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So, a bunch of trolls got hacked? I’m not sure how I’m expected to feel about this, but frankly, I’m not feeling anything at all.
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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As someone who has never actually used 4chan, I have popcorn and am just sitting back and enjoying the shit show
That’s the best way to consume 4chan content.
well thing is, they might be searching for a new home
Oh many of them are here already.
It's like a circus, grab popcorn and watch.
The 4chan Captcha never worked for me, so I stopped trying years ago. I used to go there to troll trolls when I was in a mood.
I posted an amused and positive comment on the orange site about this and in 2 minutes got a threat about me getting hanged in the near future. Tech bros be panicing.
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Is that the average 4chaner?
Above average.
I looked at some of the leaked source code and my god the code smells are so rotten its like they had a dead horse in the back for a while and its developed a stank like an Eric Andre skit.
It increasingly looks like nobody would maintain this bundle of wax besides under-experienced juniors who threw themselves at it, and apparently after moot sold it, it was never touched. It runs on an extremely old version of FreeBSD and PHP.
The fact this happened now as opposed to any time in the past decade is, I have no words.
I wanna bet attackers probably thought it would be maintained by one or several of the most no-life, chronically-online users of the web... or that they would be waiting for an attack to get revenge in their typical unhinged way... and it turned out no one was maintaining or watching it at all XD
security theater is a quite effective deterrent at times.
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I mean, the source code looks a lot cleaner than WordPress, which is an incredibly sad statement.
Kill WordPress now.
I'm unconvinced that it's even possible to write clean code in a language as fucked-up as PHP.
Your opinion was correct like 10 years ago. PHP7 made a lot of fixes to many of the problems it had and PHP8 improved on it even more. And if you slap a framework on top of it, like laravel, PHP looks awesome.
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someone hacked into the sewer and stole all the turds
Which one of you is going to hack reddit then?
ok ok I'll do it
Start linking up 4chan IDs to real rich people like Musk or republican officials and watch trump start calling for the death penalty for the hacker.
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Not the type of hacktivism we need but the one we deserve.
The hackers who took 4chan down come from an imageboard known as soyjak.party or "the sharty". They are unironically, in terms of politics, more far right, and in terms of culture, far worse than 4chan from what I've heard and seen from the website.
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Question: what is the significance of /qa/, why was the board banned in the first place, and why did the hackers bring it back?
qa was my favourite 4chan board probably ever. it was a random board like /b/, but strictly SFW. so, they were the creatives of the site. the soyjak memes you see everywhere started there. they got into fights with other boards but it came to a boiling point when they raided 4chans LGBT board, and as a result qa was closed. they moved to another website. that website, or rather one of its users, then spent about a year navigating the very outdated freebsd from a decade ago running on 4chans servers until he was able to access the PHP admin panel, re-open /qa/, and then nuke all files on the server except the homepage. which itself now seems to return an SQL error.
Fascinating. Live by the trolls, die by the trolls.
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What's the point? 4chan seems like such a low value target.
A bunch of chuds got angry that they were banned because they went brigading against LGBTQ+ folk.
This was the end result
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