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4chan is back online, says it’s been ‘starved of money’
4chan is partly back online after a hack took the infamous image-sharing site down for nearly two weeks. The site first went down on April 14, with the
4chan’s extended disappearance led to at least one premature obituary, with journalist Ryan Broderick writing for Wired that “what began as a hub for internet culture and an anonymous way station for the internet’s anarchic true believers devolved over the years into a fan club for mass shooters, the central node of Gamergate, and the beating heart of far-right fascism around the world.” The breached server was subsequently replaced, the post said, although the site has new limitations — PDF uploads are “temporarily” disabled, and a board for sharing Flash animations has been left offline as the team saw “no realistic way to prevent similar exploits using .swf files.” As of Sunday afternoon, the site’s status checker showed that the boards and front page were up, while posting, images, and thumbnails were not working.
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