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>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)10:08 No. OP P1

/f/ IS DEAD FOREVER - REGROUP THREAD

This is not a drill, 4chan mods confirmed in their blog that /f/ shall be gone, forever.
https://blog.4chan.org/post/781845918774394880/still-standing

I suggest we use swfchan to regroup and decide if and where to migrate, to avoid a diaspora of our
already small community. Let's spread the word that we are still here.

In the meanwhile I made a list of active flashboards:
1. swfchan
+ old website, won't be going away any time
+ integrated archive
* unorthodox format
- cancer ads

2. 4taba.net/board/f
* /jp/ spin-off
+ Yotsuba A CSS
+ /f/ layout
+ HTML5 allowed too

3. 8ch
* 8chan
* futaba layout

4. kissu.moe/f
* /jp/ and pre-soijak /qa/ spin-off
+ /f/ layout
- weird CSS

5. img.heyuri.net/f
- owned by kuz of soyjak.party fame
+ /f/ layout
+ Futaba CSS

6. 22chan.org/f
* Tomorrow CSS
+ /f/-like format

[IMG] stillalive.swf (996.5 KiB)
550x400, Compressed (Deflate). 2137 frames, 12 fps (02:58).
Ver9, AS3. Network access: No. Text: Yes.
Bitmaps: Yes. Audio: Yes. Video: No.
[find in archive]

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)10:25 No. A P2R1

>>103721
>portal is 17 years old
I-I don't want to believe it.
I mean, I have been playing sven coop with people that found the server on discord, but I still
don't believe it.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)10:38 No. B P3R2

4chan has walked back on it's word many times.

They killed [s4s] and then revived it when people said they wanted it.

If we pussy out now, that's practically a gurantee that it'll never return and 4chan's specific
flash culture will die. Post wherever you want but rally on 4chan to bring back /f/.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)10:39 No. C P4R3

4taba is read-only FYI, so that's not a good idea. The original admin decided to leave and the new
one eventually lost interest in clearing certain illegal content multiple times every day since the
software had no anti-spam protection. https://hikari3.ch/ is another place with a flash board.
Actually I think a bunch of imageboards have flash boards, but I can't remember them all.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)10:39 No. C P5

4taba is read-only FYI, so that's not a good idea. The original admin decided to leave and the new
one eventually lost interest in clearing certain illegal content multiple times every day since the
software had no anti-spam protection. https://hikari3.ch/ is another place with a flash board.
Actually I think a bunch of imageboards have flash boards, but I can't remember them all right now.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)11:05 No. D P6R4

Heyuri isn't owned by kuz anymore and *jaks are b&. The problem with Heyuri is that flashes don't
die. The flash board has multiple pages, and they aren't even limited, the number of pages can
technically keep growing forever as long as flashes are posted. It just wouldn't be the same as our
/f/.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)11:07 No. E P7R5

8chan.moe board is dead, created in 2022 and no activity in 3 years.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)11:20 No. A P8R6

>>103723
>it'll never return and 4chan's specific flash culture will die.
Let the dead rest. Let a new spirit carry the torch. Immortality only exists because of the
temporary.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)11:23 No. OP P9R7

>>103728
Despite what were promised one decade and a half ago no technology exists that replaces FLASH.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)11:39 No. A P10R8

>>103729
>promised
never trust promises from corporations
A new leader needs to reign with flash. 4Chan is not such a leader anymore

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)11:52 No. B P11R9

>>103730
4chan has not reigned in years. It only subsisted like any other flash board. Maybe a little better
off but not a king.

I am not letting go.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)12:01 No. A P12R10

>>103731
then why are you complaining about 4chan flashes?

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)12:27 No. B P13R11

>>103732
Complaining? I want it back

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)12:34 No. A P14R12

>>103733
the past is the past. make it yourself or move on

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)12:57 No. D P15R13

>>103734
You can make your own imageboard, but you can't make your own community. No place will be like the
/f/ that we had. What made /f/ /f/ was you guys, the community. The only way we can have another
/f/ is if we all agree to be there.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)13:01 No. A P16R14

>>103735
>You can make your own imageboard, but you can't make your own community.
making things and playing show and tell is how you make a community
>No place will be like the /f/ that we had.
life and death are the same thing faggot
>What made /f/ /f/ was you guys, the community. The only way we can have another /f/ is if we all
agree to be there.
Then make it. Google "How to make an imageboard" Then make it

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)13:05 No. D P17R15

>>103736
You don't get it. We already have plenty of imageboards. The problem is that we can't all agree
which one to go to.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)13:14 No. A P18R16

>>103737
then make one and commit to it
or shut the fuck up and get the fuck out

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)13:26 No. B P19R17

>>103738
Defeatist. I'll keep rallying to bring back /f/ regardless of what other flash boards I use.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)13:48 No. A P20R18

>>103739
>Defeatist
yes you are
And lazy at that

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)13:56 No. D P21R19

>>103738
>>103739
>>103741
Stop arguing like this guys. Just being rude and insulting the other one won't get us anywhere. We
need to stick together.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)14:13 No. A P22R20

>>103742
samefag

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)14:53 No. F P23R21

>>103726
Not quite true, as you cannot bump thread on page 2 (aka marked for deletion). Maybe you cannot
even post in these threads, haven't tried.

So far heyuri seems like my favorite choice, because as far as board culture goes, it seems even
more ancient that 4um /f/. It has the most active threads and the most active leadership. The
fucking admin even posts in thread there on /f/.

Swfchan I disqualify, don't get me wrong I love the place and I will forever browse here, just that
it serves a different purpose than the /f/ layout.

I say fuck halfchan, they deserve it, it was the last straw and they fucked it up, it is now
completely 100% no chance in hell over for them. We were 1 last haven in that shithole and they
kicked us out. I won't return there, moot is dead. Accept reality.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)15:58 No. G P24R22

google is hellamad that flash still exists online. and hellamoremad that people still see it in
their browsers. and hellapissed some of us wont upgrade to the spyware browsers and use old flash
enabled browsers.

so they hire hackers to attack 4chan and the tell 4chan "/f/ has to go". and because 4chan is run
by unelected globalist cabal glowniggers that DOGE couldn't find, they just cowtou.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)16:48 No. H P25R23

If 4/f/ comes back, I'll go back. Especially seeing all the work people are doing to bring it back.
I don't think they'll be successful, but I gotta respect the attempt.

