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Good riddance.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

But seems they are not going back online. Like many sites were hacked they fixed it and is back why this one doesn't?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

a 16 year old made the site over a decade ago and they've just layered spaghetti onto that shitty ass code, and in doing so allowed everyone that's ever worked on it to be doxxed. So to put it back up, they'd have to fix all that spaghet. Not exactly a weekend job

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

made the site over two decades ago

Sorry to make you feel old.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

How fucking dare you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I'm 14 and this is deep
And I'm 15 and this is yeet Here is I'm 16 and this is shieeeet ?
Now seriously it's an impressive feat for a 16 year old to do that but still moreso nobody did a proper update of the codebase WTF!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hard to do on a running system with shitty code without just losing the entire database

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They have two challenges working against them: the user database was compromised and doxxed everyone - makes it less likely the staff and audience returns. Then the source code was leaked as well, exposing a massive amount of vulnerabilities that were never patched over the years. With the vulnerabilities public now, it's unlikely the admins can relaunch before fixing it. Most assume they don't have the resources to reach a secure state.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hell yeah. I'll miss some of the porn, at least the last of it that wasn't weird racebait, but it needed to die ten or fifteen years ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Porn gore and all the shit it had. It was a cesspit really it baffles me how they evaded most of the accountability anyone would be subjected to.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Complete rumour and hearsay from Discord, but allegedly a current/former mod is claiming they’ll relaunch sometime on the 21st but only about 1/4 of the boards will be up due to a lack of jannies.

The vulnerabilities found in the codebase were… sizeable to say the least. I assume the extended downtime is to patch the ones they can, and disable features for the ones they can’t + needing to replace a big chunk of the mods and jannies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unpaid mod, with less “powers” than a normal mod.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. Is that a term specific to 4chan?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No. You can use the term jannies on reddit. Calling sub moderators jannies on reddit really triggers them. They know exactly what it means. It's their unpaid job to clean up the mess I make on their subs and they get paid nothing for it. It puts into perspective that being a jannie isn't cool

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I sense Australia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They are a normal mod. If they're paid, they're admins.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

In general terms Janitor are mods and other unpaid staff related to social networks. I really don't know how it applies to 4chan since I evaded that site like the plague.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Is somewhat believable really, I'll goosip it around and deform it according to protocol.