They archived it and added this message:>Vichan has reached its end of life. many of us have lost interest in the project, and the current direction of the internet has not been good for imageboards, whether its ID verification laws, big social media companies killing competition, or Google being hostile towards smaller sites. There are other imageboard engines out there but even if you use them, these are still issues you will need to think about if you start an imageboard or UGC website. You can still install or fork vichan, but do so at your own risk.
>>109266461>https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan
It's not possible to run a vichan instance without getting flooded by spam of illegal bullshit and you have barely any tools to deal with it, so every altchan runs its own modifications.It would be better to start from scratch, rather than trying to patch the existing software to try to tackle issues that didn't exist when it was first created.
>>109267729If I were to ever make an image board, I would consider doing down a very different route. Use a custom protocol and a python script the user must run on their machine which creates a local http server. Since search engines don't work anymore discoverability no longer has any value.
>>109266461This signals the end times>3 replies, page 6This is a confirmation of the end times.I will save this thread with all survivors. This is a historical artifact.
>>109268259wtf is this UI, it looks cool
>>109268259What site is that?
I've been making my own imageboard engine to run locally on small devices like OpenWRT routers.It used to use only FastCGI with a tiny binary but I've been greatly expanding it and moved to HTTP server + SQLite.At this point it's fully functional but the problem is of course... what's the point? You can't put it online without bad actors slapping your shit, and if you put it online there's already a bunch of other imageboards with 3 users.
>>109266461the majority of alt-chand use vichan, like sharty, 8ch, etc.that’s going to fuck shit up
>>109268499Sharty splinters are dying because of this, but sharty seems to be doing alright
>>109266461Son of a bitch.
>>109268600? it's legacy software man no reason to maintain it
archived after someone in a sharty spinoff impliedthey hacked several sites using ai. at least two sites shut down and two changed engine.
>>109266461tinyib/srirachads ww@?
>>109269601killing vichan specifically to deny sharty mongoloids is incredibly based
>>109268259>>109268317>>109268327Are you going to shill your larpsite on every interesting 4/g/ thread now?
>>109269606it was already dead years agoangeleno (a shartfag btw) just closed it so he wouldn't get gaped by fifty FIX YOUR SHIT CODE issues
>>109269626as if that's actually a problem when /g/ is a sharty colony these days
>>109267729The biggest question is: how to stop people from posting images generated with nudification tools.
>>109269667"AI slop" should be a report reason on every chan, including this one
>>109269674I think this site should take example from 7chan and ban all AI content, leaving it to either /b/ or some containment zone
>>109269682they're taking some half-assed stances like that on some boards but they're only going hard enough on it to meet a minimum legal requirement of not generating revenge porn or similar, it's very hard to gauge what the mods actually think of AI slop when they'll let an irrelevant AI gen linger on /v/ for months even after it's devolved into a miniature /r9k/ that ended up getting shuttled off to /vg/ along with the now-cancerous drawthreads
>>1092664614chan got away with no updates for so long, I'm sure altchan sites will just fix their own shit since they still give a shit about their own sites more so than rapeape and HiromootPlus meguca is just a better engine
At this rate it's just an experiment of how long can FreeBSD run without updating it
>>109269710>megucawhat is this?
>>109269728it's main gimmick is you see other users type in realtime
>>109269667Tags and perceptual hash should be a minimum requirement, and for those things alone it's better to start from scratch.And some shitty ai model can assign tags, so you have an nsfw tag and jannies can work on top of that.
Vichan sounds like an Indian name.
>>109268317>>109268327cyberixIt lets us save good 4chan threads forever and continue the discussion with other likeminded individuals there long after the original thread has diedanyway, here's why the internet is like this:https://cy-x.net/pane/post/837and here's this thread:https://cy-x.net/pane/4chan/g/109266461its made in frames so you'll have to go to the main site @ cy-x.net if you want to navigate anywhere properly
>>109269809My name is Japreet RaVICHANdran sar
>>109268259Based, put me in the screencapAgree this should be a much bigger topic, maybe I'll put it on orange reddit tomorrow where I am famous so it might get picked upI don't know that it's THAT big of a deal because as >>109267729 says everyone who is serious mods the hell out of it. I predict image boards stay around without changing substantially, the alternative is discord or telegram so
>>109270096I think there will be an alternative emerging. The only hurdle is the constant AI slop project spam, so it will be harder to spot a serious project when it arrives.You have to think about all the spam, bots and schizos during the design phase already and may need an account system as well, which can be optional for instances to enable, so you can still have anonymous places. Maybe the ability to federate as well.vichan was good. It gets used a lot and every little no-experience fag can modify it, speaking for its quality. But the future needs something different.
>>109269924>ghostposting but gayusecase?
>>109269924I don't consent to my 4chan posts being archived on another site.
>>109269924your site looks like it was made for someone born before world war 2
>>109269924yo forim iz ded
>>109270426It's vibeslopped archiver with hints of Bloomberg Terminal and USENET LARP.https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/109248139/#q109248680
>>109270145I don't think you can have full anonymous boards in 2003+23, even 4chin and most boards will have some kind of identification in the backend with IP and cookies. You can have a registration but without kyc bs just a username and password, for the mods to see, while you can be anonymous to users, with the choice to reveal your identity when it matters. Traditional 2chan type boards need to develop and adapt to the modern time. Ironically, most of the OG boards pulled the plug because of illegal uploads and spam, yet no anontard thought of a solution.
>>109268259>I will save this literal dogshitAnd here I thought I was a packrat hoarder.
>>109266461Meh, if new altchans are so worried about this they should make their own engine. I made one for the fun of it, it's college project tier difficulty. 4chan is written like dogshit and has vulnerabilities left and right and yet it's the most popular english chan. Curious!
>>109271393 (Me)Obviously the bulk of the work is automatic content moderation measures to prevent spam and illegal files from being uploaded. There's no easy way to handle this, the only disadvantage imageboards have to regular websites/social media in this regard is anonymity. If anons would accept mandatory accounts (but still anonymous posting), this problem would be resolved. But muh privacy, as if you don't have a burner email already.
>>109269667you stop slop with slop ofc
>>109269603tinyib have a really clean codebasei did my own private fork of it with multiboard support, staff only-boards etc.. and it really works fine
>>109271639>multiboard supportI think sricha (golang rewrite of the project) also added proper support for multiple boards. Pretty great project since most IB software is written in PHP
