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File:Sachiko Happenings Thread ….png (597.51 KB,900x735)

 No.4165[Last50 Posts]

Post interesting or unusual stuff concerning imageboards, textboards or related stuff here. This thread is for a more centralized place of limited discussion, but please feel free to make new threads if you want something more thoroughly discussed.
Imageboard Happening Archives

This thread is cyclical with old replies removed as new posts are made.
Last Archived: February 7th, 2023

 No.98053

>>98039
It's just the SSL cert

 No.98269

speaking of collecting trash, i found someone archiving that site on shodan

 No.98273

File:meirl.jpg (Spoiler Image,48.15 KB,640x639)

i know i'm pretty late to this, but man do i miss 420chan. yes, 99% of the users were permafried but it was still fun to lurk and post in sometimes. i also miss the old net character board...

 No.98277

Reminder that this thread is about internet happenings, not internet personalities.

 No.98281

File:8kun.jpg (573.78 KB,2234x1426)

>>97877
8kun's activity 9 days later.

 No.98282

>>98281
Why doesn't it surprise me that qresearch and /pol/ would be perfectly fine with having phone authentication...

 No.98283

>>98281
Those active ISP numbers are low

 No.98296

Perspective on the above:
That number is unique IPs in the past 72 hours.
So lets just disregard the trump board on that site and look at what else it has to offer...

Kissu has more unique IP addresses in half a week than their entire site excluding Q... and this is no exaggeration.

 No.98298

>>98281
I'm surprised 8kun even came back after all the communities made their own boards.

 No.98311

>>98281
Wow, /cuteboys/ was still going...
I honestly have a bit of nostalgia for the first 1 or 2 years of 8chan, it was a bit of an imageboard and irc renaissance and there was some genuine fun to be had before /pol/ took over the site and the fun people retreated back to 4chan or other boards.

 No.98321

I think it had been eventually been revealed that Jimbo actually had some secret hidden Q board set up during his tenure at 8chan whose activity outright dwarfed all but the most active boards on the site.

 No.98332

>>98321
Yes, that's /qresearch/. It had around thousands of posts per hour and active IPs, being on par with /mlp/ in terms of activity.
The board became visible over a year ago due to a bug, but since Ron, 8kun's main dev and admin, quit his job nobody bothered to hide the board again.

>>98311
>Wow, /cuteboys/ was still going...
It's just one or two bots necrobumping Discord threads. The actual board (and 99% of the site) is not only dead, but even its old images were lost forever due to a server failure that happened a while ago.

 No.98408

pfft they should have a qaresearch board instead!

 No.98423

File:Ffc5RdTaMAASmlE.jpg (191 KB,1280x1280)

on Twitter yesterday everyone celebrated Shirou day, by using the same avatar of his face.
I don't really get it, but it was funny.

 No.98683

>>98311
I miss /cuteboys/ it was fun while it lasted. Might have been posting there too young, but oh well.

 No.98710

antisemitism thread on 4/jp/. how's that related to otaku culture at all. i sincerely wish rapeape gets what he deserves for ruining 4chan

 No.98922

This thread is getting quieter and quieter...
Miss the days where there was always a new happening to read every day or so.
Sorry, gonna shut my mouth now.

 No.98923

>>98922
I think a problem is all the happenings are either in, or dwarfed by real life now...

 No.99239

>>98922
We are in the post-happening era now.
The eternal nothing burger that just never quite digests in our stomachs, leaving us hungry.

 No.99314

>>95514
moot trolling boards was a normal and largely welcome thing that happened to every notable board over the years. The /jp/ thing was just him evading the question of his favorite board at a con in a way that everyone knew was a big joke. The impact was basically just flushing out the catalog before everyone was done laughing and went home. /a/ was probably the board that loved him the most when he left. It's bizarre to me how those events could be interpreted any other way even by people who weren't there.

 No.99316

¥ This thread has nothing happening it in but I'm going to sage because I don't want to point out a potential interesting conversation

 No.99317

The last major event was 8kun and then there's some stuff relating to heyuri and an attention whore who's banned for trying to use the thread to promote himself. So that's that

 No.99318

I ought to write up a quick and stupid if-statement so that no one can sage in this thread anymore
Edit: I did it

 No.99321

Well, people have generally reserved this thread for big events, but if things are slow we could try to include fun threads or projects that people are doing at various places? That's something I thought about mentioning a few times, but I never got around to it.

 No.99322

File:1642967840616.jpg (322.51 KB,1280x960)

Channeling that maverick spirit of ancestral /qa/, perhaps we need to begin a "create a happening" general.
Then our our happenings thread will have things to discuss!

 No.99326

File:1492917511684.jpg (28.94 KB,512x512)


 No.99341

>>99318
huh... so it just gets bumped?

 No.99342

doesn't get bumped on /all/

 No.99343

you've heard of autosage, now get ready for autoage

 No.99349

permaage

 No.99472

>>99321
hmm? what kind of projects? I hack on a chan-related project every once in a while...

 No.99540

File:Screenshot_2022-11-14 jp ….png (184.66 KB,1540x1779)

Not particularly a happening, but while browsing the archives I noticed a new type of spam on /jp/. Strangely it's some sort of tame interracial spam that follows the pattern of "[Touhou character] is having hot baby-making sex with X-year old [random African name] ([Touhou character] is importing men from Africa to increase the population of Gensokyo)." The quantity and speed of spam seems relatively low so they're likely posting by hand which is stranger still.

 No.99541

File:waterfox_23UUtmDvr0.png (128.61 KB,1194x537)

https://www.smat-app.com/timeline
This was posted in the 4chan happenings thread (yes I'm still there for some stupid reason) and it seems kind of interesting. This is a site for "tracking hate speech" on some platforms and it includes 4chan and 8kun, but you can use any word. September 3rd was a particularly bad day for Bulbasaur discussion.
I could have sworn there were already ways you could do this, maybe on some archive sites, but this seems like a faster way of doing it.

>>99540
Ehhhh....

 No.99543

>>99540
I blame /trash/'s blacked general for this.

 No.99544

>>99540
Oh, the poor idol tiktok generals!

 No.99558

File:wapchan down.png (1.04 MB,1794x1232)

Wapchan, a small board known for retro anime discussion on /ar/ and /lum/, has been raided and forced offline for the time being.

 No.99559

>>99558
Hopefully these spammers get drafted...

 No.99564

>>99540
Oh, I know about this one.
On 2chen.moe's /tech/ board they have /cumg/ threads and in there there are some people using 'ecker, an alternative frontend for 4chan, to spam those. It lets you ban evade and get past the captcha automatically but to use the public instance you have to send the gay furry admin a picture of your own peepee. https://git.sperm.tech/mrq/-ecker/wiki/Use-Me

 No.99577

>>99558
is this WAPchan - Kuon?

 No.99580

>>99558
really wonder who could be behind this..

 No.99584

>>99577
WAPanese

 No.99597

the wap poster

 No.99598

>>99558
a story as old as time

 No.99602

>>99558
They're back now.

 No.99616

>>99602
Good to hear.

 No.99655

>>99558
How attackers managed to shut it down (temporarily) even though it was getting regular moderation:
>As it turned out, I had misconfigured the software on here, so even though images were being "deleted", they still remained in the filesystem. This allowed a malicious actor to file a report about some illegal content previously though to have been deleted, which caused our host to take down the site temporarily. I take responsibility for not catching this beforehand, but this does not change the fact that this was a deliberate attack on the site. This has been fixed and all relevant material has been deleted, hashbanned and reported.
[from their /meta/ board]

 No.99662

>>99655
Damn, you have to be real careful running a board these days. Good thing they managed to get that all fixed up.

 No.99664

>>99662
It happens when you make a mistake modifying the software.
Various software like to not give you errors whenever something didn't do what it was expected to do.

 No.99665

also can be confusing if you use cloudflare since things linger on their cache servers when it's not on the actual

 No.99799

/a/ just finished drawing the other Bocchi's ED:
https://boards.4channel.org/a/thread/245271218
It's neat.

 No.99815

File:1668651870575.png (158.83 KB,594x594)

64chan is back, website has been alive for a couple of days now and it's gaining activity.

 No.99816

autoage saves the thread again

 No.99817

I guess it really does only work on /qa/(board itself) huh

 No.99829

>>99815
64chan has been yo-yoing between alive and dead for years it feels

 No.100035

File:booba.png (476.48 KB,1765x889)

https://boards.4channel.org/vp/thread/52285704
/vp/ mod has a sense of humor and interest in the new pokemon release it seems

context: Pokemon Violet/Scarlet are pretty glitchy and unstable at times, among other things. I'm still having fun though.

 No.100046

File:800d33658fee2ac8a55e138b4c….png (142.23 KB,913x1168)

tiktok general got banned again
2chen was down overnight as a result

 No.100056

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 No.100062

>>100046
I do find it odd that tiktok dancing videos is somehow child abuse. A creepy activity to collect these videos, but not exactly harmful on its own.
The actual suspicious thread has been removed since they wiped their /jp/ board clean, the /jp/ junior idol thread that similarly to cum/g/ was also banned from 4chan. I'm guessing they'll just move host and registrar and revive those threads in a bit.

 No.100079

>>100062
grey area csam is less about the content itself and more about how people are using it

 No.100318

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All posts on /sp/ now have USA flags

 No.100319

File:C-1669760088264.png (167.39 KB,897x834)

>>100318
Alright, this is pretty hilarious.

 No.100320

>>100319
Oh wait... I'm just completely American. I thought FIFA was the video game and the World Cup was the World Cup, didn't realize they were the same thing....

 No.100321

What, is the football thing over already?

 No.100325

>>100079
More like who's posting it. Can't exactly ban minors for sexualizing themselves.

>>100320
FIFA is the organization that hosts the WC, among other things. USA didn't win either, they just made it through the first round, which is why the celebration was so short-lived. It's just banter.

 No.100428

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 No.100429

>>100428
I like the Shamikos.

 No.100430

>>100428
Not even the sports board is safe from die tubers it seems.

 No.100499

File:uruguay suicide.PNG.png (74.88 KB,1891x430)

Today's was a sticky for Korea's win with Gangnam Style playing and dancing.

Also the suicide ban message was apparently given to all Uruguayan IPs.

 No.100634

File:1607369707026.png (188.16 KB,1000x1000)

soo.... world2ch is back. surprised i didn't see anything about it here yet. https://world2ch.net
are there any anons here that were around back when world2ch was a thing?

 No.100637

>>100634
I think it being back is a bit of a misnomer. I don't think the admin or any of the people posting there were actually there at the time so it feels more like a group of teenagers stealing the name.

 No.100638

Just checked, the singular post I made on the site in the "that guy" thread was deleted without trace by admin.

 No.100639

>>100634
Oh, I heard about some guy buying the domain, but I didn't think he was going to do anything with it. I remember people talking about it going down in early 2018 I think it was? It seemed every other month that place was dying or maybe people were just complaining a lot.
That's cool. It needs to get the dramabomb.txt url working again, though, since people still drop that occasionally.

 No.100726

File:firefox_UR4Zh28SuC.png (923.7 KB,1567x1930)

/v/ blew up during the game awards, and at the end after the GOTY speech some guy came up to the mic and said "I NOMINATE THIS AWARD TO MY REFORMED ORTHODOX RABBI, BILL CLINTON"

Now /v/'s blowing up even harder with Bill Clinton even in the sticky.
https://boards.4channel.org/v/thread/620470206

 No.100729

>>100726
too random for me

 No.100730

I am really impressed at how he managed to stand on stage in silence for so long without even cracking a smile.

 No.100731

>>100634
is there much of a reason for this since 4-ch is still around? i guess this place might get a little buzz, but it'll just be another nearly dead nostalgia textboard

 No.100732

>>100731
they all have their niche

 No.100895

File:1171672121557.jpg (48.76 KB,600x600)

I acquired a large archive of Nijiura maids from 2012.
https://boards.4channel.org/jp/thread/42017312

 No.100896

File:1561143190629.jpg (537.08 KB,877x1120)

>>100895
That's a lot of meidos.

I think I recognise some of those artists.

 No.100915

>>96957
/kind/ is back on the previous domain, https://kind.moe

 No.100921

File:1168255822344.jpg (67.62 KB,1027x480)


 No.100965

>>100895
Very nice.

 No.101080

File:Untitled.png (399.27 KB,1382x387)

The ashime is coming to a close and veepee gets a sticky, as well as some notable cross board traffic congregating to discuss it.

 No.101082

>>101080
I kinda wonder where they go from here now that they've ended a, 25 years at this point?, storyline. Wonder if it'll be more independent projects or just a new storyline following a new protagonist.

 No.101083

>>101082
there is a new pokemon season in the works in April '23 with fresh protagonists. If they are able to revitalize the series and take it in a fresh direction is a daunting task though, with such old habits to break in order to do it; changing the protagonist will not be enough obviously, but based on how the games are if that is any indication there could be hope in change, even if it isn't what is necessarily what old fans would like.

 No.101170

File:C-1671387336204.png (252.18 KB,1260x619)

/sp/ broke 400 after the world cup ended

 No.101172

>>101170
And the sticky became the largest thread in /sp/'s history, surpassing the previous #1 by almost 4k replies:
https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/statistics/lthreads/

 No.101342

>>100637
i'm personally in favor of making it a 2ch clone based on the world2ch name. og world2ch just looked like all around shit
although if you guys want to revive the OG world2ch, good on you

>>100731
4-ch is an almost dead (save for a few niche of users who somewhat regularly post there) nostalgia (here, it depends) textboard too.
Both of these are just my opinion tho ;)

 No.101441

Probably not a happening, but swfchan seems to be down on both domains. Hopefully it's just down for maintenance.

 No.101466

>>101441
Still down... Starting to get slightly worried...

 No.101467

>>101466
maybe someone could ask him what happened on /pol/...

 No.101506

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 No.101648

>>101342
4-ch is not dead what are you on about? if you think 4-ch is too slow contribute with your own posts maybe?
and about world2ch, i hate how "that guy" and his followers pretend old internet but buying world2ch is simply going too far...

 No.101664

File:Screenshot 2022-12-30 at 2….png (173.4 KB,977x583)

>>101648
4-ch is pretty decent as far as textboards go in activity in this day and age and variety of posters and topics.
There's a script in the technology board that makes it easier to see when new posts are made too.
Making a site "based on the world2ch name" and replacing it with existing communities they already partake in is just abuse. Shameful and an insult to the past. Make something new that is truly yours, youngsters.

