#email send in php

[phoenixfangs]

i didnt used to understand professors or bosses sending the most short, illegible, childish looking emails (sent from smart device tag, emojis, no capitalization, informal language, just signing it with their first name) for what is Supposed to be important work or business, until i started working in an office

i do not have the fucking energy to respond to every email with a well thought out, polite, professional, human response. ur getting an emoji reaction sent from my galaxy samsung s22+, stephanie, because after all of the reading and writing ive Been doing today, ur lucky i can even see straight

[kratergate]

Hello hello! I'm part of the fundraising initiative by Transmasculine Philippines: PINOY QUEER ARTISTS 4 PALESTINE!

I'm doing fully rendered, half body commissions with simple backgrounds for 550 php! (around 10 USD)

As much as possible, ALL payments must be sent through GCash. (QR code down below!)

However, for international folks, you can send the money through Paypal. (Though, if you're able to use GCash, please just do so. We're trying to avoid Paypal fees/loss of funds!)

If you're interested, feel free to message me here on tumblr OR email me at krater.gate@gmail.com !

(I just put my email on the post bc it's being posted on diff platforms lmao)

Looking for something else? Don't worry, there are more artists! Just look through the thread linked above if you're looking for more options :D

Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions :] Thank you and have a good day!

[kremlin]

I do computer work but it's not very hard and kind of boring. How do I get to do hard computer work? Do I have to go to grad school?

hi i tend to miss these because of slipshod ublock custom filters im too birdbrained to fix.

i worked for a large american technology company which sold business machines internationally for close to a decade until laid off in successful accounting fraud scheme a few years ago. started as developer, erm, pardon me, i started as

junior developer

which is a role similar to routinely-executed court jester and human meatwave conscript meant to soak up enemy bullets to cause exhaustion of enemy bullet supply and finally guy that comes in big gross truck with a pump and a tank and a big hose used to suck the shit+piss out of portable toilet/malfunctioning sewer etc. this is for when you are 20 years old or so and they hit you with this work to calm your ass down a bit. my case was cloud bullshit on ancient rickety php stack. 5% keystrokes/clicks are php, 95% remainder is jira and other members of the axis of evil. LOT of dick sucking and butt fucking. Going into men's bathroom and making eye contact with cubicle neighbor before entering stall and fearlessly making disgusting noises. microwaving fish lunch thrice daily. you get the idea. meager paycheck but six figures takehome technically

next is staff dev, wait, god damn fucking tumblr, you can't adjust fonts mid-paragraph, and Big Text is just another type of font, in case you wanted Big Specific font. fucking fuck hold on. next step is

staff developer

no effective change besides greatly increased workload (click those motherfucking jira buttons!! suffer coworker's asinine bad-faith code review comments that HE AND HE ALONE must manually accept your responses to, on HIS time, before you are allowed to click the jira buttons that start the human meat sausage factory to get your 20 line maximum change into an RC and then release and then push candidate and then prod push!! pay raise one thousand dollars annually (lol). Emails. Now you deal with project manager too. speculate as to what sorts of grievous head injuries that man must suffer daily to describe his logic. his job is like the guy from office space that brings documents from one desk to another but he randomly reorders the words on the page in-flight. make plausibly-deniable wife fucking jokes about his wife in earshot. you're almost at the top of the suffering function. next is, no fucking cute font this time, senior developer, sounds cool right, lol, lmao, "senior" "developer" is like "tallest" "midgit".

no pay increase no workload increase but now manager emails you about extremely, extremely personal issues he's facing and also makes his most difficult problems from his boss your problems. one week will pass and then they will hit you with the "we're considering you for a team lead position". answer:

NO

answer no as this is the prescribed path, you take that role, you are maxxed out in workload, you are dealing with forty employee's worth of bullshit, another one thousand dollarinos a year raise, employer has solved efficiency problem with your sanity and burnout as variables. you're supposed to quit or kill yourself within seconds of hitting 30 y/o. don't fall for tricks. say "NO" in a creative way such as "i have tabulated some data and made it into excel pie chart quantifying diff. departments work output and am considering sending it to whoever Dave is, the guy that is one or two or three report levels over your boss' head, you know, his boss' boss' boss or whatever. or say "you are harassing me sexually, racistly" that kind of shit. make threat clearly.

