4chan got hacked

[Noxy]

Any good alternative sites? I'm kinda bored.

rdrama.net

 

[Z0diacK]

 

[Z0diacK]

Goodbye /out/, you will be missed

 

[BarnSwallow]

it's also funny how obvious it is most of these people have no idea what these places actually are/were. I'm guessing this must've been how oldfags felt when they started seeing their memes getting referenced in movies and tv shows.

The evergreen No56 quote has been living in my head for the entire week.

 

[ĦĦĦ]

Any good alternative sites? I'm kinda bored.

if you like retro anime then wapchan.org is nice. there's lainchan.org as well. there's the outside world, which is easily accessible; no captcha's, no 15 minute wait time (unless you need to wear something appropriate) and no email verification needed. other than that there was one forum that was heavily inspired by the aesthetics of agora road and copied(?) it, forgot the sites name.

 

[s0ren]

This thread makes it pretty easy to spot people who don't know anything about 4chan outside of /b/, /pol/, and the big interest boards (/a/ and /v/ primarily). Hope it comes back up soon, but based on the source code being leaked it's going to be a pretty big problem. /m/ is unquestionably the best english-language mecha forum on the internet and not getting to enjoy it while Shin Gundam Evangelion-San airs is annoying.

For other /m/ refugees, a group has taken control of the 8chan (.moe version) /m/ board and are posting there.

 

[evenlymatched95]

I know that it probably won't, but I really hope that this changes up the status quo for imageboards, at least for a while.

 

[HammerKoopa]

I know that it probably won't, but I really hope that this changes up the status quo for imageboards, at least for a while.

 

[TrollKing]

Not gonna lie, I'm gonna miss /qst/. Sure, most of the quests died on the first thread or abandoned by QMs who couldn't take the heat, but there were some genuinely interesting quests to read, especially the ones that involve managing a large empire. Am I the only one here who even knows this board existed?

 

[Noxy]

I know that it probably won't, but I really hope that this changes up the status quo for imageboards, at least for a while.

Even if hiroshi manages to gather all 19 jannies that left and brings back the chans, a week in altchans is a lot of time. For the first time in over two decades people have no choice but to 'try something new'.

I bet a lot of users are going to quit if no QoL updates take place.

 

[Melmoth]

Now I can finally leave.

 

[Obake]

Guys help I can't get past the terms of service I feel retarded and am stuck in a loop

 

[Late Night Logposter]

Ungrateful a-holes like me treated 4chan like it was some wasteland designated for carpet bombing. Ban after ban after ban. We always came back. It drove people out and the worse the site got the more you wanted unleash hell upon it - sort of a vicious cycle. This is why most of the internet is currently dancing on its grave. And it's probably why the people that run the site are not in a hurry to get it back up.

 

[MySpace Tom]

Just a quick reminder that ID software and programming greats like John Carmack built all the games leadiing up to Quake 3 without version control. This meant they didn't have tools like git bisect to bisect which commit a bug was introduced in to find what code causes bugs, and they also couldn't as easily spin up quick test forks/branches to try out new ideas. If a studio as legendary and widely admired by programmers as ID Software did some things amateurishly like this... well as they say, never let good be the enemy of perfect, and the codebase 4chan was built on was good enough for quite a long time.

I think the best thing they could do for round 2, is just not use php in the first place :^)

I don't think version control came up in the discussion. I was pointing out that the 4chan code itself is amateurish. I don't know how they maintained it, if at all. Comparing it to something like id Software's id Tech engines is quite unusual since id's code is known for its incredibly high quality. id has also made dedicated efforts to make their engines open source, so the code is meant to be seen by other people, which wasn't the case with 4chan

Besides, I don't think id Software ever had more than a couple of people actively working on a given engine at the same time in total. Having such a small, yet dedicated team of developers probably made it a lot easier to get away with avoiding source control

 

[Jade]

I don't think version control came up in the discussion. I was pointing out that the 4chan code itself is amateurish. I don't know how they maintained it, if at all. Comparing it to something like id Software's id Tech engines is quite unusual since id's code is known for its incredibly high quality. id has also made dedicated efforts to make their engines open source, so the code is meant to be seen by other people, which wasn't the case with 4chan

Besides, I don't think id Software ever had more than a couple of people actively working on a given engine at the same time in total. Having such a small, yet dedicated team of developers probably made it a lot easier to get away with avoiding source control

wasn't 4chan's code literally copy-pasted from 2channel?

 

[kodeb8]

This picture is real now...

 

[Richard Smith]

Hopefully people were archiving links and sticky's before it went down. Lot of modding knowledge just disappeared for a lot of games. It's a good thing that the hobbyist boards had off board sites, and thanks to everyone in the thread who has linked them.

 

[Obake]

wasn't 4chan's code literally copy-pasted from 2channel?

They're very different websites. 2channel was a a text bulletin board. 4chan is an image board. Layout and site structure are also very different.

 

[RisingThumb]

I don't think version control came up in the discussion. I was pointing out that the 4chan code itself is amateurish. I don't know how they maintained it, if at all. Comparing it to something like id Software's id Tech engines is quite unusual since id's code is known for its incredibly high quality. id has also made dedicated efforts to make their engines open source, so the code is meant to be seen by other people, which wasn't the case with 4chan

It was mostly to point out that some things can be amateurish and still be fine to release, regardless, you're right. If the code was better maintained, it'd be possible to just slap a bandage over where the hack happened(Ghostscript stuff) and then bring the site back up. Unfortunately the source code leaking and so much being outdated, unsupported and deprecated code means you can just reference CVEs to see what other hacks are possible.

I think the vast majority of codebases have some area where sloppy amateurish code is put in place. Mostly because "we'll get time to improve it later", and that time never comes... or they're not diligent enough to keep technical debt hydras slain when they do have that time.

I don't know how they maintained it, if at all

They definitely have maintained it as evidenced by the crappy captcha system they moved to. Though I imagine that's a relatively isolated part of the codebase and easy enough to plug in a different captcha system if they wanted.

 

[RojoUsagi122]

It's honestly a blessing that I haven't visited 4chan in a long while, since 2016 iirc.
(It sucks that 4chan got hacked, buuuuut there's better alternatives out there tbh.)
(I'm looking for a personal website that also has their own home-made imageboard as well still looking for it.)