>>100638.
The deletion of anti-"that guy" post calling him out for his behavior is very telling, especially with the obvious overlap of users and I know for a fact the "reopening" was advertised in advance on h* as an "I bought this domain what do with it".
In reference to >>101525 this crowd of people are also trying to get control over Gikopoi to feed their ego. A fake "system" message shown when you login to Kanrinin Street.
They are not people to associate with and try to ruin everything they touch. Why create anything when you can leech from others? That seems to be their motto. I don't believe there is anyone who could possibly want to associate with "that guy" other than people who see themselves in him and think his traits of pathological lying and a necessity to control the narrative through deceit are somehow positive.
"That guy" is also telling everyone he's planning to buy 4chan and also that he might buy Gelbooru. Is he going to? Obviously not, he just wants praise and attention and for people to talk about how it would be if he did. If he did do it however I guarantee you the first thing he would do is ruin everything the very second someone hurts his ego.

I wish this post was a bit nicer, but it needs to be said that they are a crowd to avoid. Maybe some of the apples are alright, but the whole bunch will spoil.

 No.101666

>>101664
drama is annoying to people and he astroturfs himself constantly to the point where I would imagine you're interested in promoting this stupidity even though he's wordfiltered and have to constantly refer to him as that guy.

 No.101734

>>101664
"that guy" and gikopoi.com have no relation. The .com is tokiko's fork of gikopoipoi which he uses for personal blogging. He's been advertising it as part of some elaborate, extraordinarily lame trolling attempt for a while now. It's really boring, homegrown gikopoi drama.

As for the "world2ch revival," it seems most of the people involved in that are preteens, more than one of them is verified to be 12. If you thought teens were bad enough already, well...

 No.101768

seems like 2chen is dead
the admin was good at giving updates, but it just blipped out of existence without a word
wonder if he got his door kicked in or what

 No.101792

Kohlchan banned pedo threads after allowing them during most of its existence, citing a rise in actual CP (KC's pedobait threads frequently had legally gray material that was tolerated for the most part) and a lack of manpower to navigate through pedo threads as the main motives for the blanket ban.
Pinned announcement: https://archive.is/ZMDDd

 No.101851

File:freedom.webm (4.49 MB,1920x1081)

Someone has took Kohlchan down as revenge against mods.

 No.101852

File:final.webm (3.41 MB,1280x720)

>>101851
The attacker's website:
https://wethenorthmarket.world/kc/
>In fact exploit is multifactor while being trivial... (I believe affecting DB,bandwidth,htmls, caching system)... because of how its is being handled later by lynxchan

 No.101854

File:how.mp4 (6.07 MB,1400x1200)

>>101852
I should also add: He had made a thread earlier in the week about a chromium browser add-on he created, titled KCResist Addon, that can embed hidden files into files that are posted, similar to rarjpeg. Other users with the extension installed can see if an ordinary file actually has hidden content that could be uncovered. As seen in this video.

Archive of KC thread:
https://kohlchan.eu.org/thread/18652302

I thought it was pretty cool at the time.

 No.101915

>>101851
>>101852
The attacker explained one of the issues he's exploiting:

>So what was one of issues? (still not fixed as im writting this)
>Filename field was missing length check
>>what does it mean
>It means that you can attach whole file inside of fucking filename field.
>As silly as it sounds yes, you could put 15MB (and more) file inside filename field.
>Then that filename gets attached onto html file, every user refreshing page have to fetch whole fucking 15MB shit emblemed into filename
>Then everything gets sluggish, shit gets inserted probably into DB where it shoudnt be at all considering size...

>Threads trying to bake html files are failing
>Filesize limit doesnt count filename field (!!) so you can attach 20MB of payload inside filename field when board max filesize is 10MB

>Anyway everyone could find out issue on client side when enabling built-in every browser performance profiller
>I believe some did but fuckign mod team is incooperative or just dont care
>Stay strong bernds

Important to pay attention to stuff like this when writing imageboard software.

 No.101916

>>101915
Or perhaps was exploiting; the site seems to be up now, although I didn't try posting.

 No.101919

I think he's explaining that it's a file hidden in the image metadata for the filename?

 No.101922

File:IMG_20230104_030134.jpg (222.85 KB,1080x1684)

wow not even

 No.101924

>>101919
It's just a file posted with a really, really long name. And he came up with the name by taking the contents of some big file and treating it as a string, but he could have done the same thing with the letter "A" repeated 15 million times.

 No.101926

>>101915
NEVER trust user input

 No.101944

File:ded.jpg (114.23 KB,1555x613)

Lots of boards are down on 4ch

>>>/co/

>>>/int/
>>>/lgbt/
>>>/mlp/
>>>/p/

 No.101945

>>101944
You still can access the threads if you know their URL, but you can't post anywhere since sys.4chan.org is down.

 No.101946

>>101945
Parts of it are online it seems.

https://sys.4channel.org/a/admin.php

 No.101947

>>101946
the proxy server is online (which would control http authentication). The actual servers are still down though

 No.101948

File:4stats.png (293.57 KB,522x1795)

>>101946
Nope, everything is offlien.

 No.101950

>>101948
guess someone posted a picture of that again

 No.101955

File:Opchan.png (203.29 KB,492x523)

Opchan (OPERATORchan) died an death just before Christmas, and barely anyone noticed because it's soul died long before the body did.

There were some incredibly wise posters there though, in the distant past.

 No.101956

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 No.101958

>>101955
Man, this makes me wonder, what's the oldest altchan still around? Desu, 420, there's a good number of decade-old ones that've gone down recently.

 No.101959

>>101958
1chan possibly, although sadly due to that reputation it gets repeatedly attacked and you need your post to be approved before it will show up. It's depressing that it's necessary, but it's cool that they have software that supports that.

 No.101971

>>101955
Another one fades into oblivion. The end is near.

 No.101976

>>101958
7chan must be up there, right? Especially if you mean true 'altchans' and not just non-4chan imageboards in general.

 No.101977

>>101976
I'm using "altchan" as a shorthand for "western imageboards that aren't 4chan", since futaba is obviously still around.
7chan is probably one of the oldest around, yeah, though it seems it's a few years younger than 1chan.

 No.101978

we could be talking about new imageboards, but then I fear this thread would just become an advertising blog.

 No.101979

>>101978
Plus, there's exhaustive lists these days.

 No.101980

>>101978
As long as it's not about cliques and drama like with k**, I don't think I would mind. Happenings are happenings.

 No.101995

>>101955
>>101959
It's odd that none of these sites have made an attempt to improve their engines or move to newer ones with more anti-spam features (like Lynxchan, JSchan or a maintened fork of Vichan).

 No.101997

are there actually any groups out there besides Kissu that are taking on the uphill battle of keeping imageboard software relevant?

 No.102031

>>101997
that guy

 No.102032

>>102031
No he isn't, shut up. I hate him so god damn much. There isn't a single positive thing to write about him. If you have nothing bad to say, it's better to say nothing at all.

 No.102033

>>102031
>>102032
He did just open source his fork of pixmicat recently. Why does he make you so angry?

 No.102034

>>101997
The vichan group still exists but isn't really modernizing though they're taking some steps
Lynx idk.
heyuri and associates kind of like the rug pullers of IB. They make things complicated.

Idk what you mean by uphill though

 No.102038

rug munchers of IB

 No.102044

あのやつ。。。

 No.102047

2023 and 420chan still down

 No.102048

>>102047
Its fitting. Pro wrestling's dead, /wooo/'s dead too

 No.102092

>>102047
Is kirtaner still homeless?
Is he still alive?

 No.102104

>>101997
There are tons of posts buried in Heyuri about ancient imageboard (and similar) scripts. Though kissu seems to be the place for talking about modern softwares
Also as >>102033 said, kokonotsuba was open sourced.

 No.102123

>>102104
/lounge/ has a goldmine of researched posts about ancient japanese scripts. Same people who made bbsdirectory on neocities

 No.102126

nice software dude
https://github.com/Heyuri/kokonotsuba/issues/2
I learned this when I first made a posting application.

 No.102154

>>102123
It's just one guy.

 No.102172

>>102154
No it isnt..

 No.102190

>>102172
who'se the other guys?

 No.102191

>>102190
Other than me, I know Anonymous #1 and Anonymous #3. Sometimes Anonymous #4 contributes too.

-Anonymous #2

 No.102193

>>102191
If anonymous #1 (the guy in charge of the BBS directory) had never come to heyuri, then the other three anonymouses would never have even so much as lifted a finger about the topic. They only got inspired because of anonymous #1. So you see it really is just one guy.

 No.102200

>>102193
That's how communities are formed though? One guy shares what he is interested in, and others either get interested as well/more people interested in the topic visits the site. A group of people interested in the same topic don't suddenly get summoned out of void

 No.102201

I summon ye necromancers, samefaggers come to my rescue. Revive my website from it's grave

 No.102202

>>102201
ん?

 No.102215

File:puzzled necromancer.jpg (53.09 KB,375x413)


 No.102320

anybody knows what happened to 2chen.moe ?

 No.102321

>>102320
Assuming this post was misplaced in the bofuri thread

 No.102364

Probably a long shot but does anybody remember where the guys from meguca's (now shamik.ooo) /pol/ board ended up, i know they were on 0-chan.ru for a while with the /homu/, /xomy/ and /хому/ boards but they appear to have been deleted except for some archived threads from late 2019

 No.102366

>>102320
I think their hosting company nuked the site because of the TikTok generals, but I may be wrong.

 No.102411

>>102366
So where do we go now?

 No.102480


 No.102489

>>102411
Unfortunately, that is something that has to be decided upon ahead of time. I think most 8chan derivatives have multiple backup sites (bunkers) in the event of such a situation since they have gone through what you are going through right now. Speaking of, you could check the 8chan "webring" since they have a few sites that allow board creation just to see if there's any discussion about it anywhere.

 No.102540

>>91220
its back

 No.102583

File:R-1674021639257.png (3.48 MB,1903x9917)

GNFOS died for real this time....

 No.102584

>>102583
sigh... i need a bedtime story...

 No.102585

is ota being really unresponsive for anyone else

 No.102590

always has been

 No.102651

>>102583
time to let one final one out:
*takes a sip*
sigh.........................
*pours lukewarm steel reserve out on the server*

 No.102665

Boorus are a type of imageboard, right? Danbooru just hit it's 6 millionth post.

https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/6000000

 No.102667

>>102665
Oh, didn't know Dan had GETs. Looks like Gel has them as well, check this one out:
https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1000000
1-6 is Yuno, while 7, 6 and 8 are Gardevoir. 5 is a special one.

 No.102668

Gel even has a GET tag, actually. Huh.
https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=get

 No.102698

4chan increased webm size limit to 4mb, seemed that very few had noticed

 No.102699

>>102698
I thought it was already 4 mb.

 No.102700

>>102699
It was 3mb previously until sometime yesterday it was changed
Just a nonsense limit like vp8 only in the past (and still no sound webms on regular boards currently)

 No.102755

>>102700
I think it varies from board to board.
https://a.4cdn.org/boards.json
>/wsg/
¥max_filesize 6291456
¥max_webm_filesize 6291456
>/wg/
¥max_filesize 6291456
¥max_webm_filesize 3145728
>/s4s/
¥max_filesize 2097152
¥max_webm_filesize 3145728
>/s/
¥max_filesize 8388608
¥max_webm_filesize 3145728
>/b/
¥max_filesize 2097152
¥max_webm_filesize 2097152
Looks to still be 3mb everywhere except /wsg/ which was 6mg as long as I can remember. Possible the API is wrong, but I would assume the API pulls the data from the server configurations, possibly outdated cache on their API server and to be updated later though. Haven't tried posting a 4mb file.

 No.102770

>>102755
the limit in the json is wrong, if you actually try to post one it will go through

 No.103036

File:ai.jpg (264.25 KB,1404x431)

Wapchan has taken the somewhat controversial move of banning AI art sitewide.

 No.103038

>>103036
to be honest I barely even remember that AI was a thing unless it's actively brought to my attention.. or i see pretty typical AI ero.
why did they ban it?

 No.103044

>>103036
WAPchan kuon's favourite imageboard

 No.103045

WAPchan

 No.103046

>>103044
didnt see this post

 No.103047

kuon exclusively posts in the bedwetting general there

 No.103250

File:1675223622408030.jpg (584.98 KB,1080x2054)

4chan is using malicious pop-ups. Pic related jumps while phoneposting and browsing 4chan.

 No.103252

>>103250
Classic Hiroyuki.

 No.103253

>>103250
This Comedian put up with Apu for years, Now He's Fighting

 No.103263

>>103250
Haven't there been malicious ads since like 2016? I remember there was a big fuss when Hiro took over and reversed the ad policy and started allowing basically any unscrupulous ads that would pay to appear on the site, plus more of them and larger. I thought everyone just turned their ad blockers back on and accepted that he just sees the site as extra income. So did they add pop-up ads or is this just an advertiser who is abusing the existing framework?

 No.103271

>>103250
are you sure it's not just a virus?

 No.103273

>>103271
It's not, I got the same popup on my phone.

 No.103275

>>103273
odd. didn't get one... but I think Opera has built in adblockers

 No.103469

>>95135
The last substantive leak was in 2014, over some old hat janitors that didn't take kindly to moot demanding they dox themselves and sign an NDA to keep janitoring.
After that some besides the NDA itself their were some substantive opsec changes to team4chan to prevent that situation from occurring again.
>>95298
Moot firing Kusanagi and forcibly allowing crossboarders and their general threads was the end of /a/.
I say that as a guy who never really loved 'saged reported called the cops' era /a/. I thought that was already a downgrade from the sense of community the board once had.
But that elitism was better than what it's become.

 No.103484

File:Liloshi Loadout.jpg (378.5 KB,2044x3128)

>>101955
Sorry to res to my own post but i need somewhere to vent this: I hope Opchan, or some sort of quality firearms/hunting based imageboard comes back into relevance, because /k/ has absolutely been fully tainted and ruined by the r*ddit Slav war shitposting; I can feel an ulcer growing.

 No.103494

>>103484
If you're a hunter, geographically-based forums are likely your best bet

 No.103502

>>103494
my local forum feels sad and dead
so i guess it could be said it feels like a forum

 No.103504

>>103494
>If you're a hunter, geographically-based forums are likely your best bet
yeah it's a good good way of getting the lay of the land when your quarry is the most dangerous game

 No.103568

>>101958
711chan came back for a second time back in December, and it has a Tor domain now, too.

>>101955
This is pretty sad to read, may his soul rest easy in eternal peace.

>>103250
Please make sure you guys have uBlock installed for this very reason.

 No.103618

Whatever happened to late.city?