was worth mentioning before, throughout all of this make as many friends and as much of a splash for yourself as possible as its time to trade on that goodwill, tell your boss you want an open relationship and you're going to fuck and suck other managers, and then find the good one with the good team of old fucking geriatric guys who could never be fooled into working more than a reasonable amount daily and also can kill people with their minds since they have been sitting on the bleeding edge of computing since 1969. their boss will usually be, suspiciously, one report rank higher than everyone else. e.g. their boss has a whole other boss + his reports under him. usually small team. go to their boss, say, hi, look at me, look at my beautiful plumage and captivating mating dance, please hire me, pleassseee. his team will say no, they will say things like "I don't know about that kiddo", "That guy seems like a candy-ass", they will read your papers and look at you in the eyes and say it is not compelling, the boss will kind of hire you anyway. if he doesn't you're fucked. if he does you're now a

STAFF ENGINEER

for fifteen minutes and then

ADVISORY/SENIOR/SPECIAL ENGINEER

and the suffering is over. no code minimal jira + squad of gremlin zerglings under your boss whom you can rank-pull and delegate bullshit to, they will be mostly suckers, take advantage of this. 80% of keystrokes/clicks will be in production of beautiful wonderful lovely .docx and .xlsx's, what a godsend, only in an emergency are you allowed to fuck with your zergling's code, usually in a cool way with bullshit procedure removed.

i worked on high performance computing shit. "what the fuck do you mean 2PB or so in and out a day on flash memory", "what the fuck do you mean special infiniband intel MPI library on CD-R stored in Craig's filing cabinet???". Meetings with company people: webcams off, responses optional, snideness allowed. Meetings with client: you must have your dress shirt starched and white glove the shit out of those motherfuckers. timezones = skill issue. i don't care where germany is, i don't give a shit, wake up at 3am for a 20m meeting i take on the toilet or while eating a boiled lobster complete with cracker + lobster bib. customers countable on one hand, invoices to customers not countable with 32 bits. no fucking mistakes ever allowed except for like whitepaper drafts, you cannot fuck the pumpkin on this one, your actual job relies on your ability to hit a button and suck down a week's worth of compute and millions of dollars, boiling swimming pool's worth of TDP, one mistake that leads result data to being able to be characterized as flawed and your balls are getting ripped off. Quarterly IRL meetings = normiepilled normiemaxxing. Dress sharp. leave at 5pm on the dot, go to bar with Old Fucker coworkers, drink wrecklessly with them, have a blast, let them give you a tour of a lab you are absolutely 100% not allowed to be inside, buildings that have posted weight limits per sq. ft. exceeding 250lbs, such a blast. every paycheck a FORTUNE every dinner a banquet every meeting an email every keystroke life or death. you get to meet /lib/doug mofos too one of whom i wrote a very poor kind of poem thing about. thats about it. hope this helps

[winnielewoo]

writing comms open!!

reposting anotha time because finals are over and i'm on break for a month or so!!! i'm promoting it again because these are really fun to do and i need the money for da #billz

i write content that is self-insert/yume/ocxcanon centric! i know what it feels like to be Very Normal and Chalant over a character, and i'd love to help fuel it >_<

these include personalized penpal style letters or emails addressed to you/your oc from your comfort character, and drabbles/short fics of your oc/yourself with your cc. i can also write ships -- within reason, of course!

here's my ao3 for examples of my narrative writing. if you want to see examples of my penpal letters/emails, feel free to dm me!

what i offer + price list!

penpal style letter (upto 500 words) -- $5 / 150PHP per letter

email (upto 500 words) -- $5 / 150PHP per letter

drabble (1,000 to 1,500 words) -- $10 / 300 PHP per drabble

add on words (extra 300-500 words) -- $2 / 50PHP every extra 300-500 words

tos + mop!

