English Image Boards (854)

1 Name: !WAHa.06x36 2004-10-23 17:07 ID:pKZskDww [Del]

Post links to English-language image boards here. To start off, here are the usual suspects:

http://www.iichan.net/ - DEAD DEAD DEAD
http://www.4chan.org/ - The original English-language board.
http://www.0chan.net/w/ - The Switzerland of image boards.
http://www.5chan.net/ - lol furries

Post more, unless they prefer to stay secret.

430 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-04 02:40 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>429
I guess you tl;dr'd >>426.

> Sure, you can do the same with Kareha with capcodes, or really with any board by editing the database (or whatever storage method it uses) but it's not something that the board is specifically written to do.

My point being kusaba is the only board that actively suggests it.

431 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-04 03:13 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>429

> The point is you will have to trust admins, anywhere on the Internet

Hah!

432 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-04 21:12 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>429 Actually, with well-designed software, the admins could be lying sacks of shit and they still couldn't impersonate you.

433 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-06 15:56 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>432

>well-designed software

Oh, you mean like Kusaba?

>sarcasm

434 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-09 14:21 ID:Heaven [Del]

435 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-09 20:26 ID:Heaven [Del]

Oh wow, yet another ...
Fuck it, I can't be bothered to even write a whole sentence deriding a new useless board anymore.

436 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-20 16:06 ID:R9nZrf7t [Del]

http://freechan.org
it's up and not doing so bad. The mods do a fairly decent job of keeping the "when i was", laugh you lose, post ending in xx threads away. I'd like to get some intelligent discussion boards populated though.

437 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-21 18:12 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>436
Isn't that run by that same shitstain who flooded every single board from the overchan with 11chan ads? And then proceeded to get DDoSed, gave up, tried again a few months later with Failchan, which also failed because he's a complete douche, then tried again with Echochan, and also failed at that?

438 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-22 15:36 ID:AQZG5ztb [Del]

>>437
Naw, Naka was rejected from Freechan

439 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-26 17:11 ID:Heaven [Del]

440 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-27 23:30 ID:4NyWQWLF [Del]

441 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-28 06:56 ID:Heaven [Del]

442 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-30 14:45 ID:kojsnyZi [Del]

http://nullchan.com

It is a entirely worksafe imageboard that does not cover weeaboo topics.

443 Name: Anonymous : 2007-12-30 19:48 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>442
And has no posts.

444 Name: Anonymous : 2008-01-02 20:44 ID:Heaven [Del]

http://joyfulnote.com

A general discussion board

445 Name: Anonymous : 2008-01-03 10:58 ID:Heaven [Del]

The number 444 disturbs me so I'm making the postcount of this thread 445.

446 Name: Anonymous : 2008-01-24 05:29 ID:ERgYg4hX [Del]

http://auschan.org/

For ausfags and lulz.

Enjoy!

447 Name: Anonymous : 2008-01-24 07:09 ID:Heaven [Del]

This thread should adopt a "no lulz" rule, wherein any post linking to a site containing the word "lulz" gets aborn'd on sight.

448 Name: Anonymous : 2008-01-24 15:16 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>447
hey fuck you buddy.

449 Name: Anonymous : 2008-01-24 19:02 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>448

>>447 did it for the lulz and much lulz were had

450 Name: Anonymous : 2008-01-25 01:01 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>449
>>448 here, i was only saying fuck u buddy cause i run a chan site that has "lulz" in the URL.

451 Name: Anonymous : 2008-01-25 10:58 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>450

>u

Why would you use that letter by itself?

452 Name: Anonymous : 2008-01-25 14:46 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>451
welcome 2 the internets.

i hope you can comprehend reading.

453 Name: Anonymous : 2008-01-26 19:28 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>452
Only when using proper English :/

454 Name: Anonymous : 2008-01-28 14:44 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>453
...and you decide that punctuation doesn't matter?

Basically, you've proven my point.

