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== nanochanray ==
[[File:Nanochan-old.png|thumb|Old Nanochan homepage.]]
We can debate what does or doesn't belong in this article, but it's not appropriate to silently replace the link with a third-party clone site that most of the users of the original site want nothing to do with. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 06:23, 20 March 2023 (CET)
:That isn't what it is, though. It's the only remaining instance after a dispute between two rival administrators of the site, of which one has shut his copy down and the other has not. Not "third party" and not a clone either.[[User:Wikiist|Wikiist]] ([[User talk:Wikiist|talk]]) 16:42, 21 March 2023 (CET)
::What the fuck is "rival administrator" supposed to mean? Hikari was never an administrator of any sort on nanochan, he was what was known as a "trial volunteer" with less privileges than a 4chan janny. This is the best theory about who runs nanoray as far as I know, although as far as I know there's no proof and it's based on observing his and the nanoray admin's behavior. But there's certainly no evidence that the nanoray admin was ever an admin at nanochan. If you have any proof of something different, show me. In any case, replacing the site link without any indication it is a clone run by a different person with different principles instead of a voluntary transfer is not acceptable. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 17:26, 21 March 2023 (CET)
::And if by "rival administrators" you mean rival administrators of two different websites, one of which had its contents duplicated from the other, then that's exactly what a third-party clone is. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 17:42, 21 March 2023 (CET)
::In any case, feel free to explain your "rival administrators" narrative in the page, but don't just silently change the link. Explain what happened in your view, preferably with evidence, and let other users add corroborating or contradicting evidence.[[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 17:53, 21 March 2023 (CET)
::Also if you're going to remove content, provide a reason for removing the content. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 17:56, 21 March 2023 (CET)


It's pretty clear by now that you (Ook) are running the clone site, and that's why you want to change the link to point there. Look, you can't just make a copy of a dead site and declare yourself the arbiter of its history and culture. At best, assuming the community accepted your site as the continuation of the old one (something that doesn't appear to have happened), you would have some influence over the next chapter of the site's history. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 16:15, 23 March 2023 (CET)
'''Nanochan''' was an anonymous [[imageboard]] only accessible via [[Tor]], last seen active in November 2022. It had several boards for you to post on, including a /g/ board.
:::First of all, the users of lambdaplusjs are not, and have never been, "most of the users" of nanochan. If you want to falsely claim that they are, provide proof.[[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 09:02, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
::::What I said was that "most of the users of the original site want nothing to do with" ray. That much is obvious from the site's activity levels. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 09:20, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
:::::No it is not. Nanochanray is essentially unadvertised. Most users have no idea it exists. Also, certain lambdaplusjs user(s) persistently try to make people not post there and try to persuade them to stay and post on lambdaplusjs, with pretty limited success. The activity level of lambdaplusjs is relatively low itself. What activity there is on lambdaplusjs is not similar to nanochan. The form of activity that exists on lambdaplusjs was mostly not present on nanochanq and is not present on nanochanray. Again, provide proof or stop making the false claim. Lambdaplusjs users are '''not''' "the nanochan community" or representative of it. [[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 09:25, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
::::::It was advertised on the endchan bunker, on phichannel, and on nanochan when it came back up. Nanochan users came, saw, and left. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 11:33, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
::::::: No, again that's false. Except for the one time the link was dropped on phichannel, everything else is other people sharing the link among themselves. Including the threads on nanochanq. Which by the way none of the moderators saw fit to delete. I wonder(?!) why. Wouldn't you expect mods to delete some random "third-party clone"? Why delete links to lambdaplusjs but not nanochanray. A mystery(!). [[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 11:48, 5 July 2023 (CEST)


== Page has caught the attention of Lambdaplusjs ==
==TLS information==
Relevant thread: [http://lambdaplusjs35padjaiz4jw2fugdoeutse262phqr72uf634s2wdbqd.onion/misc/33533#P35129]
HTTPS was recommended as it allows your browser to use HTTP/2. The SHA256 TLS fingerprint for the current (Sun 20 Feb 2022 09:43:49 AM UTC) v3 address was:


If you're here from there, please consider adding some more material to this article or even starting a page about [[Lambdaplusjs]]. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 10:50, 22 March 2023 (CET)
41:E2:7B:BE:85:06:15:B0:B3:AB:CE:D5:38:33:78:7A:
E5:B2:7A:79:0E:B1:38:AA:85:1C:95:5B:7F:DC:33:C2