i mostly write sfw, but i can write suggestive material only if you are 18+.

i am more than able to write as any character from almost any media (within reason) but i have the right to decline if i do not feel comfortable or capable writing for the character or the media as a whole.

i do not write for real people/celebrities, unless -- obviously -- you are referring to a character they have played.

most commissions will take up to 1 week! however, if they are lengthy in terms of your request, or require a lot of research, it might take slightly more. worry not, i will inform you about any delays :D

i take payments only in paypal or gcash (for filipino peeps).

if you're interested (YAYY), here's basically what to expect!

determine which of my offers you'd like (email, penpal letter, drabble). dm me on which type you'd like!

i will send you a respective google form which will ask you for the specifics of your request!

you will receive a confirmation message from me as soon as possible.

once confirmed, there will be a wait time of upto 1-2 weeks.

IF YOU HAVE REQUESTED A DRABBLE, i will send you a draft in which you are allowed to make small revisions. after the revision period, i will request payment before sending the final version.

IF YOU HAVE REQUESTED AN EMAIL/LETTER, i will request for payment once it is ready. you're allowed to ask to see the draft/can request changes, but i ask for it upfront so as to not ruin the "illusion" that they have written it for you :P

letters/drabbles will be sent as a google drive link in your dms. emails will be sent on your email.

enjoy your commission!

if you have any questions/would like to see more writing samples, please don't hesitate to dm or send me asks!

see also: some of the fandoms i am in and/or will feel accustomed to writing (not all are included here or are elaborated upon, so feel free to ask!)

mystic messenger, stardew valley, blooming panic, amnesia:memories, bustafellows, ozmafia, picka (dating sims in general tbf), musical theatre (a long long list in of itself), mouthwashing, tlou, fallout, spiritfarer, baldurs gate 3, genshin impact, detroit:become human, invincible, life is strange, to the moon / the sigcorp series, arcane, overwatch, vocaloid, dead poets society, pride & prejudice, little women, everything everywhere all at once, some books (tsoa, the hunger games, the secret history, daisy jones and the six, etc. etc.), anime/manga (my favorites are NANA, jjk, yona of the dawn, chainsaw man, shimanami tasogare, etc.), studio ghibli, satoshi kon films, adventure time, kdramas, heartstopper/solitaire, hades, moominvalley, winnie the pooh... +++

i'm looking forward to writing for you! <3

[tap-tap-tap-im-in]

This blog whole heartedly endorses writing your own shit, open sourcing it as your own years before using it in a work context, and then safely saving yourself the trouble of writing it again at work.

You get a lot of things from that:

1. You're protecting your ability to build off your own work, regardless of who is paying you.

2. You're learning how to use your work in a business context. And while they may be able to claim the derivative works, they can't claim the experience of making them, or your reimplementing them back into the open source (with learned experience they paid for (without looking at the derivative code))

3. You protect your portfolio. This is probably the most important: here's this thing I made, here are the business critical things it runs or supports.

Me, I made a silly curl wrapper to send and receive json from the RuneScape auction house API, now it's running in two ERP/E-commerce integrations about to be deployed company wide as our standard for API integrations. It's also running at least one Instagram integration for a ski resort and some event ticketing thing for a local theater. It's also been used for proof of concept demonstrations of security vulnerabilities.

Clients love it when you show them the picture of a kitten that has a PHP shell in it and then proceed to read them their email through the kitten shell. By love I mean no one actually liked that and I deployed the fix server wide anyway because we were hemorrhaging money on preventable security breaches.

[stingyanart]

Hello everyone! ‼️COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN‼️

✅I offer icons, bust, half to full body drawings.

