No.443
We just gotta share it around, pre-2000s threads on /a/ seem to be the best place for it so far. I imagine current users just need to keep up posting in general, even for small random things like updates on what you're watching and reviews of things. People don't stay around if there's no activity but if there's something to talk about, people will wanna stay and chat.
No.445
Spreading around the word of Wapchan obviously, users don't spawn out of void. Such things like getting more traffic take time so both staff and users should be patient about it as well
No.448
I found this site through /kind/
No.449
>>448I hope more do as well, you folks are the best.
No.450
I think I heard about you guys on /v/ or /vr/, I can't remember which. This place is really nice even though I don't watch a lot of anime. Whoever does the 24/7 stream is cool since that's how I've been catching up on UY.
No.451
By finding some more affiliates that aren't cancerous.
No.452
>>451You have any suggestions?
No.544
>>540>attract people who get bannedBased, can't wait for wapchan to be full of shitposters!
Joking aside, if the mods do go out of control on 4chinpo this place could see a lot more traffic which is both a good and bad thing. I'll try and share it round more when given the chance just to let more people know about it, although I'm weary of /v/ nostalgia threads for posting since it's /v/ but might give it a shot if one comes around.
>I just got an unfair 3 day ban for some greentext post on /v/ I never made, and I almost never browse that board unless it’s some game event. Mods be mods I guessDo you have a dynamic IP? I remember a few years ago I reset my router and tried to post and noticed I was somehow banned for posting CP back in 2018 and had a mini heart attack because I never did that shit. Then I remembered I had a dynamic IP and just reset the router again and was fine. First and only time that's happened to me, but still a good thing to remember.
No.547
>>545>Also I’d hold off on /v/ nostalgiaYeah, it was just something that came to mind that even I was weary about. Just shooting off ideas anyhow.
>/vr/ is a thing and once they started allowing 2000 era games the quality sort of went down a bit but it’s still not nearly as badHah, don't have to tell me twice. I predicted that shit back when people were begging for it after Dreamcast got it (well, more around 2017/18 when the decline of 4chan was much more apparent) since all the reasoning for people wanting it on /vr/ was "I don't want to talk about it on /v/" which just made me think they were underb& (or close to) wanting to talk about their childhood on /vr/ instead of retro games, and thus bring the overall quality of the board down, which they did.
I've sent this place to a few friends I know online who are into retro anime/vidya, but I doubt they've even looked at it much since they're not big channers so an altchan probably wouldn't be that interesting to them.
>Also here’s some manabe stuff manThanks. Never heard of him before but Outlanders sounds like a cool OVA, will give it a watch/read when I get the time. In return, have an OVA that is basically Terminator, really liked it when I watched it even if it's really slow for the first half.
No.551
>>550>joji manabeHe made ginga sengoku rai which aired in my country in arabic. anyway most of us are zoomers that bandwaggon on the old anime train to look cool and even the most obssessed anime fans nowadays barely know the name of anime creators
No.552
just gonna give some replies
>>540not surprised, mod quality has gone down there. all /m/ bros are welcome (though id like to have this board not be seen as just a "side site", that's understandably difficult but something im slowing working towards)
>>544the site itself can definitely handle a high amount of traffic, even with no cdn (a deliberate choice, seeing all the cloudflarr issues recently)
the bigger issue of course is moderation on here, since im not always available to clean up spam and whatnot, but if we can get a few more reliable staff members who care enough to keep this place tidy, i think it'll work out fine.
best method at least for me to change my dynamic ip is to set a fake mac address on my router
>>545i know /v/ is a mess (never really went there much myself except for the occasional /v/an) but i have no issues with hosting /v/ or /vr/ content though id might want to do something slightly different since im trying to keep the board ideas themselves mostly original. a lot of old otaku favorites seem to be pretty underrated these days becides a few that have stuck in the public consciousness to this day (lupin, UY, etc), which is kinda what /ar/ is all about, giving more attention to these kinds of works
>>547>not big channersthat's something im trying to work on, making this place more normie friendly without it being at the expense of the imageboard format. if anyone has ideas on how that could be achieved that would be much appreciated, im working on personal projects that would link back to this site but at the end of the day (i've said this before) i want this place to feel like a mostly anonymous forum rather than the usual imageboard.