I think heyuri is the best choice. I'm not delighted about the pages and that the community has a
fascination with lolis. However the admins are active, willing to take feedback, and has a culture
that is the closest to 4/f/.

I wouldn't mind swfchan either, but as another poster said it's for a different purpose.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)16:55 No. D P26R24

>>103747
Ah, I was wondering where my daily dose of schizoposting went

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)19:10 No. I P27R25

>>103721
>kissu.moe/f
>- weird CSS
You can toogle the UI for a more traditional one.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)20:19 No. J P28R26

>>103721
Also, we can use 2.0-chan.ru/f/
I don't think admin Ultrasemyon will be against it, he will be glad to see activity.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)23:12 No. OP P29R27

>>103744
Why heyuri over kissu, hikari3, or 22chan?
>>103753
I stand corrected.
https://original.kissu.moe/f/
>>103754
.ru sounds like a disaster waiting to happen >>103748

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)23:26 No. K P30R28

If you want 22chan's /f/ to be a certain way you can ask in one of their meta threads and they'll
likely make it happen.

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)23:43 No. L P31R29

>>103756
hikari3 and 22chan /f/ are basically ghost towns
kissu /f/ received 7 posts in the last 24 hours while heyuri /f/ received at least 75 posts

>> Anonymous 26apr2025(sa)23:44 No. D P32R30

There's too many altchans with /f/ boards. We will be spread too thin T_T

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)00:07 No. OP P33R31

>>103761
I don't think the current activity matters. It's not like we are going to find posters there that
didn't post on 4chan /f/ too.
Having said that I wouldn't consider hikari3 since it seems to be a new website.
Kissu doesn't seem to allow swastikas or guro which is NG.
22chan and Heyuri both seem opinionated about moderation, with some buzzwords and template posting
being outright banned.

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)00:47 No. M P34R32

>>103764
i've been there before and kissu's mod team will try to enforce a certain feeling to the culture.
like a forced smile with a gun in your back. you'll see if you post there often enough.

>> !///SWFAnts #ADMIN# 27apr2025(su)01:02 No. SWF P35R33

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>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)01:13 No. L P36R34

>>103764
Activity matters because you can't just claim some abandoned board as everyone's new home and
realistically expect everyone to come over. Even people here on swfchan are just a fraction of /f/
users. That said I'm good with anywhere that won't moderate contents of flash files beyond shit
like soyjaks, which all our alternatives seem to ban.

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)08:39 No. OP P37R35

>You can post most /b/ shit (loli, nudez... what else they had?), swastikas or gay men, japanese
cats or touhous
>You can't post most /pol/ shit (how much you want to kill X people, your meltdown over the last
post of twitter BigMan etc), pepe/soyjaks, some modern buzzwords people throw around, greentext
stories, generally try to ruin rule abiding users' enjoyment of the internets, etc.

>I believe most actual 4/f/ users won't be filtered by Heyuri's rules, maybe some will try to quote
something noone said or use their favorite modern 4chan slang at most. I also generally don't want
to ban any well-intentioned users, and prefer giving private or public warns. But like any place,
we have our rules the new users must learn to follow too

This is what Heyuri's admin answered when asked about moderation. Personally I don't find those
much of a big deal, some of them should have been implemented on 4chan long ago, but they are still
a far cry from /f/ which was truly everything goes.

What do you guys think? I don't want to risk to splinter our community even further.

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)08:40 No. O P38R36

>>103722
>I mean, I have been playing sven coop with people that found the server on discord, but I still
don't believe it.
What the fuck are you talking about?

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)09:25 No. J P39R37

I am so sad!

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)09:30 No. P P40R38

>>103770
Indeed, but the goal is to have the activity of /f/ maintained not replace it with heyuri's, so
consolidation of a more central migration and integration with swfchan scraping matters the most.
The preexisting activity is only reassuring in that it indicates that the host will have continued
interest in maintaining the site. When 8chan died, backups existed for such an occasion but even
then because of it's sudden nature and the choice between multiple of them (for crossboarders)
probably 80-90% of the activity was completely lost, for /f/ it would be worse because of the
smaller quantity and because it leaves it vague as to where to post new things, 8chan at least had
the webring, no such thing will exist here and keeping track of multiple would probably be more a
bother than most are willing.

Personally, I'd rather not go to heyuri, everytime I have I leave with the impression that it's the
epitome of hugbox/circlejerk altchans; where people go to collectively larp according to an image,
in this case as oldfags. And sifting through their catalog, I don't feel much different. The
socially contrived nature of the gathering often results in obnoxious social tendencies and little
substance. In the end even though the image is not as repulsive, it feels little different
behaviourly than people who solely speak in buzzwords on 4chan with a wojak/pepe attached if
anything. And regardless of the accuracy of the imitation/lingo, lacking the genuinity and
consequent originality, it becomes grating. But ultimately, bitching aside, the focus on /f/ being
the files themselves, so long as the files posted remain interesting which itself may hopefully
spur new stuff being posted there, those aspects don't matter so much. And I suppose it could be
argued that regardless of my distaste
the high majority of flash content itself is locked to time, should be seen as befitting, and as
such they're clearly willing to host it, and so to that end it's beneficial.
So that's all to say that if that's the place of choice, I'd still go along with and just use /f/.
However the stance on moderation is a stance to die on, from what I've seen those places tend to be
ironically sterile and ripe to annoying mod practices in an attempt to maintain culture, in the
manner that anon above said about kissu and as what seems to be the case given >>103773 , which in
the context of a general-creativity oriented topic (which /f/ is with the only topic being the
medium) such would be unacceptable. And when that culture is clearly set in stone as detailed
above, regardless of it's superficial alignment with /f/, I simply don't trust integrity regarding
it, especially not with /f/'s breadth. Would sit_harder.swf be banned, Happy Tree Friends? What of
that game where you spear the loli by traversing your
tentacle through her, or the yeti gore that was just posted? Or consider that prolific ic anon's OC
recently, none of the topic matter is particularly grotesque but the artstyle is often seen as such
and some anon's go out of there way to express disgust, if enough people wanted it gone, would
admin keel over? Screamers? They say no /pol/ and I don't care for political discussion either but
then where does that leave the festivities that occur on 9/11 or all the other bush posts and what
of hitler's glowsticks? etc.

