Helping

This is a request for any help that lainons want to offer to make Lainchan better. Please find a list of some ways you can help Lainchan below: Please note this list is just a starting point, and is not every possible way you can help Lainchan. You can help Lainchan by posting quality posts on Lainchan. Quality posts abide by the rules and mention the subject matter of a post, as well as the motivation for posting. You can help Lainchan by reporting rule violations on Lainchan. You can reply to the /q/ threads containing bug reports >>1005 , feature requests >>1190 or suggestions >>2860 or discussing the future of Lainchan >>626 . You can help by fixing issues with the lainchan software (see https://github.com/lainchan/lainchan/issues for issues that have been reported, though there are plenty that haven't reported yet ) You can work on / contribute to official and unofficial Lainon / Lainchan projects (see gitla.in or the IRC for starting points.) You can work on one of the 5 or more attempts to rewrite Lainchan's board software in a different language (Python, Haskell, Rust, Go, Common Lisp). You can help by spending time with Lainons, whether on the chan, IRC, Mumble, unofficial game servers (Xonotic, Minecraft, LambdaMoo,etc.) You can make custom CSS or custom JavaScript for Lainchan, that can be tested using the User CSS and User JS features. You can summarise the list of user requests in existing /q/ posts in order to make them easier to priortise and be worked on. You can attempt to reproduce the issues reported in the bug reports thread, and post steps to reproduce in the thread or workarounds. You can improve the accuracy and quality of the transcription for the Annual General Meeting that was recorded. You can work on IRC bot plugins for Arisu. You can work on the IRC bot specification protocol for the new server. You can provide additional feedback in /q/. You can request threads to be restored to the archive at https://lainchan.org/archive_preview.html and >>268 , alternatively you can recreate threads inspired by posts in the archive. You can apply to become a janitor of a particular board. Donations are always welcome. Thanks for your contributions, assistance and support.

>You can work on one of the 5 or more attempts to rewrite Lainchan's board software in a different language (Python, Haskell, Rust, Go, Common Lisp). This looks like fun! Is there any practical purpose to it? I'd do it, i'd do it!

I think the suggestions link is wrong. It's linking to a post, not to the suggestions thread.

>>2911 >You can apply to become a janitor of a particular board. How? That was already posted in this thread >>626 but you haven't elaborated if we should send emails or just ping you in the irc

>>3071 Thank you for spotting the typographical error, it has been fixed.

>>3072 Yeah I am still in the process of reviewing and replying to all the questions in >>626, hence the item You can summarise the list of user requests in existing /q/ posts in order to make them easier to priortise and be worked on. Regarding becoming staff / applying to be staff, either an email to admin@lainchan.org or a ping on IRC is the correct starting point.

>>3068 See the following links https://github.com/qzorg/devchan-engine Python https://gitla.in/lambda-bb/lambda-bb Haskell https://gitla.in/muskox/rushi or https://gitla.in/installgen2/rustchan Rust I can't find the URL for the Go option, and the Common Lisp option isn't publicly avaliable yet The list of features an imageboard software would need to have in order to be considering as a viable alternative to switch to is below: * new board creation * board deletion and editing * users database * user management * themes or extensions * reporting system / log * moderation log * ban list * ban appeals * search * configuration editor * user notes * extensions for donate page * extensions for stream page * extensions for irc page * extensions for rules page * name, email, subject, spolier image, file ,oekaki * trip codes * sticky, lock , raw html * file / post deletion and password * banners support * customisable header support * moderation actions, delete, delete by ip, delete by ip for all, unsticky, sage, lock,move and edit * support for post formatting * support for reply linking * image / file upload * thumbnail image support * ddt support for layer ? * ImgOps iqdb * language enhancers * word / phrase blocking * anonymous naming scheme * board customization * api probably 4chan api compatible or similar * catalog extension * overboard extensions * recent posts * css themes * works with and without javascript * is performant and somewhat secure * hackable / able to be developed and customised. * There is a software migration tool from the existing vichan data model / database schema to the data model of the replacement. If you want to make the existing software solution better , you can also see >>>/λ/483 . A possible practical purpose to it is that the people making their own imageboard software are doing it for reasons (whether it is because they think PHP sucks, or vichan sucks, I don't know), and you may share those reasons and want lainchan to change software platform for a better / different user experience.

