I will always believe 4chan was a USAID operation.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
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it may have been, but even if it was it didn't need to be
If this happened in like 2016 or earlier I’d be celebrating. At this point it’s bled into the real world so much does this really mean anything. My Instagram explore page might as well be /pol/
Yeah, they probably cut the funding because it has already served its purpose. More mainstream sites like Reddit and Twitter are basically just 4chan anyway.
I aways love seeing the worst people in the world fight each other
oh no not the nazi site
where else will I be able to read race trutherism, slurs, and dehumanizing speech aimed at minority groups
I'll have to go all the way to 
for that now
I was gonna say Twitter too
Yea why would anybody need 4chan when Twitter is just 4chan but you can get paid to post slurs.
4chan was better than stormfront in that regard because it was more honest, you could fight back without getting horde-downvoted, and the bans only lasted for a few days or a month tops
it was still ass for the fact that threads never got saved, and that they banned you at all (musta got 50 bans in total), and that all the cattle were unable to conceive of such a thing happening
oh well, I regret nothing
4chan was useful for .pdf scans. I have a bunch of RPGs and wargames saved on my computer, plus a few regular novels. Not worth it to have all the bigotry and other garbage, though. As far as I can tell, a lot of the depositories are still up and running, including the Archive. The Warhammer and other Games Workshop drops are the only things that seemed to be down, but those are easy to find elsewhere like VK.
It was sure full of pdf files
I'll still check newvola and the share thread rebrandly, but I'm assuming that without a place to gather the new submissions to those will slow a fair amount over time.
but my boymoder greentexts...
I don’t know how I’m gonna cope without my fix 
Might be alone in this but I did appreciate 4chan for chatting about niche topics that don't really work elsewhere. Reddit is just the same 3-5 topics over and over mixed with horny shit and you can't really have a conversation on Twitter, so unless there's some forum that's been running for 20 years about your hyperfixation, 4chan was the best option. Gonna miss weekly manga dumps and some of the smaller videogame generals.
If 4chan had shut down a decade ago it might have been nice, since the culture was more confined to the website, but now even Hexbear has fucking wojaks so what's the point?
I liked the image board format. 4chan's design with Hexbear moderation would be my ideal social media site.
is that not what leftypol is? idk I can't stand the format
Their culture sucks a lot worse than ours. It's not as bad as 4chan proper (which I haven't used in over a decade because of how bad it is) but there are enough endemic bad takes that I can't stand leftypol either.
I wonder to what extent the format itself informs how the culture develops.
Superstructure: website culture
Base: website format
In the same way that Hexbear was formed from Reddit refugees, leftypol was formed from 8chan refugees, and 8chan was probably the worst large site on the internet while it was operational. I don't hate leftypol but I have a pretty thick skin, wouldn't expect most people to want to deal with that culture
I think I remember there being ideas of a hexbear adjacent image board in the youth of the site but that never panned out sadly
I'm still glad to see the people who used it regularly lose their digital hangout.
I will miss the tg PDF share thread, not aware of anything else that comes close in terms of organizing RPG and wargame piracy
Losing the /tg/ archive has been a tremendous loss for the TTRPG enthusiast community. I fucking loved reading random games in there or the weird supplements in it.
Maybe people will keep donating to it. As long as the rebrandly stays up, the tg thread basically only exists for user support and content requests.
I tend to obsessively read a large number of these, like way more than I could possibly ever run, but the things I do run I buy because I don't want to lack a physical copy at the table, and everything I buy I pirated first because big ass books made on small production runs are expensive and I'm not buying something I don't know I can get to the table (or at least desperately want to get to the table).
I was just thinking about this earlier today :(
r/TheTrove is trying to keep it going on a telegram group but i'm not noticing too much stuff you can't find elsewhere. only been up and running a day though
Reddit is just the same 3-5 topics over and over mixed
And so was /g/, nothing new just the same shit over and over and over again
So was /lit, etc.
I didn't use /g/ so I wouldn't know.
IMO the boards with generals or weekly threads were more tolerable. Less likely to have random people come in to shit stir, although it certainly still happens sometimes.
Sometimes /g/ had some good stuff, but yeah you're right
Yes, there are some niche communities in /toy/, /ck/, /sp/, and /sci/ that I appreciated. It gives "old internet" vibe of niche hobby, slow forums instead of everything gets swallowed by the "everything app" that is reddit, Facebook and twitter.
Like for example, there is always thread about people showing photos and collection of their army men figures and dioramas. I personally don't collect them and don't participate in the discussions, but I like seeing people touch grass, play with army mens and post their photos posing the army men in their backyards, with sometimes hilarious scenarios and scripts. Same deal with /sp/, people coming together to dunk on Manchester United losing never gets old.
I don't personally use it but what about Tumblr?
There're also matrix spaces, sometimes
I never used Tumblr but my understanding is that it's more Twitter-esque in terms of interaction. Don't know anything about Matrix tbh
Its 4over
The 4chan admins made a post on twitter alluding that it would come back. The thing is that the whole website source code got leaked, so they have to do like a heavy security audit or complete rewrite before they come back. The website was relying heavily on "security through obscurity" which is generally a bad practice. Unfortunately, I think they are trying to come back online.
What are the odds that this rewrite of the code will be led by a little known developer called ChatGPT?
YandreDev has offered to be lead developer
They are all just on x.com now
4cahnners hes been everywhere but 4chan the past 6 years so idk my man ,I don’t think it matters
Yeha but sharty did it so im not happy