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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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to 4chan match.
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?
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The Something Awful Forums
comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka
Very close - 03 Very close
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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
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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。
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Pantip - Learn, Share & Fun
ร่วมพูดคุยแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็นในทุกประเด็น ทั้งบันเทิง หุ้น ความงาม ท่องเที่ยว รถยนต์ กีฬา โทรศัพท์มือถือ อาหาร การเมือง ครอบครัว บ้าน วิทยาศาสตร์ สุขภาพ ธุรกิจ
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首頁 - 批踢踢實業坊
bulletin board system based in Taiwan
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Главная - прикольные картинки, мемы, комиксы, гифки на JoyReactor
Главная страница JoyReactor - это смешные картинки, арты, игровой юмор и гифки (с котами). Но стоит копнуть чуть глубже, и можно найти больше постов и разделов, интересных именно вам, и подписаться на них. Полезно каждый день поглядывать в разделы Тренды и Наши любимые теги на главной странице, можно повстречать много неожиданного и, как минимум, занятного.
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FC2 - Free Website, Analyzer, Blog, Rental Server, SEO Countermeasures, etc. -
FC2 is a portal site which brings you a pleasant web life providing blog/website/analyzer services and others. Our blog service is ranked No.2 domestically and supported by wide range of users including both beginners and heavy users. We offer as many as 30 different services.
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MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community
Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
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Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
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Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
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Горячее – самые интересные и обсуждаемые посты | Пикабу
Пикабу – это уютное информационно-развлекательное сообщество, где любой желающий может опубликовать пост. Истории из жизни, свежие шутки и мемы, познавательные статьи, забавные фото и видео, интересные комментарии. Если другим пользователям понравится ваша история, ее увидят сотни тысяч людей.
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note ――つくる、つながる、とどける。
クリエイターが文章やマンガ、写真、音声を投稿することができ、ユーザーはそのコンテンツを楽しんで応援できるメディアプラットフォームです。だれもが創作を楽しんで続けられるよう、安心できる雰囲気や、多様性を大切にしています。
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DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
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photo sharing website
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アメーバブログ(アメブロ)|Amebaで無料ブログを始めよう
アメブロでブログを書こう! 16000人以上の芸能人・有名人ブログを読めるのはAmebaだけ。子育て・ファッション・ペット・旅行・マンガなどのカテゴリも展開。
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Full Disclosure
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はてなブログ | 無料ブログを作成しよう
はてなブログは、無料でしっかり書けるブログサービスです。日々の生活から感じたこと、考えたことを書き残しましょう。
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행복한 유머, 웃긴대학에 오셨습니다.
웃긴대학은 남을 행복하게 만들어주기 라는 목적으로 1998년 8월 24일에 설립한 전통 유머 사이트입니다. 웃긴자료, 웃긴제목 등 유머 게시판 뿐만 아니라 만화, 게임, 요리, 헬스, 뷰티, 동물, SNS 등의 테마 게시판과 웃대툰, 공포, 사진 등의 창작 게시판도 서비스합니다. 자체 개발한 인공지능을 이용하여 얼굴인식, 패션분석 등의 서비스도 선보이고 있습니다.
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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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,200
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 100 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