>>550ive heard of him but haven't read/seen any of his works. what would be a good starting point?
>>551i think it's tough for a lot of people these days to be subtle about what they like when it comes to anime imo, but that's something i have to work on myself since im pretty much in the other extreme where i know a lot about older anime but never really talk about it even to people i know who like anime because they just talk about seasonal stuff i haven't seen. probably should watch some newer stuff myself just to get a better perspective. maybe buy a few more /ar/core shirts even if pretty much no one would recognize them (have some bootleg lum shirts i got off redbubble a while back)
tldr: appreciate the feedback and suggestions. keep spreading the word since that's how we're gonna make this place thrive. happy summer!
No.554
>>540/m/ is fine in my opinion. It's really the only media board that isn't infested with shitposters and /pol/tards. However, I also agree with ranchan that mod quality has dropped for pretty much all of 4chan.
No.555
>>550>Wait, you mean to tell me you’ve a retro anime/manga fan and never heard of the works of joji manabe?Personally, I'm bad with names and remember only a few that I really like, but I actually haven't heard of Manabe despite knowing a few of his works now that I look them up. It happens I guess. I can sometimes name a bunch work by the same creator but can't name the creator since I really don't remember them much.
>>552>(though id like to have this board not be seen as just a "side site", that's understandably difficult but something im slowing working towards)Once there's a lot more traffic, I imagine people would be willing to stay here to discuss things more and more. I always keep a tab open and refresh this site around 5-10 times a day if possible for any posts. To me, even 4chan has side boards that I'll browse and post on and then come back to in a day or two to check up on because the board is so slow. If we had around 20-30 posts a day or something, I imagine people would wanna use the site a lot more, just need to wait for more users.
>that's something im trying to work on, making this place more normie friendly without it being at the expense of the imageboard formatWill be difficult, but I imagine if people figure out the general feel of the board they'll either adapt or leave. I doubt people would wanna shit up a slow board like this and like minded people will want to come here, so so far it's been going great, just slow. More people will mean more shitposting and dumbass opinions, but I think we can live with it if the majority remain levelheaded.
>i have to work on myself since im pretty much in the other extreme where i know a lot about older anime but never really talk about it even to people i know who like anime because they just talk about seasonal stuff i haven't seen. probably should watch some newer stuff myself just to get a better perspective.Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I watch a bunch of older show but barely watch currently airing stuff and if I do it's always somehow the things that aren't that popular and are things I read the synopsis of thought were funny or interesting. Although, this season all I've watched are Tomodatchi Game and soon Paripi Koumei which I believe are relatively popular.
>keep spreading the word since that's how we're gonna make this place thrive.Already posted in a /vr/ thread to help out a bit, hopefully there might be some anon's who'll find it interesting and not report me for advertising ;_;
No.557
Hello everyone, I'm from 4 /vr/ and I have to say I love this site so far.
>rule 3
Thank you so much for this, I'm so tired of this crap.
All I want is having fun while talking about nerd / wap stuff with my fellow anons.
As for advertising this site on 4chan, I suggest doing so only in a few selected threads and NOT to post on /v/ at all.
Like others mentioned already, even /vr/ turned to shit, but /v/ is on a completely different lvl, shitposter wise, you don't want these guys here.
Don't force things, give it some time.
Help the site grow by making quality threads and posts.
No.558
>>557Oh cool, glad my post on /vr/ was able to grab the attention of a poster or two. Hope you enjoy it, anon.
I should really try and post in some threads every day just to keep activity going.
No.564
*cricket noises*
No.566
>>565Introducing 6th gen was a mistake, my friend.
No.585
Simply by mentioning it more in other places. There are many people fed up with 4chan and other imageboards quality as of late, looking for a place exactly like this. We spread knowledge of its existence, we gain more users, simple.
