4chan Source Code

Is there anywhere to download the source code of 4chan/other image boards? I'd like to see it just out of curiosity and to possibly set one up for myself and friends.

>I'd like to exploit its vulnerabilities and post even more
>worthless spam garbage on 4chan.

Fixed.

>>2
Roger that. Commencing sage.

Try Dag Ågren's kareha or wakaba, at http://wakaba.c3.cx/aaa.pl

You can get the code for Shiichan (that dis.4chan.org is based on) from here, http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/. You might find something useful on http://shii.org/ too.

Code for Trevorchan can be browsed here, http://code.google.com/p/trevorchan/

Also dis.4chan.org/image is about this topic.

>>4
DONT HELP HIM!
Hes going to become an EXPERT SHIICHAN HACKER?1

>>5
Oops, dis.4chan.org/img
Mostly crap like everything else, but some board discussion.

>>1

Be careful. I set up an imageboard as an experiment a couple of years back, and within about a week anonymous perverts had stuffed it with several priesthoods worth of CP.

OP here, thanks guys, I'm honestly not trying to hack any of the chans, I wouldn't the source code to do that.

>>8

That's why I do it over private LAN or password protect it.

>>8
Awesome! I'm setting up a few boards as we speak!

>>4
Why did you reccommend Trevorchan? We don't need another EXPERT PHP USER on our hands.

>>11

I didn't recommend anything. It's just another board for him to examine.

fail site meant for the low traffic code bad write own profit

>>8
http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/7311/1141935432201ml4.png
Good times (even though it wasn't you)

What this really means, though, is that you, >>1, shouls stick with wakaba.

4chan is written in Objective C

>>14
Obvious fake, "adress"

You sir, are an idiot

>>14
Further explanation required
>>15
Further anus haxing required

The imageboards were translated from Futaba's script: http://www.2chan.net/script/ (which is public domain or something of the sorts) and then heavily modified by the 4chan staff. Closest you can get, code-wise, is Futallaby. http://www.1chan.net/futallaby/

If you're looking for an imageboard that isn't shit and is easily modifiable to suit your needs, try Wakaba. http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/web/wakaba_kareha.html

If you want to create your own 4chan clone in 5 simple clicks, with cancerous-inducing features like stickies and Something Awful-imported baggage, try Kusaba (formerly known as Trevorchan). http://code.google.com/p/kusaba/ (actual website is kusaba.org, but Trevor is a retard and let the domain expire)

If you want to be able to post multiple images per post, there's Thorn: http://sovietrussia.org/code/src/thorn-11b9.tar.bz2 . AnonIB is based on this.

If you want FORCED INDENTATION OF CODE to run on Google's App Engine, with Trevor's stamp of quality (in all honesty, he got better), use pyib. http://code.google.com/p/pyib/

sovietrussia.org uses a script called Matsuba. I think I saw a download link somewhere, but I can't find it anymore.

If you're looking for text board software:
dis.4chan.org is based on Shiichan. Shii recognizes it's crap and doesn't recommend using it. http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/

Kareha is a nice script for text boards, but it can be a bit CPU intensive. http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/web/wakaba_kareha.html

Kusaba can also do text boards.

Wishlist: MrVacBob-sama, please let us use <a href> or something that works like it ([url] tags, for example).

>>18
[url] is not part of R⁵RB.

>>18
with Trevor's stamp of quality
I lol'd

>>18
Also

http://rechan.eu.org/script/

very simple and conservative

kusaba's source is no longer in the svn repo, also the modified shiichan source used here has been posted to this board in another thread

there's also this text board script: http://hotaru.thinkindifferent.net/tinybb/tinybb.txt
and if anyone wants it i'll post the source for this thing somewhere: http://waro.su/

Hi, I have a Perl imageboard script called Kareha that works without requiring a database; it's perfect for my old server.

You can download Kareha here:
http://wakaba.c3.cx/
and you can download my patch with modifications to make the imageboard at least look more like 4chan here:
http://tweek.no-ip.org/stuff/kareha-4chan.patch

>>24
Flat file databases aren't doing your old server any favors.

>>25
I didn't want to go through the hassle of setting one up, I just wanted something I could play around with. Posts are extremely infrequent (at most, three a day) so it's not really much of a problem to edit every HTML file directly on every post. Wouldn't scale very well beyond that, however.

A separate SQL-accepting database would either be redundant data for the HTML that's already present (not all that bad, but still a little unnecessary for a quick-and-dirty imageboard) or it'd be accessed, through with a PHP / Perl / whatever script, on every goddamned reload (very bad).

>>25
Kareha uses SQLite, if I'm not mistaken.

>>27
That's Wakaba, Kareha is basically the same thing without a db.

>>28
It also has a numbering system that is used for text boards whilst in image board mode.

>>29
Basically it's infeasible to pull off cross-thread links without a database, so yeah, the first post in a thread will always be >>1. Small difference in my opinion when the traffic is so small that cross-listing isn't necessary.

>>24
+    <if !$sticky>
I stopped reading there.

>>18
sovietrussia.org uses a script called Matsuba. I think I saw a download link somewhere, but I can't find it anymore.
No you didn't.

By the way, do all these moonspeak board names have any meaning?  Like is there a theme to them or are they just throwing together syllables?

>>33
Futaba = two leaves (i.e. 2chan)
Yotsuba = four leaves (4chan)
Wakaba = new leaves
Kareha = old leaves (I think)
Kusaba = blades of grass
Matsuba = pine needles

Kareha = old leaves (I think)
Dead/dried leaves.

>>31
Wakaba has a fucking weird templating system, but it works.

>>36
Stickies are fucking stupid regardless of what template system you use.

>>16
Uh, so much hate.
If you don't know the story about 4chan.us you have no right to call people idiots on 4chan. Know your place.

>>38
Idiot.

>>39
NO U