It’s still not clear what has been leaked.
        • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          11 hours ago

          It’s a little bit of a misnomer. They had tripcodes, which functioned similarly to usernames. It’s basically a password (called a tripcode) that you include when making your comment, and the site does a hash on it. The result of that hash appears as your name. Reversing the hash is computationally difficult, so the only way for another user to steal your “name” is to guess the tripcode you used. So you can essentially “sign” your comments with a username by using your tripcode.

          And since reversing the hash is computationally difficult, you know that users with interesting usernames likely devoted a LOT of time into figuring out the tripcode they needed to use. That’s part of why the whole “Musk was on 4chan talking about being a god” thing is so funny. All of the posts had the username “The Antichrist” and the tripcode for it likely took several months to crack; Cracking the letters would be difficult, but doing so with the capitalization likely took a lot longer. So if it was actually Musk, it means he is such a tryhard that he devoted significant resources towards cracking it just to have a “cool” username. Most anonymous users made fun of tripcode users; The nickname for anyone with a trip code on their posts was “tripfag”.

      • Fingolfinz@lemmy.world
        12·
        2 days ago

        “There’s been an attack on our server. A beast has been awakened. It approaches with feeeeaaaarsome steps. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Are we paying the price for our hubris of being racist pieces of shit?” -4chan

  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    20·
    2 days ago

    it could be the result of the forum running on long-unpatched software dating back to 2016.

    It’s widely known that the current site owner doesn’t give a fuck about the site, and it’s de facto been led by the moderator “rapeape”. Sooner or later the site will die, financially it’s probably worthless, and I wonder where all those people will go. Maybe they could make a federated imageboard…

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      I don’t have much love for 4chan (I do like the curated green texts here, 5 minutes on the actual site was enough to never go back) but it makes me sad that a website is measured by profitability

      • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        2 days ago

        TBH the impression I got from the greentexts that are posted on Lemmy and reddit is that they’re very inorganic, I believe many of them are written just to be reposted on reddit.

        Well of course lots of sites are kept up through sheer enthusiasm, but in this case I don’t think either the 4chan userbase or the owner actually like the site a whole lot. (Though maybe I’m just projecting my own frustration after having spent too much time on that site.)