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No. 82855

This thread is for discussing the incident/downtime. Please take general complaints to the appropriate thread, they will not get any responses here.

The site is back online, and we expect there to be no further downtime as a result of this incident. We apologise for how long the downtime was, and we are glad to be back!

A full explanation is written below, but there is a tl;dr at the end for those who are not interested in the details.

No. 82856

What happened?


On Thursday, 29th of August at around 9 pm UTC, someone managed to exploit a vulnerability in the site's code which allowed them to trick the site software into deleting images. We realised what was happening within an hour of the incident and shut down the server to prevent any further damage. Unfortunately by the time we had shut down the server, they had already deleted all of the images on /ot/. We believe they wrote a script to automate this behaviour which is why they were able to do it so quickly.


The only thing that was affected was the images in /ot/. No user data has been compromised, and there has been no impact to user privacy.


Who did this?


We have not been able to find anyone claiming responsibility for the attack online (but please let us know if you have!), although we believe it may have been someone without any history with the site. We received an email from someone trying to ransom money in exchange for details about a vulnerability, but it's unclear whether they were the attacker or an opportunist trying to take advantage of the situation. They have made no further contact.


Why did the site have to be taken down?


We had to bring the site down in order to protect it from further damage, i.e. other boards being wiped. Additionally, shutting down the server immediately increased the chances that we could recover the deleted files if we needed to.


Why are the images still missing?


Unfortunately, all of the image backups going back to 2019 were corrupt and very little could be recovered from them. We made the mistake of assuming that the backup script that had been used all that time had been functioning correctly, and evidently, it had not.


As a result, we’ve had to resort to other methods to try and recover the images. This is an ongoing process, and we are going to keep an updated count stickied in /ot/ to be transparent about how that is going. At the time of writing this, we’ve recovered just over 10% of the images and about 47% of thumbnails.


Some good news is that we have been able to recover a large number of the images through forensic data recovery. Unfortunately, the original image names/locations have been lost and as a result, we have no easy way to tie them back to the posts they belong to. We have a script that is processing every image and trying to link them to their posts based on the metadata we’ve stored about the image, but it is a very slow process.


Additionally, we’ve written a script that is attempting to recover the images from the Wayback Machine via its API. Unfortunately, that also runs quite slowly due to rate limits imposed by the Internet Archive.


Why did it take so long to fix?


There were several reasons:

  • We were not willing to bring the site back online until we were sure that it was safe to do so
  • We could not turn the server on at all until we had created a complete copy of the disk and transferred it to one of the admin’s local machines for data recovery. Given that the server disk is multiple TB in size, it took 5 days to make and then transfer the image
  • Our hosting provider was utterly worthless throughout all of this, which delayed us starting the process of transferring the disk image. They first refused to assist us in getting a local data recovery specialist to deal with it (which would have saved us the 5 day transfer) and then took a very long time to set up the rescue image we needed to make the transfer itself
  • Only one of the admins had the experience necessary to work on this issue, and she had to fit this around her day job (unfortunately she does not live in her mother’s basement like null)

What have we done to stop this from happening again?


First of all, we’ve purchased a robust cloud-based backup system that is independent of our hosting, which we have already tested to our satisfaction. No matter what goes wrong in the future, the site will be safe and restoring lost data will be much easier/faster. We didn’t do this previously as it’s quite expensive, but given the trouble we’ve had with this incident, we have decided to eat the cost.


We have also combed through the site code and patched anything that could potentially be exploited. We are being intentionally vague on the details as we don’t want to give away information to people who may use it against other sites running the same board software. We have also implemented additional security features that should prevent anything similar from happening in the future, even if we haven’t plugged every hole.


Tl;dr -  The site was attacked, and all the images on /ot/ were deleted. Our backups were not viable, so we are slowly working to restore the images through other means. We have improved the security of the site in response to the issue, and invested in a good backup solution to better protect the site in future


No. 82857

ALL IMAGES? so the prediction it was a exploit was right, i hope some can be recovered or is that not possible at all?

No. 82858

Thank you for all your hard work, Cerbmin. ♥

No. 82859

all of the images on ot were deleted? how does this even become a problem? i'm not trying to sound backhanded or rude but i really am curious how is it possible for someone to do that, out of nowhere, seemingly for the first time ever?

No. 82860

even though i'm sad about the pics, thank you for the hard work, cerbmin! thank you for bringing our pastures back

No. 82861

it was fun taking shelter on the cucking site and nonnies were nicer there imo

No. 82862

>>82856
>We received an email from someone trying to ransom money
Cringe behavior

No. 82863

Sad about the images but thank god lolcow is back

No. 82864

Welcome back everyone!

No. 82865

Oh my god… this is like the new 9/11

No. 82866

>>82859
whatever it was has affected other imageboards as well, a few have been down or wiped in the last few weeks. none as big as lolcow tho its mostly little fringe ones

No. 82867

i'm sorry for pulling your balls over the last 12 days cerbmin…

No. 82868

>>82861
Cant fucking believe a pornboard was more welcoming to us than the other girlchans those fucking snakes

No. 82869

>>82865
kek, 9/11 except its 9/10 and 10x worse…

No. 82870

At least it wasn't the cow boards, that would have been the real 9/11, let's hold a prayer circle /ot/ nonnies.

No. 82871

>>82865
when the hackers flew into /ot/…

No. 82872

so happy the website is back, we don't realize how much work it is for you guys to let us shitpost
thank you for your effort

No. 82873

>>82857
Love that the first reply on this thread ignores what was explained. Never change.
>>82855
Thank you for all of your hard work, I always believed in you all.
>(unfortunately she does not live in her mother’s basement like null)
kek. At least thank you to all the KF users for documenting what was going on and being fairly nice about it all. That was kind of you.

No. 82874


No. 82875

>>82868
they're so untouched by any women they're probably overjoyed we even wanted to use it

No. 82876

>>82873
im sorry i was just too excited to post

No. 82877

i wonder if leftypol is facing the same issue https://leftypol.org/leftypol/

No. 82878

>>82869
>>82865
well it is 9/11 in some parts of the world so I can still hope for Elsie 9/11 fan art, right?

No. 82879

>>82875
sometimes men's pathetic tendencies have some advantages

No. 82880

>>82861
CuckQuing was too good to us kek, he even went as far as manually adding space to the threads so we could comment more. Such a prince

No. 82881

>>82869 it's 9/11 in my timezone feels good

No. 82882

>>82874
We have quite a few fun stories from our odyssey..

No. 82883

>>82870
Holy shit for real, and the tinfoiling that would come out of that would be insane

No. 82884

>>82866
rest in piece to those lost in this generations 9/11

No. 82885

>>82868
CC is garbage and was not welcoming at all. I still can’t believe we bunkered on a cuck board and got fat on milk that flowed from there kek.

No. 82886

>>82878
kekk you know it nonnie

No. 82887

>>82861
omg i missed out where was that?

No. 82888

thanks for all the hard work. i also really appreciate having such a thorough report of the incident. now i feel a little bad for bitching about the downtime kek.

No. 82889

Thanks for saving our lolcow admin! And thank you for the explanation for us to understand!

No. 82891

>>82886
Dear Lord I missed seeing the highlighted red nonnie.

No. 82892

>>82885
fuck CC i refuse to bunker there, the cuckfuk site was alot of fun

No. 82893

>>82880
He should quit porn. Every scrote reading this should quit porn.

I love lolcow.

No. 82894

>>82887
ntayrt but junkuchan (a cuckporn board ran by an indian guy) was where we decided to congregate after the troons on CC started deleting our posts, it was surprisingly hospitable and he was a great surrogate mod

No. 82895

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It's so good to be home.

No. 82896

>>82885
pretty sure I got permabanned on CC for reporting moidposting of all things

No. 82897

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is it bad i dont necessarily feel bad that it was ot that was targeted and the other boards made it safely? (except for all the evidence on art salt threads and art boards)

No. 82898

>>82866
If anyone has any information on the other imageboards that were affected, if they were specific boards within those IB's or even rumors of someone taking responsibility, please let the admins and the farmhands know by posting it in this thread, thanks!

No. 82899

>>82887
Here, https://junkuchan.org/shelter/thread/5931.html it's a rolling thread though so the posts from yesterday aren't there, but some nonnies archived it.

No. 82900

>>82890
Everyone got permabanned from CC and took refuge elsewhere. The cuck board was linked in cc but some anons freaked out about it being…you know. But it was actually a lot of fun kek

No. 82901

>>82893
nta but i don't think he was actually into cucking

No. 82902

Wow the experienced admin is a she. Makes me so happy. And also works a job. We thank you admin for all your hard work!

No. 82903

>>82898
https://leftypol.org/leftypol/ I don't know if it's the same issue but it looks like it

No. 82904

>>82902
so proud of our representation

No. 82905

>>82897
yeah i feel like if it had to happen to any board, it is better that it happened to /ot/ instead of an important one like /pt/ or /snow/

No. 82906

we love admin, we love (good) farmhands, we love weird cuck indian board moid

No. 82907

You don't know how appreciative I am over lc being back. Like, omg, I hated the bunker threads on other sites. I literally got banned on CC for posting moid hate in a moid hate thread. They're just another not-my-nigel.

No. 82908

>>82905
yesss lol ot is the least image oriented board
these hackers are stupid

No. 82909

Thanks for fixing the site, we know this site is old and crappy so I'm sure we all understand how long it takes to fix something like this. If website costs are an issue then I'm certain anyone would be willing to donate towards that since we used to have a Ko-Fi.

No. 82910

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>>82902
makes me wanna take my tech studies more seriously. third head of cerbmin, love u

No. 82911

if anyone wants to read the junkuchan archive of the pasture thread, it's a real hoot KEKKK
https://archive.ph/bHRA2
https://archive.ph/bHRA2
https://archive.ph/bHRA2

No. 82912

immediately switched to keekweek so it looks like everyone is celebrating

No. 82913

>>82912
kek it fits the occasion

No. 82914

I'm so happy lc is back. Posting anywhere else didn't feel right. Idk why lc feels different than anywhere else. I'm sure it must be a hassle maintaining this site, but me and many others are deeply grateful for it, thank you cerbmin!

No. 82915

I'm sorry you and the farmhands had to be traumatized by this cerbmin

No. 82916

>unfortunately she does not live in her mother’s basement like null
LMAO. Thanks for being so transparent and your hard work. It really brings me joy that we now have admins who care about this website.

>>82885
CC was fun for me. It was so cozy. Euro nonnas were fun and nice. Someone should make a euro thread. I already miss you euro nonnas.

No. 82917

Thanks admins for fixing the site. Even if we had to abstain from milk for a few weeks.

No. 82918

Thank you Cerbmin for your hard work.

No. 82919

>inb4 9/11 becomes a lolcow holiday
KEKAROO

No. 82920

ok now i feel like an asshole for immediately assuming they didn't pay the server bill on a holiday weekend kek wooops..

No. 82921

>>82856
it took them an hour to delete almost a decade worth of images? i'm sorry thats just kind of astonishing

No. 82922

So happy to be back love you cerbmin

No. 82923

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No. 82924

Is it ok to blame trannies & troons for this?

No. 82925

>>82923
KEKKK

No. 82926

>>82923
I tried not to laugh, but I’m probably still going to hell.

No. 82927

>>82924
it's always ok to blame trannies and troons nonna ♥

No. 82928

definitely some moid incel did it

No. 82929

I'm so gonna donate to lolcor admins once I get my uni allowance by the end of the month. I hope Coffi accepts paypal.

No. 82930

Seconding, please let us donate to the site Cerbmin! I imagine those costs must have been salty.

No. 82931

>>82924
It wouldn't be surprising if it was. They hate us for themselves being jealous of us.

No. 82932

>>82907
cc is full of pickmes lmao

No. 82933

i would donate

No. 82934

thank you, cerbmin. no other site comes close, i had brutal withdrawals

No. 82935

>>82916
Yeah euro mornings were fun. It got pretty dumb at night. Minecraft was fun too

No. 82937

Sorry for saying mean things about you on other sites, cerbmin

No. 82938

>>82934
i became sick as fuck during this entire thing, i wonder if it has to do with my attachment to lolcow kekk

No. 82939

>>82855
Thank you Cerbmin, you're the best! I missed lolcow a lot more than I thought I would and realized that I may be a little too conditioned to typing out the link when bored. But It's understandable that an issue such as this needed a lot of time to be fixed and I'm glad you did it thoroughly. Love!

No. 82940

Thank you cerbmin for your hard work! I'm sorry to hear the hosting provider was useless and unhelpful when trying to solve the issue.

No. 82941

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i couldnt resist im sorry also some images arent loading on ot

No. 82942

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WE ARE BACK HOME NONNIES!

No. 82943

>>82941
i love this

No. 82944

>>82941
LMAO holy shit nona the way I SPAT OUT MY DRINK when I saw this and read the file name HAHAH SO GOOD

No. 82945

>>82941
KEKKKKKK

No. 82946

>>82941
damn you whipped this up fast kek

No. 82947

Very poetic how they waited until 9/11 to bring us back online lmao

No. 82948

That's such a corny-ass attempt at destroying this site. Good to be back, and thank you to all involved in keeping the pastures green. cc banned me for despair sperging smh my head.

No. 82949

Wow so all the images are really gone. This might be the thing that makes me quit Lolcow for a while. 5 years worth of images are gone. That's just too much loss for me to handle. There's no point in even browsing /ot/ now. Feel like shit and crying.

No. 82950

I'm so fucking glad to be back holy shit I have missed this place dearly, the stupid cc auto perma ban got me day 2 of downtime for talking about candy and I was so annoyed. Now to discuss why it was down, what the fuck is the purpose of deleting /ot/ images kekkk like… wow the non-important images are all gone. So glad that the cow boards are safe

No. 82951

>>82949
Nonna, please don't despair. While the images might be gone, your memories, your experiences, your keks aren't. Think of it as a rebirth, as a new spring on our pastures - think of all the new possibilities we have! Please nonna, stay with us!

No. 82952

>>82949
dont worry nonna, this is still our imageboard and we can still repost any old memories!! i still have sooo many screenshots that i'm definitely reposting kekk

No. 82953

>>82950
im archiving everything from now on, i cant take any chances to lose my beautiful lolcor again and admin…please update to a more secure imageboard layout

No. 82954

>>82950
Could you imagine if that happened to Null's thread? I'd be spitting. Depressed as fuck the artist salt thread is going to be fucked.

No. 82955

>>82954
i have some salt threads saved for convivence where can i post them?

No. 82956

Can we have a thread for nonnies to reupload any relevant /ot/ images they have saved over the years? Maybe at least a bit can be recovered.

No. 82957

>>82956
they started a lost images thread? but locked it very fast

No. 82958

>>82957
i have htmls do i need to email it?

No. 82959

>>82958
i'd recommend starting there yeah, admin@lolcow.farm and administration@lolcow.farm are both addresses that work

No. 82960

I actually shed a few tears of happiness…

No. 82961

i can't believe this is making some anons wanna quit /ot/ though…like why!!! we can upload new photos! we can make new threads! everything is going to be just fine ♥

No. 82962

Otsukaresamadesu admin sama

No. 82963

>>82951
I just don't think so. I kind of realized it during the bunkers but I think I'm just done with these places. 5 years of images, 300k images, were wiped before the administration realized something was wrong? Only one of them knows how to code enough to help fix it? I just don't get it. Sorry but I think this is a good time for me and a lot of other anons to clock out. 5 years for nothing is kind of depressing to think about.

No. 82964

>>82963
Nona what images were so important to you?

No. 82965

>>82959
sent lets see if they respond. i think ill share some on archive sites for the meantime

No. 82966

>>82963
Nona, we can get them back, we can all pitch in and repost whatever we have on our devices, it won't be perfect but not all is lost. Admins are still working to get the images back. It'll be okay.

No. 82967

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thank you for your service, cerbmin!

No. 82968

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wow, you even paid from your own pocket?? thank you so much for your dedication cerbmin, it matters a lot!!!

No. 82969

>>82964
Images are kind of important to be on imageboard websites yeah. They're kind of the main point. It's 50% text 50% images, they lost 300k images, now 50% of /ot/ is gone. So why should I use a broken board? This site should just fully move to a new modern updated code by now there's no point we should stay on spaghetti code.

No. 82970

>>82969
No I meant like, were there any images you had in mind? I have random reaction images saved from /ot/ so if you were looking for something specific I might have saved it

No. 82971

>>82969
NTA but isn't being able to chat on it in the moment the point? /ot/ wasn't really an archive board, it was more of a place to chat

No. 82972

>>82956
Was going to ask about this. I have an extensive archive of screenshots, mostly from the gender threads, and am willing to comb them for any lost images

No. 82973

>>82971
Pretty much, the biggest loss is artist salt.

No. 82974

i think its insane that vulnerability was there to begin with but…

No. 82975

>>82903
>>82898
If leftypol is actually down for the same reason you should be able to contact one of the higher ups through twitter, they have their dms open as far as I know
@leftypol_org

No. 82976

>>82971
If you use /ot/ you know that images are usually the backbone of every real convo. Idk I'm just done. Admin should just lock /ot/ until images are recovered, if they ever are. /ot/ is the problem board anyway, why keep it open if it's just a pile of shit now?

No. 82977

I'm so depressed about the state of /ot/. This is the universe telling me to get a life.

No. 82978

kind of funny the purge of ot is like a metaphorical noah's ark where all the accumulated infighters and shitposts have been drowned out. maybe its divine retribution after all

No. 82979

>>82856
I heard it was Destiny's fans, but it was empath who said this.

No. 82980

>>82976
stop being such a mood killer and quit this place already. let us be happy that we are back

No. 82981

Can you just close /ot/ until the images are recovered? There's no point.

No. 82982

Don't listen to the retards trying to get us down when we just got back up. Leave it up. We will all fix /ot/ together, mopers can go back to CC and mope there.

No. 82983

>>82979
>empath
why would you ever think to trust a word that comes out of her insane mouth

No. 82984

Convinced that the person trying to get /ot/ shut down has hated it the entire time. Keep /ot/ up. The fujo and antifujo spergs need their containment board.

No. 82985

>>82976
I use /ot/ and I don't feel the same honestly. Besides artist salt, images weren't really a focal point over there? This would be devastating to the cow threads but /ot/ just had reaction images used occasionally?

No. 82986

good job cerbmin, I am so happy lolcor is back!
>>82897
>>82905
wrong, it should have been /g/ so those ugly outfits posted on the fashion threads would be deleted forever

No. 82987

>>82985
They’re pretty important for the gender ideology hate thread too

No. 82988

>>82984
>The fujo and antifujo spergs need their containment board.
You know after spending 3 days on a cuckquean board and defeating rancefag I think I got it out of my system. We can all be friends now.

No. 82989

>>82985
Twitter Hate, Reddit Hate, YT hate, Funny Caps, Salt thread, fujo threads, etc etc etc there are so many threads that are unreadable now. It's like we lost the last 5 years of history since now threads aren't gonna be easily readable. Ugh.

No. 82990

>>82989
I guess I didn't realize people reread past threads on /ot/ tbh

No. 82991

>>82990
I reread them but even right now, almost every thread has been rendered unreadable. Most threads have no good posts anymore because a lot of them were image reliant. I don't foresee myself using /ot/ anymore and I don't think I'm gonna post here anymore, probably just go back to lurking.

No. 82992

>>82990
That’s one of the main reasons I use this website kek

No. 82993

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thank you for such dedication cerbmin! it's great to have the board back!

No. 82994

>>82897
I love /ot/ but it's better that /ot/ was targetted than the other boards

No. 82995

>>82994
/ot/ has been the source of so much ire that they really should just close it now that this death blow has come. The site culture would be better off and staff want to focus on cow boards anyway.

No. 82996

As stated in our original post, we are still recovering images through several methods. We won't be able to get every single image back, but we will get back a lot more as our scripts work through it. If you have archives of images you want to contribute, please email us at admin@lolcow.farm! If you have one or two, you can report a post that is missing an image with an imgur url (or something similar) as the reason and give us the image that way.

Thank you everyone for the kind comments and for your patience while we work on this ♥ And thank you to anyone who is able to contribute to the images being restored!

No. 82997

>>82949
nonny don't let this get you down, people will still be able to chat and upload new images and cerbmin says she is working on fixing the images

No. 82998

i know /ot/fags are in really low spirits right now but i dont think any of us want to allow it to slip through our fingers even after this

No. 82999

>>82855
I mean hey, according to you anyone who only uses /ot/ is a guest here, so no harm no foul right?

No. 83000

>>82855
thank you cerbmin! i scroll this site every morning so i've been sad every morning but now i am happy again!

No. 83001

>>82988
and considering how much she derailed that bunker no thank you,let anna stay out after all she already doxxed where she lives. the artist salt atleast archives key evidence that mightve been lost i dont know what those infight central threads contribute to the site at except for bait. please perma ban shotafags and lolifags and these infight threads from now on admin they bring nothing to the site except for chaos and derailment

No. 83003

>>82996
Admin I love you! Thank you for everything

No. 83004

>>82996
Thank you cerbmin, I'll go through my frequently used threads and match my saved images when I have time.

