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March 19, 2023

An imageboard is a type of Internet forum that focuses on the posting of images, often alongside text and discussion. The first imageboards were created in Japan as an extension of the textboard concept. These sites later inspired the creation of a number of English-language imageboards.

Characteristics

Imageboards, similar to bulletin board systems, are used for discussions of a variety of topics. The primary focus of imageboards, however, is directed away from text posts, and is instead placed on picture posts. The two share many of the same structures, including separate forums for separate topics, as well as similar audiences. Imageboards are much more transitory with content—on some boards (especially highly trafficked ones), the thread deletion time can be as little as 10 minutes. In Japan, where imageboards are more common,[citation needed] topics will vary widely, ranging from trains to current news. The most popular English language imageboard, 4chan, similarly has a large variety of topics.

Imageboards are also different from online galleries in that most of the works posted are not made by the poster, but instead are taken from other online sources: galleries, other imageboards, and edited pictures.

Tripcodes

 
A diagram of a typical tripcode derivation process.

Most imageboards and 2channel-style discussion boards allow (and encourage) anonymous posting and use a system of tripcodes instead of registration. A tripcode is the hashed result of a password that allows one's identity to be recognized without storing any data about users. Entering a particular password will let one "sign" one's posts with the tripcode generated from that password. Trying to take another user's tripcode and compute their password from it (for instance, to make posts that appear to come from a particular person) is somewhat computationally difficult. For those who want a custom tripcode, however, there are custom tripcode generators (which are technically tripcode crackers) available, such as Meriken's Tripcode Engine[1] and MTY_CL.[2] In general, anonymity is considered to be one of the advantages of an imageboard, and some boards have from time to time removed the ability to post with a name altogether (known as "forced anonymous/anonymity").

Secure tripcodes

Due to the fact tripcodes can be cracked given enough time, some imageboards, such as 4chan and 8chan, implement a "secure" tripcode.[3] Such tripcodes are not reproducible across different imageboards; they work by prepending a secure salt to the tripcode, barring intrusion, known only to the server owner.[3] They therefore function closer to a username than to a cryptographic signature; this is why QAnon could not verify themselves on another website when 8chan went down in late 2019.[4][5][6]

Software

There are two primary types of imageboard software packages in widespread use:[citation needed] linearly directed imageboards modeled closely after Futaba Channel (in which content is posted through hierarchical subsections of topical interest, usually denoted by a forward slash such as "/f" for female), and nonlinear imageboards modeled after Danbooru (usually indicated by the usage of controlled folksonomic vocabulary for topical tagging and search).

Futaba Channel clones

There are currently several Futaba-inspired imageboard software packages in widespread usage today, including Vichan, Kusaba/Kusaba X, and TinyIB.[7]

Historical

Futallaby is a PHP script based on the Futaba script from Futaba Channel. Although the Futallaby source is still freely available at 1chan,[8] it is no longer in development, and the download page recommends using Wakaba instead, stating that "Wakaba can do everything Futallaby does and so much more." Futallaby started as a translation of Futaba, later retooled to support XHTML and customizable CSS styles.

Wakaba is a Perl imageboard script with a SQL backend to store thread information.[9] It is designed to be more efficient and cleanly written than other scripts that are available, while preserving the same kind of functionality. Because of its focus on bare-bones functionality, Wakaba lacks many of the modern amenities provided by 4chan's Yotsuba, and newer imageboard scripts. A few users have attempted to remedy this by forking the original project and adding in features they consider beneficial. Two FOSS examples of this are frankusr's Wakaba fork,[10] and the user experience focused Glaukaba.[11]

Kusaba was a PHP-based modular imageboard software, which used MySQL.[12] The creator has discontinued the project, in favor of developing TinyIB instead.[13]

Kusaba X was a continuation of Kusaba by a separate developer. Like Kusaba, Kusaba X was written in PHP, and was designed with modularity in mind. It requires a MySQL or SQLite database to run. Kusaba and its derivatives were at one time some of the most popular imageboard solutions.[citation needed] Kusaba X has been implicitly discontinued, as it has not been updated since 2013, and the website is unavailable.