:I'm not awfully knowledgeable about [[Nanochan]], but I have some info, and the site is actually up and active. So I created the page [[Lambdaplusjs]], consider contributing towards it. Beware, I don't think avatarfaggotry is still worthy of mentioning in detail. There could be links placed to individuals' sites, but I'd contest that based on relevance. [[User:Hikari|Hikikomori Nakajima Hikari]] ([[User talk:Hikari|talk]]) 18:54, 11 April 2023 (CEST)
==History==
::I don't think it's worthy of mentioning either. And the relationship of lambdaplusjs to nanochan has always been hostile. That site should not be linked. [[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 10:23, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
===Origin===
:::More like: The relationship of lambdaplusjs to a certain child porn spammer who weaseled his way into the nanochan moderation team has always been hostile. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 11:27, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
Nanochan was created in October 2018 by a user known as "hakase" and advertised on 8chan /tech/ ([https://web.archive.org/web/20181112092431/https://8ch.net/tech/res/991375.html first thread], [https://web.archive.org/web/20190301110644/https://8ch.net/tech/res/996935.html second thread]). At that time, the imageboard software was a very small script written in Lua. The codebase was praised by the userbase for being relatively feature-rich yet simple in design, while not requiring any [[JavaScript]] and being accessible through [[Tor]].
:::: No. BTW there are multiple links to lambdaplusjs gvol deleted and present in old audit.logs. [[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 11:48, 5 July 2023 (CEST)


== About reverting ==
In the subsequent days more is revealed of the reasons behind hakase creating nanochan. It seems that he created it because he was unhappy with 8chan /pol/'s lenient moderation Despite this, a /pol/ board gets created without attracting many people, since many 8/pol/ users were skeptical of Tor. Instead many come from 8/tech/ attracted by the minimal design. It was also shilled at mewch.


I am in consensus with [[User:Insert|Insert]] that the changes made are relevant and should '''not''' be reverted. So do not revert them, it's 3k lines now. Reverting it over and over again expecting things to change is the definition of lunacy. Have a civil discussion and mention why each line is wrong, and give examples as to how to ''change'' them. [[User:Hikari|Hikikomori Nakajima Hikari]] ([[User talk:Hikari|talk]]) 18:06, 11 April 2023 (CEST)
A culture of avatarfagging (the act of marking your posts with an avatar, a bannable offense on 4chan) began increasing during May to March of 2019. The 4 prevalent avatarfags were umarufag, asukafag, starfag, and lainfag. Asukafag begins gaining infamy due to common thread derailing, hapa propaganda, and attacking other users. He claims to be the one responsible for the "HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES" spam on 8chan that resulted in many boards imposing restrictions on posting from Tor. Hakase refuses to do anything about avatarfagging and /o/ and /k/ get created.
:Reasoning and civil discussion aren't things that this guy does. You're going to be at this for a very long time if you continue. Take it from me. [[User:Yuki-sama|Yuki-sama]] ([[User talk:Yuki-sama|talk]]) 17:44, 11 April 2023 (CEST)
:: I don't think it's fair to assume that [[User:Ook|Ook]] has any ties to the nanochan clone, neither do I think that matters. I personally have my biases, you too, everyone does. Our biases influence our actions, but it's reason that restrains them from those going berserk. So I think the edits should be taken at face value, and the face values is that the aforementioned person has repeatedly removed a good portion of the article, and refused to elaborate or discuss. That is vandalism. If he does change his mind and include justification for the removal of the "spinoffs" section, why nanochanray[...].onion is legitimate, etc. We all will consider those arguments at face value and might decide to act upon them to improve the article. [[User:Hikari|Hikikomori Nakajima Hikari]] ([[User talk:Hikari|talk]]) 18:06, 11 April 2023 (CEST)
::: It wasn't just motive and personality, but also the way he added the othersites.txt link, which didn't exist on nanoray before to my knowledge and seems like a response to the argument here. But I agree it doesn't matter much. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 20:01, 11 April 2023 (CEST)
:Oh, and by the way, use 4 tildas (~)*4 at the end of your comments here to sign your posts next time: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Talk_pages [[User:Yuki-sama|Yuki-sama]] ([[User talk:Yuki-sama|talk]]) 17:45, 11 April 2023 (CEST)
:: Thanks, I was editing for Wikipedia some years ago (horrible power-hungry admins over there btw) and it added that automatically. [[User:Hikari|Hikikomori Nakajima Hikari]] ([[User talk:Hikari|talk]]) 18:06, 11 April 2023 (CEST)
: I'm not interested in fighting a revert war with what is possibly a bot, but you do you. Maybe a viable approach is to add new content elsewhere. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 19:48, 11 April 2023 (CEST)
::Fair point, I have more productive things to do as well. But I don't agree with letting it do its thing is fine. There are countermeasures that I'm pursuing. If that doesn't work, maybe just put a straight-up redirect from [[Nanochan]] to [[Lambdaplusjs]]. [[User:Hikari|Hikikomori Nakajima Hikari]] ([[User talk:Hikari|talk]]) 22:01, 11 April 2023 (CEST)


== This article ==
In November 2018 the site experiences heavy automated spam. After failing to find a suitable captcha the site is taken down. Umarufag gets added as a gvol, but resigns after bullying. Slowly, new features get added such as an overboard, a floating post window, and support for more filetypes.