✅Price starts at 1,500 PHP/50 USD

✅All will be fully rendered and colored

✅MOP: Gcash or Paypal

Send a DM or email me directly at st.iyanart@gmail.com. You can also check my CARRD link here for more info ⬇️⬇️

https://stingyan.carrd.co/

[adarlingmess]

Mutual Aid Request

I am so sorry to be making this post but I don't get paid until I can confirm with potential clients due to the nature of my work as a freelance illustrator. Rent is due tomorrow, I'm out of groceries, and I don't have health insurance so I can't seek out professional help for my depression. I am down to my last 100 PHP/>2 USD.

Please send any help you can spare to PayPal.me/DearDarlingDevil

My art commissions are also open, please email me if you are interested!

[jijingka]

updated my commission prices, any help is appreciated for groceries/bills <3

commissions info by ellie @jijingka

simple: lineless or lined + flats = $5-10/P250-500

complex: fully lined + colored = $15-20/P800-1000

backgrounds & extras: FREE = mobility aids, plain/pattern background. +$5/P300 per: background, frame, complex props.

terms & conditions:

★ prices are USD or PHP (Paypal or GCash)

★ i will send 1-2 updates (concepts and/or rough sketch) with up to 2 edits.

★ may take ~1 week to finish, any longer and i’ll update you!

★ final product will be emailed as PNG image

★ on refunds: 100% is okay before commission is started, 50% after rough draft, none after rough draft approval

‪★ negotiations are fine, but i may refuse commissions for any reason‬

contact me at: @jijingka on Twitter or Tumblr, or jijingka@gmail.com

[argg4n]

UPDATED COMM INFO WAHOOOOO

as per usual :0)

will draw:

OCs/dnd characters

gore/horror

multiple characters

established characters/real people

simple backgrounds

can’t/won’t draw:

complex backgrounds (simple backgrounds are negotiable and might have additional fees while shapes/colour blocks are free)

anything too detailed/complicated (up to debate, might cause a price change)

dm me here, on twitter (both @argg4n), on discord (arggan) or email me @ mx.ie0310@gmail.com for inquiries 💖💖

*prices are in usd

☕ ko-fi 🐦twt

terms of service and more samples under the cut 🤙🤙🤙

TOS

comms are for personal/non-commercial use only

additional characters must be on the same canvas, otherwise they’ll be calculated as two (or more) separate comms

payment thru paypal invoice, ko-fi, or gcash if local [dm for php prices ;0)]

payment is either 50% before starting and 50% upon completion OR 100% up front

comms may take an upwards of two months to complete depending on complexity, existing queue, n other factors

rushed comms will have additional fees

comm process:

send me a dm or email

include what you want, references, details, etc (as specific as possible if you can)

after receiving payment, i’ll begin the sketch (ko-fi sketch comms get the sketch straight up, no revisions)

once approved, i’ll begin rendering, wips will be sent throughout :0)

finished comm will be sent thru email and dms :0D

more samples ⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇

also still doing character outfit/ref sheets i just forgot 2 include it up there 👍

[marbledew]

hey re that fucking post you just reblogged that i have no fucking idea why disinformation like that is still going around. just so you know if i discuss suicide on my blog and you fucking report me that'll only make tumblr send me an email that contains fuckshit at stopping suicide and a notice of termination because i got fucking banned. so have fun when a suicidal kid's controlling parent checks his email and sees that he got banned for talking about mental health topics and he gets dumped in a hospital because no one actually cares about his mental health and has to miss and fail school which is the only place he feels safe ever. and cant contact his friends on tumblr because thats also his only way to access the internet without being surveilled on sms messaging. if you ever report me and get me banned for discussing suicide fuck you. and delete your fucking reblog.

btw as a suicidal kid who has gone to the hospital and is currently in php, you don’t fail school. since you’re hospitalized you get excused and drastically adjusted work, as well as a lot of change for future work

[commondentalproblems]

What Is SMTP in WordPress? And How To Configure It?

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) for WordPress is a method used to send emails from your WordPress site. By default, WordPress uses the PHP mail function to send emails, but SMTP provides a more reliable and secure way to send emails.

