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[Very Silly Name]

4chan could implement anonymous profiles with a point system. Each anon gets a unique, non-identifiable profile tied to their posts, preserving anonymity. Users can rate posts (e.g., +1 for quality, -1 for spam), with high-rated posts boosting the poster’s points. Accumulated points could unlock minor perks, like custom flair or priority thread visibility, incentivizing better content. Moderation should shift to a transparent, community-elected team to rebuild trust, with strict backend security upgrades to prevent leaks. This balances anonymity with accountability while rewarding quality contributions.

This already exists, it's called Reddit..

 

[TalmudicKetamine]

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This is not a real person. This is a facemorph of chudjak and John Oliver.

Sadly it is and is a tranny by the name "Marisa the Magician". More on it here.

 

[SK4ndalLdfw]

iconic last post though

 

[Fae Supremacist]

Nobody is going to rewrite 4chan, there's nothing to gain from it.

There are far better open source frameworks for running an imageboard than Yotsuba.
Since the source code leaked anyway, just transfer everything to more up to date software and give it a Yotsuba skin.

 

[Tyrannosaurus rex]

I hope 4chan goes back up quickly because it just occurred to me that it's a containment board for all the glowie shills and troon discord groomers.
There is only one place left for them to go if it stays down forever and that is HERE.

 

[William Teller]

That kind of system pretty much always turns into people "farming" points. People like seeing numbers go up, implementing any system which allows for that leads to bait posts and constant uninteresting reposts.

This already exists, it's called Reddit..

 

[ringtones]

4chan could implement anonymous profiles with a point system. Each anon gets a unique, non-identifiable profile tied to their posts, preserving anonymity. Users can rate posts (e.g., +1 for quality, -1 for spam), with high-rated posts boosting the poster’s points. Accumulated points could unlock minor perks, like custom flair or priority thread visibility, incentivizing better content. Moderation should shift to a transparent, community-elected team to rebuild trust, with strict backend security upgrades to prevent leaks. This balances anonymity with accountability while rewarding quality contributions.

8chan had a system where user IP addresses would be hashed.

We worked around this to de-anonymize users by trading janny accounts between cabals of users who ran the boards. We'd invite a representative from another group to our irc channel or voice server or whatever and work out a deal and trade passwords or accounts or whatever. Then we'd use the info from multiple boards to make profiles on users and blackmail or discriminate against them, or attack them on other services.

 

[ShittlerNiggler]

The only thing I’ll ever miss about /pol/ is the Skyking General threads, Just a bunch of schizos listening to encrypted USAF shortwave radio messages and watching plane tracker maps, waiting for the bombs to drop. Shit was comfy,

/sig/ was very comfy so the tranny jannies deleted it

4chan could implement anonymous profiles with a point system. Each anon gets a unique, non-identifiable profile tied to their posts, preserving anonymity. Users can rate posts (e.g., +1 for quality, -1 for spam), with high-rated posts boosting the poster’s points. Accumulated points could unlock minor perks, like custom flair or priority thread visibility, incentivizing better content. Moderation should shift to a transparent, community-elected team to rebuild trust, with strict backend security upgrades to prevent leaks. This balances anonymity with accountability while rewarding quality contributions.

>implying Hirshim00t would put in any effort whatsoever

 

[Nothing Is Written]

parsing PDFs looking for malware is difficult even for websites with proper security,

You can analyse them in Chrome browsers as long as they're containerised.

 

[bocchan]

There are far better open source frameworks for running an imageboard than Yotsuba.
Since the source code leaked anyway, just transfer everything to more up to date software and give it a Yotsuba skin.

it is literally insane how ancient and backwards 4chan was in terms of software when there was tons of chans with so much modern features. mp4 support was literally added a few months ago? i am surprised people did not stop using it sooner, but i guess that's just the advantage being first gives you.

 

[Padre Morte]

Nobody is going to rewrite 4chan, there's nothing to gain from it. The only person we could find to even try to rewrite fresh imageboard software was Josh, because he's the only one who would move to the Philippines and live on the money I could find in the cracks between my couch cushions

I'd do it for free, on the condition that /qa/ be reopened, and a global soyjak ban went into place.

 

[Dave The Diver]

4chan was horribly mismanaged and security was appalling, but in general parsing PDFs looking for malware is difficult even for websites with proper security, it's an abomination of a format and you can hide all sorts of arbitrary code in it that reader software will happily execute

Do you know on what board it was even possible to upload PDFs? Was this just an old function of Yotsuba that was never fully removed?

