No.719
How would everyone feel about wapchan having a social media presence to promote the site, like on twitter? I feel like if we want this site to expand, we need to start looking outside imageboards.
No.720
>>719I don't mind. I think you should do whatever you have to, I think interests like old anime are enough to filter out undesirables. Anyway do whatever makes you happy anon, this hasn't been a good start but I am rooting for you. I will keep on dropping here from time to time.
Take care and don't sweat things.
No.721
Isn't pretty much anyone on twitter fucked in the head?
The only twitter users that weren't, were artists posting some of their stuff for advertising.
The users are mostly uhm... special.
No.722
>>721>The only twitter users that weren't, were artists posting some of their stuff for advertising.*in my experience at least
No.723
>>720>this hasn't been a good startI think it's been fine, it was always gonna be tough getting a new non /pol/ niche imageboard off the ground these days.
>I think you should do whatever you have toI just like to get people's perspectives on things before I make big changes to the site or stuff surrounding it.
>>721>Isn't pretty much anyone on twitter fucked in the head?A lot of people are, but it's also a lot of the modern retro anime discussion happens, at least in English.
No.724
>>723>I think it's been fineI didn't mean it in a disparaging way. Just that it's not easy to get something like this to work out and you shouldn't feel bad if it takes time or doesn't work at all.
No.725
>>719>wapchan having a social media presence to promote the siteDepends
>twitterMixed opinions, I'd be concerned about crazies as
>>721 pointed out.
Reddit I think would be your best bet. Maybe try to find some Web 2.0 anime forums that are still somewhat active?
Absolutely stay away from facebook though, there's nothing good about that place.
No.726
>>719It's worthwhile, I don't think there is a reason to blanket a whole group of platform users, there are always some good and bad. Unless you are doing private invites only you always risk bringing in bad people, that's just inevitable. I would wait until 2023 on Twitter though, just because Elon Musk just took over right now and lots of the people who you (presumably) wouldn't want on here are very vocally upset and talking about leaving Twitter, so they are looking for places to go, if it's not all just hot air. In a month when everything is basically the same they won't care anymore.
No.738
Well, that was certainly an eventful 36 or so hours. Things looked bleak for a while on my end, but luckily everything ended up working out. This post is gonna serve as a bit of a FAQ about the whole situation.
>Why did the site go down?As it turned out, I had misconfigured the software on here, so even though images were being "deleted", they still remained in the filesystem. This allowed a malicious actor to file a report about some illegal content previously though to have been deleted, which caused our host to take down the site temporarily. I take responsibility for not catching this beforehand, but this does not change the fact that this was a deliberate attack on the site. This has been fixed and all relevant material has been deleted, hashbanned and reported.
>Changes moving forwardOne of the biggest changes is that I am going to setup off-site methods for communication. While wapchan has tried to self host many services, it is clear that this is a single point of failure. The revival of the old Rizon irc channel is the first part of this, and I'm planning on setting up a Steam group in the near future (which will also help organize some game nights).
I'm also going to setup a proper way for staff around here to stay connected and organized through IRC, so that we can better respond to events like this in the future. Also, captchas are coming back for now, as deterrents against spambots. If we have enough staff in the future to clean this up manually then they may be removed, but I hope you can all understand that there must be compromises made to protect this site from further attacks.
Also, in case you ever want to visit the emergency website again, I put it up here
https://www.wapchan.org/.static/crisisArchive/index.htmlWith that in mind, I hope you all once again enjoy posting on here. The wapchan spirit lives on.
No.739
I'm still shocked that actually happened.
Like, why?
We only have a handful of users and don't talk about any offensive stuff, no politics, porn or other degenerate stuff.
When I saw the bot, that usually just advertised some products, started posting pizza I was already worried and considered applying as janny, a day later the site was down already.
Are you sure that someone targeted this site on purpose, or could it also be that dunno some agency or something scanned the web for illegal images from their database and found the contents from that bot post? No idea how this works.
Either way, getting real tired of bot spam, saw a lot of those on other image boards and lately on gelbooru and similar sites as well.
The new hot thing is to post AI generated stuff so I guess you can ban image hashes as much as you it will just make more questionable content.
No wonder the small sites all disappear if you have to deal with shit like that.
No.740
>>739>could it also be that dunno some agency or something scanned the web for illegal images from their database and found the contents from that bot postTechnically that could have been possible, but the file name was extremely cryptic (for example the link to the filename to the image I posted above is
https://wapchan.org/.media/8510bf993c364af620b8853d097e31821d90706e42820f45d1243a89544e543d.gif ) as well as the fact that the report that was submitted to the host was from a third party (ie not the feds themselves).
>Like, why?Some people are shitty and hate fun I guess. This happens fairly regularly to altchans (you can go on /g/ and find many similar stories), since these degenerates know that most don't have the proper staff to moderate them unlike bigger websites.
>No wonder the small sites all disappear if you have to deal with shit like that.This has always been the toughest part of running a website where you let users upload content, especially when you can only identify them by their IP addresses, because at the end of the day I'm the one responsible for making sure this site isn't used for distributing pizza or other fucked up shit.
No.741
That is sadly one of the main issues admins have to face when hosting anonymous imageboards. You don't need to have a controversial site or anything to trigger these malicious people, a lot of small imageboards get shut down because of CP spams followed by reports to host/registrar. Who knows what are their motives or who are they, some claim it's the work of three-letter agencies and some claim it's just bots spamming on all imageboards...
Good to see Wapchan somehow pulled off from it
No.742
>>738I'm really sorry you had to deal with all this crap but I'm glad wapchan is back.
Hopefully this wont repeat any time soon.
No.744
>>743Bringing in a social media tie in is a bad idea.
Imageboards are an alternative to social media, older and with a different purpose.
Just like with forums the inclusion of social media into that space will turn it into a ghost town.
When was the last time you visited a forum?
No.745
>>743>Mastodon>fediverse>PleromaThats like a selfhosted twitter yes?
Regarding
>>719>social media presence to promote the siteI changed my mind and would now agree thats a good idea.
My reasons are:
a) I tried to advertise the site a bit by mentioning it every time I thought someone might bite, but it didnt really bring anyone here, even though some people said the site looked cool and interesting etc.
Probably due to how slow it is around here?
b) I was afraid that social media presence would invite shitposters and bad actors that attack the site etc. but as we've seen we had bot spam and other harmful shit happen either way.
Perhaps we could try it out and if we notice it brings "undesireable" posters here we just stop?
Worth the risk imo, better than becoming yet another dead altchan.
Let me know what you think anons.
No.746
>>745> a) I tried to advertise the site a bit by mentioning it every time I thought someone might bite, but it didnt really bring anyone here, even though some people said the site looked cool and interesting etc.Probably due to how slow it is around here?
Are you aware that some of the successful altchans had this period in their beginning where they had basically no activity?
Even a better idea takes time to spread, people are creatures of habit and difficult to break.
