Recently I have decided to delve into the world of imageboards, or chans as they are known. A chan is based on a popular japanese website style and has been the basis for such sites as 4chan and 7chan. I took a look at what is availible for making your own, and I have to say that I got lost very quickly..
There were several different open sorce bases for image boards and the vast majority of them worked in almost identical ways. they all seemed to use PhP and MySQL mainly for the processing and databases. Intrestingly though, there is a site that actually just allows you to create your own board and they host it for you. I considered this, but I wanted a challenge. I was inspired to take on this task as i came by a site called parachan, they stated that they were based on the yusaba x imageboard software, so I had a look and couldn't get it to work, and this basically happened with each and every software I tried, granted I only tried locally. I will give a list of the different imageboard software I came across below:
However, the one I settled with is called TinyIB, it aws incredibly easy to install and set up, and looks rather impressive, it carries the simple, early 2000s look that I wanted to have and is very easy to have comntrol over. I ended up calling my imageboard 11chan (the image below), not for any particular reason besides i'm too uncreative to come up with one.
There were several different open sorce bases for image boards and the vast majority of them worked in almost identical ways. they all seemed to use PhP and MySQL mainly for the processing and databases. Intrestingly though, there is a site that actually just allows you to create your own board and they host it for you. I considered this, but I wanted a challenge. I was inspired to take on this task as i came by a site called parachan, they stated that they were based on the yusaba x imageboard software, so I had a look and couldn't get it to work, and this basically happened with each and every software I tried, granted I only tried locally. I will give a list of the different imageboard software I came across below:
- Project Mitsuba
- Project Mitsuba is an opensource (AGPLv3 licensed) image board software written in PHP and using MySQLi.
- TinyBoard
- Tinyboard is a light-weight, fast, highly configurable and user-friendly imageboard software package released under a non-restrictive open-source license. It is written in PHP and has few dependencies.
- Kusaba X
- Kusaba X is open source imageboard software written in PHP, a continuation of the kusaba imageboard software, which Trevor has quit supporting. While other Kusaba derivatives are adding more bloat than functionality, Kusaba X is determined on adding functionality first.
However, the one I settled with is called TinyIB, it aws incredibly easy to install and set up, and looks rather impressive, it carries the simple, early 2000s look that I wanted to have and is very easy to have comntrol over. I ended up calling my imageboard 11chan (the image below), not for any particular reason besides i'm too uncreative to come up with one.
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