Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

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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
    5,576
One individual on Twitter/X seems to believe that Kiwifarms is responsible for the hack.
Ebil Kiwichuds Dun Eet.webp
 
4chan was the only reason I browsed the internet outside of checking emails. Was first introduced to it by a friend in college in 2010 after being told how funny the racism was and how much gore there was on /b/. After lurking on /b/ for a good while, I left once the bananaposting became too much to bear, and mostly lurked /pol/ and /v/. The 2016 election, HWNDU, and the Gamestop/AMC shorting were generally fun periods. Feels oddly liberating and sad at the same time seeing it down for this long. I guess nothing ever stays the same in life, everything (billions) must die at some point. Figure I'll spend more time with the people that actually matter in my life and touch grass more. I'll always hold these memories fondly.

Goodbye 4chan, I guess I really wasn't there forever after all.
shidding and crying and pissing rn
 
One individual on Twitter/X seems to believe that Kiwifarms is responsible for the hack.
isn't that tranny from the "dead kiwifarms" profile during keffals issue?
I hope you updated the KiwiFarms server after this, I don't want to find out that we've been posting on a BeOS R5 box or some other ancient shit
had a 502 error a few minutes ago, spooky.
 
I dont get how ppl find it fun. I played with friends and it took us like 3 hours to get in and then another 2 hours to make our way out of spawn and actually play only to log back on and see our entire based got nuked.
Imagine playing on public servers
LOL
LMAO
 
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Hiroyucky's complete radio silence is just another good reason why 4chan honestly deserves this. It was bad enough when he allowed ads. Good on everyone that left during the adpocalypse before the moronic 15 minute post timer that reset itself. Time is money, gookMoot. 👉⌚️ Hardly any better than Something Awful's paywall or Xwitter.

Hiro also has no presence on the site or charisma whatsoever, the energy of a bastard father who left to go get milk and never came back. Maybe it's just me but I appreciate having a site owner that actually engages in the community he hosts, from insightful posts to the community itself clowning on Null just for fun. 4chan undeniably needs major revisions before it's actually usable again, much less enjoyable.
 
Why is everyone acting like it's gone for good though?

They can just bring it back online like always
You can't really just patch a server that's +10 years out of date. It reeks of "I have no clue what to do".
I wouldn't want to be on call to fix that shit, 100% betting they don't have offsite backups, and when you get fucked this hard you can't take shit for granted. You have to expect them to have fully compromised the system. Sans backup you're talking about starting from scratch probably.

Even if they do have backups for everything, the nanosecond they try to update and patch it, half the services are going to shit themselves because entropy is a bitch and in all likelihood no one there understands how the systems work anymore.

Like, to put this into perspective End of Life for FreeBSD 10.1 was in 2016. Considering 10.1 came out in 2014, and 10.2 was mid 2015, it's not unlikely that this was actually what m00t was running 4chan on just before he left.
 
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