Has a lot of problems, most of it seems to be written by someone extremely salty about being banned from Nanochan and/or affiliated with a rival imageboard.
===Under sakamoto===
: so correct it, thats the point of a wiki [[User:Sneak|sneak]] ([[User talk:Sneak|talk]]) 02:01, 2 July 2023 (CEST)
: No kidding it has problems. [[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 10:25, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
: Please check the history of the page, the one being salty here is Ook who reverted sourced information dozens of times and refused to talk about it no matter how we tried reaching him. I tried contacting the IGWiki admins, but to no avail. This article serves to tell the truth because the owner of the clone site (nanochanray) has tried everything from suppressing that. From wasting countless hours samefagging and arguing about it on other sites, to straight up spamming CP to the competing sites.
: That being said, I am in favor of a cleanup of the information presented. The information is sourced from one guy.
: [[User:Hikari|Hikikomori Nakajima Hikari]] ([[User talk:Hikari|talk]]) 14:13, 2 July 2023 (CEST)
:: It does not "tell the truth". As you previously said, you don't know much about nanochan since you weren't there. [[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 10:28, 5 July 2023 (CEST)


: Updated history section with more information from the endchan thread that is already cited. Please let me know if there are any inconsistencies/errors/etc. I hope this helps [[User:Hikari|Hikikomori Nakajima Hikari]] ([[User talk:Hikari|talk]]) 22:36, 2 July 2023 (CEST)
In May 2019, hakase announced his retirement, stating he was "no longer interested in hosting this pile of flaming garbage any longer, the software is too shitty and I've made too many irreversible mistakes in moderation and administration". The site was then handed over to its second administrator, who in June 2019 would name himself sakamoto. In August 2019 the deplatforming of [[8chan]] would cause significant spill over, especially from /pol/. The influx of refugees caused post quality to drop and general spam. Eventually sakamoto hid /pol/ from public view, but it was still kept accessible with a direct link.
:: There are a lot of errors. [[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 10:25, 5 July 2023 (CEST)


Closing down this discussion and removing the template. The demands have been sufficiently met. [[User:Hikari|Hikikomori Nakajima Hikari]] ([[User talk:Hikari|talk]]) 00:02, 3 July 2023 (CEST)
From September 2019 to end of October 2019 tensions between asukafag and the moderation rose, with asukafag copying threads from 4chan and otherwise spamming Nanochan. He was declared banned, but in reality the strict enforcement of this ban was difficult with many innocent posters getting caught in the crossfire. Sometime during November to December, asukafag started a nanochan clone running picochan called nanochang. The site is since dead.
: What demands have been met and how?[[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 11:20, 5 July 2023 (CEST)


>The current ongoing edit war only serves this *ray dudes ego. We can leave links to both boards, its pretty clear which any potential posters will choose given activity levels.
===Under endofunctor===


