I already see people capitalizing by building websites.

Not much will change, but I hope s*yjaks will be treated more harshly on 4chan after it opens up

I just hope it's gone for long enough that all of the election tourists and other shitty users don't come back. They can probably find a home on twitter and would probably even prefer it.

I don't agree with >>14085-san. As >>14089 suggests, twitter (or reddit) is more appropriate for the majority of modern 4chan users. As for the other bad actors, they will prefer soyjak.party. As a result, I predict that although there will be raids or, in general, bad-meaning inflow if it ever goes back up, I suspect it will not last long. Maybe 4chan will thus have the opportunity for a bit of a revival. But it is likely too rotten for any spring cleanup-tier fixup to happen.

In any case, I'm glad we didn't absorb a lot of those undesirables and I hope it stays this way.

I think it'll come back, but after the initial "ZOMG IT'S BACK" period, it will be less active than before. Judging by what happened to 8chan in the past after 1 month of downtime, there'll probably be anywhere from 50-80% the former activity - at least until the Next Big Thing occurs

I don't think the overall site culture will be drastically different - it's 10 years too late and 1 admin-who-cares too few for any improvement there

I have been using heyuri alot more. I am glad the vtards have not found this site

i think the janitor archive is quite damning, if it wasnt obvious in the past that their janitors/mods dont align with the userbase then it is without a doubt now. i think that would do more to hurt their reputation than the downtime.
4chan is an established brand, its not an alt-chan that people will forget about after a week, but if the regular userbase is diseffected in large enough numbers, that could be a problem. (´ー` )

When it comes back I think it will actually be worse. With the recent hack the janitors and mods now have a chance to work on enforcing their ideals of what 4chan should be - an imageboard for their discord clique with reddit-like censorship. Sure there might be a boost for a few months but most users will just bail back to the alts after seeing that it's the same tyrannical enforcement with a different coat of paint. At that period they might ramp up the attacks on the alts. It's already happening now but with their newly finished product they could request big agencies to help lure them back in.

>i think the janitor archive is quite damning, if it wasnt obvious in the past that their janitors/mods dont align with the userbase then it is without a doubt now.

My hope is that this will cause enough of their users to be disillusioned with 4chan to the point of seeking out other imageboards, including ours. It will take time for them to adapt to respective rules and culture, but that is the case with any n00b. Newbies break teh rules, b& will make them understand. The only headache would be any bad actors looking to spam up the place or gradually turn it into their nest of ghey drama stirring, but we've dealt with those before so we're no stranger to them. ^^;
But in all likelihood, it will probably turn out more like >>14091 said. I'm optimistic though, so hopefully my pipe dream comes at least half-true. And I mean the good half! (;´Д`)

>>14090
I don't agree that these retards will just stay on twitter, reddit or discord... i think you underestimate how much these fucks adore 4chan (since it was literally forcefully molded for them) i don't see why they specifically would stay away after it comes back.

Now... teh people that actually just want to use a fucking imageboard to either discuss media or post for teh lulz? Those i do see never going back to 4chan. A lot of people are posting on 8chan saying how now that they were forced out of 4chan they see just how fucking awful it was. I even saw a /pol/tard make a thread on /b/ about how happy he's been since it shat down and that he will never use it again ヽ(´ー｀)ノ... (inb4 relapse).

In teh end i feel it will be even worse since all teh """decent""" users will not be using it anymore and will probably stay on 8chan or other alt-chans, meaning that all teh bad parts of 4chan will smell even worse now that there might be even less of a user balance than there was before. (´～`)

4chan died a long time ago, so its really no concern to us. ヽ(´∇`)ノ (＾Д^)

The more I consider the issue the more I consider it might. If 4chan had only been down for like a day or three then maybe not, but it's looking like it might be, worst case scenario, not back up until Mid-May, and by then everyone will have gotten a good picture of the altchan experience and what 4chan lacks, and being able to genuinely enjoy (mostly) cancer-free imageboard culture, which, for a myriad of reasons (mainstream notoriety, shitty moderators, lazy, neglectful moneygrubbing admin) isn't possible on 4chan. I also think what's going behind the scenes is *just* going to be patching the various exploits and updating the software and not actually addressing any of the underlying issues that arguably led to the hack.

I think >>14091 is right and 4chan's going to see a decline of around 20-50% of its pre-hack userbase and probably won't recover. The imageboard userbase is probably going to fragment a bit - The good users will use altchans more and the cancer will put more activity on the sharty and mainstream social media (twitter, reddit, ect). Overall the ratio of activity of 4chan:altchans will shift in favour of altchans and like I said, I predict this shift will be permanent.

inb4 altchans start getting ddos'd with multi-terabyte bandwidth shortly after 4chan comes back

>>14096
Isn't heyuri just /jp/ but better

>Isn't heyuri just /jp/ but better
NO

The smaller boards of 4chan, like /diy/, /po/, /trv/, those hurt to lose and I hope they manage to maintain their userbases. It was the worst thing about when 8ch.net was killed was the small communities getting ripped apart and fragmenting god knows where. (ಥ﹏ಥ)

ill miss you everyday /po/... /po/ was the best damn board...

It definitely does suck to lose the hobby boards, they are more isolated from the systemic issues on the site, but 4chan has been a vegetable on life-support for far too long. Corruption and nepotistic decay was rampant. Things need to change and its been a long time coming. This will leave more competition for better alternatives. 4chan needs to die!

TL;DR Heyuri supremacy ( ´ω`)

>>14115
shit, I do miss /po/
remind me at some point to go upload all the .pdo files and shit I found via /po/ onto the uploader lol
it ain't happening tonight but it needs to happen

I don't think 4chan itself can really change at this point, both the bad leadership and shitty culture is too ingrained. ┐(ﾟ～ﾟ)┌

Having too many boards can be troublesome for site culture too, it dilutes the original purpose of the place and creates a bland mob culture similar to conglomerate sites like reddit and twitter.

>14107
i mean, it feels like jp pre vtuber infestation

>>14156
/jp/ is(was) full of boring generals full of sad weirdos who were beat down so badly by mods that all they knew to post is touhou and JAV because anything beyond those two were b&, literally a no-fun-allowed board that is less about "otaku" and more about a tiny margin of acceptable generals and nothing else. That is NOTHING like heyuri !! ヽ(`Д´ )ノ

>>14147
Don't worry, I got a boat load of .pdo and .pdf files which I could upload as well. Probably the same as yourself, but it's always worth having redundancy. Maybe it would be worthwhile proposing a /po/ board here, it feels fitting.

like others said i think 4chan will slow down a lot after it's back up again, i don't think it will be permanent though
what's this talk about altchans getting ddos attacks? did it happen in the past when 4chan went down?

>>14159
I'm new to this world so I can't be dead sure, but it sounds to me like just a bit of joking paranoia.

>>14157
that was after the golden era no

>>14082
It's back now, and the answer is a resounding no.
4channers are retarded, so of course they will continue to stay on slightly-edgier reddit ft: 900 second post timers and IP range bans

Honestly, despite using 4chan since 2005, I've mostly just lurked any of the larger boards. Posting seems pointless to me, just like how stream chats are pointless spamming. Glad /po/ and /diy/ are back though