File: 4chan4evar.swf-(2.12 MB, 550x400, Other)
[_] The flash archive uses an emulator! Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)08:36:30 No.3446739
Wow. When did it happen?
Check it out:
https://www.4chan.org/flash
It's not perfect, but it works. That means they intend on keeping it around after flash support
breaks.
Thanks, hiromoot!
Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)09:11:33 No.3446740
>>3446739
Doesn't work for me.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)10:42:33 No.3446748
>>3446739
I'll be damned... That's pretty cool.
Still a long way to go for ruffle but it has some activity recently: https://github.com/ru
ffle-rs/ruffle/graphs/contributors
The road map at https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/wiki/Roadmap haven't been updated for almost
three months, wonder if ActionScript 1/2 is still at 35% done and AS3 at 0%. If they would just
get the basic stuff like gotoAndPlay() and stop() working in AS3 it would do a lot. And playback
of movies inside swf.
>>3446740
Works on my machine. Firefox 83.0.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)10:43:32 No.3446749
Holy shit, it works!
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)11:09:34 No.3446754
Since they are making a custom player I hope Ruffle makes it easy to bypass site locked flashes.
Since the web doesn't use swf files anymore there should be no moral issues in doing that.
Could put a "Toggle Sitelock" option in the right-click menu that changes the outcome of if
statements involving commonly used path/domain detection.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)12:07:14 No.3446762
Ruffle needs "Play" in the right-click menu since some flashes have secret stuff before the main
animation that you can only access by right-clicking and pressing play. Some also need it in the
beginning.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)13:58:58 No.3446773
These appear to be broken ;(
https://www.4chan.org/flash?file=cakeformoot.swf
https://www.4chan.org/flash?file=superwahagame.swf
https://www.4chan.org/flash?file=LONGCATBELOOOOOOONG.swf
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:18:10 No.3446776
The fact this exist proves my theory that the reason /f/ is still around (when stuff like /rs/
got scraped) is because someone on the 4chan mod team is a fan of flash
It's cool how it manages to run even the more complex stuff like the Megaslots, but I wish there
was some way to download the original swfs, though
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:23:29 No.3446778
>>3446776
>/rs/
could you give me a rundown on that?
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:37:41 No.3446781
>>3446778
It was a link list that looked similar to /f/ and showed up next to it on https://4chan.org/fra
mes (btw I just noticed frames is broken again. Not that anyone would/should care), only instead
of direct uploading files to 4chan, you upload them to RapidShare (hence /rs/) or Mediafire or
whatever, and the post that link somewhere on 4chan. Any such link posted ANYWHERE on 4chan would
then show up on /rs/.
The idea goes you could search through that to find specific porn/music you want to download. In
practice it was unusable because rapidshare links expire in about a week and the signal-to-noise
ratio was too low to find anything interesting simply through idle browsing.
The concept is cool, though. I once used the "Contact" thing to suggest they'd add something
similar for /t/ magnet links. I don't think anyone read it.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:41:27 No.3446784
>>3446781
thanks, all these failed board concepts are really interesting to learn about
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:46:13 No.3446789
>>3446784
>all these failed board concepts
Like what?
I'm not an oldfag (only been around since ~2012), but I'm aware of /rs/, /q/ and /z/
Oh and the textboards, but they don't really count
Was there anything else?
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:47:45 No.3446791
>>3446781
Another dead board that I have heard is /ss/, but I havents heard anything about it. Can u pls
also give the rundown on that?
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:47:53 No.3446792
>>3446789
there was swaglord's elaborate /film/ joke, though that board lasted only 48 hours.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:50:41 No.3446793
>>3446792
Also, there was that one time on 1st of April, when moot added a furry board, then, after 2 days,
he deleted it, and b& everyone who posted in it. Ah... good ol' days
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:50:54 No.3446794
>>3446791
Sounds like you've been pranked
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:52:05 No.3446795
I miss /fitlit/, /mo/, /cock/, /mlpol/ and /mtv/.
/fap/ and /outsoc/ were gay though, glad those are gone.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:54:40 No.3446796
>>3446795
Why does /soc/ still exist? And more importantly, why do all threads on /b/ nowadays belong in
there. Its the least effective containment board that I have ever seen
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:54:59 No.3446797
>>3446795
i hope next years april fools isn't shit
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:57:08 No.3446798
>>3446796
>Why does /soc/ still exist?