We tried that in the past, and he wasn't willing to take that compromise. For a time we got him to stop reverting by including no new links, but he would remove anything stating that nanochan had died. Anyway, all that was before people noticed he was no longer deleting child pornography that got posted to his site, only hiding it from the main view (but still publicly accessible for those in the know). I don't think linking to his site would be acceptable unless he actually removes the material. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 02:17, 3 July 2023 (CEST)
In December 2019, sakamoto passed the admin position to endofunctor, then a moderator of a board. Endofunctor rewrote most of the site's code in C++, except for the moderation tools, which were left dependent on the old Lua version. He also promised a Rust rewrite that never got finished, but angered asukafag. Endofunctor claimed to have lost the password to the server with the code leaving the server in a "living dead state" without the ability to make changes. This issue was resolved when Nyanonymous convinced endofunctor to rent a new server and a redirect was set up.
: I've just checked again. Absolutely disguising. The bottom row of 5 threads were all titled and contained said material. Presumably, scrolling down would only have more. Linking to it is a hazard to not only visitors, but possibly this very site as well. [[User:Hikari|Hikikomori Nakajima Hikari]] ([[User talk:Hikari|talk]]) 11:45, 3 July 2023 (CEST)
::Your fake concern is touching, but pointless. 1. The link is in the page's edit history. if it's a risk to anyone or anything, it's right there. 2. Nanochan moderation policy is not going to be influenced by anyone other than the mods themselves. Feedback is not sol;icited or accepted. Like it or run away as fast as you can is the policy. 3. Lambda is liable to be attacked again until it is unusable. 4. The same ads are posted on Lambda and are nothing to do with either site. [[User:Fis|Fis]] ([[User talk:Fis|talk]]) 12:18, 3 July 2023 (CEST)
: Those spam ads are all deleted. It is a very persistent human posting them, not a bot.[[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 10:32, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
:: And it only took you two months to do it. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 10:50, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
::: No, that's false. They've been continuously deleted, either tvol deletion or gvol, as posted. [[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 11:00, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
:::: Tvol deletion still leaves the posts publicly accessible on your site, which they were for two months despite you being alerted to them. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 11:21, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
:::: By the way, I'm surprised you've left it accessible after removing all the other moderation accountability tools. Having trouble with endofunctor's code or something? [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 11:24, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
::::: No, not publicly. Publicly, tvol deleted posts are deleted. Poking around in the site's internals to view deleted posts is something only hostile users do as far as I'm aware. If you can find someone who does that and also wants the site to succeed then point them out as I'm very skeptical that such a person exists. "Moderation accountability" as you call it is not a goal of nanochan, and when it was it was a mistake. It's a euphemism for abusive and entitled behavior that should't be tolerated or encouraged, and misrepresents the situation. [[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 11:37, 5 July 2023 (CEST)


== Oook's comments, moved to the talk page ==
As time passed, endofunctor became less involved with the imageboard he was running. With endofunctor's increasing neglect, the site began experiencing frequent downtime. An issue that would plague the site until its demise was running out of disk space, which could sometimes be corrected by moderators deleting stale files. In May 2020, the moderator Nyanonymous announced he would no longer be enforcing the quality rules on /l/. Although likely a good decision, this set a precedent that moderators could ignore site policies and implement their own. In early June of 2020 /oc/ got created, but activity soon died out. However, it is one of the only boards to have a surviving [[Youtube]] video: [https://youtube.com/watch?v=7XofAvOXMK8 /watch?v=7XofAvOXMK8] .
>Nanochan's moderation is to note as it was relatively complex. Instead of giving full access to site controls, people were able to apply to be "volunteers" with a PGP key and a name of their liking. Volunteers then were able to hide posts and moderators acted on them.


Oook: Like many things in this article this is inaccurate. Most mod accounts had no involvement of PGP, neither was there any application.
===Decline and death===


>In August 2021, a trial volunteer with limited privileges named hikari was added to the moderation team. He became the site's most active moderator, and began disregarding any rules and moderating as he saw fit. Attempts to correct his behavior resulted in disputes and sometimes revert wars and even deletions of messages by moderators to the absent admin. Eventually, endofunctor would disabled the account until he apologised, which he never did.
In nanochan's final years, endofunctor left the site in a semi-abandoned state. In addition, the site suffered frequent denial of service attacks which endofunctor was slow to mediate. As a result, the site suffered frequent downtime, which could last months at a time. The years 2021 and 2022 saw the creation of multiple spinoff sites, including [[lambdaplusjs]], phichannel, and nanochanray.


Oook: That has nothing to do with what happened and moderation policy was unchanged.
In August 2021, a trial volunteer with limited privileges named hikari was added to the moderation team. He was a particularly active moderator, and began disregarding any rules and moderating as he saw fit. Attempts to correct his behavior resulted in disputes and sometimes revert wars. Eventually, endofunctor told him to stop deleting complaints about himself on the /meta/ board; hikari ignored this, and endofunctor disabled his account. He or someone with the same behavior would return under the name of flandre, now going so far as to remove messages by other moderators to the absent admin. After some time, flandre was also removed.


>Hikari returned later under the name of flandre, before being removed again.
In November 2021, endofunctor deleted the site's /pol/ board. The reason is unknown, but /pol/ had been subject to an increasing torrent of posts by a user known as "/pol/ schizo" who would samefag threads about killing his enemies' children. Endofunctor would follow this by making extensive changes to the site rules, adding stuff about hate speech, changing the rules into "guidelines," and making the only rule "cancer will be purged."


Oook: ORLY.
In September 2022, nanochan's moderation functions ceased working, meaning that the efforts of moderators to preserve the site by deleting old files could not continue. The site became increasingly nonfunctional, and was last seen partly operational in November 2022.