Tinyboard is a PHP based imageboard script with a MySQL backend.[14] It was eventually discontinued and forked into vichan.[15] Tinyboard (and its forks) notably feature extensibility with JavaScript.[16]

Infinity is a fork of Vichan that allows user board creation. It is the basis for 8kun.[17] Infinity has been discontinued, however it has been forked into OpenIB, which remains supported.[18]

Active

Taimaba is 420chan's proprietary continuation of Wakaba, overhauling it with many modern features and a public API. It is a hybrid Perl and PHP platform, as compared to Wakaba's static html output. This fork remains in use today, however the source has never been released.[19]

TinyIB is a PHP-based imageboard software from the original developer of Kusaba, intended to be "lightweight and efficient".[20] It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and the lack of a database completely ("Flatfile"). Started in 2009,[21] it still sees major active development as of 2021.

Vichan is a fork of Tinyboard "with more features and that receives security patches".[22] It officially supports up to PHP 7.0, and though it has security support, the development team strongly urges users to "consider other imageboard packages" due to having "next to no active development".[22]

LainChan is a fork of Vichan, intending to "actively build on it and add a lot of features and other improvements".[23] It supports up to PHP 7.3.[24]

Lynxchan is an imageboard based on JavaScript and Node.js. It requires a MongoDB database to run.[25]

Danbooru-style boards

Usually referred to as a "booru" (plural "boorus"). Unlike Futaba-inspired imageboard software packages, Danbooru and derivatives aim for a non-hierarchical semantic structure in which users are able to post content and add tags, annotations, translations, artist commentary, and comments.

There are a number of different Danbooru-style imageboards, both open-source and closed-source.

Imageboards

2ch

Main article: Dvach
Not to be confused with 2channel, a Japanese textboard.

Dvach, Russian: двач, romanized: dvách[26] is a Russian imageboard that replaced 2ch.ru imageboard (originally known as dvach) which was shut down earlier on January 17, 2009; it thoroughly copied original layout and was heavily advertised over the internet and managed to succeed the original one in popularity.[27] According to its owners number of posts left in the /b/ board exceeded 150 million.[28] In September 2016 a pro-Russian government organisation,[clarification needed] MAIL.RU, helped to organize "defense" against alleged DDOS attacks that took place during the same month; events raised concerns and speculations among users who grew suspicious over alleged takeover committed by the mail.ru and who criticized the owner's controversial decision to accept "help".[29][30][31] As of October 2018 It was widely believed that imageboard was simply "sold" on undisclosed terms to pro-government organisation.[31] The decision was met with high criticism of risks of disclosure of users' credentials in inherently anonymous-community to the government body that could potentially violate principles of anonymity, causing many to leave the board by the end of 2016. By 2019 it remains among the largest active Russian-speaking imageboards.

420chan

Main article: 420chan

An English-language imageboard based on cannabis culture[32] which was created on 20 April 2005 by Aubrey Cottle. The name is a reference to the larger 4chan[33] and the code term 420 of the cannabis subculture. Its boards include various drug-specific boards,[32] as well as a board featuring a chatbot named Netjester.[34]

4chan

Main article: 4chan

4chan is an English-language imageboard based on the Japanese imageboard Futaba Channel. This imageboard is based primarily upon the posting of pictures (generally related to a wide variety of topics, from anime and popular culture to politics and sports) and their discussion. The Guardian describes it as "at once brilliant, ridiculous and alarming."[35]

The site and its userbase have received attention from the media for a number of reasons, including attacks against Hal Turner on his Internet shows,[36] distributed denial-of-service attacks against eBaum's World,[37][38] taking part in Project Chanology,[39] and multiple cases of anti-animal abuse reports.[40]

Many Internet memes have originated there, including lolcats,[41][42][43] rickrolling, and Pedobear.

8chan

Main article: 8chan

8chan (or Infinitechan) was a primarily English-language imageboard, although it has sub-boards dedicated to other languages. Just like 4chan, 8chan is based on posting pictures and discussion anonymously, but unlike 4chan, 8chan lets its users decide what they want to discuss by allowing any user to create their own board dedicated to any topic, a concept first made popular by news bulletin boards like Reddit. 8chan also claims to have a strong dedication to freedom of speech and allows all content—so long as the discussion and board creation abides by United States law.[44] However, local moderators enforce the rules of their own boards and may delete posts as they see fit. It is currently partnered with the Japanese textboard 2channel.