No.587
I think we should try to post a bit more as well, going one day without activity of any kind (beyond a spambot) makes this place feel a little dull. If we had like 3-5 posts per day it could bring some more activity here, we usually get one from what I see. I try to post as well but also try to create longer posts that usually take some time and can only spare a few minutes a day right now.
No.589
>>587You have to keep the right balance though.
Less posts but good quality => can make the board seem dead.
More posts but less quality => makes the board look like shit
Like, I could comment on things I don't know much about, but that doesn't help anyone.
I personally expected /clv/ to be more active though, considering the retro rule doesn't apply there and you can talk about whatever.
No.591
>>589I guess, although I doubt a post or three a day would really hurt the quality of the board if they're around two sentences on the given subject.
>I personally expected /clv/ to be more active though, considering the retro rule doesn't apply there and you can talk about whatever.Yeah, I was thinking of making a thread there just to ask what all the anon's are doing in their lives but never got around to it. Should probably do it today with random updates on my own life.
No.592
>>585Pretty much this.
>>589I think it would be a long way to go before the board looks like shit. There's probably a lot of topics on here many people don't know much about, but even just giving their two cents may invite them to learn more about it.
I should probably clarify the state of the boards more, since there isn't really a "retro rule", just general guidelines for 3 of the boards (for example modern content that is retro styled is allowed). I might eventually make more non retro boards for subjects like tech, music, games, and OC, since the current selection is somewhat limiting.
No.593
>>592> I might eventually make more non retro boards for subjects like tech, music, games, and OC, since the current selection is somewhat limiting.I came from /vr/ so I would like a games board, but I'm not seeing enough demand to justify it as of now.
No.598
>>597Speaking of the spambots, is there a way to add some kind of filter that could delete and ban anyone who tries to post with their name and subject matter being the same thing?
It's the most common form of spambot post from what I see.
No.622
>>621>I got banned AGAIN for another post I never made this time from /vg/It's probably someone in your IP range. Used to happen to me all the time with a previous ISP I had, I'd get someone else's /vg/ shitposts and even an /a/ rangeban that weren't mine.
No.623
>>622It’s fine, again it’s always alright to take breaks from the site here and there
No.634
>>6214chan is no fun allowed now. I came here because I’m annoyed of /a/ being only generals and soyjak spam. I got banned for off topic when I made a discussion about anime a couple times too, mods there are insane.
No.642
>>641>-All images on the board are automatically spoileredSounds like a disaster. Just keeping the images from being shown on the home page would be fine, otherwise it's like playing russian roulette with giant futa cocks instead of a revolver.
No.643
>>642Lewds bring in views
The idea isn't ideal but at least more people would visit and post, hopefully they'd migrate and post on the other boards as well
The biggest issue would be bad actors who'd want to hurt the site and not follow the rules hence why I suggested the third line
No.644
>>643>Lewds bring in viewsDo they? I've never really bothered with porn boards myself. I might use it if one was made though.
>hence why I suggested the third lineI think the third line is pretty good for any anime-centric board. Though maybe taking it easy with the temp bans, only handing them out if it's just a one off poster or a persistent sperg. Simply deleting should be fine for the most part.
No.646
>>643I agree with
>>644 that I don't think they really bring as many views as you'd think. 4chan's porn boards don't seem any more popular than any other board, and even if they do bring more people I don't think they'd be the type of people we would want here.
I'd be fine with spoilered NSFW stuff that's relevant to discussion of a retro anime/manga, but a porn board would be a bad idea. There's plenty of sites for that stuff already.
No.647
>>641I'm gonna be honest - I have no desire to make a hentai board. I don't really want to heavily associate this site with degen esque stuff, and trying to moderate that with the tiny staff we have would be a nightmare. As
>>646 said, there are many other sites more than willing to host that sort of content. The spoilered NSFW policy has served us well, and there's no need to change it.
>Lewds bring in viewsThey probably do, but i'd rather have more high quality discussion threads than literal circlejerks.
No.648
>>647Absolutely , and we all know the fate of every altchan that ends up making a hentai board, it all goes downhill very quickly and I’m glad you’re not caving in and making the same mistakes from happening
No.649
I would post more if others did so too.
