requesting images to mourn over /r/'s sudden death
Is it dead dead or just glitched out for now?
>>1565948they updated the frontpage, the rules and even the report options
>>1565948If it is dead then all they have done is turned off its life support machine. /r/ died in reality when it was overrun with AI requests. same girls being spammed in every single thread, it was like watching a relative slowly die of a terminal illness.i hope to god it's actually dead!
>>1565949
stop blaming India for /r/ going down
/r/ was shit.https://archive.is/2026.05.21-102104/https://www.wired.com/story/4chans-misogynist-wizards-are-nudifying-women-by-request/only sad part is there is no place to ask for hentai sauce on 4chins currently.
>>1565948its suspected to have something to do with the take it down act (which came into effect on may 19th) and the news article i just postedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAKE_IT_DOWN_Act
maybe this'll finally kill the bloated corpse that is /b/
>>1565967man how the fuck did /r/ get yeeted before /b/
>>1565970/b/ is not getting removed before its 1B post
>>1565964>only sad part is there is no place to ask for hentai sauce on 4chins currently.That wasn't even possible on /r/ for several years (well, you could ask, to no avail), so those requests would overflow to here
>>>/r/>File not found.
4chan in general is clearly suffering death by a thousand cuts. It's a relic from another age. A website like this can't exist with the profile/prominence it has in an internet full of AI shitAnyone with any brains has long since moved to the indie web, including smaller imageboards/textboards. I only come here to /wsr/ because it has enough traffic to get people to respond quickly.And nothing of value was lost.(Except /f/. /f/ dying is a legitimate tragedy. There was nothing quite like it anywhere on the web.)
I had not visited /r/ for a while.Were these edit threads for IRL women super busy, like the only active threads on the board?It's not a good sign that 4chan bends the knee so quickly to this sort of thing. What does that say about the future of other boards? Are they suddenly going to ban AI now?Remember that it was discovered during the hack, that janitors wanted an AI board, but the idea was struck down from those above them.They could have made it a red board, allow for loli, furry, and put all the AI crap on the site in one place. Then, they could have made a sticky saying "no IRL edits". Then /r/ could have been kept alive.But these are the same people who killed /f/ because they are too fucking lazy to improve the site and find proper solutions to fix things. Instead, they'd rather just close boards.>>>/trash/82963852
>>1565992Smaller imageboards/textboards are all too slow and dead. If they weren't, I wouldn't be here, honestly. also rip /f/>>1566019Contemporary /r/ was just full of 3DPD and AI shit, I don't care about its death much. They could've fixed things instead of killing the board but whatever, welcome to new 4chan. It will only get worse.>TAKE IT DOWN ActLiterally nothing, look up Parents Decide Act. Everyone is fucked if that passes.
>>1566019>Were these edit threads for IRL women super busy, like the only active threads on the board?Yes. Pic related was my front page most of the time after filtering out all the keywords used by slop beggars.>Are they suddenly going to ban AI now?inshallah
>>1566019>Were these edit threads for IRL women super busy, like the only active threads on the board?Any threads not using the words "nudify" or "wizard" (/r/ cultural phrase for people capable of using AI) would be completely ignored and pushed off page 10 in maybe 12 hours. The board was unusable garbage, nothing of value was lost
It was a pointless board, as said here>>>/vg/567854048
>>15660204chan dies slowly by removing boards, one by one...>>1566021Were these irl edit threads, were they around for a long time?>>1566022Gotcha.Honestly they should get rid of /wsr/ as well, it's a slow board and its better to ask for things on the board you are on.
>>1565992What anime is that gif parodying?
>>1566019>Were these edit threads for IRL women super busy, like the only active threads on the board?The board was hijacked by endless AI requests, it died in spirit long before they deleted it. They could have given ai its own request board, but the janitors would have been working overtime on /r/ to remove every ai request since no one ever reads shit.One possible solution would maybe have been to only let the OP post and image, with all responses limited to text only. Don't know if the board software can do that, but it would certainly have been a way to limit it to being just a source request board again as the only replies could be in text.