Futaba Channel

Main article: Futaba Channel

Futaba Channel (ふたば☆ちゃんねる), or "Futaba" for short, is a popular, anonymous BBS and imageboard system based in Japan. Its boards usually do not distinguish between not safe for work and clean content, but there is a strict barrier between two-dimensional (drawn) and three-dimensional (computer graphics (CG) and photographic) pictures that is heavily enforced and debated.[45]

Hispachan

Hispachan was launched in November 2012[46] as a global imageboard for all Spanish-speaking countries. Vice Magazine describes it as "a site for completely anonymous Spanish-language discussion that has proven popular among hackers since its launch in 2012".[47]

In January 2017, a shooting in a school in Monterrey (Mexico) was previously announced on Hispachan.[48]

In June 2019, Vice accused some Hispachan discussions of being "collaborative misogyny".[49]

In May 2022, Hispachan officially announced its closure on Twitter, it was temporarily available for a few days until all of its content was permanently deleted, it is currently known as lolnada.[50]

Karachan

Karachan is the largest Polish imageboard at 20 million posts, founded in 2010. Karachan has received attention from the Polish media after many trolling actions targeting Polish politicians,[51] journalists[52][53][54] and the Pope John Paul II.[55][56][57][58] As of July 2019 the site consists of a (Polish-language) faux page claiming the site is "blocked" due to "invalid content". However, a manual is known to exist, informing how to enter the actual forum and browse its contents.[59] Its name comes from the Polish word karaczan, which means a cockroach, an insect that is used as Karachan's logo.

Krautchan

A primarily German-language imageboard that was founded in 2007.[60] The name is an allusion to the ethnophaulism Kraut for Germans. Unlike most imageboards, posters on Krautchan didn't publish their postings under the generic name "Anonymous". The German name "Bernd" was used instead, and the Krautchan community identified themselves as "Bernds" instead of "Anons". In 2009, after the Winnenden school shooting, the interior minister of Baden-Württemberg cited a post on the imageboard in a press conference that appeared to forewarn of the shooting, but was later found to be fake.[61][62][63] The site also featured a popular English-language board, /int/, which was also the origin of the Polandball internet phenomenon and a number of other popular memes such as Wojak in August the same year. On March 21, 2018, the imageboard was shut down. Two days later the imageboard kohlchan was founded as a replacement.

Wizardchan

Wizardchan is an imageboard primarily dedicated to male incel culture and topics including anime, hobbies, and depression. Users on the depression board often discuss suicide or self-harm, and a controversy emerged in the board's community about whether to refer users to suicide prevention hotlines.[64]

See also

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External links

  • Overscript—a list of imageboard software
  • AllChans - OverChan V.3—a list of imageboards