 No.103619

>>103618
i forget exactly who they were but, r9k type posting with a discord server.. two things that remove interest from imageboards
https://archive.ph/XR0Pi

 No.103620

>>103619
I first visited in 2016 or 2017. I checked it out every couple of months or so, it definitely was a slow board. At some point, I was in the discord server, but that didn't last, as you said it removed interest. Being anonymous certainly beats talking to a group of online "friends". I tried to check it today but the site's down. I'm getting some info from /comfy/, apparently /late/'s domain expires tomorrow, so it might see a community revival.

 No.103926

File:32991268.png (1.2 KB,280x280)

6ch's #jp cum bot on irc.sageru.org cummed for the 10.000th time. it has been going since 2010. https://twitter.com/JayPeeCumBot/status/1627756298589855744
irc log: https://paste.bingner.com/paste/qxb82

 No.104157

File:1613768833126.jpg (1.16 MB,1425x1425)

https://ota-ch.com/jp/index.html

Is ota down or is it just me?

 No.104161

the host servers are probably just down for a few hours for maintenance...

 No.104174

huh... the homepage works but not the boards themselves... looks like he's removed the board itself

 No.104648

File:Capture.PNG (67.39 KB,687x875)

4chan captchas are down, so all boards have been unable to post for 3~ hours

 No.104650

>>104648
Shoutouts to my fellow spooky ghosts.

 No.104653

>>104650
jiisas over 2k posts
over the course of six hours... that's overall like what, 6 posts per min?
surprised it'd reach even a fifth of /a/'s current speed
then again, look at all that shitposting

 No.104654

oh *phew* captcha works again i was boutta commit somethin BAD

 No.104663

surprising that it being down had such a small impact on kissu

 No.104672

File:1618281313078.jpg (26.48 KB,500x375)

looks like /azu/ is set to die soon. the admin has been AWOL for years and the contract with their hosting provider is expiring soon. https://ib.axypb.net/azu/res/6787.html
if you're interested in azumanga daioh/yotsuba/ichigo mashimaro archive everything you can.

 No.104674

>>104672
From what I've seen, when I've checked it over the recent years, it did what many other imageboards have done and unfortunately moved the bulk of its activity to discord. A few times I did a yotsuba dump back in the 4/qa/ days I made sure to thank Ralen there because it was a great place to go for a speedy scanlation and read up on any related news.
I'm sure they'll continue to do fine in their discord, but they will be locked away among themselves so it's a loss for the internet as a whole. A better end than most imageboards get, I suppose.

 No.104745

>>104672
Good news, an archive for /azu/ was made - https://ib.axypb.net/azu/res/6787.html#6799

>Hello. It would be such a waste if all the threads over the years were to be lost, so using a Vichan archiving software, we have archived this site here: https://axypb.logwarehouse.net/
>You can use this website's Discord server as a reminiscent of /azu/, but knowing many users of imageboards don't want to use Discord and prefer anonymous posting, so I also want to share https://www.heyuri.net/ here - which is BBS aiming to emulate the feeling of 2000s internet. I believe you are like-minded with the users of Heyuri.

 No.104750

File:asdf.png (67.16 KB,324x913)

>>104745
I would not use this archive for a couple reasons.
The name made me suspicious, and a 4chan archive search confirmed that it's attached to a certain group of undesirables:
https://archive.4plebs.org/_/search/text/logwarehouse/
https://desuarchive.org/_/search/text/logwarehouse/
The first reason is technical. Since it archives that other place, it hosts legally questionable stuff such as doxing and images that are illegal for varying reasons. Maybe it uses a host in a country that's fine with that kind of thing, at least for now, but archives are already prone to collapse without such assistance.
The second reason is ethical. Ironically, the archive itself provides proof that it was the origin of the sustained raiding that /azu/ has had, not that it would be in doubt. Moderation did succeed to keeping /azu/ alive due to the max thread count's buffer, so thankfully it did not succeed.
Hopefully this post of mine sounded neutral enough, because I am very much not neutral about this.

 No.104751

>>104750
>the archive itself provides proof that it was the origin of the sustained raiding that /azu/ has had
The archive was not the source of anything. An archive is not the perpetrator of the events it records. The archive houses logs for a bunch of sites including some turkish ones, and has been archiving since at least 2020 based on the dates of the first threads on the front page. The archives you linked, 4plebs and desuarchive, contain just as much questionable/illegal material.

Theres always archive.org and archive.today which are bound to have at least some of the threads saved. The archive in that thread is not a definitive authority on anything.

 No.104834

8chan died and left a void in the funny happenings

 No.104846

>>104834
Dude, I miss 8chan every day.

 No.104847

File:20230309_021004.jpg (279.82 KB,1062x818)

>>104672
This was a very nice post.

 No.104849

>>104846
the misser

 No.104962

>>104961
awful

 No.105090

/biz/ has a Berserk themed sticky

 No.105115

File:waterfox_jkQOPFIiCj.png (12.8 KB,764x172)

>>104672
It's dead. You can add /azu/ to the list of older boards that now only exist as discord channels.

 No.105119

>>105115
can't wait for this to happen to pissu

 No.105120

bass

 No.105121

guitar

 No.105126

File:bye bye.jpg (33.32 KB,536x516)

>>105115
So it goes.

 No.105136

File:savior of the white race.jpg (34.07 KB,391x501)


 No.105137

>>105136
should have had another proxy layer

 No.105139

>>105136
Wonder what else there is to the story, if it’s real. Assuming the guy doesn’t get scared into a plea deal I don’t think the charge will stick. Threats in the US have to be very specific and are time sensitive from what I understand. Like if you just say “I’m going to kill”, it’s not a threat but if you do so with a gun aimed at me then it is a threat. Unless that anon had some plans to do or was in communication with the Sheriff, sending specific threats to him a lawyer should be able to get anon off. Of course this could also just be an attempt to scare 4chan.

 No.105140

>>105139
a judge has to issue an arrest warant...

 No.105141

...and in any case, legal harrassment is annoying enough that it sends a message that you're not safe, even on 4chan

 No.105142

>>105140
An arrest warrant in the US has nothing to do with whether you actually committed a crime. It’s basically a cop saying they think you committed the crime and that they think there is probably enough evidence to convict you.

 No.105194

>>105136
4chan doesn't save IP addresses of threads once they're archived. So to catch this dude on the shithole of peace 4/pol/, where threads have a half life measured in minutes because its all a torrent of effluent noise, they would have had to have been right on top of him so they could do their law enforcement hold/forward on his post when it was still live.
So probably a sting thread trying to get a known POI. That or he pissed off 4mods too many times ban evading after making threats, so they were keeping an eye out for him already to forward info to the police.

PS my info is a little old. But it was the case only managers/sysadmin types can make these requests (not even the full mods much less the jannies). Admin actions like this are the only real info 4chan keeps forever. Or kept. Like I said my info is c. 2015.

PSS I have really strong opinions about /pol/ and this is the most purely meta I could keep my post

 No.105244

>>105136
how could such a wizardly looking guy be such a teen retard

 No.105248

>While on the "4CHAN" chatroom
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 No.105249

>>105194
>4chan doesn't save IP addresses of threads once they're archived
You don't actually believe this?

 No.105260

>>105249
Yeah it's the way it was. Threads when naturally 404'd dropped everything from the db. When moot wanted a first party archive to compete with the third party archives he wasn't a fan of he specifically wanted archived threads to drop all user identifiable information so that aspect would be the same as the days when threads just 404'd.
Why would they do that? Because it's much less work for the admins when they get like a takedown request and they can honestly tell the serving party "sorry it's already gone and we don't have records for that user". moot himself also never got enough credit for valuing his users privacy, within the confines of US law.

If you've ever been on 4chan in the past and they delete/ban a handful of posters in a thread before deleting the whole thread this is why. They can't actually IP ban you out of the archive, because that info is gone.

There are provisions to save info in bans, and cp stuff is forwarded to the NCMEC like every other US website, or my above mentioned permanent log of sysadmin actions, but by default 4chan doesn't save all this stuff. Unless all the funny old mspaint conspiracy theories have all become true over the past 8ish years.

 No.105572

File:C-1679628851064.png (62.25 KB,896x434)

Vichan has no maintainer and has reached the end of its lifespan. No more updates for security or anything. Also something happened to the stuff in the GitHub but I dunno what any of this programming stuff means...
Can some expert hackerman tell me what any of this implies?

https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan
https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/issues/543

 No.105574

>>105572
Imageboards are reaching very close to the the apex of what they can really be I think; it's already based off 20 year old tech, and most of the shine and polish seems to have went to the javascript interactions with it.

 No.105576

>>105572
It means any found security issues will not be fixed in the vichan repository, but it may be fixed in public or private forks by current admins running vichan if discovered.
It doesn't necessarily mean anything, old software like Wakaba is still alive even though it's unmaintained and the language it's written in is dead (Perl). Those boards aren't being hacked so it's not necessarily an immediate threat to any boards. Maybe in 10 years it will be deemed too insecure with bots scraping for vulnerabilities on active servers to get a backdoor for nefarious activities, but frankly there's not enough instances for it to be worth it. At worst someone will be angry and pwn vichan sites to troll and sites will migrate to other scripts. Hopefully they pick something that works well without javascript.

A sad day either way. Tinyboard/vichan is my favorite imageboard script.

 No.105577

>>105572
I thought Vichan's main repo was abandoned years ago and that only a couple of forks were getting updates.

 No.105587


basedgentoo commented Mar 24, 2023

So as of today I will be taking over as maintainer for this project.

I just want to state that Kolyma, according to Fred, is completely lying about any vulnerability in vichan. If you have a reproducible critical bug, please demonstrate it to me in private and we can discuss how to handle it. So far it seems like the people from soyjak.party were just lying to try to make it seem like their closed source software was superior. But at least according to Fred, there was zero communication about this stuff with him. I don't know the concrete truth in this, however. For what it's worth, Fred didn't even know Kolyma existed until today.

I will be updating the README to reflect this change. And if the people at soyjak.party would like to demonstrate their vichan exploits (which I personally doubt exist), please feel free to explain them.

Thank you.

 No.105589

>>105587
If true, I would be lying if I said I didn't have severe misgivings about handing it over to a guy named 'basedgentoo' that joined github specifically for this event. (the account is two hours old). Judging by the conversation, though, he was at the right place at the right time and had a private discord conversation before others, like experienced admins or with people with ties to the software, could talk things through on github or an imageboard instead.
Vichan handed off through a discord fits the very tumultuous times we find imageboards in today and I almost want to laugh.

 No.105590

>>105589
But he did a PGP key exchange so he's verified!

Yeah. I thought the same.

 No.105591

File:2023-03-24-74099.png (15.05 KB,837x289)

The russian guy is now one of vichans maintainers and will be doing "the bulk of future code".

 No.105592

>>105591
what could possibly go wrong

 No.105593

These very questionable decisions make it seem like he wanted to go out with a bang and extend a middle finger one last time. Well, the good news is that there's other board software out there if things go in the expected direction.
It reminds me that I haven't seen anyone catalog all the open source board software out there lately, but I haven't been looking.

 No.105595

>>105591
Well I guess this was the moment vichan truly died. Now there won't be a good and maintained fork to come.

 No.105600

>>105591
I for one am going to hold out and hope he does something good with it.

 No.105609

>>105600
a typical reaction to conmen so I couldn't blame

 No.105610

what's actually more crazy here is how isolated from the imageboard community Brenan has become over the decades. If I were to die there are I assume 5 or 6 people who could hold Kissu together and eventually work it into progressing again in a few years.
Somehow ctrlc has to interview people who created accounts 10 minutes ago in order to find someone who cares (and his method of stirring up drama to get takers has put it into the influence as someone he sees as like Watkins).

Just let the project die and turn off the lifesupport. If no one is genuinely interested then archive the repo and move on.

 No.105611

Whats wrong with Lynx??

 No.105613

File:imagecapture.png (55.87 KB,575x501)

Fred wants the russian to buy 2ch and hire him to work on it.

https://twitter.com/fr_brennan/status/1639286067881811975

 No.105616

>>105613
...Huh. That would be... odd.

 No.105617

>>105613
13 likes lol

 No.105618

>>105613
He's trolling, right? He's not *actually* this naive, right?

 No.105619

>>105618
he will probably sue him for real

>>105611
ugly and probably not good performance

 No.105623

>>105613
that guy loves to generate fake hype about buying random imageboards and then never follows his claims. he said he was going to buy 4chan last year and told people to wait for the big announcement, which naturally never happened. stopped believing anything he says a long time ago.

 No.105624

>>105618
Scratch that. Just saw he posted this: https://nitter.1d4.us/fr_brennan/status/1639355361416077319#m

Unless this is some old pasta I'm not aware of, he sounds ready to watch vichan burn. As an aspiring webdev, I'll bookmark this epic rant as a warning.

 No.105625

>>105623
>he said he was going to buy 4chan last year and told people to wait for the big announcement, which naturally never happened.
Uh, no. He said that this year, in january. He didn't say he was going to buy 4chan, he said he wanted to, and then he said he would tell more about his plans in a livestream. Which he did. He said he'd consider it after he talks with his partner and make a decision in july.

 No.105626

Welp, let's see what happens from now.

 No.105627


 No.105628

>>105624
Thats video is a post about Gurochan written by Enclaved, that other russian admin guy who OD'd on meth.

https://boards.guro.cx/dis/res/5538.html#5568

 No.105630

he sounded smart though

 No.105631

>>105625
I didn't know 4chan was for sale?

 No.105632

File:1625362390091.png (213.47 KB,488x454)

>>105625
do you really think he has the money or infrastructure to buy and maintain the two biggest imageboards on the world, that to my knowledge aren't even on sale anyways? he just larps as a huge company but actually loves people talking about him on random chans. nothing he has ever said can actually be proven.

 No.105633

File:438fb5dd53.png (39.54 KB,3326x195)

Kissu wins again

 No.105635

>>105628
Yeah, I realized that halfway into the video. Didn't know the old admin died, though.

 No.105636

>>105633
Vermin really is ahead of the curve

 No.105638

>>105633
>>105636
boatslut hands typed these posts

 No.105651

>>105632
2channel isn't an imageboard.

 No.105652

don't be pedantic or you're getting the delete

 No.105655

>>105652
your getting aids up your bum

 No.105661

>>105611
It's ugly as fuck and it's moderation tools are average at best and "please kill me" at worst because the dev hates "rulecutieery", but I have to give credit to Stephen the favelinho for providing support to his creation for years and making installing and maintaining instances relatively easy and low on resources. Personally I prefer JSchan, but Lynxchan isn't a bad alternative when you need to deploy something quick.

