Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Question: what is the significance of /qa/, why was the board banned in the first place, and why did the hackers bring it back?
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
qa was my favourite 4chan board probably ever. it was a random board like /b/, but strictly SFW. so, they were the creatives of the site. the soyjak memes you see everywhere started there. they got into fights with other boards but it came to a boiling point when they raised 4chans LGBT board, and as a result qa was closed. they moved to another website. that website, or rather one of its users, then spent about a year navigating the very outdated freebsd from a decade ago running on 4chans servers until he was able to access the PHP admin panel, re-open /qa/, and then nuke all files on the server except the homepage. which itself now seems to return an SQL error.
verity@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Which site did qa migrate to?
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
its a website referred to as the party, but im not saying the actual name due to the fact that it regularly gets spammed with csam and other violent things of the nature, its really a lawless land and its hosted in russia. its not hard to find if you look on twitter or something. even as someone who went on qa before, i have never wanted to step foot there, its not the same.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Not interested in that other stuff, but are there any sites you recommend that are closer to the old qa?
ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
it’s soyjak.party
Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Fascinating. Live by the trolls, die by the trolls.