No. 83005

thank you, love you!

No. 83006

I'll post here in when/if the /leftypol/ people confirm they had the same issue or if it's unrelated, if it is the same I'll send them the email to get you into contact

No. 83007

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Admins I will never criticise you again, it's so good to be back ily mwah mwah mwah

>>82856
Kek what a loser bitch would target ot in the first place? Absolute retardation. I wish there was any way to contribute to recovery, I'd be willing to save images one-by-one from the archive.

No. 83008

>>83007
admins already said they're using a script to save the archive so i think that would be a waste of time for you anon!

No. 83009

>>82996
hello admin i have multiple archives of some threads on ot but sadly it doesn't seem like the spoilered images can be recoverable since i saved many as html and didnt click on them to archive them will it be ok if i sent all of the normal ones?

No. 83010

>>82996
love you admin, thank you for the hard work! thank you for not putting lolcor out to pasture once and for all

No. 83011

>>82995
I don't understand this mentality at all. /ot/ was a fun board. If /ot/ was closed people those same people would just migrate to /m/ and /g/ and recreate threads there. Cow culture is not the same, cows have changed because they are no longer rare so it isn't unexpected that a lot of nonas prefer to use the chat boards over the cow boards now.

No. 83012

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It's so good to be back nonnies!!!

No. 83013

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I'm so happy to be back and able to use the word nonnie without censorship! Thank you cerbmin, you guys are amazing admins like I know I'm mentally unstable but the fact that you worked so hard makes me kind of emotional. I appreciate you so much and it's such a relief to know that this board is in your hands.

/ot/ is one of the boards I browse the most and even tho I'll miss the pics, I'm happy that not all was lost and that we're able to rebuild it! I don't get the nonnies who are like, making dramatic statements about leaving forever? Like ok go on then, have fun at CC with all the troons.

No. 83015

>>83008
Yeah, sorry I got excited and speedread kek. Joining the other nonnas to say I'd love to donate too, this must've been such a pain to deal with.

No. 83016

Thrilled to be back, I've been enjoying my holiday abroad but it felt like an integral part of the relaxation process was missing when I couldn't sample the daily milk like the morning paper it's become for me.
Love you admins, thanks for your hard work saving the holy lands. Rip to all the funniest shit on /ot/ posted over the years

No. 83017

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That sure took long enough…

No. 83018

>>82963
nona i don't know how to tell you this but even if every last image were recovered you would still have spent 5 years on nothing. it's /ot/ of all boards not the library of alexandria

No. 83019

>>83018
KEK anon you're killing me

No. 83020

>>83018
Kek. Second this.

No. 83021

>>83014
>female autists
maybe thats precisely the problem kek. do you guys think cuckquing would let this happen?

No. 83022

File: 1726045463200.png (2.23 MB, 1328x1636, ugly man propaganda.png)

I can provide most of the ugly man psyop thread pics.
Ugly man psyop #1

No. 83023

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No. 83024

File: 1726045619725.jpg (1.51 MB, 908x1581, ugly man psyop thread 3.jpg)

>>83023
#3 op pic

No. 83025

File: 1726045675929.png (1.87 MB, 2100x1308, i dont want to see ugly man co…)

>>83024
#4 th op pic

No. 83026

File: 1726045814859.png (245.31 KB, 537x330, uglymoidpsyop op.png)

>>83025
6th op pic

message

No. 83027

File: 1726045956799.jpeg (1.44 MB, 1517x2163, fat whore.jpeg)

>>83026
9th

sorry for the spam

No. 83028

Thank you a lot cerbmin! I really missed lolcow but at least it was fun to gather in another sites, and I'm glad some nonnie mentioned fujochan because apparently there's a male ryona thread, I'll be lurking more there for no reason at all.

No. 83029

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No. 83030

>>83027
anon admin said to email them or report the posts with an imgur link.. why are you shitting up the thread

No. 83031

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>>83029
11th.
>>83030
my absolute bad i didnt read that. I dont have an email sadly so if anyone wants to do it for me that would be great.

No. 83032

This may or may not count as kind of off-topic but how is the new in-house imageboard engine going? Is it going to be better at handling such attacks?

No. 83033

>>83031
>i dont have an email
?
do you wanna make one nonny

No. 83034

>>83031
make a proton one im sending all the archives that way too

No. 83035

>>83033
>>83034
whats the email? i dont see the post saying to send them the pictures via email.

No. 83036

>>83035
admin@lolcow.farm
administration@lolcow.farm


No. 83037

>>83035
its here anon, press ctrl + F and search "## Admin" next time
>>82996

No. 83038

>>82898
I remember seeing somebody on Twitter talking about ddosing the site a week ago if that helps

No. 83039

>>83037
thanks nonny sorry for the spam, i had to update milk in like 4 threads so much shit happened while the farms were down

No. 83040

Really wild that anons were complaining about lack of moderation and we get raided like 3 days later

No. 83041

File: 1726046918489.gif (5.82 MB, 550x393, heynonnynonny.gif)

>>83021
sorry I deleted my post because I felt bad calling anon whiny. I'm just happy for us all here to be together.

No. 83042

>>83040
moderators being around couldn't have prevented a hack though I don't really get what you mean. tbh if the admins had been asleep or something I guess they could have wiped the entire site before one woke up, kind of scary. I hope they aren't all in the same timezone

No. 83043

>>83039
thank you for your service nonna I salute you

No. 83044

Kek I've been on lolcow for the last 5 years. Every single image i've ever posted on /ot/ is now gone. I don't really know what to say to that. I do know one thing;

This was preventable.

No. 83045

>>83042
ntayrt but i think this anon means that if the moderators took the time to work on the actual website security instead of solely focusing on poasters, this more than likely would not have happened.

No. 83046

I've missed you anons so much, but also managed to keep myself busy when lc was down except when I was stuck in my workplace and had nothing to do. If we managed to recover from the /m/assacre we can recover from what happened to /ot/, I believe in the admins. By the way, this mess reminds me of what happened to 4chan a few weeks ago but in that case iirc it was the mods fucking up instead of a third party doing something on purpose.

No. 83047

Since the images have been deleted, can the mods at least replace the deleted images of the recent active threads?
/ot/'s catalogue is looking a bit depressing as is ngl

No. 83048

>>83045
anon, moderators don't "work on the site security". you are being tech illiterate right now. mods don't have access to the code, all they can see is the reports and stuff. only admins can change code

>poasters

isn't this a tell of one of the personalityfags? is this Blaine?

>>83044
you're right that it's really sad this happened and there was probably ways to prevent it, but even 4chan which HIRES multiple full time developers had several boards get wiped last month or the month before from something. and I think they didn't even try and restore what was lost? so honestly I'm not going to complain too much since admin is trying to correct her fuckups when the scrotes getting paid to do it don't even bother

No. 83049

the site going back up on 9/11 is the funniest shit imaginable to me kekk. reverse twin towers
anyways, thank you for your work cerbmin! i'm glad to have our farm back

No. 83050

>>83048
In addition to that leftypol is down as well, it seems that this might be a newly discovered exploit and whoever has it is destroying imageboards for pure lulz. If they had something against LC in particular I don't think they'd start deleting /ot/ first.

No. 83051

>>83048
ok well then moderators, administration, whoever is responsible; i'm just saying maybe if our website wasn't built on like a 30 year old spaghetti code (you know, like 4chan) we wouldn't be having these problems? maybe it wouldn't be so easy for someone to locate a vulnerability in the websites code, from the outside looking in?

No. 83052

Many unappreciative nonnas. Just saying I'm very happy to have the pastures back and I appreciate just the site back up.

No. 83053

I don’t understand how some farms can be grieving about the offtopic section here. Thank god none if the actual cow threads were affected which would be much more fatal! I personally never looked back into a thread on /ot/ once it was full.

No. 83054

>>83050
yeah I was thinking that, if it was someone who knew the site at all they'd start with /pt/ or /snow/. I guess they saw /ot/ had the most posts and thought they'd do the most damage there

No. 83055

>>83052
anon, you're not gonna get brownie points for saying

> euuuu it's ok the websites security is total bullshit and over 300,000 files that should be secure were deleted in the blink of an eye!

No. 83056

>>83042
Moderators couldn't have prevented this because moderators don't need to be able to code or have technical knowledge of how the site works. The actual problem here was likely unpatched vulnerabilities in the outdated site software.

>>83051
Both Burritomin and Shaymin tried to move the site to new software and the result was endless sperging about the CSS so the project was abandoned.

No. 83057

>>83056
this doesn't make any sense to me?

> they abandoned integrating the website into a more secure and safer software because of some mild complaints


really?

No. 83058

>>83056
Sure moderation couldn't have prevented this but this website being on a more steadfast software would.

No. 83059

>>83057
Nta but yeah really. The anons in the CC bunker during shaymins attempt at a site change absolutely lost their minds. Granted, she had absolutely no idea what she was doing and was doing it all on her own as a clueless 18 or 19 year old during her school Christmas break.

No. 83060

>>83046
>By the way, this mess reminds me of what happened to 4chan
Was it actually the mods' fault? Is that what they told everyone? It's a pretty strange coincidence two maybe three imageboards had the same issue in the span of a few days.

No. 83061

>>83055
whining this much is a bit excessive anon, it's really sad about /ot/ and obviously that none of the previous admins spotted this exploit at any point in the last 12 years or however long its been, but come on. the admins are volunteers who pay for this site to keep running too and they already said they're working on it. they said they paid for better security and stuff as a result of this too. idk I think your expectations are too high when bigger sites with shareholders and profits aren't doing much better

No. 83062

>>83060
afaik the only thing they communicated AT ALL was one post that was literally just "the mods messed up" and then they never addressed it again. I'm not being hyperbolic, the statement they made was like 5 words long

No. 83063

Thanks admin! Missed you nonnas

No. 83064

I just emailed admin with any doodle board images I could recover, farmhands please let me know if you have any issues receiving it.

No. 83065

>>83059
Why would them "losing their minds" matter though…? They can sperg and scream in the mirror all they want, but that wouldn't change the fact that a software adjustment is just better for the health of this website, period. I think it's embarrassing that shaymin folded to those anons and did not integrate the website into a better, more secure environment for us and our 12 years of memories with this website. God knows if a switch had been made way back then, maybe we would not be having this problem.

No. 83066

I understand completely if lolcow needs to be shut down again for another month or so in order to integrate to a safer, significantly more secure software.

No. 83067

>>83065
It mattered because she was a teen who took their insults to heart and got so upset with it that she gave up ownership

No. 83068

>>83051
>you know, like 4chan
Nonnie, 4chan is most likely more well maintained than LC and it's updated regularly as it's the largest imageboard with a big team that gets paid. If they couldn't have stopped that deletion bug from happening why do you expect that a site with volunteer admins with day jobs that pay for everything out of their own pocket and don't earn anything in return would? Let's be real for a second.

No. 83069

>>83066
Same, if it's beneficial long term I'm fine with that.

No. 83070

>>83067
I don't think I even need to say that she should not have been administrating this website, if she was a little fucking kid who was too scared to do her job.

No. 83071

>>83067
A teen? What do you mean she was a teen?

No. 83072

>>83071
I was in a lot of Discords with her during and after she was admin and she was extremely young, I believe she was 19 or maybe 20 when she gave up the site

No. 83073

>>83068
I misspoke, I'm not talking about just moderating the website. I mean if our website software was not from the 90's maybe random hackers wouldn't be able to find soft spots in the code to fuck with us.

No. 83074

>>83072
Who fucking gave an 18 year old control of lolcow in the first place??

No. 83075

>>83072
That makes the fact she managed to get baited into posting her wrist make a lot more sense, and the very teenage drama she had with ex-mods and Discord anons and stuff kek.

>>83074
I guess it was the admin before her, was that Burritomin?

No. 83076

My heart DROPPED when i noticed lolcow was back. I'm so excited. Also i'm not surprised it was an exploit, i remember noticing that none of the images were working but just assumed it was my wifi.

No. 83077

can we all mostly play nice again (with the exception of rancefag autism, im not bothered by anons bullying her she deserves it) like we did on the cuckboard site? i feel like we were nicer to each other there due to being e-homeless and it brought us solidarity and kindness

No. 83078

>>83075
Wow. If she was 20 I can't imagine how much younger Cerbmin must be…

No. 83079

>>83078
What has Cerbmin done that makes you think they're young? I haven't seen her/them do anything childlish like Shaymin did but I don't check meta often

No. 83080

>unfortunately she does not live in her mother’s basement like null
KEK also thanks Admins for an explanation. Welcome back lolcow

No. 83081

>>82924
Trannies and troons are the same thing.

No. 83082

>>83079
I'm just assuming based off of shaymin's history. I'm not really getting a vision in my head of a 19 year old giving the website to an actual adult, probably another teenager

No. 83083

>>83073
I am talking about the software so don't worry I didn't misunderstand you. 4chan is well maintained software wise, at least compared to lolcow. It has active developers whereas we just have one admin. And yet, they also didn't prevent the deletion bug from happening, although we don't know for certain if it was the same thing.

No. 83084

i remember when shaymin posted her wrist i think, was that the one that showed self harm scars

No. 83085

>>83084
That was during burritomin's reign although everyone is pretty on board with the tinfoil that burritomin and shaymin were the same person.

No. 83086

>>83083
Did 4chan lose all of their image history? I don't frequent the website, I just know its based on an old string code similarly to lolcow

No. 83087

>>83083
We have three admins supposedly, hence the Cerbmin name (cerberus)

No. 83088

This is so sad. My funny caps thread… gone forever. I guess if images had to be deleted then /ot/ was the least harmful one it could happen to, but I’m just depressed. Will we have the motivation to rebuild?

No. 83089

>>83082
Shaymin wasn't 19 when she handed off the website, she was allegedly 19 when she first got control of it. She was in charge for around 3/4 years so she would've been about 22/23 when she allegedly "handed it off".

No. 83090

>>83087
Okay, this changes everything KEK. If we have 3 admins then theres no reason why we should not have already gone through software puberty and destroyed the likelihood of any random faggot having the power to destroy the beautiful memories we've created together within 59 minutes.

No. 83091

>>83088
Your sadness makes me want to put in the effort to go scrub wayback machine for the caps but I already did that with the doodle boards and I'm too sleepy. I love you though.

No. 83092

>>83088
Yes, yes we will. I promise nonnie

No. 83093

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>>83084
I'm pretty sure this is the wrist pic in question

No. 83094

>>83093
this looks like it was taken under the desk during a math test…

No. 83095

>>83087
I used to think anons called admin "cerbmin" because admin was from Serbia

No. 83096

>>82941
I love how it can be interpreted as him giving bad news or either flirting with Elsie kek

No. 83097

>>83095
thats the exact same thing i assumed too anon kek, i had no idea we went from having 1 admin to 3. this is just bullshit for me because dealing with minor flack from anons during the integration process onto a new ship would have been much, much better than anons having to rebuild /ot/ because we lost so much media

No. 83098

>>83085
>>83075
>I guess it was the admin before her, was that Burritomin?
There's only been two other admins of this site before Cerbmin, which were Ian and Oldmin/Shaymin (some people speculate that Oldmin and Shaymin are two different people, but anyone who was around at the time could tell you otherwise). Never heard the name Burritomin until this year, but I can only assume it refers to the fact that Shaymin is Hispanic.

No. 83099

dont worry nonnies our lord and saviour null is building a famale(and null) only image board, all you have to do is submit your ID to lord Null chama!

No. 83100

>>83081
… I know, I was just being a little whimsical.

No. 83101

>>83098
Wrong, you forgot about regina. Perhaps there was one more admin between ian and regina but i wasn't really knowledgeable about /meta/ stuff back then.

No. 83102

>>83098
No, burritomin was before Shaymin. She's when I joined. She was called that because of being hispanic. She hated us and then gave the site to Shaymin, a an enthusiastic Shayfag who turned out to be a teenager. Some speculate that Shaymin and Burritomin were the same.

No. 83103

>>83098
Wrong. There has been more than that. There was Ian, the random admin he handed over to for like 2 months before she gave up, then Regina, then Rom/Burritomin, and then "Shaymin" who everyone agrees was just Rom

No. 83104

>>83095
Then why would it be cerbmin and not serbmin

No. 83105

ok so we know why shaymin did not want to use modern software …cerbmin? come out come out wherever you are

No. 83107

>>83102
No one ever called her Burritomin in those days, or if anyone did it never caught on. The nickname only started being widely used this year.
>>83101
>>83103
You have to realize that these admins like to make shit up and are extremely shady overall. We can tell who's who based on general behaviors.

No. 83108

>>83105
you are so annoying jesus. mods need to start banning on /meta/. we got the point from your previous 50 posts reeing about board software

No. 83109

>>83087
no it’s because there’s a theory that the admin never changed and it’s the same admin who just picks up a new identity whenever people get dissatisfied

No. 83110

>>83108
I think it's more than one anon who has been ree'ing, but they all latched on to the same "spaghetti code" buzzword to sound tech smart.

No. 83111

>>83109
I don't think its the same admin because Shaymin would not have been able to resist the bait of those choachan people raiding and calling everyone fat and Ashley. Or maybe she has just gotten older and learned, but she never managed to resist taking the bait before. I used to be on during her timezone and she'd post and delete spergouts on the Discord sometimes

No. 83112

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it's good to be back… happy to see some of you nonnies again

No. 83113

i remember the discord, i used it a lot in 2018-2019? there were always annoying ass moids constantly sperging and trying to insert themselves in everything, some were definitely kids too

No. 83114

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>>83109
No, it's because there are supposedly three current admins. Keep up on your lolcor lore.

No. 83115

>>83108
i just wonder why they'd want to be the administrator of a website if they're not going to do their job, don't want to update the site, have like 5 farmhands maximum and don't allow other anons who apply to help/offer their knowledge to actually help them when they need it.
>>83110
ntayrt and i dont know what spaghetti code is and i've never been a coder but i do know that there is an astronomical difference between a website built on strings of weak, handwritten code and a website thats ran off of one of the 100's of thousands of preset imageboard softwares available to the general public internet.

No. 83116

>>83111
that's kind of why I think cerbmin is a scrote, because they deleted the discord instead of enjoying the attention like the previous admins. regina, burritomin and shaymin all loved it and typed daily and then cerbmin takes over and "she" deletes the discord. also never responds to tranny accusations which I think is quite telling, a real woman would want to prove they aren't a troon/scrote. old admin proved it with her hand pic after all

No. 83117

>>83115
and samefag i'd just like to add, i don't want any of this to come off as me sounding unappreciative, i'm just aware that we can do better. so i wonder, why don't we choose to do better?

No. 83118

>>83116
I'm pretty sure the discord was shut down because it was shit. The same people talked all day in a circle, one was obsessed with Elaine, and it was populated with scrotes.

No. 83119

>>83115
Anon, the site is based on Tinyboard/Vichan which lots of other imageboards all use, it's not handwritten. Crystal Cafe, Leftypol etc uses the exact same software. The bug you're complaining about exists on all those sites too, and Leftypol is down rn probably because of it. The site was never on a homegrown solution, its all open source, thats how people find the vulnerabilities.

No. 83120

Atleast /ot/ loads quicker now

No. 83121

>>83116
This is a retarded tinfoil nona I'm sorry. Not basking in discord attention and ignoring retards calling you a troon now makes someone a man? Come on.

No. 83122

>>83116
I'm pretty sure the discord was shut down because it was shit. The same people talked all day in a circle, one was obsessed with Elaine, and it was populated with scrotes.

No. 83123

>>83115
>i dont know what spaghetti code is
It's just code that is essentially broken due to its age, and fixing that line of code then creates a cascade that breaks the other lines of code. But I agree it probably has more to do with your second point than any custom-made, handwritten code.
>>83121
KEK anything gets you called a man on here these days.
>>83116
Also Regina was just a mod, not an admin.

No. 83124

>>83119
i think what we all witnessed over the last two weeks has made it very clear that this is not the superior software for us, or any of the other imageboards who were attacked, to be using. i think that only reaffirms my belief that some kind of update needs to be made, and soon
>>83122
nta but the admin didn't kick out scrotals who joined the discord?

No. 83125

>>83116
By this logic literally everyone here is a scrote and real women only post on mainstream social media where they can show off their womanly womanness and bask in the simps' attention. Get real.

No. 83126

>>83124
There was no proper verification.

No. 83127

>>82923
>>82941
KEK

>>82963
Rancefag we know you'll continue to plague this website, don't give us hope.

No. 83128

>>83126
and kicking people out based off their behavior wasn't a thing?

No. 83129

>>83124
okay but I'm just saying the admins aren't using "broken software from the 1990s" as you put it, it's a popular board software used by a lot of boards. it had had no major vulnerabilities found in over 10 years until t his one. you're talking about things you obviously don't understand.

No. 83130

File: 1726052718829.jpg (92.02 KB, 736x733, cerberus.jpg)

Thanks for protecting our farm, Cerbmin.

No. 83131

>>83129
I don't think that anon ever argued that the website was running on broken code from the 90s, just that it's the same premade code that thousands of other chans also use (which is very likely).