If the admin wants to serve the 'new /f/' or whatever then that involves accepting moderation which
only bans clear flooding.

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)10:06 No. D P41R39

>>103776
I get your point, but those examples are really shitty. Literally none of those would be banned.

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)10:33 No. P P42R40

>>103777
Yeah, upon reflection, they are. But I tried to exemplify ones that would be potentially brought in
contention by more extreme ones being excluded and also because I don't save the majority of those
to know how to quickly refer to the and I don't feel like describing them in absence of a referral.
I suppose I could list goatse and the sounding vid named Monday_Returns since they're common enough.

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)14:33 No. J P43R41

Unfortunately, the closure of the **/f/** board on 4chan is a real blow to the niche communities
that have preserved the culture of Flash content and SWF art for decades. But even in such
conditions have ways to preserve their heritage and adapt. Here are some suggestions:

---

### **1. Alternative platforms for communication**
- **Other imageboards**:
— **8kun (formerly 8chan)**: Similar boards may appear there, but the platform is controversial due
to moderation.
— **Russian-language imageboards** (for example, **Dvach**): Sometimes threads are created for
niche topics, but the audience is different.
— **Specialized forums**: For example, **Newgrounds** (historically associated with Flash culture)
or **Ovarit** (for 4chan emigrants).
- **Discord and Telegram**: Closed servers or channels where you can share SWF files, discuss
emulators and remasters.
- **Meme archives**: Sites like **Archive.org**, **Yesterweb**, **Yiff.party**, where they preserve
digital heritage, including Flash art.

---

### **2. Saving and adapting content**
- **SWF archiving**:
— **Flashpoint Archive** (by BlueMaxima) is a giant collection of saved Flash games and animations
(over 150,000 items).
— **New releases** can be uploaded to **Internet Archive** with tags so that like-minded people can
find them.
- **Conversion to modern formats**:
— Tools like **Ruffle** (for embedding SWF on websites) or **Adobe Animate** (export to HTML5).
— Remasters of old SWF projects with open source code (put on GitHub).
- **Flash environment emulation**:
— **Ruffle** already supports many old files, and its integration into browsers allows you to run
content without risks.

---

### **3. Cultural Response: Niche Communities Don't Die**
History shows that even after platforms die (e.g. **GeoCities**, **Vine**, **Flash**), enthusiasts
preserve content through:
- **Fandom Archives**: Like anime culture or retrogaming.
- **New Formats**: There's nothing stopping you from creating SWF art "for yourself" and posting it
as a video on YouTube or TikTok with hashtags like #FlashRevival.
- **Irony and Nostalgia**: Memes about the "death of Flash" and creative uses of its aesthetics in
pixel art or glitch art.

---

### **4. Risks and Challenges**
- **Loss of Context**: Many SWF memes and animations were only understandable within the /f/ board.
Without it, the content can become a "museum exhibit" without a live audience.
- **Legality**: Some SWF files contain pirated or controversial content - their archiving may raise
questions.
- **Technical limitations**: Even Ruffle is not perfect - some scripts and animations will work
with errors.

---

### **5. The future? It is here!**
The closure of /f/ is the end of an era, but not the end of a culture. Remember how the **MS Paint
Fanart** or **Demoscene** communities survived dozens of technological apocalypses.
**What can be done right now**:
- Save unique SWF files from /f/ to archives.
- Create a kind of "wiki" or catalog with a description of memes and their authors.
- Use the Flash aesthetic in new projects (for example, games in the style of Newgrounds of the
2000s).

Bitards are masters of adaptation. If earlier they survived through absurdity and self-irony, now
they will be able to move to new formats... or simply quietly find their bearings in a corner of
the Internet, as often happens with niche subcultures. 💾✨

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)16:25 No. F P44R42

>>103756
>https://original.kissu.moe/f/
Not bad, but a hecking lot of threads, I prefer single page that fits on a screen whole
(with/without more pages beyond that).
Also they maintain their own specialized chanboard software, which makes something like the 4chan
happening extremely unlikely there in the future.

>>103774
Probably: We old here.

>>103769
f pressed

>>103782
Wow that sounds like some shit AI would spout. Don't fault you for trying to contribute though.

Also: I spoke with admin of heyuri and he will consider including hotlinks to swfs on swfchan from
the thread, just like with 4chanX.
Even considering this and opening the communication is a giant step above many other chans, as well
as 4chan.
I get what >>103776 says about the feel of people there seeming somewhat ... off. Logically I
cannot find any fault, because it's just better older culture and no shitty modern ban policy, only
MORE netiquette which WAS the style at the time (2005). It might just be the culture shock. Maybe a
lot of /f/ags congregating there will cure that and make it feel more "at home". Admin has been
pretty lenient about everything so it's worth a try. I won't even object bannind LE SHITTY ONELINER
responses a la /pol/ though I'm not for it as well.

Idk, I stand with the heyuri. But it's not like we're short on time to decide. As long as everyone
forever remembers swfchan exists (as you should), it will be alright.

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)16:26 No. F P45

>>103783
Whoops. That's what you get from blogposting.
>Also they maintain their own specialized chanboard software, which makes something like the 4chan
happening extremely unlikely there in the future.
is supposed to refer to heyuri

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)19:33 No. OP P46

I was made aware that apparently the admin of heyuri is a janitor on 4chan /jp/, the same team that
is forcing and babysitting a literal bl*cked ntr thread on the board. Thanks but no thanks.

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)19:47 No. Q P47

>>103790
>I was made aware that apparently
do you believe everything you read on the internet?
even if that were true, how do you confirm who was babysitting which thread? /jp/ has few great
generals.

