrun by soykafcoin pump groups, although it was VERY good to me during 2018 which is why I keptlurking there to this d... well I mean yesterday. I hope I can find a similar community somewhere else

I need /a/ back. Other anime discussion sites are either dead, overly moderated or filled with apes who read manwha.

remember, things could always get soykaftier you could be a bottom stuck on week 3 of getting cvcked by beans

>>84768 Captchas increased to 900 seconds and were per-board, at least for about an hour after the initial captcha, then you could post in all boards. 4chan also recently increased the cost of passes. Timers made the site nearly unusable for anyone who has their browser clear cookies on exit or similar.

>>84476 My goto, when /g/ soil the bed

some info on the exploit used pretty funny

>>84751 Sadly, yes. Not going to miss /g/ that much although it was still nice to have it there even if it was a trashcan of AI in the recent past. Honestly, not going to miss /a/ that much either. But I never expected it to crash and burn like this. Part of me took comfort in knowing it was there even if it was depreciating in value.

I've been lurking lainchan for like 5 years without ever posting anything simply because it's so slow, I know 4chin is soykaf but I was willing to grit my teeth at how awful things were for the simple fact there was activity and the occasional meaningful discussion that went at a good pace. A lot of people come to the internet to keep themselves busy, not wait 15 minutes between posts (and I say this as a /jp/user)

>>84751 well i still visited here from time to time but i mostly hung out on /g/ (and maybe /p/ and /w/) actually it all hurts doubly so, since it's less then a month since sturdy purged /tech/ but hey, it's pretty comfy around so it's for the best maybe

>>84751 /wsg/ and /fit/ honestly. Two of the last boards that weren't covered in low quality posts. Even then, /fit/ threads were often just meaningless replies and soulless, while /wsg/ was moving as slowly as more obscure chans. I miss gondola threads though.

>>84771 I've been lurking smuglo.li and it actually seems pretty decent.

>>84775 Forgot to add source https://sizeof.cat/notes/1744743640 (if you're reading sizeofcat this thanks for sharing the info and leaks on the hack)

>>84751 /g/ was my homepage for a while, It seems I was one of the few retards that got into AI early on and made "friends" there, we talked almost everyday. I'll miss them.

>>84751 just a lurker. Don't have a home board, i don't feel in touch with anybody anymore. i just like exploring the internet.

>>84775 this just hurts and it only shows how neglected the site was

Since supposedly Elon used 4chan, anyone looking for his emails? Someone may even attempt to log into his X account to read his DMs or find out every site he's joined and see inside government leaks in email if that info gets out.

>>84554 That would be nice, I enjoyed the lisp thread. Not sure where to go now since altchans are either dead or full of stuff I'd rather not be associated with.

>>84767 also they've made buying passes less anonymous, a while ago you could just pay with a simple BTC/LTC/ETH transaction. Later they've switched to Coinbase app, it was still possible to buy with XMR for example, but much more convoluted, with web3 wallets etc. >>84768 reCAPTCHA days were the worst, if you cared about privacy and had your browser fine-tuned for maximum anonymity it became almost impossible to solve, it took me 20+ correct attempts to pass the catcha, each attempt with extremely noisy images + slow fadeout on each click. >>84769 i did, after realizing i've actively wasted minutes on reCAPTCHA to post a single post. After captcha changes i still paid for it, because of Tor/VPN ban.

>>84784 >This is not possible because 4chan hashes user emails User emails should be even easier to reverse than password hashes.

>>84751 probably /jp/ too, lots of overlap with those boards >>84775 >>84784 >not updated since 2012 fuarrrk that's pathetic

>>84779 They'll be back, either on the website proper or an altchan.

>>84779 >/wsg/ that board was flooded with gayass fligu spam last time I visited basically playing minesweeper with brain AIDS good fuarrrking riddance imo

>>84779 last time I checked /fit/ there going through some weird cult hive mind phase where they all simply simped for a guy called "Hamza" and his weird hatred for porn and videog ames, whether it was ironic or not it was weird seeing an entire board talk about a Muslim guy that hadn't commit a crime or being killed.