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Will the 4chan hack be the end of it?

  • Yes, goodbye forever 4chan

    Votes: 1,035 18.5%
  • No, they will rise from the ashes, stronger than ever

    Votes: 345 6.2%
  • This will rattle them but it will be forgotten about next week

    Votes: 2,332 41.7%
  • I am just here for the janny phonebooking

    Votes: 1,096 19.6%
  • What the fuck is 4chan

    Votes: 219 3.9%
  • Yotsuba&!

    Votes: 572 10.2%

  • Total voters
    5,599
The ban page is down too in addition to the Pass site.

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I hope this is not the end of 4chan. It's the only active forum for discussion of mecha. I liked long indepth discussions about the rice economics of Gasaraki. The discussions there were usually civil and well thought out, and no one was getting policed for wrongthink. Actually, a common complaint was that there seemed to be no moderation since for a few months there was someone spamming "CCA is overrated" or "CCA is underrated" threads, I forgot. If /m/ becomes inaccessible then I have nowhere else to go (mechatalk is low activity and under the boot of tyranny, Spacebattles is active but bans people for wronthink, MAL only talks about current seasonals and not mecha in general let alone years old shows, I hardly ever use reddit). I also enjoyed following the generals for some Japanese games to check on the status of 4chan's fan translation patches.
>Copy X is never coming back
>Zero is never coming back
>Gihren’s Greed translation never
>SRW Z3 translation never
>There will be nowhere to discuss GQuuuux
>There will be nowhere to shit on the Getter Robo movie
>You will never post ZETT! on an Ichiro Mizuki birthday thread again

It’s so beyond grim
 
So I'm a bit of a retard and want to ask for clarification, there's no chance of regular poster IP addresses being bulk-leaked in correlation to posts, right? The Sharty people tipped their hand early before backing up everything, and the server probably wipes all that after a period of time too? I ask because I'm imaging the funniest timeline where this actually happens, and the aftermath in the catty boards like /vt/ whos' userbase is unironically half VTubers attempting to anonymously cynically shill themselves and insult their competition with gayops fighting over the other half of brown retards who inhabit the board.
I was wondering the same thing, and I'm pretty sure that the jannies pulled the full database because the 'teen was 'tarded. I did see a ban from late 2023 so it probably goes back a ways. It's worth looking out for it thoughbeit.

If they decide to leak the source code, I'd really appreciate it if someone @'d me to the archive. I'm more or less interested in doing a deep dive and seeing if the rumors related to 4chan being a federally hijacked site with it's own hidden FBI clone that didn't delete posts was actually true or not
 
This won't change much of anything except scare off trannyjannies for like, a week. Then they'll either be back under different names or they might fuck off. Too bad nobody else is gay enough to sweep up halfchan. Kill and eat gookmoot, remove all cooldowns, permaban the pass users and tripfags and then we'll talk.
 
However you imagine it is, its even worse. It's filled with ass kissers and dweebs hall monitor type. The cool people get weeded out quickly because no one wants to deal with the autism and you quickly realize you're just pissing in the wind. Mods once messaged me and told me I needed to be submitting MORE ban requests. There were multiple people who had their reddit accounts attached to their profiles and that just disgusted me on a different level.
 
It has been in a sorry state for quite a long time now, but that doesn't mean there isn't anything of worth in there among the rubbish. 4chan is the equivalent of the plastisphere in the ocean: an entire ecosystem of life that has adapted and learned to live and grow on these floating islands of human waste. And this moment is the start of a new age of uncertainty for these communities, hopefully one that will lead to something better.
Depends on the kind of person you are. If you're willing to search through truckloads of shit to find one valuable thing you're either unemployed or a masochist, but if you actually value your time you'll go anywhere else. At the bare minimum you will go to a place where the people running it give a shit and aren't on some form of DIY estrogen.

/po/ and /ck/ went to shit so all reasons for me to be there died in ~2015. At least we are both hopeful that it will lead to something better, which in my case would be the sites death and all invested parties seething in their goon discord servers forever.
 
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