>> Anonymous 27apr2025(su)20:04 No. D P48R43

Hey Ants, if you're reading this, do you plan on having swfchan index flashes posted on Heyuri in
the future?

>> Anonymous 28apr2025(mo)13:11 No. R P49R44

>>103754
I'm in Russia right now and connecting to 2.0-chan feels like it's been slowed down like youtube.
And yet, if I'll ever learn to make SWFs, I'll be posting them as well as here

>> !///SWFAnts #ADMIN# 28apr2025(mo)14:55 No. SWF P50R45

>>103793
I don't want to demoralize or over-promise in a regroup thread so close to it being created.

>> Anonymous 28apr2025(mo)15:53 No. J P51R46

>>103805
I also have problems connecting to 2.0-chan.ru without a VPN. Apparently, admin has gone too far
with the /pol/itics. It's interesting that it's hosted on .ru. Can't Roskomnadzor really close
sites on .ru/.su/.рф domains and can only block them?

>> Rare Flash Collector 28apr2025(mo)18:42 No. S P52R47

>>103723
I don't think it's realistic to think that they'll bring it back by virtue of the will of our
community if they took down posting capabilities due to security concerns. The exploit that took
down 4chan was an outdated PDF upload-based attack. If they're wising up to the vulnerabilities
that come with running outdated software, they will continuously wise up to the vulnerabilities
that come with Flash as a medium, regardless of what we do. It's unhelpful to hold out and wait on
them to change their minds when it's both not in their best interest to do so and they're very
clearly demonstrating an unwillingness to shift. We need to pick a place to jump to and stay there.
Even if your miracle of a scenario came true, it would be better to hold tight elsewhere and return
to 4chan someday than sit here and do nothing, waiting for that miracle to come.

>> Anonymous 28apr2025(mo)19:12 No. S P53

>>103808
Relatedly, do you have a public list of sites you're indexing from somewhere?

>> Anonymous 29apr2025(tu)06:49 No. D P54R48

>>103809
It looks like you're just as retarded as the 4chan administration. .swf files were never a security
problem for servers since they weren't being ran by the servers. 4chan doesn't even thumbnail them
like they did with PDFs. The only vulnerabilities of flash were in the client, which 4chan doesn't
have any reason to care about.

>> Anonymous 29apr2025(tu)07:10 No. R P55R49

>>103808
Well, they can block any site in spite of its domain (as long as there is a good reason to). Not
sure if they can just close (take down?) sites on Russian domains, which are only .ru and .рф (.su
doesn't belong to any country in fact, since Soviet Union is no more), but why 2.0-chan is being
slowed down like youtube - that's a mystery to me.

>> Anonymous 29apr2025(tu)17:35 No. T P56R50

There's a thread over on /g/ attempting to resolve whatever tbe percieved risks are in flash, which
as has been said is negated by the fact that ruffle sandboxes them and nothing is done by the
server side except hosting the files. I wish then luck but the 'security concerns' look to just be
an excuse for their indifference.

>> Anonymous 29apr2025(tu)23:31 No. J P57R51

Need to put pressure on 4chan.org admins! Need to get them to bring back /f/!

>> Anonymous 30apr2025(we)13:52 No. D P58R52

>>103825
And how exactly do you want us to do that?

>> Rare Flash Collector 30apr2025(we)22:04 No. S P59R53

>>103814
>It looks like you're just as retarded as the 4chan administration.
And your argument is that we should rely on 4chan administration?

>> Anonymous 30apr2025(we)22:07 No. S P60

looks like you're in the same special ed category as these guys >>103825 >>103723 >>103814

>> Anonymous 1may2025(th)09:20 No. D P61R54

>>103861
I never said that they would bring /f/ back. All I said was that they had no valid reason to remove
it.

>> Anonymous 1may2025(th)16:48 No. U P62R55

Darn, big things are happening in the flash culture? (that i wasn't even aware of in the first
place)
Finally something new other than occasionally tagging flashes in here, Though It sucks seeing
4chan's /f/ die since most of the flashes that spawn in here are from 4chan are very varied, like
either porn, random ass flash file, or a fun game of sorts.

>> Anonymous 3may2025(sa)14:32 No. V P63R56

>>103821
I'm not giving up on /f/ this easily.
I'm probably naive and my likely my optimism is stupid(I'd really like some lainchan language
enhancing for this one) but I believe that if we build them a solid board and offer to maintain it
on the technical side, they don't actually hate /f/ and may resurrect it.

>> Anonymous 3may2025(sa)18:12 No. D P64R57

>>103877
They won't let someone else maintain a part of their site

>> Anonymous 4may2025(su)08:03 No. V P65R58

>>103879
What does "someone else" mean? I don't think the 4chan admins are related to each other in some way
outside of having worked together for long.

>> Anonymous 4may2025(su)12:22 No. D P66R59

>>103890
If you're not part of the 4chan team you're someone else. To be part of the 4chan team you need to
have an official role like admin, mod, janny, etc. Although, knowing how the site operates they
probably won't accept maintenance not even from jannies, you'd have to be at least a mod for the
offer to be considered, and even then, knowing how retarded the administration is, they'd still
probably refuse it.

>> Anonymous 4may2025(su)18:23 No. S P67R60

>>103877
They're not bringing it back. You underestimate just how understaffed, apathetic, and underpaid
4chan staff is. In the wake of getting BTFO'd on every level, they are not going to reopen /f/ even
if Jesus came down from heaven with verifiable proof that they cannot get hacked again via flash
upload. They will not do it. There's no protesting, research, or "doing it for them" that will ever
convince them. If they say it's dead, it's dead.
That will you have within you not to give up is not something to abandon. Channel it into the
impetus to let this thing live on. We should channel our efforts into making a new site that
contains just the /f/ board in the exact style with no vichan or tinychan bullshit with the same 30
slots. We in this thread could take turns moderating it, should a generous anon be willing to host
the site.