No.750
Did a few minor changes today. Finally setup cloudflare for this site (to help prevent spam) as well as fixed the TOR link that's been broken ever since the server move.
wapchanssuskaph2zlit2wx6vs6u6rih7xnosg4cqt3uin7sl5cpf5yd.onion
No.751
>>750but now the IRC server is BROKEN again
RANCHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
No.754
>>751>>752Sorry, this should be fixed soon. I had to setup a new subdomain that wasn't proxied (irc.wapchan.org), and I should get the cert up soon
No.755
Ok, irc is fixed. New subdomain is irc.wapchan.org
Also fixed the radio.
No.756
>>755Whatever you've done also made all threads removed all newlines, so a lot of posts have no spaces between paragraphs.
Dunno if this is fixable but just a minor thing that has made reading some threads and posts that were long a bit harder now.
No.757
>>756Whoops, minify was enabled for some reason. Fixed.
No.758
We're not all burgers around here, but I hope everyone has a great weekend regardless.
No.759
>>755Connection failed (* Verify E: Failed to validate hostname? (-1))
RANCHAAAAAAN
No.760
Well, it's already December. Can't believe Wapchan is already going to be 1 soon enough. Anyways, I know the site's been breaking on and off recently, and that's on me for choosing to self host so much of the stuff on here. Also, I know I've been proposing a lot of radical changes to the site, and honestly none of these are really necessary, so I'll try and cut down on all the blogposts here. Here's some plans for this month:
>Announcements will be fixed sitewide shortly, I've just been lazy about this one honestly
>IRC is moving permanently to Rizon. While it's been interesting running my own IRC server, I can see now why literally no one else does that these days: it's a giant hassle, especially for one channel. Hopefully this change makes chatting more convenient for everyone
>I'll be hosting a few "fireside chat" events on IRC, on the 3rd and 10th, to get some feedback for the direction of the site. I'll be posting summaries of those after the fact on here.
>I'll also run a wapchan birthday stream on New Year's Eve, most likely in the morning EST (with my voice), which will be a similar format to the IRC events but hosted on youtube (with a cytube option)
>I will try to fix the broken images at some point. I do have a backup with most of these images intact, so this should be feasible.
>Moving forward into next year
I'd like to do a lot less radical changes and mostly just keep everything running smoothly as it's gotten to by this point, as well as generally be more "hands off" with the way this site's run, allowing a more organic culture to develop.
Also nu ran sucks
No.775
If you've been posting around here for a while, you're probably aware of how much of a disorganized mess IRC has been. I've decided to completely overhaul how chat is done around here, and made a post notification service in the process!
>Wapchan Unified Chat (or just wapchat)We now support four chat services: IRC, Discord, Matrix, and Telegram. All of these are bridged with each other so users can use whatever service they prefer (NOTE: The IRC channel is different now, this one's actually registered under my nick)
>IRC: ircs://irc.rizon.net:+6697/wapchat>Discord: https://discord.gg/crNSm7cQRz>Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#wapchat:matrix.com>Telegram: https://t.me/wapchanchatThe chat is deliberately barebones for now - IRC is the baseline after all.
>Wapchan Post Notification ServiceLet's face it - not everyone here is eternally online, refreshing this page constantly. Since this site is slow, I've made a bot that sends a notification every time a new thread or post is made on here, so you can always stay connected to what's happening on the board! This can be accessed from the same set of services:
>IRC: ircs://irc.rizon.net:+6697/wapnotif>Discord: https://discord.gg/crNSm7cQRz(same discord server, different channel)
>Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#wapnotif:matrix.com>Telegram: https://t.me/wapnotif>>771I hope the new chat and post notifications will help inspire more discussion around here. If you have any further suggestions, I'm all ears.
(Also, for anyone worried, the Discord server is just two text channels, one for the chat and one for the notifs)
No.782
it's snowing
also, decided to go by "redlum" around here now since that's a bit more distinct than ranchan (explanation on the about page soon)
No.789
>>787>maybe potentially changing the site name?I think it should stay as it is. Who would be confused by "wapanese"?
No.790
>>789i think it's more to do with a certain song called "wap"
No.791
>>787>hands off (at least from my end)Oh noes ranchan abandoned us ;_;
No.792
>>791im still around (especially to deal with spam), i just don't have any big plans for the site currently and would rather let it grow organically while i work on other projects
No.813
AI Art is now banned sitewide, read on for an explanation.
This isn't something that I really though about before on here, mostly because I am not much of an artist myself (I draw occasionally, but I have a long way to go), but I have always had an interest in the doujin scene, especially concerning UY fan works. We all have artists we like (one of my favorites is
https://twitter.com/H7Ihm ) and truthfully, a lot of the time AI art is used in bad faith to directly rip off artists and by megacorps to profit off of users of their software rather than to actually generate interesting pieces. My old policy was to turn a blind eye, but then I talked to someone in the scene and realized that this wouldn't solve anything - like the ban on politics here, this is to ensure our discussions are kept in good faith, and so the site can develop an organic artist culture. I hope you can all understand why this is being put into place.
-ranchan
No.820
Wapchan has settled into a pretty comfortable niche... but at the end of the day, the site still feels hacked together (because it is). Over the next few months, I intend to redo a decent amount of the site's interface, some features, and some of the "extra" services associated with the site, which should hopefully give the site a more unique and retro feel. I've given this the tentative name of Wapchan 2 (or if you prefer: Wapchan, too). I will be adding one thing to the current site, though: A regex spam filter to replace the current one (this shouldn't take too long to develop)
To start off, I want to redo the boards. The current selection of boards is really just stuff I thought people liked, with a few requests mixed in. However, I feel it is important to make the site representative of the userbase, and a lot of users have no interest in japanese culture, and want more boards catered to other topics. This is honestly great - I think making this site more cosmopolitan is the right direction. So here's my proposed changes to existing boards:
>/ar/, /a2k/, /th/These boards I feel are fine in their current incarnations for serving their respective niches, though I might change /ar/ to /cel/ and /a2k/ to /digi/ (trying to move away from initialisms).
>/br/This board will probably be removed, mostly because it's way too broad yet limited at the same time (being pre 2k only). Most threads will be moved to some of the newer boards.
>/clv/This will be renamed /hob/ - hobbies, mostly just to make the board's purpose clearer (or maybe we can take a page from kissu and do seasonal hobby boards? that could be cool)
>/lum/This will be renamed /rumi/, since while /lum/ getting it's own board was cool and all, it makes more since for it to be about all of rumiko's stuff (that's how everyone treats rumi threads anyways)
>/meta/No changes other than renaming it to /wap/
>/vr/No changes other than renaming to /pixl/ (or a different better name)
And proposed new boards:
>/tech/For modern and retro tech of all kinds.
>/art/Dedicated visual art board (including photography).
>/lit/For books. Reading is good
>/mus/ (or /music/)Music board, for both listeners and creators
>/etc/A sort of replacement for /br/ without the retro restrictions (but not like /b/ either, we're better than that).
There's no plans for a /tv/ style board at the moment, but that could be added as well if people want it.