Felt like a schizo talking to myself on /clv/ lol
No.650
>>649Honestly, I agree. I feel most users should at the very least give this place one post a day, make it seem like there's a decent amount of posting around here.
I feel wapchan might suffer from a limit of things to talk about as time goes on, but it's really hard to say. It's still pretty small and /vr/ doesn't have this problem but at the same time they introduced 5th and 6th gen into their board over the years (well one day for 5th gen) so who knows if they would've reached that point.
No.652
>>651If you make another poll I suggest including a retro game board as I saw some gaming related posts and know that some anons post on 4/vr/
No.658
I just found out about this website the other day from a CRT thread on /g/, It seems like the best way to increase poster count is by spreading word to other image boards that share interests with this one. Though I'm sure that has already bee mentioned in this thread.
No.660
>>442This is probably just a me thing, but the text style and the all black backgrounds are kind of hard on my eyes. I find regular 4chan easier to look at and it's one of the reasons I only pop in once in a while. I have no idea if that would help overall though.
No.661
>>660There are other themes. Click the box with Wapfriends, and you'll see your options.
No.663
>>660>>661I realized this wasn't very obvious, so I added "style" next to it.
No.664
>>661>>663That's more spoon feeding than I deserve. Thanks.
No.707
>>442Maybe a board for discussing tv shows and movies pre-2010/00 will help?
No.709
>>708> so I'm thinking about giving some of the boards lower bump/time limits.what's the current bump limit? is there any limit to the number of threads possible in a single board? I assumes it's the same for every board.
Also, why isn't time and date of posting shown like other chans?
No.710
>>708> I see about people being turned off around here is them seeing really old threadsDon't do this you are not fixing any problem just making it worse. There's no reason to push threads that still had potential for a dicsussion to an archive. People are not put off by old threads but rather by inactivity.
No.711
>>709>what's the current bump limit?500
>is there any limit to the number of threads possible in a single board?Currently not really (it's also set at 500)
>Also, why isn't time and date of posting shown like other chans?This was a holdover from the old mobile theme of the site. I changed the CSS to show the full date always, so you might have to force refresh.
>>710>People are not put off by old threads but rather by inactivity.I know... It's just tough because people have been asking about how we're gonna get more users for a while now, so idk what to do really besides wait and maybe do some more cytube streams of old anime like we did in the past.
No.712
>>711All I am saying is that haphazrd solutions like sending a thread with 20 posts to an archive don't address the issue and may do more harm than good.
I have no solution to the inactivity problem but I know that definitely isn't it.
No.717
I didn't come here for a while, like 1-2 months, as I was busy.
I don't know what to say, not sure if there is a solution for this problem.
Most people are tired of the shitty moderation on 4chan, so you would think "altchans" would thrive, but they don't.
When I was looking for sites where I could discuss video games in a reasonable manner, I found many dead forums, like threads about new releases getting 1-2 posts a week.
People don't want that, they go to the sites where they get a hundred replies on the same day at the cost of having hordes of idiots posting there, like 4chan, Twitter and Reddit etc. if you press f5 and there isn't a new reply the place is dead to them I guess.
This place is nice, like I can't name anything I dislike about wapchan, it's just too hard to get traffic on smaller sites like this these days.
People here usually post in good faith when they reply, what they post just doesn't spark an interesting discussion, like if everyone is in agreement that show X is good well then there is nothing to discuss most of the time.
Not that I want people to make b8 threads, but with more people more (also controverse) opinions and stuff gets posted and it becomes more interesting.
But yeah no idea how to attract people like that without getting a lot of idiots as well, I guess being a retro and slow board filters a lot of those for now but that might change if we advertise this place in the wrong places.
No.718
>>717>I didn't come here for a while, like 1-2 months, as I was busy.No problem, I've was pretty busy myself over this past month.
There isn't really a direct solution to all of this, at least in terms of what I can do from my end.