>> Anonymous 6may2025(tu)14:02 No. W P68R61

>>103894
This. 4chan mods are a bunch of power mad freaks who enjoy flexing their ability to torment the
site users. The DO4E and mandatory leetspeak only proved it.
If anything, begging them for /f/ back will just make them LESS likely to restore the board.

>> Anonymous 7may2025(we)03:55 No. W P69

I'm surprised 7chan /fl/ hasn't been mentioned yet. They're still around, and they're one of the
boards that gets their flashed auto-added to swfchan (or at least they were at one point).

>> Anonymous 7may2025(we)09:41 No. X P70R62

>>103923
7chan moves at a glacial pace, even if its userbase is slightly more sane than other altchans

>> Anonymous 7may2025(we)19:36 No. F P71R63

>>103923
Mentioning 7chan is like ... so 2009, cake-anon.
Also they have an swfchan style board that screencaps the flash or at least they did that in the
past. So it isn't exactly fit for /f/ culture.

>> Anonymous 8may2025(th)19:56 No. D P72R64

>>103923
>>103925
>>103931
I was thinking about mentioning it, but I didn't when I saw that the last post was several months
old

>> Anonymous 11may2025(su)11:07 No. X P73R65

So is there a place people are actively using, or is 4ch flash culture basically dead now?

>> Anonymous 11may2025(su)11:18 No. Y P74R66

>>103962
Some people moved to heyuri

>> Anonymous 11may2025(su)18:13 No. S P75R67

>>103923
>>103931
>>103962
We need to make our own site.
The Soyteens built The Sharty when 4chan staff killed /qa/.
Now that they've killed /f/ too, it's our time to build fchan.

>> Anonymous 12may2025(mo)01:34 No. P P76R68

linux residents (and cygwin enthusiasts), consider assisting with the flash testing protocol on /g/
anon's thread: https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/105170200#p105226744

>> Anonymous 12may2025(mo)08:25 No. Z P77R69

>>103964
Sounds good, but since I know nothing about hosting/administrating/moderating boards, I'll just
spread the word of your fchan (flashjack party?)

>> Anonymous 12may2025(mo)14:57 No. AA P78R70

>>103963
We could make it centered around swfs and call it swfchan!

>> Anonymous 12may2025(mo)16:15 No. AB P79R71

It is necessary to demand from the adminis of 4chan.org the return of the board with flashes (swf)!

>> Anonymous 12may2025(mo)18:29 No. AC P80R72

>>103963
Seems like most people went to heyuri.

>> Anonymous 14may2025(we)19:07 No. AB P81R73

I wrote the article on Russian analog of Dramatica:

https://neolurk.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B4%D0%
BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_/f/_%D0%BD%D0%B0_4chan.org

This may attract the attention of those interested.

>> Anonymous 15may2025(th)19:54 No. F P82R74

>>103976
I did.

>> Anonymous 15may2025(th)23:38 No. X P83R75

>>103976
i checked it out, pretty funny that they have 30 pages of files as opposed to 30 slots. just like
the real /f/, almost none of them have replies.

>> Anonymous 16may2025(fr)06:45 No. AD P84R76

>>104018
Good article, except for you should have explained what is Yotsuba and Futaba (idk what are those,
am noob)

>> Anonymous 16may2025(fr)16:54 No. F P85R77

>>104088
That's just the deleted files, still visible, like an inbuilt archive. You cannot bump anything
past the front page (like /f/).
To be fair, most threads on /f/ most of the time also just rake in 0 replies.
I'd say atm the activity is about the same as pre 4chan kill /f/, though it seems to be comprised
of mostly native board users.

>> Anonymous 16may2025(fr)16:58 No. F P86

>>104091
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Yotsuba is the 4chan mascot, so I guess it is a synonym for 4chan
itself. Maybe the japs call it that? Because -
Futaba is the original japanese 2chan which 4chan was a carbon copy of, not to be confused with
2channel (2ch) though.
Idk if Futaba is also a mascot or character but I think it just refers to the chan.

>> Anonymous 16may2025(fr)19:14 No. D P87R78

>>104104
It's significantly lower. Pre 4chan kill /f/ would get completely refreshed every 2-3 days. On
heyuri, if you exclude the spammers that post like 10 flashes at once, it only gets like 3-5 posts
a day.

>> Anonymous 18may2025(su)13:48 No. B P88R79

>>104018
That's a good article.

>> Anonymous 18may2025(su)19:30 No. S P89R80

>>103970
>(flashjack party?)
Let us not associate with the Soyteens.
Let's just call it fchan.

>> Anonymous 18may2025(su)19:35 No. S P90

>>104088
And this is why when we build fchan, we must ensure it has 30 slots and looks identical to what we
had. Any creative liberties of deviation will make it dead in the water.

>> Anonymous 18may2025(su)19:38 No. S P91

>>104018
This is good, anon.
Next we need to:
- Mention the building of fchan and its requirements (30 slots, near-identical look to the
original, etc.)
- Build an english version of this page on ED or wherever else people use to keep up with this
stuff (soyjak.wiki not recommended)

>> Anonymous 19may2025(mo)10:23 No. AE P92R81

>>104147
I'm too used to swfchan's format, so don't consider me visiting your 4chan-like too often

>> Anonymous 22may2025(th)20:04 No. A P93R82

>https://guro.cx/heyuri.html
Heyuri is now down. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
When will this madness end?!!?

>> Anonymous 22may2025(th)21:35 No. Q P94R83

it's a registrar issue, it should be back up soon

>> Anonymous 22may2025(th)21:58 No. A P95R84

>Epik.com - sent an e-mail notifying permanent suspension of my account due to breaking the ToS.
The link I posted was board wide yesterday

>> Anonymous 23may2025(fr)08:15 No. Q P96R85

It's back!
https://img.heyuri.net/f/

>> Anonymous 26may2025(mo)11:10 No. AF P97R86

We could make it centered around swfs and call it swfchan!

>> Anonymous 26may2025(mo)20:42 No. AG P98R87

>>104229
GENIUS!