So the boards list would look like this:
>｢cel / digi / rumi / th / pixl｣ ｢art / hob / lit / mus / tech｣ ｢etc / wap｣ Tell me what you think. I will probably push these changes in a few days if everyone likes them.
Also, I will be setting up a working test site for the UI rewrite, which will be accessible at
https://test.wapchan.org. This site has no guaranteed uptime, since I will be pushing changes whenever I get the time. Here are some general ideas of mine for this:
>Be written in HTML4 with minimal javascript (to increase compatibility with older browsers - as part of this a subdomain will be setup giving site access over non secure HTTP, though obviously webm/webp would be broken on old browsers)>Have unique CSS & logos for each board (this will be elaborated on)>Chatbox on the front page (not IRC based like the old one, more like a one thread textboard) and possible depreciation of the current chat system >Flash support though Ruffle (flash is currently broken on here)>Emotes (old BBCode style)>Total reworking of wapfm (the net radio service) - one idea is to have /mu/ users vote on it monthly in an automated format>Public ban list (This is not a native feature of the engine but I can probably make it work)>WAP support, at least on the front page, mostly because it would be funny ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol )>TF2 server at some point>return of movie nightsAs you can see this is a lot of changes. I'll be setting up a page to track where I am with these soon.
All the best,
-ranchan
No.822
>Yotsuba (for /digi)This is meant to look like 4chan circa 2003.
The other themes are progressing but are not as far along yet.
If you want to follow along with development the instance I use for development/testing is live at
https://test.wapchan.org/ No.823
>>822this one is the best. Can't wait for it
No.826
>>821All the new styles are very good, i like them especially for the fact that they not only change the colour/background of the site but also the layout.
the /th/ one is my favourite because it really embodies the style of the game.
No.829
A titan of the manga industry, Leiji Matsumoto, has passed away at 85. With the first anime convention held in the states being dedicated to the legendary Space Battleship Yamato, as well as him being responsible for other interstellar classics like Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999, he was really at the heart of what this site is all about, and will truly be missed.
Also, his work with Daft Punk is pretty amazing, if you haven't seen it before.
https://ourstarblazers.com/vault/317/ No.833
>>832take your time dude. We'll all still be here :)
No.841
>>838Wait, what do you mean by site renewed?
No.842
>>841This site is hosted on a VPS, so I have to pay the annual invoice to keep it up (every april since that's when the move to the current server happened), and the domain every january.
No.843
>>842Thanks for keeping the site up and running!
No.846
>>845Well hey it works here at least lol, don’t know what’s going on but I’ll figure something out
No.861
>>852well, this explains the insanely large daily posts graph.
No.862
Hey all, thought i'd give a proper update post due to recent events, as well as answer some lingering questions
>Why was heyuri & mootxico removed from the friends listThis was mostly due to the culture of the sites drifting apart. While I try to keep this site mostly SFW and generally appealing to those who don't typically browse imageboards, those sites have a somewhat "looser" style where NSFW content (some graphic) is fairly common. To keep this site comfy for the foreseeable future, I've decided to only have relatively SFW sites on our friends list, such as kind.moe and 04.sbs. I want to state that there is no bad blood between us and heyuri/mootxico, and we wish them the best. More information here
https://img.heyuri.net/q/koko.php?res=63615>Why are there soyjaks on here nowWe were raided the other day by some users on soyjak.party. While both soyjak.party and heyuri are affiliated with Kolyma, I severely doubt that heyuri had anything to do with this raid. Anyways, a few users decided to stick around, and have proposed a "retro soyjak" containment board on here (only ones from 4/qa). This would probably be pretty unpopular with most users, but I figured I would mention it, as soyjaks/frogs aren't banned on here, but a containment board might be the best solution for all this, as well as prevent future raids.
>When will the cp bot spam stopHopefully soon. I've been testing a regex filter that will detect those cp bots, since they post in a predictable way. I'll run some tests on here soon before implementing it and releasing it to the public, so other sites can be protected.
>When will the UI refresh come outHopefully within the next two weeks. Regex filter will come first, but after that I can apply the finishing touches on the UI refresh, as well as make a fun retro style "promo video" that will be on the front page (more to come). This would also include /v2k/ (2000s vidya) and the potential /soyr/ or /qar/ containment board.
>Will you start making youtube videos againOnce I'm done with my finals and move into my new house I'm renting for the year I can.
>One more thingOur friends at /kind/ are planning a watch party next Saturday, more information at
https://kind.moe/kind/res/3324.html . Maybe during the summer I can actually find the time to run a few here.
Also, I made this image edit for the UI refresh a while back. Figured I'd share it with you all. Have a good one, lads.
No.901
>>889Nomad here.
I'm happy to see this become a trend among smaller imageboards. Hope you guys establish yourselves and fine your own identity.
No.908
>>907Who are you quoting?
No.910
Hi all. It's summer for me at last, so actual site work can begin for the first time in ages. Finally realized I could block most spammers with a few DNSBLs (domain block lists) instead of making a complex regex filter, so hopefully this cuts down dramatically on the spam received. Also, I'm finally going to implement proper guidelines on ban lengths and reasons, since pretty much all previous bans have been permanent and the reasons I wrote down at the time were poor (half of them are just "kill yourself"). I have redone the moderation tools so that we will have four levels of ban:
>Warning: For first offense on breaking most rules, besides those relating to politics or illegal content
>3 day ban: For second offense on breaking most rules, besides those relating to politics or illegal content
>1 week ban: For third offense on breaking most rules or posting /pol/ type content (there will be no warning on that)
>Permanent ban: For fourth offense on breaking most rules, second offense on /pol/ type content or any sort of illegal content.
As well as actual selectable reasons for being banned.
Also, images removed will automatically be hash banned for now on (figured out this setting).
As part of this change, all preexisting non image bans have been lifted, so that all bans in the logs will actually make sense now. We'll probably have to re ban some users, but with the new filters probably not many.
Next on the agenda: finishing the new UI and migrating everything over. Should be done soon (actually)
No.911
>>910Stuff will be slightly broken for a few days as I reconfigure the boards.
After five months in development, hopefully it will have been worth the wait.
No.912
>>911I must say it is very nice to visit the site and find the redesign implemented.
No.914
>>910Its definitely hard to decide on moderation reasons and ban lengths. I pretty much still insta-ban anything explicitly not allowed and a warning then a ban if its more vague.
That image hash idea is a good one, i'll have to look into something similar for my forum.
>>911Thank you Gabe.
No.915
The site's going to go up and down semi frequently over the next few days while I fine tune the new UI for better readability. If it goes down, just wait a few minutes and try again.
>>914Hopefully it works out for you all. We've had relatively few rulebreakers outside of all the illegal content bots.
No.916
did friend boards get removed?