No. 83132

>>83129
it seems like a popular board software that isn't feasible any longer though, considering what happened. it did come out in 2013, mind you.

No. 83133

>>83124
Nonnie please stop talking about stuff you clearly have 0 clue about. I'm not trying to be an asshole but your posts are muddying the waters because you're trying to use tech jargon and terms while completely misunderstanding everything that's told to you which in turn will confuse everyone else. This same thing happened when shaymin tried to migrate LC and everyone freaked out over dumb shit because a few anons kept shit stirring, perhaps by accident or by purpose, but it worked in creating absolute chaos.

No. 83134

>>83133
all i'm saying is, it has been made very clear that the website needs to be updated to something more secure. thats all. i'm not a tech expert or mod, i'm just stating my opinion based off what i've witnessed.

No. 83135

>>83131
they did way further up, they have been sperging tech illiterately for hours
>>83073

No. 83136

>>83128
There wasn't really any moderation. There were anons who think it's cool and funny to engage with moids to try and own them. Not a lot of people even bothered to talk in the server though, just the same handful of users. I think that a lot of the inactive users were just there to observe the retardation. Which makes sense because there used to be a thread just for caps and discussion about how shit the discord was.

No. 83137

This would've happened to other websites but probably not us if we moved from tinyboard to ramen or jschan.

No. 83138

>>83134
The admin took measures to prevent this from happening in the future in addition to purchasing a cloud backup system. You're just repeating what has already been said and done kek

No. 83139

>>83134
did you read the admins posts at all, be honest

No. 83140

>>83134
they patched the only exploit found in this software in a decade. you think there's dozens more hiding that somehow haven't been found yet? newer software is literally more likely to have one somewhere because it isn't as battletested lynxchan which is what shaymin tried using had had exploits found too you know

No. 83141

>>83093
I want to know what palm readers learned from this

No. 83143

>>83140
>>83138
>>83139
i'm saying this website needs to be moved to a different software entirely. not patched, backed up, and then forgotten about. does that make sense?

No. 83144

>>83135
You don't actually know if that's the same anon. As far as I'm aware, they just made the point that the site is running generic open-source code, which is probably what made it so vulnerable. Again, I'm pretty sure there are multiple anons all complaining about the same thing.

No. 83145

some of you really need shit explained thoroughly, huh?(shit stirrer)

No. 83146

hah, i was almost certain that the site was down due to some vendetta tranny wanting to "own the terfs", but they likely would've tried to take down the troon threads first. kinda surprised that wasn't the case. there are probably several vulnerabilities just waiting to be discovered.

No. 83147

>>83137
jschan seems really nice, that's what junku is running on

No. 83148

We have no way of knowing if we could have avoided this by updating websites, because none of the administrative staffs over the last 12 years of this sites existence have taken the time to see that through kek.

No. 83149

>>83146
Yeah it's kind of a blessing that it was /ot/ that was targeted first and not the cow boards or /m/, still sad because we lost so many of our caps but I know the admins and anons are working hard to get them back.

No. 83150

I had no idea where to look for information about the downtime and hadn't even thought to go to cc or other boards, the last time I ventured to cc it seemed pretty dead. So glad the site is finally back up, I was suffering serious Mongolian basket weaving forum withdrawals

No. 83151

>>83115
>i just wonder why they'd want to be the administrator of a website if they're not going to do their job, don't want to update the site,
LC uses a modified version of tinyboard. It's not case of not wanting to update the software. It's that updating the software would require using new software and switching from image board software to another is not that simple. This site archives ten years worth of content. Implementing new software and converting 10 years of old threads to the new software is going to take a lot of time and effort. Any new site software also needs to be carefully chosen and implemented due to the previous backlash at attempts to move the site to Lynxchan.

>>83115
>i dont know what spaghetti code is
In this context spaghetti code is being used to describe a poorly maintained code base that has been altered by numerous people over the course of a decade. Previous admins probably didn't leave notes of fixes or changes that were made over the years so in order to understand what the site software is doing and why, cerbim probably has to spend time reverse engineering the code to understand it.

No. 83152

>stop complaining stop reeeeing

actually yeah, i fucking will ree. this is an imageboard. the backbone of our posts is imagery. the base of our threads is photographs and continually posting photographs. the whole point of having a staff overseeing this website is so that the website can be protected by a group of people who actually want the website to thrive, and not be totally fucking skinned alive!

No. 83153

I wonder if this has something to do with this commit on vichan. It seems something got merged in there around deletes in August. I do FE though, don't no nuttin bout PHP.

https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/commit/7f45f31aa82b87384fa09d8a7e8d074c78f703e0

No. 83154

nonnies Im so out of the loop, what the fuck is CC?? Am I too much of a normie to know other gossip(?) sites lol
I wasnt online when the site went down, and when I finally got to go I had no idea where to migrate, no info about what was happening or anything, was just having a crisis for a few days hoping lc will go back up lol, what is the usual procedure when this happens?

No. 83155

>>83151
i understand that completely, and i know that would require them to broaden their staff which is something they need to do. every time they post a janny form, a lot of anons complain about how nobody gets recruited despite applying.
>>83154
crystal.cafe kek! its another imageboard but its run by troons sadly

No. 83156

>>83154
Usually bunkers happen on crystal cafe (cc). That website is an offshoot of LC - it was made for off topic talk before /ot/ existed. As such there's no drama allowed on it but we always use it for bunker threads when lc goes down.

>>83155
It's not run by troons, it just has an inactive admin and a very small mod team that definitely can't handle lc's population and sometimes makes strange moderation decisions. It is however the first girlchan moids know of so it gets raided often.

No. 83157

File: 1726054000771.png (279.52 KB, 1000x931, cece.png)

>>83154
Crystal cafe. It's more general topics than cow based here. They call themselves miners and the mascot is a lizard.

No. 83158

>>83156
i mean…them constantly deleting the floods of anti-tranny responses when someone would post a troon in the thread kind of gave me a tranny vibe

No. 83159

>>83154
>Am I too much of a normie to know other gossip(?) sites
you definitely are because crystal cafe isn't even a gossip site kek

No. 83160

>>83158
They have dedicated terf/gc/troon hating threads so I doubt the board is ran by troons. God knows why they deleted those posts though, they delete all sorts of random shit, there's entire bunker threads in 2022 that were deleted completely for unknown reasons. Their moderation is just wack.

No. 83161

>>83158
Anon there are terf threads pinned to the top of /b/, if it was run by trannies wouldn't they have those threads removed and not literally the first thing you see when you enter the board?

No. 83162

>>83161
for fetishistic reasons, i'd imagine

No. 83163

>>83158
Not to defend the mods because what the fuck was going on after the 18th bunker but it literally said at the front of /b/ to keep that to it's respective threads. I assume it's just like the no cows/drama thing.

No. 83164

>>83162
Uhhh, right…

No. 83165

>>83160
>>83161
ngl something does reek about crystal cafe, especially with all the anons (myself included) saying they've been permabanned "for an unspecified reason" during the lolcow downtime. maybe not trannies but that place is, as the kiddies put it, sussy

No. 83166

>>83164
does that really sound super out of the realm of possibility for you? there are transvestites pretend to have their period. it wouldn't surprise me if some of them pretended to be TERF's kek.

No. 83167

>>83166
Great theory anon. Really proud of you.

No. 83168

>>82856
This will keep happening until you update the imageboard software, by the way. Please switch to something like jschan already. Just a heads up!

No. 83169

File: 1726054849152.png (392.39 KB, 472x440, professor nonna .png)

>>83167
thank you ♥

No. 83170

File: 1726054851051.jpg (718.19 KB, 1080x1190, Screenshot_20240911-213726_Chr…)

Guys, come on. CC is very fishy and I gave up on it for a week but this is a bit silly.

No. 83171

>>83165
It automatically bans certain browsers, but the mods did ask nonnies to evade those no reason bans. It appears nobody maintains those auto bans as they slowly kill the imageboard.

>>83170
Anons literally just can't read and integrate, it's a bit painful.

No. 83172

>>83170
>not allowed to make threads questioning men
gee, i wonder why…oops, thats a question!(ban evading shit stirrer)

No. 83173

>>83172
Look I love you and everything but you are annoying as fuck nona.

No. 83174

>>83172
Did you actually read it? Why would they link to a banned topic and also tell you to talk about in the existing thread?
>>83171
Your point proven in less than a minute jeez louise

No. 83176

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I'm so glad to be back. I'm glad the issue wasn't more serious

No. 83177

can archive.org or aerhive.ph be used to somehow get the images on /ot/ back?

No. 83178

>>83089
Shaymin was only in control for like 1 year, her stint was very brief, and with very little communication. Which lead to anons speculating she was just Burritomin continuing to run the site but even more checked out. (If you subscribe to that notion ignore what I'm about to say).You may be thinking of Burritomin who was admin for around that length of time. She's the one who posted her hand to prove she was a woman (leaking her self harm scars) and had the private chats leaked about her complaining about how all the evil white women on lolcow treat her as a brown women kek. If I remember correctly the thing that finally sent her over the edge was the shit with that cow Elise and some ugly Troon trying to expose her. She started letting them live rent free in her head even handing out permabans to random anons she suspected of being them. Not sure if that was the absolute final straw though just what I recall.

No. 83179

>>83176
I loved being able to draw little pictures. jschan is pretty sick, I'd love if we switched over to that from tiny. I don't know if that will ever happen but I'd be patient with another outage in the future if admins did decide to update.

No. 83180

>>83177
Nona, with kindness, did you even read the thread op?

No. 83181

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It's a shame cc has the stupid automod system and that the jannies constantly delete posts with no explanation, making it impossible to follow any kind of old conversation. I would have begun using it but I hated the deleted posts thing so much I hope that place crashes and burns. Can't believe I'm happy to see a redtext even if it's from one of our autistic farmhands.

No. 83182

>>83171
I did manage to make about 5 or so innocuous posts before getting banned, and I have been there before outside bunker times and posted using the same browser and nothing happened. Though I heard certain words trigger an automatic permaban (iirc "foid" was one of them because of moidboard raids), might I have posted a no-no word without knowing?

No. 83183

>>83172
ahhh…mods back to giving 5 minute redtexts to harmless posts…we really are back home!! ♥

No. 83184

File: 1726055601706.jpg (206.13 KB, 1080x1251, wiiwkskkqo.jpg)

>>83177
I checked just in case they refuse to do it and it looks like some people have been archiving some ot threads. May not help very much at all but it's nice to know there has been some archival. Picrel is Artist Salt 55

No. 83185

>>83171
>Anons literally just can't read and integrate, it's a bit painful.
The downtime and bunker saga revealed that there are lot of LC anons that are newfags and low IQ individuals that are incapable of even the most basic imageboard etiquette.

>>83172
What you think it says
>not allowed to make threads questioning men

What it actually says
>use threads that already exist for questioning men instead of making new threads

This isn't even a new rule. You will get banned on LC if you make a new thread early. It's a universal image board concept.

No. 83186

>>83184
Why would they refuse to do it? I don't understand anons sometimes. The information is right in front of you.

No. 83187

File: 1726055914107.png (363.61 KB, 667x685, F5021C90-C6CA-43EE-8B52-A7477C…)

>>83182
I think “retard” is banned. One anon used this image to indicate that.

No. 83188

>>83185
anon, i didn't say you should make a terfposting thread before it fills up. all i said was that the rules read as if they say
>don't make threads questioning men
and having a singular containment for terfposts is kind of weird, especially when you put that side by side with how the mod was choosing to moderate his website, yeah he has kind of a scrotal vibe! i'm not gonna apologize for going with my gut on this kek. it tends to be accurate.

No. 83189

>>83185
You know how we've been getting at least a couple of anons a week in /meta/ complaining about "broken threads" over and over for the past few months when it didn't use to be such a common issue? yeah.

No. 83191

>>83187
That's quite retarded.

No. 83192

>>83186
Because IA has some wusses on their team, iirc kiwifarms isn't allowed to be archived on the wayback machine and will get deleted. I thought it might be the same case with here.

No. 83193

>>83190
They accidentally click or tap the "hide saged posts for this thread" link and then go cry on /meta/ that the site is "broken!!!"

No. 83194

>>83193
kek ohhh lord…

No. 83195

>>83188
>singular
Are you purposefully being dishonest? >>83170 the screenshot is right here showing four pinned threads dedicated to terf posting and anti-male posting. The rules are asking you to not continuously make new threads to whine about moids. Because that's sort of the format CC has, where anons just make threads for any random thought they have. Imagine going on CC and you go to /b/ and there are several different threads all of nonas talking about or complaining about men or their nigels. That's what the rule is for. Idk why that is hard to understand.

No. 83196

>>83193
Alright, well maybe people should stop helping them because that's something I figured long before ever posting and I'm a tard with no problem solving skills.

No. 83197

>>83188
>and having a singular containment for terfposts is kind of weird
LC used to have one pinkpill thread on /ot/ before /2X/ existed. Having a single dedicated thread for a subject is perfectly normal, especially on a slow board because it concentrates related discussion in one easy to find thread. You're literally complaining about something that is innate to all image boards.

No. 83198

>>83196
That's the problem, lolcow is now full of low IQ newfags who jump right in to post without doing the bare minimum lurking first.

No. 83200

>>83199
No? You started this by complaining about not being able to make threads for pre-existing topics. >>83172

No. 83201

>>83199
That's not what you're saying. I've quoted what you have said. If you want to suggest that the CC moderation is bad, I would agree but the CC mods insisting that there is one thread per subject, is not bad moderation, it's how image boards are organised.

No. 83204

>>83202
No, it's just you who can't read.

No. 83209

>>83170
>>83172
>>83195
A lot of anons in the bunker thread would wilfully break rules, bait every single post and then twist it like they're being ~silenced~ and it was painfully obvious how badly they wanted to fill the threads with nothing but catty seething. CC deletes posts that break the rules and remove the whole convo so the thread isn't all fucked up and someone else comes back 8 hours later to reignite the infight but I saw the same posts being reposted a dozen times and some of the anons kept acting obtuse so they could keep making accusations. Mod re-explained the rules more than once but even then what happened to lurking? Also, moderation was FAST.

I hope it was just 3 extremely bored NEETs because the behavior in all the bunkers on different sites really soured me on how the userbase has changed. The threads read like middle school playgrounds. Petulant and retarded.

No. 83211

>>83208
>don't make a thread about this, post in an existing thread
hope that helps

No. 83214

>>83209
>>83208
Same anon and this is exactly what I mean. Either they have a mental retardation disorder that prevents them from understanding simple concepts or they're just desperate to twist anything they can reach into something to shit on.

No. 83215

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>>83202
Leave this website and don’t come back until you’ve studied this textbook for at least 10,000 hours.

No. 83216

>>83155
Nta but recruiting more farmhands has nothing to do with admins maintaining and fixing site code.

No. 83217

>>83213
But it makes a lot more sense, though. The wording in the initial screenshot uses a rhetoric that makes it sound as if those topics aren't welcome at all. An anon would likely read that, not agree with it, and then leave, because users read the rules separately from reading the threads. I don't understand why it has to need a whole big list of things you "cannot make a thread about or else you'll be banned for 7 days", when thats not the case?

No. 83218

>>83216
so you think lolcow could update to jschan with only 5 staff members?

No. 83219

File: 1726057607423.jpg (32.39 KB, 941x662, IMG_6498.JPG)

Can adminfoiling become a bannable offence? And I'm not talking about criticism here, but the schizo 'um admin is actually one person who keeps changing identities' and the retarded 'admin is a scrote actually' posts. It's exhausting to read like please don't impose your delusions onto others. And I'm sure that 95% of the time it's just someone baiting.

No. 83221

I make jokes about how some anons desperately need Reader Rabbit but holy shit, I know the formatting is weird but surely you guys understand the words right?

No. 83222

>>83217
This is the zoomiest thing I've read on here today, you're complaining about having to read beyond the bullet points? Grab your fidget spinner before you overstimulate yourself on your excitement

No. 83223

>>83220
Did you read my whole post? I said that anons would likely read those listed rules (not the threads), disagree with the "rules" they've been presented with, and leave.
>>83222
What are you talking about? I'm not complaining about anything..I'm asking why they feel its necesarry to be like
> REEE DONT MAKE THREADS ON THESE TOPICS OR YOULL GET A WEEK BAN
when they could just say
> do not make a new thread until a current thread has reached its reply limit

No. 83224

>>82856
This will keep happening until you update the imageboard software, by the way. Please switch to something like jschan already. Just a heads up!

No. 83225

>>83218
Let me ask, what exactly do you think farmhands do?

No. 83227

>>83223
Funny anons are saying you're the one who can't read when you've had to re-explain yourself to them like 65 times because they don't understand anything they're reading

No. 83228

>>83203
One of the repeated incidents on the CC bunker was an infight would start or some anons would start shitposting and then a CC mod would come in a just wipe everything, including the replies and probably handed out no reason permabans. While I don't agree with it as it's bad moderation that probably hammered a lot of farmers that didn't deserve to be banned, it's sort of understandable that they couldn't be bothered to deal with it.

No. 83229

There is an anon in this thread that made over 80 posts by continually baiting with purposefully dumb questions that have already been explained both in the admins message and by other anons and she's obviously aware of that. I warned her that I'll delete her posts if she continues baiting so if you see deleted posts in this thread that's why.

No. 83231

Thank you for your hard work admin

No. 83232

>>83229
>80 posts

The mental illness of it all.

No. 83235

>>83090
They've said there's actually only one admin in charge of the tech side, and the other one is the one who communicates on here. Idk what the third one is supposed to do.

No. 83237

>>83229
only 80 posts? come on those are rookie numbers nonny

No. 83239

>>83236
So, you don't know?

No. 83241

>>83229
Oh man, could you delete those now because she's going to keep doing it. I had sudden war flashbacks to the /shelter/ thread.

No. 83242

>>83241
Yess I will

No. 83243

>>83236
Girl why are you in a lolcow /meta/ thread defending the honor of CC?

No. 83246

>>83244
I deleted some of my own posts to prevent further discussion

No. 83247

CC was so, SO bad. I was instantly permabanned with no reason listed after my very first couple of posts, which were normal, polite, boring posts that didn’t break any rules. All my appeals were rejected, forcing me to VPN hop on my phone for the rest of the week, and any time I mentioned being automatically permabanned, the only active mod would ban me again for “ban evasion” for a permaban that was 100% unwarranted in the first place.
Between what I described above happening to everyone and the fact the lone mod kept randomly deleting peoples’ posts entirely, I really don’t think we can rely on CC anymore going forward, it was extremely hostile. We need to come up with a better plan for any future outages.

No. 83248

>>83170
I've been on there when mods aren't active for longer timespans and /b/ was completely dominated by threads like these, so there's precedent. There are many interesting threads there that get buried because all the newfags think it's a femcel board and can't imagine anything more interesting to talk about than how to find a based doomer zoomer femboy boyfriend or fish for tips on how to get crystal cafe gf. There were so many single-sentence or no-text OPs with a screenshot of a random moidtake, how many of those are really needed? Even lolcow puts these in generals. Imagine if /snow/ and /ot/ had a brand new thread for every instance of moid retardation. Retard journos who write articles about le femcel website as well as tiktok teens are to blame for that too.

No. 83249

This isn't the crystal cafe thread.

No. 83250

>>83229
Fairly obvious. I wish these anons would get outed and shamed more often, bet there's some good pathetic vent posts in there too

No. 83251

>>83247
Actually insane that the porn board was more inviting and was actually a really nice environment until rancefag showed up.

No. 83253

>>82923
Kek if no one has done it by this evening when I get home from work, I will make this into a gif and submit it for consideration as a banner
>>82941
This one would be a hilarious one too

No. 83255

>>83251
ugh the philtrum haunts me…

No. 83257

thank you admins ♥
>>83209
yeah, a lot of the discussions in those threads really drove home how bad things have gotten. sad that it's just how it is now

No. 83258

Thank you, admin! I’m so happy to be back! I will never take you for granted again

No. 83259

>>83255
Where can I see rancefag's leaks? I missed it ..

No. 83260

I woke up the morning pretty rough but this is a wonderful surprise, better than christmas

No. 83261

I kind of agree that yeah, lolcow probably should be updated for all of our own goods and for the health of the board as a whole. It's better to be off lolcow for a month or two to assure its safety and success than to spend every minute on there and then lose it because its base is weak. And jschan was a lot more fun kekkkkk

No. 83262

>>83259
our thread on kiwifarms!!

No. 83263

>>83115
You're not rocking anyones confidence in the admin/farmhands.

No. 83264

>>82856
Well done to the admin who took swift action on locking down the server exploit. Its a good thing /ot/ was the first target, /snow/ and /pt/ are far more valuable data wise.

No. 83265

>>83229
If it's possible in the site software, maybe the admins could consider enabling poster IDs on /meta/.

No. 83266

>>83265
Taht would only benefit nonnas. They can already see on their side who is who. Poster IDs wouldn't change that, especially if its only for one board? That's a dumb idea.

No. 83267

>>83266
Nayrt but that's the point. It lets nonnas know who is the baiter they must ignore.