>People don't want that, they go to the sites where they get a hundred replies on the same day at the cost of having hordes of idiots posting there, like 4chan, Twitter and Reddit etc. if you press f5 and there isn't a new reply the place is dead to them I guess.It's too bad, since I've read "I'd post on wapchan if there was more activity" quite a bit.
>This place is nice, like I can't name anything I dislike about wapchan, it's just too hard to get traffic on smaller sites like this these days.Thanks. I always knew this site was going to be quite niche making it, and getting traffic wasn't gonna be easy. With how centralized the net is now many people arent really comfortable posting outside of mainstream sites, including 4chan.
>Not that I want people to make b8 threads, but with more people more (also controverse) opinions and stuff gets posted and it becomes more interesting.I don't even mind bait, but I think part of this is the fact that most of the people posting around here have probably been around the block enough to form actually decent opinions unlike the seasonal posters on /a/.
>But yeah no idea how to attract people like that without getting a lot of idiots as well, I guess being a retro and slow board filters a lot of those for now but that might change if we advertise this place in the wrong places.I wouldn't want that to happen. While /pol/ boards do get a lot of traffic, I don't agree with the vast majority of those kinds of opinions, and I also don't want to host yet another political hellhole on the modern web.
Truthfully, I don't mind the way things are going. This is still one of the few places where you can discuss niche shows without shoving them into a pre 2000s thread. I've floated the idea of giving this site some related social media (mostly on twitter) just to help promote it, since we've probably dried up the well of /a/ by this point. I think focusing on making this site feel unified and having a distinct culture is what we should focus on, since that's what I've always tried to do with wapchan - make it feel like one site that happens to have multiple discussion topics rather than independent boards that just happen to share a site, considering that's what a lot of imageboards are like (especially infinity style ones). I'd personally like to have more ways for the "community" to stay engaged as well, since that's what was always nice about the old web - just little independent communities doing their own thing. (back in the day my favorite fourm was j2 -
https://web.archive.org/web/20110726113955/http://www.joe.to/ )
Really, we just need to keep posters engaged more, and then start running OC contests or other similar events to give this place more of a culture of its own
No.728
Got banned from 4chins again for mentioning wapchan.
Getting tired of that crap
No.729
>>718Don't worry about seeing results right away. I think Wapchan is slowly growing.
No.730
>>728Yeah, same happened to me, too. I think we have one sour janny on the lose in 4chan's /lum/.
No.732
>>729I've been here for a couple of months and I too have noticed it's growth in just that short amount of time.
No.735
>>733I try to mention it when it'd be worth mentioning, so if an anon on /a/ or /vr/ starts talking about wanting a place to talk about old stuff I drop it.
I haven't been banned either but I've only mentioned it around 2-3 times.
No.778
>>777Kek
Might be worth sticking around this time, the post notify feature is pretty neat
No.779
>>778Yeah I noticed that new feature, pretty useful for smaller sites, even plus4chan has something similar which is the other place I go to once under the circumstances i somehow get banned for whatever reason or keeping up with the local 4chan based tournaments like mr /co/ or the recently concluded king /v/
No.801
>>788Slow is good and comfy. This place reminds me of IIchan before it was shut down. All it needs are a few more boards and it'll be perfect. 4chan grew to a point where it's not comfy anymore and is filled with shitposters obsessing over politics. I don't want to see a nice comfy place like this turn into another version of that, even if it might need some more users.
No.803
>>801What kind of boards were you thinking?
No.804
>>803Maybe something like IIchan's old Scenic board, for comfy landscapes and ruins. I miss that board.
As for anything else, I'm not sure since the admin doesn't want anything lewd and seems to want to keep the retro aspect (which is understandable).
No.805
>>803not anon, but a /lit/ board would be nice, maybe even an art board.
Also keeping the site mostly sfw should be a thing. We really don't need coomers here. They tend to ruin threads all the time.
No.808
I would like a technology board.
A retro only tech board would probably be dead so I guess a general tech board would be better.
No.816
I think an RSS feed would be good. The telegram bot is behind a few days and the rest of the post notifs I don't use...
RSS feeds or other post notifs are a god send for slower chans.