No.917
also, all links to the meta board lead to /wap/ instead of here
No.918
>>916This was unintentional and will be fixed soon
>>917Honestly I just forgot to finish the board swaps. I'll get to it tomorrow
No.965
The site should be mostly stable now. There's probably still some CSS weirdness going on, which I'll get to over time, as well as redoing the classic theme to feel more like the old UI. I also finally got around to updating the theme git repos, for anyone who wants to look at the code and give feedback.
https://github.com/figamin/WapLynx is the previous theme, while
https://github.com/figamin/WapLynx-Neo is the current theme.
I will try to find time to do further work on the site, but I am doing a number of other things this summer (including a job, redoing my personal site, upcoming youtube work, and generally just living my life), so things might be slow, as I am the only one really doing work on the site (backend & frontend). Hopefully you all enjoy posting on the new UI.
No.971
Ever since the move to the new UI, I've wanted to bring back the drawing feature, so starting today you can access Wapchan Doodles at
https://wapchan.org/doodle . This is based on POTI-board EVO, a popular Japanese script for oekaki bulletin boards. I'll be integrating the board more with the rest of the site soon enough.
No.976
>>975Oh sweet, adds some more soul to this place. How do you do them?
No.977
>>976Just add :: around certain strings, like how it was done on old bbCode forums. I've added 'ran', 'lum', 'shinobu', and 'ataru'. I'm going to make this more obvious in the reply box soon, as well as add a bunch of classic smilies.
No.978
Let's see if these work...
I loaded ~80 or so emotes from an old forum I used to frequent back in the day (joe.to)
No.980
I wonder if its not working because its on a line without text.
Text more text
No.981
:astonish:
yay!
No.982
Now with emotes working, Wapchan is officially feature complete in my book!
(you can view them all at
https://wapchan.org/.static/pages/emotes.html ) There's still work to be done on cleaning up some of the interest board themes and loading on a few hash lists from some 4chan archives to cut down on the illegal image bots, but now the focus turns to growing the site.
I've resurrected the Wapchan Twitter account (
https://twitter.com/wapchanorg ), which will be a part of this.
Enjoy the site!
No.983
>>982Hopefully the twitter will bring more activity here
I will follow!
No.986
Welcome to July! I've been doing some housekeeping around here.
>/hob/ is being folded into /chill/, which is being expanded into a general board>Board welcome posts rewriteAlso, I'd like ideas on how to make the site stand out more. I recently came across a thread about imageboards on
https://afternoon.dynu.com, and one users comments in particular stuck out to me
>"small imageboard with anime images posted on it" really pales in comparison to many other cool entries ITT.Wapchan kind of falls in that category, which I'm fine with, but I'd also like to try more novel concepts around here - anything that gives users a unique way to interact with each other. Don't be shy!
No.987
>>986Yeah, "anime images" are all well and good but if that's all someone wants, there are a godzillion sites and anon boards aren't even the best source for those any more.
For me what caught my attention was punching "retro" into the search on allchans.org and getting directed here. Decided it was worth hanging around a while thanks to the politics-discouraged policy, I rejected most of the other boards that had a lot of "retro" interest because they were either explicitly or de facto more about people who want to complain about how [insert hated group X, Y, or Z] ruined their pastime/their life/the world than about celebrating what they actually enjoy.
Like, I get it, most enjoyers of old stuff are, no surprise, salty old fucks, I certainly am myself, but I want a place where I can recommend stuff / be recommended stuff / reminisce in an anonymous posting environment without a lot of other bullshit and drama (which also have ample other sources for those who want it).
tl;dr I think if you play up the retro-interest aspect you'll find people who are interested by that.
No.988
>>986i think you need to massively cut down on the number of boards, and then enable user board creation. otherwise this site is going nowhere fast
No.989
Happy birthday America. Been thinking about the age old question "how do we make this place actually have activity", and
>>988 brought up a good point - the site could use some consolidation for now. I (ranchan) built wapchan with a very top down model, as in I'm responsible for pretty much everything sitewide, besides a few banners. I thought this was the necessary approach to keeping this place comfy, but at this point it seems the site is going to languish forever unless we do some more radical changes. Here's a preliminary plan I have.
>All interest boards will be consolidated into /chill/ for now>Otaku boards will stay as they are for now, but will be looking for user volunteers to maintain them at some point going forward >User board creation will be enabled, but with some oversight so we don't end up like 8chan (keeping boards aligned with site culture)Retooling the site to be more "bottom up" without losing it's core values could give it new life - so I set up a poll. I'm not going to give a big vote threshold or anything, since the current site population seems to be super low...
EDIT: poll ended in favor of no drastic changes
No.990
>>989You could do something like how it is now but have people that are chosen to maintain each board and keep it active
(although I still think interest boards should still be consolidated into just /chill/ for now and then expand it into a board if it's requested a lot
)
>>988>enable user board creation. otherwise this site is going nowhere fastI feel like there would be less direction if this was enabled. If we just have a bunch of dead boards with BO's that don't put effort into maintaining their board, there's gonna be a lot of wastelands.
+ The idea wouldn't really work because the site's that have user-boards don't really have a focused topic and are more general (This site is focused mainly on retro anime and such)
I think if users want a board, they can request for it, and they can be the BO, but you'd have to make sure they'll actually put effort in their board.
No.991
>>989>>989I disagree with the idea, I think the boards in wap has atm are a good starting point. You just need to spread the word of wapchan effectively.
Wapchan needs to be MARKETED to the right websites in order for it to prosper.
No.992
>>990>>991Thanks for your feedback. You two made very valid points - sometimes it just gets real quiet for a while around here, which makes me feel like I gotta do something drastic to get things moving - but as you've said, that would hollow out the site's identity.
>Wapchan needs to be MARKETED to the right websites in order for it to prosper.That's key. I could do a lot more when it comes to advertising beyond other ibs.
No.994
Please change 04.sbs on the links page to use http instead of https.
https just gives an error when you try using it.
No.995
Even though I labeled this site "feature complete", there's still a lot of roughness - I kind of rushed the new UI onto the site without actually polishing it, so the next few updates will be focused around this. First of all, the quick reply menu was done to be more compact (modeled after 4chan X).
The gallery interface now has instructions and an exit button, and I've been doing some stylistic tweaks to themes, mostly for better readability. A few of the themes (art, chill) will be totally redone because they're really raw at the moment, and mu's theme will get a major revamp.
>>994Fixed
No.997
test post
No.998
>>996Thats' strange, just tested it and it worked. There is an issue where sometimes the first captcha loaded will say it's expired/wrong though, so I'll look into that.
No.1001
>>1000That's a good thing.
Also, is it me or did the traffic on the site increase for real?
No.1002
>>1001I am not going to post my art here if I will just get permabanned on a whim.
Glownigger trainees just can't seem to help themselves.
No.1003
>>1002Don't really give out permabans much anymore except to CP bots. But I'd appreciate if you posted in good faith and didn't fill your messages with slurs, we're trying to keep things comfy here.
No.1004
>>1003I heard the same thing from every other imageboard LARPing about community and comfiness.
I post in good faith, faggots move in and shit up every thread with politics and coomer spam, yet i'm the one who gets permabanned in the end for merely reporting them.