>> Anonymous 27may2025(tu)14:35 No. AH P99R88

500 internal error guys

>> Anonymous 27may2025(tu)21:45 No. AI P100R89

>>104237
Yes, I get this error too.

>> Anonymous 27may2025(tu)21:50 No. AI P101

If this site also goes down, it will be the final end of /f/lash culture.

>> Anonymous 29may2025(th)15:00 No. F P102R90

>>104237
>>104244
>>104245
Don't shit your pants. Swfchan is known to have a little hiccup here and there every now and then.
It's run by just 1 guy after all. It's not going anywhere as long as the admin is alive and
breathing.

On that note let's do a little vanity check:
Who has a swf up on the final page of /f/? There is a single namefag on there as well.
I think one of the flashes was posted by me but I honestly cannot remember.

>> Anonymous 29may2025(th)20:10 No. D P103R91

>>104257
I don't have any flash there as I couldn't make threads as I was rangebanned. I do have a comment,
though.

>> Anonymous 31may2025(sa)19:26 No. X P104R92

>>104257
I posted nipple party. Wish I had posted one of my OCs - oh well.

>> Anonymous 2jun2025(mo)17:04 No. Y P105R93

>>104257
susu_hiragana_anti_pexeso.swf was posted by me. Don't remember where I found the file, but I wanted
to archive it.

>> Anonymous 4jun2025(we)14:47 No. V P106R94

>>104257
I posted Japan Break Industries. Am I a legend now?

>> Anonymous 4jun2025(we)20:53 No. AJ P107R95

>>104331
"Nipple party" with Sailor Mars and Venus? I love Sailor Scouts and and especially I love Sailor
Venus os mutch!

>> Anonymous 4jun2025(we)20:54 No. AJ P108

*so mutch
*fix*

>> Anonymous 5jun2025(th)10:35 No. AK P109R96

rage with me anons
https://youtu.be/CskCOSYoNaw?t=449

>> Anonymous 5jun2025(th)12:47 No. D P110R97

>>104409
Rage for what? WatchMojo is notorious for spouting bullshit.

>> Anonymous 5jun2025(th)17:29 No. S P111R98

>>104257
>Who has a swf up on the final page of /f/? There is a single namefag on there as well.
Rare Flash Collector. That's me. I'm honored to have made it onto the final page.
Fchan must be built.

>> Anonymous 6jun2025(fr)17:41 No. F P112R99

>>104409
I'm not even mad anymore. The disinformation is just so vast and deep seated, of course some random
game "journo" will spout back the first thing google craps out.
Even people who are I'd say better versed with all things technology and internet believe all that
crap, because it's just the standard information if you aren't like REALLY deep into flash itself.
Even people who did use flash or played flash games and enjoy them fondly.
Heck, even people whose opinion I value would agree, if only they didn't look into the matter and
would find the arguments just plausible.

The only good video about the topic was from Mr. "sit on a ball" Jacob and only because I think he
just didn't spout all that nonsense or at least I think he didn't.

You won't believe how many people HERE on this very board and community I had to enlighten to the
ways of google and the "security issues with flash".
Just goes to show how well such a smearing campaign works when enough money gets thrown around and
the average person is at least somewhat apathetic to the topic.

Let me recap: There has been none, no, nada, single software environment as potent as flash that
can do all the versatile things it did and as well and as simple and as user friendly and
standalone and with more "security" than Adobe Flash. It just wasn't perfect is all. Adobe could
have done things, but they never wanted to develop flash. They just wanted to reign over the early
web (that's why they bought it) and that wavered already with native video in html, which was one
of the widest and most mundane uses of flash.

>> Anonymous 7jun2025(sa)16:25 No. F P113

So, where's everybody bein'?
Doesn't really feel like everyone's posting on heyuri as usual, with the weekly gachiposting and
whatnot.
I guess everyone's using the opportunity to lay off their flash posting habits? ;_;
Is there another active contender for the /f/ag haven?

>> Anonymous 12jun2025(th)11:59 No. AL P114R100

>>104429
I've just kind of been like a boat without a rudder, drifting around directionless without a home
to point to. I don't have the motivation to post on heyuri, it seems fake and there's no discussion
anyway.

>> Anonymous 12jun2025(th)12:34 No. AM P115R101

>>104429
Still sitting here without dreaming of some 4chan-like

>> Anonymous 13jun2025(fr)14:13 No. AN P116R102

>>104429
I'm checking the /g/ general, this thread and the last thread on 4plebs.

I also occasionally check the altchans.

I just hope that one day 4chan/f/ will come back even though I know it won't.

>> Anonymous 13jun2025(fr)14:14 No. AN P117

>>104462
Huh, it seems that the ID reset. I used to be D.

>> Anonymous 14jun2025(sa)11:35 No. AO P118R103

>>104462
https://archive.4plebs.org/f/thread/3524370/

>/SWF/ - Semper ViVet Flash
https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/105424620
The flash thread on /g/ has gone through a couple of iterations by now, has slowed down a lot. Only
a matter of time before nobody bothers to recreate it.

>> Anonymous 15jun2025(su)15:00 No. F P119R104

>>104473
Oh, I thought they removed ghost replies from 4plebs.

>> Anonymous 16jun2025(mo)09:28 No. AO P120R105

>>104478
Their front page still has strikethrough on the text about ghost posting, I think it's only enabled
for /f/.

>> Anonymous 20jun2025(fr)03:23 No. B P121R106

>>104473
I'm the OP of that general and yeah, it has slowed down a lot and even D-anon seems to have paused
working on his alternative backend for now, but yeah, I'll refresh the general when it dies today
or tomorrow. As thankful as I am to everyone who bumped, I'm not sure how sound that is given that
it's basically a change.org petition more than a general right now.

>> Anonymous 22jun2025(su)01:30 No. AP P122R107

maybe this is the post with one of most comments, someone knows the most commented post on this
whole site?

>> Anonymous 22jun2025(su)08:25 No. B P123R108

>>104498
And that's the end of it I guess.
The latest thread was deleted by a janitor/mod.

To be honest, it was pretty dead so it's a well deserved purge, but still.

