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Preview Button Considered Harmful (?) (2)

1 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-29 04:03 ID:lVgk7FhO [Del]

The version of Shiichan that MrVacBob hacked together doesn't have a post preview feature, while boards based around Kareha do. Being able to check my posts for various formatting issues before I send them is pretty useful, I'll admit. When I find myself on /prog/ every now and then (not very often nowadays, I'll admit), I get a little anxious when posting, for fear of leaving a tag unclosed, nesting tags incorrectly, or forgetting the exact way that Shiichan's sometimes bizarre formatting conventions work. If I'm particularly serious about the effort I'm putting into a post, I'll even go as far as to test my work in an old thread (sageing, of course).

In a way, I think this lack of a preview feature might be a good thing, however. At the very least, it makes people stop and think about what they're posting before they post it, even if it's only for a second.

What does The Society think? Are preview buttons helpful or harmful? For that matter, do small barriers to posting have a positive or negative effect on post quality? For instance, captchas prevent spam, of course, but could they discourage people from making frivolous posts as well?

Most of what I'm saying shouldn't be taken very seriously, since the most important part of a community is not the software but the people that comprises it. I'm still curious to hear some opinions on this, however.

2 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-29 07:09 ID:Heaven [Del]

There's a greasemonkey script to add post preview for shiichan.

Captchas are stupid.
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The end of online Anonymity? (4)

1 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-25 22:04 ID:DoH9RD7H [Del]

See the link for all the details
**https://panopticlick.eff.org/**
the tl;dr version is that the collection of environmental variables that your browser broadcasts makes you uniquely identifiable online even if you use proxies.

2 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-25 22:07 ID:DoH9RD7H [Del]

shit, i wanted to bold up the link for increased awesomeness, but just fucked it up instead. story of my life (although to embellish the story of my like a bit, i also masturbate frequently. shit, why am i telling you all this? i'm not anonymous anymore)
http://panopticlick.eff.org/

3 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-25 23:09 ID:Heaven [Del]

4 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-29 02:33 ID:dL49n3LE [Del]

Make a program that broadcast fake environmental variables and distribute it among the anonymous communities.

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making an image board (41)

1 Name: Anonymous : 2009-01-10 15:43 ID:G0v8Ln8r [Del]

Hey, im looking to make an image board, but I have no idea where to begin, the only thing I have found are the scripts but, I dont have a clue how to use them.

32 Name: Anonymous : 2009-08-06 08:40 ID:eAhBuMjg [Del]

true.dat

33 Name: dave : 2009-08-31 06:01 ID:3vR7OGdv [Del]

1.go to http://tweeterwall.mallplace.com/tw/usa/mr-twitter
2.vote for pedobear
3.????
4.Profit!

34 Name: Anonymous : 2009-09-04 15:31 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>33
spamfag

35 Name: lol : 2010-03-13 03:39 ID:JA2rz5Xp [Del]

lol

36 Name: Anonymous : 2010-04-09 08:00 ID:L902D/Wv [Del]

Nice to see Anon can do nothing but bicker over the same shit again and again - would somebody answer the damn OPs question nobody cares about your failure of a *chan or the size of your e-peen, faggots.

37 Name: Anonymous : 2010-04-10 08:48 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>36
Nobody cares about OP (you?) either. To anyone with any programming experience it would be highly obvious and trivial to write an imageboard.

38 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-26 07:42 ID:4sVun4qE [Del]

LONG THREAD IS LONG

39 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-28 17:39 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>37
And to use an existing script you don't even need it.

40 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-29 02:31 ID:EZv+e7GN [Del]

If you can't use FTP and install a copy of Kusaba then you don't have the right to own an imageboard..

41 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-29 07:10 ID:Heaven [Del]

> Kusaba
If you think Kusaba is some sort of high-water mark you shouldn't be talking.
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Imageboards for Proboards and Invisionfree (5)

1 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-17 00:42 ID:nxyAzGvp [Del]

Someone posted a thread on /g/ asking if it were possible to code an imageboard for Proboards and Invisionfree message boards. Could this be possible?