>"In September 2022, nanochan's moderation functions ceased working, meaning that the efforts of moderators to preserve the site by deleting old files could not continue."
==Tvol/gvol system==
Nanochan's moderation was relatively complex. Instead of being given full access to site controls, volunteer moderators would begin as "trial volunteers" who could hide posts but not permanently delete them. More privileged "global volunteers" could permanently remove the posts. Nanochan's moderation log was also publicly viewable, intended to be an audit mechanism. Even permanently deleted posts were recorded in a large text file known as the "audit log."


Oook: WTF? That has nothing to do with what happened.
Multiple threads were made on /meta/ to recruit volunteers (meta/3507, meta/7033, meta/27051). Among other things, potential volunteers were asked to post their PGP public key and a name of their liking. The PGP key would then be used to send them their passwords.


The above comments were posted by Oook in the article. I've taken the liberty of moving them to the talk page. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 08:42, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
==Rules==
::Most of the content of this article as edited by Insert and most of the lambdaplusjs article doesn't belong on this wiki.[[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 10:49, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
These were the Nanochan rules as of Sun 20 Feb 2022 09:43:49 AM UTC:


I've addressed the PGP / applications issue by citing the threads which called for "applications" and for applicants to post their PGP keys. Obviously there's some degree of speculation in the hikari/flandre stuff, and it may be fine to remove that anyway since documenting mod drama isn't really what the site's about. Here is endofunctor's comment on hikari the first time he was removed: "I told him not to delete posts in /meta/, and despite that he did that so his account has been locked and he has been signed out. He will be unable to moderate this site anymore." This was related to user messages to endofunctor; the deletion of other volunteers' messages was during the flandre period. [[User:Insert|Insert]] ([[User talk:Insert|talk]]) 11:19, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
#Cancer will be purged.
::: "Other volunteers'" messages? Whose? Obviously the moderators were not endofunctor fans and did not want him involved with the site anymore, hence why those messages were deleted. [[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 11:52, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
 
::: "documenting mod drama isn't really what the site's about" - no shit. [[User:Oook|Oook]] ([[User talk:Oook|talk]]) 12:17, 5 July 2023 (CEST)
These were the Nanochan guidelines as of Sun 20 Feb 2022 09:43:49 AM UTC:
 
#Child pornography is not permitted. Links to child pornography are not permitted either, and neither are links to websites which contain a significant number of direct links to CP.
#Flooding is not permitted. We define flooding as posting similar posts more than 3 times per hour, making a thread on a topic for which a thread already exists, or posting in such a way that it significantly changes the composition of a board. Common sense will be utilized.
#Usage of outside memes such as pepes or wojacks is prohibited. Common sense will be utilized.
#3DPD porn is prohibited.
 
These guidelines apply to all boards on nanochan except /b/ and /l/.
 
#Hate towards who people are (such as racism or sexism) or what people are attracted to is prohibited.
#Discussion of political topics is prohibited. Common sense will be utilized.
#NSFW thread icons are prohibited.
 
Individual boards may set their own rules which apply to that board, and boards which do not specify their own rules typically follow the board-specific rules of /l/. However, note that the rules stated above apply to everything done on the website.
 
==External links==
*[http://nanochanqzaytwlydykbg5nxkgyjxk3zsrctxuoxdmbx5jbh2ydyprid.onion/ Original v3 onion] (dead)
*[http://endchancxfbnrfgauuxlztwlckytq7rgeo5v6pc2zd4nyqo3khfam4ad.onion/nc/ Bunker on Endchan] ([https://endchan.net/nc/ clearnet]), admin endorsed [[#note1|[1]]]
*[http://endchancxfbnrfgauuxlztwlckytq7rgeo5v6pc2zd4nyqo3khfam4ad.onion/nc/res/351.html History of Nanochan (up to August 2020)] ([https://endchan.net/nc/res/351.html clearnet])
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181112092431/https://8ch.net/tech/res/991375.html Thread advertising nanochan on 8chan]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190301110644/https://8ch.net/tech/res/996935.html Second nanochan thread on 8chan]
*[http://lambdaplusjs35padjaiz4jw2fugdoeutse262phqr72uf634s2wdbqd.onion/misc/2781#P32740 Database as of 22 Nov 2022]
 
==Spinoffs==
Many spinoffs of nanochan have been created over its lifetime. The sites which are still alive include:
 