 No.105677


 No.105678


 No.105735

What was the name of the imageboard that splits text posts, images and video links in 3 different pages? It had a comfy aesthetic.

 No.105736


 No.105926

>Documents obtained by WIRED confirm that Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investor in the controversial image board.
https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-good-smile/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230330051656/https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-good-smile/
https://archive.ph/6QPR7 (an archive I already saw linked elsewhere, but it seems to be in awful mobile format)

There's a Wired article about the Good Smile company owning part of 4chan. I don't really trust these people to get anything accurate about imageboards and the article hasn't provided any proof, so I'd take it with a grain of salt. Nonetheless, Wired claims it has proof that the Good Smile company owns or once owned 30% of 4chan the company. It also puts the price that moot sold 4chan for at over $5 million.
A large chunk of the article is devoted to the "we must stop 4chan to save the world" stuff, but there's still some information in it that might be interesting if it's true. It's hard to see an article like this as trustworthy when it parades its biases so loudly.

 No.105927

>>105926
>It also puts the price that moot sold 4chan for at over $5 million
I have it on good authority he sold it for a dollar.

 No.105935

>>105926
Silly article, but Hasan, among other commentators, had this pretty smart opinion that a lot of liberal rags like to trick the cons into being outraged from at their articles to drive impressions.

The purpose isn't accuracy, it's to get you to click on it. And grats, you got me to, but at least I won't share it anywhere else so it can die on this thread.

 No.105938

>>105926
At first I wanted to say that this looks to be one of those cases where the media brings up old news for no reason other than driving clicks, on top of circular quotations with no substance. BuuUuUUuuUUUUt there does look to be something going on.

Starting in 2017-2019, it seems like Good Smile got in contact with and later bought a company in Californa for making merchandise, but in 2020 this company independently started to do business with Netflix which led GS to fire two of their vice-presidents and then suing them because:
>stealing away a merchandising opportunity related to “Stranger Things: The Drive-Into Experience,”
>While employed at GSC, these executives had signed noncompetes, non-disclosure agreements, and an agreement to refer business opportunities to the figurine company.
The two fired guys countered this in September 2021 with a cross-complaint claiming that:
>GSC actively profited from sexualizing underage characters, discriminated against non-Japanese employees, evaded taxes, and funded 4Chan.
baste
GS told Polygon that:
>The Defendants’ cross complaint, in contrast, is based on demonstrably, knowingly, and provably false and defamatory allegations.

Sources for this part:
https://kotaku.com/nendoroid-and-figma-company-sued-over-mistreatment-sex-1847684279
https://www.polygon.com/22675642/nendoroid-toymaker-goodsmile-lawsuit
https://kotaku.com/nendoroid-and-figma-company-sued-over-mistreatment-sex-1847684279
And here's the two legal documents:
https://www.scribd.com/document/525488196/Second-Amended-Complaint
https://www.scribd.com/document/525487943/Good-Smile (Fucking 185 pages.)


Later in May 2022, Wired put out the article "Who Owns 4chan?":
https://web.archive.org/web/20230330102206/https://www.wired.com/story/who-owns-4chan/
It's an anti-imageboard rant, but the important parts are that first it links to Hiro's following statement:
>>* How did you raise the amount of money to compensate Moot?
>I borrowed money.
https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/183913/#192864
The article goes on to state:
>By 2016, Nishimura announced that the costs of running 4chan were simply too high and suggested the site’s closure was imminent. In 2018, Nishimura attempted to cleave the site in two—leaving 4chan intact, with its obscene and pornographic boards, but creating a safe-for-work alternative, attractive to advertisers, on 4channel.
This is true. If you ctrl+f "4chan LLC" you'll also see the important part about 4chan's legal structure, which is true as well. From there onwards it goes back to the previous lawsuit which caused a number of internal documents to be released or whatever I'm getting tired of reading this:
>Sources with knowledge of Good Smile say the company owns at least a part of 4chan, and that Good Smile is more involved than it lets on publicly. WIRED is not naming those sources, who fear retaliation for speaking publicly about Good Smile.
>Internal Good Smile documents obtained by WIRED reference a “confidentiality agreement” dated April 2015—just months after Poole announced he would be leaving 4chan, but some five months before Nishimura was announced as the buyer. One document names Dwango, Future Search Brazil, and Hiroyuki Nishimura as parties in the “consideration of M & A [mergers and acquisitions] regarding 4CHAN, LLC.” The executive responsible for the five-year deal was listed as “安藝”—Good Smile CEO Takanori Aki.
The interesting thing is that the conflict was decided outside of court, the procedure didn't get to the point of proper examination:
>A lawyer for the former employees declined to comment, except to say that the legal proceedings were “mutually and confidentially resolved.”

Then there's this other article from the New York Times about Hiro's record:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230329143655/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/business/4chan-hiroyuki-nishimura.html?smid=tw-share
In particular, his efforts to avoid paying for shit while profiting and other legal hijinks, and Watkins' takeover of the site in 2013. Ctrl+f "handsomely" to skip to the important part. Also:
>(Mr. Nishimura, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times and people familiar with the situation, bought 4chan with funding from three Japanese partners for an undisclosed sum.)
Suspicious, buuuuut there's more to it.

This brings us back to the story you quoted. The article is written by Justin Ling, who for whatever reason uploaded the evidence separately in his own site:
https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-4chan-files-good-smile-company
There he links to the .pdf in question, according to which Good Smile, Brazil, and Hiroyuki would've pooled a total of eight million dollars as capital:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xeAaiBAuRj1iBdBJLW78tO96uV5nvZoP/view
>AMENDED AND RESTATED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT of 4chan community support LLC
See the second page, middle section "Capital Contributions; Percentage Interests".
Here's the kicker: it's signed by Hiro, Brazil's Fukami Keiichiro, and Takanori Aki which Wired previously mentioned. It does actually show them getting a shitload of money for it, of which Hiro only contributed 10%. I don't know how legit the file is but aaaaaaaa this is exhausting and requires delving into too much shit so im gonna stop because i dont really care but somethings up for sure

theres these two other articles in jap that may be useful but reading them would take too much effort
http://pret.yakan-hiko.com/2022/05/31/yamamoto_220531/
https://www.excite.co.jp/news/article/Otakuma_1685326/ {mentions eiichiro in the title}
https://smart-flash.jp/entame/161383/1
one of these had a part about hiro no longer being able to dodge laws

Wired did a beyond abysmal job at conveying this info, but it doesn't seem to be entirely bullshit.

 No.105939


 No.105946

>>105935
That's not a new opinion and not restricted to the political spectrum or even journalism.
Social media algorithms are built off of outrage and this has been proven, it's just how things work in this low attention span world

 No.105947

>>105946
It's how marketing works in general. Before the internet, the word "tabloid" was basically synonymous with "nonsense ragebait".

 No.106318

File:firefox_RcSKTJzHl5.png (10.88 KB,631x134)

Seems as though 4chan's April Fools this year is tagging some posts with "Powered by GPT-4chan", not sure if there's any actual bot posts though.

 No.106329

File:1680306380621.png (780.87 KB,1806x760)


 No.106338

>>106329
someone's getting a lot of mileage out of This post violates United States law

 No.106339

>>106329
>Watch that tone goy, you're being monitored!
How ironic

 No.106340

>>106318
This might be the lamest april fools prank in 4chans history

 No.106344

>>106340
Plus this one is not even original anyway. Specific posters being marked as something has already been done before in the past

 No.106575

File:yuno mic.jpg (63.52 KB,400x500)

The world must've truly gotten wider as of late, because 4/a/'s going to be singing Hatena de Wasshoi:
https://rentry.org/asings
https://boards.4channel.org/a/thread/250448552
https://boards.4channel.org/a/thread/250688130
Deadline is April 12, in case you want to participate.

 No.106576

File:yunofinland.png (278.31 KB,981x710)

>>106575
I am surprised people still post moe anime on 4/a/, I heard people say that it got completely taken over by shounen threads and off-site drama recently.

>Deadline is April 12, in case you want to participate.
I get the feeling that offboarder participants aren't welcome.

 No.106577

>>106575
nice ribbon mic

 No.106582

>>106576
4/a/ has generals for every airing anime and popular manga, regardless of genre. What those people meant was that if you go out of the general for whatever moe show you're watching, you will see a bunch of shounen generals and get mad about it.

A bunch of /a/ traditions are carried on by people who have mostly left for other sites and the current state of the place is so fragmented that there isn't really a standard "/a/ user" anymore. You can blend in fine if you want.

 No.106594

>>106582
Ah, I meant older moe anime. The Gochiusa/Kirara threads used to be a staple on /a/ but they have recently moved to /jp/.

 No.106599

>>106575
Hmm, so kissu streams Hidamari Sketch and then AnimeBytes makes it the AotF and then 4/a/ does an /a/ sings of it. What do we do with this power?

 No.106672

>>106576
It's just a matter of time before team4chan decide /a/ sing's isn't anime discussion and its banned along with every other banned tradition.
I expect 4/a/'s last traditional thread will be the buyfag thread owing only to 4chan's financial ties.

 No.106703

File:fedoraspam.png (195.91 KB,1721x689)

some guy is being a peepee ass on /g/

 No.106704

>>106703
/g/ has been getting spammed pretty regularly for a while now. Almost always some macOS vs Windows vs Linux spam.

 No.106706

I feel like the console war weirdoes are OS war people now

 No.106708

>>106703
he merely wants to tell of His Journey

 No.106715

>>106703
Why do people do this?

 No.106720

>>106715
Well he got enough attention to be screencapped and shared on a whole other board, so clearly it is effective.

 No.106721

>>106715
>>106720
I believe it's just a tactic to get all the threads including the original deleted. The person doing this seems to only do it on low effort OS threads.

 No.106805

File:6bbb0527ce0dd3950c9f84e83f….jpg (877.7 KB,2288x3372)

the Showderp general on /vp/ has been running for 10 years now; it's birthday being today.
Due to mods clamping down and just age running its course, even on it's birthday there are less than 10 spectators even however.
It was something joyous to behold for some of us.

 No.106807

>>106805
What is it exactly? Is it about playing Pokemon battles in the browser?

 No.106809

>>106805
On the bright side Smogon became a lot more open and accomodating to different playstyles

 No.106810

>>106809
yeah if you like playing 100 turns of stall
smogon council can tongue the blackest assholes

 No.106818

File:1393119509653.png (118.08 KB,1221x1094)

>>106807
Essentially, Pokemon Showdown. I never really followed the threads, but I believe the idea was to use weird joke builds instead of playing to the meta like everybody else.

 No.107035

>>106575
Following up on this, the date got stretched until today but it's finally out. Pretty decent imo.

 No.107036

File:8fkisb.mp3 (5.28 MB)

And here's the more heterogeneous version by the first mixer (because there were two of them).

 No.107037

>>107035
whats up with the resurgence in popularity?

 No.107038

>>107037
It only takes one person to make others start thinking about something good again.

 No.107039

>>107037
Either gestalt magic, or a funny series of coincidences. Take your pick.

 No.107040

And now, two posts at the exact same second. I'm tending towards magic.

 No.107052

File:1557090357293.jpg (1.65 MB,1800x1200)

>>107037
Hasn't Hidamari had always been quite popular among the moe audience?

 No.107054

argh why is that image not a png

 No.107055

>>107052
it's odd to see an old fanbase to show combined interest without some sort of 'catalyst'

 No.107056

File:yuno pc.jpg (125.84 KB,1920x1080)

>>107054
Just convert it back into png to recover the lost bits of data.

 No.107057

File:58f24264bf8d6f6d27367d1c8c….jpg (373.26 KB,646x919)

>>107056
Science!
I used to do this...

 No.107059

>>107054
I was looking through my Kissu folder today. Concerning number of jpg... Around half out of ~5000 images.

 No.107078

>>107054
Funfact: Before shii was known for shitchan and his website chronologizing internet lore, he was first known (and made fun of) on antediluvian 4chan for autistic insistence posters use png where appropriate.

 No.107081

>>107078
lol what a dweeb

 No.107083

>>107078
Well he was right.

 No.107124

420chan is back up, and it seems hotwheels bought it.

 No.107125

>>107124
Strange decision for an egoist who denounced Vichan.

 No.107153

File:★コピペ.jpg (1.66 MB,2039x2894)

Very strange.

>What just happened?
>Fredrick Brennan (★コピペ) bought 420chan.org on April, 20, 2023, from Kirtaner for the sum of US$4,200 (US$420×10) and uploaded this landing page. For the full agreement between them, see the below signed contract.
>Future plans
>Under new management, Kirtaner will remain the admin of 420chan, with Brennan as owner. The goal is for the site to be owned by a non-profit organization, with Fredrick Brennan as Chairman of the Board, by 2025. There are plans to rebuild the site from scratch.
>Additionally, a legal challenge will be brought to recover the servers that were seized by law enforcement in 2022.

 No.107154

I suppose it could be weirder.... right?

 No.107157

Imgur will remove all its NSFW content and old stuff uploaded by unregistered users in less than a month: https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029/
Two 4chan archives, https://4archive.org/ and https://4chanarchives.com/, use Imgur as their image host, so a lot of content is at risk of being lost forever.

 No.107207

>>107157
I'm still bitter about yuki.la

 No.107358

>>107207
me too, nothing quite like it ever took up the mantle since

 No.107361

>>107358
4chan's a lost cause anyways. Not much in it to archive anything when the userbase is mostly composed of illiterate, room temperature IQ morons. The only people to care about the archives are the same sort who would like to learn about 4chan and imageboard meta and those same people will inevitably become disillusioned and search out other imageboards where discussion isn't diluted by the 50 ppm chatroom-like atmosphere.

 No.107362

No man the archives are for schizomancy.
Like making those bloated infographs nobody really reads all of with different anon comments all implied to be linked together in some way.

 No.107363

>>107361
Archiving any imageboard is a misguided venture since half the appeal is that your posts will disappear forever once they fall off page 10, but I'm pretty sure 4chan's archives do the opposite of what you think. They give newcomers a better impression of the site when they search for some popular topic and find threads from 5-10 years ago when the site wasn't in such a sorry state and they promote the chatroom-lite style since it's actually possible to stay caught up on every post on a topic so long as everyone keeps their generals labeled. There's also the nostalgiafags who want to relive the glory days once they've given up on being able to recreate them.

Regardless, I don't mourn the loss since the ethos of the site is survival of the fittest via reposting, not universal archival.

 No.107364

>>107363
> They give newcomers a better impression of the site
Bold of you to assume anyone actually lurks.