No. 83268

Honestly I wonder if this particular incident would've happened had we migrated to a new site software like Shaymin wanted. Knowing how poorly maintained and old the site is (based off of what Admin has said in the past) it makes total sense she jumped into taking on a big project like trying to update the site within the year she was admin with seemingly little coding experience.

No. 83269

>>83065
Do you guys seriously not remember the REASON everyone freaked out about shaymin’s new site? The new site didn’t migrate ANY of the old threads— people now are sad about losing /ot/‘s images, but back then our admin was telling us she wiped the slate totally clean without any warning to the userbase and then threw a hissy fit when people rightfully freaked out that all the threads on all the boards were gone. I swear people have the memories of goldfish.

No. 83270

>>83229
>80 posts of nothing but stupid shit
sasuga schizo sama, this is why i missed the farms

No. 83271

Thank you cerbmin for the detailed explanation. Glad it was just /ot/ and none of the cow boards or another /m/pocalypse. Glad to be back!

No. 83272

>>83269
Nta but that's not what happened at all. The site wasn't even supposed to be available to us, but when people were able to access it Shaymin posted in /meta/ that the threads would be migrated. The site was completely unfinished before Shaymin reverted it back to regular lolcow and resigned. Anons were the ones who kept freaking out about the UI change and the site not having all of the threads and features even though it wasn't completed and shouldn't have been accessible to us.

No. 83273

>>83064
Oh god the doodle board, some of my favourite memories are gone, I'm actually going to cry.

No. 83274

>>83272
that's not what happened

No. 83275

>>83255
I have an equally long philtrum and you’re making me want to kill myself anon.

No. 83276

i seriously cant explain how grateful i am that it wasnt /pt/ or /snow/ that had their images deleted, i think i seriously wouldve roped. everyone try to calm down and wait for the images to be restored, hopefully most if not all can be recovered. i also think this is a sign that we need to start archiving threads as we go along, wayback machine has its own extension on chrome/firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wayback-machine/fpnmgdkabkmnadcjpehmlllkndpkmiak so you can easily click to save the page. i do agree with some anons about perhaps reconsidering the infrastructure of the site itself; not sure if it should be disclosed publicly but maybe the maintenance to the site in the past week or so has been enough to secure it for the future though? it was truly a dark week for me though, i had a nightmare the entire site got nuked and i couldnt read up on luna lore…

No. 83277

>>83247
I didn't post too much on CC but I never ended up banned. Guess I was the lucky one

No. 83278

>>83277
Tbh anon probably said something stupid, I only had one ban for a politics associated post

No. 83279

>>83274
Ok honestly I was wrong, shaymin did say that the old threads wouldn't be migrated. But it is true that anons started freaking out way before she said that because they didn't like the site. Most of the stuff anons had a problem with was not liking how the site looked.

No. 83280

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>me, reading the post, knowing jackshit about anything related to coding, hardware, data or whatever

No. 83281

>>83277
I posted quite a lot and I only got banned once on the first day because I angrily responded to bait. I let loose a bit because I never break rules on LC…

No. 83282

>>83279
No. That was a loud complaint but not the main one. Shaymin was barely around for 9 months then suddenly wants to make LC 2.0. No proper introduction or rollout, no checking in with anons, just pulling it out.

No. 83283

Oh, man I hope this wasn't some A.I. interfering bullshit. If hackers gonna hack, be like Tyler Durden and hit the banks. Leave lolcows out of it. Thnx cerbmins for the update and hard work.

No. 83284

> started liking checking old threads
> site gets nuked
> images wiped
everything I love gets taken away from me but I'm glad further damage was prevented and the site is back

No. 83285

>>83278
I literally didn’t though. You don’t have to believe me but my two posts were answering an anon’s question about shaymin’s era, and something else that must have been so minor and boring that I don’t even remember what exactly it was. I went in genuinely trying to abide by the rules and have a nice time and got instantly perma’d. Not fun or nice.

No. 83286

>>83282
The loud complaints ARE the main ones.

No. 83287

>>83286
It literally doesn’t matter. Are you this bored?

No. 83288

>>83278
>>83285
I too got permabanned "for an unspecified reason" without posting anything rule-breaking afaik, but my posts didn't even get deleted. I guess some of the anons just got caught in the crossfires of overzealous automated moderation? You probably said a banned word like "retard" or something.

No. 83289

>>83287
It's just a discussion but if you feel it doesn't matter then there was no need to make the other post anyway.

No. 83290

>>83251
It's really suspicious how some porn board is being shilled here and the moid running it is being worshipped.

No. 83291

>>83288
I was trying to figure out what word I said that could have triggered an autoban, but I could never figure it out since i didn’t use any controversial or aggressive words or anything. CC sucks.

No. 83292

>>82963
Please be gone. Faggots like you are insufferable and are better off on TikTok.

No. 83293

>>83291
Honestly I'm not exactly sure what triggered my ban either, but none of my posts were deleted so it probably really was some kind of accident or autoban? I did report a moid for openly moidposting but I did not reply to him. CC moderation is so weird and inconsistent, says a lot about the state of the site that Snail's discord handle was not even updated with the new format.

No. 83294

>>83293
Snail has been MIA for at least 2 years at this point. There's probably no more than two moderators for the entire website. It's pretty wild.

No. 83295

update the ib software so this doesn’t happen again, nobody cares about the opinions of angry autists who hate change. it’s 2024 it’s time to enter the future

No. 83296

>>83184
Can y'all seriously not read? In the OP admin said they made a script to download images from the Wayback Machine.

No. 83297

What the fuck are you using as database? Fucking Microsoft Excel?

No. 83298

>>83297
i don't understand anon what does a database have to do with deleted image files?

No. 83299

>>83298
If they keep images inside a proper database it shouldn't be hard keeping backups by the recommended methods for such DB. Also just wonder what they use because threads not even that big can be slow as shit.

No. 83300

File: 1726067167230.jpg (203.51 KB, 900x1200, 1601780737401.jpg)

It is good to be back

No. 83301

>>83290
I find it utterly distasteful. Anons better not complain that their nigel is beating it to cuck stuff if they used that godforsaken board. It's giving "uwu the porn bros are less drama than other girl targeted sites", like, wow, I wonder why. LC is so hostile to CC, would you really be excited if they took refuge here? I think not.

No. 83302

>>83301
I have a few caps of cringe from the bunkers. It was strange seeing anons rail hard against the female staff of CC, fujochan and heolkek, only to then suck off a moid board owner because he let them use his board like a chat room.

No. 83303

>>83301
Both are shit, we don’t need to lick the robotic pussy of CC’s deranged automod just because at one point a real woman was behind the site.

No. 83305

>>83282
It wasn't her idea to update to begin with, it was the previous admin's suggestion and plan which was discussed in older threads. I don't get why everyone is re-writing history, pretending to be oldfags, or acting like backend developers all of a sudden. Most of you don't even know how many admins we've actually had.

Hint: it's 7 and yes I'm counting cerbmin as one collective

No. 83306

Were videos on /ot/ also deleted?

No. 83307

>>83301
that board is literally deserted, the last post on the cuck board was from a week ago. Anons just liked having a place to shitpost without being permabanned for uttering a banned word or for bantering, and the moid mod was kind probably because no one uses his shit board so he was happy someone was there.

No. 83308

>>83277
I never have been banned either on CC. I am curious on the ages of people who were banned and how long they've been using imageboards because the rules are pretty clear on /b/. I don't use CC regularly and I prefer the community of LC, but it feels silly to hate on it because they have stricter moderation rules. I wish LC had a hellweek soon.
>>83302
Lol they would rather fight against other women and take refuge with a pornsick scrote who made a board devoted to his fetish. "He was chill!" Ofc he was!

No. 83309

>>83308
Cc banned several users for even using the term 'nonna' in the bunker. Cc jannies are so retarded

No. 83310

>>83309
For real? Why would you ban that?

No. 83311

thank you to the admins/mods who worked to fix the issue. you are appreciated!

No. 83312

>>82855
thank you so so so much for all your hard work it took bringing our sweet beloved lolcor back. i love you cerbmin <3

No. 83313

>>83308
i got banned once but i think it was cause i had switched to a different vpn at the time and the mod or whoever is there now gets weird about vpn usage. i had been posting there for years on and off so it was kind of weird to one day get a permaban so suddenly like that. i never had issues otherwise but i noticed since snail left the site has been a landmine of bans. i remember asking a pretty basic tech question in meta and their response was very odd and borderline skitzo. i stayed away for a long time after that as i didn’t like all the deletions and the russian roulette automod, but when i recently posted during the bunker saga i had no issues but i kept my posts pretty neutral.

No. 83314

>>83309
Why are you lying? The word just gets filtered out of the post. Even here nonnie gets filtered because it's newfag central

No. 83315

>>83308
cc fucking perma banned me for using spoilers wrong and when i sent the appeal their bot banned me again. junkuchan was the only bunker where we could talk freely without being banned every second because some autist cant code a bot right or couldnt be bothered to so it shouldnt be surprising that the mod from a literal porn board was way better than a supposed woman run imageboard who clearly was antagonistic against farmers who deleted their posts but kept obvious moid posts up ,dont sweep for cc because their actions spoke louder, their refugees will be welcome and im sure they will be treated better than they treated us

No. 83316

>>83308
I’ve been using IBs for 5 years and I’m 25. I wasn’t causing trouble I was just chatting. I still don’t know why I got permanently banned because CC mods would never answer my appeal.

No. 83317

>>83301
>I find it utterly distasteful
Who let their grandma use lc

No. 83318

>>83308
is this one of the cc mods doing damage control.

No. 83319

>>83315
>allowed 38 bunker threads with non-stop bait that they were clearly not prepared for but dealt with anyway
>apologized for the autoban they can't resolve without admin
>explicitly welcomed us and reiterated the rules for the people too lazy to lurk
>they're so evil and antagonistic unlike that wonderful pornsick moid!!!

No. 83320

>>83319
nta but cc mods leave cp up for hour at least the cuck board doesnt get raided with cp daily

No. 83321

>>83319
>>83315
Bitch you're both licking boots. Is this your hobby?? Go watch a movie you weirdos

No. 83322

>>83308
im 27 and been using lc since 2018 although i don't use any other imageboards. i tried to post in the cc bunker about enjoying playing a fashion show game (literally the most mundane post) and got an autoban. tried posting again on a different device and got autobanned again. every single vpn i tried was autobanned too

No. 83323

>>83320
yeah they actively leave it up out of sheer spite and sadism, not because they don't have around the clock moderation. i'd rather post on a porn board full of loli-loving pedos with a confirmed male coomer admin!

No. 83324

>>83176
Aww thanks for saving my drawing! I was going through junku and couldn't find it, I thought it would be lost forever.

No. 83325

>>83305
Ah, you think shaymin and burritomin were separate. That's cute.

Hint: you're not as oldfag as you imagine ♥

>>83308
Maybe most of us don't split things like that, bpd chan. If mods are shit, then it doesn't matter if they're women or not, does it. Who cares who owned the board they went to if they were left alone, given a space and didn't have to deal with autobans that can't be turned off because admin is MIA for years. Women aren't your personal army or shield.


Admin: can we please have a central, clear place to get updates if this happens again? Somewhere that's actually going to be updated? No-one knew what was going on so conspiracies. Everyone scattered. Who knows whose coming back. Etc.

No. 83326

>>83323
junkuchan was far better in every conceivable way kek. it’s sad that the evil moid had a better site than a woman but it is what it is, you don’t have to lie

No. 83327

I can't believe the number of legitimate psychopaths we have on this website.

No. 83328

>>83321
NTA. It's possible for two groups of people to be simultaneously retarded and this is what happened in the CC bunkers.

A few of things I saw
>admitting to ban evasion and then being surprised that they got banned for ban evasion
>talking about cows when the rules of CC state no cows or drama
>unhinged meta sperging outside of their meta board which is extra fucking retarded because this exact rule exists on LC
>being surprised that they got banned for infighting and posting bait when it is explicitly banned in the rules of CC
>ignoring the sticky that is literally pinned at the top of the board where the bunker threads were

I took a few bans from the automod, which I agree is shit moderation and a terrible way to run a site. Yet the behaviour of some farmers was absolute newfaggotry. If you choose to post on a website, you need to follow the rules, even if the rules are bad and you don't agree with them. The utter lack of self awareness and emotional intelligence was shocking.

>>83326
I just hope anyone posting on junkuchan was using a VPN or tor because if not the admin now has a record of your IP address.

No. 83329

>>83325
Some of us have been around long enough to remember former admins as well as the ones who resigned early on. You are the type to say cerbmin are former admins or that 3 admins don't actually exist. Nobody cares, the site is back up because of competent admins.
>>83326
I don't know why you're so easily impressed by jschan considering the number of moids running altchans on it.
>>83328
Anons are blaming cc as if they weren't banned from fujochan and other boards run by women.

No. 83330

>>83323
>i'd rather post on a porn board full of loli-loving pedos with a confirmed male coomer admin!
the board was completly abandoned before anons took shelter there. Last post on /shelter/ before nonnies took over was from a month ago.

No. 83331

>>83329
>jschan
this site looks, feels, and operates like shit and it was probably only so easily fucked because the codebase is outdated. you can’t even properly search the catalog. i don’t know what some moids using it has to do with anything as a moid probably created whatever lcs running on now

No. 83333

>>83331
it being jschan

No. 83334

>>83329
>I don't know why you're so easily impressed by jschan considering the number of moids running altchans on it.
??? Moids also breathe the same air as us, better suffocate. You retard.

No. 83335

>>83326
tbh I've been a part of imageboard culture so long that "oh, we're using a site that also has a cuckquean board" just made me laugh tbh, internet is amazing sometimes

No. 83336

Thank you cerbmin! Sounds like a nightmare, but really appreciate you getting us back to our pastures.

>>82941
KEK I'm dying, please someone make this a banner

No. 83337

>>83322
The same thing happened to me plus I was still banned even without a vpn
>>83331
The drawing feature and different text fonts were kinda fun though

No. 83338

>>83329
>cc as if they weren't banned from fujochan and other boards run by women
i wasnt kek. the only bans i got while the bunker saga were automatic on cc and it annoyed me the mod wouldn't tell me the keywords so the bot wouldn't get triggered but ill toss a free bone to them considering they also had to face summerfags as well but i think it was also because i use a free vpn thats mostly banned now that i think about it..my country hates cc but not lc kek

No. 83339

>>83331
I'm just saying it doesn't look as polished as what I've seen other boards used. If you want to blame exploits on old code then you aren't ready for the myriad of js based exploits out there. You guys are acting like developers who routinely do code review. Any software can have bugs and potential exploits, it has nothing to do with whether or not the code is open or closed, old or new.

No. 83340

>>83328
>I just hope anyone posting on junkuchan was using a VPN or tor because if not the admin now has a record of your IP address.
i just hope everyone knows they can get a new ip in ten second and it isn’t tied to your physical location anyway and it very likely isn’t unique to you and someone else can or has probably used it in the past kek

No. 83341

>>83338
Well if you didn't know, anons bitching here about the evil cc mods are likely the same anons who were expelled from fujochan for being just as insufferable and entitled. It's no coincidence that the cucksite is the first place the lowest denominator of posters gravitate towards, no matter the origin.

No. 83342

>>83339
it looks better than lc and cc and didn’t auto ban you for mysterious reasons, and that’s all that matters. i’m also sure the other girlboard running jschan won’t be hacked or exploited any time soon kek

No. 83343

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No. 83344

>>83341
Nta but I'm one of the bitchers and never used fujochan at all.

No. 83345

>>83342
You're comparing apples and oranges. Point one site running jschan that has the userbase and capacity of LC, because there isn't one. I don't even know of any major altchan running it that has been around for years. If you're implying that no exploits have been found then you're full of shit since the developers are actively maintaining it.

No. 83346

>>83343
beautiful kek ♥

No. 83347

>>83343
wasnt there a edit a nona did of the cow hitting the cowtower in the bunker? could you add that to it too?

No. 83348

I’m sorry for complaining a lot while I was emotional last night admins.

No. 83349

>>82941
Is this pic a reference to something?

No. 83350

>>83349
Ntayrt but yes kek; it’s a reference to George Bush learning about 9/11 the day it happened

No. 83351

>>83349
look at the date today

No. 83352

I’m so heartbroken about all these holes in /ot/ I even told my mom about what happened…

No. 83354

>>83341
Besides rancefag everyone in that thread was civil and it got closed because someone mass reported posts and then ran to fujochan's meta equivalent to pretend to be a regular and claim how "farmers are ruining the website". We could've stayed there if it wasn't for personalityfag bpd.

No. 83355

i’m just glad we’re back. i was starting to lose hope. thanks for all the hard work/money you all put into the site.

No. 83356

Okay so what next Cerbmin? Are you going to be more active here? I still recall 6 months ago when you dedicated yourself to updating the site and adding new features.

If only one of you can fix code, why is there supposedly three of you? What were you doing for the past 2 months when anons were asking for a life sign? Is the moderation going to improve?Exactly WHEN did you notice the attack was going on? Was it before or after the ransom, was it on you own, was it the farmhands, or was it the two anons in /meta/ that asked why images were fucked? Will this happen again? Will the site's code EVER be updated?

There's a lot of questions I have and I'd like to get the full story, not just "oh we got hacked and 5 years of info was lost he he sorry!" I'm so tired of being in the dark and for the past 6 months that's all it's been. Can you finally just make a town hall or a Q&A thread for yourself?

No. 83357

>>83356
I’m seconding the town hall suggestion, I think there are a lot of questions that just would be better answered by the mods directly instead of discussed back and forth by other users

No. 83358

>>82882
Let's hear them!

No. 83359

File: 1726073722269.png (34.34 KB, 300x100, downtime-banner-lowcase.png)

>>83343
Version with lowercase "/ot/".

>>83347
If someone posts it, I'll try and combine the two into an animated banner.

No. 83361

>>83356
>If only one of you can fix code

You literally just made that assumption because of cerbmins post where they stated:

>Only one of the admins had the experience necessary to work on this issue


The scope of what needed to be patched was something only one of them could do. You don't know the specifics of what needed to be fixed or remediated, and you don't know the employment or qualifications of any of the admins.

No. 83362

>>83308
There must be some word filter that causes an auto-ban, hence you'll see reports of anons who get mysteriously banned despite only posting once. I'm so glad LC is back, was so sick of switching through a hundred VPNs just to make a shitpost.

No. 83363

>>83357
Yep I'm tired of Cerbmin and the farmhands thinking they're too good to respond to anons. It wasn't always like this. We used to have town halls and votes and actually work together as a community. It's so disingenuous because I know Cerbmin and the Farmhands were lurking the CC thread during all this, they know how most anons feel about them, so all these empty platitudes posted itt seem extra perfidious. I'm not gonna pretend this was anything but a loss for our community, and I really do blame the administration's lack of presence and lack of technical skill or knowledge for this. LC should have had a cloud-backup since ALWAYS and it's actually crazy that they still didn't get one after the /m/ massacre last time. You'd think that would have been a lesson. It stings harder knowing that other IBs were going through the same thing, LC had time to prepare if only Cerbmin kept up with the community and privy to external threats. I'm thankful that the website is back up, but I'm pessimistic about the future of it. When will another attack happen because there's another hole in the code that we don't know about it?

No. 83364

File: 1726074212862.jpg (18.16 KB, 562x250, 4ch.jpg)

>>83363
>LC had time to prepare
Not really, the 4chan wipe happened a week before and the mods on 4chan took responsibility for it with pic related. No other wipes were known to have happened before that. Leftypol went down yesterday.

No. 83365

>>83363
cloud backups are expensive and the admins pay for this entire thing out of pocket. the idea that a shitty imageboard run by volunteers should have enterprise-level backup systems is insane and you are extremely entitled. I agree they should communicate more though but I don't really care for townhalls because they are never in my timezone

No. 83366

File: 1726074332085.jpg (4.47 KB, 236x236, 1000029256.jpg)

Happy to be back!

No. 83367

>>83363
>Cerbmin and the Farmhands were lurking the CC thread during all this
How do you know? wking farmhands isn't rare, it doesn't mean it was them

No. 83368

>>83359
its this one >>82923

No. 83370

>>83308
I never thought I’d defend this sites mods but at least when you get red crayoned the post stays up and it doesn’t just get quietly deleted like that one Stalin photo

No. 83371

>>83364
All of this happened very closely when the windows exploit was revealed tbh I don't blame the cerbmin too much you cant never make a site hack proof but you should have atleast have a backup and archive.we should really think of a sister site of lc incase it ever comes down don't know if it's possible to make a site open only during the bunker times

No. 83372

>>83361
WKing for the farmhands and admin is arrogant and you're missing my point while you try to defend them from all criticism. If there are three admins, why can't even just one of them regularly update us on /meta/? Why can't just one of them deliver the bug fixes and features we were promised 6 months ago? Why can't just one of them host a town hall?
>>83364
I wasn't talking about 4ch.
>>83365
Again, I don't care about $$$. If the admin wants to run the website, then they should be ready to actually run it. That includes paying for the stuff it needs. There have been countless richfags that offer to donate to pay the pills, there have been kofi links set up, if Cerbmin wanted to monetize this website: they could, really easily. There should have been a backup for this site since the /m/assacre, and it's disappointing to realize that there hasn't been one this whole time since. If an admin can't run the website, then it's time to find a new admin, which has been done plenty of times before.
>>83367
I didn't mean that they were the ones making the posts, I just meant the disconnect from how anons behave itt and on the CC bunker thread.