you can help >lainchan.org by deleting >lainchan.jp

Another way lainons can help is by improving https://lainon.life. It's an official project, right? There's still some issues left on GitHub which need to be implemented (https://github.com/barrucadu/lainonlife).

> HOW TO MAKE LAINCHAN BETTER > APPLEFAG GETS THE fuarrrk OUT > BRING BACK OLD LAINCHAN NOW glitterboys.

can we get /art/

>>5221 please

>> 5223 your soykafty memes won't be allowed

You can help lainchan by bringing back /sci/

can we also get /money/ ?

>>5388 No

I’m interested in the radio or livestream. If there were some way I could assist in the radio’s operation or add to its playlist I think I could improve the variety and quality of the music on there.

>>6458 Did you read before asking this question ? Literally, https://lainon.life/request.html https://lainon.life/bump.html https://github.com/barrucadu/lainonlife

How do i make a theme for the site? Is there a css "template" for this?

>>6588 I'm trying to overwrite this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lainchan/lainchan/master/stylesheets/favela.css Any advices?

where can I find the AGM recording? I think I can only find the first one I've checked news, search boards, zine 1, 3, social, git issues

>>6604 I haven't put the latest one up yet, because the transcription isn't finished. But I should probably just upload it , along with the partial transcription as a news article. I will try to this before the end of this week.

>>2911 Optimized.

>>6466 /bump and /requests have no feedback which would be nice to know what was accepted and what was rejected. I've submitted to both but have no idea if anything was actually used or added and I haven't heard them come up during listening sessions yet. Maybe update /bump with all the accepted and used bumps submitted instead of just the 6 listed? (and the first one 208.67.222.222 doesn't even stream properly pic related) also since Glitched.xyz just has a default landing page but the stream is still active could we add http://glitched.xyz:8000/OGLC.m3u as it's own channel?

Add support for adding images to posts from clipboard like when someone uses screen clipping tool on Win10 (Win+shift+s)

>>7348 second this

>Xonotic servers I've played xonotic for a long time and never seen any lainchan servers (possibly because I mostly play insta ctf and cts). Are they still up? Do people still play?

>>7707 There was one when I used to play 2 or 3 years ago, not sure if it's still active.

>>7708 If you or other lainons want to play some xono, you can usually find me in one of The Regulars servers. My handle is subu.

>>7761 Sorry, can't do. My "modern" laptop died a couple of months ago, so I'm stuck with text based games for now.

I made a solarized css theme for myself, and I saw some other people using solarized in the desktop thread, so I'll post it here. There's probably still some problems. I modified dark.css http://0x0.st/ivIz.css

>>8211 Screenshots

Does the [file] checkbox at delete/report only for deletion? i.e. Does having it selected when reporting report the file or whole message?

>>8731 You do not need to select it when reporting a file. It is only related to the "Delete" button rather than the report button.

"Soyjak" threads about consumer electronics keep showing up and disappearing, and someone mentioned it might be a raid. Is it? Do I report these?

>>9023 I've reported most of those threads.

>>9023 That may probably be random bored teens brewing soykaf.

Can we have a paranormal board for occasional LARP banter?

>>2911 how to not look like a bot?

>>9279 Start by not being a bot

How about thread merge/migration? This solves a lot of independent questions and duplicate threads on >>>/Ω/ A "thread" recycle bin would be nice too. Something like threads getting necro'd out of the catalog from spam returning back once the spam/dupe threads get merged to their parent thread.

