Nintoddler being a slur is somehow very funny to me.
4chan
Greentexts, memes, everything 4chan.
I used to use 4chan when I was a teenager, I didn't post much though, mostly just read through stuff. There has been a lot of awful stuff. I used to think it was cool or edgy, but now that I'm older and smarter I don't really think so anymore. Suffice to say, I'm not going to miss 4chan in the slightest.
Freedom isnt always pretty or smart. Especially at the edges. But those edges need to exist. Not for you, but for everyone.
My sentiments exactly. I'm content to watch it burn to the ground.
Not even the world's worst captchca saved them! Maybe if you had to solve one for every letter you type, they wouldn't have gotten hacked.
In the media soon: The notorious hacker 4chan strikes again, his latest victim: 4chan.
Pool's closed.
Was something of value lost?
nope
No, in fact we might begin healing. 🙏
The /GROG/ threads in /tg/ were a constant source of good posts by Oldhammer players and a great resource for links to Oldhammer content that would otherwise be difficult to find.
/WIP/ on /tg/ has given me a lot of great tips throughout the years.
More recently, the Trench Crusade and MCP threads tend to be good for discussion and updates (when they aren't being raided by posters looking to call everything bad just to rustle people).
/k/ has gotten a lot more boring in the last few years as pretty much none of the original crew of tripposters are around anymore, but it can still produce the occasional nugget of good info, and usually has at least a couple of interesting picture threads up. I will say during the initial 2022 invasion times in Ukraine, /k/ had pretty much up to the minute updates and daily info threads for a few years.
it feels like this is big news but I can't seem to get myself to care
This is a huge blow to the Russian misinfo machine, unironically. If its down for a while, it will have some big effects
i hope so 🤞
Why's anyone surprised this happened? Was 4chan supposed to be a super up to date and modern website?
Maybe because it used to be an important place for hacktivists like Anonymous. So, it was probably an obvious hacking target that could have learned to protect itself better.
Holy shit. Has this ever happened before?
4chan's had leaks before but it was nothing compared to this
Leaked Source Code: https://litter.catbox.moe/a8z45n.7z
I know it's a 7z, but still not even a megabyte. That's really impressive.
I mean, this is only source code in text form, there's no assets or anything in the leak. They also don't use composer or any package manager, so there's no large dependencies in the project.
Not really, source code zips ridiculously well. A prolific and dedicated coder could probably fit their entire life's work minus assets on 5 floppy discs
Not me. I code in a big font
quite a welcome change that this leak is tiny unlike most others lol
Is this the work of the mysterious hacker 4 chan?
It is now
Cool. It’s 4 chan. What exactly are you gonna expose lol
Apparently some admins had their personal emaild registered, and I heard posts caught the IP of posters.
I wish I cared. But have fun whoever wants this I guess.
Wouldn’t the hackers be able to release more info about the infamous “Q”? Like IP address or something?
4chan stopped being relevant since they introduced asinine bot prevention. It's pretty much impossible to post there at all
It’s pretty much impossible to post there at all
Huh? The capachas were a low bar to clear to post. I had no trouble at all on various boards.
4chan hates it when Tor and a VPN is used to enhance anonymity. It does frequent captchas, will refuse to load images, and won't let you post replies. It's like they want you to not be anonymous at all anymore.
No one posts there anymore, it's too busy
Of course its php
That's not a surprise, nor was it unknown. Pretty much all pre-"social media" discussion sites were PHP. Myspace probably was, too. PHP also isn't intrinsically insecure, it just doesn't lend itself very easily to security.
Nothing wrong with php, except not updating it.
Early internet website, php is expected tbh
They prob have infinite tech debt to even consider converting to anything because I doubt they expected 4chan to still be alive in 2025, plus I'm decently sure all funds are being to keep the website alive and not hiring
Can we finally get definitive proof that Taylor Swift is a 4chaner?