The irony is almost palpable: 4chan hit by DDoS attack, struggling to get back online.

The website 4chan was taken offline Sunday by a distributed denial-of-service attack, and the team behind 4chan is still struggling to get back online. On Sunday morning, 4chan’s status blog reported: “Site down due to a large DDoS attack. We hope to have it back up soon.”

There were reports yesterday that 4chan was accessible again, though moving incredibly slowly. We haven’t been able to access 4chan.org this afternoon, and 4chan’s status page was updated this morning with the message: “Site continues to be down due to a DDoS attack, consisting of a UDP flood on port 80.”