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What are you're all's thoughts on the 4chan hack?(self)
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Do you think there is going to be a general migration/diaspora of 4chan users to all areas of the internet?

I have doubts 4chan will be operational any time soon. This is because the source code got leaked, it's insanely outdated, uses PHP which is vulnerability hell. Updating the PHP version and libraries use will require massive rewrites. If they go live with their existing code they will be re-hacked instantly.

So those users will have to go somewhere else.

The only other options is if 4chan relaunches a temporary site with entirely different code from an existing open source repo. But because they will have to run a near vanilla version of that with no familiarity, they will also get pwnd pretty quickly. And for the time they have that running 4chan will basically not be 4chan, but running on the 4chan domain. That or they go into read only mode for a very long time. They are almost better off auctioning off the site.

It looks like they have some kind of code running, but it is crazy slow. Painful to assess what's even there.

https://boards.4chan.org/

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[-]JasonCarswell2(+2|0)

Lunduke covered this.

I say, send all the 4chan users to Israel.

How long until 8chan is hacked? Is the Q-tard psyop still even a thing?

Why did it take so long to hack them? They seem like a ripe target.

Ultimately I don't care much about 4chan. They're marginally worse than Voat/Poal folks - but at least some investigations and news have broken there.

Auction off the domain/site to what end?

It seems like they can do few things: 1) Freeze it as a museum. 2) Set up a new thing that won't measure up. 3) Fix it in time. 4) Sell it to be exploited, a fed psyop, or be better under new management. 5) All of the above.

If I were them I'd at least publish their new roadmap ASAP to retain user confidence.

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[-]LarrySwinger1(+1|0)

It's a bazillion monthly users they have to go somewhere.

They should come here!

But on a serious note I do think this is a huge opportunity for new imageboards to gain in popularity although the most obvious alternative is still 7chan I think? That's always been where 4chan users fled to although it never really gained in popularity. But anyway, I mean already established imageboards have a huge opportunity. You can setup a new imageboard but how are you gonna reach the masses? I guess you can post on /r/4chan. It's interesting that 711chan relaunched recently, they couldn't have timed it better.

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[-]x0x70(0|0)

Yep. I should have kept the image board I don't tell you guys about alive. I got gifted an image board that the prior owner was giving up on and was about to shut down. It was a real dread pirate roberts sort of thing. He was the third admin to run the site and I was the fourth. It got shut down due to moderation reasons. Image boards are honestly hard to run because your haters will just DMCA attack every image or even upload obscure CC-claimed images themselves. That's why I say let someone else host the files.

I had one co-moderator but I needed more. I needed like five just to keep up with the volume. So when my VPS host suspended it I didn't even argue. I was happy to have it go. But if I had instead pulled a Magnora and pissed off users with captcha I'd still be sitting on an imageboard for some of the 4chan diaspora to hit.

If I wasn't already running other websites and uninterested in starting new ones what someone really should make is an imageboard with external media hosting. Send your DMCAs to catbox. An imageboard is just way too troll and way to anonymous to allow such an obvious attack vector be a core functionality. Every imageboard is increasing their mandatory moderation labor 10x for it. With a reddit style site moderation is optional. And if your aim is to run a free speech site even better. That optional just became a certain no.

Now I have fewer users here but it's 10000:1 moderation effort between the sites including spam. I have > 1:10000-th the users here even as small as this site is. This kind of site when run in free speech mode just doesn't need moderation.

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[-]LarrySwinger0(0|0)

Interestingly this is pretty much what Rabbit Hole was. It allowed anonymous posting and it had the Postimages plugin to allow inline image uploads. The interface for uploading was just like on an imageboard but they were hosted elsewhere. There were some problems in that it wouldn't show the full size image. In all honesty PhpBB is just an imageboard with a ton of additional featuers that's why I picked it.

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[-]LarrySwinger0(0|0)

Yo I'm setting up an imageboard and looking for help will you be involved?

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[-]PuddinTame0(0|0)

https://4chan.org/index.php?

I don't post there, but it seems to be working.

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