No. 83373

>>83372
cerbmin said in a post like a year ago they closed the ko-fi because it didn't get a single donation in some amount of months (6 or 9 months maybe?) and anons were holding its existence against them like they were the ones paying for the site

No. 83374

>>83373
Well then that's on them to figure out a way to set up donations for this website. It really isn't up to the anons to figure out a way to give lc money.

No. 83375

>>83374
but it was set up and linked here and anons just didn't donate? what are they supposed to do, put a huge banner at the top begging for cash? don't you remember how badly it went down when a previous admin tried to set up a patreon and link it obviously?

No. 83376

>>83373
Can’t they just post a link to a lolcow paypal or zelle or something?

No. 83377

>>83374
Nayrt I hate to say this, but maybe Cerbmin should e-beg sometimes. I'm sure the scare of something like this ever happening again is enough to motivate some anons to take out their wallets.

No. 83378

>>83377
Nta but I feel the same way kekk like…my card is in my hand and I’m ready to send them some cash, if it will prevent this from ever happening again

No. 83379

>>83372
>I wasn't talking about 4ch.
Ok, what were you talking about then? Stop being obtuse on purpose. You do understand that covering for every single exploit is impossible right? This anon >>83371 mentioned the windows exploit which has existed for years and was just uncovered and everyone had to update their OS. Even a corporation as massive as Microsoft can't possibly cover for all bugs so what do you mean by "they had time to prepare"? You seem to be sowing seeds of mistrust and doubt for no good reason.

No. 83380

>>83372
>demanding a small niche website independently owned and run by a group of volunteers pays for enterprise level servers out of their pockets
The most sane of complaints.

No. 83381

>>83304
I literally have a masters in distributed databases, I have used multiple types of databases throughout my professional life. How about you fucking Google what blob storage is? Not my fault you and the admins are too retarded to know about blob storage in databases and also too retarded to properly backup a god damn file system.

No. 83382

>>83376
idk what zelle is but I think paypal has to be either registered to a company or a real person and we'd be able to see the persons name to donate? I guess admin could turn lolcow into a company but I think that makes it way more complicated if they want to hand it over to a new admin

No. 83383

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picmix in honour of this day

No. 83384

>>83380
Ntayrt but she mentioned in another one of her posts that many anons have come forward saying they’re more than willing to put funding towards LC

No. 83385

>>83375
>what are they supposed to do, put a huge banner at the top begging for cash?
Sure, why not? My point is that it's strange YOU'RE the one that's come up with more ideas to raise money now, with just one post, than the administration of the website itself. Doesn't that seem like a job the site administration should be doing?
>don't you remember how badly it went down when a previous admin tried to set up a patreon and link it obviously?
If an administrator can't deal with autists reeeing about change, they aren't cut out for the job. Cerbmin has had to deal with people reeing about Dumbass Shit for 6 months, and he doesn't complain about that, so how would this be any different?
>>83379
Trying to WK right now isn't the point. I don't know why you're taking my questions for Cerbmin so personally. Read my posts, do you think any question I raised is that crazy? I think everything I asked actually warrants a response, but I don't really have much hope because I'm thinking Cerbmin is just gonna disappear after this for another few months until the next big coding flaw is revealed and we lose all of /pt/.
>You seem to be sowing seeds of mistrust and doubt for no good reason.
I'm not sowing anything. I do doubt the capabilities of the administration on this site. I've doubted them since the handover. It's good to feel some doubt because it protects you.
>>83380
Well, yeah? If the admin can't pay for the server bill, it's up to them to find someone who can or to host a donation drive. I think you're just trying to deflect from my other points because you want to brown nose, and that's okay, but I'm not gonna take you seriously.

No. 83386

>>83377
word like i genuinely hate the current moderation but i don’t know where else i could go complain or discuss certain topics so i’d gladly fork over shekels if it would help

No. 83387

I think trying to be nonchalant and choosing against e-begging has now proven to bite us in the ass, mod-sans.

No. 83388

>>83385
Are you the shit stirrer? Everything admin has said makes sense. Idk why you bring up wks.

No. 83389

>>83388
nta but the shit stirrer was sounding dumb as hell kek, this anon seems to have an idea of what she’s talking about

No. 83390

>>83381
Your university should take your degree back then, storing all the images on a site like this in blob storage would nerf the database performance so badly. Admin mentioned it was multiple TB of data, do you realise how badly a database with multiple TBs of blobs in it would perform? I guarantee you no website like this stores there images that way and for good reason

No. 83391

>>83385
>I think you're just trying to deflect from my other points because you want to brown nose, and that's okay, but I'm not gonna take you seriously.
I'm curious as to where the sense of entitlement comes from.

No. 83392


No. 83393

>>83383
Kek you're a true hero, nona

No. 83394

>>83375
people don't donate because it's not anonymous and no one wants to expose their identity

No. 83395

>>83375
nta but someone managed to donate 1k when burritomin asked

No. 83396


No. 83397

>>83383
i love it nonna good job

No. 83398

>>83388
Idk what the shit stirrer is. I'm gonna link my post to you, okay? Here, it's this one: >>83356 and in that post I asked a few questions like:
>Cerbmin, will you be more active?
>Cerbmin, will moderation improve?
>Cerbmin, what exact time did you realize the hack was happening, and at that point how long had it been going on?
>Cerbmin, who first realized that there was an attack going on?
>Cerbmin, when will this site's spaghetti code finally be updated fully?

If you think these questions are shit stirring, or my attempt to demean the admin, or my attempt to "sow seeds of mistrust and doubt" or whatever, you're thinking about it too much. Read those questions. All of them are genuine and I think it'd be good to have an answer for them. I don't see why so many anons are jumping me just because I have questions and I'm not blindly worshiping Cerbmin.

No. 83400

I always thought there were farmhands who would patrol even if they weren’t making posts or making themselves noticable? I guess I was wrong

No. 83401

>>83385
Why are you still not elaborating on the
>I wasn't talking about 4ch.
I'd love to know what you know, because it seems you're implying the exploit was known?

No. 83402

Interesting a similiar thing happened in the media board here two years ago but back then it wasnt because of a attack.

No. 83403

>>83356
unfortunately anon i don't think we will get answers to those questions, at least not for a very long while.

>>83363
>>83372
anon to be brutally honest with you i think they've just given up. they probably don't see any value or purpose in putting all this effort and money into upgrading the website with how slow it's gotten, the issues we've been having with off-topic boards, a lot of the older users leaving. then on top of that they have to deal with raids, being exposed to cp and extreme gore, probably getting threats from weirdos and i wouldn't be surprised the feds considering i've seen europol bait posts on here, particuarly after cp raids.

i miss town halls too but i doubt it would go over well with the current state of the site. it would just get flooded with the usual angry posters attacking more reasonable anons and older users, accusations of everyone being a scrote or a tranny if you disagree on something, and more open season fodder for outsiders to come in and stir the pot as well seeing that there are community division issues on full display. in the past we could have more open and transparent discussion about what was going on behind the scenes but now it's unlikely.

and speaking of cash donations, they could set up a bitcoin wallet instead of paypal or zelle or having to do wire transfers. that would also protect the users as well when donating money and it's usually fully anonymous. paypal would likely not allow donations due to the fact that it's an imageboard and zelle is only available in north america and is not anonymous at all as it's linked to your bank account.

No. 83404

>>83280
You're ready for a career in project management!

No. 83406

Some “dick laurent is dead” shit…

No. 83407

>>83325
>Hint: you're not as oldfag as you imagine
Nta but I'm an oldfag and I don't get why you're acting as if this is just some universal truth we all know besides newfags kek. It's always just been a theory.

No. 83408

>>83398
Just to samefag to add to this, when I asked
>Cerbmin, what exact time did you realize the hack was happening, and at that point how long had it been going on?
It's because in the first post itt, >>82856 Cerbmin mentions that it started on 29 August 9PM UTC. There is a post in /meta/'s most recent Complains and Suggestions thread from 29 August at 10PM UTC that asks what's wrong with /ot/ images. So already there's an hour there that we haven't really accounted for. Since the site closed around what, 10:15PM or 10:30PM UTC, could the hacker have really deleted 300 THOUSAND images in an hour? Is that possible? Even with a script that number seems so radically high that I struggle to believe that it really started at 9PM UTC. And then, was it really that anon in /meta/ that figured out something was wrong? Was she the one that alerted moderation and administration, or were you all already aware by that point she made the post? The timeline isn't making sense for me.
>>83403
>unfortunately anon i don't think we will get answers to those questions
>i think they've just given up
Unfortunately, I think you're right. It's a shame because I had high hopes for Cerbmin.

No. 83409

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>>83262
Very unfortunate physiognomy. No wonder she attentionwhores on /r9k/

No. 83410

>>83408
It's not an unaccounted hour anon, in that same post they say they realized what was happening within an hour. The attack probably also didn't happen at exactly 9pm.

No. 83411

>>83409
Damn she looks like she could be Giulia’s sister kek

No. 83412

>>83408
no i understand anon, i also had a lot of hopes too as we were seemingly off to a great start and then it all went downhill again. i figured something was up when i saw anons complaining about cp when we hadn't had issues with that for a long time. atp i just try to enjoy the site for what it is because i don't think the issues are going to get better, and even if we had a new admin that they wouldn't also burn out as well or perhaps cause drama like in the past. i mean we don't even have an onion backup for the site (at least not one that i'm aware of?), which could also help when the site is down or being attacked. there are so many things we could do and have to help keep the board going but i feel like the admins always get lost in the drama and personal issues of the userbase instead of focusing on the tech issues which have been a constant theme here for years.

No. 83413

>>83410
If the attack started at 9PM, and an anon was able to identify it by 10:03PM UTC, then Cerbmin's "we identified it in an hour!" thing isn't true. Because the site still stayed up for a good 15 or 20 minutes after that anon made the post. I recall there being a response from the Admin as well in that thread, but it looks like they went back and deleted their response before the site came back online. There's still proof in the CC bunker threads though, when someone posted the image, because it was the first time Cerbmin responded to anything in a month or two.

If the attack "probably didn't" happen at 9PM, then why'd Cerbmin just say that it did happen at 9PM? See this is what is confusing me. Why do we have to walk on eggshells around what's happened instead of just really talking about it so we can understand?

No. 83415

>>83413
>If the attack "probably didn't" happen at 9PM, then why'd Cerbmin just say that it did happen at 9PM?
I said exactly 9PM anon. As in not 9pm on the dot, but possibly 9:15 or 9:36 or something. Based of my memory too, it didn't take that long for the site to go down. I remember anons started posting about it in /ot/ and maybe about 20-30 minutes later it was down. There wasn't a huge gap in-between when the issue was affecting us and when lolcow went down. I'm not admin so obviously I can't answer your questions, but im just saying it makes sense when you take certain things into account.

No. 83416

>>83414
I get what you're saying. My point is why would Cerbmin not just be upfront and tell us the correct details then? If the attack DID happen at a certain time, why not just come out and say that? Why do we all have to walk on eggshells and pretend nothing is wrong when something very clearly is wrong. If Cerbmin has been running this place for so long now, and there's still exploits in the code that allows for hundreds of thousands of images to be deleted in less than an hour, that's a really big issue and it really makes me wonder "what ELSE are you missing? what other pieces of code are just so broken that there's an exploit waiting to happen?"

No. 83417

>>83408
>could the hacker have really deleted 300 THOUSAND images in an hour? Is that possible?
Yeah. It's possible.

No. 83418

>>83416
your fears are justified. your full post history has already been emailed out as a newsletter to everyone you've ever met. your mom, your former best friend, and your ex are currently forming a group chat to discuss how they always knew something was more deeply wrong with you than they could handle and it's all cerbmin's fault. i'm no lawyer, but personally i believe you should sue

No. 83419

>>83409
Lol is she purposely covering her butt chin in every photo?

No. 83420

>>83317
Kek the phrasing is like something out of a Victorian manners guide or one of those Prohibition teetotalers

No. 83421

>>83418
I've been talking to my lawyer, we think we have a case. Will post the class action details later.
But no seriously, are my questions really that far out there? Is it really that crazy to want to know the exact timeline of what happened? Cerbmin has responded once in this entire thread, and I think that's gonna be the last we hear from them for a month or two until the next hack when we lose /pt/.
>>83412
>The admins always get lost in the drama and personal issues of the userbase instead of focusing on the tech issues which have been a constant theme here for years.
This is the recurring theme of lcf. It's gotten to the point where I really don't understand why we are still on this spaghetti code if it causes so many issues, like the loss of 5 years of data and a 2 week long outage. I recall Cerbmin expressing a desire to update the code and the website, even promising us revamps of certain features and a re-haul of catalog, but it's just been radio silence ever since. I knew they were bad at coding, but it's just shocking to me that only one of them knew how to code well enough to fix this mess. So if none of the admins update, if none of the admins communicate, and only one of them can code well enough to fix shit when it hits the fan, what's the point of having 3?

No. 83422

>>83383
We all remember what you admitted in the bunker, blingee pixmix anon.

No. 83423

>>83422
ntayrt but theres more then one anon that makes blingees?

No. 83424

>>83420
>>83317
this is lolita erasure

No. 83425

>>83416
The very first post in this thread is the' fully explaining what happened. If you go to meta's main page and scroll down, you even see when it happened moments before disaster.
>>82845
>>82852
Unironically take your meds instead of camping here to write useless walls of text. And no, I'm not a farmhand, I just think you're retarded.

No. 83426

>>83350
Thanks, not a burger so didn't know this.

No. 83427

>>83425
Sincerely wondering how you got those last two replies so wrong

No. 83428

>>83425
Ntayrt but anon I think what she’s asking is why didn’t they say on status.lolcow.farm that the site was under attack and was going to be shut down for a while?

No. 83429

>>83427
Ntayrt but she was linking the posts she mentioned above, not replying to them

No. 83430

>>83428
NTA but why would they announce publicly that there is a vulnerability so that everyone can have a shot at seeing if there are more? Not announcing something like that until it's completely fixed is just basic logic

No. 83431

>>82902
we love you experienced admin-chan

No. 83432

File: 1726080569969.jpg (71.49 KB, 1000x773, 20240725_112532.jpg)

>all nonas are infighting on meta while most threads remain milkless

No. 83433

File: 1726080662382.gif (711.4 KB, 275x275, 1725235503305.gif)

>>82967
Completely off-topic but somehow I can't never remember the name of this artist.

No. 83434

>>83425
The first reply you linked was from 9:44PM UTC, and admin's response was from 10:09PM UTC. IIRC, the website was down by 10:30PM UTC. If the attack started at 9:00PM UTC, why did it take a full hour and 9 minutes for Admin to respond, and only after an anon pointed it out? And then, why did it take even longer to shut the site down? The timeline isn't making sense for me.
>>83428
Not quite. What I'm asking is why there is no timeline for what happened. We were down for 12 days, 300k images lost, 5 years of threads down the drain, and Cerbmin wrote less than 900 words about it and then left the site again. I don't think that that's a proper way to do this. Again you can all read this post: >>83398 and make up your mind on whether my questions are so outrageous and unbelievable or not, because to me they're normal questions that deserve to be addressed.
>>83432
Trying to chalk this up to infighting is so predictable. Nobody is infighting. We are talking about what happened to the site, it's normal to do that on /meta/. If you wanna post milk go post some.

No. 83435

>>83429
Ah. I am dumb

No. 83436

>>83433
It's Sillypoo

No. 83437

>>83433
sillypoo?

No. 83438

>>82894
it’s a shelter board not a porn board
>>82986
it really should have been /g/

No. 83439

Thanks for all of your hard work in bringing lolcow back!

No. 83440

>>83372
I'm not missing your point at all. Just admit that you are wrong and that you are making assumptions about the technical ability of the admins. You act as if inactive admins are a new thing on lc when they're really not, not when the userbase is full of gigatards like you.

No. 83441

File: 1726081559200.jpg (23.39 KB, 112x112, 1000011190.jpg)

Thank you for working so hard in putting the site back up!! I had no where else to hate on men and to rant about my shit bag misogynistic dad. I love you nonnas. Glad to see so many back.

No. 83442

>>83440
ntayrt but anon the admins admitted that only one of them knows how to read and alter code, and there being inactive administrative staff is not acceptable and should not be swept under the rug. especially after what we’ve all just been through.
i think it would be in their best interest to at least start the process of looking for more admins because this was kind of a shitshow..i don’t say that to come off mean but it is very, very sad that we suffered a loss this extreme all because only one of our administrators actually has the skills necessary for their job.

No. 83443

>>83434
What is an appropriate time to notice and identify an exploit that literally has never happened before and wiped out even places like 4chan, according to you? What more information do you even need and what for? They could write a 50 page essay on what exactly happened and why it was fixed and neither you, nor me, nor 99% of this website would get it because neither of us are programmers. All it would do is validate and give fooder to whoever attacked the website in the first place.

No. 83444

>>83442
at least we have one admin capable of this. did you already forget that the former admins had to rely on OG admin still helping them out? being absent is a time-honored tradition that every admin has participated in and maybe they'd be less weary if anons weren't such spergs.

No. 83445

>>83421
>what's the point of having 3 admins?

i've suspected since cerbmin took over that the board and domain was possibly bought out or at least that there was some agreement to hand over full control of the site from the original admin. i assume that it took at least 3 people to be able to fund the purchase or perhaps he may have asked that there be at least more than one person running as admin. it's all just speculation on my part. of course i'm tired and forgetting his name atm but he was the one who was responsible for the coding and from what i remember, deliberately made it crazy and then also would not share the code with admins for a while because of it. i remember him explaining this in the past before he disappeared, but the fact that cerbmin has access to the code kind of clued me into the potentiality of them having finally gotten full access to the board instead of just being the front facing admins as in the past.

No. 83446

>>83444
nonna…having one admin is the bare minimum lol what!

No. 83447

>>83384
How many anons constantly say this versus how many anons have actually contributed over the years. I promise you it can't be that many.
>>83372
>Cerbmin wanted to monetize this website: they could, really easily
And this is how I know you're nothing but a babbling idiot. How has trying to monetize worked out for kiwifarms?

No. 83448

>>83428
Because it's better to fully explain it in a post, and also anons were already freaking out like "OMG LOLCOW IS GONE 4EVER" so i doubt them saying "yeah we're under attack" would be helpful.

No. 83449

I take back all the smack I ever talked about Cerbmin

No. 83450

>>83442
None of them said this, read the post I was replying to >>83361 , and read admins post again. You zoomers continue to prove the failing literacy rates true everyday.

No. 83451

>>83447
NTA but I don’t think sending money to null is comparable to giving funding to our staff

No. 83452

>>83440
>Just admit you are wrong!!!111!
My post is about asking questions to Cerbmin. Not whatever it is you're on about. You can scroll up to see the questions that I had. It's not hard. As for the technical abilities of admins, Cerbmin already admitting in the first post of this thread that only 1/3rd of the admin team has the knowledge and capability to fix something of this caliber. That's not a good sign. You can brown nose allll you want, but it doesn't change the fact that 1 hacker was able to cause this much problems and delete this much data and the administration doesn't have any real way to remedy the damage. We should have had cloud backups for YEARS at this point, especially after the NuCow fiasco. The fact that we didn't is just negligent on the part of administration.
>>83443
Ideally, farmhands should be moderating the boards. When they notice something happening, they should alert admin, and admin should step in and see what the issue is. There is apparently 3 admins, so I don't think contacting admins or talking to them should be an issue. It's the fact that this took only 30 minutes for anons in /ot/ to notice, 45 minutes for anons to complain about it on /meta/, yet it took Cerbmin an hour and a half apparently to stop it. That's why the timeline is so important. Were there ANY farmhands active at that time on /ot/? Were farmhands aware of the situation, but were powerless to stop it? Was Cerbmin aware of it from the very beginning of the attack, but only revealed it an hour and 15 minutes after it began? What happened.

No. 83453

i’m so arigatoful for your hard work cerbmin ♥

No. 83454

>>83450
but that is what that post says? unless i have dyslexia or something, the admins did verbatim say

> Only one of the admins had the experience necessary to work on this issue, and she had to fit this around her day job (unfortunately she does not live in her mother’s basement like null)


that is saying that only one of them know how to read and alter code…if all three of them have the same skillset, why were they not all capable of working on this together? why did they need to force one to lone wolf if?

No. 83455

>>83409
>tfw you're uglier than rancefag
Brb, gotta go kms

No. 83456

>>83309
Idk when i used nonna it just auto censored it. I did get a permanent ban the first day i tried posting but I just used a VPN

No. 83457

>>83451
We never had a problem with donations. Do you know what monetization means? How old are you guys jfc, it's like the userbase regressed drastically in the past year.