Nobody is going to rewrite 4chan, there's nothing to gain from it.

I agree. We also have modern alternatives to Yotsuba software in the form of jschan and vichan.
4chan doesn't do anything special that can't be implemented by these packages. The biggest thing 4chan has (had) going for it was name recognition.

4chan could implement anonymous profiles with a point system

Cool, let's drive user engagement on a site even further down by making posting even more of a hassle. Way to miss the entire point of 4chan...

 

[Goodstuff Goose]

The strange thing about 4chan is that despite all the mods and jannies being troons and troon-aligned, trannies on other sites and forums still act like it's the NSDAP, even when there's users on those forums who were jannies on 4chan.

It really shows just how much of a circular firing squad this culture war bullshit is. They are their own worst enemies.

 

[Blue Eyes White Fuckface]

Do you know on what board it was even possible to upload PDFs? Was this just an old function of Yotsuba that was never fully removed?

/tg/ had PDF posting, not sure about any others.

 

[Greate Pier]

Total rewrite, there are too many calls.

Retarded shit like this as well:

shell_exec("some_command $file");
system("convert $file output.png");

...and

$f = fopen($tmp_file, 'rb');
$magic = fread($f, 4);
...
$compressed_data = fread($f, $file['size'] - 12);

No MIME check from my quick glance at it, and holds data in memory.

Holy shit, I hadn't looked at the code yet but if this is the kind of stuff it's doing, then I'm more surprised that it took this long for the site to get hacked.
Never trust user input is one of the most basic principals of developing secure web applications, and it looks like it's been ignored.
Total rewrite indeed.

 

[centu]

According to this 2 year old post Marisa the magician is Alberto Lago Ballesteros:

Post in thread 'Doomworld'

Apr 21, 2023

Ding ding! Full deadname found. And in the strangest way possible. I love following little breadcrumbs.

So, per this wiki, "Marisa's" IRL first last name (remember that Spanish people got two of those) is "Lago", a fairly common Spanish surname. We also know that he lives in the region of Galicia, and one of his former usernames is "UBXMaster".

If you look up "UBXMaster" you will land here (https://archive.is/mYxHM), an ancient forum thread in an apparently very long-lived website. Here we find this account from 2008:

Apart from the real classy loli pfp...

• The Jumping Dwarf

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Edit : some pics here:

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Post in thread 'Doomworld'

Apr 21, 2023

!!!IF YOU WANT TO READ THE WHOLE MARISA ARC AND PROGRESSING GOSSIP!!!
=== ALSO THERE'S TROON'S GOOGLE DOC WHERE HE TRIES TO IMPLY HE"S NOT A KID DIDDLER LOL ===
+++UPDATE; MARISA'S BIRTHNAME IS ALBERTO LAGO BALLESTEROS. READ THIS POST TO LEARN A BIT MORE+++ (thanks @The Jumping Dwarf )

NOW WE FUCKIN' TALKING!

Okay lads and lasses, so NOW we have:

This is Marisa the Magician, "real" name Marisa Lago, actual name Alberto Lago Ballesteros:

1. trooned out programming socks pedophile that nonced a 14-years old...

• IKOL

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Just for info, "Lago" is pretty rare surname. There are only 14.000 in Spain.

https://i.imgur.com/GueG9XX.png

What a common surname is? For example "Lopez", is used by nearly 900.000 people.

 

[milkenjoyer]

/tg/ had PDF posting, not sure about any others.

/sci/ too

 

[Incorrigible Bigotry]

Getting to use 8moe more often recently really opened my eyes to how abysmal the user experience on 4chan is, and how neglected the site is. Multiple files per post, non cancerous CAPTCHA, buttons that work, responsive UI, IDs, reasonable filesize limits, no jank.
Feels like I've been eating shit my whole life and someone just handed me a handkerchief.

Now imagine someone snatches away the handkerchief and shoves a bowl of shit in your face; that's what it felt like going back to 4chan after 8chan got shoah'd around the time of the Christchurch shooting.

 

[Dave The Diver]

The strange thing about 4chan is that despite all the mods and jannies being troons and troon-aligned, trannies on other sites and forums still act like it's the NSDAP, even when there's users on those forums who were jannies on 4chan.

Umm.... excuse me chuddie, but troons can be NatSoc too, you know!

 

[Wanker]

Do you know on what board it was even possible to upload PDFs? Was this just an old function of Yotsuba that

A handful. /tg/, /po/, /qst/, /sci/, and /gd/.