No.817
>>816There actually are RSS feeds for each board as well as the overboard (it's a feature of the engine I forgot about). I'll add links to this on the main site in a few days but you can access them at
https://wapchan.org/[board name]/index.rss , or for all boards at once
https://wapchan.org/overboard/index.rssThe post notif bot is broken rn and I won't have access to fix it for a few more days.
No.818
>>817Nice, thank you! I will do my best to post a little when I can. I always liked smaller chans but it was hard for me to keep track of activity so this RSS feed could make me come back a lot more.
No.819
>>808Even if it is a slow board, it could potentially be used to discuss retro PCs, great software from the past that are still relevant, and even some retro desktop themes.
But maybe it is just me here dreaming of making comfy win2k (virtual) system to run AutoCad 2000, Office XP, Corel Draw while listening to Winamp 2.x.
No.840
>>839The site's in a bit of a limbo right now (mostly becaue I haven't had the time needed to roll out a bunch of changes), but I think we'll recover. I've proposed ideas for more site publicity before (like a social media presence or more collaboration with other retro anime communities), but starting in late May I should finally have the time to roll out these changes (though I might have time to do some of them beforehand)
>New UI>Revamped boards>Proper regex spam filter>TF2 Server>Fixed post notif bot (one that has a spam filter built in)I have further ideas but these ones being implemented should go a long way towards site growth. I should also have time to finally restart doing my own retro anime youtube videos on a more consistent schedule, which could help with site growth as well.
No.848
>>847No particular reason why we don't have that board besides no one asking for it.
Good idea though, i've always thought that era had some real cozy pc games.
No.849
>>839I'm new to this board.
I'll try to contribute something, now it's late and my processing unit demands downtime.
No.1265
figured i'd revive this thread, now that the pizza problem has seemingly been solved...
we gotta get more people on here!!!
No.1266
>>1265I think blocking VPNs will turn more users away than seeing CP spam occasionally on a site that allows 2D lolis which already scares away most anti-pedos (I'm not saying all lolicons=pedos, that's just how most people see it). Most VPN users aren't going to go to the trouble of using tor or turning off their VPN just for this site. Instead, why not appoint a bunch of jannies who are only allowed to remove CP? Worst case scenario is an assclown deleting a bunch of threads, is there a way to restore deleted threads/posts?
No.1267
>>1266>blocking VPNsmullvad is allowed though, which is a pretty big one and one of the better ones imo (t. mullvad user)
>turn away more usersMost IB newfags are gonna be riding the internet bareback anyway, and I think it's reasonable to expect most experienced imageboard people to have the necessary tech literacy to know how to use TOR. I'm willing to bet, among the population of oldfags scattered across every altchan, that most of them already have it set up anyway.
No.1268
>>1266nah the vpn block does nothing to me, but seeing CP spam makes me think about if this site is worth or not
No.1269
>>1267I would never pay money for something I can get for free, the only reason I'm still here is because I found a newer server of the free VPN I use that isn't blocked (yet). I have tor browser installed but it's slow, not just the connection but the extreme anti-fingerprinting measures make it feel as if it's only running on 1 processor thread or something so some webpages freeze the whole browser, and a lot of sites block tor but don't block VPNs. I'm not going to take the time to boot up tor browser specifically for this small imageboard when there are several others like heyuri, hikari3 and prolikewoah that are so similar. All imageboards get CP spam and they just deal with it by deleting it.
No.1270
>>1269>free VPN I usea warning from a cybersec professional, anon: you get what you pay for
>I have tor browser installed but it's slowOf course its slow, its routing you through 3 proxies.
>extreme anti-fingerprinting measuresyou mean making the browser generic by default? thats not affecting your speed
>it's only running on 1 processor threadmost applications are, in fact, not multi threaded at all. Very few take full advantage of multithreading, and the ones that do multithread usually do so in a very cautious and controlled manner at the cost of some overhead. This is because, in terms of design, it can be extremely complicated to manage.
>a lot of sites block torthats because you are using TOR where you should be using a regular browser with a VPN, or otherwise visiting websites you should be avoiding.
