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An imageboard is a discussion board with the option to attach a picture alongside your post. Most imageboards disable the ability to start a thread with text only, making it impossible to leave the first post in a thread imageless.

You can find an index of most imageboards at Overchan v3, 1ch.us.

Imageboards that are part of LURKMORE are intern3ts, textchan, chansluts, male general, and tranchan.

Features of an imageboard

Age and Sage

A method for posting without bumping the thread.

• See: Age and Sage

Tripcode

A tripcode is a hashed password used on anonymous imageboards for a person to show identity. A simple tripcode can be broken fairly easily and so secure tripcodes can be used by faggots who think it matters.

• See: Tripcode

Wordfilter

A wordfilter is script that replaces a certain word with another word.

• See: 4chan Wordfilters

Imageboard software

• Futaba
• Futallaby
• GazouBBS
• Wakaba
• Wakaba++

List of imageboards

• 12chan

  Main Article: 12chan

• 2channel / 2ch

  Main Article: 2channel

Also known as 2ch. The biggest textboard. Spawned 2chan and thus is one of 4chan's inspirations.

• Futaba Channel / 2chan

  Main Article: Futaba Channel

Also known as Futaba Channel. The famous Japanese imageboard that 4chan--and by extention, all 4chan knockoffs--is derived from.

• 4chan

  Main Article: 4chan

• 420chan

Imageboards with heavy emphasis on illegal drugs.

• 7chan

  Main Article: 7chan

• chanchan

  Main Article: chanchan

• chansluts

  Main Article: chansluts

• Fchan

A Futaba-style furry hentai board, created in response to 4chan's ban on furry "art". On June 23 between 1:00 and 2:00 in the morning Fchan reportedly started posting derogatory things about 4chan, most notably Raptor Jesus. The /b/tards retaliated. It resulted in one of the most awesome board floods 4chan has ever seen. In reality it was a group of /b/tards themselves who had posted the furry pictures, claiming they were from Fchan in order to incite a war, and the rest of /b/ fell for it. No discussion or plan to flood /b/ was ever discussed on Fchan. Seen by /b/tard furries (a rare breed, but they exist) as crap, mainly because of their very long DNP (Do Not Post) list, which unfortunately includes most of the decent artists on earth (though "decent" and "furry artist" are pretty much mutually exclusive). This leaves Fchan as the imageboard equivalent of a nursery school's art wall from hell.

• iichan.net (dead) / WAKAchan

Also known as IdleChan. One of the first and longest-lasting 4chan imitators, it is best known for having a ludicrous number of boards (123 as of August 2007) dividing into often absurdly specific niche subjects. iiChan is apparently distributed among numerous servers that are operated by different people (rather than a single person in charge of everything as with moot on 4chan). This sometimes results in dead links between boards and an inconsistent "look" for the site, but has allowed it to usually have at least some of the boards up at any given time. As a result, iiChan had often been a refuge during 4chan's downtimes, which naturally resulted in the usually much lower-traffic site getting its bandwidth severely raped. In July 2007, iichan's domain registration expired and was snapped up by a squatter. This took nearly a month to resolve, though many of the sub-boards are not actually located on the iichan.net domain and remained "active" (at the minimal levels of posting normal for iiChan) for the duration of the downtime.

iichan.net died some time during 2013 and most of the sites hosting the imageboards also disappeared during the last four to five years. WAKAchan is still alive, though nothing has really changed overall; the boards still have very low post rates and many of the links are dead.

• not4chan.org (dead)

As the name implies, it's not 4chan. As a result of various issues (particularly related to donations and ads) generated by the /l/ (lolicon) and /ss/ (shota) boards. Those boards were moved off-site to a server not directly affiliated with 4chan.

Initially, 4chan's list of boards still included them (at the new address), but soon even this link was severed.

not4chan is currently down, and it's unclear whether this is due to lack of funding (which has caused previous downtimes) or the admins being V&.

• Overchan v.2

The second iteration of the Overchan index. Not actually a BBS.

• MLPchan

Newer imageboards focused on the "brony" phenomenon centered around My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, composed of current and former Ponychan members, 4chan.org/mlp/ users and /b/ posters.

• Ponychan

The older, well known "brony" imageboards derived from the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fandom.

• xchan.wtf

A politics-free chan. This chan is mostly centered in /lounge/ and /spooky/. The /spooky/ board is an offshoot of paranormal, but conversation ranges from fringe discussion, to subculture discussion.

External links

• Overchan v3, imageboard and textboard index