2 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-17 10:18 ID:Heaven [Del]

Of course. Anything is possible. Whether it's stupid is another manner, and since it's /g/ you're talking about, yes, it's stupid.

3 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-18 00:58 ID:Heaven [Del]

Why would you want to do that?

4 Name: NekoArc!0aMBiTions : 2010-07-28 13:07 ID:4i2guyKA [Del]

>>1
IB4F is proof of such a concept. I tend to shy away from services like that though. Sure it's a neat idea, but most of the sites that are created from that kind of service wind up being inactive because people can just make a site and either think they'll magically get activity, or they'll spam other sites trying to get activity.

5 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-29 02:29 ID:sdu2oS1z [Del]

>>1
I don't like the idea of being able to know nothing being a web admin and using a "board creator" so you can run a text board and think you're cool for using a "board creator". I'd understand if they had to get a freehost and install the scripts themselves because that requires more skill and time then clicking "MAEK KOOL IMAGEBOARD!!!"

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Getting away from the "*chan" culture (21)

1 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-01 21:14 ID:0YndmB9Q [Del]

I know there are a lot of imageboards and textboards out there and I was wondering if it is possible to get away from the "*chan" culture. There are too many "*chans", and most of them have the same jokes, content, "macros/memes", etc.

I think there is a lot of potential associated to imageboard system and anonimity that can be used in the west, but do you think that it can be separated from all the "chan" mess and takeoff as another option in the west? Can we start over? What do you think?

12 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-13 20:32 ID:mYreLeZW [Del]

>>9

Of course there are in-jokes and memes. But compare 420chan to 711chan. 711chan is FULL of retarded memes and there are barely any serious discussions. 420chan is usually a helpful and friendly place with lots of interesting boards. So yeah, 420chan has inside jokes like DICKS EVERYWHERE, "Specia", feem etc, but that's just part of the whole experience. I've seen most users get openly mocked simply because they use a 4chan meme.

13 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-14 19:43 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>10

I want to post all over Tohno-chan.

14 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-25 14:39 ID:hkbgz6gx [Del]

i was permabanned from 420chan for saying something bad about obama on one of the politics board QQ, its not a cool place at all, it only is if you're willing to fit in with their ideas of what is good, (obeying social constructs is very meme like, just not funny) anyway the vast majority of the anons who are against "memes" are so humorless that they get pissed off at anyone's attempt at humor be it original or not.
west imageboard culture was created years ago, but the people who currently dominate it are not the creators and it has stagnated as a result. there are the odd good boards around, i'd love it if i could mention them here, but i wouldn't risk it except to generally say the some of the non-english language boards have a lot more free-thinking and creativity than sites like the commonly mentioned 4chan spinoffs.

15 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-27 16:41 ID:WMIcWfBE [Del]

Perhaps something like the website "Dollars" from the light novel/anime Durarara!! would be a good idea. One could go further than anonymity and create a website that's exclusive and send passwords to random people within a certain area: Los Angeles, New York, or London- big cities. Only people who know the password to the website would have access and since the website is exclusive to certain areas people would relate more to each other's topics. Rather than talking about international issues people could talk about things that are happening in the city. There would also be a sense of community knowing that most members are from the same area... Gah, I don't know. It has its limitations, but perhaps there's some potential in creating websites that are widely known, yet completely exclusive?

16 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-27 18:37 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>15
Elitism.

17 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-28 02:00 ID:ig0++ud1 [Del]

A good idea would be to make a site with family members/friends/college classmates and just post about things there interested in like Video Games and Anime I'd start with one bored and use Kareha+2chi mode and let the blossom bloom from there.

