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4chan
Who runs 4chan, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest imageboard forum alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- 8chan/kun
Measured from 4chan’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit 4chan01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs 4chan
4chan 4chan.org
Wikidata: English-language imageboard website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What 4chan tracks
We couldn’t read 4chan.org’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to 4chan
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to 4chan, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read 4chan.org’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Welcome to 8kun
What do you do with the mad that you feel, when you feel so mad you could bite? When the whole wide world seems oh-so-wrong, and nothing you do seems very right?
Very close - 02
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Very close - 03
Japanese online bulletin board system
Very close - 04
The Something Awful Forums
comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka
Very close - 05 Very close
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2ちゃんねる掲示板へようこそ
巨大掲示板群『2ちゃんねる』へようこそ!
Very close - 07
まちBBS
「まちBBS」は皆さんの地元の話題についてお話をする掲示板です
Very close - 08 Open 2channel open2ch.net
Japanese online bulletin board system
Very close - 09
ガールズちゃんねる - Girls Channel -
女子の女子による女子のためのおしゃべりコミュニティ。女子の好きな話題にみんなでコメント、みんなで投票して盛り上がれる匿名掲示板「ガールズちゃんねる」へようこそ。
Very close - 10
Korean language website in Paraguay
Very close - 11
## CONNECTING HEARTS! 디시인사이드입니다. ##
국내 최대 인터넷 커뮤니티 포털이자 인터넷 트렌드의 중심, 디시인사이드입니다. 실시간 베스트 등의 갤러리 커뮤니티 서비스를 제공합니다.
Very close - 12
Pantip - Learn, Share & Fun
ร่วมพูดคุยแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็นในทุกประเด็น ทั้งบันเทิง หุ้น ความงาม ท่องเที่ยว รถยนต์ กีฬา โทรศัพท์มือถือ อาหาร การเมือง ครอบครัว บ้าน วิทยาศาสตร์ สุขภาพ ธุรกิจ
Close - 13 Dcard dcard.tw
Internet forum in Taiwan
Very close - 14
爆サイ.com−日本最大のローカルクチコミ掲示板
北海道から沖縄まで日本全国の気になる話題を網羅したローカルクチコミ掲示板。掲示板カテゴリ数4000以上。ニュース速報・スポーツ・動画・政治・経済・芸能から、パチンコ・スロット・キャバクラ・ホスト・風俗・ギャンブルまで幅広い。
Very close - 15 Todayhumor todayhumor.co.kr
South Korean website and internet forum
Very close - 16
首頁 - 批踢踢實業坊
bulletin board system based in Taiwan
Close - 17
클리앙
모두의 커뮤니티 클리앙
Very close - 18
DogDrip.Net 개드립
유머, 이슈, 정보 커뮤니티. 개드립
Close - 19
Taiwanese ACG Internet forum
Close - 20 MetaFilter metafilter.com
general-interest community weblog
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles 4chan’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones 4chan uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what 4chan adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 49 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to 4chan’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577172ccd0edea4-HAM
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS rick.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=m4RTs-1axoNg8iHPjvprlvrEG4MvqqGVy5EjvBQWuBA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Cloudflare 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS 13/20
- Google Workspace · not on 4chan.org 10/20
- Google Analytics · not on 4chan.org 8/20
- jQuery · not on 4chan.org 5/20
- PHP · not on 4chan.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on 4chan.org 3/20
- Google AdSense · not on 4chan.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on 4chan.org 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on 4chan.org 3/20
- nginx · not on 4chan.org 2/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on 4chan.org 2/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on 4chan.org 2/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on 4chan.org 2/20
- Mailgun · not on 4chan.org 2/20