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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
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>It doesn't need to be updated regularly
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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
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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