the technological reality of Image Boards Plain Text
21:10:06 ~copypaste Basically n-tech, the main "competitors" are all way out of date. [...] 21:10:30 __uguu__ there's also 4chan's proprietary stack that does not respect you're gnu/freedom 21:10:44 n-tech If I thought there was any competition I'd of not as been as motivated 21:10:57 n-tech I did browse around for alternatives but there wans't anything that interesting 21:11:43 ~copypaste GazouBBS was the first. Gazou is "image" in Japanese, the name is ImageBBS then. Then there's your Kusaba X, one of the first, because moot refused to release changes because he's a jew so people wanted the things they knew he added in other chans like 7chan. 7chan still runs KX, but they've hacked it a ton and also don't release changes back. 21:12:51 ~copypaste Then there's your Futallaby, I know very little about this one but I know it was replaced by Wakaba. 21:13:00 ~copypaste Then there's Mitsuba. The author killed himself. 21:13:03 ~copypaste RIP 21:13:33 ~copypaste Then there's the Tinyboard series, one of the most popular right now, launched in 2010, it was abandoned in 2012 but picked up by czaks and I in vichan and hacked a ton by me for infinity. 21:14:08 ~copypaste There are also a few other ones. There's also one called "chieftain", it's a Python Django imageboard. It doesn't work right, I've never seen a site with it in production. I tried it out and it was very complicated. 21:14:27 ~copypaste And that's it really. :3 21:15:01 n-tech I always saw moot as a prodigy back in the day 21:15:04 n-tech when I was learning how to code 21:15:09 n-tech how does someone at 14 21:15:09 ~copypaste Oh, far from it. 21:15:11 n-tech build something so cool 21:15:12 ~copypaste desuwa does all the work. 21:15:17 ~copypaste Back then he had friends help him too. 21:15:20 ~copypaste desuwa wrote modern Yotsuba. 21:15:31 __uguu__ with nntpchan there's more than just srnd, there was one written in haskell that used inn2 21:15:55 __uguu__ the source for hschan was never released so it's lost to time ;-; 21:16:10 __uguu__ hschan looked exactly like a regular ib 21:16:25 ~copypaste yes good 21:16:28 ~copypaste that's what it should look like 21:16:32 ~copypaste you want users to know what to do 21:16:32 __uguu__ i know 21:16:53 __uguu__ srnd can look like a regular imageboard but you'd need to hack the templates (which use string.format) 21:17:06 ~copypaste lol 21:17:22 __uguu__ string.format + sanitize_html() is the real man's way to webapp 21:17:22 lancee there's doushio that uses node.js and redis and is realtime 21:17:31 __uguu__ there's also livechan 21:17:33 lancee https://github.com/lalcmellkmal/doushio 21:17:54 __uguu__ livechan is basically doushio but it's being rewritten in go now since the node.js version is a mess 21:18:00 ~copypaste oh jesus 21:18:07 ~copypaste fuck that doushiou chan 21:18:08 ~copypaste no really 21:18:15 ~copypaste people watch you type 21:18:20 ~copypaste it's so creepy, that chan is fucking weird 21:18:24 __uguu__ wuuuut 21:18:27 ~copypaste yeah 21:18:31 __uguu__ why would you DO THAT? D: 21:18:32 ~copypaste every keystroke raises an event 21:18:43 ~copypaste i didn't include it because i blocked it out of my memory 21:18:46 ~copypaste due to the traumatic experience