No.1008
Hi all. I was reading the kissu imageboard happenings thread (
https://kissu.moe/qa/thread/4165 ), and some of the recent posts were talking about lynx UI design, especially on using a sidebar focused UI, especially this comment in regards to hikari3
>Is amazing how empty some imageboards feel without a sidebar.>Like lynx stuffs everything into a comment box or hides it away behind an icon, kissu makes it all just stand out at a glance. I always know what I'm doing and where I'm going. Lots of features, but they're all right in front of you. >It's a well styled site, but it doesn't make me feel like I have any competition in terms of usability and community management.Now I've used lynx mostly because it's got good moderation tools, and we're way too small to consider writing our own backend, but the frontend design is pretty flexable. Anyways, I thought this was funny, because when I switched to using a tiling WM full time last November (qtile), I actually also switched to using side tabs as opposed to being at the top of the browser, and honestly, having the site UI be at the side makes a lot of sense in the same wawy that tabs on the side do. So I'm going to do some work on the test server and come up with a side UI. This isn't the same as frames, mind you - it'll be full featured, and hopefully more streamlined than the current UI (The mobile UI will also be a bit redesigned). I'm also going to work on reducing all the redundant elements in the UI, so things look cleaner! Just like the CSS rewrite, you can come on test.wapchan.org to give things a shot while I refine it.
No.1009
>>1008Unrelated, but I've noticed some font visibility problems floating around the various CSS stylesheets.
For instance, greentext is nearly impossible to read on Shrine, or Book gives me black text on a grey textbox in the reply box.
Classic Yotsuba B works well enough so that's what I'll stick with, but you might want to look at some of those cases.
No.1011
>>1005Seems true to that policy so far.
Doesn’t seem like much activity happens here at all.
No.1012
>>1011It's hard to say what can really be done about that becides asking users to tell others about it. I'm doing another round of work on the UI to make it more usable in general, especially on mobile, and help the site stand out, as well as building a nice board based on a concept from a site that's no longer running, but I obviously can't just overengineer this site forever. I've been thinking of making some of the boards more broad and having less of them (especially the interest boards), and maybe putting more focus on the doodle site (which is about as active as the entire rest of the site put together).
>>1011 No.1013
>>1012Quick reply seems as broken as it is on anon.cafe. Where it wont accept a captcha entry from quick reply.
You could merge a few boards together as they fit similar themes and are about as active as a single thread or two.
No.1015
>>1013seems this is specifically a mobile problem. will take a look
No.1016
here's a very rough overview of the sidebar, only really having the "latest posts" functionality implemented. had to mess around with the lynx backend to get the dates to work, and hovering over the latest posts now pulls up a preview, just like backlinks on threads. feel free to mess around with it on
https://test.wapchan.org blogpost below on a more personal note, i am beginning to run out of steam when it comes to actually working on this site as much as i have so far - part of that may be due to how impersonal everything feels. i like the anon format, but for a site this slow and small it's really not doing it any favors. a lot of it is probably just me being sick of having to do everything. i tend to hoist responsibility on myself and eventually get burned out as a result. wapchan isn't my first project that's like this. it's tough because i want to spend less time sitting at my computer and my phone typing away, move more focus into my creative passions, reading, hiking, video editing - other stuff. especially living a healthier lifestyle. working on this site at 3am when i have a job at 8am isn't sustainable. but this is extremely difficult because i (and the few jannies) have to log on constantly because some degenerate cp bot will have posted again and i'll have to go in and delete it and report it. day after day. i don't want to spend my fucking life moderating pizza. maybe i'll modify the lynx backend to take md5 hashes so i can load a fuckton from 4plebs and desuarchive, since FoolFuuka (the software behind most ib archives) has an api where you can pull all their banned hashes.
>what does this mean for wapchannot much, really. the site isn't going anywhere. i just wanted to express how i was feeling.
No.1017
>>1016Hi all,
Hope you didn't mind the melancholy earlier.
Anyways, I've been thinking of consolidating the boards for now. The site just isn't active enough to warrant all these boards existing, since it makes the place feel empty.
>Merge /cel/, /digi/ and /rumi into /ani/>Merge /pixl/ and /th/ into /vid/>Merge /art/, /lit/, and /mu/ into /media/This would reduce the number of boards from 12 to 7 - and the site focus would still be on old stuff. Personally, I'd like having less boards if they're faster, especially since we don't currently have separate board owners - so its hard for me to give enough attention to each of them. Let me know how you feel about this.
No.1018
>>1017I think that's good idea, many IB's make the mistake of 'too many boards' early on so consolidate when possible, and obviously it's up to you but I would hesitate to consolidate the last 3: art lit and mu should stay their own things, even if they get low traffic, they have have distinct vibes.
from my personal using habits, I'll always go to the /mu/ board when I visit an ib, it's nice have all the music in one place, the same with lit, these are very specialized interests that have something very specific to say about your community.
No.1023
>>1022It feels a lot more organized and clean now!
No.1024
>>1022you should bring /cel/ and /aught/ back. combining the others was a good idea, but a place to exclusively talk about 2000s or 80/90s anime is what gave this site personality.
No.1025
>>1024I understand, but I'd like to give this a shot for now. a2k/digi had only around 200 or so posts in more than a year of being up. The board is still retro for the most part (besides remakes) it's just a bit broader, and you can talk about the same topics.
No.1026
>>1022I feel like some of the boards are a bit too condensed, but I think for now this is ideal for having slow growth. If any one topic dominates a board you could always make a board to splinter it off like the old days.
No.1028
>>1027Well that worked, something was off about quick reply. Anyway as I was saying seems like /ar/ is gone and now it’s just essentially /a/2.0 except much more positive and not nearly as shitposty or cynical as /a/ today(which I honestly don’t understand why they think that way) but I do fear on the long run this move could result in Wapchan’s loss of its original identity. I will I say do absolutely applaud you guys for outright banning frog and jak posting, that alone will do good for this site on the long run
No.1029
>>1025I thought the point of the site was to be a pre-2k place and you only threw up a /dig/ board to catch the occasional post discussion spill over.
Naturally the post-2k would have low post count because people came here to post about pre-2k anime.
Not criticizing you just thats what i thought.
No.1030
>>1024>>1028It's more like the other boards were merged with /ar/. I don't want this to be a long term solution.
>>1029That is how it started, the only real issue with that was that the low activity was turning people off from regularly posting, so the site topics were gradually expanded, but the activity still wasnt high. Don't worry about criticizing me either - I'm just some guy trying to make random people post on some niche board, so the feedback is appreciated.
This is honestly just me trying something different to potentially get the site more active without compromising it's identity. It's not a good sign when there's like 5 separate threads on here about "how can we get this place to be active". Maybe if we had users who wanted to manage a specific board or coordinate events that would also help a lot - I haven't done a watch p/ar/ty in ages, so maybe I can start trying to do them again too.