*[[Lambdaplusjs]] - Has a /tech/ board, a less active /math/, and miscellaneous blogging threads. Users can create boards, but moderation is decided by the admin and recruited moderators (currently 7 many being former members of Nanochan). Currently active, averaging several hundred PPD<sup>(July 2023)</sup>. The site uses its own codebase written in Lua. Refer to their wiki page for links and more information.
*Nanochanray - Unofficial nanochan clone created in May 2022 during an extended nanochan downtime with a copy of the original site's posts up to that point, in an apparent attempt to save the community from endofunctor's incompetence. Unfortunately the nanochanray admin practiced overly aggressive moderation and dishonesty with users. For example, he gaslighted users with falsified moderation logs by rolling back the database to remove posts without adding them to the logs. [[#note2|[2]]] Numerous wordfilters, including the admin's suspected former moniker "hikari", trigger fake connection errors. Unlike the original nanochan, nanochanray neither publishes its source code nor its database. The admin of nanochan claims to have been a part of the original nanochan's moderation team, but has refused to offer proof, which he could easily provide with a PGP signed post. He continuously attempts to rewrite history to make his clone appear as the "official" continuation of the original nanochan, including edit warring on this wiki page. He has accompanied [https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Ook&offset=&limit=500&target=Ook his edits] with threats to "attack" lambdaplusjs, which were followed by child porn spam.
 
===Former spinoffs===
Spinoffs of nanochan which existed in the past but are now dead include:
 
* [https://archive.is/nanochangkn3dxfkr5prfw76hiq3qpjyzr44m4zxbwub5f4kditlufid.onion Nanochang] and [http://hapachanzirxtxkvkd25uzabtnzqbrd2l5prmtt6hv5mmyr65oed3nqd.onion/pico Hapachan] - Created by asukafag , these boards used his fork of nanochan known as [https://github.com/vxiiduu/picochan picochan].
* The Ethnostate - One of the short-lived boards created by senafag, a poster using Sena from Haganai as an avatar.
* [https://archive.is/picochanwvqfa2xsrfzlul4x4aqtog2eljll5qnj5iagpbhx2vmfqnid.onion Picochan] - This site's most active boards were /tech/ and /pol/. It also featured boards for anime, art, retro and traditional games, and a bunker for the /fascist/ board which was often evicted from other sites. Its admin, known as neeshy, used asukafag's improved picochan software, but hostile to his ideology; thus he changed the "HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES" message in the source code to "HAPAS ARE MENTALLY ILL DEGENERATES." His imageboard banned promotion of racial egalitarianism, miscegenation, homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality, and pedophilia, as well as avatarfagging and blogposting. After shutting down the site, Neeshy posted the final version of its database in a thread on lambdaplusjs [http://lambdaplusjs35padjaiz4jw2fugdoeutse262phqr72uf634s2wdbqd.onion/imageboards/28274#P28961].
* [https://archive.is/phichannlejbh7u7tvkryemqmi34onsfppkju52qtii3yakyvfh7ifyd.onion Phichannel] - An imageboard written in Haskell. Home of Lynn's knitting blog, and other boards about computers, art, Monero, and books.
 
==Footnotes==
<div id="note1">[1] '''nanon ## Nanochan Administrator''', /meta/3770/#post3768: "If the server goes down, I'll be around at the /nc/ board on endchan, or the thread on pigchan."
'''endofunctor # Nanochan Administrator''', /l/21579/#post21623: "Remember that there is a third party bunker at http://enxx3byspwsdo446jujc52ucy2pf5urdbhqw3kbsfhlfjwmbpj5smdad.onion/nc/ which I will read if this site goes down." Note that the third-party clone site nanochanray does not endorse the bunker (/othersites.txt on nanoray).</div>
<div id="note2">[2] Demonstrable examples can be found on archive.is: shitpost deleted (/b/122092) with nothing in log (/audit.log); in another case, metaposts rolled back (/b/122216). The site now blocks archive.is.</div>
 
All nanochan posts referenced can be found in copies of its database.
 
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Revision as of 10:21, 5 July 2023

Old Nanochan homepage.

Nanochan was an anonymous imageboard only accessible via Tor, last seen active in November 2022. It had several boards for you to post on, including a /g/ board.

TLS information

HTTPS was recommended as it allows your browser to use HTTP/2. The SHA256 TLS fingerprint for the current (Sun 20 Feb 2022 09:43:49 AM UTC) v3 address was:

41:E2:7B:BE:85:06:15:B0:B3:AB:CE:D5:38:33:78:7A: E5:B2:7A:79:0E:B1:38:AA:85:1C:95:5B:7F:DC:33:C2

History

Origin

Nanochan was created in October 2018 by a user known as "hakase" and advertised on 8chan /tech/ (first thread, second thread). At that time, the imageboard software was a very small script written in Lua. The codebase was praised by the userbase for being relatively feature-rich yet simple in design, while not requiring any JavaScript and being accessible through Tor.

