entire site hacked. RIP better to post on here instead. hope no one registered.
>>1664 (OP) And nothing of value was lost.
I had a really sick thread on there before it got nuked. All my fucking (you)s, ruined!
>>1687 I think 2007 vs 2012 is like the real inflection point vs the center of mass shifting. In 2007 you had not just the iPhone, but Facebook and Twitter taking off and people started to make careers out of YouTube. By 2012 the transformation was complete. I distinctly remember in 2012 when Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars and I thought it was insane because I was subconsciously hoping the fever on vapid bullshit was going to break, but that's really just when it locked in as the norm. In the years in between it was basically impossible to socialize without using FB or Snapchat. And now we have TikTik rotting brains even faster, while reddit has thoroughly killed boring normies forums and Discord eliminated the need for niche interesting ones.
Kiwifarms has all the leaks archived. The janny board, emails, bans, source code etc.. Pretty muted event tbh. If I wasn't able to torrent I'd leave the Internet entirely.
>>1738 Seems like the hacker(s) got root access to the server which allows them full access to the website source code (available because it's seemingly written in uncompiled, unminified PHP) and the database. The site operators will probably be able to get access to their server back through their hosting provider, but it's unclear how much damage the hacker(s) did while they had full access to the server, and if they put the site back online again it could immediately be compromised again by the same exploit. If 4chan had competent technical staff or sysadmins then they could close the remote hole and get the site more or less up and running again, but the fact that this exploit happened implies that they don't. It seems that the website has basically been running without maintenance since it was sold by m00t, which is extremely negligent and implies that there is no-one on the 4chan staff really capable of technically administering the site. So they will need to bring someone onboard to put the pieces back together, which will be expensive and probably take a week or so at a minimum.
>>1741 I think they will be reluctant to do so, they probably are hoping to reconstitute the boards with all their posts intact. It doesn't really matter for /pol/ but for the smaller / slower boards starting again with a blank catalog would be pretty brutal. Also whatever else you think about 4chan it was actually a pretty ergonomic website in certain ways while vichan kinda sucks to use. And they would need to reimplement all their features like the 4chan pass and their advertising and their spam filtering and so on. Not really going to happen.
>>1742 That's their only option, realistically speaking. Jannies can't code, and were effectively a cargo cult running 4chan. I don't think anybody would volunteer to fix up 10 years worth of exploits and spaghetti code; just so they can associate themselves with the evil Qanon site. I'd also add, that I doubt they were even keeping backups, so when the jannies "fix" 4chan and start it up again you shouldn't be surprised when we lose a bunch of digits and go back to a 2015 archive.
>>1743 tbf if the exploit really was an old ghostscript install that is a pretty trivially solvable problem. the concern is that with the source in the open and the ancient state of the deployment being publically known that someone will just come along in a week or a month and find another RCE
going to miss /lit/ so much
Chill guys it's gonna come back up the 4chan account on xitter said so !! Coping
4chan was starting to get pretty stale but it was still somewhat unique when compared to every other major site that is really just an empty highway filled with corporate billboards. But they get brought down because every staff member since Hiro bought the website hasn’t bothered to fix up the code at all so they get hacked by a splinter /qa/ website which is only dedicated to spamming soyjaks, calling each other slurs and raiding random Reddit boards without long-term impact. Still, I guess this was bound to happen. I don’t think it’s gone, like, forever, they’ll probably find someone who will fix it eventually, but the lack of reaction to this really shows how homogenized the internet has become by like 15 websites at most.
>>1790 > I don’t think it’s gone, like, forever, they’ll probably find someone who will fix it eventually, but the lack of reaction to this really shows how homogenized the internet has become by like 15 websites at most. I wrote a bit about this here https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1k04wc0
>>1791 Nice post, anon. 4chan, as something of a final vestige of the old internet, was never meant to be understood by the paragons of traditional media. I think history will remember 4chan as a pressure-release valve in the wake of hyper streamlined content and late-stage Web 2.0 slop. As vulgar as 4chan was, there were moments of brilliance that you just don't see on shiddit and xitter.