It seems like the merging of the anime boards was by far the most controversial change though, understandably so since these boards are the core of the site, so I made a poll if you want them to be split again.
http://poal.me/cwsglf No.1042
>>1039>board what spam
kind people dont spam. and he blocks a ton
No.1045
>>1039Never was an active user on /kind/ but I likes there were places like this and appreciate you keep the flame here. Wapchan is a comfy chan and hosting a /kind/ board is a good decision for the kindanons refugees.
No.1046
>>1039Never used /kind/ at all sadly, but will post on the /kind/ board whenever I see some traffic there.
No.1049
Hi all,
I'm thinking of taking a break from coming to this site so often for a bit, mostly because I've been spending way too much time on boards and not enough time living my life. To be clear, wapchan's not shutting down, but I've been thinking about what's next for wap - maybe a different site format other than imageboard? I've thought about this before:
>Cleaning up CSAM sucks, and it's not something I (and the jannies) want to do forever.
>There's no easy way to auto moderate this. These predators just change a pixel and now I've got to apply a whole new hashban
>The whole altchan sphere just isn't terribly great in my opinion, there's a lot of extreme stuff out there that sickens me or that I just don't care for. Keeping this site independent of "the webring" and other boards has worked well, but we still get spam from other sites unrelated to that. Cutting ties with "chan culture" might be the best path forward.
Above all though, I'd like to make this place a community, not just a collection of threads. Maybe a forum could work - we already operate much closer to one than we do to most imageboards, and being able to kill the anonymous CSAM problem once and for all would make me personally a lot more willing to recommend this site to others, because let's face it - with IPV6, I'm going to be playing wack a mole forever with VPNs and mobile IPs, and this board isn't my whole life. Would accounts drive away some people? Definitely, but it's not like having an account means you gotta doxx yourself. I'd like us to be somewhere both different from mainstream social media and the chans, but still being a retro community. I'm going to ruminate on this for a while, maybe a week or two. I'll still be visiting to clean up spam. Feedback/suggestions are welcome as always.
EDIT: spelled "recommended" wrong, lol
No.1050
>>1049Turning the site into a fourm seems like a good idea, as this site is basically an anonymous forum. I feel like there would be more of a sense of a small community here if everyone had an identifiable username, the anonymous nature of altchans can work for some sites but I don't think it suits wapchan well. I also feel like turning this site into a fourm could give this place a more "retro" feel like old 2000's anime discussion sites. User registration might make it harder for bots to spam as well, I'm not totally sure as I've never ran a site before. If you were to change the style of this site from an anonymous image board to a forum I would hope the CSS for the boards were kept, as I think they're really sick!
I like this little site and I hope it can grow more soon. (maybe I should stop lurking so much and post more heh)
No.1052
>>1049Do want you want man. I for one will still be here at least.
No.1053
>>1049I'll still be here regardless of your decision, but I think we should stay an imageboard. This site is just a little over a year old, I think switching to a forum would be a bit too radical of a change for such a young site. And just because we're an "altchan" doesn't mean we have to have anything to do with "extreme stuff", there are traditional forums that are also "extreme" so I don't think that really makes a difference in that regard.
If you do decide to switch to a forum, I definitely agree with
>>1050 that it should still look the same as the current imageboard format. If CSAM is the main issue, and hiring more jannies doesn't help, perhaps you could just require accounts for posting images but leave text-only posting untouched?
In case you are open to more jannies, I'm going to resend my application I sent ages ago.
No.1054
I can sympathize with not wanting to deal with spam and the bad reputation *chan sites have tended to develop, but I'm not sure if I would stick around if I had to post under a persistent identity.
Hidden registration, maybe, since site admins can already see IP addresses anyway. But if I wanted to post on a traditional forum I'd be doing that.
No.1055
>>1054>Hidden registration, maybe, since site admins can already see IP addresses anyway.That sounds like a more appealing option than persistent identities to me.
No.1056
Is it possible to run an imageboard that requires accounts for posting while still being anonymous?
Does lynxchan or others have this functionality?
Can the same be done for forums? anonymous posting?
No.1057
First of all, I'd like to welcome our newest friend site, SheepishPatio. They're a small hobby forum. Thank you to Lumeinshin for reaching out!
Anyways, I've been reading all the feedback about the future of this site, and I'm probably gonna stay the course and keep this site as an anonymous imageboard. Also, the staff application page was missing for a while, I've added it back on the front page. If you would like to help keep this site running, please consider applying.
>>1053Somehow I never got this the first time you sent it, but I responded just now.
>>1054Totally understandable.
>>1056Both of these are possible if needed/desired in the future.
I will try and fix the quick reply box soon.
No.1058
>>1049>There's no easy way to auto moderate this. These predators just change a pixel and now I've got to apply a whole new hashbanWhen I get good at programming I'm going to make an AI image filter that prevents frogs, 'jaks, or nudity from being uploaded to imageboards or forums (or anyone who wants to use it).
No.1059
>>1049The only long term solution is accounts to post images.
In addition, you can do trust levels with those accounts.
https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/I would be happy to help you, though it depends on the tech stack (should be enjoyable to work with). I can create another GitHub profile and work through GitHub.
I thought to reach out through a post here rather than a formal email.
I think often about creating my own forum but I don't like the idea of hosting and being a janny. This seems like a nice compromise.
No.1060
>>1059Of course, everything remains anonymous still. It's just an "account" which verifies you're human effectively.
No.1069
>>1060Hi all,
Hope everyone's doing alright. The /kind/ folks have settled in nicely, being by far the most active board we've had probably all year, and I hope they stick around for the long term. I wonder what's next for this site, since I personally don't want it to feel stale, probably why I keep floating ideas to change it. Maybe we could focus on specific authors or works to dial in the conversation more, or even have part of the site covering related news? Let me know what you all think.
By the way - no idea who this character is in this piece by Yuji Moriyama (it's not A-ko), but you can always count on him to deliver some damn fine character designs.
No.1071
>>1069>Part of the site covering related newsWhat you mean by that?
No.1077
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.
No.1078
>>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?
No.1079
>>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.
No.1080
>>1077Why not take this opportunity to make your own software?
No.1086
>>1085glad to see it's back up! :lum:
No.1087
>>1085Thank you for your hard work! I can't post images:
> The site has reached its total file capacity. No.1094
Happy new years and a belated christmas to you all. I hope you have been spending time with friends and family as I have. Two years ago, I made this site on a whim, and somehow it's still around. Thank you to everyone for your continued support. I will try and fix the 404s that keep happening, as well as put the rumiki back up!
No.1095
>>1094Thank you for all your hard work!
No.1110
>>1109Comfy here, thanks for openning your site to the future refugees of the Cafe :)
We are currently working on a solution in the regard of the closing of anon.cafe and Wapchan seems to be a good place to move.
We are also considering Trashcan because the admin can help us to restore an archive, saving us the tedious job of rebuilding the whole board by hand.
So maybe we can have a /comfy/ bunker here if you're OK with that ?