>>9564 We already have merge functionality, however it doesn't leave the merged thread.

>>2911 Can someone check the pull requests and issues on github? Seems it hasn't been updated for over a year and I thought about going to fix some issues but no one is accepting any of the pull requests or replying to the issues.

>>9569 I do reply to the issues and review and accept pull requests. Can you be more specific for what you were looking to have merged ?

>>9570 Sardach and p810 both have hanging pull requests that don't have any conflicts. There are 34 open issues, 7 are since the last commit.

>>9571 Sardach's fix is incomplete and has other sideeffects hence why it hasn't been merged. p810's implementation of updateNotice functionality appears to work from the PR, but doesn't when tested because we don't bump the version of Lainchan in install.php like vichan used to. The main reason that PR isn't merged is because of the implied contract it makes with upgrade path testing from any version of vichan, which we don't want to commit to at this time. p810's changes to delete-stray-images, may work but that file has been deprecated as far as I know and that is why that PR hasn't been merged. Regarding the remaining issues, I will attempt to reply to them in the next month or so, but not all of them are bug reports, some are just feature requests for optional functionality which can be done, but require a lot more work then the issue raised indicates.

>>9279 Laindroid: Become a Human

>>2911 >You can work on one of the 5 or more attempts to rewrite Lainchan's board software in a different language (Python, Haskell, Rust, Go, Common Lisp). But I already have an imageboard engine written in Rust

>>3079 https://gitla.in/ seems to be down and I don't know where else to find these projects. I'm particularly interested in the Rust and Go ones. Or are there other imagboard projects in the languages mentioned above that seem to be better than the old projects?

Let's all love Lain(chan)! fuarrrk

tor-node 2a0b:f4c2:1::1 derezzed?

I had a "please make a better post" message. After many attempts, I narrowed it enough to understand the bot had a problem with the word "b@@mer". (had to leet it to post) I understand the will to suppress other social networks terminologies to protect a local culture, but this is a well defined term that have to be used from time to time when talking about people.

>>10783 evading language enhancers is lame.

>>2911 Why do jannies delete my posts whenever I post HIGH-QUALITY posts where I call lainchan users trannies? What else can I call them? This website is full of transgenders, so that's why I call them trannies. Why do jannies delete such HIGH-QUALITY and VALUABLE posts?

>>11335 Suck less more often

>>2911 >see gitla.in or the IRC for starting points. Gitla.in says "The domain Gitla.in may be for sale. Click here to inquire about this domain."

just add this to post.php to stop future thread flooding if ((!isset($_POST['mod']) || !$_POST['mod']) && !isset($_POST['thread'])) { $duration = 300; if (isset($config['flood_time_ip_thread'])) $duration = $config['flood_time_ip_thread']; $query = prepare(sprintf("select count(*) as count from ``posts_%s`` where `time` >= unix_timestamp() - :duration and `thread` is null and `ip` = :ip", $board['uri'])); $query->bindValue(':ip', $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], PDO::PARAM_STR); $query->bindValue(':duration', $duration, PDO::PARAM_INT); $query->execute() or error(db_error()); if ($query->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)["count"] > 0) error(_("You must wait longer before posting a new thread.")); $query = prepare(sprintf("select count(*) as count from ``posts_%s`` where `time` >= unix_timestamp() - 3600 and `thread` is null", $board['uri'])); $query->execute() or error(db_error()); if ($query->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)["count"] >= $config['threads_per_page']) error(_("Too many new threads made recently. Try again later.")); } also turn on early 404 by setting $config['early_404'] to true on all boards, that would've made the recent soyjak spamming ineffective, i didn't see him (them?) reply to his own threads whatever else you're doing to cause "Flood detected; Post discarded." for innocent posts is really annoying and makes me not want to bother posting here anymore. turn down $config['flood_time'], $config['flood_time_ip'] and $config['flood_time_same'], you set them way too high, i shouldn't have to wait an hour just to repost a deleted reply because it had a typo. the above code will make whatever false-positive-producing "anti-flooding mitigation" you added unnecessary.