 No.107366

>>107363
Assuming a proper use of an imageboard is a misguided venture

 No.107488

>>107366
It's not misguided its Darwinian.
Web design is like changing the environment. The sort of interactions best suited to the design change with the design.

 No.107490

>>107488
The topic of Emergent Gameplay is one that overlaps with the topic of UI design for social media platforms. One could go far with thinking of their websites as video-games where the actors in the environment shape the features that the designers put in.
Designers do shape the interactions, but the actors can break the design to fit their own ideas of what something should be.

 No.107492

>>107364
Do you consider searching through archives to be lurking? I'd consider it more similar to sites like Know Your Meme since you're searching for specific information rather than sitting in on whatever topic the community feels like bringing up at the time.

 No.107504

>>107363
Speaking personally, I find the 4chan archives really helpful for looking up the history of terminology and trends in the anime fandom. I'm not aware of any other anime board that has been consistently active and archived for as long as 4/a/ which is as easy to search as the standard archive format (the native search features on sites like Twitter and Reddit are particularly useless), plus it has the added bonus of covering a wide range of series and leading many trends.

 No.107613

File:C-1682972502301.png (46.06 KB,248x303)

The new Zelda got leaked 12 days early and now it's all over /v/

 No.107615


 No.107673

>>107613
Sounds like good old guerilla marketing.
People weren't talking about it enough? Well now they are.

 No.107713

File:1682969655829.png (510.56 KB,680x621)

Heyuri and wapchan had a bit of a spat (wapchan removed heyuri from their links due to their differing rules about nsfw content, only being discovered when wapchan was raided by soyjakparty), but seem to be on good terms again.
https://img.heyuri.net/q/koko.php?res=63615

 No.107715

>>107713
Wapchan going after a more mainstream audience for an imageboard seems like an interesting idea. But, being strict with NSFW seems so alien with Japanese-related content on imageboards, so I'm quite curious to see if it pays off. An imageboard where you need to prevent yourself from posting lewd screenshots and such, when Lum herself is in a bikini and was topless in her first episode? It doesn't feel right to me, but I'm never good at predicting social trends.
But, geez, looking at the screenshot, that was a very naive move by the wapchan guy to actually go to the source of the raiding and try to talk things out. That has never and will never do anything but encourage more raiding.

 No.107720

nsfw content is mainstream, but harder to get banks and CC companies to invest in ad space on you.

 No.107723

>>107673
It's Zelda and the followup to BotW, it was already big. 12 days is a lot, but plenty of Switch games get leaked early.

 No.107727

>>107673
Uh I sincerely doubt leaking the full game a couple weeks before release on non-nintendo platforms is a Guerilla marketing tactic.

 No.107728

>>107715
Looks like he made a post clarifying their rules:
>Really I just dont want any of the boards to look like /h/ or /e/, but to have /a/ style rules on that

 No.107730

WAPchan

 No.107734

I dont know if it's still a hot thing but I think WAPchan could've gotten a more mainstream audience because the whole "retro anime" thing was fairly popular a couple of years ago and thers's arguably a couple of forums that got regular users, so I think that the imageboard format is holding communities back

 No.107740

>>107734
It was? I completely missed that, I think... that tumblr that made fake screencaps of modern anime like maidragon as if they were high budget 80s anime, was that what you had in mind?

 No.107743

>>107740
The future funk and City Pop music fads

 No.107774

>>107715
I've had salient conversations on the soy sites (and 4/qa/ before that) after they fucked with me. You just hide the noise and read only the signal.
Really wading through four of five 'this is you' soyjacks to read the real posts isn't that hard.
Most of them can smell when you aren't really trolled. If they're bored with your reaction you ultimately don't encourage more of it.

 No.107778

>>107715
>>107734
I mean I've seen basically zero mentions of wapchan outside other imageboards, so they're probably planning to recruit on social media or something, like how Agora Road did. Those sites are kind of similar...

 No.107780

Dreamchan is another site that could have a larger userbase if not for the stigmatized format

 No.107801

>>107780
I didn't even know that site existed. The deed system looks cool, but judging by the archived pages, it was ultra dead for years before finally being put down last month.

 No.107838

>>107713
Yeah that got resolved https://wapchan.org/meta/res/713.html#865
Now they are contemplating about banning soyjaks and frogs like Heyuri https://wapchan.org/meta/res/866.html

 No.108009

>>107780
>>107801
I noticed it was down thanks to this 2 posts. I feel at fault for its decline because I knew this chan since 2017 of so but barely posted there. Just a reminder to always be active on small chans because they can disappear any given time.

 No.108010

>>108009
speaking of chans disappearing, 22chan.org came back from the dead.

 No.108086

>>108010
One of the shitties chans and management tbh. Wish it stayed dead

 No.108148

>>108010
>Server Error (500)
>>108086
Wish granted.

 No.108149

File:98000006.png (46.17 KB,1096x665)

>>108148
I can access it no problem

 No.108276

File:waterfox_z9b4LGbSvI.png (16.89 KB,1049x129)

>>107157
It seems the 4archive.org guy is aware of it and took some action and there's a discussion thread about it on archived.moe: https://archived.moe/talk/thread/1694/
Today is effectively the last day of imgur as an image host as it joins tumblr in the grave, although most of this stuff is old since imgur lost favor many years ago with the increased popularity of pomf clones. If you've been procrastinating in downloading any old uploads, now is the time to do it.

 No.108310

>>108276
>most of this stuff is old
Lots of rentries still use imgur for image hosting, and many of them are NSFW.
For example, the following is from the /hdg/ rentry:
https://i.imgur.com/yz5yq6a.png
And who knows how many of these guide images were uploaded anonymously which will also be deleted. We're seeing another pastebin catastrophe here.

 No.108321

File:Screenshot 2023-05-15 0035….png (26.89 KB,532x335)

I think this is imageboard-adjacent enough to warrant posting. Particularly since the date range for affected people is so wide that I think a lot of people, even here, might qualify.

>If you were a Facebook user in the United States between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, inclusive, you may be eligible for a cash payment from a Class Action Settlement.
>Claim Deadline: August 25, 2023
>When will I get my payment? The Court has scheduled a Final Approval Hearing for the Settlement of this case on September 7, 2023 at 1 p.m. PDT

https://facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/

>What is this lawsuit about?
>Numerous lawsuits were brought on behalf of Facebook users who allege that Facebook (now Meta Platforms, Inc.) shared or otherwise made accessible to third parties (including but not limited to third-party app developers, “whitelisted” parties, business partners, advertisers, and data brokers) user data and data about users’ friends without permission of the users whose data was shared, and did not sufficiently monitor and enforce third-party access or use of that data. The Honorable Vince Chhabria of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California was appointed to oversee these lawsuits, which have been consolidated as In re: Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation, Case No. 3:18-md-02843-VC (N.D. Cal.). The people that filed this lawsuit are called the “Plaintiffs” and the company they sued, Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms, Inc.) is called the “Defendant.” Settlement Class Members include all Facebook users in the United States between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, inclusive. Meta expressly denies any liability or wrongdoing.
>Why is there a Settlement?
>The Court did not decide in favor of Plaintiffs or Defendant. Defendant denies all claims and that it violated any law. Plaintiffs and Defendant agreed to a Settlement to avoid the costs and risks of a trial, and to allow the Settlement Class Members to receive payments from the Settlement. The Settlement Class Representatives and their attorneys think the Settlement is best for all Settlement Class Members.

 No.108322

>>108321
>The claim website notes that they could be awarded up to 25% of the settlement — or $181.3 million. If they receive that much, the settlement will be reduced to $543.7 million for the Facebook users who ask to be part of the claim.
Note, the settlement was determined to be for $750 million, so the $543.7 million is how much would be given to, and split among people who sign onto the settlement. Purely hypothetically, if 10 million people sign on, then each person would receive $54.37. Not exactly grand, but not nothing either. Really depends on how many people submit a claim.

 No.108491

Tangentially imageboard related:
A couple days ago google announced that it would start deleting the data of accounts that have been inactive for two years. Since google accounts are youtube accounts, people were worried about tons of old videos getting deleted off youtube.
The latest news seems to be that google won't be purging youtube videos of old accounts:
https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/05/googles-new-inactive-account-policy-wont-delete-years-of-youtube-videos/
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/youtube-will-no-longer-be-deleting-videos-from-inactive-accounts/

But, this doesn't seem to extend to google drive or google docs. This is going to be another purge like imgur that will start in December of this year. There's tons of stuff stored on these sites as google docs was a good way to create a page with organized links and google drive was a good way to share files.
Go make backups.

 No.108492

>>108491
At this point I think it's best to look at it from the macro perspective:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/tech-industry-layoffs/
>The running total of layoffs for 2023 based on full months to date is 168,243, according to Layoffs.fyi.
>Tech layoffs conducted to date this year currently exceed the total number of tech layoffs in 2022, according to the data in the tracker.
Alphabet in particular laid off 12k people.
It seems to me that simply hoping for growth to lead to eventual profits isn't going to cut it anymore, and what they're now cutting down on is costs. Next thing you know, Twitter might start doing this stuff as well.

 No.108497

>>108321
>>108322
I've been sent at least 3 letters listing me as an affected entitled to a part of a class action suit.
Each time the company just weasles out of it because "LOL too big to fail" and they just pay nothing or give me something gay like "free credit monitoring for 2 years"
They try to dissuade you from taking cash, but whether it's $1.00 I wait a years for, or just a single ¥ even I'll take that on the principle over whatever they want to convince me to take instead.

 No.108884

Wapchan's new UI finally launched, along with the boards being reconfigured somewhat. The new themes clearly had a lot of work put into them.

 No.108888

>>108492
Well from a lot of vlogs and tiktaks, it seems like most American megacorp tech employees barely worked so it was inevitable

 No.108894

warosu search does not work anymore

 No.108898

>>108894
We have to let it go

 No.108900

>>108898
maybe we can do more about it

 No.108905

I guess the way around it for now is to use "end date" instead of "offset"

 No.109387

File:1471461581029-3.jpg (118.88 KB,777x656)

>>108321
>>108322
>>108497
I've been considering signing up for this because I deleted a facebook account long ago. I requested they send all data they had about me to my mail address on DVDs/Disk. They never sent anything despite being required by law. It took me months to nuke that account. I had a script running 24/7 for months deleting old posts. I didn't even use it that often. They kept hiding old posts from my timeline from me.

At any rate to this day they still maintain a zombie account in my name and I'm still getting pissed off complaints from people IRL because I won't add them as a friend. I really wanted to see the data they had on me and my various dev accounts because I had to use their API for many projects over the years (it was required to embed the facebook button+log-in with fb account option on websites I made/ran for other people).

Did anyone here attempt to get the cash settlement? I'll contact them later and try I guess.

>>108492
The only purpose with these purges is getting rid of history and proof of how the internet was before a few years ago. Since covid they've been purging old data, archives and history left and right. If they nuke imgur and related places like the various archives of imageboards they can claim anything they want about the state of the internet between the early 90s and late 2010s.

They've done it before with USENET archives. As soon as google got a monopoly on those they nuked tons of old stuff.

They're getting rid of every last trace of the old "culture". If you don't believe me just attempt to search for "The fappening". You won't find anything about it even through Russian search engines like yandex. Despite the fact that it was the major reason why 4chan became so locked down and moot quit. Those two points are often blamed on gamergate. But GG wasn't that big of a deal all things considered. The fappening was the leak that forced them into action because it compromised so many people (basically everyone that had an Apple account+iPhone. Fappening wasn't just celeb nudes leaking out. It contained TONS of information about important people).

Please enjoy smug pyramid as apologies for being semi-off topic. I do not lurk very often anymore as the internet is dead. I try to check in with kissu once a year or so but I often forget it exists as I've mostly stopped using the internet. I would have posted something better than pic related but my personal archives from before about 2014 are now sitting on HDDs I haven't hooked up in years. I have them in the bunker safe and sound waiting for the end of the world.

I hope everyone is doing well.

 No.109388

>>109387
I think that in terms of saving things for posterity, the best that can be done is putting together your important files and trying to upload them to archive.org. It's the simplest and most reliable thing to do.

 No.109389

>>109388
Just wait, if the corpos cannot kill archive.org with the book thing, they'll go after the copyright infringement in their uploads.

 No.109390

>>109389
It's still the best we have, isn't it?

 No.109391

Also please donate to the archive aaaaaaaa

 No.109395

>>109387
I just searched "icloud leaks" and a whole bunch of articles, videos, and even a wikipedia page calling it "The Fappening" so I guess I was smart to not believe you. There's not some grand corporate conspiracy to rewrite internet history. At most, there are asshole mods/admins who want to kill off the nostalgic oldfags who are bitter about them selling out. Companies just don't want to waste money storing a ton of data that doesn't generate anything for them. You've surely heard of anime and game production materials being lost for the same reason and those are vastly smaller than internet archives. The fact of the matter is that 99% of internet communication is idle chatter and attempting to record and archive every conversation of every person ever is a fool's errand.

 No.109443

>>109395
>I guess I was smart to not believe you.
Yes anon those articles and that wikipedia blurb that mention it happened and only contained some nudes is the real story. The mountains of documents, txt files, videos and data that was dumped along with the nudes from ever politician's state issued iPhone/iCloud accounts was a right-wing conspiracy theory. It never happened. More importantly it was a good thing that we censored multiple websites and changed the rules on places like 4chan because we must believe all women. Uploading copies of naked pictures they took of themselves and uploaded to the internet is "revenge porn" and anyone hosting them should be persecuted and locked away for life.

I'm to the point where I don't care if people like you are
>A) stupid idiots
>B) liars
it's the same result. You're just as annoying either way and you're part of the problem. If you can't see what's happening then you're literally too stupid to be on the internet in the first place.

>>109390
>>109388
archive.org and similar websites remove stuff all of the time for different reasons.

What we should have done is kept developing p2p software. IPFS and similar projects could have become a public "cloud" where ever user donated a little HDD space and bandwidth in return for being able to access any data in the network. We had the technology to avoid the censorship way back in the 90s.

The problem is that even torrents have been gameified and have morphed into stupid things like private trackers. Where people have locked up data that should be free behind paywalls and artificial roadblocks. They claim it's that way because people won't seed files. But the real reason is because they want to chase internet points and do what jannys do best: be annoying power tripping faggots.