For now I'm still waiting for Trashcan admin approval so maybe if they refuse to grant us a /comfy/ board we will move there deifnitively (if you want :D)
No.1111
>>1110You are free to have a bunker/board here. I am not entirely sure how to restore an archive here if needed, but since anon.cafe also runs on lynxchan, it shouldn't be too hard if needed.
No.1112
>>1111Thanks very much.
We'll looking forward to it. For now It's my sleeping time but I will look to it closely with the /comfy/ anons tonite.
No.1113
Looking into compiling the BUMP software to help potential boards move over in the future. Will let you know my progress soon enough.
https://alogs.space/robowaifu/res/12974.html#14866 No.1122
>>1109Oh wow i cant believe its shutting down
i'll make sure everyone I know is aware!
No.1124
>>1113Hello figamin. Since our bunker is on anon.cafe and needs to be replaced, our bunker-bunker is becoming our primary. We like to keep
two bunkers as a safety measure. Would you consider creating a /robowaifu/ hidden bunker here for us? This will become our new bunker-bunker once the Cafe goes away.
No.1125
/robowaifu/ is a /pol/ board, I don't think it would be a good fit for this site.
No.1130
>>1125It's unfortunate because most of them are.
No.1132
Hello figamin. I'm presuming this is the correct thread to make a board request (since it seems to be the busy one on /wap/, and you mentioned the closure of anon.cafe here)? We'd like to make a bunker board here if you would. (
>>1124)
No.1133
>>1132Given your board's history with /kind/, I'm inclined to accept, though if you ever moved the board here you'd probably have to tone down the rules.
https://wapchan.org/robowaifu/(note: this is locked until someone chooses to moderate, since I never really used this board before)
>>112If this is a problem I will deal with it, but this user seems to be alright based on our interactions
No.1134
Hey Figadmin, /comfy/ BO here.
Just noticing the good work you did to migrate /comfy/ here and want to thank you for that :)
I haven't yet decided which site will be our main board and which will be our bunker.
Where should I contact you for my account registration ?
No.1135
>>1134Hi,
You can send me a message at admin@wapchan.org
Whatever you choose, I look forward to working with you.
No.1137
>>1136i love how great it looks on a dark grey background i can't see a thing
No.1138
It looks like we lost our bids for the boards despite the admin's hard work.
No.1139
>>1138Certainly a disappointment, but I always figured those webring boards would prefer a more "chan" experience than what's offered here. Next on the agenda here is fixing the radio and setting up the main pages of the Rumiki.
No.1140
>>1133Thanks for the response, Admin! Thank you kindly for your consideration. Out of curiosity, I wasn't able to find an account registration link here. I presume you use some type of email verification instead?
Regardless, cheers and "Be excellent to each other." :)
No.1141
>>1135/comfy/ BO here, sorry for not replying sooner I was pretty busy lately and focused the few free time I had on our new board on Trashchan.
I noticed you deleted /comfy/, I think it's a better move as you already have /chill/ and /kind/ here.
By the way thanks again for the work you've done to migrate /comfy/ here :)
No.1146
Added new themes Ayashii and 2channel.
>>1140Login page is /login.html, it's just not visible from the main UI because regular users don't use them, only staff.
>>1141I hope our boards continue to stay in touch.
No.1161
>>1146>I hope our boards continue to stay in touch.Sure, we're friend of /kind/ and Wapchan is pretty comfy in general. Even if I don't visit regularly myself, I like this chan and may recommend it to anons looking for a nice place to hang far from the toxicity of the modern internet.
No.1164
>>1155Thanks a ton, this radio has been great company!
No.1169
Admin, would you be willing to host a refugee /tower/ board?
No.1170
>>1169I vouch for /tower/. Never used the chan they originated from, but snuck into the tower anyway. Very slow board and friendly people. Mostly talking about stuff that occured in their lives and their hobbies. Quite gloomy atmosphere there, so it would be a good contrast to /kind/ I think.
No.1171
>>1169>>1170Alright, I made one but you'll have to fill me in on the details about it (is this from that towerofpower board?)
>>>/tower/ No.1172
>>1171Thanks for the rapid response, Figmin. No, it's the one at anon.cafe.
No.1173
>>1172Found it. You should be good to move here. If you want the css/banners just upload them to catbox and post the link.
No.1174
>>1173Would it be possible to make it a hidden board?
No.1195
>>1189I've added a basic layout to the Rumiki, as well as some information, but there's a lot still that's incomplete, so any help is appreciated.
https://rumiki.wapchan.orgAlso the lum OC contest is being extended until the end of march cause this place is slow, lol.
No.1258
In our never ending war against the ceaseless spam of pizza and other illegal material, we've seen that the vast, vast majority of this sort of traffic comes through VPNs and datacenter proxies. As a result, we've implemented a great firewall to block all of those subnets from accessing the site, and it seems to be working (it's only been fully running for ~4 days). I encourage everyone who would prefer to not have their IP revealed to connect via TOR. I have fixed our onion link so it's working again (
http://wapchanssuskaph2zlit2wx6vs6u6rih7xnosg4cqt3uin7sl5cpf5yd.onion ). Note that we currently don't have onion links for the subdomains (dis, radio and rumiki). Mullvad VPN is whitelisted for now due to it's legitimate use in most cases.
Smugami will protect us. No.1292
First of all, sorry for the state of the site yesterday... seems some succubus possessed me. Moving on, the UY OC contest will be judged very soon, and I'm finally launching
>>>/vrev/ - video reviews. April's contest will take place on >>>/vnt ... keep on the lookout!
No.1293
The /lum/ OC contest winners have been announced at
>>>/lum/577 . April's site contest is to see who can get the highest score in Touhou 6 (EoSD). Details at
>>>/vnt/488Also, the spam filters have been updated. If you can't post, use TOR or if you can't, email me at admin@wapchan.org and I might be able to get you through.
No.1338
Happy to announce that
>>>/lit/ has returned under the tutelage of one of our mods! I hope it will become wapchan's "penny university".
Also, we're looking to do another UI overhaul, since the current interface, while functional, has become cluttered with the addition of more boards and links. We're looking to simplify it - if you've got any ideas head over to
>>>/wap/1337 No.1340
>>1338Penny university huh.... Imagine reading lists and resources for wap related topics, resource dumps, sharing. I guess we'd have a Japanese learns thread and one from Comp Sci. There already exist a bunch of good guides online. but what about even more niche things? Sengoku jidai history thread! Kanbun thread! Japanese postmodernism thread! We can't post pdfs, epub etc yet. A share thread would be nice.
No.1341
Apologies to the anon who got auto banned for spam... Was testing out a new anti CP spam filter based on their typing patterns, but it is too easy for normal users to accidentally get banned, so it's been removed.
-figamin (don't want to mess up the news post)
No.1342
>>1341No worries, my spam protections on my site also caused issues so I understand.
No.1349
>>1258Has mullvad been removed from whitelist? Im suddenly blocked while using it.
No.1350
>>1349It shouldn't have been, but I did update the blacklist today. I made a script to auto update the whitelist in case the servers change.