18 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-28 09:42 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>17
I tried doing something like this a couple years ago: I created a "local" board, gave the link to my friends. *Everyone* I talked to had similar sentiments about the anonymity aspect: why would you want to post anonymously if you know everyone, why would you be anonymous in the first place unless you have something to hide, etc. I didn't even really draw attention to it, and didn't say anything about tripcodes either for fear of confusing people --- I had tried introducing tripcodes to a certain online community once and they were mostly confused by them, and most people said that they seemed pointless because you could just as easily log in. The concept was entirely lost on them :(

Most people, sadly enough, also said that Facebook offered everything that they wanted in terms of keeping in touch with people.

It was a huge, disappointing failure.

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20 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-29 02:27 ID:ig0++ud1 [Del]

>>18
Good to know that the idea didn't work for you. I guess it takes a certain type of person to like imageboards/textboards I myself prefer them over social networking sites. You would've had to made these sites back in 1990's or back in the early 2000's. Like the Futaba Channel and 4Chan.

21 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-29 07:19 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>20
You're sadly right.

I had a long argument with someone about the benefits of anonymity, long story short is that they saw no point to it at all and viewed it as cowardice, and that the only reason anyone wouldn't want to attach their complete personal contact information (including their home address and phone number) would obviously be to cause problems for others. I am not kidding.

Later they even made the suggestion that online anonymity was a horrible thing that leads to people being raped and killed.

For some people there's just no hope. :(

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Text Board Scripts (77)

1 Name: Anonymous : 2008-10-12 09:16 ID:I9AUiObw [Del]

Hi, I am looking for a barebones and efficient text board script. Preferably with at least some basic functions such as tripcodes.

Also I have some questions about text boards. How much space do they usually take up? How much does this board use to store all the accumulated posts from years ago?

68 Name: Anonymous : 2010-05-06 18:54 ID:6JVY4rsa [Del]

I just finished the frontend portion of my script re-write. I've been working on it for several months, taking my sweet time. Now I've got something to show for it.

http://tablecat.co.cc/

69 Name: Anonymous : 2010-05-20 06:06 ID:2A01ushR [Del]

Anybody have a copy of tinybb.pl lying around? Google gives me a few other tinybbs which are not perl, and the wayback machine has nothing.

70 Name: !hoTarufiRE : 2010-05-21 00:37 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>69
i do, but it's on a hard drive that's in a machine with a dead power supply, at the bottom of a large cardboard box full of stuff.

71 Name: Anonymous : 2010-05-21 03:22 ID:GdcT5Uok [Del]

>>70

Welp. I guess I'll keep hunting and hope that by some miracle it got backed up somewhere on the internet.

72 Name: Anonymous : 2010-05-21 09:43 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>70
and nothing of value was ... unpowered and buried?

73 Name: Anonymous : 2010-05-22 01:13 ID:6JVY4rsa [Del]

>>69
Here is the original tinybb.txt I had saved.

http://tablecat.co.cc/tinybb.txt

There was also a CSS file that came with it, but I don't have it.

74 Name: Anonymous : 2010-05-22 05:15 ID:6JVY4rsa [Del]

I also wrote my own take on tinybb's unique style.

http://tablecat.co.cc/tinypost.txt

75 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-06 00:11 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>73
if anyone wants it, the original tinybb is back up at http://hotaru.thinkindifferent.net/tinybb/tinybb.txt, and the css file is at http://hotaru.thinkindifferent.net/tinybb/style.css.

76 Name: !hoTarufiRE : 2010-07-11 03:33 ID:WBmdCxnK [Del]

here's a new one: tinybb3here's the code, if anyone is interested...

77 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-24 21:59 ID:EI+i5tgA [Del]

links dead :/

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PHP textboard (4)

1 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-24 15:13 ID:3uUKC6Fh [Del]

Really guys, isn't there any usable textboard script in PHP?

2 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-24 16:34 ID:Heaven [Del]

Write your own, you can do it in ~100 lines of code easy.

3 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-25 06:59 ID:Heaven [Del]

Shiicha... oh wait.