No. 83458

>>83447
If you're too much of a newfag to remember when a nona gave $1000 to lc then you probably shouldn't be talking.

No. 83459

>>83457
Okay we get it you just wanna argue semantics and move the goal posts. Can you let the real farmers talk now?

No. 83460

>>83448
i think transparency is better than
>we’ll be back tomorrow!
> actually the next day!
> actually next week!
> no after the weekend!

No. 83461

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i was PERCHED! i never thought i’d say this but i missed you all, especially picrew nonnies

No. 83462

>>83457
anon thats what my post is saying…that we don’t have problems with monetization because anons here actually want to give the site owners their money. did i express my point incorrectly or something?

No. 83464

>>83446
i'm saying most the previous admins weren't capable of this at all and were only there as community moderators essentially. having an admin who is willing to run this place and can actually code is rare historically

No. 83465

>>83458
Nta but that's when oldmin was saying she wouldn't pay the bill anymore and we thought LC was at risk of being shutdown. I think anon is saying that when there's no direct threat to the site, anons don't donate. Which is true, after that whole debacle, kofi donations slowed up. I do still think they should open KoFi back up though.

No. 83466

>>83454
>that is saying that only one of them know how to read and alter code
Your reading comprehension levels are concerning.
>if all three of them have the same skillset
You made that assumption on your own.
>why did they need to force one to lone wolf if?
They explained that given the situation only one of them had the skillset to patch and fix the issues that arose from the exploit. You guys are literally so fucking retarded I don't blame cerbmin for not wanting to respond any further since most of you can't even read, let alone regulate your emotions without your precious basketweaving forum for less than 2 weeks.
>>83459
It's not semantics, you can admit that you don't know what you're talking about and that you have zero experience in trying to monetize and attract advertisers to a site that doesn't need more attention that it gets. That isn't even accounting for the thread topics that make monetization impossible.
>>83458
That was one anon over the span of several years. I have the impression that you guys don't know the annual costs of running a site this large, considering some of you were once speculating that former admins took the money and ran with it.

No. 83467

>>83464
and what myself and many other anons are saying is that, this should not be acceptable anymore. i think its time for them to expand their pool of staff because having a small staff since
> having one admin who does their job is rare !!!1
on a 12 year old board with almost 10,000 users who frequent it (during a busy week) isn’t reasonable. the staff to farmer ratio isn’t helping this website..

No. 83468

>>83466
i don’t understand why you’re bringing up reading comprehension when i read the post correctly though? they said that only one admin had the skillset to deal with the websites code vulnerability, that means that only one admin has the ability to read and alter code.

No. 83469

>>83466
Ntayrt but you seem really aggro for no reason. I didn't read anything you wrote because you're giving off this sulfuric energy.

No. 83470

what do we think admins day job is? i’m gonna guess court reporter kek

No. 83471

>>83470
Krusty Krab fry cook

No. 83472

>>83468
>they said that only one admin had the skillset to deal with the websites code vulnerability
If that is your interpretation of their post then it makes sense that you would simplify everything they had to do into "reading and altering code".
>>83464
>>83467
This board is not 12 years old and you missed the part where the backup(s) were corrupted.

No. 83473

this was my 9/11(namefagging)

No. 83474

Were all of the jonny craig threads deleted? They are no longer on the catalogue and nothing comes up when you google jonny craig lolcow anymore.

No. 83475

>>83470
Tech company Stacy that does 3 hours of work per day and bans annoying anons on company time

No. 83476

>>83466
>You guys are literally so fucking retarded I don't blame cerbmin for not wanting to respond any further since most of you can't even read, let alone regulate your emotions without your precious basketweaving forum for less than 2 weeks.
So much of this behavior is on purpose so it's useless to try to argue with them in good faith. They're sitting in the backseat punching each other while screaming MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM hoping that eventually one of the admins will respond and then they'll twist that into another hundred posts intentionally twisting things around, hoping eventually admin will snap. They've been doing this for years now

>>83467
I don't think people understand how hard it is to find reliable, competent staff that's willing to out themselves enough to be proven female and putting their personal info on the line. Especially now that this place is worse than ever.

No. 83477

A lot of holes in the plot ngl kek. Only one admin knew how to deal with this? Every single backup was corrupted? If this isn’t a wake up call that we have to make some real changes then I don’t know what is nonnies

No. 83478

>>83477
>A lot of holes in the plot ngl kek
careful, if you say this wks will call you a shit stirrer and call you retarded for not believing everything that comes out of cerbmins mouth

No. 83479

>>83476
i don’t know if i’m recalling things incorrectly but an issue we run into a lot with staffing is that a lot of anons apply but many (most) do not receive any kind of response or contact to their application?

No. 83480

>>83478
Kek I don’t want my posts to get deleted!! I’m not trying to be back handed I’m being serious as shit, I love this website and I want it to thrive.

No. 83482

>>83479
The problem is Cerbmin is too lazy to hold applications and interviews. The "there's not enough willing applicants!!!" thing is such bullshit. We've been having problems with Cerbmin for months now, they all still exist even after the outage. I don't know why so many people wanna live in denial about site issues and wk admins and jannies that don't give a fuck about them.
>>83480
Not good enough, you questioned Cerbmin. That's a death sentence itt.

No. 83483

>>83474
The current one is at >>>/snow/1965286, and I found it in the catalog. Google search may be messed up for a little while due to the downtime.

No. 83484

>>83477
They've been saying since they became admin that only one knows how to code though

No. 83485

>>83484
Noo anon, stop it. All admins are actually experts in coding and if you say anything different it's because you're trolling.

No. 83486

>>83484
Can you point to where this has been said? Even a screenshot, or a link to the post?

No. 83487

>>83486
Ntayrt but I recall when Cerbmin first started, the idea was that it was 3 admins doing 1 admin's job. One was in charge of coding, one was in charge of communication, and one was in charge of some other bullshit thing. You can check /meta/ and scroll down to find the threads, it'll be posted somewhere there from around the time Shaymin stepped down.

No. 83488

>>83487
Goddamn. There needs to be more than 1-3 staff members. I think thats agreeable, isn’t it?

No. 83489

>>83487
Okay, so you don't have proof and you are making shit up now.
>>83476
You're right, I tried in vain. At this point I'm surprised if any competent staff can be found when oldfags like me are visiting less and less because of how bad it's gotten.

No. 83490

>>83409
Am I going insane for thinking she doesn't look as ugly as everyone makes her out to be

No. 83491

>>83354
this is such a retarded theory. give it up. there is a lot of user overlap ok nobody has to “pretend to be a regular” kek

No. 83492

>>83489
>You aren't bowing to my spoonfeeding requests and instead of lurking I'm gonna pretend what you said is fake!!!
You're kind of silly kek. I'm not gonna go out of my way to prove something to you when you can just lurk to find it.
>Oldfags like me
Kekkkk if you're an oldfag then I'm the tooth fairy.

No. 83493

>>83486
My apologies, I was a bit wrong. It's 2 devs, not 1. Anyway it's in their introduction thread. IDK how everyone forgot about it.
>>51182
>we are a team of 3 consisting of two devs and a liaison + project manager to keep communication flowing between devs and farmers
But regardless, it still according to them was only one dev admin that could handle it and had to also fix the issue around her job. If they said all 3 admins know how to code them yeah I would agree it's weird for only one to know how to fix it. But one of two admins knowing how to fix it isn't that farfetched to me

No. 83494

>>83489
nta but anon its really not hard to scroll down to the introduction
>>51182

No. 83495

>>83489
You are so retarded, here's your spoonfeed:
>>83493

No. 83496

>>83488
Why are you even here if you don't even know the difference between site staff and admins? And now we have anons who can't even bother to ctrl+F and find the passages they swear were posted as gospel by cerbmin. >>>/meta/51182 See how easy it was?

No. 83497

>>83489
>At this point I'm surprised if any competent staff can be found when oldfags like me are visiting less and less because of how bad it's gotten.
ATP I wish there was a new site for us to flee to while the spergs can rot here. I've been here since the first admin and the past 2 years I have visited less and less because the threads I'm interested in are either unreadable or dead now because everything has to be crammed into the same handful of /ot/ threads and real cows have gotten rare. It's just not the same place anymore.

No. 83498

>>83496
Anon…admin count as staff. I’m just using the term staff generally. My point still stands.

No. 83499

>>83496
Are you malding because anons called you retarded for your spoon feed request?

No. 83501

>>83498
Don't doubledown, you literally believed that there are only 3 staff members because of there being 3 admins. Embarrassing newfag behavior.
>>83499
I was proven correct, if you read >>83493 correctly. It was you or other anons swearing up and down that only one admin can code. Take the L.

No. 83502

I’m just spitballing but I think a good game plan would be;
- hire more staff (admin and farmhands), so many NEET anons would be happy to offer our assistance to this website
- upgrade to ramen or jschan or one of the other imageboard preset platforms that other anons have recommended
- have another hellweek

No. 83503

>>83501
Kekk nobody said that. You keep moving the goal posts of your weird bait infight and it's funny. Go bait on unpopular opinions, you'll be better there.

No. 83504

>newfag
>newfag
>newfag
>newfag
>newfag
when will it end..

No. 83505

>>83504
Okay. All the admins are newfags. All the farmhands are newfags. Newfags are the site now. Go make another ib if you want another ib like >>83497 suggests.

No. 83506

>>83501
I mean, based off how this website is run and the lack of moderation I feel like I’m not that far off in my assumption that there’s a very small number of staff/admins

No. 83507

>>83505
anon what? i was just saying that im tired of everyone getting called a newfag…

No. 83508

>>83506
Don't bother responding to that anon, it's probably /meta/fag/.

No. 83509

>>83505
Wow kek…do you know what greentexting is, nonna?

No. 83511

>>83503
It's weird that you think it's baiting to correct the assumption that only one admin can code.
>>83500
Yeah it isn't weird to me either, I also find the hypotheticals counterproductive to the overall discussion. They already put in their own money into other measures to ensure that this doesn't happen again. Anons are acting as if no backups were being made, or like security breaches aren't becoming more common in our political climate. It would have been worse if any of the cow boards was targetted, instead the board attracting the most insufferable personalityfags was hit.

No. 83512

While I like my /ot/, I'm glad it was this board that was nuked tbh. I don't care much about cows anymore but even I know that'd be the 21st century equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria

No. 83513

>>83490
In the land of the blind the one eyed (wo)man is (queen)king

No. 83514

>>83512
This. Thank god it was one of the offtopic boards, I didn't care about the /m/ wipeout and I don't care about this either aside from the downtime. I save images I like into my autistic folders. If it was pt or snow it'd be a real loss of internet culture

No. 83515

>>83512
I don't know what I'd do if all 100+ Shaynus threads got deleted.

No. 83516

>>83515
Most of her threads are archived on /shay/ so it would only be the /snow/ threads made since the creation of /shay/ that would be lost.

No. 83517

will mp4s and webms also be restored?

No. 83518

Tell my nonnies that I love them

No. 83521

>>83520
>Farmhands are people with lives too, they probably don't check lolcow literally every minute.
NTA but I don't think anyone who has a life is the kind of person who willingly volunteers to moderate an imageboard

No. 83523

>>83521
I deleted it because I realized there's no point in engaging further, but kek the server bill has to be paid somehow.

No. 83526

Stay the fuck down. Literally nobody wants your site on the clearweb, Ines. This is why you were expelled from McGill.

No. 83527

>>83526
Kek okay then

No. 83528

damn they deleted our precious images…funny right before the site went down i remember being in some thread and i responded to a nonny thinking she posted pictures incorrectly…then deleted it right away because i thought i was retarded and had shitty wifi. kek i was close to roping thinking we’d never get the farm back whew

No. 83530

>>83528
also my dear sweet precious mods i forgive you for banning me for no reason since you worked quickly before our farm got corrupted forever. and besides i got unbanned now after the server was restored so im happy again

No. 83533

>>83527
Sounds like someone is larping as Elaine and her ilk kek

No. 83534

>>82984
If you seriously cannot tell the difference between users who can’t stop sperging about how much they love cock vs oldfags that hate weebs and just want to get back to laughing at fujocows without triggering some annoying and painfully lost fujowhore then you deserve how shitty this place is getting for you.(offtopic bait)

No. 83535

I posted all the time in the bunker threads on cc and never got banned, so I think it’s a skill issue. The bunker threads were also pretty chill when it was euro hours and only started to get shitty during amerifat hours, which only further proves my belief that they ruin everything they touch. I also never used that cuck board, and look down on anons that did.

No. 83536

Did the coquette #4 thread get nuked? That was my favorite lol

No. 83537

Thank you mods you did amazing <3

No. 83538

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>>83535
I was permanently banned on CC for this post. For context, the thread was talking about carreychan and her conspiracies, so I made a joke that Jim Carrey took down lolcow. Permanent ban with no explanation given, all appeals rejected.

No. 83539

>>83535
I said the site theme reminded me of watermelon candy and got permabanned For unspecified reason and all my attempts to appeal or ask what I did wrong were ignored. I was also on in the euro hours because I like being awake at night. It was very indiscriminate banning, really annoying. The fetish site was chill and fun.

No. 83540

Is it possible to create an archive of each board at the end of each week or month? so if this ever happens again, It can be fixed more easily

No. 83542

>>83541
I'm glad to hear you are feeling better now, nonnie.

No. 83544

>>82856
>The only thing that was affected was the images in /ot/. No user data has been compromised, and there has been no impact to user privacy.

Kek but why did they do this? I don't see the point at all, it's not like they targeted /snow/ where all the real shit is. /ot/ is just silly cat pictures, food and memes, so what was the point?

No. 83545

>>82856
>As a result, we’ve had to resort to other methods to try and recover the images. This is an ongoing process, and we are going to keep an updated count stickied in /ot/ to be transparent about how that is going. At the time of writing this, we’ve recovered just over 10% of the images and about 47% of thumbnails.
To be honest if staff can only recover up to 60% - 75% of the images I would be okay with it. Mostly because it sounds very tedious for the staff and most of the pictures were memes or silly thread pics. I'm mostly interested in people being able to recover the lolcow's own caps thread because or how important it is but I think some nonnies have been reposting their own collection so that's also fine by me. The draw boards are also very important though, it would be sad to see them gone but maybe the people behind it may have a backup?

No. 83546

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Hey admins, I have html copies of the artist salt threads 1-58 with expanded images as of the 16th of August. I can't guarantee total image archival in these though since the way they load makes it challenging but it should at least have captured most of them. If this is useful to you, how do I send it over? Currently have them on my NAS but have no clue about secure file transfers as I live the dual life of wanting to be anonymous and also being retarded

No. 83549

>>82866
which ones?
>>82868
>girlchans
>pornboard (?)
which ones? please I need a way to pass the time if lolcow ever goes down again. please kind nonnies

No. 83550

>>83546
oh wait I'm literally ultra retarded, I can't see 17-44 so I either havent archived them or they're located somewhere I don't remember. ermmmm… well I can send over what I have for sure

No. 83551

>>83544
Multiple image boards were attacked and there was allegedly a random attempt. Probably someone doing it for lols or to squeeze money out of ib owners.

No. 83554

>>83549
The other girl chans are crystal cafe, fujochan and heolkek cafe. Crystal cafe is a 'general' chan, fujochan is oriented around fujocontent and heolkek cafe is for kpop.

No. 83555

>>83545
>maybe the people behind it may have a backup
Former admin of the doodle board here, I don't have any copies of the pics (afaik, I may have a few idk) because I figured they would be safe on lolcow. The other like 4 admins went AWOL before I resigned so I doubt they're around to see if they can recover any images. The current admin may have pics saved of the last few boards though. One good thing is that the super early doodle board pics would still be in the /g/ bunker threads so those can easily be found! But other than that the doodle boards pics from its inception to now are gone until admin can recover them. I believe in the admin and I have faith they'll get the pictures back.

No. 83556

>>83546
okay I just saw the /ot/ thread I'll email at admin@lolcow.farm bye nonas

No. 83557

>>82907
CC is the worst fucking imageboard possible.

No. 83559

>>83343
>>83359
Kek just don't forget to add lolcow.farm in the corner and post it in the right thread
I'm happy that we didn't lose all the banners in this attack and I hope admin can add new ones soon!

No. 83560

>>83549
The porn board was a cuckquean fetish board. That's all that was on it and it was pretty much completely dead. It's not worth looking into because the literal only thing happening was our bunker thread kek. The board owner was nice though, he occasionally replied in our thread

No. 83561

File: 1726109394337.png (178.03 KB, 1170x993, cuckquean post.png)

Postmortem on the cuckquean board

No. 83562

>>83561
please at least link the website for us

No. 83563

The good thing about the blackout: all the weird poltard anons are mysteriously gone. Perhaps we should do this more often

No. 83564


No. 83565

>>83563
It's been obvious to me that they're all outsiders just looking to shit stir. It's nice that they're gone and I hope they think lolcow is forever shut down

No. 83567

>>83011
>/ot/ was a fun board
Emphasis on was

No. 83569

>>83561
>The community from New Zealand
Is this a meme?
Is this some gay Kiwifarms shit? I know my country is a sexpest capital but what is the meaning of this? Is the cuckqueen boards server hosted in NZ or something?

No. 83570

>>83561
>A dozen or so reports were filed, mostly for some variation of a-logging
kek

No. 83571

>>83569
it's literally kiwifarms

No. 83572

>>83561
glad the de/g/ens didn't start scatposting again and we got away with no bans

>>83569
think it's just saying "if you want to know more look at the kiwifarms thread" since a bunch of bunkerposting is archived there.

No. 83573

>>83378
We need merch

No. 83576

>>83573
Feels risky, I don't trust someone being able to get my information from buying imageboard merch online even though it sounds cute

No. 83577

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I've expressed my gratitude to Cerbmin before, and not to get to soppy, but this place feels like a home on the internet with like-minded women and I'm so thankful it's back and being protected.

No. 83578

I have been fantasizing about this website being hacked for the past month or more, because you all kept coming at me.

No. 83579

any idea as to what the hacker's motive may have been?

No. 83580

>>83563
>>83565
Seriously, glad the retarded infights about polshit died down. Amerifags is definitely more chill now. I like having somewhere to discuss politics more lightheartedly

No. 83581

>>83579
Randsom

No. 83582

Thanks for all hard work. Ngl that was a rough time. Just realising how few places there are for women was just something i tried avoiding i guess.

Thanks to the admin and mods. You're wonderful.

No. 83583

>>83325
>Hint: you're not as oldfag as you imagine ♥
This made me laugh because of how retarded it reads on multiple levels.

No. 83585

>>83561
a dead porn imageboard run by a guy. its really not hard to understand why he was gleeful of lc fags bunkering there because it was the closest he'll ever get to a woman.
the other imageboards arent starved of interaction so that’s why they wouldnt tolerate the lc diaspora.

No. 83586

>>83585
This is true, but the pickmes don't accept it. They think he's such a good guy unlike the harpies from the CC staff.

No. 83587

>>83582
Thank you everyone for all your hard work!
I missed lolcow so fucking much! I'm so happy it's back !!!1!!1!!!!>>83582

No. 83588

>>82974
really not that weird. this kind of thing is much easier to set up/exploit in an automated way nowadays, esp with AI and shit like that. i'm just rly happy to see stuff being restored. very grateful to cerbmin and everyone else getting /ot/ back!!!

No. 83589

>>83576
yeahh - understandable. If there were a way to make it happen, I work in merchandising and can 100% design and manufacture plushies, blankets, pins, hoodies…etc. A lolcow plush would be so cute.

No. 83590

>>83583
Fucking kekk

No. 83591

>>83385
>I've doubted them since the handover.
Topkek, because the previous administration was so smooth and functional and I'm sure they were functioning well according to your standards. Take your medications and get tested for autism.

No. 83592

>>83416
>Why do we all have to walk on eggshells and pretend nothing is wrong
No one is pretending "nothing is wrong", but you have answered your own question as to why admins need to walk on eggshells.

No. 83593

>>83438
>it’s a shelter board not a porn board
cope, you sound like women who are cape for men who are pornfags.
>>83452
>it doesn't change the fact that 1 hacker was able to cause this much problems
We don't technically know if it was only 1 hacker
>>83468
Just because only one admin had the skillset to patch and fix the issues due to the exploit doesn't mean that the other administrators cannot assist in others matters regarding code or don't know anything about reading and altering code.
>>83487
Kek this is an imageboard and yet no quote or image to show this when the burden of proof is on anon because they are the one making the claim only 1 admin can code. Please take a logic, critical thinking, and English 101 class at your local community college.
>>83492
And yet…there were no post quotes or imagecaps because it didn't exist.
>>83493
>>83495
This is so stupid because anon was literally doubling down on there being only 1 admin who knew how to code. Idiot.
>>83535
Imagine trying to defend yourself using a pornboard for refuge because of a skill issue. Just admit you're all pickmeishas who would rather lick male boots than figure out how to use a different imageboard than lc.
>>83586
Literally acting like 18 year olds at a bar confused why they get in for free. Willful retardation.