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This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Imageboard news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information December 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message An imageboard is a type of Internet forum that focuses on the posting of images often alongside text and discussion The first imageboards were created in Japan as an extension of the textboard concept These sites later inspired the creation of a number of English language imageboards Contents 1 Characteristics 1 1 Tripcodes 1 1 1 Secure tripcodes 2 Software 2 1 Futaba Channel clones 2 1 1 Historical 2 1 2 Active 2 2 Danbooru style boards 3 Imageboards 3 1 2ch 3 2 420chan 3 3 4chan 3 4 8chan 3 5 Futaba Channel 3 6 Hispachan 3 7 Karachan 3 8 Krautchan 3 9 Wizardchan 4 See also 5 Citations 6 External linksCharacteristics EditImageboards similar to bulletin board systems are used for discussions of a variety of topics The primary focus of imageboards however is directed away from text posts and is instead placed on picture posts The two share many of the same structures including separate forums for separate topics as well as similar audiences Imageboards are much more transitory with content on some boards especially highly trafficked ones the thread deletion time can be as little as 10 minutes In Japan where imageboards are more common citation needed topics will vary widely ranging from trains to current news The most popular English language imageboard 4chan similarly has a large variety of topics Imageboards are also different from online galleries in that most of the works posted are not made by the poster but instead are taken from other online sources galleries other imageboards and edited pictures Tripcodes Edit A diagram of a typical tripcode derivation process Most imageboards and 2channel style discussion boards allow and encourage anonymous posting and use a system of tripcodes instead of registration A tripcode is the hashed result of a password that allows one s identity to be recognized without storing any data about users Entering a particular password will let one sign one s posts with the tripcode generated from that password Trying to take another user s tripcode and compute their password from it for instance to make posts that appear to come from a particular person is somewhat computationally difficult For those who want a custom tripcode however there are custom tripcode generators which are technically tripcode crackers available such as Meriken s Tripcode Engine 1 and MTY CL 2 In general anonymity is considered to be one of the advantages of an imageboard and some boards have from time to time removed the ability to post with a name altogether known as forced anonymous anonymity Secure tripcodes Edit Due to the fact tripcodes can be cracked given enough time some imageboards such as 4chan and 8chan implement a secure tripcode 3 Such tripcodes are not reproducible across different imageboards they work by prepending a secure salt to the tripcode barring intrusion known only to the server owner 3 They therefore function closer to a username than to a cryptographic signature this is why QAnon could not verify themselves on another website when 8chan went down in late 2019 4 5 6 Software EditThere are two primary types of imageboard software packages in widespread use citation needed linearly directed imageboards modeled closely after Futaba Channel in which content is posted through hierarchical subsections of topical interest usually denoted by a forward slash such as f for female and nonlinear imageboards modeled after Danbooru usually indicated by the usage of controlled folksonomic vocabulary for topical tagging and search Futaba Channel clones Edit There are currently several Futaba inspired imageboard software packages in widespread usage today including Vichan Kusaba Kusaba X and TinyIB 7 Historical Edit Futallaby is a PHP script based on the Futaba script from Futaba Channel Although the Futallaby source is still freely available at 1chan 8 it is no longer in development and the download page recommends using Wakaba instead stating that Wakaba can do everything Futallaby does and so much more Futallaby started as a translation of Futaba later retooled to support XHTML and customizable CSS styles Wakaba is a Perl imageboard script with a SQL backend to store thread information 9 It is designed to be more efficient and cleanly written than other scripts that are available while preserving the same kind of functionality Because of its focus on bare bones functionality Wakaba lacks many of the modern amenities provided by 4chan s Yotsuba and newer imageboard scripts A few users have attempted to remedy this by forking the original project and adding in features they consider beneficial Two FOSS examples of this are frankusr s Wakaba fork 10 and the user experience focused Glaukaba 11 Kusaba was a PHP based modular imageboard software which used MySQL 12 The creator has discontinued the project in favor of developing TinyIB instead 13 Kusaba X was a continuation of Kusaba by a separate developer Like Kusaba Kusaba X was written in PHP and was designed with modularity in mind It requires a MySQL or SQLite database to run Kusaba and its derivatives were at one time some of the most popular imageboard solutions citation needed Kusaba X has been implicitly discontinued as it has not been updated since 2013 and the website is unavailable Tinyboard is a PHP based imageboard script with a MySQL backend 14 It was eventually discontinued and forked into vichan 15 Tinyboard and its forks notably feature extensibility with JavaScript 16 Infinity is a fork of Vichan that allows user board creation It is the basis for 8kun 17 Infinity has been discontinued however it has been forked into OpenIB which remains supported 18 Active Edit Taimaba is 420chan s proprietary continuation of Wakaba overhauling it with many modern features and a public API It is a hybrid Perl and PHP platform as compared to Wakaba s static html output This fork remains in use today however the source has never been released 19 TinyIB is a PHP based imageboard software from the original developer of Kusaba intended to be lightweight and efficient 20 It supports MySQL PostgreSQL SQLite and the lack of a database completely Flatfile Started in 2009 21 it still sees major active development as of 2021 Vichan is a fork of Tinyboard with more features and that receives security patches 22 It officially supports up to PHP 7 0 and though it has security support the development team strongly urges users to consider other imageboard packages due to having next to no active development 22 LainChan is a fork of Vichan intending to actively build on it and add a lot of