>>1566024The archive is still up (for now), it's a pretty accurate snapshot of what the board ended up being like.https://archiveofsins.com/rA couple years ago there used to be a trend of requesting "bubble" edits (covering up parts of swimsuits/clothes to make it look like a censored nude, you can search it in the archive for examples) and that gradually got popular enough to push 90% of the normal source request threads off the board. Then those got replaced with nudeshop requests, then the slop-pocalypse happened and suddenly /r/ was the de facto deepfake board. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did.
>>1566026>One possible solution would maybe have been to only let the OP post and image, with all responses limited to text only. Don't know if the board software can do that>>>/news/
>>1566028Thanks, wasn't familiar with that board. Guess they had an answer, but either never thought of it or went with the faster option.
>>1565970/b/ is literally run by the FBI. Only board which never asked for new janitors because they got their us government paid mods and posters.
>>1565975>That wasn't even possible on /r/ for several years (well, you could ask, to no avail), so those requests would overflow to herei did it successfully a few times in 2025/2026.
>>1566027I remember seeing a bubble thread on /b/ MAAAANY years ago. I found it hot for 1 thread and then moved on. Years later I foudn out that was the mormons doing it because their retarded ruleset allows no nudity or some shit. Like the dryhumping where thy lay naked on each other and have a pal jump on the bed to make them fuck without them doing the fucking.
>>1566026>One possible solution would maybe have been to only let the OP post and image, with all responses limited to text only. Don't know if the board software can do that, but it would certainly have been a way to limit it to being just a source request board again as the only replies could be in text.>>1566028>>1566030That might be a viable option but it might be awkward in some niche cases where the original drawing is deleted.
>>1566031no, that's because /b/ is supposed to be moderated only by modsthis "rule" is also present on boards with /b/ settings like /s4s/ and /bant/
>>1566033>the mormonsChrist who can seriously believe in this heretic nonsense?
>>1566033>the dryhumping where thy lay naked on each other and have a pal jump on the bed to make them fuck without them doing the fucking.That's a myth.
>>1565992Remember, /f/ didn't die, it was KILLED.There was no legitimate reason to take /f/ down.
>>1566025evangelion
>>1565962I'm not gonna do that
>>1566047up.php looks/looked like unmaintainable garbage
>>1565964Post it in a relevant thread on /h/, /d/, or /u/ then ask about it in another post. Google reverse image search is also significantly better than it was.
>>1566053>Google reverse image search is also significantly better than it was.no its gotten worse in some areas. it often wont accept hentai as a search image.and it sometimes has trouble finding stuff on twitter due to the log in wall.
>>1566047Are there any other imageboards that allow for flash files? It's already been a year and I still feel the emptiness inside
>>1566020>Smaller imageboards/textboards are all too slow and dead. If they weren't, I wouldn't be here, honestly. also rip /f/A. That's not even trueB. This just shows you've been overdosing on dopamine. At this point 4chan is basically a social media skinner box but with 'likes' replaced with '(You)'s. Although it's been like that for over a decade now so IDK.
>>1565965May 19 of last year.
>>1566062>That's not even trueWell, yes. All of them? No. Most of them? Yeah, it seems that way. I have several imageboard lists saved somewhere but I don't really want to wade through excess gore and cheese, maybe even malware and phishing urls, to find something somewhat tolerable. I'll be forced to do it anyway if 4chan dies.>This just shows you've been overdosing on dopamine.Like 95% of the population. But true.>At this point 4chan is basically a social media skinner box but with 'likes' replaced with '(You)'s. Although it's been like that for over a decade now so IDK.Correct. I don't know, there's no better site that's as active as this heap of crap. It's all bad.
They're going after rule34 sites and the lots too. AI literally ruined the internet, I mean AI literally ruined sad panda with the constant AI upload spams that they removed pages and replaced it with a "date selector" because maintaining the cost of servers is too expensive.
