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Will the 4chan hack be the end of it?

  • Yes, goodbye forever 4chan

    Votes: 1,031 18.5%

  • No, they will rise from the ashes, stronger than ever

    Votes: 343 6.2%

  • This will rattle them but it will be forgotten about next week

    Votes: 2,322 41.6%

  • I am just here for the janny phonebooking

    Votes: 1,093 19.6%

  • What the fuck is 4chan

    Votes: 218 3.9%

  • Yotsuba&!

    Votes: 569 10.2%
  • Total voters
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I actually liked this April Fools. Most of 4Chan doesn't seem to be taking it so well.
 
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I actually liked this April Fools. Most of 4Chan doesn't seem to be taking it so well.
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I chat with a guy on steam who posts like 100 times or so almost every day on 4chan, when i came to the pc yesterday i was met with 20 missed messages about how he cant discuss his fucking anime, fucking vidya, fucking music and his non fucking existing gains on /fit/
 
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It's a boring shit site again.
Now that it is evident that it was easy to fix /b/ in a single day:
Gurupartap "RapeApe" Davis, who looks like attached picture, should be immediately deported back to India.
And replaced with a White Moderator who can actually see the difference between posts made by real people and posts by fucking bots.
Remember that indian niggers and other subhumans are genetically unable to tell if a post is made by a bot.

This is why this nigger thinks that a catalog filled with fucking bot threads is totally fine and not the most boring shit ever.
This is why this nigger thinks it was fine to make the captcha filter out actual posters.

Indian nigger mods enable a dead internet site. #fact
 

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I give so little collective shit about 4chan these days I missed most of the April Fools, didn't post once and didn't bother even following along. I guess it was fun for some people, reading back on the thread, so I hope some of you were able to relive those halcyon days at least.
Well, April Fools is over and the site is back to being shit, irony here is that the way 4chan is now SHOULD have been the April Fools prank. Institute a minute's worth of time before making a first post, see how users react, then increase the timer exponentially to a ridiculous amount. Then, add a shorter timer between each post, similarly observe reaction and then also increase that second timer. At the end, the time between making each post is going to be so long that only a few dedicated posters will be left, having essentially entire boards and threads to them.
Well, that would have been funny, instead people got to post on the real 4chan one time this year and the other 364 days on an April Fools joke of a site.
 
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What do you guys think would've been a good april fools idea?
I personally would love to see them revert back to the 2004 style and rules for the day.
 
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What do you guys think would've been a good april fools idea?
I personally would love to see them revert back to the 2004 style and rules for the day.
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Randomly assign a fake 900 second timer that repeats each time you click "Get Captcha". It's a fake, so you can click on "Post" at any time and it will submit the reply. At the end of April 1st, mods can sticky a thread on /b/ sharing stats like which board fell for it the most/least, who requested the captcha the most times in a row, and things like that. It's an actual prank that would get people outraged until they realize they're the butt of the joke.

No need to make the entire website unusable. I don't go on 4chan anymore, but I do read the archives from time to time. One thing I despise is seeing the _residue_ from that year's April fools. Like going through 50 pages of "COOF COOF", reminding me of that abysmal Covid-related event. Same goes for emojis etc. I have a feeling this year's event has produced a lot of noise in the archives.
 
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How is it your fault that 8chan was censored by cloudflare cuckolds?
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7 months in to the project, after we had raised $12,000 advertising Infinity Next to be AGPL, Jim Watkins offered to buy out the project and employ me at $2000/mo (which would have solved all my financial troubles immediately). He wanted to close the source citing 'security', but I warned him that we had raised that money with specific promises that it would be under a FLOSS license. He literally stormed out and called Fredrick later that day absolutely seething about how much he hated me. It was a genuinely shocking display of abrupt and insane anger that I've not really seen in my life before or since. I joked, and still do, that I have "negative charisma" and only I could walk into a meeting with an offer for everything to be paid, and walk out 5 minutes later with nothing. It was one of the most surreal moments of my entire life and I can only compare it to a movie or video game where you roll a 1 and have a hilariously bad skillcheck fail, and quite honestly I don't even know what I did wrong except not give him what he wanted.