>but don't block VPNsbecause it's harder since not all VPNs declare their server IPs publically, so theres no readily available list. You are also not anonymous when using a VPN, so illicit activity isnt as much of a concern.
>I'm not going to take the time to boot up tor browserBut your posting now, so I can only assume you are now riding the internet bareback. Continue at your own peril, I suppose, but if your gonna be lazy why is that anyone else's fault?
>All imageboards get CP spamNot big ones like futaba and halfchan, and also not wapchan anymore :D
>>1268>but seeing CP spam makes me think about if this site is worthif your concerned about risk to yourself, just clear your cache whenever you see it and you will be completely fine. if you are concerned with the sites' policy, I think its aggressively clear that the site staff are doing their best to stop it completely (and have thus far succeeded), and if you are concerned that the site will get taken down then fear no longer because its been stopped.
Also it should be pretty obvious to everyone that the spam glows, or is otherwise specifically to try to bring down the website. Possibly both. Its a common tactic of psychos like patch (God bless you if you havent heard of him) to spam sites with gross-out and illegal material and then self report to the DNR for the site.
No.1271
>>12701268 here, it's literally just because it makes the site look skeevy even though it's against policy and it gets taken down frequently
the vpn ban imo is worth if it means no more cp on the site
No.1272
>>1271Thats not an unfair evaluation, but it happens on most altchans. In fact, its sort of the point, the goal is to damage the website. Real criminals dont advertise cheese pizza operations on random clearnet websites, which is why I say it glows hard. You shouldnt hold it against small websites like this when you see it, at least not when they try their best to mitigate it. It's trivial for an attacker to analyze habits for when a mod team is sleeping, or busy at their day job, so its normal for small websites to have spam like that up for awhile when its posted. In that respect, this website is actually really, really responsive for its size.
The VPN ban seems effective so far, but there are additional options if the spammer does eventually notice and try to get around it somehow. At a minimum, the attacker isnt actively watching this site, because figamin announced that mullvad works but we havent seen a switch to using that VPN for days.
No.1273
>>1266>why not appoint a bunch of jannies who are only allowed to remove CP?surprisingly, most people don't want to spend their time cleaning up pictures of naked children. there's a reason the feds who have to sort through CP images in court cases get PTSD. no one should have to see that. many others have pointed this out as well but every second this site hosts illegal material is a second the provider could take it down or report me to the feds. this already happened once before.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221115204635/https://wapchan.org/if you have serious issue where you have to use a specific VPN you can contact me but the fact is not having to worry about CP shit being posted all the time gives me and the other jannies peace of mind.
>is there a way to restore deleted threads and poststechnically yes, but it would be far easier for me to just restore a database backup.
let's face the facts - people aren't going to want to use a site regularly when it's a site where you have a decent chance of seeing naked children on, and they certainly won't recommend it to others. the firewall works - you can check other altchans at
https://xj9k.neocities.org/ and see that wapchan has avoided the latest rounds. I'd rather sacrifice a few VPN but non TOR direhards if it means the site's future is secure and people outside the IBsphere might actually use it
No.1274
>>1270My point with the browser freezing issue is that it doesn't happen in other Firefox forks like LibreWolf, it's specifically a tor browser problem.
>I can only assume you are now riding the internet barebackHow did you manage to quote "free VPN I use" without reading the rest of that sentence? I found a server that isn't blocked for now but most of my VPN's servers are blocked.
>if your gonna be lazy why is that anyone else's fault?I'm just saying if you want more traffic this VPN block is the opposite of the way to do it because most people including oldfags are lazy. When a site I'm only mildly interested in checking out is blocking VPNs I just leave.
No.1275
>>1273well for now I know of a free VPN server that works so if you could just not update the blocklist then it's fine.
No.1276
>>1274>most people including oldfags are lazytor is low effort, unironically
>I found a server that isn't blocked for nowI was giving you the benefit of the doubt that you werent completely retarded, actually
>is the opposite of the way to do itIt has accomplished its goal and activity has, if anything, increased.
