I went to it but it's gone.
has links to a few Wakachan boards
https://dameib.net/
IIchan died many years ago. Wakachan survived for a years longer than IIchan.
Well, iichan/wakachan was a loose collection of boards scattered through many sites. The actual original 'iichan' site died many years ago and most of the boards were picked up by others of the wakachan collective. Some were lost entirely. As far as I know the only board still up was the tracker music board hosted on iiichan (just looked, humblefool has finally closed even that). The /b/ board along with several others from iichan migrated to Shanachan, also now gone. After Wakachan closed several years ago, one of the guys created idlechan.net to serve the diaspora but it didn't catch on and was closed in 2017. It was often commented during that time that it just wasn't the same, it felt like time to turn off the lights.
The only surviving iichan board that still has a notable following is /azu/ as mentioned above.
I hope that clears it up, I think that's pretty concise.
Seems like just yesterday I could open up Post Modern Furniture Society within the wakachan frame and look at the brilliant things posted. A shame it's all gone. The idea of an imageboard network spanning all parts of the internet always seemed cool. It has a kind of decentralized community feel to it. IIchan/wakachan was one of the largest I knew and enjoyed lurking. Obviously it won't be coming back, and even if it did, it won't be anything like it used to. Towards the end of its life and for most of its life it was just a handful of regulars posting on and off. I don't imagine many of those hardened vets still stick around these places anymore. Though I do hope that one day a place like iichan will sprout up again. Maybe a few boards owners could get together and start something similar.
>>6
Various flavors of Overchan still exist, though.
And the idea has gone out of style with the introduction of user boards.
What is stopping any of us from starting a new idlechan and letting it idle no matter how little traffic it gets? Just like the old days.
Seriously, domains and hosting are cheaper than ever
>>10 Right, the magic is gone. It would feel more like forced work than an autonomous collective. Very little point, it would be a dud.
>>11
I know who's not invited to the restored idlechan....
I miss iichan so much ;_;
it really exemplified the early 00s nature and feel of the internet and Japanophile/otaku culture.
Things aren't the same without that place.
4-ch is literally the last bastion of 90s - 00s esque otaku culture and once this place is gone the sun will finally set.
Anyone know the story of what happened at the death? Did somebody just take down the servers "because lol"?
>>16
i forgot what ended it, that was a long time ago, there might be someone on /azu/ who still remembers
>>2
Woah, hey. Wasn't expecting a Shanachan archive. Strange question to the person who runs it, do you have the htmls?
>>18
It's run by Bozek, you can email him to ask, but I think when he originally posted that archive he said he didn't have the html.
>>16
Most of the boards slowly died due to lack of use, others just got forgotten by the owners and went down, CP spam, etc. Wakachan's main site then died in 2016, either due to child porn spam (I heard something about that, but I don't know if it's true and I don't remember the details) or just the admin forgetting to renew the domain. Everything was briefly revived on idlechan.net and then it died again due to the admin having better things to do, passing the torch to Shanachan. Shanachan then died, once again either due to owner losing interest, or due to CP spam. The usual story.
Sad...
rip mufunyo/dic
that sucks
Sad
Idlechan is just Shanachan and I don't think it should be included.
Is there any overview of when the different boards/sites were created and shut down? I would imagine most of that information to be lost anyway, aside from vague estimates.
rip dameib