Go and try to release something like a fansub right now without using a pre-existing account. You will not be able to upload it to some place like Nyaa. They locked down registration years ago and only allow old accounts to upload. Most releases are just rips from offical sources now. If you go to their IRC channel and ask nicely for an account and attempt to show them 20+ episodes of some old rare anime you've painstakingly translated you'll get kicked+banned because the janny didn't even read your message. You can't join with existing groups on the discordz without doxing yourself (gib cell phone number or you're a troll). You can open an IRC channel on rizon and do the xdcc bot thing but no one will ever download your release. You can ask nicely on 4/a/ if someone with a nyaa account will mirror/upload the .torrent for you. Enjoy getting banned for being "off topic".

It's obvious that the whole fansub thing is locked behind a pay2play wall now. You don't get to participate anywhere from public to private trackers without sucking janny cock and censoring your releases. If you dare to point out that the offical CR sub is bad and inserting political propaganda (usually of the gay kind) it's an instant ban everywhere for being a bigot. God forbid you actually attempt to do a real translation of what the chink cartoons are actually saying in the native language.

I can do this with every "community" on the internet these days. FOSS is worse than fansubbing. All boards are censored. All trackers are locked down. All repos are highly moderated. Any new account with 0 followers is a "troll". Everyone is terrified of "leaking their real IP" when THAT'S HOW THE INTERNET WORKS. The best part is they shun real p2p software then cry about the censorship on centralized big /tech/ services. Plenty of people are terrified of using IRC because it exposes their real IP address if they don't use a bouncer. Yet they're more than happy to hand over a cell phone number to use telegram, discord etc. It's madness.

 No.109444

>>109395
>>109443
Do not tell me I'm making shit up or crazy. I was around for the good old days. I know how things were and I know things were much better back then. Hackers, botnets and skids were always around. I might have even had a botnet of Windows 9x and XP computers myself that I C&C'ed from a private IRC channel at one point. People were using these to ddos websites they didn't like all of the time. We managed to keep our servers online anyway and we didn't need some service like cloudflare to do it.

Most people in the /tech/ sector are 100% talking out of their ass. These are the people that claim we need https and signed certs in the name of security. Then they turn right around and advocate for MitM services like cloudflare. It's obvious whats going on: Unencrypted traffic for me but not for thee.

So much has been memoryhole'd over the last 6 years. It's really amazing the amount of things that have been purged from the internet and global consciousness. The only place data is safe is in your local backups. Even there you want to take great care that they're offline. As every consumer device comes with multiple baked in backdoors that can be used to read/write/modify data at any time.

But sure I'm paranoid. Those OPsec threads on 4/g/ are totally legit and you're safe using those services like Signal and telegram. The encryption is really strong to! Never mind the fact that your CPU allows a remote user to pluck anything out of RAM in real time. Those ancient Snowden leaks never happened. Go and re-post the contents on 4/g/ right now. See how long it takes for the friendly local mod to ban you after a legion of bots calls you a schizo.

Here's a fun pdf file: https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/dod/dod060807.pdf

Department of Defense "Internet interactive activities" program. That's all the way back in 2007. Proves they employee millions of people all over the world to censor and shit up places like this one. Proves they bring anyone with the same reach as MSM into the program via PR agencies. Proves that they kill any organic happening on the web before it spreads outside of its original region/website/community. All the proof is right there. But try to talk about it and see how quickly you're banned and/or drowned out by bots, low effort trolls and people pretending to be concerned anons. You're crazy and a schizo for noticing the man behind the curtain.

The fact is the average internet user (outside of AOL) in 1998 would have never put up with what's happening today. Back then if they threatened to take down something we liked we mirrored it 20 new places for fun. We'd even root a Military server or three to host our anime fansubs and warez on fast ftp servers. We did not comply with their demands and stupid laws for things like copyrights. Now all anyone does is comply. They've complied with so much stupid shit they've forgotten how things used to be. People now are so stupid they pay for warez and services to download warez. They're so stupid they take a protocol that is totally public by nature and attempt to make it "private" then cry when someone with half a brain leeches from their swarm.

I for one and sick and tired of it all. I consider the web totally lost at this point. It's the space for normalfags and the corporations that rule over them. There are still plenty of free places on the internet with intelligent people but the barrier to entry is higher on a technical level. It's a good filter that keeps out the riff-raff. The web was never intended for most of what people use it for anyway. It was supposed to be for documents and stateless applications like old-school web forums and imageboards. It was never supposed to be for "apps".

We will never see a revival of imageboards until people stop treating them like social media. 4chan is never going offline because it's run by Five Eyes and the US DoD program. A small website that isn't in their fold is never going to grow into something like 8chan did. If it does it'll be brought into the fold or destroyed by bad actors much like the webring project was. You either comply and let them study the users or you get the CP spam dumped directly from the Government's large database. There are no other options. You will never do anything sekrit or maintain a sekrit club on a global network they control.

They are going to continue purging old data from the global network and re-writing history until someone stops them. There is no political solution. There might have been a chance for a political solution 10-20 years ago but that time has long passed. They are tightening the noose around our collective necks and you're either going to go along or you're going to lose access. We're going to be in a similar situation as the Chinese very soon. What with the social credit and the federal IDs and the limits on what and how much you can use the network. Anyone that doesn't see it coming is living in lala land.

>The fact of the matter is that 99% of internet communication is idle chatter and attempting to record and archive every conversation of every person ever is a fool's errand.
This is exactly what they're doing and the NSA data centers being built all over the world at an unprecedented rate is proof enough. They are so massive they're draining entire lakes to keep the servers cool.

You have no idea how bad things really are.

 No.109449

Tbf the schizo's not wrong about archive.org being unreliable, they do remove stuff.

 No.109451

>>109387
pyramids are supposed to represent a foundational hierarchy, not a tier list

 No.109454

>>109388
IMO it'd probably be better to make a torrent.

Archive.org is simple, but it's not reliable; people issue content takedowns to the site all the time, and at the end of the day it is fundamentally just a website; if the site goes down it takes all of its content with it. A torrent, on the other hand, while not invincible, is going to be a lot more resilient because it's not dependent on any specific owners to maintain its existence.

>>109443
>Everyone is terrified of "leaking their real IP" when THAT'S HOW THE INTERNET WORKS.
What an odd thing for someone like you (a schizo) to say. There's ways to hide your personal information online, including your IP address, and you should take advantage of them whenever you can.

 No.109478

>>109443
>nyaa
The cartel is as the cartel does.

 No.109489

>>109449
>>109454
But how often do takedowns happen? Just look at all the available uploads with the 4chan tag:
https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%224chan%22
There are archive dumps, wikis, board albums, scraped threads, history stuff, images both individual and in packs, flashes, youtube videos... Hell, there's a greentext made into a pdf. A lot of them, especially the bigger ones, do come with the option to torrent them, like this one that's a hundred gigs of images from 2013:
https://archive.org/details/2013_10_25_4chandata
It's been on the site for almost ten years, uploaded back in 2014, and its well-being is verified by a comment from 2022. Or this pack of SHMUPs which HAS to be breaking copyright laws:
https://archive.org/details/shmupg-pack

You can upload just about anything you want by simply making an account and clicking Upload up on the top-right corner. I'm asking genuinely, what have they removed in the past?

 No.109637

>>109626
>We're not going back to the stone ages to live some moronic pastoral fantasy

People who tend to go low/no tech and are informed in the topic are just deeply concerned about privacy and surveillance, because even using only open source stuff there's things like Oracle's surveillance and they see it as the only way in these times.

 No.109646

711chan.net is back

 No.109654

hope this gets moved rather than deleted

 No.109655

kolyma is dead https://img.heyuri.net/q/koko.php?res=64031
lets see what will happen to that soyjak site kolyma operated now

 No.109683

>>109654
Yeah, moving it into a new thread is a good idea so people can post as much as they want about it without worrying about it being off topic.
Reddit discussion has been moved into its own thread: >>109657

 No.109687

>>109655
verm will buy it

 No.109688

so he can youtubepost at more people

 No.109691

youtube is an infinite well of knowledge to explore with your friends

 No.110031

File:ponkosaw.png (369.49 KB,766x530)

4/a/ having daily chapter dumps for ponkotsu ponko
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/253950786
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/253987973
ponko is a fun and cute manga that all of you should definitely read!
ponko!

 No.110032

>>110031
Hasn't /a/ been doing those daily dumps for a while now?

 No.110037

>>110032
Yes. The number of daily chapter dump threads has been steadily increasing for the past few years. Easy way to get a general going for whatever series you want.

 No.110038

>>110031
the shrimp fried rice girl

 No.110388

File:33b5953295774eb5e6da337ef1….gif (6.45 MB,415x569)

Since I don't see any mention of it here, there's a new imageboard:
https://hikari3.ch/

 No.110389

>>110388
bet he doesn't even know that NodeJS sucks

 No.110390

Is amazing how empty some imageboards feel without a sidebar.
Like lynx stuffs everything into a comment box or hides it away behind an icon, kissu makes it all just stand out at a glance. I always know what I'm doing and where I'm going. Lots of features, but they're all right in front of you.

It's a well styled site, but it doesn't make me feel like I have any competition in terms of usability and community management.

 No.110391

i see, it has a traditional frames toggle. pretty nice

 No.110392

bzzzzzt competitor identifier powering up
processing visual design...
whiiiirrrr
simulating user experience...
chaka chaka chaka
analyzing framework...
gashunk gashunk
result: NOT a threat, existence is tolerable

 No.110393

Do not insult me young man

 No.110395

File:696fb2d9be.png (8.94 KB,1105x90)

Can we just agree that whoever made this doesn't actually use an imageboard

 No.110420

>>110395
The theme or the entire top bar?

 No.110421

>>110420
theme's pretty good. But the author of the theme doesn't discard every single aspect of lynx's front end(the kuso parts) and completely rewrite all of lynx's backend in another language(the other kuso parts)

 No.110422

such as... using icons for imageboards(home overboard so on) is just bad. It doesn't work. Abandon the idea. I prefer what's used here

 No.110423

really, the biggest issue is the icons for stuff. They just suck. They're not even using them for anything useful.
And the CSS switcher shouldn't be a predominant item.

 No.110424

There's just so much redundancy...
if someone wants to make Lynx actually good they need to get rid of every single part of it. But I guess the server components of it work well enough for most people.

The HTML pages though... man they're so atrociously made. Vichan has a nice retro-simple aspect to it where it's very focused on giving you simplicity. The Kissu-UI focses on expressiveness and fluid transitions... I have no idea what Lynx is going for... And I won't say that the Kissu-UI has always been good, but it's gone through a lot of major itterations to make it something nice. Lynx is just the same old crap for the past 5 years. And like FUCK it's not even in typescript, what is this guy doing???

 No.110426

processing processing processing processing

 No.110427

hey why did you retract the vichan statement i liked it

 No.110428

I wanted to phrase it differently but couldn't find a good way to express dislike yet some degree of appreciation.

 No.110570

heyuri is organizing a raid on a german word of the year thing
https://img.heyuri.net/b/koko.php?res=61108#p61108

 No.110603

>>110570
marblecakealsothegame

 No.110953

File:szs 7 year laugh.JPG.jpg (369.65 KB,2540x736)

It's time to laugh again.

 No.110954

>>110953
Holy crap that felt like it was just recently what the hell... I don't remember the lead-up to the first one feeling that fast...

 No.110955

File:9ffd2dfc6eabc4322d9c66bf9d….jpg (117.12 KB,420x630)

>>110953
New season doko?

 No.110968

>>110955
Anonymous, it is time to say sayonara

 No.110970

old.sage.moe added ~6 million 2003-2014 posts from world4ch/dis.4chan and chanarchive.org.

 No.110971

File:zetsubou.jpg (440.73 KB,1280x720)

>>110968
NEVER
I REFUSE

 No.110975

>>110953
Much prefer the septennial laugh to the yearly Toradora.

After all, just what exactly have I even done in that timespan? besides despair of course.

 No.110976

File:__ibaraki_kasen_touhou_dra….jpg (110.46 KB,800x1119)

>>110953
I'm surprised it got a sticky, I thought having fun was a bannable offense on current /a/.

 No.111030

>>110970
That's really impressive. Was it specific boards that were filled? I'm quite surprised you could just fill it like that if it was because of existing gaps over certain days or weeks

 No.111312

Uujj

 No.111353

File:image.png (59.67 KB,1175x364)

Dunno if anyone cares but http://lupchan.org/
Is read only now and will be probably shut down completely eventually because the admin got tired of the ubiquitous cp spam

Lupchan is a [s4s] spinoff that was created way back in 2013 because people thought [s4s] wasn't going to be a permanent board, but it kinda kept kicking on all these years.

It wasn't a very active but it did get the occasional post and I liked checking it out from time to time and looking through the old posts. Even found an ota thread back when the first ota went down.

 No.111354

>>111353
Another light flickers off...

 No.111355

>>111353
Man, that's a terrible way to go. The admin should at least give them some place to relocate and make plans. But, yeah, the illegal spam is so god damn frustrating and it kills boards. I really wish there was a way to prevent it that didn't inhibit how imageboards work.

 No.111356

>>111355
there were barely any posts for months at a time and i don't think anyone minds much, but it's still sad seeing old things shutting down

i wonder who or what is even behind the constant cp spam, it's virtually everywhere and has been happening for years

 No.111357


 No.111369

apt remove php-fpm
Instant win

 No.111374

>>111356
From what I can tell, it's mostly people trying to make a quick buck by getting pedophiles to sign up for paid accounts on file sharing sites to download files that are purportedly CP videos. (They probably aren't or the file sharing sites would have kicked them. This arrangement gives the sites responsible plausible deniability.)

This sort of thing has been going on for decades, although the sites responsible have changed over the years. You can look up
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22sharecash%22+%224chan%22
if you're interested in seeing the 2009 version of all this.

 No.111377

>>111357
What reason would the US have for getting 7clams and lupchan taken off the net? C'mon man be logical

 No.111380

>>111377
I don't know about this particular case, but the feds definitely do have bots pumping the net full of CP spam. I imagine it keeps a steady stream of retards coming in so they can justify their department with the bare minimum amount of effort. There are, of course, third worlders looking to scam people or just spite a website, and at least one anti-CP NPO reporting their own uploads to attack people, but the only ones who can do it on a large scale for a significant length of time without fear of getting caught are the ones who do the catching.

 No.111382

By feds you mean the KGB and whatever the DPRK uses.... right?

 No.111383

all feds of all countries
SOMEONE'S doing it

 No.111384

it must be THEM, you know the one!

 No.111385

>>111382
The DPRK doesnt really do spam, much less CP, mostly hacking and illicit services for Chinese and South Korean markets, some for gaming!

 No.111386

>>111384
oh my god it's YOU

 No.111387

Its obviously Shii holding a grudge

 No.111398

>>111385
wonder if they still farm gold in Sork MMO's

 No.111400

>>111398
Apparently they make some Lost Ark bots

 No.111408

Nork fundraising campaigns!!