It ensures that your emails are delivered successfully to the recipients' inbox, rather than being marked as spam. Setting up SMTP for WordPress involves configuring your WordPress site to use an SMTP server to send emails.

What Is SMTP In WordPress?

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SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) in WordPress refers to the method used for sending emails from your WordPress website. By default, WordPress uses the built-in PHP mail function to send emails, but SMTP provides a more reliable and secure alternative.

SMTP ensures that your emails are delivered successfully to recipients' inboxes and helps prevent them from being marked as spam. With SMTP configured in WordPress, emails are sent through an external SMTP server, typically provided by your web hosting provider or a third-party email service.

This setup allows you to specify authentication credentials, such as a username and password, ensuring that your emails are authenticated and trusted by email providers.

How To Configure SMTP In WordPress?

Configuring SMTP in WordPress involves several steps. Here's a general guide:

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[yisizyaki]

🌌 SKETCH COMMISSIONS OPEN! 🌌

Reblogs are very appreciated. ★彡

Hi! My sketch commissions are open! ٩( 'ω' )و

I’ll be opening up 3 slots for now! My DMs are open for any inquiries. ♡

[SLOTS: 0/3]

🌠 PRICE: 12-18 USD / 250-500 PHP (depends on type)

🌠 PAYMENT: UPFRONT, PAYPAL or GCASH

🌠 TAT: 3-7 days (depending on difficulty & slot)

✅ DO’s: Real People, OCs, Fanarts, Game Characters, Simple Anthro Features (Cat ears, etc.), Couples, Slight Gore, Matching Icons

❌ DON’Ts: NSFW, Full on furries, Mecha, Gore, Inappropriate content, NFTs

— —

You can check my CARRD for other commissions & styles I offer! Closed ATM and the prices will be adjusted soon but inquiries are welcome! (Haven’t updated my carrd yet) You may also check out my SOCIALS if you want to follow my work. ♡

— —

📌ADDITIONAL INFO:

• Sketch will be watermarked. Client may post the commission but should provide proper credits.

• Please provide visual references if possible.

• Color of the background will be white.

• Sketch color may be chosen by client, or depending on the color of the character. May also be standard black if preferred.

• Line width may vary depending on how I feel for the sketch.

• Final output will be sent through Google Drive in PNG format. May send as an EMAIL as well!

• Additional characters are discounted on the base price. 20% discount for head shots, 50% discount for bust shots.

Tysm for reading. Have a great day everyone. ✨

[prajna-alva]

Gophish Setup Guide: Launching Phishing Campaigns

Phishing Scenario : CASE 1 - Breaking news

Objective: The objective of this phishing campaign is to lure employees into clicking a malicious link disguised as breaking news from the company. The landing page masqueraded as a Gmail sign-in page, prompting users to enter their login credentials. This page was designed to steal users' email account credentials.

Install Gophish framework

Make the required changes in the config.json file

Launch Gophish and our first step would be to set up the sending profile by which we will send out phishing emails. 

Let’s assume that the target company is using Gmail server

(When setting up the sending profile in Gophish using a Gmail account, you have to enable 2FA and give app access to Gophish)

Since our target company is using Gmail server, we will use Gmail email on our phishing campaign so we have set host as smtp.gmail.com:587. After creating the sending profile, we have to test if the sending profile works by sending a test email.

We're using the email address adster.matrix@gmail.com as our designated Gmail account for sending phishing emails. Make sure to include the password that was generated when granting Gophish access to this Gmail account. After configuring the sending profile, we can test it by sending a test mail.

This is what the test mail will look like:

Email Template

The next step involves integrating an email template for the phishing campaign. We can opt for a pre-made template, for example, here we use a Breaking News email template, for initial testing. We can incorporate a tracking image within the emails to monitor various engagement metrics, including email opens, clicks, and receipt statuses. It also has an option where we can add a link which will redirect the victim to the landing page. On the landing page we can proceed to request for more valuable information from the user.

