Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

[StacticShock]

I wonder what Moots thinking right about now

"Not My Problem"

 

[cassowary lover]

>It doesn't need to be updated regularly
*SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP*

 

[Übertroon]

one of the emails for a janny has the word Chitwood in it which is the name of the Florida LEO who arrested multiple 4chan users.

The FEDS are inside the building!

 

[PleaseBeeQuiet]

I wonder what Moots thinking right about now

"I sure am glad I'm not that gook faggot."

 

[ThisIsMy3rdAccount]

I can only hope that the generals I browse end up migrating to another site I guess, it might actually be over.

 

[dankeybong]

Luggagelad Come home

 

[The GOUT-HATERS Handbook]

Does ANYONE Hiroyuki has contact with actually know how 4chan actually works right now, enough to completely reformat a server and get this running?

If they're too stupid to run "freebsd-update fetch install", I have my doubts on the anyone on the team's ability to dd the server and start from scratch.
If anything this should be a reminder to make regular backups, especially if you're this incompetent

 

[Schlomo Silverscreenblatt]

If this is how it happens I am so fucking thankful it was soyteens talking about killing niggers and doing it for a laugh instead of some freakazoid programming socks wearing BITCH doing it for good boy points with their fellow cumdrinkers

 

[Calandrino]

I now fully believe they don't have any backups. How can they have fucked up so much like this.

Good enough for government work

 

[Dude Snakes]

Suffer creeps!

 

[Total Annihilation]

I wonder what Moots thinking right about now

"If I return, I'm gonna get bullied by Aussies again!"

 

[8888]

They're running it on FreeBSD, last updated in 2019.

Were they taking tech advice from Windows 7 posters on /g/?? How the fuck do they forget to update for that long???

 

[Benchod]

So as expected, 4chan is basically a place the mods and jannies used as their playground to spam and push whatever narrative they wanted on any particular topic.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

I wonder what Moots thinking right about now

probably relief knowing his site can finally rest in peace

 

[Negev]

this might very well go down in history as the day 4chan died, I fully expect SlopTubers like Mutahar to make videos on this

Him Critical and all the other react fags will have some video out tomorrow called "the 4chan situation" where they read the farms but don't acknowledge it. Hi mutahar you are a disgusting pajeet street shitter

 

[mentally retarded user]

Hiro is gonna fire RapeApe and bring the site back with the 2channel codebase.

 

[NoonmanR]

There's really no coming back from this. Not to say that it's insurmountable, but if hiroshima doesn't even care to do simple updates then there's just no way to save it.

I'd press my F's(or S's) now while it still has a tiny pulse.

 

[Fae Supremacist]

Another casualty of gamergate.

 

[Shigbeard]

it'll probably take them a very long time to get the site back up. I feel like they don't really have a responsible server administrator, and whoever is fixing this is basically going to need to:
1. Reformat the entire device.
2. Reinstall 4chan.
3. Restore 4chan's database to the last save state, if available.

But who is the person responsible for this? Does anyone know how to do this? They're running it on FreeBSD, last updated in 2019. Does ANYONE Hiroyuki has contact with actually know how 4chan actually works right now, enough to completely reformat a server and get this running?

they do have a dev team but i think that team exclusively works with their fork of yotsuba and not at all on the actual box.

realistically there are three people who will likely have the means to restore 4chan - RA, hiroyuki, and maybe moot assuming that hiroyuki has been as slack on maintaining the box as we suspect.

I know for a fact that their disaster recovery procedures are lackluster. You can't tell from the /j/ dumps but the actual live /j/ instance has a lot of missing images due to a catastrophic caching failure nearly a decade back and they just never bothered fixing it. They fixed it moving forward for new images but old images were forever lost.

 

[Enig]

I have been reading the site code and it's fucking insane how much inefficient and ancient shit is piled up in it.

Wordfilter for tbh/fam? Efficient array, but the filter for soy? Lengthy specific chunk of code clearly patched in later.
There's an april fools .html most likely meant for an embedded frame that is so old it's referencing a site url used in 2007.
Random duplicate test files for json, the catalog, site board headers, all for seemingly no reason.
Proof they wanted to wordfilter /ck/, /vg/ and /vp/ specifically but never added the custom filters to their files (while now making those boards check the tbh/fam/soy filters twice or even thrice).
Oh, and the hcaptcha API key and many, many other API related things that definitely would nevereverever be used for evil purposes.

4chan is dead. Heh.