In the subsequent days more is revealed of the reasons behind hakase creating nanochan. It seems that he created it because he was unhappy with 8chan /pol/'s lenient moderation Despite this, a /pol/ board gets created without attracting many people, since many 8/pol/ users were skeptical of Tor. Instead many come from 8/tech/ attracted by the minimal design. It was also shilled at mewch.

A culture of avatarfagging (the act of marking your posts with an avatar, a bannable offense on 4chan) began increasing during May to March of 2019. The 4 prevalent avatarfags were umarufag, asukafag, starfag, and lainfag. Asukafag begins gaining infamy due to common thread derailing, hapa propaganda, and attacking other users. He claims to be the one responsible for the "HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES" spam on 8chan that resulted in many boards imposing restrictions on posting from Tor. Hakase refuses to do anything about avatarfagging and /o/ and /k/ get created.

In November 2018 the site experiences heavy automated spam. After failing to find a suitable captcha the site is taken down. Umarufag gets added as a gvol, but resigns after bullying. Slowly, new features get added such as an overboard, a floating post window, and support for more filetypes.

Under sakamoto

In May 2019, hakase announced his retirement, stating he was "no longer interested in hosting this pile of flaming garbage any longer, the software is too shitty and I've made too many irreversible mistakes in moderation and administration". The site was then handed over to its second administrator, who in June 2019 would name himself sakamoto. In August 2019 the deplatforming of 8chan would cause significant spill over, especially from /pol/. The influx of refugees caused post quality to drop and general spam. Eventually sakamoto hid /pol/ from public view, but it was still kept accessible with a direct link.

From September 2019 to end of October 2019 tensions between asukafag and the moderation rose, with asukafag copying threads from 4chan and otherwise spamming Nanochan. He was declared banned, but in reality the strict enforcement of this ban was difficult with many innocent posters getting caught in the crossfire. Sometime during November to December, asukafag started a nanochan clone running picochan called nanochang. The site is since dead.

Under endofunctor

In December 2019, sakamoto passed the admin position to endofunctor, then a moderator of a board. Endofunctor rewrote most of the site's code in C++, except for the moderation tools, which were left dependent on the old Lua version. He also promised a Rust rewrite that never got finished, but angered asukafag. Endofunctor claimed to have lost the password to the server with the code leaving the server in a "living dead state" without the ability to make changes. This issue was resolved when Nyanonymous convinced endofunctor to rent a new server and a redirect was set up.

As time passed, endofunctor became less involved with the imageboard he was running. With endofunctor's increasing neglect, the site began experiencing frequent downtime. An issue that would plague the site until its demise was running out of disk space, which could sometimes be corrected by moderators deleting stale files. In May 2020, the moderator Nyanonymous announced he would no longer be enforcing the quality rules on /l/. Although likely a good decision, this set a precedent that moderators could ignore site policies and implement their own. In early June of 2020 /oc/ got created, but activity soon died out. However, it is one of the only boards to have a surviving Youtube video: /watch?v=7XofAvOXMK8 .

Decline and death

In nanochan's final years, endofunctor left the site in a semi-abandoned state. In addition, the site suffered frequent denial of service attacks which endofunctor was slow to mediate. As a result, the site suffered frequent downtime, which could last months at a time. The years 2021 and 2022 saw the creation of multiple spinoff sites, including lambdaplusjs, phichannel, and nanochanray.

In August 2021, a trial volunteer with limited privileges named hikari was added to the moderation team. He was a particularly active moderator, and began disregarding any rules and moderating as he saw fit. Attempts to correct his behavior resulted in disputes and sometimes revert wars. Eventually, endofunctor told him to stop deleting complaints about himself on the /meta/ board; hikari ignored this, and endofunctor disabled his account. He or someone with the same behavior would return under the name of flandre, now going so far as to remove messages by other moderators to the absent admin. After some time, flandre was also removed.

In November 2021, endofunctor deleted the site's /pol/ board. The reason is unknown, but /pol/ had been subject to an increasing torrent of posts by a user known as "/pol/ schizo" who would samefag threads about killing his enemies' children. Endofunctor would follow this by making extensive changes to the site rules, adding stuff about hate speech, changing the rules into "guidelines," and making the only rule "cancer will be purged."

In September 2022, nanochan's moderation functions ceased working, meaning that the efforts of moderators to preserve the site by deleting old files could not continue. The site became increasingly nonfunctional, and was last seen partly operational in November 2022.

Tvol/gvol system

Nanochan's moderation was relatively complex. Instead of being given full access to site controls, volunteer moderators would begin as "trial volunteers" who could hide posts but not permanently delete them. More privileged "global volunteers" could permanently remove the posts. Nanochan's moderation log was also publicly viewable, intended to be an audit mechanism. Even permanently deleted posts were recorded in a large text file known as the "audit log."