Landing Page

In the third step, set up a landing page where targets will be directed after clicking a link in the email. This landing page plays a crucial role in the phishing campaign, as it's where you can capture sensitive information like passwords. Gophish defaults to using http://0.0.0.0:80 for the landing page, but we can customize it to look like a legitimate login page or other enticing content to attract targets. We'll need to specify a redirect page where users will be sent after submitting their credentials.

In the User & Groups section, you'll need to input the email addresses of your targets. Gophish framework requires you to provide the first name, last name, email address, and the rank of each target individual on the user groups page. You can also upload target details from a CSV file stored on your local system using import feature.

Install and set up Ngrok:

Install ngrok via Apt with the following command:

curl -s https://ngrok-agent.s3.amazonaws.com/ngrok.asc \

 | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ngrok.asc >/dev/null && echo "deb https://ngrok-agent.s3.amazonaws.com buster main" \

  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ngrok.list && sudo apt update && sudo apt install ngrok

Run the following command to add your authtoken to the default ngrok.yml configuration file.

ngrok config add-authtoken 2crm6P5lWlbTm4rwoGqn0QSHhPA_6nf7WmMJFKXVSD2SgBohF

Create an index.html page for the landing page and launch python http server in the port 8001

               • python3 -m http.server 8001

               Note: Verify in the browser if it's actually accessible.

We can also use other login page cloning techniques like built in gophish cloner, or Github projects (we used), Custom or by using third party clones (ex-goclone).

If it's a php file use the following command instead:

               • php -S localhost:8001 -t . 

Launch ngrok :

ngrok http http://localhost:8001/

Use the URL under forwarding and paste it on the Gophish URL section in the campaign page shown below:

Creating Gophish Campaign:

Go to the Campaigns section.

Choose the right email and landing page templates.

Enter the landing page server URL.

Select the target group.

Start the campaign and monitor its progress.

Once we click on the link we are directed to the landing page, where we can enter our credentials.

You can find all the phishing reports related to a specific campaign on the Dashboard in the Gophish framework. Here, you can see details such as sent emails, opened emails, clicked links, submitted data, and any emails reported as phishing by the targets. This page provides a comprehensive overview of the ongoing phishing campaign.

Phishing scenario: Case 2 - Password Reset Campaign

The aim of this phishing campaign is to trick users into divulging their login credentials by pretending to offer account protection in response to a fake mailbox compromise.

Users received an urgent email claiming their mailbox was compromised. They were directed to a phishing landing page disguised as a password reset portal.

Upon clicking the link, Users were redirected to a fake password reset page resembling the email service provider's design, where they were prompted to enter their login credentials.

[furiouszealot]

I want to make an addendum to further clarify some stuff since i keep seeing the same questions and misinformation posted:

What about the accounts? There are no accounts on 4chan. The closest thing to that are the e-mail based verification system and the 4chan pass, both of which ill explain after the read more to keep compactness.

What about the feds? There were no feds. I am as heartbroken by this reveal as you are, but 4chan moderation had no feds amongst them. Can't say the site wasn't being surveilled to some degree, but that's just standard at this point.

What else did the hacker do? Nothing. The servers were taken down by 4chan team to prevent further tampering. A supossedly leaked mail from one of the main mods said that they were working on the website and all of the moderation members passwords to access the backend were being changed.

About the exploit? After some reading and a helpful reblog on the first post, the exploit used was reverse shell powerscript, which has been present since php 5.5, and since about 2013. Take in consideration that the current php version is 8.7

Anything else? Some stuff. Apparently there was some sharty spam on here after the first day, but i think they've already got bored? Also i forgot to mention /qa/ got axed from 4chan originally because one day they decided to raid /lgbt/, ironic. /ghost/ is still going strong, although people started to flock little by little, so activity died down ever so slightly.

Now, i'll get some inane babble out of my system bellow, and will add some responses i got from anons to provide further commentary. Keep in mind this will be updated every now and then. Also I'm still open to replies if you want to tell me something about your experience as an anon.

