Vichan

Vichan has been flushed down the Skibidi Toiletis deader than the Jartyis OVERhad its corpse eaten by goonhitlersdied alonebecame another Rapeson victimbecame an hero, to take it all away...Cause of Death: 'Leno archived the software. Security vulnerabilities.

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>This repository was archived by the owner on Jul 6, 2026. It is now read-only.

This software is now archived, occuring coincidentally with a large and exploitable flaw that took the Shemmy down. Nusoi might be coming out a bit sooner.

Vichan was an imageboard software, used currently by soyjak.party. Created by a random polak from Tinyboard fork, and written in PHP. The software was once maintained by KolymaNET until its dissolution. Currently, Angeleno and Weav are the maintainers of Vichan.

Quote plans to move soyjak.party to his own in-house version called nusoi, instead written in Go.

Vichan Installation and Setup Guide

Vichan is a lightweight, fast, and highly configurable PHP-based imageboard software. This guide covers the installation process, basic configuration, and upgrade instructions. You VVILL NOT use the below guide, as unless you know every vichan exploit and how to patch them (there are probably a lot), you will get 1337 h4xx0red and possibly have your IP leaked like the Shemmy admins did.

Overview

Vichan is a fork of Tinyboard that aims to provide a user-friendly imageboard solution. It supports PHP 7.4 and later (with PHP 8.1 supported as of August 2022), and works with MySQL/MariaDB. Additional PHP extensions like mbstring, GD, and PDO are required.

Prerequisites

Before installing Vichan, ensure your server meets these requirements:

• Operating System: A Unix-like OS (FreeBSD or GNU/Linux is recommended)
• PHP: Version 7.4 or higher
• Database: MySQL or MariaDB (MySQL/MariaDB >= 5.5.3 is recommended)
• PHP Extensions: mbstring, PHP GD, and PHP PDO
• Optional Tools:
• ImageMagick (for image processing)
• APCu, Memcached, or Redis (for caching)

Installation Steps

Below are the steps to install Vichan:

1. Clone the Repository

Open your terminal and run: git clone git://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan.git

2. Install Dependencies

Navigate to the cloned directory and run Composer to install dependencies: cd vichan composer install

• Note: Make sure you have Composer installed.*

3. Run the Installer

Using your web browser, navigate to: http://your-domain.com/install.php Follow the on-screen prompts to configure your database, site settings, and other options.

4. Set Up the Administrator Account

After the installation, access the moderation panel at: http://your-domain.com/mod.php Log in using the default credentials:

• Username: admin
• Password: password

Immediately change the administrator password after the first login in order to prevent a Captain Coal Attack.

Optional Configurations

• Oekaki Support:

Vichan supports oekaki via wPaint. Initialize and update the submodule by running: git submodule init git submodule update Then, add the scripts listed in js/wpaint.js to your instance-config.php file.

• WebM Support:

For enabling WebM support, refer to the file: inc/lib/webm/README.md

• Docker Setup:

Vichan includes a Dockerfile and a docker-compose configuration. For development or testing using Docker, see the documentation in: docker/doc.md

Upgrading Vichan

To upgrade an existing Vichan installation (or to migrate from Tinyboard):

1. If you used Git, update your files with:

git pull

1. Alternatively, if you did not use Git, back up your inc/instance-config.php, replace the files (ensuring that board data remains intact), restore the configuration file, and run install.php.

Remarkable Default Pages

Vichan includes several pre-built pages that form the core of its functionality. These pages are automatically installed and are essential for both user and moderator interactions:

• install.php – Guides you through the installation and initial configuration of your imageboard.
• mod.php – The moderator control panel for administering the board.
• post.php – Processes new posts and displays them on the board.
• search.php – Enables users to search for content on the imageboard.
• report.php – Allows users to report posts or content that violates board rules.
• banned.php – Displays whether you are banned or not.
• log.php – Provides access to system and moderation logs.
• player.php – Manages media content playback (where applicable).
• securimage.php – Handles CAPTCHA functions to help prevent spam.
• smart_build.php – A command-line tool used for building or managing specific aspects of the board.

Support and Contributions

Vichan was in beta, and if using it, you might encounter bugs and severely exploitable security vulnerabilities.

External links

• Repository

Death

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On July 6, 2026, a lone hacker entered to the Shemmy and entered the mod.php panel, leaking info such as the mod.php account list, the feedback list, the list of all janny notes written, etc etc. This caused the Shemmy to give a Cloudflare "522 Connection timed out" error. The attacker then threated to do the same with other splinters such as the Swinny, causing the Swinny to get temporary shut down due to manteinance and because in response to this they are migrating to other imageboard software. After the incident, Angeleno decided to archive the Vichan repository on Github, leaving a final message on README.md:

>	Vichan has reached its end of life. many of us have lost interest in the project, and the current direction of the internet has not been good for imageboards, whether its ID verification laws, big social media companies killing competition, or Google being hostile towards smaller sites. There are other imageboard engines out there but even if you use them, these are still issues you will need to think about if you start an imageboard or UGC website. You can still install or fork vichan, but do so at your own risk.	<
Angeleno