>>1566053You should also try Yandex. It's generally a shit engine, but when it comes to images, it's really good. Don't forget to use ublock though.>>1566061Most of them are ghost towns getting like 1 post a month. And the few that get some activity just aren't the same as /f/. Some that I can think of the top of my head are:>swfchan.net>7chan.org>kissu.moe>hikari3.ch>heyuri.netOut of these, Heyuri has the most activity, but I heard that it's run by people who got the site by flooding it with cp and then offering the original owner for them to take over the site that has been generating him problems, so I don't really go there.>>1566062Idk, boards like /b/ were pretty fast even back in the day. Unless you're out of touch with time(I don't mean this as an insult, it happens to me sometimes too) and think that 10 years ago was like 2007 or something
>>1565964No way this one article is the reason that /r/ got nuked, also the languages used reads like something of 2015, it feels like a time capsule to the tumblr days.
>>1566066>but I don't really want to wade through excess gore and cheese, maybe even malware and phishing urls, to find something somewhat tolerableHow did you even find this site with that attitude?
>>1566061>imageboardsanon...Anyway, yes there are, but nothing like a dedicated fileboard like /f/ was, just stupid vichan sites that add swf to their allowed filetypes. I haven't seen one in a while, but I doubt any of those even have ruffle embeds.We're left with pretty much just swfchan.(Also while we're huffing nostalgia fumes, even all the m0ar clones I was aware of have been taken down except dagobah.)
>>1566073>but nothing like a dedicated fileboard like /f/ wasWelp >>1566068 proved me wrong lmao
>>1566067Didn't e-hentai also change shit to webp?I tried to save something there recently and its fucking WEBP. Why the fuck would they do that?Also why would e-hentai ever allow shitty AI to clog up their servers? Site should be for real art only. Too many websites allowing AI and they are getting overloaded with too much slop that will hit on storage and server costs.
>>1566073>>1566068>>1566047>>1565992At least we still have https://0x40.mon.im/
>>1566075>Didn't e-hentai also change shit to webp?>I tried to save something there recently and its fucking WEBP. Why the fuck would they do that?There's an alternative timeline where JPEG 2000 didn't flop and everything was wonderful
You guys 'member /rs/?/q/?The textboards?I 'member
>>1566078I've got some stuff downloaded from /rs/ that seems to no longer exist on the internetI also remember /5/
>>1566079>I've got some stuff downloaded from /rs/ that seems to no longer exist on the internetI have a bunch of similar stuff too, garbage that I'm pretty sure only exists on my HDD now and literally nowhere else.I often wonder what to do with it. I uploaded some to archive.org but some of that stuff is a bit too /b/ and edgy for that.
>>1566078/fk/ reporting in.
While there are some oldfags lurking here, go look at what /hr/ has becomePretty funny NGL
>>1566079What was /5/?>>1566080What type of stuff to you have?>>1566081What was /fk/?
>>1566083Why did you make me aware of this?
>>1566085>/5/shitpost about number 5>/fk/a fake board "for kids!" with only one postt. newfag who does research
>>1566075>Didn't e-hentai also change shit to webp?>I tried to save something there recently and its fucking WEBP. Why the fuck would they do that?That's a perfectly valid image format here in 2026. If your image viewer doesn't support it, change image viewers. I have no idea why 4chan doesn't support it
>>1566088>That's a perfectly valid image format here in 2026it's as valid as fucking tranniesvideo codecs are not image formats
>>1566088>That's a perfectly valid image format here in 2026No it is not. First, it's one of Google's godless abominations. Second, it's literally NOT AN IMAGE FORMAT. No, I'm not kidding you, go look up what webp actually is. It's literally just a video file with only 1 frame.It's fucking awful at its job and there have been plenty of formats/algorithms that came both before and after it that achieve better results at lower filesizes. The ONLY reason it's achieved any sort of traction is because Google pushed it hard ~5 years ago, and because none of the actually good formats caught on and JPEG/GIF/PNG are such ancient fossils that even goddamn video formats have superseded them.
