Imageboard

>Though maybe you were looking for the list of imageboards?

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Screenshot from an imageboard

Imageboards are a species of website invented by some basement dwelling jap in the 90's. The premise is that all posts on an imageboard are anonymous and eventually fall off the last page resulting in its deletion. There are no accounts nor any need to use a username in order to post (but you can still namefag).

Imageboard Engines

Comprehensive list: https://overscript.net

Futaba and derivatives

The open source imageboard script of the Futaba Channel, based on the 1999 GazouBBS. Would later be forked as Futallaby, which would become the base of 4chan's Yotsuba engine and TinyIB. Futaba is Japanese for "two leaves."

Yotsuba engine

(((Closed source))) Open source imageboard engine used by 4chan, meaning "four leaves" in Japanese, its name of course deriving from Futaba. Kinda shit due to lack of features that are more common in other engines, i.e. being able to post more than one image and being able to post images from your clipboard, and also because the code has not been upgraded since 2016 o algo. However it becomes pretty gemmy if you install 4chan-XT and optionally Onee-Chan. A fork by a soyteen is here if you want it. Now patched and upgraded to work with PHP 8. Both Yotsuba and OpenYotsuba are really annoying to get working doe.

TinyIB

A small open-source imageboard. A very basic script, but easy to set up.

Vichan

One of the most popular imageboard engines as of 2022, open-source and used by soyjak.party along with many others. Good functionality and utility, good layout for posting so typing doesn't feel so cramped, and fewer bugs. Works best without captcha. On March 24, 2023, the ownership of Vichan's GitHub repository was transferred to a GitHub organization with 3 members, one of whom was Kuz. Him, Angeleno and a random /g/tard called BasedGentoo are now the maintainers of the project. As of July 6th, it has now been archived to security vulnerabilities.

Infinity Next

Outdated trash. Known for glitches, lag, and captchas breaking mid-post (this happens often). Written by Null and originally intended for 8chan but is now open-source.

Lynxchan

A modern imageboard engine, quite easy automatic install, used on KOHLCHAN and few other imageboards. Can be extensible but lacks a search feature and requires JavaScript to be enabled to be able to post.

jschan

An engine with a similar look and feel to Lynxchan. Unlike Lynxchan, does not require separate frontend installation. Apparently what Quote recommends ^{[apparently xe said it on the discord irc]}. Notable in the Soysphere for being used on the Jarty.

Nanochan

A decent privacy focused engine, Javascript isn't required to post. Popular with a few darknet altchans. Had some imageboard virgin drama associated with it but who the fuck cares. Use picochan or lambdaplusjs (lambdaplusjs is lolipedo dnb of a site and their captcha is pure aids but it's the only currently updated no js engine) alternatively. Open-source of course.

Kokonotsuba

Open source imageboard software developed by KolymaNET and used on their imageboards. It supports rare features like TripMail, built-in emoticons, a dating feature, gemvoting, and some others.. It's based on some oldfag chink software which itself was based from an oldfag gook software (it was made for Heyuri so xhey made it from oldfag shit). It was released to the public in 2023, had been proprietary prior to this. Named in the spirit of KolymaNET's site 9chan (9channel was likely just a made up imageboard to make carter seem like an oldfag thoughbeit), as ここの (kokono) is the less-common but native Japanese word for 9.

SootEngine 2.0

Rumored hidden work-in-progress imageboard software which is built specifically to maximize datamining potential. Allegedly requires a credit card, SSN, passport, biometric face ID, fingerprint, dna swab, mind-reader chip, and signature reader to post. Soot apparently led the development of this until Quote took over the project as xe datamines better. Now officially rebranded as Quotechan, it got rebranded again to nusoi. Most likely will never be released since Quote handed over the sharty to Salt.

Cooldown

Cooldowns are features that block you from repeating an action until some timer elapses. Most imageboards have cooldowns to some degree, making spam much more difficult.

Cooldowns on the Party

Action	Cooldown	Message	Notes
Replying	10 seconds	Flood detected; Post discarded.	Nusoi (imageboard software) will shorten this[it just will, ok?]
Posting	~1 minute	You are posting too fast. Please wait a while before making another thread.	There is also an hourly limit
Supersaging	~2-3 minutes	[Turns into regular sage]	This would be good if the feature was useful and actually moved threads down