455 Post deleted by moderator.

456 Name: Anonymous : 2008-02-14 11:26 ID:RmNWpr6Y [Del]

457 Name: Sako : 2008-02-19 05:48 ID:01wuR0P+ [Del]

458 Name: Sammich : 2008-02-24 15:37 ID:4le/CTqs [Del]

www.anonib.com/averagechan/
If you pick up anonib.

459 Name: Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!EYGgTecU : 2008-02-25 09:41 ID:sZ1tyT73 [Del]

http://rechan.da.ru/

Not your average anonymous board.

460 Name: Anonymous : 2008-02-25 13:57 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>459
True. Your average anonymous board doesn't shit out with xml parsing errors.

461 Name: My other car : 2008-02-25 14:17 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>460
I fixed a problem with two of the text boards and they validated fine, the site is new and /s/ was setup for a reason.

462 Name: Anonymous : 2008-02-25 22:11 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>461
It's still broken, or broken again. You should give up the xhtml unless you're also planning on fixing your Kareha installation.

463 Name: Anonymous : 2008-02-26 04:01 ID:Heaven [Del]

XHTML is awesome. Either your code is either well formed or it is a failure. There is no ambiguity.

464 Name: Anonymous : 2008-02-26 14:45 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>461 you're having issues with encoding, it looks like.

465 Name: My other car : 2008-02-27 00:13 ID:Heaven [Del]

Fixed now.

466 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-19 07:59 ID:rgpOkhEK [Del]

467 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-19 15:42 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>466

> A somewhat hacked up version of the Wakaba Image Board script, omitting such cosmetic functionalities like Javascript.

Why?

468 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-20 10:35 ID:rgpOkhEK [Del]

>>466
Speed mostly. I find those features such as auto-post linking a bit useless on slow-moving boards. The goal is in the end, faster content at slower download speeds. (In before somebody calls me out for not having compression enabled as well, working on that, lighty's being wonky.)
That being said, cross-thread linking does work through pure html.

469 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-20 12:13 ID:ffdECZ4f [Del]

>>466
I have JS usually disabled, so that's a welcome change.

470 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2008-03-20 14:55 ID:GDxr9w82 [Del]

>>468

Of course, JS files are aggressively cached by most browsers.

471 Post deleted by user.

472 Name: Anonymous : 2008-03-23 19:41 ID:Heaven [Del]

Since xChan was recently squatted, I made a clone.

http://zchan.org/

473 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-07 15:54 ID:Heaven [Del]

474 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-23 09:36 ID:khenTNVE [Del]

http://411chan.org (knowledge is power! srs)

475 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-24 08:01 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>474
Kusaba? Check.
"Random" board in bold? Check.
Scientology raid? Check.
Red-flag words such as "lulz", "srsly", or "9000"? Check.
Default ugly-ass layout? Check.
Free and/or oversold cheap web hosting that will break under any actual load? Check.

Yep, looks like another useless 4chan clone. At least you spent two seconds changing the favicon.

476 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-24 13:05 ID:Heaven [Del]

Can someone please register all ???chan.(org|net|com) domains? You'd be doing the world a favor.

477 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-24 21:32 ID:Heaven [Del]

478 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-25 11:05 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>477
No, register as in purchase, and point all of them to domain parking services. Preferably, one which returns a page saying "YOU ARE NOT CLEVER FOR HAVING THOUGHT OF THIS DOMAIN NAME"

479 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-25 20:16 ID:cOMt3y2q [Del]

>>478

Include some ads there, and you'd have yourself a winner.

480 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-26 11:13 ID:Heaven [Del]

http://anonymosity.org/

I'm tired of seeing all these shitty Kusaba 4chan clones sprouting around nowadays.

481 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-26 11:30 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>480 "There are no threads in this board, why don't you start one?"

482 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-26 13:26 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>481

I just opened it today, so don't expect alot of posts.

483 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-26 15:26 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>480
Well......