Horny teenagers.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)14:58:09 No.3446799
>>3446776
there is
just go to the source page of the flash page, search for ".swf"
there is a link to 4cdn/media or something
it ends with embed.html follow eventually by the filename
just shorten to url to media/filename.swf and there it is
>>3446754
I hope the mods make it VERY easy to also serve original swf files.
Ruffle hangs on me more often than not, while I will be able to use the flash plugin for more
time to come.
Would hate it if I can't use /f/ because my browser has flash but can't into ruffle.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)15:00:07 No.3446800
>>3446799
It'll be tough for the mods to find a solution that will leave everyone happy.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)15:22:35 No.3446805
>>3446800
Add Ruffle embed button, keep normal embed, maybe put up a sticky explaining what happened and
change NOTHING else.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)15:31:38 No.3446806
>>3446805
Yeah I mean 4plebs just has both available to the user as separate icons.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)15:36:48 No.3446807
>>3446805
I don't even care that much for embed, if there is a way to just click to the swf directly,
instead of having to dig through the source code (like there is now).
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:01:32 No.3446809
>>3446784
/rs/ wasn't a failed board, it wasn't even a real board, just a list all the rapidshares (and
other file sharing links) discovered around 4chan
the real reason it was taken down was probably because it assisted in piracy. /t/ is still around
but /rs/ was probably removed for legal risks since links stuck around forever in an easily
searchable database.
i used /rs/ all the time, it was great.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:02:45 No.3446810
>>3446797
i thought this year's corona thing was great
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:03:53 No.3446811
>>3446807
Without embed you can't see shit in its intended resolution.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:11:40 No.3446816
>>3446799
that's another thing ruffle should add into its right-click menu: "Download swf file"
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:13:21 No.3446817
>>3446810
it was, i remember waking up and instantly going on /a/ and seeing all the green posts and being
confused as fuck for 30 minutes, then i checked the date. I'm just saying something on the level
of 2018 or so would be great again.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:25:39 No.3446820
>>3446805
Literally nothing needs to be changed.
You can click the filename to get a direct link to the flash.
You can click the Embed button to get the flash to play right on the page.
Now you use your browser plugin. On Jan 1 2021 you'll be using the ruffle thing and the change
will be seemless (except that Ruffle won't be able to play like half the flashes on /f/).
The guy you are quoting is talking about the flash archive page. It definitely needs a direct
link to the swf somewhere.
Though right now you can just type the url manually like:
https://s.4cdn.org/media/flash/cakeformoot.swf (see >>3446773)
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:29:58 No.3446821
>>3446784
wasn't there a lolicon board at one point?
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:31:39 No.3446823
>>3446796
/soc/ is bizarre. it's completely divorced from the rest of the site and the people there seem
barely aware they're posting on 4chan.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:32:15 No.3446825
wonder if there will be a downgrade in swf files produced to use actionscript2 since ruffle can't
handle actionscript3
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:34:19 No.3446826
>>3446821
>>>/l/, yes
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:35:05 No.3446827
>>3446821
yes there was, in 2003 and 2004.
4chan also had a dedicated guro board those years.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:36:46 No.3446828
>>3446827
Sounds like it was a great time. Guess it got removed as 4chan became more popular due to
controversy/laws?
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:47:00 No.3446829
>>3446828
it got removed because it was nothing but CP
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)16:51:34 No.3446830
>>3446828
loli was due to "legal threats", moot registered not4chan.org and put /l/ and /sm/ (shota) there.
the shota board was on 4chan just a little over a month.
guro was removed the same month because 4chan's payment provider threatened to shut down
donations. yowcow was an alternative to paypal.
there's a good list of 4chan events during the moot era here if you want to read up on more
history: https://www.lurkmore.com/view/History_of_4chan
a lot of what i'm saying is just from that list, i didn't frequent 4chan yet in 2004
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)17:00:35 No.3446831
>>3446820
>(except that Ruffle won't be able to play like half the flashes on /f/).
I wouldn't mind that at all but it isn't even a little bit seamless. Why force people to use
ruffle that breaks 90% of flashes instead of just using it along with the normal plugin?
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)17:10:03 No.3446835
>>3446831
>Why force people to use ruffle that breaks 90% of flashes instead of just using it along with
the normal plugin?
Because there will be no normal plugin anymore as far as I know. Browser will remove it and won't
allow flash to run at all after dec 31.