(Note that you will probably have to delete all browsing history for wapchan before you're able to access the site - it throws a 301 for the blacklist so your browser will cache it
No.1353
>>1350I cleared my whole history and everything and im still blocked. Maybe its doing that weird thing again where my endpoint IP isnt the same as the server im connected to. Im on the serverus-nyc-ovpn-502 but my ip isnt the same.
No.1354
>>1353That's strange - I have us-nyc-ovpn-502 on the whitelist. Are you trying to connect with IPV6? I only added the IPV4 ips to the whitelist. If you try again and have issues still send me an email.
No.1356
>>1355This may be because I had port 80 open on the radio but not on the main site for some reason. I switched it around so you shouldn't have this issue anymore if you try to connect with just http.
No.1369
>>1367/lit/ admin here, IF you don't do your best uhhh...
...something /rude/ may happen! Example: this duck might take over.
No.1370
>>1365Nice, I'm glad he returned.
>>1367Welcome back and thank you for taking care of the board. Good luck!
No.1371
>>1365Did you hold that "state of Wapchan" stream on Sunday? I was planning to attend, but was busy this weekend. If it's still gonna happen I'll be sure to come.
No.1372
>>1371It's being pushed back to this Saturday (the 4th)
No.1373
>>1372Great, thanks. See you then
No.1387
The State of Wapchan stream will happen at
1PM EST THIS SATURDAY 5/4 simultaneously on YouTube (
https://www.youtube.com/@figamin ) and Cytube (
https://cytu.be/r/wapstreams ), also accessible with the "cinema" link.
No.1413
>>1412It's back. I placed it with the other boards for now as opposed to the thread options, let me know if you'd prefer it the other way.
No.1464
>>1460If you want opinions on the UI, personally I'm not a huge fan of the 4chanX UI with altchans. It works well enough on 4chan but only because of the sheer number of boards. I did quite like the yellow wapchan logo at the top left of the sidebar, I would like to see it back, and also I'm having some trouble with finding the different CSS themes with the new layout. For all the criticism I gave, I don't mind it actually it does work quite well
No.1466
>>1460my biggest qualm with the ui is that i can't seem to find an option to turn off the animated background on the wapchan/wapchan classic themes and i'm too lazy to make a userstyle to override it. it's really distracting when i'm trying to read, it should probably obey the browser/os-level settings for animations?
No.1473
I agree with
>>1466. It also feels needlessly browser intensive.
No.1479
Hope you all have had a fun summer so far. Won't be back home for another couple weeks but I hope to work on site related projects, old and new, when I get back!
>>1464>>1466>>1473I'll try and push out a UI update tonight that addresses these comments (just been busy w/ little computer time)
No.1484
>>1482the forum idea sounds great! i agree with you that it needs to be a bit more personal and it would fit with a site with a small userbase like this.
will the name be changed? if it becomes less of an altchan the name wapchan won't make much sense
No.1489
>>1488That streaming schedule works for me. I'm also interested in the tournament. It will give me a reason to dust off my arcade stick.
No.1490
>>1488Should be a good time. Why Soku instead of Melty?
No.1491
>>1490i've never actually played any of the melty games (or tsukihime)...
but this will be the first of many a tournament. so i'll keep this in the backburner for a bit.
(i really haven't read a lot of VNs. got a steqm deck recently so i can finally catch up on the old backlog)
No.1493
Can you give me mod for tower? The previous mod has gone dark, and the spam is starting to pile up.
No.1494
Next stream is happening tomorrow.
>>1493If you are willing to email me (admin@wapchan.org) I can set you up with a mod account. Please include your IP so I can verify it's the same poster.
No.1506
>>1460Wow, this site is so cool!
I've seen you around in some streams and never did I imagine you were a board owner on a cool site like this!!
No.1533
>>1524Welcome to the new wapchan.
Because we are running on vichan now, this site is fully compatible with 4chanX. I've even added custom styling for it, you just need to add the site to the userscript.
No.1535
>>1533Looks good. It seems to work a lot smoother now. There are a few bugs and missing things. Radio and streams link doesn't work and the Tor site is down again. If you have time please add a dozen new features like a waterslide, a fortune telling board.
No.1536
>>1535>If you have time please add a dozen new featuresHere's the first!
A subset of emojis (471) get wordfiltered to SoftBank's 2001 series!
I'll add a page for this soon listing all of them, but it's the vast majority of commonly used ones.
I'm working on custom emotes as well.
https://emojipedia.org/softbank/2001
>waterslideWorking on that…
No.1538
>>1537I added the previewing linked posts on hover back, as well as the quick reply window.
No.1541
>>1533I'm just curious why you're using vichan in 2024.
No.1542
>>1541is there anything out there that's actually better?
>lynxchanoverbuilt, slow
>jschanevery site built with it looks the exact same
both of them use mongoshit for some reason
>meguca or any other shitdead
vichan just werks, and is easy as fuck to mod compared to any of the nodejs scripts
No.1543
will vichan lainchan ever be good and not a massive cluster fuck under the hood?
No.1544
>>1542Vichan's always looked like the best 4chan knockoff. The other scripts don't give a fuck about appearances.
No.1558
Are there plans to bring back some sort of aggregate board/overboard? Or is that not supported by the new software?
No.1559
>>1558Check out
https://wapchan.org/all/ ("all" on the navbar)
No.1560
>>1559You just added that, didn't you? I swear, I'm not that blind. Thanks in any case.
No.1563
>>1561We have recently added two net friends:
>Rotting Angels of the Omnipotent Eye (https://rottingangels.org/)An imageboard focused on a variety of niche topics, from extreme sports to recreational drugs.
>39chan (https://39chan.moe/)An imageboard centered around the topic of VOCALOID and vocal synthesizer culture.
These are both relatively new boards that I believe have potential and have similar rulesets to wapchan.
Be sure to visit them! I will try to coordinate cross-site events in the future.
No.1568
>>1567for what it's worth, the frontpage is now blue instead of black and the text is a normal black-on-white format. Is the style of the frontpage linked to my local time? Which is a cool idea, but maybe you could add a manual style choice like for the boards.
No.1569
>>1567It's going to happen, probably around thanksgiving (US).
My eye got better a while ago; I've just been busy with other projects. Gotta remember to wear safety glasses next time…
>>1568The frontpage issues were related to a different fix I did to get board default themes working. I've added a homepage specific style selector that's separate, and I've made every theme at least readable if not polished on the homepage.
No.1572
>>1569Looks good, thanks for the quick fix. Looking forward to the stream.
No.1584
>>1569watching the stream; just don't have a YT account. Also the music is earsplittingly loud
No.1605
here is[b]a test[/b] for [i]bbcode[/i] which is a [u]totally neat[/u] way of [s]marking up text[/s]!
No.1606
>>1605here is
a test for
bbcode which is a
totally neat way of
marking up text!
No.1607
>>1606here is a [quote]quote test[/quote] lol
No.1608
Site has been updated to Vichan 5.2. A few things may be temporarily broken.
No.1684
>>1683This will be fixed soon!