  • Can't see anything about a thread until clicking on it.
  • Placing the posting form on a separate page discourages people from contributing.
  • BBcode is braindead. If you're parsing something HTML-like anyway, why not go the extra zero percent and parse actual HTML?
  • It doesn't seem like there's any convenient way to reference previous posts; at least, there's no sort of post numbering.
  • Same selection of boards as pretty much any generic imageboard. "Halp"?
  • The "moderate" button suggests that the board is run by the moderators, rather than the users. Read this, particularly the last paragraph. It's on a different subject but the concept applies here as well.
  • "?task=board&value=bs" - mega-ugly URLs.
  • Page caching is aggressively disabled, which is a waste of bandwidth.
  • Written in PHP. Don't get me wrong; this isn't inherently bad, but usually this is the case, and judging by the "function redir($cake)" I see in the page source, I'm not altogether optimistic about the quality of the backend code.

484 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-26 16:48 ID:fOglHoOG [Del]

  • Adds to the surprise. No just kidding, but that's what subjects are for.
  • Are people really too lazy to click a link to the post form. IMO it takes up unneeded space in the board/thread view.
  • BBcode gets the job done.
  • Yeah I know ):
  • I suppose
  • The moderate button is the only sign of moderation on the boards, mods have no way of identifying themselves.
  • I may play around with Mod-Rewrite sometime in the future.
  • Fixed.
  • Well, that's just the javascript, the actual backend is clean and well written.

Thanks for the feedback.

485 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-27 03:10 ID:Heaven [Del]

  • Makes it harder to read the board. I like being able to, for example, load /soc/ and get the most recent posts along with the context of the threads they're in, all on one page.
  • Perhaps you're not realizing why it's so useful to have this on the same page. First, having the post form in plain view actively invites people to post a reply, rather than merely suggesting that it is possible to do so. Second, putting the form on a separate page necessitates flipping back and forth, or opening two browser windows, in order to refer back to previous posts in the thread. I understand it's a matter of opinion, but this is the main reason why I don't even bother with most forums.
  • So does HTML, and it's not retarded. Assuming you're doing something more robust than s/\[(\/?[biu])\]/<$1>/g (and I really hope you are), you're already doing most of the work. Plus, there's libraries abound for other markup schemes; PHP-Markdown, for example, is pretty easy to install and use.

I'd still go for hiding the mod panel login on a different page. (admin.php, maybe?) It's a wart on an otherwise very clean layout.

486 Name: Anonymous : 2008-04-28 15:41 ID:fOglHoOG [Del]

  • Htaccess implemented to clean up URL's
  • Mod box is hidden, only shown if you click the link at the top

487 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-02 01:31 ID:Heaven [Del]

488 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-02 12:15 ID:fOglHoOG [Del]

>>487

Soup tj9991. Why don't you kill kusaba and work on this instead.

489 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-02 12:17 ID:fOglHoOG [Del]

Also you should use thumbnails, or your bandwidth will be abused.

490 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-02 21:33 ID:gSZ6kxOn [Del]

>>487
hmm... path disclosure vulnerability.

491 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-02 23:18 ID:0fn3K2+g [Del]

You don't need mod_rewrite to implement clean URLs.

492 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-03 08:41 ID:56jPAPmd [Del]

>>491

  • I didn't want to rewrite the entire script
  • I didn't want the script to make a directory for every board

493 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-03 10:49 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>488
That's currently the plan of action.

>>489
There was a notice in the rules area which explained the lack of true thumbnails. The framework I'm using (Google App Engine) doesn't include any kind of image library with Python.
Now I use an off-site script to process the thumbnails, which pushes them back when finished.

And, because I'd like to get this off of my back, >>487 is the first post I've made on this board in about six or seven months. I do, however, enjoy lurking here, because it is a great site of discussion. In my time here I've seen quite a few posts which appear to be identifying the poster as myself, usually including a snappy phrase involving going back to bed. I just want to say that I've laughed quite a few times at these, and I want you to keep it up.

In before "gb2bed Trevor"

494 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-03 11:44 ID:56jPAPmd [Del]

>>493
No gb2/bed's here, I'm quite impressed! Keep it up.