>>11810 Regarding your patch, I will look into it . early 404 is already enabled and didn't make anything ineffective. If you don't want to post here any more, then don't post here any more, the values you have mentioned have been adjusted. So far your patch as proposed is insufficient to make existing and future anti-flooding mitigation unnecessary.

>>11811 you can modify or adjust it however you like if you find anything useful. idc about credit/copyright, git dweebery or any other cringe legal/clout soykaf, you can claim it as yours, i'm a public domainer and pirate. if that crackpot fredrick brennan manages to relicense vichan to AGPL ( https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/issues/545 ), too fuarrrkin bad, i'm going to use add or use whatever code i like (e.g. my custom anti-cp python script which so far has about a 90% success rate with no false positives, i can share it here in a pastebin if interested) without pre-emptively revealing it to the public (altho i frequently help and share stuff with other vichan board owners if they need it) and there's nothing he or his soyjak troll army (to whom he's recently transferred vichan maintainership btw if you haven't paid attention) can do about it in your case in the second block PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)["count"] >= $config['threads_per_page'] might be too liberal (my board is more laissez-faire/non-serious and has lots of pages, idc if the soyjak losers wipe one index page worth of posts) you can change it to for example: PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)["count"] >= 4 so only 4 new threads can be made each hour. or create your own $config['max_threads_per_hour'] variable or something, check it with isset() first like i did in the first block, idc maybe you don't like this below style of a default duration variable or checking for an optional $config['flood_time_ip_thread'] variable and would prefer a different approach, type whatever you want instead for your lainchan fork: $duration = 300; if (isset($config['flood_time_ip_thread'])) $duration = $config['flood_time_ip_thread'];

>>11812 I have applied a variant of your patch, however I may have to revert it or add additional patches to better support it because I already see at least one unintended issue. I will post the variant , along with other mitigations on the Github eventually. Thanks for your assistance and feedback.

>>11813 i added it between lines 473-475 https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/blob/2cd1ea4095806f7bced501b54e65935be12eb0fd/post.php#L474

btw not sure if you're interested, i also have some delete time limit code. not sure if you added something like this already in your lainchan fork. had a situation where a troll or two would make some threads, people would reply (i.e "effortpost") to them, then the thread creator would delete the thread later. so to put an end to that i put a time limit where you can't delete your thread after say 30 minutes. if (isset($config['delete_time_limit']) && time() > $post['time'] + $config['delete_time_limit'] && (!$thread || $thread['password'] != $password)) { error(sprintf($config['error']['delete_too_late'])); } would be placed https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/blob/2cd1ea4095806f7bced501b54e65935be12eb0fd/post.php#L236 dunno if you'd prefer $config['delete_time_limit'] to be a required variable instead in inc/config.php (as opposed to isset-ing it first), i might change that in my instance now that i think about it. i guess it would be better if it is, because it requires this error variable i added in config.php anyway for the code to work, it's a bit schizophrenic to make $config['delete_time_limit'] optional by isset-ing it, but the error function depends on a new required variable: $config['error']['delete_too_late']= _('You can\'t delete a post this old.'); in line 1170 https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/blob/2cd1ea4095806f7bced501b54e65935be12eb0fd/inc/config.php#L1170

>>11815 meant to say "where you can't delete your '''post'''" not "where you can't delete your '''thread'''". maybe you'll want to modify it so it's limited to threads only, idk. actually i think it's better for $config['delete_time_limit'] to be optional because i think maybe the average board owner probably would not want a time limit by default, idk, as adding any $config['delete_time_limit'] would add a default time limit if this code's logic is left as is.

