{"id":10699,"date":"2025-04-28T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/4chan-is-back-after-a-nearly-two-week-shutdown-but-it-still-has-some-serious-problems\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:01:59","slug":"4chan-is-back-after-a-nearly-two-week-shutdown-but-it-still-has-some-serious-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usaontheweb.com\/clone1\/4chan-is-back-after-a-nearly-two-week-shutdown-but-it-still-has-some-serious-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"4chan is back after a nearly two-week shutdown, but it still has some serious problems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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4chan, the infamous forum known for its anonymous user base posting unhinged material, has made its comeback. A post on the website\u2019s official blog, titled \u201cStill Standing,\u201d detailed the timeline of events that led to 4chan\u2019s shutdown earlier this month. According to the site\u2019s own status checker, the boards and front page are up, but posting and images are still down.<\/p>\n

The 4chan blog post explains that moderators shut down the servers on April 14 to prevent any more damage after a serious database attack where hackers gained access to the site\u2019s source code. The blog post labeled the incident \u201ccatastrophic\u201d since it breached a ton of 4chan\u2019s databases along with its most important server. The hack even vandalized the website and revealed personal information of the 4chan moderation team and many of its users.<\/p>\n

The blog post attributed the hack to the site\u2019s inability to update the code and infrastructure due to a lack of \u201cskilled man-hours.\u201d Unsurprisingly, the site was starved for money to address these concerns since it\u2019s hard for 4chan to find willing financial backers. \u201cAdvertisers and payment providers willing to work with 4chan are rare, and are quickly pressured by activists into cancelling their services,\u201d the blog post read. \u201cPutting together the money for new equipment took nearly a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that the website is back, there will be some crucial changes. According to the blog post, the \/f\/ board will stay shut down since the 4chan team can\u2019t prevent exploits related to the commonly-posted .swf file format. For similar reasons, the resurrected 4chan will also disable PDF uploads for now, but will reintroduce them in the near future. Moving forward, 4chan says it is bringing on volunteers to keep up with the workload of putting the website back together. The moderation team apparently isn\u2019t going to let 4chan die easily \u2014 the blog post read \u201cno matter how hard it is, we are not giving up.\u201d Still, it feels inevitable that 4chan will run into a similar problem in the future, considering it hasn\u2019t solved the root issue of securing money to keep its servers up-to-date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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