495 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-03 11:46 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>494
go back to bed, trevor

496 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-03 20:01 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>490
fix:

# work around stupid web browsers that send the directory name (*cough* msie. maybe others, who the hell knows)
original_filename = re.split(r'[:\\/]+', filename_from_browser)[-1]

497 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-14 13:17 ID:83qJ/GY/ [Del]

http://kuvalauta.fi the finland of imageboards

498 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-17 12:09 ID:PizKsqbY [Del]

New imageboard - http://aichan.blipy.net

499 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-17 12:51 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>498
Hooray, yet another Kusaba imageboard with the default futaba CSS and a Random, Anime, Video Games, and Television board!

500 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-17 19:37 ID:Heaven [Del]

Half-way to close.

501 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-19 19:41 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>499
And porn boards! No imageboard has had porn before!

502 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-19 21:51 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>499
but no /b/ :(

503 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-19 23:44 ID:6411HZRx [Del]

This is an imageboard for a group of students that have graduated or are currently attending a small advanced program school in the United States! It is work-safe only and has nothing to do with anime at all! Please do not hurt the server, I do not have any more!

http://andyh.ath.cx/imgboard/

504 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-20 16:56 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>503
the "JEWS" stylesheet is pretty classy, is that yours or does it come with kusaba by default?

505 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-21 00:34 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>504
jews.css was homegrown, though it probably should be the default style on every kusaba install considering the code that i've seen in it so far

506 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-26 16:18 ID:nf3IQgPR [Del]

An imageboard that I started for "extreme" sports. Still doing a lot of hacking on it. I am hoping to attract some users, but have not started actively advertising it yet.

Any comments, criticisms, or suggestions appreciated.

http://www.xschan.com

507 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-26 18:46 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>506
I look at the front page, notice the lack of frames and a layout similar to 4chan, expected something good, noticed it was powered by kusaba and was full of ads, I got deceived.

508 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-26 21:07 ID:w6P+bRcT [Del]

>>507

Yeah, I see everyone bashes kusaba around here, but I have not seen any good reason why? I'm all ears. I prefer working with PHP rather than perl so that is why I chose kusaba. Is there something bad about it that I don't know?

Also, are ads on an imageboard a bad thing or what? I don't think 1 google ad in the upper part of the page could be considered "full of ads" either.

509 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-26 22:15 ID:6411HZRx [Del]

>>508
There's nothing wrong with Kusaba the way you're handling it. You've obviously modified it somewhat--one of the things that irritates me is the default installations loaded with boards that are exactly like the major *chans.

The code is pretty bad too, but I'm sure you've noticed that. Don't worry, >>507 is probably just butthurt because he is the opposite of athletic.

510 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-27 05:21 ID:Ssq/4GVk [Del]

>>509
Yes, I have looked at some of the code, especially in the board-post.class.php and it is a bit sloppy. However, it is pretty well documented so I can see what it is doing and make some changes. The biggest problem I see with it is the lack of separation of code and interface. I haven't dug in too deep on a lot of it yet though, so I may find other surprises.

Another thing I thought was strange was that there are a lot of hard coded ads, links, etc built into the code for kusaba.org that are turned on with the setting of a variable.

On a side note, my target audience may also not have a lot of experience with this type of website so it will be interesting to see how it goes.

511 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-27 12:47 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>510
Good luck. I swapped a phpbb-style forum out for an imageboard once. Most of the regular posters left, and the ones that stayed kept complaining that it was too hard to post.

512 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-27 13:38 ID:D5x0L0LN [Del]

>>511
Yes, it certainly will be challenging changing the mindset of the users. It seems that the average internet user, in the USA, has grown accustom to the vbulletin style of message boards. How do you go about getting them to use an interface that they are not familiar with? I mean its not like image boards are particularly hard to use, they just are "different".

Any advice out there?