>>1566085>What type of stuff to you have?Ancient archives, dumps of 1990s VN artwork, shitty electronic music, lots and lots and lots of long-dead pictures and memes and such... Weird software (3DNA? Turntable simulators??), drivers for hardware that hasn't been manufactured since the presidency of George W. Bush, freeware games that time has forgotten, tens of thousands of flash files, weird videos that used to float around on video sharing websites in the pre-YouTube day (anyone remember .mcf files?) and all sorts of random junk like dumb gifs, NASA raw data dumps (used to be available on their website!), loads of PDFs, mirrors of entire web 1.0 websites and long-dead forums.......Also pornography, lots of memes/screenshots/artwork of ancient anime, Ruby scripts to extract raw data from Touhou games and other doujinshi stuff of that nature.There's a lot here, and none of this stuff is important. *I* don't care enough to look through most of it, and I only keep it because I'm Autistic and have a hoarder's instinct when it comes to data/files.Maybe one day, 100 or 200 years from now it will be of historical interest to some AI algorithm. Who knows.
>>1566088>I have no idea why 4chan doesn't support itProbably because the head moderator doesn't like it:https://x.com/GrapeApe9k/status/1967823045755830547
>>1566042>I don't believe in Mormons huh
>>1566083Good god, why>>1566089An avif is fine too
>>1566088It has no reason to exist
>>1566095site i have used since 2003 will die because random ape retard runs policy here nowoh well
>>1566109>4chan will die because shitty image format isn't supported?
>>1566109oh come on, at least cry about something important like webm's with sound or pdfs on every board.
>>1566116>pdfs on every boardanon they have yet to restore pdfs on pdf boards
>>1566075>I tried to save something there recently and its fucking WEBPThat's because you are saving a compressed sample. Always click on "Download original" at the bottom of the page
>>1566088Fuck you. E-hentai took decades worth of files that were always jpg or png and now fucked them over, likely to make more storage space for AI slop.Webp is dogshit. It compresses. Don't tell me its loseless because it every case I've seen image quality drop, even if its a little. Articifacting.There is no need in 2026 to change this shit to compress things further. We got by in the 1990s and 2000s with jpgs and gifs and it works just fine.
>>1566078/prog/ my belovedWhere my EXPERT BBCODE PROGRAMMERS at?
>>1566093>I* don't care enough to look through most of it, and I only keep it because I'm Autistic and have a hoarder's instinct when it comes to data/files.Think about it anon. If you died tomorrow, all that stuff would be lost. Your contents would like get e-wasted by others. You should really look into sharing it someplace. We have lost so much of the old internet over the last 20 years. Personal websites mostly gone just replaced with shitty wikis and large scale social media. Communities from MSN and Yahoo long since shut down. Old imageboard memes and whatnot from before archives became stable. Someone out there would like appreciate what you have.
>>1566120Oh okay, all hope is not lost.But did they really have to webp the previews?They could have just left it as is.
>>1566083As someone who rarely visited that board, what happened to it?
>>1566053>Relevant threadIf you have a single panel it's going to get nuked. There should be a sauce thread on /h/ though.
>>1566117which is way more important than webp
>>1566121>Fuck you. E-hentai took decades worth of files that were always jpg or png and now fucked them overMany many sites delivering webp images are storing files as jpg/png and converting the files to deliver them to you. With a bit of work you can usually pull the original file off the server. Check the page source or use Jdownloader or what have you>>1566124>But did they really have to webp the previews?>They could have just left it as is.Yes, bandwidth costs money. 99.98% of page views are people not saving images and just jerking off. If you want to save the files, they have a whole credit scheme for zip DDLs and if that's too much work the torrents are right there for anyone>>1566125It used to be for all manner of high resolution images, things that warranted being in a high resolution. I don't recall seeing porn on it, maybe some nice pictures of girls, but now OFC it's all porn lol. The current /wg/ is sorta an example of the diversity it used to be