>Your ban was filed on Monday 13 July, 2020 and expires 82 years from now, which is on Saturday 6 February, 2106 >Your IP address is 185.220.102.253. >You appealed this ban on Saturday 28 May, 2022 and it was denied. You may not appeal this ban again. This is a Tor exit. You have to ban them all or don't bother.

>>12151 >Appeal denied Fixed. >You have to ban them all or don't bother. Mistakes happen, but you'll get over it. We have several nodes derezzed that we haven't gotten to from 2019 and 2020. Unfortunately, some appeals don't say "this is a tor node" it says "fuarrrk you" and the logical conclusion follows. Cheers!

>>12151 >>Your ban was filed on Monday 13 July, 2020 and expires 82 years from now, which is on Saturday 6 February, 2106 >Your IP address is 185.220.102.253. >You appealed this ban on Saturday 28 May, 2022 and it was denied. You may not appeal this ban again. This is a Tor exit. You have to ban them all or don't bother. Hmmmm weird

not sure what hosts lainchan and probably old news by now but just in case: remember to update glibc https://yewtu.be/watch?v=u8jLUjpCWrs >php every single time feel free to remove this post

>>12541 Servers are already patched, but thanks for the reminder.

>>2911 It would be nice to see a richer textarea where I can see the post I'm quoting by hovering over the quote with the cursor, like what lsps do with errors in code.

>>12590 We have post highlight and post hover in other places, I will see what I can do regarding post hover for the Reply and Quick reply text areas,, but finding a suitable offset that doesn't block other parts of the post is always finicky.

is it efficient to yell as i do with reports about cp? it's all in caps and says you should act 'now', that is immediately. just so you know who i am. is there a better way to ring the bell? this time it wasn't just links, so i worry

Yesterday I wrote a modification to vichan that allows spam filtering posts based on the expanded endpoints of shortened URLs that appear in the post. We're using it on my sites to fight the CP spam problem, after observing that the spammers' infinite supply of URL shorteners are used to mask just a few endpoints. It's currently pull request #775 on the main vichan repo. Not sure if this helps or you already have countermeasures in place other than fast janitors.

What kind of help is prioritised? Contact nadeko.net

can we get a general for LLMs going in tech and restrict all LLM discussion to that general? there's like 5 redundant threads filling up the first page.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I hereby volunteer to janny the CP. For example there's >>>/zzz/7484 right now that's 2+ hours old, yesterday there were pics up for 5-10 hours. The only ability I want is to hide CP posts until a real mod is available to review it, to be taken away at my first mistake. Willing to send a 1 XMR deposit or a small XMR donation to prove I'm not a scammer. Can react within minutes without reports most of the time, would notify myself of new posts with a script. Available in Europe time. Not power trippy, nor a zealot of any ideology. Don't want to be the judge of subtle rule violations. I just don't like seeing this site defaced. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYKAB0WIQSFzYyjHCcwG8QS7qZflBvD1tnnBwUCZ26j7AAKCRBflBvD1tnn B55lAQCkpr8G84rZrbEntaPcJ9ivY3QwI1R/RtIouS7L7aVWTgD/dgV+jokJ7MeK hSywRl7BbTXZ6/7xl+idkcA5majOBQA= =3bk2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mDMEZ26h6BYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAoBD4PwDtFivFjLGa6gokMH55KFUGBTpkz/Zm Y0yBLbi0HEphbkphbiA8amFuamFuQGxhaW5jaGFuLm9yZz6IkwQTFgoAOxYhBIXN jKMcJzAbxBLupl+UG8PW2ecHBQJnbqHoAhsDBQsJCAcCAiICBhUKCQgLAgQWAgMB Ah4HAheAAAoJEF+UG8PW2ecH7iUBAIBskRr5cqT5LZ38/JdDSTt8WdRaJk3mwLr0 DzGTEsPlAP9M/6ym+zpFJtfzndoXy3eVQPmWMDcfaeJSoP1QcvjFBbg4BGduoegS CisGAQQBl1UBBQEBB0DO/z/aiKIviXygvK20epiBqci0rRKuAzSxLJqTkpQ6NwMB CAeIeAQYFgoAIBYhBIXNjKMcJzAbxBLupl+UG8PW2ecHBQJnbqHoAhsMAAoJEF+U G8PW2ecHV6gBAOs0pyQ3HsRSxgQSZxO0cxKXkAq2nZAMlXJeOGfjniq3AQDQkJ3x v649SSIKhfrvnQJYqxbq9zi0mBfTclp6aR7QDQ== =eybR -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

