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Will the 4chan hack be the end of it?

  • Yes, goodbye forever 4chan

    Votes: 1,051 18.2%

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

    Votes: 363 6.3%

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

    Votes: 2,396 41.4%

  • I am just here for the janny phonebooking

    Votes: 1,122 19.4%

  • What the fuck is 4chan

    Votes: 252 4.4%

  • Yotsuba&!

    Votes: 599 10.4%
  • Total voters
    5,783
A Bit Concerning said:
I haven’t used 4chan since like 2022, but the last time I did, it felt like it was just a bunch of federal agents and/or chatbots conversing back and forth with each other with no real substance, or spammers. The last board I tried using was /sp/, and the only threads I tried to use were filled with the same 3 people shitting then up all day.

It’s a dead site at this point. It was a dead site when I last used it. Yes, it’s still running and people post there, but is there any reason for a new user to go on 4chan? What value do you get from posting on there? What makes it anything more than an anonymous, worse version of Reddit? Does anybody still talk about what’s going on in 4chan threads? Even “le epic greentext may mays” have been dead in the mainstream consciousness for years now.

The internet is exhausting to use nowadays for many reasons, and 4chan embodies a lot of them. Every board is filled with pseudo intellectuals, overzealous jannies, porn, brain dead discussion of US politics, spammers, and coal. So much coal.
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I quit around the same time, it just felt too exhausting, too formulaic, as if that place had become a parody of itself. Overnight I went from years of constant, compulsive browsing to zero. Makes me wonder what changed (if it changed much at all!), I keep scratching my head over it.
In the past, I'd have said that jannies got worse and more blatant in their favoritism but they've always been retards working with a broken report system. So I doubt it's that.

To anyone else who left-If you quit 4channel, what made you?
 
CEO of Autism said:
Did the mods curbstomp the 4chan happening threads on r9k/trash forever? it's been weeks since I've last seen one. I wouldn't be surprised since what they fear the most is anons gathering to discuss the direction of the site.
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https://boards.4chan.org/bant/catalog#s=happenings
Happenings threads bounce around between boards randomly, you might want to read the following informational post:
Punished Magician said:
I'm hitting trips with this post, so in celebration, here are all the archive sites I have in my bookmarks:

Plus http://185.10.68.107:1776/ (doesn't work on https, only http) lets you search through the history of all the bans on the 4chan.org/bans page (not a comprehensive list of all actual bans), and https://boards.4chan.org/search and https://find.4chan.org/ let you search currently active content across the site—the latter is more gimped and only searches threads started this calendar month, and leaves out older threads even if it has a reply matching the query that was made during said calendar month.

There are also 3 or 4 different "4chan happenings thread" generals across the site for discussing anything noteworthy, ranging from banning sprees to persistent spammers to backend changes. All of them are utter dogshit. I used to be afraid to mention them here out of fear of them being shit up (there were already retards from here either posting KF screencaps to start arguments or saying retarded newfag shit they were simultaneously saying ITT), but now they're too dogshit to be worth preserving... or to be worth recommending, for that matter. Don't bother with them unless you want to read through novels of sperging and spam from attention-seekers between each crumb of 'happening'.

(last-minute addition: forgot https://4plebs.org/ )
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tumblrkek said:
To anyone else who left-If you quit 4channel, what made you?
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Bellwether culture threads and generals started dying left and right, anons who were informed and posting fresh content and good discussions became more scarce, the site became too fast and too slow at the same time. Nothing specific, but there was a slow decline after 2014 and it eventually infected the nerd culture boards and slower boards that used to filter retards with the content itself.

If I had to pick something, it was the crackdown on vaguely topical threads but not all the outright shitposting and off-topic trash. Or the turboautistic trolls that never got banned. Whatever it was, one day the fun stopped and there wasn't even any point in lurking.
 
tumblrkek said:
I quit around the same time, it just felt too exhausting, too formulaic, as if that place had become a parody of itself. Overnight I went from years of constant, compulsive browsing to zero. Makes me wonder what changed (if it changed much at all!), I keep scratching my head over it.
In the past, I'd have said that jannies got worse and more blatant in their favoritism but they've always been retards working with a broken report system. So I doubt it's that.

To anyone else who left-If you quit 4channel, what made you?
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Made a post a few pages back, literally because captcha doesn't work anymore on one of my older browsers. That's it, I can't be arsed to post on a newer browser without my 4ChanX settings, even tho it would probably only take a few minutes. That's how irrelevant the site is now, I only posted on it due to convenience and the moment that's gone, so am I.
 
CEO of Autism said:
"off-topic"

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I'm so done with the moderation of this site. I hope they all die of cancer soon.
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I got banned for a couple days for screenshotting an article about a steam anti-trust lawsuit "I was participating in a flame war" but what gets me is the double standard when obviously fake photoshopped articles are allowed to be on there for hours but jannies will strike you down if you actually screencap a real article boggles the mind.
 
tumblrkek said:
Makes me wonder what changed (if it changed much at all!), I keep scratching my head over it.
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It's still as repetitious as ever, but at a semi-slower rate since sitewide traffic's slowed down sicnificantly when they tranny jannies extending the post timer to 15 minutes, but some things have ramped up due to several factors, on /v/ at least.

Viral marketing have gotten more obvious with someone either always damaging controlling every thread before release when shilling's called out or if there's any form of criticism. Culture wars/virtue signalling grifts are more intense with a lot of flops from woke garbage and lot of heel-turns from supposed "based" games/devs, causing constant raids from tourist trannies and the like to "dab on the heckin' chudcels", falseflags, well poisoning - it's just a fucking headache on that front. Doesn't help when glowniggers and bots are still pulling their same demorilzation and scare tactics shtick when they show up.

There's also a lot of pro/anti-CCP simping too, ironic or otherwise, since Chinese devs have hit it big recently with some vidya that isn't gacha. I forget who it was on here that said it, but they put it best when saying 4chan's nothing but a ghetto stomping ground. It all comes off so automatied whether, it's bots or autists making the threads. There's just really nothing worth discussing or even reading on there anymore. It's all tabloid-tier faggotry.
 
They were once men said:
I got banned for a couple days for screenshotting an article about a steam anti-trust lawsuit "I was participating in a flame war" but what gets me is the double standard when obviously fake photoshopped articles are allowed to be on there for hours but jannies will strike you down if you actually screencap a real article boggles the mind.
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Good example right now:
Fake twitter screenshot involving a tranny, nearly 500 replies and still up, "totally video games bro, most on-topic thread in history bro". Just fuck the mods, they make me sick.
 
Foolish Samurai Warrior said:
I don't see how they're wrong, but why a 3 day ban though?
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How the fuck aren't they wrong? Also a 3 day ban because the tranny jannies don't need to justify those and they can't be appealed. Any longer ban can be appealed.
 
/pw/ is fucking terrible, going on there during graveyard hours especially its just retarded zoomer threads that just barely qualify as being related to pro-wrestling, it used to be better and even funny at times (Hoganposting for example) but now youd be lucky to even get a reply there
Neighborhood Curmudgeon said:
They got too strict with posting too.
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this is a major issue, especially with /v/ even if the thread is on-topic threads, it just get insta-nuked and the OP gets a 3-day or worst, Mods there curate the worst threads possible while purging interesting and unique discussion,id say its very likely Hiro or whoever is running the site now in his stead is hiring mods who are confirmed trannies
 
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