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Still standing

by ydnaclementine on 4/26/25, 2:49 AM with 62 comments

• by romanhn on 4/27/25, 11:16 PM

  being starved of money for years by advertisers, payment providers, and service providers

  Given the language in this announcement that lays blame at everyone else's feet except the people responsible for maintaining the platform, I'm pretty sure that no lessons were learned, and that the security is not likely to improve beyond whatever bandaids that were needed to address this hack.

• by RIMR on 4/27/25, 11:29 PM

  >One slow but much beloved board, /f/ - Flash, will not be returning however, as there is no realistic way to prevent similar exploits using .swf files.

  Wow, this is a pretty incredible level of incompetence. Server-side SWF exploits are easily mitigated, unless they are using some sort of server-side SWF interpreter, which is absolutely not needed if you implement client-side Ruffle (or just require people to install the browser extension).

  They can complain all they want that advertisers and payment processors refuse to work with them, but it's clear that no competent engineers want to work with them either if they're saying stuff like this.

• by kace91 on 4/27/25, 11:35 PM

  Does 4chan contain anything worth checking nowadays?

  I remember visiting the site as a teenager to check rage comics, and even for the abrasion of the internet of the time it was too shocking for anything beyond an occasional look - random gore, pictures of underage girls, racist tirades and the like.

  I know some people enjoy that Wild West, lack of rules environment for some reason, but is there any content that’s worth it for those who don’t?

• by Waterluvian on 4/27/25, 11:12 PM

  I think it’s kind of funny but also entirely unsurprising that 4chan’s post about getting hacked is one of the most honest posts about this topic I’ve seen.

• by silexia on 4/26/25, 4:00 AM

  4chan is controversial and often very ugly, but it is one of the few old school message boards that allows free speech left.

  Like the ACLU used to do, we should help them stay online and exercising their free speech, even if it is annoying and gross.

• by knowitnone on 4/27/25, 11:10 PM

  they were clearly focused on purchasing hardware over writing secure code

• by lysace on 4/26/25, 7:05 PM

  This is a worthwhile read. Don't trust user input and try your damnest not to feed it into third party components. If you do, keep them up to date.

• by giancarlostoro on 4/28/25, 12:19 AM

  I wonder if 4chan would benefit from open sourcing their website. Reddit used to be this way. Outsource the dev work to the open web.

• by Funes- on 4/26/25, 12:47 AM

  One of the pillars of the old, non-infested-by-normies Internet, still stands. Good news.

• by bob1029 on 4/27/25, 11:57 PM

  Since when has 4chan had an official blog?

• by tonnydourado on 4/28/25, 12:12 AM

  Hopefully, not for long.

• by baggy_trough on 4/27/25, 11:14 PM

  Wonder what they were feeding that pdf into. Ghostscript perhaps?

• by santoshalper on 4/27/25, 11:24 PM

  Imaging dedicating hundreds or thousands of unpaid hours of your life to protect and preserve what amounts to a truck stop toilet. What a total fucking waste.

  They should, in fact, give up and use the time for literally anything else.