>>1275figamin should nuke every subnet the spam comes from indiscriminately imo. He should also block AWS and all fed IPs while he is at it. Your free VPN is free because you are the product. You are not anonymous.
No.1277
>>1276I don't use a VPN to be anonymous I use it to evade bans. You should be grateful that I don't use tor to shitpost, if I did then more altchans would ban tor.
No.1279
>>1277how the fuck are you getting banned
actually wait no never mind you're the kind of person that evades bans, obv you get banned
No.1280
>>1279Every community has their own nonsensical dogma, vices and boogeymen and it's fun to poke those weak spots. The more butthurt the reaction from jannies, the more I must poke. Prolikewoah /animu/'s unique strategy of just leaving my shitposts up and not banning me is impressive so to reward jannies for good behavior I rarely shitpost there.
No.1282
Well now that we're past that argument, let's come up with actual ideas.
I think we should start doing game nights and streams again. Also more OC contests in general, this site's got kind of a weak OC tradition
No.1283
>>1282Would it be possible to do a movie night? or stream some anime or something? IDK how that would jive with copyright
>>840>TF2 Serversounds like an organic way to get some more users. people would join off the community server list and then find out about the website through that. the same could be done with other older valve games/other games that support community servers, like counter strike or gmod, though I dont really play either.
OC would be cool. Maybe a general showcase rather than just a competition, and expand the scope to things other than just digital art. DIY projects, software, cool knowledge a wapnon wants to share. Maybe we could make a zine like what lainzine is but more in the vein of what wapchan is about, or just more varied in general.
A QOTD thread might help get the ball rolling on conversation? Or threads for new releases of manga which are relevant to the site's theme (older stuff thats still running, for example) which include dumps for the latest chapter. The idea in the discord was also floated to host videos on a dedicated board, which I think is worth reiterating.
No.1284
>>1283PS, I bring up lainzine because I actually found out about it just searching for pictures of lain. Maybe calling it lumzine and featuring pictures of lum on the cover will attract fans in a similar way to discussion on
>>>/lum/ No.1285
>>1283>IDK how that would jive with copyrightCaracal.club doesn't care, I've watched anime streams there recently. Not sure about CyTube, but I don't remember it being a problem last time when Space Cobra/Rock&Roll Kids/Miyuki were airing.
No.1286
>>1283I need a better computer (soon) but I would be glad to stream some stuff whenever I'm free in the future.
No.1287
lets make cool new banners
No.1501
>>1499Update, it might’ve been another dynamic IP ban over a post that was extremely low quality, didn’t show specifically what it was but it doesn’t matter now. Kinda shows how much well behaved I am if most of my bans were unintentional dynamic ip ones lol
No.1502
>>1500Oh lol you just posted the same time as I did. Yeah I usually pop by here and there
No.1503
>>1502I'll try and hang out in the IRC more once I get my bouncer fixed. I know not everyone's clamoring to use discord after all.
No.1507
>>442The lack of traffic makes me reluctant to post. This place is slower than 4-ch.
No.1510
>>1507The only way this place gets any activity is if someone gets into a fight over a stupid topic.
No.1518
>>1510This. There are so many dead threads on this site. People only respond to controversy and stupidity but then complain about site traffic. Might as well go back to 4chan.
No.1520
>>1518Working on a substantial site rewrite.
Also working on more activities around here.
Gonna make it.
No.1525
>>1518Or if 4chan keeps doing that “Wait 15 minutes before posting” thing sitewide could be troublesome. It states that it only affects “new users” and yet whenever the bookmark tab page gets refreshed for me I’d have to do it.
No.1529
>>1525Why would anyone seriously use 4chan today? It’s just trash. There’s nothing worthwhile there.
No.1530
>>1529Y’know, sometimes it isn’t as easy, /m/ is still pretty great despite how slow it is and one of the few boards that never really went down the deep end
No.1531
>>1525>“Wait 15 minutes before posting” thingThey actually did that? I'm seeing email verification is necessary now wtf. Meh I hope it kills the site. Its a disgusting place.