 No.111420

File:C-1689873302781.png (1.25 MB,1853x952)

/tv/ sticky

 No.111494

Wizchan has been down for hours now and been having storage issues for months.

 No.111501

>>111494
I don't get it. Do they self host their own racks or something?

 No.111506

>>111494
They're still around? Weird.

 No.111784

File:C-1690688206302.png (294.5 KB,1260x602)

So Hololive is having another English batch of streamers debut, and /vt/ is doing election numbers, it's insane.

 No.111794

>>111420
More convincing a shop than Nolan's gasoline "nuke".

 No.111795

>>111784
I'm more surprised /o/ and /trash/ are that active

 No.111797

>>111784
/jp/ got a sticky thread too from the looks of it.
The Jay has had a hard life.

 No.111798

>>111795
Don't underestimate furries.

 No.111803

>>111795
Half of /trash/'s activity comes from obsessive autists that spend 18 hours a day flooding threads and the catalog and necrobumping other threads in an attempt to kill one specific general they don't like. Sometimes they are banned for spamming, but only when they touch a general mods like.

 No.111804

>>111795
/o/ limps along with its motorcycle general, one of the oldest and shittiest chatrooms on 4chan, and trolling/countertrolling regarding electric vehicles.
/o/ is so slow I believe half the posts per minute are those two things, no exaggeration.
I've been on /o/ almost since its beginning when I was shopping for my first car in 2005. The board's activity in the past was a lot of tripfags doing old school 4chan meetups. As you might expect the rise of discord largely supplanted that and /o/ never really recovered.

 No.111811

>>111795
/trash/ is as big as it is because it fills the niche of a furry 4chan board, something there's a lot of demand for but the 4chan staff will never add for obvious reasons. It also doubles as a more permissive /d/, which got fucked over a bit when they added /aco/.

 No.111865

File:3da06ce8833a28b2805e72f2dc….jpg (153.06 KB,1045x614)

4chan just made the captcha letters a little vertically squeezed. I noticed this because this somehow breaks A1111's captcha solver userscript which usually only missed 1 letter before, but now it's completely useless.
Pretty amazing that this script has been working for 2 years until now.

 No.111877

>>111865
It certainly succeeded in making it more annoying for people like myself with higher resolutions. It reminds me of the older google captchas that were slightly better at deterring automation but 10x more frustrating for humans. The people targeted will find a way around it while everyone else bears the collective punishment.

 No.111917

>>111865
4chan's also dropped its cloudfare javascript challenge.

 No.111971

4chan is shitting itself again.

 No.111981

>>111971
this is awful
can't hang out here since i'm not a weeb anymore and my regular haunt doesn't have any decent spinoffs
sigh

 No.111983

>>111865
>>111877
by passu, no captcha

>>111971
>>111981
buy passu, help keep 4chan up

 No.111984

>>111981
We do talk about other stuff, but yeah I know what you mean. What kind of hangouts are you looking for?

>>111983
heh nice, missed those posts

 No.111985

how does someone stop being a weeb

 No.111986

>>111985
Get the weeb vaccine.

 No.111987

>>111985
How does someone become a weeb?

 No.111988

>>111987
turn your brain off and enjoy the slop - i mean cute girls doing cute things

 No.111989

Turned on my mind and now I can't watch 95% of airing western media...

 No.111990

>>111981
Try to find other places where your scene hangs out that arent imageboards or social media

 No.111991

File:FYrh_V2UcAE2lXs.jpg (712.88 KB,768x1024)

This is the part where people start advertising kissu.

 No.111992

>>111988
CGDCT has become rarer than it used to be - its kind of been replaced by pure comedy and romcom

 No.111993

File:[MiG_MuX] PriPara - 015 [B….png (2.93 MB,1920x1080)

>>111991
Um... where though...

 No.111994

File:[MoyaiSubs] Mewkledreamy -….jpg (410.59 KB,1920x1080)

>>111991
We could, but it's so hard to do it in a way that doesn't immediately dissuade people by the very act of advertising itself. People generally expect the worst from places that get advertised regularly. These events can be tricky, too, because a bunch of people at once makes assimilation much more difficult.

>>111993
The only place that springs to mind would be desuarchive's /a/ ghost thread since I assume that tradition is still going strong. But is the typical /a/ user interested in something like kissu? People there generally accept low quality on 4chan, but they like the speed. I guess if 1 in 100 people will give it a try then that's still a lot of people.
Well, maybe I can get to work on the thing I wanted to do that I mentioned here: >>109722
I think 4chan's 20th anniversary will be an opportunity since there will surely be a lot of meta threads everywhere

 No.111995

File:1657788673014.jpeg (91.34 KB,811x1200)

Post butts and bellies with your friends on https://kissu.moe/

 No.111999

>>111991
If someone's in /ghost/ they probably know smug/guca/kissu already at the very least.

 No.112002

>>111999
I actually reallly doubt that.

 No.112005

>>111999
Did smug's fedi instance get pwned?

 No.112006

>>112002
kissu has been mentioned multiple times, whenever somebody brought up altchans and /qa/

 No.112008

>>112006
Yeah, but does the average /ghost/poster know? I kinda doubt we have that much of a presence that we're known that well outside a few probably talkative people.

 No.112013

File:[Serenae] Hirogaru Sky! Pr….jpg (471.05 KB,1920x1080)

I kind of regret mentioning /a/ ghost since it's lead to it getting spammed. Oh well, we talk about things here and unscrupulous people learn things they shouldn't know. Such is the mantle of /qa/.
Sorry about that if anyone was using it.

>>112008
I doubt most people know. It's easy to lose track of time and how things change. If someone wants to advertise kissu there they can. Someone made a "what sites are people using" post there and maybe you can reply to it. https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/255725955/#255746388_2761
If you want the post to stand out use some ASCII or SJIS or even braille since it's getting spammed.

 No.112017

Meguca hasnt been the same since lat left

 No.112018

File:1690831238964170.png (72.62 KB,256x256)

4chan is down what do

 No.112019

File:1549256535511.gif (220.04 KB,266x266)

>>112018
Post on kissu!
And drink.

 No.112020

>>112017
What was it like before and after?

 No.112021

File:1446672687904.png (64.75 KB,243x430)

Altchan threads tend to stay up on /jp/ if they're not too obvious, but I'm not sure if being sneaky is really a good way of getting the word out. I also get the feeling that the majority of people still on /jp/ are the types who are content as long as they get to post in their favourite general, regardless of which board or site it's on. Still, I think it would be cool if someone like the vocaloid posters came here, never heard anything bad about them.

 No.112023

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 No.112024

/ghost/ looks pretty bad

 No.112025

it's only when the site goes down that i'm reminded of the existence of these alt-chans and i wonder why i don't come here more often instead of filtering 50 threads out of the catalog per day.

 No.112027

>>112021
I think most people fail at advertising based on what they want more than what they already have. There's not much reason for vocaloid posters to move here without others present. However for people like the songmakers or server builders that have really long drawn out posts and potential discussions for their stuff it'd probably be good to advertise that to those interested that fit the culture of the board. Since what makes a board really good isn't just a bunch of people with different ideas, but a culmination of people that can bounce off each other with talk about their interest.

Do that, and then as more people start to talk and make stuff others will naturally notice and get interested too and as they come more they'll bring their varied interests with them as well and then the cycle continues until you have an a bunch of different thriving subcultures. The only place within imageboards that has that right now is 4chan and that's why it simply has no true alternative. But with smart enough advertising I feel like someone, if not us, could turn that around somehow.

 No.112028

>>112025
I used to be able to actually do both post on altchans and 4chan at the same time, but it just became too much at some point. Everywhere I went people were trying to stir up some sort of epic flamewar instead of actually discussing things. Also helps that I actually started delving into my hobbies more with the increased free time I got from things being a bit slower and not having to worry about the quality of the board, so there's less reason for me to desire posting all the time.

 No.112031

>>111994
>>112027
I think they key to successful advertising is the hook. You have to offer the reader something they're not currently getting on 4chan.
4/a/ semi-regularly organizes cytube streams and stealth advertises them with a link inside an image (because direct links get deleted). Maybe advertising streams hosted on kissu that way could be a way to gradually put the site on anons' radar without looking too spammy. It also naturally selects for better-than-average posters, because only anons interested in the show mentioned in the OP will click the image.

 No.112032

>>112031
>they key
Wish I didn't make stupid typos all the time, but you get the idea.

 No.112033

>>112028
really it's for the best

 No.112034

>>112020
Lat running a giant blog thread with occasional seasonal talk and a hilarious amount of drama & infighting from a community that small.
After, a lot of people left and fractured even more and a lot of character without the staff was lost.
Idk if the r/a/dio crowd even uses it anymore either

 No.112035

The alt imageboard crowd just doesnt have enough users anymore to make it a "thing". There's like four flavors of board and its the same handful of people who like that type of site on all of them

 No.112037

>>112031
That's what I've thought for a while too, but I'm too introverted to ever really take the plunge to go out and advertise. Maybe I should though.

 No.112038

Everyone that uses hacker news should be beaten to death

 No.112039

>>112035
Just need to get enough of them to congregate in one place and you have a suitable alternative to 4chan easily.

 No.112040

File:filename.jpg (82.83 KB,932x525)


 No.112041

It's not really like having more people on a site matters... We don't even run any advertising for me to get money off of it...

 No.112042

4chan isn't struggling to load anymore, butsys.4chan.org and sys.4chan.org are down and /a/ and /b/ are empty.

 No.112043

>>111994
I think there are a lot of people on 4/a/ who are tired of what the board has become but can't work up the will to leave. Every event thread these past couple years has people mentioning how they only come back for special occasions and encouraging altchan migration.

The best way to advertise is probably just to post stuff that gets made here in relevant threads to give people an idea of what the site is about while still contributing positively to their experience there. You get a slow stream of people who like the content and want to find the source and get in people's minds as an option for when things break like this. Has to be done in advance, though.

 No.112044

>>112040
Solution: Webring with a "no competing boards" clause.

 No.112045

>>112044
Violators will be punished with DEATH

 No.112046

>>112044
Dude, imagine the power struggles.

 No.112047

>>112045
Literally.

 No.112048

>>112046
Imagine the power snuggles uwu

 No.112050

>>112035
was just about to ask if anyone knew of some sort of diy or homesteading imageboard since 4ch has that but most alts don't due to focusing on some mixture of anime, shitpostin, tech, and pron.

 No.112051

>>112031
I think the majority would just join for the streams and then leave after. Or they would just post in the 4/a/ thread you created for the stream.
Part of the problem with getting traffic off of 4chan and to other sites is that 4chan has everything, pretty much every hobby has a dedicated board or general. Most altchans only cover a certain niche and as soon as a user wants to discuss something outside of that, they have to find another site. Why shift between 4-5 sites to discuss stuff when you can just use one?

 No.112052

No,
people say the problem with alternative imageboards is not a lot of people, but it's really that the most motivated people gravitate to high volume platforms so they can get the most attention for their things.
So you can find lots of alternative imageboards, but the group of people who are interesting is normally limited to the owner and a circle around him.
It's imageboards which have a strong sense of identity that tend to get the better flavors of people and attract interesting people to them

 No.112053

Glad that kissu still has a strong meta niche for discussion imageboard culture.

 No.112056

>>112052
I agree with this, the difference between something like a robot wife imageboard and anime character imageboard is that 4chan already exists.

 No.112057

>>112035
I'm not sure I agree. I personally consider myself a member of Kissu, not of the larger 'altchan' community. It's the only imageboard I imageboard I use with any regularity.

 No.112059


 No.112060

>>112050
Homesteading, huh. I can't really think of any places with that sort of focus, but it sounds interesting to me. It's not rare to see cooking threads in lots of various boards, but that's about it. Kohlchan might have discussion around it since it has an older demographic than most. Then there's the /tg/-oriented places that again have an older demographic, but also learn towards crafts due to the hobby. Unfortunately, it's also a subject that some people mix politics into, so it might exist on some political-oriented imageboards that I don't pay much attention to.
It's really hard for me to find places that I mesh with, personally, as there's still a lot of 4chan reactionary outrage branding involved.

>>112056
It's funny you mention the robot wife one while I was writing my earlier remark. That's a place I would be interested in if it was more "let's make our dreams a reality" and less pol9k. I don't mean to focus on that one in particular as this has happened to me repeatedly when searching around on different imageboards. The subject of discussion is the focus, true, but atmosphere and culture is just as important to me. Finding imageboards that don't share 4chan's culture is pretty rare, and if you have 4chan's culture I don't notice a difference apart from CSS.

 No.112061

File:Screenshot from 2023-08-06….png (197.08 KB,852x237)

>>112059
Looks like it's back...

 No.112062

>>112050
http://textbunker.net/ is kind of similar. But has a prepper lean

 No.112063

File:seijo.png (1.45 MB,1920x1080)

>>112061
Oh OK. She defended it obviously...

 No.112065

>>112060
Fair enough. I can never tell what percentage of 4channery is astroturfed psyop to trolling to actual belief at any given time, my optimism tends to make me believe its mostly the former two whenever someone says something ridiculous. Kohlchan seems interesting, I'll check it out alongside scoping out tg boards. Been hankering to do some sort of a quest anyhow.

 No.112066

>>112062
Thanks, I'll check this out!

 No.112067

>>112057
Same. Most altchans have these nice looking descriptions where they tell you about all the cancer they ban, but then you look at the catalog and its generals as far as the eye can see, just without the occasional quality content that makes you somewhat willing to wade through the blogging and ritualposting on 4chan. Makes me wonder why they even make these things if they're just going to emulate modern 4chan. The only altchans I use with any regularity are ones that offer things 4chan doesn't and of those, Kissu is the only one covering a big enough need to warrant investment in the community.

 No.112090

>>112061
I'm checking the archives and seems like 4chan is up in some parts of the world while remaining down for others. At first I thought it was an EU issue but then I saw german and finnish flags. So why is it still down for me?

 No.112091

>>112090
I checked again and 4channel.org works fine.

 No.112097

File:4channel.png (46.85 KB,1634x874)

>>112091
Seems to be borked for me at the moment. Might be a case of patchy/inconsistent downtime rather than a clear-cut regional thing or whatever.

 No.112099

>>112090
boards.4channel.org/... works for me but the home page does not

 No.112100

>>112099
Yeah me too, I also get a time out like the post above

 No.112104

I tried making a post on 4chan but I get an error saying I'm banned and when I click on the hyperlink it goes straight to this >>112097

Can't tell if I'm actually banned or 4chan is just fucked up. I don't think I posted anything ban worthy recently anyway.

