Greentexts, memes, everything 4chan.
Slurs
Slurs
Not sure if this is against the rules or not
The IPs of all janitors and admins have been leaked
4chan's entire tech stack is built of outdated and insecure myPHP
Not sure where the source code is from but I think it's the forum that did all of this in the first place
Cool. It’s 4 chan. What exactly are you gonna expose lol
Apparently some admins had their personal emaild registered, and I heard posts caught the IP of posters.
Of course its php
That's not a surprise, nor was it unknown. Pretty much all pre-"social media" discussion sites were PHP. Myspace probably was, too. PHP also isn't intrinsically insecure, it just doesn't lend itself very easily to security.
Nothing wrong with php, except not updating it.
Early internet website, php is expected tbh
They prob have infinite tech debt to even consider converting to anything because I doubt they expected 4chan to still be alive in 2025, plus I'm decently sure all funds are being to keep the website alive and not hiring
Was something of value lost?
The /GROG/ threads in /tg/ were a constant source of good posts by Oldhammer players and a great resource for links to Oldhammer content that would otherwise be difficult to find.
/WIP/ on /tg/ has given me a lot of great tips throughout the years.
More recently, the Trench Crusade and MCP threads tend to be good for discussion and updates (when they aren't being raided by posters looking to call everything bad just to rustle people).
/k/ has gotten a lot more boring in the last few years as pretty much none of the original crew of tripposters are around anymore, but it can still produce the occasional nugget of good info, and usually has at least a couple of interesting picture threads up. I will say during the initial 2022 invasion times in Ukraine, /k/ had pretty much up to the minute updates and daily info threads for a few years.
No, in fact we might begin healing. 🙏
nope
Pool's closed.
Leaked Source Code: https://litter.catbox.moe/a8z45n.7z
141K LoC, of which 63K PHP, 45K JS and 31K CSS.
Tokei output:
===============================================================================
Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
===============================================================================
CSS 31 39203 31318 959 6926
INI 89 4269 1833 1401 1035
JavaScript 20 55986 45105 1023 9858
PHP 104 93517 63143 15032 15342
Rakefile 1 109 77 8 24
Ruby 1 74 57 2 15
Plain Text 135 2609 0 2507 102
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HTML 2 83 83 0 0
|- CSS 1 4 4 0 0
|- JavaScript 1 78 60 0 18
(Total) 165 147 0 18
===============================================================================
Total 383 195850 141616 20932 33302
===============================================================================
I know it's a 7z, but still not even a megabyte. That's really impressive.
Not really, source code zips ridiculously well. A prolific and dedicated coder could probably fit their entire life's work minus assets on 5 floppy discs
I comment in base64 images
Not me. I code in a big font
I mean, this is only source code in text form, there's no assets or anything in the leak. They also don't use composer or any package manager, so there's no large dependencies in the project.
there’s no large dependencies in the project.
The one fucking thing 4chan does right and not even the big boys try
quite a welcome change that this leak is tiny unlike most others lol
it feels like this is big news but I can't seem to get myself to care
This is a huge blow to the Russian misinfo machine, unironically. If its down for a while, it will have some big effects
QAnon literally started on 4chan so yeah, definitely!
Why's anyone surprised this happened? Was 4chan supposed to be a super up to date and modern website?
Maybe because it used to be an important place for hacktivists like Anonymous. So, it was probably an obvious hacking target that could have learned to protect itself better.
Holy shit. Has this ever happened before?
4chan's had leaks before but it was nothing compared to this
Wouldn’t the hackers be able to release more info about the infamous “Q”? Like IP address or something?
It depends how far back the records go. As far as I know there hasn't been an actual Qanon post in approximately 7 years.
Q was 8chan
Qanon was a tripcode poster on /pol/, and a successor to the less famous FBIanon which was probably the same person.
The whole Qanon phenomenon is really fascinating because the actual Qanon poster stopped posting in like, 2018, but because boomers on Facebook don't know how anything works they'd just keep circulating that "Qanon said such and such" to each other on Facebook. It stopped being anything said by a specific poster on 4chan and started to just become this strange ethereal concept.
No, 8Chan was the Gamergate nonsense. 4chan is where Q started.
Is this the work of the mysterious hacker 4 chan?
I wish I cared. But have fun whoever wants this I guess.