513 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-27 21:36 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>512
Just explain it really, really well. Don't link straight to the board, link to a click-through tutorial of sorts, explaining how it all works so they can get a bit of understanding of the board style.

For example, point out that it's just simpler to type your name rather than logging in all the time, about how posting is easier and faster because the form's right there on the page already, show them how to delete posts (nobody can figure this one out on their own; even regulars seem to miss this, and the ability to control your post is apparently important to phpbb/vbulletin regulars)... basically compare and contrast the two styles and show why this style of board is better.

Be careful not to make it come off as some sort of crazy rant, though. Yammering about anonymity and the like to people who are very much entrenched in the idea of having a fixed identity will definitely scare a lot of would-be posters off. Maybe point out tripcodes, but don't get too technical about them, and keep them in a separate section/page.

Also, try to get people to understand that what they're looking at isn't some kind of blog or guestbook. A lot of people are hesitant to post because they're not sure what the board is.

Basically, you pretty much want to get the point across that yes, it does look different, but it's fundamentally similar to any phpbb/vbulletin board, just stripped of a lot of the fluff.

Oh, and a non-Futaba-style layout might help. A lot of people don't post because it's "too ugly". I don't get this reasoning, and personally I think phpbb looks like pure ass... shrug

514 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-27 21:38 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>512
Btw, awesome ID. Kami!

515 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-30 09:12 ID:W+naLjA2 [Del]

Plus4chan /n/ - News

http://plus4chan.org/boards/n/

516 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-30 11:08 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>515

  • kusaba
  • sticky
  • capcode
  • > All discussion of invading 4chan/n/, bans from 4chan, debate of where to go, whatever, etc goes here.

In conclusion, no.

517 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-31 03:20 ID:ia5pXAsm [Del]

i don't want to start a new thread for this moment of idle curiosity, so i'll ask here:

sovietrussia.org boards link to http://rigelseven.com/ at the bottom, with the title "matsuba".
but I don't see anything about "matsuba" on that site.
what is it?

518 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-31 03:53 ID:L4rLJgNr [Del]

>>517
His home brewed imageboard, last time I checked.
You can't download it though. You can try beg him, I'm sure he'll enjoy the pestering.

519 Name: Anonymous : 2008-05-31 07:18 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>517

A currrently closed sourced (I believe) Python imageboard. Storlek said that he'd make it available sometime in the future, but he said it was a terror to install.

520 Name: Cudder : 2008-06-03 02:00 ID:Heaven [Del]

...why not put throw this out into the open too

http://rechan.eu.org/script/

Not really an image board per se, but just a little something I wrote to be an extremely lightweight and simple discussion board that can run on almost any server. Its featureset is far from complete, but right now it's adequate for my site so I'm not going to ``fix'' it.

521 Name: Anonymous : 2008-06-03 05:33 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>520

> I'm not going to ``fix'' it.

That's okay, I did it for you: http://qm3monarchzifkwa.onion/tinybb.txt

522 Name: Anonymous : 2008-06-03 22:21 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>521 lol .onion fails.

523 Name: Anonymous : 2008-06-03 23:48 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>522
lol not as much as rechan.

524 Name: Anonymous : 2008-06-18 21:48 ID:Heaven [Del]

http://n7c.org/

not this shit again...

525 Name: Anonymous : 2008-06-20 23:17 ID:/38w1y1W [Del]

http://jbotcan.org/

It's basically "Lojban-chan"

526 Name: Anonymous : 2008-06-20 23:31 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>525
I realize now that this is an image board about a non-english language in the English Image Boards thread. However, 2/3rds of the boards are in english so I suppose it's alright.

527 Name: Anonymous : 2008-06-25 01:31 ID:7OgjyuZH [Del]

http://www.otaku-chan.org/

new hobbyist related board

528 Name: Anonymous : 2008-06-25 17:35 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>527 Wow, futaba? And a postrate so low it looks like a personal board. GJ there.

529 Name: Anonymous : 2008-06-25 22:57 ID:Nq4f4Eir [Del]

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