Like others have mentioned, the most surprising part is how it just happened. Not only that it got hacked to the point of closing down but that there was no reaction to it. It's almost like people are taking it like a meme, just like everything that comes out of 4chan from their perspective. I didn't go on there because I didn't want to have to see fucked up shit just pop up at random, but even then a lot of the high quality memes, greentext and insight that got out of it in the form of screenshots was oftentimes the best of the best. I think that if it's truly gone for good, it will be a huge loss for everybody with a minimal amount of media literacy and a desire to experience the internet beyond instagram reels or the front page of reddit.
>>1881 Unfortunately we are a teeny tiny minority. The internet is overhwelmingly those surface level slop enjoyers and those trying to make a buck off them. It probably has been for two decades, but for the kind of person who remembers the word netizen it is a net-dystopia now.
>>1893 I know it's basically akin to publicly embarrasing yourself to say this here but I was born several years after 9/11 so I never got to know a different kind of Internet. I consider myself lucky for using a PC regularly instead of exclusively my phone and knowing that just because something is online it doesn't mean it will be there forever. But in a place like this I'm easily the most ignorant about what the online world was before it became brain dead.
>>1881 >I didn't go on there because I didn't want to have to see fucked up shit just pop up at random On /lit/ this basically never happened. At least in the last few years when I was there. And for /pol/ I created a script that hides all threads with less than 30 posts, which eliminated almost all gore. It still ended up being mostly noise but with the occasional rare thread that one wouldn't really find anywhere else.
>>1917 This is an imageboard (like 4chan and similar places) where you can post images (or memes, whatever) and discuss them. Everyone is anonymous and on top of that there's no way to tell users apart. If you want to reference a specific post, you have to manually write the number of that post after two chevrons (the greentext sign ">"). So, to reference your post, I wrote >> 1917 but without the spacing.
>>1977 Yeah from what I've been reading now it seems there were legitimately calm places in 4chan which I didn't get to see because I avoided the more notoriously shitty boards. If it ever goes back up (which I doubt, and if it does it will most likely not be the same anymore) I may give it a try.
>>1982 (Not him btw) Never knew about /r/rsbooks but I knew about redscarepod. /lit/ was ironically good because most people there clearly disliked reading. All them were forced into it by circumstance, and would gladly have taken any other path (even podcasts!) had their needs been met. The real core and soul of literature comes from desperation and crisis. It is so strange and funny that academics believe they might understand Huysmans when they have never had a spiritual crisis of their own. And that there is no book without the crisis, and lots of crises without books. Most "book lovers" are absolutely hopeless because if they see a homeless man tweaking on the sidewalk their only thought ever will be "eww gross!"
Yo No.1984is that Sirius? The dog? You know. From 9/11. Yeah, the constellation. They are fascinated by it. It’s their symbolism. It’s what’s on the dollar bills around the pyramid’s capstone. We are ruled by the most vile people you could ever imagine, and we are but puppets on their stage following along to their script. Oh, also 4chan is down I guess. Silly heh heh guys look I’m so schizo and quirky and shit.
Y’know this is the problem with modern internet discourse. Everyone tries to derail the conversation to something relating to themselves. It plagued 4chan these last few years. In that sense, I think the previous post conveyed it quite well, tho I don’t know if it was necessary.
I miss /x/ and /lit/. You could always find rare books and stories that are really hard to find in other corners of the internet. The level of discussion was never very high, but that was not why I frequented there. 4chan's allure for me was these unfiltered voices and random ideas that do not fit in narratives or well-eatabliahed groups. It was just the internet thinking about itself. That I will miss
>>2284 The problem to me is that what comes after 4chan already exists, it's soyjak, and soyjak is 4chan without any of the good parts, the slow boards. It was made by zoomers who pretend to know what 4chan was actually about. Either it will be that, or another walled garden. So we're talking about the death of the free internet, or the death of a free internet that's actually useful.
4chan will be back it'll be gone for longer than we expect but back to business as usual a few days/weeks after it returns
>>2398 I once dreamt that everyone on 4chan holed up in a big complex of abandoned industrial buildings after an unspecified event. petty arguments were common still, but there also were real anime girls hanging around, and a general jovial atmosphere. this was 2014, it feels so distant now.
where is /diy/ refuge