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4chan is back after a nearly two-week shutdown, but it still has some serious problems

4chan is back with some limited capabilities after a major cyber attack that left its servers offline for more than 10 days.

A post on the website’s official blog, titled “ Still Standing,” detailed the timeline of events that led to 4chan’s shutdown earlier this month. 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’s source code. The moderation team apparently isn’t going to let 4chan die easily — the blog post read “no matter how hard it is, we are not giving up.” Still, it feels inevitable that 4chan will run into a similar problem in the future, considering it hasn’t solved the root issue of securing money to keep its servers up-to-date.

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