Multiple threads were made on /meta/ to recruit volunteers (meta/3507, meta/7033, meta/27051). Among other things, potential volunteers were asked to post their PGP public key and a name of their liking. The PGP key would then be used to send them their passwords.

Rules

These were the Nanochan rules as of Sun 20 Feb 2022 09:43:49 AM UTC:

  1. Cancer will be purged.

These were the Nanochan guidelines as of Sun 20 Feb 2022 09:43:49 AM UTC:

  1. Child pornography is not permitted. Links to child pornography are not permitted either, and neither are links to websites which contain a significant number of direct links to CP.
  2. Flooding is not permitted. We define flooding as posting similar posts more than 3 times per hour, making a thread on a topic for which a thread already exists, or posting in such a way that it significantly changes the composition of a board. Common sense will be utilized.
  3. Usage of outside memes such as pepes or wojacks is prohibited. Common sense will be utilized.
  4. 3DPD porn is prohibited.

These guidelines apply to all boards on nanochan except /b/ and /l/.

  1. Hate towards who people are (such as racism or sexism) or what people are attracted to is prohibited.
  2. Discussion of political topics is prohibited. Common sense will be utilized.
  3. NSFW thread icons are prohibited.

Individual boards may set their own rules which apply to that board, and boards which do not specify their own rules typically follow the board-specific rules of /l/. However, note that the rules stated above apply to everything done on the website.

External links

Spinoffs

Many spinoffs of nanochan have been created over its lifetime. The sites which are still alive include:

  • Lambdaplusjs - Has a /tech/ board, a less active /math/, and miscellaneous blogging threads. Users can create boards, but moderation is decided by the admin and recruited moderators (currently 7 many being former members of Nanochan). Currently active, averaging several hundred PPD(July 2023). The site uses its own codebase written in Lua. Refer to their wiki page for links and more information.
  • Nanochanray - Unofficial nanochan clone created in May 2022 during an extended nanochan downtime with a copy of the original site's posts up to that point, in an apparent attempt to save the community from endofunctor's incompetence. Unfortunately the nanochanray admin practiced overly aggressive moderation and dishonesty with users. For example, he gaslighted users with falsified moderation logs by rolling back the database to remove posts without adding them to the logs. [2] Numerous wordfilters, including the admin's suspected former moniker "hikari", trigger fake connection errors. Unlike the original nanochan, nanochanray neither publishes its source code nor its database. The admin of nanochan claims to have been a part of the original nanochan's moderation team, but has refused to offer proof, which he could easily provide with a PGP signed post. He continuously attempts to rewrite history to make his clone appear as the "official" continuation of the original nanochan, including edit warring on this wiki page. He has accompanied his edits with threats to "attack" lambdaplusjs, which were followed by child porn spam.

Former spinoffs

Spinoffs of nanochan which existed in the past but are now dead include:

  • Nanochang and Hapachan - Created by asukafag , these boards used his fork of nanochan known as picochan.
  • The Ethnostate - One of the short-lived boards created by senafag, a poster using Sena from Haganai as an avatar.
  • Picochan - This site's most active boards were /tech/ and /pol/. It also featured boards for anime, art, retro and traditional games, and a bunker for the /fascist/ board which was often evicted from other sites. Its admin, known as neeshy, used asukafag's improved picochan software, but hostile to his ideology; thus he changed the "HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES" message in the source code to "HAPAS ARE MENTALLY ILL DEGENERATES." His imageboard banned promotion of racial egalitarianism, miscegenation, homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality, and pedophilia, as well as avatarfagging and blogposting. After shutting down the site, Neeshy posted the final version of its database in a thread on lambdaplusjs [1].
  • Phichannel - An imageboard written in Haskell. Home of Lynn's knitting blog, and other boards about computers, art, Monero, and books.

Footnotes

[1] nanon ## Nanochan Administrator, /meta/3770/#post3768: "If the server goes down, I'll be around at the /nc/ board on endchan, or the thread on pigchan." endofunctor # Nanochan Administrator, /l/21579/#post21623: "Remember that there is a third party bunker at http://enxx3byspwsdo446jujc52ucy2pf5urdbhqw3kbsfhlfjwmbpj5smdad.onion/nc/ which I will read if this site goes down." Note that the third-party clone site nanochanray does not endorse the bunker (/othersites.txt on nanoray).
[2] Demonstrable examples can be found on archive.is: shitpost deleted (/b/122092) with nothing in log (/audit.log); in another case, metaposts rolled back (/b/122216). The site now blocks archive.is.

All nanochan posts referenced can be found in copies of its database.