No. 83594

>>83593
>This is so stupid because anon was literally doubling down on there being only 1 admin who knew how to code.
First ayrt, I didn't double down. I made a post saying that they said only one admin handled tech stuff (in response to an anon questioning why only one admin could fix the issue), and then I corrected myself with links to proof. But anyways it's been an entire day so idk why you're upset about this.

No. 83596

>>83593
Do you not remember the new admin saying that they had coders for this? They aren't the only coder. They have a group of them specifically for upkeep and then we have mods also who might also help with the backend and UI. Stop talking about stuff you clearly have no idea about.

No. 83597

A lot of old thread thumbnails have been replaced with minion porn >>>/ot/2161692

No. 83598

>>83597
oh fuck, did this just happen? i hope we dont have to do another round of maintenance…

No. 83599

>>83597
What the fuck kek that’s real? Not a shitpost? Wow

No. 83600

>>83597
when I check them its just the normal pt spoiler image for those threads? are you sure its not shooped? if you ctrl + F one of them in the catalog you can see what I mean

No. 83601

>>83596
I'm talking shit on the anons who were saying there was only 1 coder, i think you're either responding to the wrong post or you misread mine.

No. 83602

>>83593
>Imagine trying to defend yourself using a pornboard for refuge because of a skill issue.
Did you read my post? I never used it.

No. 83604

>>83412
What the fuck is an "onion backup"? You guys are so embarrassing pretending to know what you're talking about.

No. 83605

Why does this situation have everyone acting like they're Ada Lovelace or some shit? I know we have some programmer/developer anons but kek

No. 83606

>>83604
an onion link on the tor network.

No. 83607

>>83578
and you are…?

No. 83608

is lolcow….. lost media?

No. 83609

>>83606
That is not a backup in any way shape or form. I am begging you tech illiterate faggots to shut the fuck up and stop embarrassing yourselves.

No. 83610

Ahh, even just having some of the threadpics back in /ot/ makes everything feel so much homier. I’m glad some pics are being recovered. Keep up the great work archivers and admins

No. 83611

>>83546
>>83031
>>83034
Thank you to everyone who has sent us images, we really appreciate your contributions ♥
In total we received around 4000 images from users today, which we’ve now restored. If you’re interested in our progress, we’re updating the total recovered here once per day:
>>>/ot/2159378

We’d also like to clarify the situation regarding the admins and their technical experience, as there seems to be some confusion. Two of the admins are fullstack devs, but one mainly works with frontend code and the other has more experience with backend. The backend admin also has the most experience with infrastructure (i.e. servers and databases) as well as data recovery. The issue that led to this incident only needed changes to backend code and server updates, so for that reason, only one of the admins could work on it.

No. 83612

>>83602
Oh, I know, I wasn't referring to you. I was responding to you. I know you didn't use it, I was referring to anons who did. Apologies for the confusion.

No. 83613

>>83611
Kek, exactly what multiple anons pointed out but baiters couldn't help but double down on their lack of reading comprehension and go back an fourth for 50+ posts. Never change lolcow.

No. 83614

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>>83612
That’s okay anon, all is forgiven ♥

No. 83615

>>83561
There is something so disturbing about a man saying ‘nonnie’.

No. 83618

>>83615
The entire situation is ridiculously creepy and I'm baffled that anyone willingly went and posted there. How could you not have alarm bells going off in your head?

No. 83619

When LC went down I just waited for it to come back, checking every other day or so. I did comment at that one place that you go to check site server status, I forget the name of the site but an anon wrote a poem about the farm there and it was honestly so heartfelt i almost shed a tear, other than that, I lurked KF for a day or two, being as Tuna is also documented over there but it wasn't the same.

So, being so out the general Chan board loop, I only just found out about CC so went over, had a lurk. Looks to me like they actually have a farmer bias and I hate to be that tinfoiler but maybe that's why some of you copped random perma bans over there. That's absolutely not on of course, takes the piss. Just my tinfoil, though, biased AF mods.

Also topkek at the onion backup comment in here. That's gold.

No. 83620

>>83600
It was definitely real, I checked the catalog after seeing the post. I guess they must've fixed it.

No. 83621

>>83613
>double down
Can you please learn a different term

No. 83623

>>83618
Seriously, not only is it a porn board, but a porn board dedicated to a fetish for cucking/cheating on women. Absolutely bottom of the barrel misogynistic shit. I can't believe how many are defending and sucking off this subhuman scrote just because he allowed a bunker thread. I don't even identify as radfem either and think this kek, half of the userbase are truly just pickmes through and through.

No. 83624

>>83623
I thought that was evident after they managed to get banned by multiple girlchans in the span of a few days. Someone in another thread pointed out that it was ironic that they accused mods of being moids only to move to a board operated by a cuck.

No. 83625

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>>83624
>board operated by a cuck
That's the thing, in the fantasies he is not the cuck, but rather the reverse. It's specifically about getting off to cheating on a woman and making her emotionally suffer. Obviously both versions are severely pornsick, but this is arguably much worse.

No. 83626

>>83624
How many times do anons have to say that they got banned off of CC for an unspecified reason and their posts were only very mundane inoffensive things, and that they went to the dumb porn board just for a place to talk? You guys want to write your own narrative so fucking bad. Also nobody is sucking off the weird scrote owner. Just saying he let there be a bunker and popped in to say hello is suddenly sucking his dick or something, jfc.

No. 83627

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>>83626
>Also nobody is sucking off the weird scrote owner
Don't make me pull up screenshots, kek

No. 83628

>>83627
>1 anon being a fucking weirdo makes half the userbase pickmes

No. 83629

>>83626
It's possible for two things to be true at the same time. Some farmers were rightly banned on CC for breaking CC rules and some farmers were wrongly banned when they didn't do anything wrong.

No. 83630

>>83629
You're right. I just feel frustrated and annoyed when anons are saying that everybody who got banned from CC was baiting and infighting and deserved it. I got permabanned on CC after talking about how I liked the site theme. So it's frustrating that there's a narrative that oh we all were just being a nuisance. I got defensive about it sorry

No. 83631

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>>83628
There was no criticism in sight, pretty much all discussion of him was complimenting him and talking about how great he is, both on there and largely on here. This isn't everything either. Anyway, I'm not trying to get redtexted for infighting, just wanted to prove a point.

No. 83632

>>83627
Anon you can't possibly be taking this post seriously kek
>>83631
I can't speak for other anons but I didn't know this because I never actually went and looked at the porn, I thought he was just being chill and there was a lot of anons so it just felt like the place to be

No. 83633

>>83627
how autistic do you have to be to take my post seriously. No wonder anons stayed on his cuckqueen board when cc was filled to the brim of no-fun autists like you.

No. 83634

Just sent 30 images to the admin email and will send more as I find them.

No. 83635

Can the blackpill threads be banned and replaced with a feminism without the blackpill threads and the people who mention any personalityfags from there get banned, the thread is about to reach the limit

No. 83636

>>83631
maybe he should become part of the admin team if he knows how to run an imageboard

No. 83637

>>83636
kek stop you are making the salty cc mod jealous he can actually opperate an iamgeboard unlike their shit website

No. 83639

>>83570
>all of which were dismissed
KEK. Some farmers should really learn to integrate outside of their own imageboard.
>>83572
>glad the de/g/ens didn't start scatposting again
It's a cuck fetish board. I doubt that would've changed anything.
>>83626
>>83630
If you got banned for no reason you should've used a VPN. It took them a while to appear, but a mod posted in the bunker to say that if you get a ban with no reason stated, you should just evade because that's either the autoban filter at work or an old ban on a VPN IP. That's what I did and still do, so I didn't really have an issue in the CC bunker. I seriously doubt the mods personally decided to permaban you for complimenting their site theme, kek.
But that doesn't mean that they aren't too ban-happy other times, I've experienced unfair bans/deletions from them in the past. I just find it ironic that anons that are unable to contain their autism call CC mods trannies because they got a ban (unfairly or not), when CC mods are probably just as paranoid about users being male.
>>83631
I refuse to believe this isn't actually just the admin moid samefagging (most of them anyway). It's actually quite disgusting. Thank fuck I never visited that IB. The only alternative bunker I did visit was that Japanese chat website with the cat characters.
>>83637
The AYRT meant lolcow, not CC.

No. 83640

>>83639
no one is going to pay for a vpn to post on cc
>inb4 dl a free one
enjoy your data being sold

No. 83641

>>83640
Use Tor
t. someone who has never used Tor

No. 83642

>>83639
NTA but when I used a vpn on cc like 99% of the ips were banned kek. Took so many tries (and downloading so many other vpns) to find a location that was available.

No. 83643

>>83641
The cc mods explicitly said they disliked farmers and even threatened to kick us out and not host our bunkers. They should get off their high horses considering their ib is dead and inhabited by troons. I dont know why some anons are so pissed farmers migrated to a dead website no one uses with a kind enough mod to make it a cycling pinned thread after the cc mods started acting like fags.

No. 83644

>>83636
Just go back there instead of seriously suggesting a porn addled scrote should have anything to do with this site. I'd rather the site closed for good than let a pornsick male have unrestricted access to our private data

No. 83645

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>>83644
>seriously suggesting

No. 83646

>>83643
link? I don't want to wade through all the bunkers to find that. I saw a lot of love and fanart back and forth. Also saw some anons posting stuff that would get you an a-logging ban here, idk if those posts got deleted. They were about moids.

No. 83647

>>83643
If the cc mods really hated us that badly they would have just kicked us off the site, like heolkek and fujochan did.

No. 83648

>>83643
CC is splinter of LC and has hosted LC bunkers for years. I'm not sure where the idea that they hate LC comes from. The mods told farmers to follow the rules or they would be banned, which is expected. Anyone posting on LC that doesn't follow the rules also get banned.

>farmers migrated to a dead website no one uses

junkochan is part of the webring. This is a group of altchans that were once boards on 8ch before the site was shut down after the Chirstchurch shooting. The webring lists sites by activity which would have made the bunker threads very noticeable to moids.

No. 83649

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>>83624
>>83623
>>83618
Sometimes I'm embarrassed by the tumblr-tier moralfagging put on display. If we want to escalate the purity tests, then we can go back to lolcor being an offshoot of 4chan founded by a moid.
The pickmes praising the junkuchan Admin for doing the bare minimum for sheltering are embarrassing but so are you for making the nonas who used junkuchan look like they're all clueless NLOGs who laid with the devil.

Have you considered that CC was not a good shelter for a lot of posters who wanted a more lax setting and faster posting? I didn't mind CC but I hated its long posting cooldown, also it's obvious to see how its rules don't gel with a lot of farmers. So instead of being happy we had options you are chastitizing them while also acting like the fact you never been banned on CC makes you morally superior to those dirty pickmes.
Grow up and remember where you are posting right now.

No. 83650

>>83641
The site was so slow it didn't even load properly for me on TOR and I'm not downloading another vpn just to use CC.
There should just be way to contact staff and remove autobans from anons caught accidentally instead of just telling anons to "just ban evade lol".
Anons liked the pornboard because they could discuss whatever without getting banned for tripping in a filter and the mod didn't wait days just to tell anons to "just ban evade lol". I liked doing tegakis, discussing historical husbandos and talking about dinner, I didn't like CC because I had to go incognito just to see the ban appeal page, appeal, and not get unbanned. I don't hate CC because I want to shit up the place, I hate CC because it's very mismanaged.

No. 83652

>>83631
Did you get any screenshots of the scrote posting his creepy responses? I'm not going there to find them myself.

No. 83653

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>>83623
heres one anon on kf defending their choice to make a bunker thread on it. no wonder the other girlchans cant stand lc and were ban happy, userbase is insufferable

No. 83667

Maybe someone self posted or got posted on lolcow ot board

No. 83671

>>83632
>I thought he was just being chill and there was a lot of anons so it just felt like the place to be
You guys must be NEETs, there's no way you're going to survive against moids in the flesh. The only possible explanation is that you're all underage or freshly 18. Of course he was "just being chill", there's girls on his cuckquean board.
>>83636
>>83637
Anons are paranoid about trannies being admins, yet they'd rather have a degenerate moid whose fetish revolves around female emotional trauma from cheating be their admin? Just go back.
>>83639
>If you got banned for no reason you should've used a VPN. It took them a while to appear, but a mod posted in the bunker to say that if you get a ban with no reason stated, you should just evade because that's either the autoban filter at work or an old ban on a VPN IP.
Anon, nearly all of the CC ban anons are technologically illiterate and seem to barely know how to use imageboards, you're asking too much of them.
See >>83648, they don't even know about 8ch.
>>83649
>remember where you are posting right now.
That's precisely why anons are being chastised for using a pornboard run by a degenerate moid.

No. 83673

>>83649
>t. nigelfag

No. 83674

please don’t remove the blackpill threads just convince the poor autist that keeps spiraling about women enjoying cock to get therapy to log off

No. 83675

>>83671
>That's precisely why anons are being chastised for using a pornboard run by a degenerate moid.
you sound so retarded dude the internet is created by a degenerate moid the world is ran by pedophiles who gives a fuck. and who are you and the other idiots on this site to “”chasitize”” anyone for using a site for like ten seconds? get over yourselves jfc. your brain is the size of a pea

No. 83676

>>83675
It’s one thing to use the board and another to straight up kiss his ass.

No. 83679

>>83611
holy shit, 4000 images?? god bless our troops! its kind of wholesome that anons are banding together to save /ot/. I appreciate you nonnies

No. 83680

I would rather never speak to any farmers again or deal with the shitty CC moderation than use an imageboard that has a porn addicted Indian scrote as its admin. I saw tons of anons suck up to him and kiss his ass and come to the CC bunker to go "heehee everyone come join us on the female cuck board!! It's sooo fun and the admin is being really nice to us!!!". And yes this was all done unironically, stop pretending like everyone who sucked his unwashed dick was just joking around. Absolutely pathetic behavior to witness.

No. 83684

Not to contribute to the derailing, but I think the reason why so many anons didn't like people promoting that other image board is because anons will talk all day about how "mods and admins are moids! I hate them! I hate scrotes! They're oppressing us!" but then try to get us to use a site actually owned and moderated by a man and post about how fun the site is literally everywhere kek.

No. 83686

>>83684
all this has taught me is the type of anon who uses bunker threads in general is not a good user. they're so desperate for attention and interaction on an imageboard specifically that they will use any site. to me it's not even about what the site actually entails but more about the fact that those anons are so willing to overlook it just to post useless shit.

No. 83689

>>83686
Same anons screech and act like they're oppressed about being expected to integrate on girlchans, CC moderation is a can of worms but they did it on fujochan too. And then wonder why they get kicked from the girlchans. Like no shit you got kicked when you cba'd to even acknowledge you are guests and try to strongarm the existing site into becoming LC 2.0.

No. 83692

>>83676
i think saying thank you to someone for being hospitable after occupying their imageboard isn't really kissing their ass but being appreciative
>of course he's being chill, theres girls on his cuckquean board
so do you think he wanted to cuck all of us or something kek?

No. 83694

>>83684
It's performative empty virtue signalling that is more about getting their own way than anything else.

I've browsed /cow/ for over a decade so I'm not bothered by posting on the webring and I doubt that the admin of junkuchan has malicious intent. It's just extremely interesting to witness all the cries of "tranny janny" and moid accusations against the mods of actual female image boards be rendered moot because a male admin let them rapid fire shitpost and use the site like a chatroom. I also doubt that any of them have any concept of guarding their own privacy. No one should be posting on a previously unknown image board with their home IP.

No. 83695

>>83675
>ten seconds
Kek, it was not "ten seconds". The fact you have to scramble to such an extreme example as
>the internet is created by a degenerate moid the world is ran by pedophiles
is embarrassing. It's not like there are zero other imageboards run by women besides CC and LC.
>>83680
It's crazy how anons are trying to deny the ass kissing and yet there's so many screencaps of just that occurring.
>>83684
Exactly. Why fucking sperg about our admin being a scrote or tranny and then cozy up to a porn addict moid?
>>83689
It is beyond their comprehension that imageboards have different purposes and rules. They think since they use LC that they understand how all imageboards work.
>>83692
You're being obtuse. It's a pornboard, it's obvious why a scrote is happy women are on it. Think about how on reddit that nearly any women who post on subreddits can get DMs requesting nudes if males aren't explicitly banned from said subreddit. I'm not saying that admin in particular would do anything, but it's like being on a phone call with a porn addicted scrote who you don't know; of course they are excited by and accommodate your "presence". You don't know what is happening on the other end.

No. 83696

>>83695
but anons weren't congregating at the porn board we were at /shelter/?

No. 83698

>>83696
/shelter/ is part of the webring which includes boards dedicated to loli and fascism. At least it wasn't 8ch.moe I guess.

No. 83702

>>83694
Have you considered that the ones visiting the scrote-lead cuck board, the ones viciously hating men and the ones calling farmhands tranny jannys could be all different people? These "heh checkmate hypocrite" arguments are so stupid, this is an anonymous imageboard and you're playing pick and choose in your head to attach sentiments to random anons to match your point.

No. 83703

>>83696
Oh thank goodness, they were only posting on the /shelter/ board. The board right next to the /psychological torture for women/ and /loli feet/ boards.

No. 83704

>>83702
It's called pattern recognition.

No. 83705

>>83689
Why do you keep pretending it's about not integrating instead of the autobans that a lot of anons were affected by?
And no, besides literally one anon half heartedly going "I can't believe this is making me post on an fujo board" and a certain personalityfag spamming and being retarded, the other anons integrated just fine into fujochan and stayed in that one thread.

No. 83706

>>83704
More like wishful thinking. Honestly if you're so spiteful against the userbase on here to twist random posters into your negatives bias, I don't understand why you're still here.

No. 83707

File: 1726248960587.jpeg (408.7 KB, 828x725, 1725847839032.jpeg)

>>83705
Did you forget this happening?

No. 83709

>>83703
I guess they’re going to get sent to the gulags now idk

No. 83710

Why would anyone do something like this to us, we're literally just girls this is how it felt to be a woman during the Witch Trials

No. 83711

>ransom
my tinfoil about it being some tranny was correct. only a moid would pay money to have a site attacked kek. but why /ot/?

No. 83712

File: 1726252197817.png (13.77 KB, 300x330, 4076EB10-064E-43A0-AA7D-D03C0E…)

>>83684
this revealed some anons here have a strong case of entitlement. every time they whined about mods being trannies or moids, every time they accused anons of being trannies or moids, it was really about entitlement and not getting their way. they just phrase in whatever way possible
>banned for infighting, not integrating, general retardation
>anon disagrees with their opinion
STUPID TRANNY JANNIES REEEEE
YOURE A MOID
like…..I don't have to agree with what youre saying just because youre a woman lmao

No. 83713

>>83705
even before the thread was made farmers went to fujochan and started baiting fights with regular users and the moderator. and it was impossible for a non-fujo to integrate as they shouldn’t use fc in the first place

No. 83714

>>83631
you know the board owner can pretend to be a nonnie and praise himself in order to try and influence users to like him and stay right?

No. 83715

>>83653
is junkochan named after junko furuta?

No. 83716

File: 1726255213563.png (Spoiler Image,1.05 MB, 1828x7411, fujochan_meta.png)

Screen cap of fujochan's /site/ when fujochan's /ot/ was being spammed with bunker threads. Spoilered for image size.

No. 83717

>>83715
Its "junku"chan, I have no idea what it's supposed to mean.

No. 83718

>>83717
i am pretty sure it just means ''junk''

No. 83719

>>83718
or also a combo of jun and shinku, considering the rozen maiden theme of the site

No. 83723

>>83716
This is so embarrassing given how nobody was this antagonistic to the cuckquean admin.

No. 83725

>>83723
everyone was calling him moid and scrote

No. 83727

>>83723
i feel like the users who need to be in bunkers are just attention whores. they literally just use it as a chatroom and end up arguing because they are the spergiest users.

No. 83730

>>83716
This screenshot really shows how spergy fujos are, why do they love to infight so much

No. 83734

Thank you admin for your hard work. You did what you had to do, its a shame some of the pics are gone but what can you do? I think nonna's are just glad you're back.

No. 83737

>>83730
The very first post and the fact that it's a screenshot from CC should tell you that this isn't actual enraged fujo regulars but shit stirrers from CC. They did literally the same thing verbatim on CC's meta, claiming farmers are "ruining the site" by sticking to a single thread.

No. 83738

>>83707
Very convenient to cut off literally all replies telling her to knock it off.

No. 83754

>>83653
im the anon in the picrel and i want to clarify that the bunker was only made after it was recommended by a helokek user when they were down and i only made the bunker after some nonas also agreed with the idea seeing the how bad the moderation was on cc some were suggesting to make one on cgl too. it was truly a out of options decision sadly and not a personal one

No. 83759

>>83727
Exactly. The whole idea of "bunkering" is cringe, obnoxious and embarrassing. It's not funny, it's not cute. Just integrate normally in other spaces. Or go outside. I'm sure this "bunkering" also contributed a great deal to the decline of the site culture.