>> Anonymous 22jun2025(su)16:02 No. F P124R109

>>104520
If you have no further restrictions, I bet it's one of the service threads on disc like >>>3367.
Also the EOL threads about flash when Adobe dropped the great news were also pretty frequented.
Also the patreon thread back in the day comes to mind.
If you strictly mean only comments on flashes, then idk... most likely some porn flash.
I remember there was quite a tangent in the EroPharaoh threads and his timely arrest (anyone know
what happened to the guy??).
DinDin also got a lot of praise in his threads as the ex-resident-H-flash-creator of this place. A
position now lamentably vacant.

>> !///SWFAnts #ADMIN# 22jun2025(su)23:53 No. SWF P125R110

>>104520 🥩
http://swfchan.net/32/SJB1U27.shtml

>> Anonymous 24jun2025(tu)21:56 No. H P126R111

>>104541
>2016
no way, I swear that was like 4 years ago

>> Anonymous 26jun2025(th)19:38 No. F P127R112

>>104541
>remembering beef curtains now
Thanks, Ants. I didn't intend to, but sometimes life works like that.

>> Anonymous 1jul2025(tu)01:33 No. AP P128R113

Despite what were promised one decade and a half ago no technology exists that replaces FLASH.

>> Anonymous 1jul2025(tu)21:09 No. AN P129R114

>>104608
The broken promise that hurts me the most is that /f/ was supposed to be /f/orever

>> Anonymous 4jul2025(fr)23:37 No. AQ P130R115

oh this is where you guys went
I'm such a fool for not checking here after those fags pulled the plug

>> Anonymous 5jul2025(sa)01:09 No. AQ P131

>>104429
I've just been licking the 4'wound with my native swf player and my saved files
I don't like the idea of using heyuri, IIRC the sharty site pulls whatever it can from your device
and browser with a shit ton of backend tracking, heyuri strikes me as a "apple doesn't fall far
from the tree" kind of deal. I don't trust it
As for actually using image boards, I've tried using 8chan.moe (which is also 8chan.se but is not
to be confused with 8kun). They support native swfs all over the site but that makes it hard for
people to really accumulate around flash posting itself and I am unable to. From what I read on
4pled ghost there's badblood between old /f/ and 8chan (and it's original flash board had already
died) so there's probably no hope in making that place our home

>> Anonymous 5jul2025(sa)21:37 No. AN P132R116

>>104625
You're damn right. Fuck 8chan

>> Anonymous 5jul2025(sa)23:38 No. Q P133R117

>>104625
>I don't like the idea of using heyuri, IIRC the sharty site pulls whatever it can from your device
and browser with a shit ton of backend tracking, heyuri strikes me as a "apple doesn't fall far
from the tree" kind of deal. I don't trust it
It's up to you which site you use, but that's just nonsense. Why would anyone bother tracking you
anyway?

>> Anonymous 6jul2025(su)20:37 No. AQ P134R118

>>104630
What a grand and intoxicating innocence. The Sharty is full of people that fly past the line
between harmless trolling and straight into bad-to-evil things. They'd want to track you to dox and
fuck with you, that is sharty's whole thing. That data is also collected and sold to the feds
because there is no way the sharty isn't a honeypot because of how much illegal shit they get away
with like openly admitting to spamming CP to get smaller image boards and archives shut down, or
openly bragging about SWATTing people. They're also puritans who also hate all forms of Anime,
cartoons and lolis to boot. They openly do track your by default, with their past and current
behavior, I can't trust their intentions; So with such a track record, how could I reasonably post
on a site owned by someone who used to mingle with those niggerfaggots? Not to mention a Sharty
user is the very reason /f/ died in the first place
TLDR The Sharty tracks everyone, to find anyone they want and any /f/lash poster is an enemy by
default to them

>> Anonymous 11jul2025(fr)20:42 No. F P135R119

>>104637
Can't really say I habeeb into that, but I guess there is no way of knowing.
I thought the board software that heyuri uses is opensource and also there are a hecking lot of
anime posters there, the whole chan is anime loli themed, so I highly doubt that they'd hate that.

On the other hand idk if it is of any relevance, could be due to a lot of things, like browsing
with weird browser constructions, but I DID notice a lot of computing power on my toaster is
getting dropped into opening heyuri. Like it freezes my browser connections for a hot second when I
open that site.
As I mentioned, that might not mean anything, but it was noteworthy, and I didn't have those
problems on old /f/. Might just be because the site is spaghetti code though.

So all in all, where the fuck are /f/ags at now?!
Is it really just 5 people here on swfchan and in the 4plebs ghost thread?? I thought we were
better numbered.

>> Anonymous 13jul2025(su)15:46 No. AR P136R120

>>104668
We were better numbers on 4chan's /f/. Around 60 users. But I guess that most of them didn't really
go to any other site, so when /f/ was killed they must've just given up on flash. I guess that most
of them didn't really have any reason to look for another place since they weren't creating OC,
just reposting flashes, and what's the point of that if the same place with the same users doesn't
exist?

>> Anonymous 13jul2025(su)15:48 No. AR P137

>>104677
Damn, it seems like my ID changed again. I'm still D

>> Nanonymous 26jul2025(sa)16:19 No. AS P138R121

I lurked /f/ for many years without posting
I have been an OP once ever.
I may not have been very active in posting but I loved
lurking with you guys over the years.
/f/ was a kind of comfy that nobody has know prior
or will know again.
The internet and world at large are mostly dystopian
now.
Small communities and freedoms are being
purged.

>> Anonymous 27jul2025(su)14:48 No. AT P139R122

>>104759
The thought that someone read some of my posts on /f/ over the years that got no replies makes me
feel warm and fuzzy inside

>> Anonymous 27jul2025(su)15:33 No. F P140R123

>>104759
So as I pray, unlimited /f/ lurks.

>> Anonymous 28jul2025(mo)23:26 No. X P141R124

Welp I asked the 4plebs administrator if he would open /f/ for new threads and he wasn't interested
in moderating that. As I see it the only options for /f/ugitives are heyuri (yuck) or someone
creating an /f/ clone which gets anywhere near enough traffic to be worth using (increasingly
unlikely).