features and other improvements 23 It supports up to PHP 7 3 24 Lynxchan is an imageboard based on JavaScript and Node js It requires a MongoDB database to run 25 Danbooru style boards Edit Usually referred to as a booru plural boorus Unlike Futaba inspired imageboard software packages Danbooru and derivatives aim for a non hierarchical semantic structure in which users are able to post content and add tags annotations translations artist commentary and comments There are a number of different Danbooru style imageboards both open source and closed source Imageboards EditThis section may contain indiscriminate excessive or irrelevant examples Please improve the article by adding more descriptive text and removing less pertinent examples See Wikipedia s guide to writing better articles for further suggestions February 2023 2ch Edit Main article Dvach Not to be confused with 2channel a Japanese textboard Dvach Russian dvach romanized dvach 26 is a Russian imageboard that replaced 2ch ru imageboard originally known as dvach which was shut down earlier on January 17 2009 it thoroughly copied original layout and was heavily advertised over the internet and managed to succeed the original one in popularity 27 According to its owners number of posts left in the b board exceeded 150 million 28 In September 2016 a pro Russian government organisation clarification needed MAIL RU helped to organize defense against alleged DDOS attacks that took place during the same month events raised concerns and speculations among users who grew suspicious over alleged takeover committed by the mail ru and who criticized the owner s controversial decision to accept help 29 30 31 As of October 2018 It was widely believed that imageboard was simply sold on undisclosed terms to pro government organisation 31 The decision was met with high criticism of risks of disclosure of users credentials in inherently anonymous community to the government body that could potentially violate principles of anonymity causing many to leave the board by the end of 2016 By 2019 it remains among the largest active Russian speaking imageboards 420chan Edit Main article 420chan An English language imageboard based on cannabis culture 32 which was created on 20 April 2005 by Aubrey Cottle The name is a reference to the larger 4chan 33 and the code term 420 of the cannabis subculture Its boards include various drug specific boards 32 as well as a board featuring a chatbot named Netjester 34 4chan Edit Main article 4chan 4chan is an English language imageboard based on the Japanese imageboard Futaba Channel This imageboard is based primarily upon the posting of pictures generally related to a wide variety of topics from anime and popular culture to politics and sports and their discussion The Guardian describes it as at once brilliant ridiculous and alarming 35 The site and its userbase have received attention from the media for a number of reasons including attacks against Hal Turner on his Internet shows 36 distributed denial of service attacks against eBaum s World 37 38 taking part in Project Chanology 39 and multiple cases of anti animal abuse reports 40 Many Internet memes have originated there including lolcats 41 42 43 rickrolling and Pedobear 8chan Edit Main article 8chan 8chan or Infinitechan was a primarily English language imageboard although it has sub boards dedicated to other languages Just like 4chan 8chan is based on posting pictures and discussion anonymously but unlike 4chan 8chan lets its users decide what they want to discuss by allowing any user to create their own board dedicated to any topic a concept first made popular by news bulletin boards like Reddit 8chan also claims to have a strong dedication to freedom of speech and allows all content so long as the discussion and board creation abides by United States law 44 However local moderators enforce the rules of their own boards and may delete posts as they see fit It is currently partnered with the Japanese textboard 2channel Futaba Channel Edit Main article Futaba Channel Futaba Channel ふたば ちゃんねる or Futaba for short is a popular anonymous BBS and imageboard system based in Japan Its boards usually do not distinguish between not safe for work and clean content but there is a strict barrier between two dimensional drawn and three dimensional computer graphics CG and photographic pictures that is heavily enforced and debated 45 Hispachan Edit Hispachan was launched in November 2012 46 as a global imageboard for all Spanish speaking countries Vice Magazine describes it as a site for completely anonymous Spanish language discussion that has proven popular among hackers since its launch in 2012 47 In January 2017 a shooting in a school in Monterrey Mexico was previously announced on Hispachan 48 In June 2019 Vice accused some Hispachan discussions of being collaborative misogyny 49 In May 2022 Hispachan officially announced its closure on Twitter it was temporarily available for a few days until all of its content was permanently deleted it is currently known as lolnada 50 Karachan Edit Karachan is the largest Polish imageboard at 20 million posts founded in 2010 Karachan has received attention from the Polish media after many trolling actions targeting Polish politicians 51 journalists 52 53 54 and the Pope John Paul II 55 56 57 58 As of July 2019 the site consists of a Polish language faux page claiming the site is blocked due to invalid content However a manual is known to exist informing how to enter the actual forum and browse its contents 59 Its name comes from the Polish word karaczan which means a cockroach an insect that is used as Karachan s logo Krautchan Edit A primarily German language imageboard that was founded in 2007 60 The name is an allusion to the ethnophaulism Kraut for Germans Unlike most imageboards posters on Krautchan didn t publish their postings under the generic name Anonymous The German name Bernd was used instead and the Krautchan community identified themselves as Bernds instead of Anons In 2009 after the Winnenden school shooting the interior minister of Baden Wurttemberg cited a post on the imageboard in a press conference that appeared to forewarn of the shooting but was later found to be fake 61 62 63 The site also featured a popular English language board int which was also the origin of the Polandball internet phenomenon and a number of other popular memes such as Wojak in August the same year On March 21 2018 the imageboard was shut down Two days later the imageboard kohlchan was founded as a replacement Wizardchan Edit Wizardchan is an imageboard primarily dedicated to male incel culture and topics including anime hobbies and depression Users on the depression board often discuss suicide or 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