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Is the source code which leaked everything one would need to host their own copy of the site?

by WindowsDev 1y ago

technion 1y ago
There are tonnes of open source clones on github, source code to run the site is nothing special. You still need users.
- joseda-hg 1y ago
  Might I add, 4chan's implementation isn't even particularly good one
  - johnnyjeans 1y ago
    Nah I disagree. It's the best one. All of the extra shit other boards have just feels like needless bloat. Honestly the JS extension they added like 10 years ago is a bit much.
kaiokendev 1y ago
The site has an API for reading posts [0]. It works (worked?) quite well. For making posts, you'd need to write your own functionality that forwards the CAPTCHA and post timers. [0]: https://github.com/4chan/4chan-API https://github.com/4chan/4chan-API
PaulRobinson 1y ago
No, you'll need servers and enough network capacity to handle the load, an understanding and supportive hosting provider, a law degree or enough money to pay somebody with one to keep you out of court/jail/prison, a network of degenerates to provide traffic and content and/or a copy of the existing 4chan content, a stomach of steel to deal with the content moderation duties, and a moral compass so warped you think hosting degrading and illegal content is "just liberalism and freedom of speech" and not something that needs a second thought by any right-minded person. But sure, if you have all that and the source code, you're all set. Godspeed!
- desumeku 1y ago
  All content that violates the law of the United States is banned on 4chan. I don't know where you got that idea.
  - matheusmoreira 1y ago
    I remember 8chan had literally one rule: don't violate US law.
  - PaulRobinson 1y ago
    oh i guess in that case it is legal everywhere then cool cool cool kthxbye
- jml7c5 1y ago
  >a copy of the existing 4chan content 4chan's content is ephemeral. Most of it is gone every few days.
  - h2zizzle 1y ago
    That's how it used to be (and the vast majority of early content is indeed lost). Most boards were auto-archived starting in the mid/late 2010s, though, with many archives being searchable. Some even allow ghost posting.
- winrid 1y ago
  It sounds like everything was running on one server, fwiw.
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Is the source code which leaked everything one would need to host their own copy of the site?

technion 1y ago

There are tonnes of open source clones on github, source code to run the site is nothing special. You still need users.

joseda-hg 1y ago
Might I add, 4chan's implementation isn't even particularly good one
- johnnyjeans 1y ago
  Nah I disagree. It's the best one. All of the extra shit other boards have just feels like needless bloat. Honestly the JS extension they added like 10 years ago is a bit much.

kaiokendev 1y ago

The site has an API for reading posts [0]. It works (worked?) quite well. For making posts, you'd need to write your own functionality that forwards the CAPTCHA and post timers. [0]: https://github.com/4chan/4chan-API https://github.com/4chan/4chan-API

PaulRobinson 1y ago

No, you'll need servers and enough network capacity to handle the load, an understanding and supportive hosting provider, a law degree or enough money to pay somebody with one to keep you out of court/jail/prison, a network of degenerates to provide traffic and content and/or a copy of the existing 4chan content, a stomach of steel to deal with the content moderation duties, and a moral compass so warped you think hosting degrading and illegal content is "just liberalism and freedom of speech" and not something that needs a second thought by any right-minded person. But sure, if you have all that and the source code, you're all set. Godspeed!

desumeku 1y ago
All content that violates the law of the United States is banned on 4chan. I don't know where you got that idea.
- matheusmoreira 1y ago
  I remember 8chan had literally one rule: don't violate US law.
- PaulRobinson 1y ago
  oh i guess in that case it is legal everywhere then cool cool cool kthxbye
jml7c5 1y ago
>a copy of the existing 4chan content 4chan's content is ephemeral. Most of it is gone every few days.
- h2zizzle 1y ago
  That's how it used to be (and the vast majority of early content is indeed lost). Most boards were auto-archived starting in the mid/late 2010s, though, with many archives being searchable. Some even allow ghost posting.
winrid 1y ago
It sounds like everything was running on one server, fwiw.

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