No. 83761

>>83754
why tf do you feel the need to defend yourself all over the place

No. 83762

>>83759
It's no coincidence they got banned from every site and cc had to increase the spam filter. A lot of anons were chill and made good/funny/interesting posts, but a lot were only interested in spamming multiple posts per minute and low-key making a new dumbass shit space. It's embarrassing. I don't understand why they don't use existing dumbass shit threads and not make everything about being displaced farmers, nobody has to know you're explicitly bunkering even if you say you miss lolcow

No. 83764

>>83762
I think its because they no idea how to be "anonymous" in an imageboard. I have no idea why this concept is hard.

No. 83765

>>83764
For a bunch of supposed farmers who should be good at flying under the radar in other communities, some of these people are closer to being actual personalityfags and avatarfags than anything else. They should just make a forum where they can updoot and brigade each other, it's more aligned with their entertainment needs than anything on lolcow.

No. 83766

>>83764
Because they're tumblr/twitter/tiktokfags who only post here because they're allowed to say tranny and retard and hate on moids

No. 83767

>>83762
It's even worse for FC or HK, at least CC is a general interest girlchan but the other two each have a specific main topic (BL/yaoi, respectively K-pop) so those who have no interest in the respective main topics shouldn't even be there in the first place. Admins were actually right to say that anons who are only here for /ot/ are merely tolerated guests.

No. 83768

>>83764
>>83762
>>83759
>>83766
>>83767
at this point I would say that this subgroup of users are in fact using lolcow as a permanent bunker. they're not part of lcf culture and will readily admit they don't care about the core spirit of the site (making fun of emotionally unregulated spergs like them or the avatarfagging husbandofags, yaoi crusaders etc) and just come here because they are afraid of getting banned from other platforms or unfollowed by their "moots" for saying tranny and kill all moids, so if you really think about it then they're permanent tourists who have nowhere else to go. yes, that includes the self-proclaimed oldfags who all say that all the cows have dried up yet have no interest in sourcing new ones. they're only hanging out in the margins of a themed community they insist to hate sooo much because they absolutely cannot be ruled by the evil moid jannies (except when it's an actual man, then it's ok). being anti-troon and anti-moid is a side effect of lolcow, not its purpose, but they act as if posting performative manhate and complaining about girls with boyfriends is enough to belong here even if they don't even really like this place, it's pure entitlement and demanding refuge. giving /ot/ so much importance was a big mistake.

No. 83769

>>83759
>integrate integrate integrate
You're like a broken record at this point. Probably also the larping anon in >>83716 asking to lock the thread. Why does nonnas using one thread as a bunker trigger you so much?

No. 83770

>>83769
so you admit you don't feel like integrating?

No. 83771

>>83769
Literally why do you need a "bunker" instead of posting normally on other sites

No. 83773

>>83770
No, I am pointing out your repetitiveness. Both me and other anons already told you that the problem wasn't that they didn't want to integrate (nevermind CC and fujochan have a big percentage of farmers or ex-farmers anyway - or the former had until twitterfags and channers found out about it) but the nonsensical permabans that didn't even let them post in the first place. But nice that you don't even deny my suspicion kek.

>>83771
To talk about lolcow and its status and all topics related to lolcow. This website is literally a "bunker" of Staminarose after the whole fake PT pedoshit went down and the admin shorthandedly decided to shut down the website.

No. 83774

>>83773
>To talk about lolcow and its status and all topics related to lolcow
It wouldn't be a problem if that actually was the bulk of the bunker threads, but most posts in those threads are just pointless off-topic shitposting (yes, "waaaah i miss my nonnas" also counts)

No. 83775

>>83772
>No, I am pointing out your repetitiveness
did you consider that there's more than 1 anon saying integration is an issue?

No. 83776

>>83774
>yes, "waaaah i miss my nonnas" also counts
Literally what's the harm in that? Why are you so autistic about snipplets of casual conversations that are mostly related to boards and threads on here? We stayed in one thread, it would've took you a single click to hide something you don't want to see. You can't even call anything shitposting with that 5 minute cooldown. I don't get it.

No. 83777

>>83775
Sure jan, they also all happen to repeat your other statements and crying about criticism about cc mods.

No. 83778

>>83774
I don't mind the "miss my nonnies" posts because at least they were related to lolcow. but 90% of the thread was
>lyric spamming
>husbandofagging
>screeching about nigelfags
>vent posts
>career questions
>food
>random discussions
None of these things were even really related to lolcow being down, they could have [[[integrated]]] into the other threads on the site if they truly just wanted to talk in a similar environment. But it was about having a manic chatroom, nothing else. The mod even told them to branch out into the other threads but they refused.

No. 83779

>>83777
where did i do that? you really think all anons are the same poster. maybe consider your opinion is simply in the minority

No. 83780

>>83776
>We stayed in one thread, it would've took you a single click to hide something you don't want to see.
Maybe they wanted to use the bunker in a non-retarded way without inane spam. The cooldown timer came after the spamming and wasn't implemented for no reason.

No. 83781

>>83780
>>83778
So it really is an issue about "anons posted about things I don't like" rather than them being any strain on the website they chose to use like it was claimed in bad faith upthread. There's no point in arguing then.

No. 83782

>>83781
>users tell you spam is annoying
>mods tell you to follow the rules, use the correct threads, and put up an increased spam filter
>all other sites save for the moid-owned porn board ban the threads for being too big a burden on the moderation and disrupting the site culture
>reeee i'm the only one using this place correctly and all of you including the site staff are wrong!

No. 83783

>>83778
While it's true that CC moderation is utterly dogshit, it's also very ironic that CC is actually the closest thing to what they really want, a general interest girlchan where they can just sperg about whatever. They should just make their own space at this point and leave all these boards alone.

No. 83784

>>83769
if integrating is something you take issue with….then you don't know how this works. the spirit of integrating is to blend in with the crowd so youre anonymous.
why are these anons having such a hard time with this concept. the younger generation is fucked if tiktards and twatters don't understand this.

No. 83785

>>83776
>We stayed in one thread, it would've took you a single click to hide something you don't want to see
By this logic we should bring the k-pop thread back

No. 83786

>>83782
at this point it just seems like youre a cc shill because the fucking cc mods themselves admitted that most of the bans they had were automatic and unappealable so they encouraged ban evading and vpns it wasnt just following the rules because i did and was still banned. stop bootlicking

No. 83788

>>83786
you clearly have an issue with the cc mods. go speak to them then. why should we care?

No. 83792

>>83786
>bootlicking
There it is.

No. 83794

>>83768
>giving /ot/ so much importance was a big mistake.
this so much. /ot/ has felt like tourists for years.

No. 83795

>>83786
you're putting words in my mouth that i never even alluded to and you're refuting your own point, clearly you don't really want to have a conversation. i really have to wonder why you're here at all instead of moving to greener pastures.

No. 83796

>>83788
NTA but you can't, their contact info is outdated

No. 83797

>>83796
Make your own space then. Nobody is obligated to accommodate you.

No. 83798

>>83797
Ofc not, but I think if you have a website you should have a way of contacting you in case of something going wrong, that's all

No. 83800

>>83798
Also true, but complaining about it on another imageboard won't help either. It's not lolcow's or fujochan's or heolkek's fault that the closest thing to the "4chan but for girls" (actually just "twitter/tumblr/tiktok but you can say tranny and retard") these people actually want sucks so bad that not even they like it. They should just make their own space at this point, considering all the personalityfagging and lack of integration in the bunker threads even a dumbass shitposting discord server is more than enough.

No. 83801

>>83800
This, they just need to make a retarded discord server already, they don't belong on imageboards anyway.

No. 83802

File: 1726336648791.jpg (311.7 KB, 1076x1686, Leftypol.jpg)

Not sure if this was posted already ITT but leftypol came back up and explained what happened to their site. I'll leave this here for Cerbmin to take a look

https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/1942862.html#1942862

They also lost all of their images.

No. 83803

>>83802
>They also lost all of their images.
hmmmmmm

No. 83804

>>83801
they like imageboards not because they enjoy the format, but because it's easier to have 7 parallel infights going. if they baited all the time the way they do on lc, they'd just get banned and that's harder to evade because platforms with registered users establish some level of personal trust over time even just by virtue of being active but not causing trouble. no server would tolerate them outside of the circlejerks they're undoubtedly already in where they also don't trust one another and for good reason.

No. 83805

>>83802
This sounds like an internal issue, not hacking.

No. 83806

>>83805
I don't know anything about computers but looks like the admin team didn't even have access to the server, so it could be they don't even know what hit em.

No. 83808

>>83782
>all other sites save for the moid-owned porn board ban the threads for being too big a burden on the moderation and disrupting the site culture
You're just further proving you're the sperg who ran to meta/site boards to get the threads closed asap. Absolute autism.

>>83786
It is, no one else would be so deadset on getting anons to stay on CC, implying most of the autobans were deserved etc.

No. 83810

>>83808
you really should learn how to read or get some actual help, it's really sad how you keep obsessing over your viewpoint and can't parse anything people say. your brain is broken. i'm not advocating for you to use cc, in fact I think you shouldn't be using the internet at all.

No. 83811

>>83810
Then what are you arguing for, it just seems you're arguing for the sake of it

No. 83812

>>83811
learn to read.

No. 83814

>>83811
That's exactly what's happening kek. For someome accusing everyone else of being a menace on imageboards, they sure are eager to infight and stirr shit, so I don't bother anymore.

No. 83820

>>83778
I don’t really think you should be restricted to only discussing lolcow related topics in the bunker thread, that doesn’t make any sense to me.

No. 83821

>>83778
Do you understand that bunker threads are also containment threads? If anons unleashed their autism on the rest of the board, everyone would bitch about that way more. It's way better to have them stay in one thread and use it as a chatroom than to have tons of newfags running rampant and failing to properly integrate because they've never been on an ib other than lolcow

No. 83823

>>83821
Once again the answer is if you can't integrate then you can't post. And it's not like there's a vast cultural difference between LC and CC, they're born out of the same community. You're making issues out of nothing when you could simply not act retarded and there'd be no problem.

No. 83825

>>83823
It's more beneficial for mods that a urge surge of activity stays contained to one thread instead of the whole website so they can moderate more easily. They even instructed us to stay in the bunker instead of spreading out during other downtimes.

No. 83828

>>83825
thats probably because of the lack of integration was painfully obvious. any lc anon could simply integrate and blend in with the crowd. but they didn't want to.

No. 83833

>>83823
c.c was a splinter of lc. it was meant to be our comfy sister without dramu boards but it's full of trannies and larping males(same shit basically but one group actually thinks they're women) the first few months of the site were fine but then it got posted to /r9k/ by spoony after she was banned for being annoying and larping. and for some reason c.c hates us now.

No. 83835

>>83833
I don't use cc much because I think lc is enough but just take a look at the state of /ot/ right now (moid and /fit/ raid) and the amount of moids begging for nudes or making disgusting scrote comments in threads about female cows ever since launch up until today. men are a plague

No. 83837

>>83835
it's really a shame that moids won't leave us alone. i still won't forgive them for taking /cgl/ either. i know that some scorned users definitely post to 4chan boards to incite raids though, which is pathetic. c.c seems fine at first but then you notice some…off…things. and the sticky on their /b/ board is kind of telling and hilarious.

No. 83839

>>83833
Nta but I've been on CC since it was created and LC users hated CC first, not vice versa. You can find old threads both here and there, with LC users insulting CC users.

No. 83856

>>83839
i never mentioned our attitude towards them, i was just talking about site history.

No. 83874

>>83828
No, this happened before bunkers were this insane and retarded, it's just beneficial for mods to keep watch over one thread instead of about 150 posts spread across the whole website per hour.

No. 83875

If you integrate mods don't need to watch over you

No. 83876

>>83825
>>83874
That's not how mod.php works. Moderators have access to a panel that enables them to see all recently made posts regardless of thread. It's also possible to view post history across threads.

One reason other sites don't want to host LC bunkers is because a fast moving shitposting thread overwhelms the moderation capacity on small image boards. The fujochan mod says this almost exactly
>>83716
>right now there are too many reports and infighting to parse

Imagine you're a moderator of somewhere like CC or fujochan. There's CP on one of the boards. Usually you can find and delete it within seconds by looking in the recent posts panel or the report queue. You can't do this because the recent post panel is full chat room tier posts from the LC bunker threads and the report queue is clogged with reports of infighting and newfaggotry also from the LC bunker threads.

No. 83877

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No. 83879


No. 83883

the deleting images makes sense, i can't really see the images in older threads.

No. 83884

File: 1726411738580.jpg (48.96 KB, 714x749, 1717481818769.jpg)

at least /g/ wasn't attacked, phew

No. 83885

it's nice seeing the images fill back in. thank you admins and thank you nonnies who are helping. however toxic our community can be sometimes, I'm glad that we pull together when it matters

No. 83888

Does admin / jannies need any temporary help with anything (apart from restoring pictures)

No. 83901

I had a moment of panic about the pictures in the ‘What’s in your bag’ thread until I remembered that it’s in /g/ so it’s safe.

No. 83905

the amount of times I saw something I wanted to talk about only to find lolcow down, dark times

No. 83906

>>83805
>>83802
Maybe I'm confusing IBs, but iirc lefypol isn't using the same software.

No. 83907

I have a dumb question, I save a lot of images and keep the ones I've posted saved. I don't have online links for most of them so I was considering emailing them to the admin in a mass photo dump but is it unhelpful to just email them without finding the correct posts they belong too? Do the admins/jannies have a way of finding that out without specifics or should I not bother until I find the post each photo/gif belongs too? Thanks in advance and sorry for my stupidity

No. 83908

>>83907
you can send the images and a pdf version of the html to their email

No. 83910

>>83888
We don't need help with anything else right now, but thanks for asking!

>>83907
Although it's helpful if you can remember what post an image belongs to, we do have ways to figure it out, so feel free to just email us a zip or a drive link of everything you've saved/uploaded

No. 83922

im not really a tech-smart person, but how difficult would it be to create a monthly backup archive for all the boards in case something like this happens again?

No. 83937

> We received an email from someone trying to ransom money
LMAOOOO

No. 83947

Thank you to the admins for volunteering your time to keep this community going. I've been online since livejournal times and stuff like this happens to literally every website at some point really appreciate you making the effort to restore what you can

No. 83956

Honestly wouldn't be surprised if some pedos or sick cunts were trying to wipe data since people don't genuinely believe all cp gets reported to the authorities. It was great the team was able to save cow threads from being scrubbed, could you imagine losing some of the legacy threads like onision especially with his upcoming court case.

No. 83974

Does it take longer for posts to reach admin/farmhands if it’s done through reports? I sent some images I had saved on the posts through the report feature a few days ago and they still haven’t been restored

No. 83988

I just saw that the recovered picture count jumped from 55k to 158k. Nice work admins, and anons who submitted photos!

No. 83990

>>83988
I saw that too, I wonder how they recovered so many. Maybe through Wayback? My hope was beginning to dwindle, so I'm glad

No. 83991

>>83988
that’s amazing omg, i’m so glad we’re recovering

No. 84000

>>83837
I spam cuck content about their favorite waifus to punish them dw

No. 84001

>>83630
Don’t feel too bad about this I use CC more than this website and caught a ban over there, I don’t even know what I posted

No. 84010

>>83988
same, thank you cerbmin et al and contributors, I am keeping tabs on the artist salt threads for my new and improved archives as well as working on archiving some threads from /snow/ and /pt/ along with…. the entirety of the shay board kek

No. 84039

Admin did you just update the mobile catalog? So it's only one row instead of several ones. I like it! It feels faster

No. 84045

I miss the old rows..it takes forever finding threads that aren't bumped to the top

No. 84071

>>84039
Ok so it's now two rows and it feels a bit better but I wonder if you could make it into 3? It would feel a bit easier to browse imo

No. 84096

>>84045
It’s easier than ever now, you can just type in the name

No. 84101

>>84096
you could do that before too. just search in page

No. 84104

I don't know if this is helpful but has anyone tried getting images from google or bing cached pages? I think you can just type cache:lolcowurl in the url address bar to go on the google cache page if it exists.

No. 84189

>>84101
Search in page was really slow on mobile browser and didn’t search everything because not all the posts were loaded. It would also not take you to the correct post sometimes for some reason. The new catalog search is amazing, it’s so easy to find what I’m looking for and don’t have to scroll through laggy posts. Thank you cerbmin!

No. 84323

Not rushing or anything but I'm just curious, is the image recovery paused? I noticed the number of recovered pics hasn't moved from 169k in a few days.

No. 84400

>>84323
same after they got their site back up they went into not giving a fuck about it again, their idgaf attitude is the reason why someone was able to exploit a site vulnerability in the first place

No. 84404

>>84400
You're right there has never been a cyber security incident or data breach occuring at the federal or corporate level.

No. 84424

>>84400
It's easy to complain when you don't run a website like this yourself

No. 84432

>>84323
to be fair, they're having to literally rely on the kindness of strangers to get the images back
it's gonna take a long time; some of the images will be lost forever unfortunately, but they're likely to have been lost because no one saved them because they weren't important, most images on ot are just reactables and cute things

No. 84447

>>84432
They said they have some sort of automated process that's recovering the images

No. 84449

>>84432
>some of the images will be lost forever unfortunately
!!!
Why? I thought everything had been backed up?!

No. 84454

>>84449
the backups were corrupted and the admins didn't realize. I wonder if they weren't paying attention to that because the site has changed ownership multiple times and the backup script may have been put in place by someone else. idk though

No. 84559

the admins managed to bring back the whole of /m/, so I know they fix /ot/ at well

No. 84579

The lack of a functioning backup is what bothers me the most. Exploits and accidents happen, that's the reality of a sysop's life, but there is absolutely no excuse for not having a single functioning backup in FIVE YEARS. Is it seriously that hard to dump a yearly backup on archive.org?

I don't know why I'm asking that, considering that checking your backups' integrity is even easier but admins were too lazy to even bother doing that.

No. 84648

I don't know much about data recovery or servers and I hope I'm not overstepping my bounds but could it be possible to recover more images by using different data recovery software? One source I found said that these data recovery software were the best: UFS Explorer, R-Studio, GetDataBack, DMDE, FileScavenger, and ReclaiMe. Correct me if I'm wrong but from my understanding when a hard drive deletes something it doesn't actually delete the file and just 'forgets' that the file is there. Until that data gets overwritten it should still exist. Though I don't know how it works for ssds or whether a server overwrites files faster than a home desktop.
I hope I'm not being a bother but I don't know which program the admin used to recover the images and some programs are better than others. Feel free to disregard this post if you already knew about these software! I'm just throwing out some ideas in the hope that more images could be recovered.

No. 84670

File: 1728122503572.png (95.83 KB, 887x1157, datarecoverysoftwareexplanatio…)

>>84648
picrel
An explanation of how data recovery software works.

No. 84675

>>84648
anon didn't you read their post? They said the reason the site was down so long was because they were using forensic recovery tools to get stuff back

No. 84690

>>84675
It depends on which software the admin used. Some programs are better at recovering files and I was just trying to make sure they don't miss out on potentially recovering more images by using a bad program. The admin never mentioned which program they used so I mentioned a few programs that are considered good by people who seem to know what they're talking about.

No. 84691

I knew that this site was doomed when anons in the bunker threads were saying that their favourite threads were Celebricows, Unpopular Opinions and Fandom Discourse.

No. 84712

>>83137
>ramen
the noodle?

No. 84713

>>84691
So all the worst threads

No. 84715

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Optimistic.

No. 84734

If this affects vichan, please send a PR or disclose via email.

No. 85285

>>84734
Lolcow does not use vichan.

No. 85476

I'm so proud of the entire mod and admin team for being able to get the whole lost image situation sorted out. Good job! Cheers! I'm very happy for the farms. Thank you for restoring them! It felt like a gargantuan task and yet you all delivered. I'm m nothing but a normal user of this website and yet somehow I feel really happy about it.

No. 85480

>>85476
Same, I just checked after a couple weeks and it's down from like 100,000 missing images to 600 something. Crazy, good work mods. Glad to see ot back to how it was before.

No. 85483

>>85476
It's amazing, I was legit sad about all of the data lost I'm really happy to see nearly all of it restored!! Good job mod team!!

No. 85486

congrats to the admin and mod team for doing so well repairing the situation!

No. 85487

>>85476
>>85480
>>85483
>>85486
Thank you! We didn't do it alone, so we'd like to publicly thank the wonderful farmers who helped with the recovery effort. About 5% of the recovered files (over 15,000 images) were contributed by our users, which is amazing! So thank you again to everyone who helped, we appreciate you so much ♥

No. 85670

If the remaining images can't be recovered perhaps the broken images can be replaced with a special placeholder image in memoriam of the August 29 incident. Something that is obvious it is a placeholder (with text of some sort) just to spruce the threads up a little bit so they don't look so sad and empty.

No. 85694

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great job fixing the images!

No. 85868

File: 1731100217773.jpeg (120.87 KB, 736x599, 6a4d4727028bffd20b6a6b458ebb13…)

Thank you so much for fixing the images, you guys are amazing

No. 85922

>>85868
they're the reason it got fucked up in the first place.

No. 85944

>>85922
the people who attacked the website are the reason they got fucked up you salty retard, if you think any previous admin of this website could have prevented it either you are delusional

No. 85960

>>85944
it's called an archive, genius.



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