About the verification system - The verification system was implemented sometime last year yo prevent spamming or ban evading, it boils down to a captcha that makes you wait 15 minutes before posting to verify your session, either that or provide a mail to which a verification link would be send, and you're free to post from there. 4chan pass is similar in the sense that you have to associate an email address, but neither of these were compromised. Mails used to verify are hashed, payment methods are processed through a third party, and neither of them were leaked by the hacker, since it wasn't in their interest to compromise users.

As for the images. I'll keep any names out to preserve anonimity, which seems fitting regardless.

To help understand:

/a/ - Anime & Manga

/k/ - Weapons

/tg/ - Tabletop games

/mlp/ - take a wild guess

/qst/ - Quests

/s4s/ - Shit 4chan Says (I have no fucking clue what "Jack Rusell" threads are)

/vt/ - Vtubers

/ck/ - Cooking

/vg/ - Videogame Generals /u/ - Yuri

Can't vouch on /vt/ being shit, since I lurked mostly /co/ and /vg/, but I believe it regardless. I'm posting this because I want to insist on what I said before: the bigger communities migrated to other chans, there we're already 4channers in here, a portion stayed on /ghost/, smaller sites are struggling to keep up with the bigger influx of people. I predict things will stay like this until we have actual news on 4chan status.

On a personal note, the funniest thing that has been unearthed from /j/ is how much janitors seemed to loathe the dragon ball threads.

There are A LOT of posts like these, but this is one of the reuploads that made me laugh the most. Bejitabros stay winning.

Can't think of anything else worth adding, if something of value comes up, it will be added bellow this point.

Also I know i wrote below instead of bellow on my first post. Bite me.

Post script notes:

I want to rectify the thing about /ghost/ going strong. Theres some guy accusing everyone of being some dude he has a vendetta against since 2013, and has turned the entire thread into a troll fest with his mere pressence.

2 million Israeli posters - You may have seen an image going around that claims that Israelis were leaked to be the number 1 posters on /pol/. While the image is real, it's extremely old, and it was common practice on /pol/ to put the Israel flag just to shitpost.

As for more Anon commentary:

People that say that "nothing of value was lost" really don't know jack shit about internet culture. 4chan (specifically /x/) was the origin place of SCP, the Backrooms and creepypastas as a whole, and the videogame boards made katawa shoujo, among other things. Acting like it was only a honeypot for schizos and extremist ideologies is being reductionist as fuck. Most people that post there just want to discuss their hobbies and stay in a format more comfortable than most social media, without an algorithm forcefeeding you literal trash designed to destroy your attention span just to get you to watch more ads. Pretending Anons are irredeemable monsters just because they posted on a mongolian basket weaving forum about what cartoon they watched, what game they played, or what clearly inedible food they ate, is detrimental to the already decaying evniroment of the internet. Don't celebrate when other people's spaces get shut down.

Also, a tool to track activity on altchans was made, so I guess this facilitates my predictions about where the traffic is going - https://eylenburg.github.io/altchans.htm

As of 24/04 (no im not putting the month before the day) an ETA was given that the site would be up as read only on late sunday or early monday. Edit: nevermind its back up lol

If you followed me because you expect more posts like this, abandon all hope. I post mainly about homestuck, lmao.

All right, I know no one gives a shit, but let me give you a recounting of the fall of 4chan from the perspective of someone who was there and has been lurking both 4chan and tumblr for a few years now.

I'll try to provide as much context as I can, but a lot of images were either lost or im too lazy to look for them in the +5000 reply thread in soyjak party.

Anyways, info below:

So, necessary context: a few years back, 4chan had a board called /qa/, which if you know little about the page, you may think every board is like /b/ or /pol/, which means a containment cess pool of grifters, (you) baiters, incels, and other deranged individuals. The thing is, /qa/ was somehow worse. The entire board was plagued and infested with soyjack edits, board culture was a nuclear disaster, anons were incredibly hostile in there, you know the drill, the big bad 4chan, but this time its actually true.

