Edit: It turns out site admin Root's just going rouge and he is currently suspected of going regressive, he's completely responsible for what happened and goolag did nothing.
Http://www.1d4chan.org was censored by google, unfortunately this also meant that duckduckgo recently stopped indexing it.
Jesus christ.
Duckduckgo also needs an alternative due to the fact they engaged in terrorist financing.
No.
It was not censored.
Root deliberately delisted it by adding a robots file. If you're mad about it, go bicker with him on the discord. https://discord.gg/QkkAGerb7H
Or on the talk page:
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/User_talk:Root#1d4Chan_not_Appearing_on_Google_Search
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/User_talk:Root#Root_and_you_guys_are_censoring_the_1d4chan_from_google_results
He's not going to listen. The editors have argued with him about it for months.
That's unfortunate. 1d4Chan has better lore than the fandom wiki, which blurs the line between canon, headcanon, and the insane ramblings of a schizophrenic magic 8 ball with a meth addiction.
Root doesn't like what the site has become.
But the leading editors collaborated to set up scripted content ripping. If he kills the site, it won't die, he'll just lose control and the community will online a new domain.
The situation is a Mexican standoff. We can't make him remove the robots directive, but we won't fork as long as the domain is still running.
Do you happen to know what the new domain is? I like reading through 1d4chan for their warhammer 40k lore articles from time to time.
There isn't one.
Like I said, it's a standoff.
The editors don't want to cause a schism in the userbase, because if we online a fork while the old domain is live, not everyone will move.
RIght now, the status quo is this:
Root refuses to remove the robot block. The editors have copies of the site ready to go, updated to an S3 bucket daily.
If Root pulls the domain down, the editors will pick a new domain, stand up the latest backup and all that Root accomplishes is that he loses control, he doesn't manage to kill the site.
As long as Root doesn't go nuclear by pulling down 1d4chan.org, the editors won't go nuclear by using their backups to fork the site.
Hence: Standoff.