It just added a hash of the password to your posts so that others could verify which user made the post. These hashes were easily cracked though. The username could be anything you want. There was no account creation
Comment on 4chan’s ‘cesspool of the internet’ is down after apparently being hacked
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoI haven’t used 4chan since like 2008, so no idea how its changed.
I do remember a username/password mechanic but can’t remember how it worked.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Trip codes are I think what you’re taking about, not all boards had them enabled but they were a way of authenticating a user on the boards that did