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>>1069>Part of the site covering related newsWhat you mean by that?

Hey all! Wapchan has for the most part been running fine enough, but the continued issues from lynxchan (mostly to do with captchas and spam) has led me to look into alternative IB software. I wanted to get some community feedback before doing any changes, since I don't think we could migrate the existing posts, but this could help us make a more cohesive site, since the current database has a bunch of boards moved around, in addition to missing image files. Note that I haven't done any sort of theming yet.>jschanThis would be lighter and hopefully less prone to errors, but potentially less customizable.https://gitgud.io/fatchan/jschan>A futaba forkThese have a more "retro" feel, but may be clunky. Here's a few:https://github.com/Heyuri/kokonotsuba/This is the software that runs the main boards on heyuri, with a test instance at https://test.wapchan.org/kokonotsuba/https://github.com/RealAngeleno/futaba-ekiThis is the software that runs on the new world2ch, with a test instance at ttps://test.wapchan.org/futaba-eki/>Vichan or a Vichan forkVichan is old, but it's very reliable. Maybe it's worth exploring?I'll setup some more test instances in due time.

>>1077I like the look of the website as it is, but lynxchan has lots of issues. If you mean clunky in terms of UI, I think thats not a problem as long as you can keep the same feeling. If you mean clunky in terms of use, I think it's fair for you to consider long-term use.I'd like to see, on some of these test instances, some proposed CSS? or how current looks would translate to the new software. I think thats very important for the general feel. My first impression of wapchan came from the nice visuals, before I even used the site!I think we could migrate existing posts manually, maybe to a locked board full of locked threads called "archive" or "old wapchan" or something! Id be happy to volunteer for that, if thats too time consuming for existing site staff, as a one time project to help preserve the history of the site. There are other ways though.As for the captcha, something less generic is better than something harder. ZZZchan.xyz (currently down) had its barely-functioning chess captcha, but despite the frustration some users had with it, there was never any spam while it was on that Ive ever seen. Fundementally I think its because it required a combination of different things that is hard to do even with AI. Recognizing images, figuring out how they mapped to the grid, clicking the grid in the correct pattern. Its way harder to defeat with a bot than what lynxchan has. Maybe look into something like that if the new software also doesnt have a robust enough captcha system?

>>1077I don't know anything about jschan, but kokonotsuba has some very cool features like trip PMs. The most recent vichan fork I'm aware of is the leftypol one, which successfully ported everything over from lynxchan to vichan with scraping rather than touching the old database. I think it's koko that's the slower of the two, but its development is more active as vichan is supposedly a lot of spaghetti code nobody wants to deal with. Although I don't know if koko is any better in that regard, its devs haven't given up on it yet.I would recommend contacting both teams via Heyuri and leftypol, they can probably answer a lot more questions and tell you things you might not even know to ask about.

>>1077Why not take this opportunity to make your own software?

>>701PLEASE NOOO I DON'T WANNA BE A JANNIEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Hey ranchan, I'm willing to be a janny.At least to delete obvious spam and cp.I don't want to be a moderator, I would only like to delete obvious spam and illegal stuff.

>>810That's fine, just send me a message with the same contents as the mod app (All the current mods don't do any event organizing, they're basically jannies)

>>699mitebcoolHow would it work, sending steam gifts or on another or art or what?

>>697renewal script didn't fire, should be fixed

>>921cool now make new ones

Not OP, but here's something crappy I made in around 30 seconds.

>>921>>923>>924Nice stuff. Planning to redo the banner system soon to use webp instead of a mix of webms. pngs and jpegs, as well as make a dedicated banner page to show all the banners currently being used.

I want to make a laserdisc or general older media thread but havent gotten around to it.Maybe someday.

>>689If you were to compare to /a/ and most anime boards one of the main differences is that anime communities are unified around seasonal anime, whereby everyone is watching the same batch of shows all at the same time. With older stuff people are just picking out whatever shows interest them from all of anime history, so there is less chance that if you make a thread about some anime that there will even be anyone to talk to you about it.One thing that used to be done on /m/ was a group watch whereby everyone watched 1 episode of an anime per day or per week and there would be a thread for everyone who partook to discuss it.

The curse of all alt chans, where people spend more time bitching in meta threads than actually talking about things.

I have never made a thread on 4chan, ever before. So I have some questionsCan I make two threads in the same board? Or does previous thread get deleted? Is it possible to make 2 threads in 2 seperate boards?

>>715>Can I make two threads in the same board?Yes>does previous thread get deleted?Threads rarely get deleted unless they're obvious (usually automated) spam>Is it possible to make 2 threads in 2 seperate boards?Yes. More discussion is always appreciated around here. Don't be afraid to make threads!

>>684>literally zero votes on the poll>adds /cor/ anywayNot angry, just disappointed

>>685To be fair the poll was meant to be checkbox style. Didn't see any posts against /cor/ so I felt like it had potential. But that's just me, if it's really unpopular I can remove it.

/cor/ was removed due to lack of interestI'll make working polls in the future.Also, moved this to meta because I put it in ar for some reason

I am redoing the banners to be animated webp files instead of webms. This might break the banners for a bit.

I hope you all had a good Halloween. Unfortunately I have been far busier than expected for a while now (and have to makeup some work and exams this week), so I haven't had a lot of time to do stuff around here, but as always if any of you have ideas to improve the site I'd appreciate them.

>>629For some reason, the daemon keeps crashing after a while, and the logs directory wasn't properly setup, so I've fixed that. I'll check on it tomorrow and try to figure what's been going on.

>>630I don't know if you've gotten around to it yet today, but it's back up!

>>630>>631Just noticed this, but the last 5 songs list on wapchan itself isn't updating.

>>632fixed

Funny, seeing this thread makes me wonder if it would be possible to browse Wapchan on a Dreamcast?

ranchan please code a web browser for my famicom and make wapchan work on it k thx bye ^_^

>>613https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9gbIZY1WY4lol

>>612It's probably gonna take a while to get fully functional, but if what I have planned works it should be able toHere's the plan>Server side program that takes the JSON data from LynxChan and renders HTML4 pages with minimal Javascript accessable with plan http>Images will be heavily compressed

This is good. I like this.