The good thing about Ruffle is that it will kinda force people to post actual flash movies and
not just re-encoded videos.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)17:30:07 No.3446836
>>3446835
ruffle dev has said that he will eventually work on making video playable, don't worry.
as long as you use a browser that still supports NPAPI you should be able to play flash online
using an older plugin version (assuming that the thing about the latest flash plugin being
bricked after 2020 is true)
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)17:34:06 No.3446837
>>3446836
I don't think major browsers support NPAPI anymore.
Also, not many people will bother installing 3+ year old browsers just to play ActionScript 3
games.
For those who do, they'll always be able to click the filename directly and open the swf in a new
tab
>File: 4chan4evar.swf-(2.12 MB, 550x400, Other)
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)17:39:22 No.3446838
>>3446837
maybe not major browsers but that doesn't matter.
also maybe not many people but possibly the majority of us that browse /f/.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)17:39:25 No.3446839
broken as fuck
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)18:09:46 No.3446840
>>3446796
Jesus, it's all dick rate, hookup and ERP threads. I always thought /soc/ was SFW.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)18:33:10 No.3446845
>>3446796
4chan has suffered from overlapping boards for many, many years now. All the fun Anons hang out
on /s4s/ now. All the edgy Anons on /pol/ because /b/ was no fun. All the porn dumpers on other
boards because they wanted not 100% porn. Etc etc.
/b/ used to be random but then 4chan made a billion specific boards that stole people away and
for each person stolen others saw less randomness on /b/, making them also seek out their
specific board.
The biggest nail in the coffin was RETARDED CHINKMOOT lowering the file size limit to 2 MB on /b/
for no god damn reason.
Who wants to go hang out on /b/ when you can't post half your images or webms? Talk about a
stupid move, I can't get over how absolutely blank you gotta be in the head to lower the file
size limit on the most iconic board.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)18:37:16 No.3446846
>>3446791
/ss/ and /tl/ were for Straight/Shota and Loli Torrents.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)18:37:50 No.3446847
>>3446845
please consider 4chan pass.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)18:40:38 No.3446848
>>3446828
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/30212088/#30212740
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)18:42:19 No.3446849
>>3446847
i will not pay the extortion money
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)18:49:03 No.3446850
>>3446848
>you guys need to learn to ignore/deal with threads that don't suit your particular tastes, or
find somewhere else to go, because i'm not going to add a million niche boards.
based moot. meanwhile chinkmoot ruins /b/ and adds a million niche boards (/vrpg/ for example)
>i got sick of pandering to pedophiles. fuck loli, and fuck anyone who wants it.
on second thought...
sounds like he's backpedaling on that though. especially if that thing about him registering
not4chan.org for /l/ and /sm/ was actually true.
he probably just said that in 2010 because 9 years later he had a girlfriend or a mother that now
knew about 4chan compared to the days when he actually implemented /l/
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)18:55:57 No.3446851
>>3446850
not4chan was hosted and run by an ADTRW user called Saber.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)19:00:56 No.3446852
>>3446850
4chan in 2020 is much bigger than during that time and even then boards like /v/ were already too
fast for comfort. And /vrpg/ isn't niche.
Feels you spend all your time on a dead board like /f/ and think you can comment on what actually
happens on 4chan.
People love to bitch just for the sake of bitching.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)19:08:11 No.3446853
>>3446851
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ADTRW
>Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse. Anime forum of Something Awful. Has a separate fansubbing
site and group, adtrw.org. Trolls at the forum are quickly banned so I hear.
>Pedophiles are an unfortunate sideaffect of ADTRW.
>by Dax May 06, 2004
the fuck? can't see it on forums.somethingawful.com so i guess it's gone.
at least 2004 matches with when /l/ went away from 4chan so sounds plausible. how do you know of
this "Saber"?
>>3446852
/vrpg/ is super niche when you can also make RPG threads on /v/, /vg/, /vmg/, /vr/.
bitching about things moving too fast for comfort doesn't even make sense and is better solved by
expanding the allowed pages on that board and prioritizing 404ing those with less than 5 posters.