 No.112105

guess they had a server failure

 No.112106

>>112105
Front page is still down. This is a new low for me, mods refuse to answer on IRC and still no twitter post or anouncement apologizing. If the whole staff doesn't care about the IB they should just step down and let people who would give 2 cents for it to take care of the whole chan. I'm tired of the current state of 4chan. Worst part? I'm a 4chan pass owner.

 No.112111

>>112106
Same I just renewed my pass last month. Also whenever 4chan goes down I realize just how much social interaction I get via imageboards. Feels bad.

 No.112124

File:thumb002_png.png (1.59 MB,1920x1080)

Does this count as imageboard news? Well, it's at least tangential, right?

Hiroyuki is starring in a reality show where he has to cross the African continent on a limited budget.

 No.112125

>>112124
internet properties don't pay the bills afterall

 No.112126

>>112124
An abduction by islamists would be hilarious

 No.112127

>>112124
Imagine if he runs out of money and has to sell 4chan to a local warlord to cover his travel expenses.

 No.112137

>>112124
i hope he dies in the desert

 No.112141

>>112126
There's an anti-Western coup going on in Niger. Would be an amusing twist to be imprisoned by the military junta.

 No.112205

File:1585890970272.png (6.92 KB,300x300)

Some 3D idol freak spammed threads on 4/jp/ earlier today. He apparently has a grudge against Touhou posters.

 No.112206

>>112205
Funny, those parasites have no reason to have a grudge against what the board was for.

 No.112208

>>104750
>>104745
That archive now seems to be down, sadly. I wonder if the posts are completely gone or if anyone else has archived them anywhere. Would be sad if all those years of discussion were totally lost.

>>104751
It seems the site's blocked from archive.org and archive.today has barely anything, only a few captures.

>>105115
>>104672
>You can add /azu/ to the list of older boards that now only exist as discord channels.
It seems like there's a new board here now: https://azu.nfshost.com/azu/

 No.112562

File:akarin.jpg (234.04 KB,650x867)

https://kind.moe/ has been shut down:

>Goodbye, /kind/

>Unfortunately (or fortunately), this incarnation of /kind/ is coming to an end. This was a total failure on my part, primarily due to a lack of free time and unwillingness to use heavy moderation to make the board what I, and for those who liked 2kind, wanted. With 2kind, I could focus on being a part of the site and steering it's culture in the direction that I had wanted. After I got a job so that I could pay for kind.moe's hosting, I could no longer do that. I also lost motivation for the site early on with all the outsiders coming in early on from adjacent sites that went down, which as we all know got worse as time went on. As for the moderation issue, there have been occasional posts about old /kind/ and the board's culture. It really stumped me. I lost sight of /kind/ as it was back in the day and that made me unsure about what I was doing.

>I've been considering shutting the board down for many months now, and after a brief conversation with an anon on another site and this recent thread, it finally gave me the push I needed. I apologize to the good posters that have stuck through it and any that have left. Thanks for making my brief period as kindmin something I will look back on as enjoyable.

>A temporary board has been made on wapchan. It's a good site.

>-formerly, kindmin

 No.112563

>>112562
It sounds for the best, and the solution is better than discord

 No.112564

>>112563
I wish admins did that more often when they decide to shut a site down. Give people a chance to regroup somewhere. It can be anything, just direct them to a named location.

 No.112567

>>112562
Wasn't wapchan going to consolidate its boards as part of their redesign, or am I taking crazy pills?

 No.112582

>>112567
Based on
https://wapchan.org/wap/res/713.html#1031
the admin consolidated some boards and the users didn't like it, so he reverted the change. They do have an overboard, so the individual boards being very low-traffic isn't as big a deal as it would otherwise be.

 No.112606

WetAssPussyChan

 No.112609

>>112606
Kuonchan

 No.112629

>>98311
/pol/ and /q/ garbage drove me off Chan's for a while. It's all ritual sameposty spot-the-glowie garbage. Just getting back into it and it's hard to get caught back up.

Don't know if I've changed or chans have. Weird seeing altchans going strong. Figured with no new users most of them would have died years ago.

 No.112641

soyjakparty is dead.
The original domain was taken down, then the site was shut down with the official reason being that the owner not being able to pay for the site.
There is also a source about a rogue mod took over the site, banned everyone, and leaked info about previous mod teams.
https://sturdychan.help/tech/603946#p724936

 No.112642

File:C-1692118294580.png (27.23 KB,1207x131)

>>112641
...why was this posted in a porn general?
Anyways, by coincidence I was able to check the site with an -S the other day by consulting the wiki (pic is from its main page) but couldn't tell what the fuck was going on. From looking at talk pages and booru comments it seems there's also a ton of CP spamming going on, currently happening in some new bunker as well, that's another issue to take into account.
A shame, really. That was an incredibly strong community.

 No.112643

File:C-1692120884553.png (38.01 KB,300x168)

what a shame

 No.112644

>>112642
>preserve internet culture
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
RIP IN PISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS fucktards

 No.112645

>>112642
Because all generals eventually become chatrooms. Imageboards that function as Discord servers are a dumb idea second only to imageboards based on being le ebin trolls by spamming normalfag memes to annoy other imageboards.

Laughing at those retards right now.

 No.112647

>>112642
it's over

 No.112648


 No.112649

>>112641
the weeb mafia must be offing their rivals

 No.112652

File:1476426520599.png (316.73 KB,460x635)

Don't mind me, just killing an imageboard.

 No.112653


 No.112655

>>112645
>normalfag
*norm

But in all seriousness, I see nothing wrong with it if the site's structured around it. It's upfront about what it is and if you don't like it you don't have to use it.

 No.112656

>if you don't like it you don't have to use it
Yeah, not like they raided dozens of other sites and shoved their trash in your face or anything.

 No.112657

>>112656
I didn't know that site did that. That's really kuso.

But my point still stands. If you don't like the format don't interact with it.

 No.112659

>>112657
Wait, I thought you were talking about basing your whole online identity on poorly drawn MS Paint memes popular with norms, not the chatroom thread format.

 No.112661

>>112655
If you run a community based on antagonizing anyone and everyone for the sake of being antagonistic, you will eventually become a target of their antagonism. It's a bad idea.

 No.112662

>>112659
No, I meant the chat format. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

>>112661
See above.

 No.112663

>>112656
Yeah, teenagers sharing dumb memes is normal and harmless, at least in theory. I don't think it's a coincidence that memes centered on attacking people birthed a culture that actively attacked imageboards.
It is (I won't say was yet) a place that prides itself on wiping out other imageboards and as someone that is a big fan of those (hence my presence in this thread) I am ideologically opposed to those that seek to destroy them.
If it stays dead then it means imageboards as a whole will receive less malicious antagonism. I can't pretend to be neutral about it.

 No.112665

>>98311
8chan was a tremendous shitshow but I honestly miss it
Now that I think about it everything that transpired was unique to that time, I don't think we'll ever see something quite like it again
The 4chan exodus, the /fatpeoplehate/, the /intl/ saga, Hotdud and his cronies, the constant drama that eventually killed the site, the sheer number of groups crammed onto the website, the GETball competition
Everything surrounding /intl/ in particular was incredibly hilarious like the time they spammed /intl/ into Top 10 and when DudWheels got the entire site to raid /intl/.
The website was much smaller than 4chan but it felt so much bigger because of how many groups there were.
I remember browsing 8chan looking for niche and hidden boards.
A shame most of it was lost to 404 and time
So many memories

/intl/ won

 No.112666

>>112663
the soyteens really are the modern incarnation of /b/fags with all that that label implies

 No.112667

>>112662
Then I would argue that an imageboard is not geared towards that style of communication. They would be better off going to a proper chatroom rather than continuing to force the imageboard format to accomodate something it wasn't designed for.

>>112666
That label implies a measure of creativity, variety, and impact, so I don't really see them as equivalents. There's a reason /raid/ never became a thing.

 No.112669

>>112666
I was always pretty sympathetic to the party for that reason.
>>112667
The label implies some nostalgia for a past they were never really a part of and a stubborn defiance that makes them not really mind being a pariah in other people's eyes because your idea of them doesn't intrude on their fun, if anything it fuels it.
Both of those things are right out of cancer era /b/.

 No.112670

>>112665
>8chan was a tremendous shitshow but I honestly miss it
same

 No.112671

>>112641
>The files are archives, leaked conversations and such. The site was bought up moments before this happened, by someone called "Andy", who no one knew about, prior.
andy...

 No.112672

File:1444670917769.jpeg (78.77 KB,512x512)

>>112665
I especially miss /am/ but /intl/ was great too

 No.112674

>>112667
>There's a reason /raid/ never became a thing.

/i/?

 No.112675


 No.112676

File:6895669e47f29bad043e4be090….png (513.76 KB,506x768)

>>112644
angeleno wasn't always competent either imo. The wiki bunker for instance had spam as well, but the booru is back up. I feel bad for Doll, really. Buying a site just to sell it. Poor man deserved better I guess. I do hope bad things happen to Red for what he did to everyone.
>>112652
sure
>>112671
I never even know who that andy dude was since I didn't use discord I felt very out of the loop on nearly everything. Uni is starting for me soon so it's time for everything to come to an end anyway. Probably forget this even happened.

 No.112678

>>112676
>I feel bad for Doll, really. Buying a site just to sell it
I don't.
>Poor man deserved better I guess
A better kick in the nuts.

 No.112679

File:998f780dd406620845095223b9….jpg (99.12 KB,1280x1086)

>>112678
True, Doll was also responsible for a lot of the sites problems. He also should've fired Red otherwise the leak wouldn't have happened. I don't really agree with a lot of his decisionmaking, why he spent 10k on a babysitting site is really just beyond me. I doubt anyone will buy it from him either.

 No.112690

>>112665
I missed the boat on 8ch. From where I stood, it looked like a site for gamergate people, and I didn't really feel like being part of that party.


>>112666
*/b/tards

 No.112704

Desuchan is back, but in a read-only state:
https://desuchan.moe/

Anonfiles is dead:
https://anonfiles.com/

 No.112706

>>112704
Feels like a lights appearing from a storm with this coming back as soon as tge cancerman site dies. Although sucks about anonfiles.

 No.112708

>>112690
yeah 8gag was definitely meant for people who still cared about GG. don't care enough to use moe or any of the other sites.
>>112704
>anonfiles is dead
Pretty sad news. I've used them to link a few files on nyaa before, idk how I'll be able to go back and fix all of them seeing as I can't edit comments.

 No.112711

File:firefox_saX665RcN1.png (16.07 KB,2068x141)

4taba's server is expiring soon and Vern's tired of dealing with CP on two servers at once so he may close posting and just keep it up as an archive unless anyone else trustworthy is wiling to manage it instead.

https://puu.sh/JN2SM/535e545589.png
It's expiring sometime in November I think so if anyone wants to reach out to him his email's always open.

 No.112723

sell it to that guy

 No.112725

File:1529969244990.jpg (232.98 KB,560x560)

>>112665
Based /intl/ chad
The sharty was the most fun I've had in an imageboard after /intl/'s spirit was carried by the wind. The past few months were pretty coaly but I'm optimistic this sudden shock will make the soyteens come back gemmier than before.

 No.112726

>>112723
Exectly why I'd archive it rather than alternatives...

 No.112727

>>112711
I'd be willing to help moderate if it's a manpower problem. I can't imagine the place gets more than 1 or 2 CP spam posts per day. Usually what I do with sites that slow is set up a simple script that queries the server every minute or so and displays a notification on my PC whenever anyone posts.

 No.112728

Just make it a public archive. Its very very slow without tabamin

 No.112730

>>112725
sasuga absolute trash poster

 No.112731


 No.112734

>>112725
legend

 No.112869

File:1692589499379.png (143.53 KB,1475x649)

>>112642
Tangentially related, "that guy", the former owner of that site was charged with diddling kids

 No.112870

me as the house maid

 No.112871

>>112869
interesting, sors?
thought he was dying of aids or some other sickness, but in retrospect that could've pefectly been a joke

 No.112872

File:1692309680135708.jpg (341.82 KB,1920x1080)

>>112869
What site is this?
>>112871
I'm pretty sure the AIDS thing wasn't a joke, based on conversations I've had with people tangential to him on IRC and what he has posted himself on telegram in the past. Though as with many other things surrounding this fucker it can't be verified at all and should be taken with a massive grain of salt.

 No.112873

>>112872
It looks like Heyuri

 No.112874

>>112873
It's not, they don't have those IDs and I couldn't find the post anyway

 No.112876

>>112869
How does knowing that someone has played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. count as evidence that they sucked your dick five years ago?

 No.112940

>>112869
this doesn't surprise me given that he had an underage polish boy on his moderation team.

 No.112954

I think that imageboards lost their social role. People can upload images with their comments on various SNSs now. Hey kissu, how about starting a Mastodon instance or the like?

 No.112971

Social platforms are always based off of timeless concepts that can be traced back to Greek historical records.
Not to say we are all Greek, but because they kept the best records and it matches with everything else we know.
None of the social platforms are ever going away.

 No.112972

File:off of.png (151.47 KB,1669x1237)

>off of
neat construction that seems to be making a comeback
apparently it's proscribed and considered redudant, a trend probably started by one of those pretentious 18th-19th century gasoline huffers who wouldn't know grammaticality if it... i don't know what grammaticality can do to you, but you get the idea
https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/12/is-off-of-so-awful.html

 No.113059

>>112972
Kinda a surprising trend imo. While it doesn't sound ungrammatical to me, if I say it out loud I contract it to something like 'offa' from which the natural evolution would seem to be dropping the 'of' entirely.

 No.113060

>>101997
kohlchan

 No.113068

>>113060
The userbase is really offputting though.
maybe the German part of the site isn't.

 No.113099

>>113068
if the problem is you speak german then that's the problem

 No.113107

>>113068
If you can believe it it's worse than it used to be. The 'zine made a lot of the less pretentious (unironic Serious Discussion™️) users leave.
KC was getting better before the admin let it die, it's a shame really

 No.113326

>>112665
cripplekike and null couldn't handle the buffalo, good times

 No.113327

>>113326
It never occured to me that /intl/ is probably a large reason why fred is the way he is

 No.113337

>>113107
well my gaysea friend
what's left for us, now?
I don't know where to go

 No.113378

>>113337
It depends on what you're looking for, I guess
For niche interests find out wherever they gather, ditto with regional chatter
To blog/talk current events, no fucking idea
Maybe DG was doing us a favour
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