I attempted to deploy Infinity Next and because of stress it failed to launch. The issue ultimately preventing it from launching was that Fredrick's custom written PHP GD Captcha generator on every page had a quadratic loop which DDoS'd the site. It was genuinely the most infuriating thing I've ever experienced, and to make it worse, OdiliTime launched the software as a beta on a different domain months before. That beta test went so beautifully that beleaguered 8chan users preemptively moved to it because it worked so much better. I didn't notice before Fredrick threw me under the bus, but the issue was just the captcha. All I had to do was turn it off or cache it or something. Odili didn't run his instance with the captcha on (to help stress test it by PPH!), and while I even remember him suggesting that was the issue, it just never occurred to me it could be true.

And 8chan never recovered. After that, Ron became lead developer. His father prohibited him from using the software with an AGPL license. So, instead, they made their own rewrite in Haskell (iirc, or frankensteined some weird mix of Vichan and Haskell-based 'blockchain' technology). That's 8chan now.

The people who hate me hate me because I didn't deploy Infinity Next. I guess I was also kind of a dick during the development cycle, but when dozens of random anonymous spergs are screaming at you because you removed an <hr> or added a css gradient to something that wasn't there before, it's pure mind rot. insufferable.
 
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The people who hate me hate me because I didn't deploy Infinity Next. I guess I was also kind of a dick during the development cycle, but when dozens of random anonymous spergs are screaming at you because you removed an <hr> or added a css gradient to something that wasn't there before, it's pure mind rot. insufferable.
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I think these days it's more about envy and spite than anything else. Now that you not only carved out a piece of internet for yourself, but also maintained it against all odds from powers that be(8chan's fantasy), they can't use the "He was just an incompetent retard, of course he was never going to finish Infinity Next!" cope. Ironic, considering that the deathkneel of 8chan Prime was Cloudflare pulling out, they did the same thing to the farms but they survived, the site now also has it's own mitigation service. Funny how that works.
 
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7 months in to the project, after we had raised $12,000 advertising Infinity Next to be AGPL, Jim Watkins offered to buy out the project and employ me at $2000/mo (which would have solved all my financial troubles immediately). He wanted to close the source citing 'security', but I warned him that we had raised that money with specific promises that it would be under a FLOSS license. He literally stormed out and called Fredrick later that day absolutely seething about how much he hated me. It was a genuinely shocking display of abrupt and insane anger that I've not really seen in my life before or since. I joked, and still do, that I have "negative charisma" and only I could walk into a meeting with an offer for everything to be paid, and walk out 5 minutes later with nothing. It was one of the most surreal moments of my entire life and I can only compare it to a movie or video game where you roll a 1 and have a hilariously bad skillcheck fail, and quite honestly I don't even know what I did wrong except not give him what he wanted.

I attempted to deploy Infinity Next and because of stress it failed to launch. The issue ultimately preventing it from launching was that Fredrick's custom written PHP GD Captcha generator on every page had a quadratic loop which DDoS'd the site. It was genuinely the most infuriating thing I've ever experienced, and to make it worse, OdiliTime launched the software as a beta on a different domain months before. That beta test went so beautifully that beleaguered 8chan users preemptively moved to it because it worked so much better. I didn't notice before Fredrick threw me under the bus, but the issue was just the captcha. All I had to do was turn it off or cache it or something. Odili didn't run his instance with the captcha on (to help stress test it by PPH!), and while I even remember him suggesting that was the issue, it just never occurred to me it could be true.

And 8chan never recovered. After that, Ron became lead developer. His father prohibited him from using the software with an AGPL license. So, instead, they made their own rewrite in Haskell (iirc, or frankensteined some weird mix of Vichan and Haskell-based 'blockchain' technology). That's 8chan now.

The people who hate me hate me because I didn't deploy Infinity Next. I guess I was also kind of a dick during the development cycle, but when dozens of random anonymous spergs are screaming at you because you removed an <hr> or added a css gradient to something that wasn't there before, it's pure mind rot. insufferable.
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I fucked around on 8chan a lot myself. I get nostalgic about it sometimes. It just sounds like to me you did routine programming work and the site was shut down for political reasons unrelated to it. As far as I remember, vaguely, it was because of some shootings. Not that I am upset with the coverage of shootings. The opposite actually. You kept the Christchurch shooting videos up at your risk. I appreciated that sort of thing. I went to 8chan for most of its life after gamergate started. Sort of a rose tinted glasses thing in hindsight but whatever. It got on my nerves sometimes but, whatever I like free speech and, I miss what there was back then. We had webms with sound. That used to mean something. It's hard to describe. Good luck.
 
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