you can also implement tags for threads, imagine visiting /v/ and showing only threads tagged
with RPG or Multiplayer. beats visiting 99 different overlapping boards because one of them
*might* have a thread about the game you want to talk about.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)19:39:55 No.3446855
No anon ever posts in the same 4chan twice, for it's not the same 4chan and he's not the same
anon.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)19:58:39 No.3446858
>>3446855
very true
I find it funny people say shit like "4chan in YEAR is/was is XYZ" when... that's just not how
websites work
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)20:41:02 No.3446860
>>3446820
>Ruffle won't be able to play like half the flashes on /f/
>the change will be seemless (sic)
Pick one
>> [_] Anonymous 11/22/20(Sun)21:16:26 No.3446863
>>3446858
anyone that browsed /b/ 10 years ago can objectively state it's better than /b/ today, if not
from the typical content posted then by the file size limit alone.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)03:24:10 No.3446884
>>3446863
/b/ 15 years ago was even better than that.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)05:06:00 No.3446888
lmao bunch of old farts in this thread, your good old days will never come back
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)05:27:12 No.3446889
>>3446888
go back to /qa/
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)05:39:48 No.3446891
>>3446860
The site itself I mean.
There's nothing one can do about flash being shreked.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)05:43:05 No.3446892
>>3446863
The file size has nothing to do with this. If anything it helps a bit against porn dumps.
>b-b-but all the images I post are above 2MB, 4chan is deeeaaaad
>muh good old days
Back in the day 2MB was a luxury and yet the Internet was much better than today.
Literally complaining for the sake of complaining.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)05:47:48 No.3446893
>>3446863
I browsed /b/ 9 years ago and I can objectively state it was as shit then as it is now.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)07:44:04 No.3446896
>>3446791
/z/
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)07:48:43 No.3446898
It seems like the mods gave this thread prune protection, instead of making an announcement
sticky or something like that. I guess it's just as effective and mods gonna be lazy.
Unless of course OP is a mod.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)08:06:02 No.3446900
>>3446898
ehm wat. it's in position 9 right now.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)08:13:15 No.3446901
>>3446892
This. Sheeple just jumping on whatever trend without actually believing it, and coming up with
shitty facts. You chose to say some dumb shit like
>But muh file sizes
instead of giving actual reasons why this sites suck now. Like the fact that raids were b&. Raids
were basically the immune system of 4chan. If some fags raided us, we could just raid them back
and shit. The fearmongering also helped, it made newfags actually lurk b4 posting shit. But
nowadays, since that shit doesnt exist, 4chan is full of normalfags. I bet that the people
complaining about file sizes didn't even knew about 4chan b4 raids were b&
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)08:15:27 No.3446902
>>3446893
>9 years ago
Fucking newfag! You need lurk moar!
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)08:39:39 No.3446905
>>3446893
Anon why must you make me feel so ancient?
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)08:51:31 No.3446906
>>3446898
do you even know how this board works or 4chan in general?
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)09:02:12 No.3446907
>>3446781
>In practice it was unusable because rapidshare links expire in about a week and the
signal-to-noise ratio was too low to find anything interesting simply through idle browsing.
It was pretty great for finding weird music from /mu/
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)09:09:16 No.3446908
>>3446900
I thought this thread was a lot older than it is, apparently.
>it's in position 9 right now.
Do you have a browser extension that lets you sort /f/ by submission date? Is it a feature of
4chan X? I never installed that.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)09:11:41 No.3446909
k
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)09:17:21 No.3446910
>>3446892
>>3446901
how the ever living hell can you two faggots defend 2 MB on /b/ when 4 MB is the gold standard on
4chan and boards like Hardcore or Sexy Beautiful Women gets 8 MB.
get each others dicks out of your mouths and go neck yourselves.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)09:45:22 No.3446913
>>3446908
there was a similar thread a couple days ago
https://archive.4plebs.org/f/thread/3446614/
yeah I use 4chan X (inb4 botnet). it shows you at the top of the page where the thread is in the
rotation.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)10:41:22 No.3446918
>>3446789
The textboards mattered. I miss them so.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)10:47:43 No.3446919
>>3446739
who knows if they're going to keep it just for those few flashes and will /f/ itself also get
supported
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)11:34:21 No.3446923
>>3446919
Why wouldn't /f/ be supported?
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)11:36:19 No.3446924
>>3446910
2MB on [s4s] and the lower-quality mobile images are much worse problems t.bh.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)11:58:36 No.3446928
>>3446924
Fucking lmao. The amount of inane newfag crap you read here is insane.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)13:26:53 No.3446938
>>3446928
All I'm saying is that 2MB on /b/ is more or less a non-issue.
>> [_] Anonymous 11/23/20(Mon)14:11:26 No.3446939
Wow, I'm surprised this works
When's all the pr0n getting uploaded there?