I guess /f/ joins the legions of aughts-era forums that just died out. Pretty lame but at least it
went out with a bang on April Fools.

>> Anonymous 30jul2025(we)12:50 No. AU P142R125

>>104788
You're right, on April 1st people were reminded that we existed. But the last laugh was on us.

>> Anonymous 4aug2025(mo)21:08 No. F P143R126

>>104794
Why is /f/ even still up there. Even a link on the /frames.
Like a dead corpse wound up on a stick.
Just to mock us? Make us see what we've lost?
How hard would it be to at least remove the goddamn links pointing to a disabled board.

>> Anonymous 6aug2025(we)22:53 No. AT P144R127

>>104845
You don't seem to understand just how uninterested the administration is in the website. They won't
spend an extra second of their attention on the website if they don't absolutely need to. Removing
the board may require less than a minute of extra attention compared to just removing the posts,
but the site will still run if they don't do that, so they will not spend those seconds, as
worthless as they seem to us.

>> Anonymous 10aug2025(su)18:08 No. AP P145R128

128-bit comment

>> Anonymous 14aug2025(th)09:52 No. X P146R129

>>104845
remember how /qa/ and /film/ were closed but still viewable for years and years, for no reason at
all? that's /f/ now, still in imageboard limbo four months after the site crashed. motherfuckers.
open up /f/ NAO

>> Anonymous 21aug2025(th)09:23 No. P P147R130

Since the threads on /g/ slowed down a while and the last seems to have been deleted
(https://desuarchive.org/_/search/boards/g.desu.meta/subject/swf/). In order to maintain knowledge
of the existence/results of those projects, and in the hopes that someone wishes to use them, I'm
posting the links here:

github.com/flash-computer/swfcheck
github.com/necroflasher/fchan
github.com/flash-computer/libswftag (there's a tonne of explanation of technical aspects of this
and general ambitions of it in the higher traffic threads above)
github.com/necroflasher/swf_big_analyze
necroflasher (referred to as D-anon in archives) also has a few more specific tools.

The two first listed ones ones above were considered more or less complete (in spite of fchans
description), i.e tested to satisfaction, but of course without much usage I doubt it can be said
with confidence that it's bug free. However, from what I recall, development towards the above
ceased mainly for the same reason; the project was considered mostly done but with no host to
implement it was difficult to further refine, and so while I can't speak for them I doubt their
interest in the projects are abandoned rather than unstimulated.

Similarly, the last discussions in the larger threads was that of hosting as none were willing or
capable. And related to that, I'm curious if any anons here are familiar with altnets such as i2p,
yggdrasil, tor etc. to say whether working browsers for any support flash; I suppose any would
support ruffle? The impacts data transfer would have for this usage, both generally and
geographically? Extra constant hitches with hosting on each? Easiest, aside from tor for techlets
to setup viewing? Ideology regarding general advantages aside, it's obviously not necessary and
would in it's present state probably make it more annoying for most to bother, thus reducing
traffic, as well as pose issues with potential swfchan scraping I imagine. But I'm curious anyways,
imagining that it would ease concern of security with hosting, by way of such need for rigorous
monitoring, and make cheaper due to domain differences, although maybe (?) be more of a hassle to
initially setup.

>> Anonymous 21aug2025(th)15:47 No. Q P148R131

You should understand there are like 6 of us here and maybe 4 on Heyuri, and out of that only ~10%
are ever gonna bother with stuff like i2p to use a new site.

>> Anonymous 22aug2025(fr)21:33 No. X P149R132

if you could pick any 20 files to remain frozen /f/ for all 4chan eternity, like the 20 crappy ones
on there now, what would you choose

some for me would be
The Missile Guidance System's Final Flight.swf.swf
Monday Approaches.swf
PatchouliWish.swf
Beef Stroganoff.swf + pasta I guess
Cirno Bottle Launch.swf

>> Anonymous 24aug2025(su)16:29 No. F P150R133

>>104987
no trip.swf and lolicatgirls.swf?

>> Anonymous 24aug2025(su)17:01 No. AV P151R134

Don't know where else to ask, but is /f/ soccer team kill forever aswell? /f/ still participated in
the summer cup, but was that our last game ever?

>> Anonymous 24aug2025(su)17:08 No. S P152R135

I hear fchan lives
Is it true that the entire site is just the /f/ board with 30 slots that looks identical to /f/?
And is it up somewhere?
If so, we've won anons

>> Anonymous 25aug2025(mo)21:05 No. X P153R136

>>105017
>google fchan
>fchan, also known as Fchan and Furchan, is a furry imageboard. It was designed to be a 2ch style
art community based on the wakaba system.
nice try.

>> Anonymous 28aug2025(th)18:31 No. AW P154R137

>>105016
Yes, without an active board to post on the soccer team is dead for actual competitions. It can
still see use in one off friendly matches and as beloved as the team was this is likely.

>> Anonymous 6sep2025(sa)23:17 No. X P155R138

I feel a little sorry for the zeitgeist poster. His life purpose is shattered. Now that /f/ is gone
how will he spread his noble message?

>> Anonymous 19sep2025(fr)16:44 No. AT P156R139

If you guys were to be left with just one flash for the rest of time, which flash would you choose?
I'd choose End of flash

>> Anonymous 21sep2025(su)02:10 No. AP P157R140

okay

>> Anonymous 21sep2025(su)13:42 No. X P158R141

>>105293
the how 2 loop tutorial. if that was the only flash which survived, it would lead to a flash
renaissance.

>> Anonymous 21sep2025(su)14:45 No. F P159R142

>>105293
Depends. Do you mean any one flash based product as a whole or a single swf file?

>> Anonymous 22sep2025(mo)07:35 No. AT P160R143

>>105382
A .swf that has been posted on /f/ and is archived on this site

>> Anonymous 25sep2025(th)21:21 No. F P161R144

>>105402
Wow, I guess I don't know. No way to just pick one.
Suppose I'd cheat a little with reload_this_I_Dare_You.swf
This way at least you got a grabbing bag.