One day, moderation deleted /qa/, anons that posted there got mad, tried to raid other boards, failed, and then moved on to an altchan called soyjack party, which entire purpose you can guess from its name alone.

Apparently, the boards that allow pdf uploads (paper and origami, for example) didn't check if the uploaded file was actually a pdf file, so postscript files could be used to get access. This is as far as my understanding of web backend goes, sorry.

The hacker claims to have been working on this since 2021, and that he had access since about a year ago, but was recopilating data.

Now, what actually happened when the hack ocurred? Well, a banner of miku dancing with a song that played automatically was placed on top of every board, with the text "/QA/ IS BACK", this was possible because apparently no board was ever deleted, they were just hidden from the public.

A thread was then made on soyjack party, claiming authorship over the hack, and shit went south from there. Anons went en masse to talk there, a lot of weird discussion happened, the thread got the bump limit removed and got pinned, more than 5k posts were amassed on the first night alone. Keep in mind this happened at about 8 pm and most of the stuff went on through midnight.

So, the hacker leaked some things, first of all, the html files for the entirety of /j/ and the email address for every moderation member (important note: the pressence of .gov mails was disproven by the hacker themselves, so i guess there were never any feds), what is /j/? the board exclusive for jannies and moderators to discuss actions taken on the website regarding spam, ban evaders, threads spiraling out of control, etc. Among other things, some of the inner workings of 4chan got revealed, such as the web extension for jannies that allows them to do their job easily, how reports are handled, and other stuff. (Anecdotically, some guy got permabanned for calling anons jews or n-words over a 100 times in the same few threads)

Then, the source code got leaked. Important to say, the hacker removed the part of the source code related to the captcha, as to not facilitate bot attacks on the future, and all information related to email verification or 4chan pass users information also got removed, so all in all users are safe.

What was found on the sourcecode? That it was old, mostly. Most boards used code that hasn't been updated since about 2016, and /flash/ used the exact same code from when it was created back on 2011.

From there, desuarchive, a site that archives threads that die from bump limit, opened a dragon ball general on ghost mode, and thus began what later got called /ghost/, a solely text based thread with well over 20k replies as of right now, where a fraction of the 4chan population took refuge and is currently discussing random things with no particular topic. Kinda hard to read, but its comfy.

What does this mean for other sites? Not a lot, really. A lot of anons already crossposted in 4chan and tumblr already, and the ones that din't most likely wont come here. Some of the bigger/most dedicated groups, like /vt/, migrated to other boards. Various altchans are trying/tried to catch some of the flock of users that got lost, but i doubt it will get anywhere, since soyjak party for example was struggling with just the influx of users that came for the hack thread given its poor infrastructure. Kiwifarms saw a surge of new accounts apparently, but a lot of anons kinda loathe the idea of having to register, so theres that.

Smaller communities, such as generals that didn't get a lot of traffic, or boards on the slower end (say, /ic/, /lit/, etc) will probably vanish or disseminate until (or if) 4chan comes back up. I'd say give it a month, don't get your hopes up whether you want it to stay dead or want it to come back.

Given how many anons are staying on places like /ghost/ or other similar archives with the same ghost posting feature, i doubt it will be as bad as people are making it sound. Besides, the communities that are most likely to migrate to places like tumblr are either /co/, /vg/ or /lgbt/ refugees, which aren't THAT bad. Not every board was like the main cesspools (/b/, /r9k/, /pol/). From now on, either 4chan comes back up in a few weeks (somewhere between 2 weeks to a month is expected), altchans capture the migrating anons, or a brand new imageboard rises from the ashes to become the new go-to site for old 4chan posters.

In conclusion, nothing ever happens, but also don't worry, chances are this won't affect tumblr in the slightest. If it does, you can cash in your "you were wrong" ticket whenever you want, i'll take the L. As a footnote, keep in mind: NO users were compromised, if you ever posted there and are worried for your safety, physical or digital, you are safe. Edit: Forgot to add, if you are a 4chan refugee, im BEGGING you to dm me and tell what board you were from and where are you migrating, if at all.

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