>>13039 make an application with the form. offering to buy the position in a thread with PGP signature is a little much, don't you think? https://lainchan.org/staffapplication.html

>>13042 the application seems to be broken. not that person (i would never immediately disqualify myself by offering to buy a position), but the anti-spam filter is not updated to the current homepage.

please work through the ban appeals, you have a couple Tor nodes on there

Hello, the SSL certs for the IRC are expired and need to be renewed

how do i report a post? i cant find the button anywhere.

2a03:e600:100::68 blocked Tor exit node, appeal was sent on Friday 6 June, 2025.

>>13500 Click on checkbox and report button will appear

Does lainchan administration officialy recognize and adhere to Santa Clara Principles?

>>2911 Can you guys implement some kind of CSAM detection on image submission or add moderator approval for images? Maybe something like: https://github.com/bhky/opennsfw2 It seems like mods have been just banning the IP which is probably just some VPN/tor exit node anyways. There has to be some better solution than just reporting and then banning, no?

can we make a thread in /lit/ for ARGs and move all the ARGs, especially non-technical ones, to that thread? also can we improve the language enhancer so "g​ore" when not used in spam posts like "best go​re tube" and words within words like "psychoa​nalysis" don't get filtered? >>13676 there's a patch to vichan which counteracts the specific CP spam issues that have been affecting boards https://github.com/seisatsu/vichan/commit/6e3217485426474da511ae6ae40b7b186434e0bf

>>13837 That seems useful. One thing I did as a vichan based board admin was implementing regex filters targeting typical content of those posts. It did result in a short ”arms race” where the spammer(s) tried to out smart my filtering but after some tweaking the filter got pretty robust. If I start having issues with that I’ll probably make the filter automatically ban the users after hitting it a few times to make attempting to bypass it more tedious.

>>13838 lainchan has a similar filter that has unfortunately gone neglected because apple can't into regex. as a result, you cannot post about underground breakcore sensation go​resh​it without being cyberraped by the language enhancer

>>2911 Thanks for running Lainchan. I don't have many other places where I talk to other people besides imageboards.

The post I requested to be removed happened sooner than expected. I just want to say: Thank you, thank you very much. And also thank you very much for all these marvelous years. I really had a great time while it lasted and I met some interesting people. However, due to the increasing number of unpleasant people who just want to "have fun" at one's expense by endlessly insulting one, I no longer enjoy interacting with other lainons in peace. So, I'm going to stop visiting the site for my peace of mind (also, I already procrastinate way too much). Once again, I am extremely grateful for your hard work, and I hope that life is giving you wonderful things. I would have liked to contribute something actually relevant, like code to mitigate attacks involving images of minors or gore, but sadly back end programming is not my strong suit. Anyways, I hope Lainchan's future is bright. Take care. さようなら!

Hello, I hope you are doing awesome. I hope it doesn't look like I'm making cheap marketing here, but, why you don't implement this thing on Lainchan? https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis It's open source, so people more talented than me regarding this stuff can detect if it hides something shady. Maybe it will help with the spam issue? I'm posting this out of complete ignorance; I don't know if there exist's a reason you can't or don't wanna use this tool. It's my try-hard way of "helping" to mitigate the pedo/gore spam attacks. I genuinely hope it helps in something. Cheers!

you need more admins or sonemething... the quality of this place has been on a massive decline.... inb4 rules... poor quality is poor quality. it could be better like before...