4 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-27 19:32 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>2
easy~

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Let's collect famous nicknames / tripcodes (63)

1 Name: Anonymous 2004-12-08 22:57 ID:Heaven [Del]

長老としあき◆/W36t6cILw

General poster at the whole nijiura / 101freeway clique. Activity & quality!

54 Name: Anonymous 2005-09-26 07:59 ID:Pywb/RZ1 [Del]

Upon further investigation, it seems he may use ひろゆき ◆HRUNYAXA too.

55 Name: Anonymous 2005-09-26 09:15 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>54
lol YAXA

56 Name: !WAHa.06x36 2005-09-26 13:20 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>54

That's an 8-character tripcode, so it's pretty old.

57 Name: !EBHsswvZUM 2005-09-26 19:00 ID:FC0FSJ1b [Del]

>>52

Ain't it amazing how much detritus you leave lying around the 'Net?

It's true that I post on both 4chan and iichan. I don't post on 2chan, though, since I don't know Japanese. It's not unrealistic that someone else chose my tripcode.

58 Name: Anonymous 2005-09-27 12:26 ID:8casy1Oc [Del]

>>56
the 10-character version of it is 3SHRUNYAXA

59 Name: !3SHRUNYAXA 2005-09-30 07:45 ID:8casy1Oc [Del]

hay guys

60 Name: Gwen Steffani 2005-10-05 07:38 ID:Heaven [Del]

famous singer

61 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-05 08:24 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>60 is DQN

62 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-07 11:26 ID:rsNmaBUS [Del]

mml wins

63 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-23 23:20 ID:wfHG3pEc [Del]

NECRO

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IMG Board Scripts (467)

1 Name: Anonymous 2004-10-28 16:59 ID:Heaven [Del]

Futaba
http://www.2chan.net/script/

Futallaby (up to 040103)
http://www.1chan.net/futallaby/

Wakaba
http://wakaba.c3.cx/

moeren
http://moepic.dip.jp/gazo/script/index.php

siokara
(seems to be still in heavy development.
couldn't find a link to an available

Post too long. Click to view the whole post or the thread page.

458 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-22 20:00 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>453
Java? Excuse me but what the fuck?

459 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-23 23:11 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>458
If you have one you've written in a language like Haskell, Scheme, or C, you can complain about Java. Otherwise, you're just like the idiot managers who force people to use Java for things it's completely inappropriate for.

460 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-24 00:16 ID:Heaven [Del]

>If you have one you've written in a language like

Sorry sir I can't make sense out of your message.

461 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-24 00:17 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>459
Java isn't appropriate for anything.

462 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-24 01:51 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>461
Post the code for your Haskell, Scheme, or C imageboard, or stop being a management-level idiot.

463 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-24 11:41 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>462
C and Haskell are inappropriate languages for an imageboard as well. Scheme is ok perhaps, if not for the lack of libraries that would necessitate reinventing (or tracking down code for) basic things that other languages more suited to the task already have, particularly database interaction and image processing.

464 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-24 16:10 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>462
Crying Javafag.

465 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-24 18:01 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>464
Butthurt non-programmer.

466 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-24 18:20 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>465
Are you saying a Java programmer is a programmer then? Wow.

467 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-24 20:57 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>465
Not liking a specific language doesn't make me any less of a programmer. That's like saying someone isn't a musician because he doesn't like metal or some shit. Grow up.

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weird problems with image board not loading (2)

1 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-17 14:18 ID:fD2AayRJ [Del]

I have no idea WTF is going on. Sometimes I can't access some image boards, today it's 4chan.

Whenever I try to go there, I get half-loaded page of just text, and when I try to go to a specific board the page is blank.

A few time this has happened here, but usually it's 4 chan.

WTF?? How can I prevent this?

2 Name: Anonymous : 2010-07-17 18:21 ID:Heaven [Del]

Get a better ISP.

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