>>13979 I don't like complaining, but I must second this. I remember when lainchan was actually a pretty civilized site. I mean, there were heated debates and people who didn't necessarily agree with an opinion. But lately: * It's already common to enter and see gore or child porn on the main page. * The tacky soyposting is reaching a point where the site already looks like a soyjak party clone. Last thing we need is those degenerate cowards here. * Several threads that are already just an excuse to behave like animals anonymously. * Constant and arbitrary use of offensive slang. Sometimes I feel like it's a kind of conspiracy. As you could have very interesting and deep talks on this site, bad actors are sending people to ruin it and impose brewing soykaf and brainrot just like what happened to 4chan.

i love what lainchan was... but the admins just seem to be content to leave the lights on in an abandoned dump. if i could take over, i'd clean the place up. it's a nice cozy spot when not overrun by degeneracy and literal fuarrrking child predators and other freaks. appleman is asleep at the wheel. :(

>>13992 >appleman is asleep at the wheel. :( I mean, it's not like someone is paying these people for maintaining/moderating the site; it's more a hobby thing. They probably have no time to dedicate their whole lives to this site preservation like it's their job or something like that and also, let's be honest, the interest on it it's not that much (the most "lively" board is /hum and that place already looks like a 4chan's lost cousin). Maintaining a site is difficult. Just remember that the code is open sourced: https://github.com/lainchan/lainchan Maybe you can contribute to make it better or make a fork from it and try to make your own Garden of Eden on the Web.

>>13993 if somebody cannot be assed to moderate, they shouldn't run a forum/board or whatever. if you don't want the responsibility, don't host the broken website. if it is too difficult for appleman, then he should quit. this place is a fuarrrking dump now. the vice retard is out of containment, and people are soykafting all over every single thread.

>>13998 Although I kind of agree, these people do not owe nothing to us and it's not their job. And you know what? To a large extent users are the ones to blame, not the mods. Many come only as tourists or to take out their frustrations with life instead of contributing something of real value or starting really interesting threads. People start threads on exactly the same damn topic they dealt with in 10 subsequent ones without bothering to check if there is already one initiated on that subject. And the worst thing is that they don't even get anywhere and it just becomes a goofy drama center. And it bothers me that when you try to help, they get defensive or just ignore you altogether because they think being sardonic is "cool". If I were a mod, I would have sent them to hell too. Stay with your dead place. I spend my time posting resources to get people out of their delusional cloud of conformity, but seeing that they are not interested at all, this site is already more of a kind of archive that I can visit to review the resources when I need it. I don't need some anonymous cowardly loser calling me 'retarded'. Instead of complaining, you should look for a place that truly feels genuine to you, not some anonymous image board. It's not that complicated.

>>14000 This is an anonymous image board. If you want standards of *conduct* consider the format you absolute retard.

>>14002 Awww, did something hurt? Good.

>>14006 Comic book super villain over here. Mommy didn't hug you enough kid? It's ok, let the adults talk.

>>14013 >Mommy didn't hug you enough kid? It's ok, let the adults talk. And you sound like one of those generic, try-hard edgy anime villains. Specifically when they're breaking and want to look like they're okay. I see that you are still in your plan of not contributing anything useful to the conversations in which you try to sneak in. Sad.

>>14014 >>14013 >>14006 >>14002 >>14000 tf is this?

AI spam seems to be getting worse, and the post quality of several threads is plunging...

>>14014 lol get mogged ngl my 4 inch would penetrate yah mommy if she would pick up her phone in $CURRENT_YEAR but jokes aside comic books got bad after like 2012 imo write around the time the world ended and we got Kony that little fuarrrker FR

>>13921 this anime girl said my no-JS browser is too bad for her sooooo idk looks like its glowing a bit

Sell lainchan to me. I'll fix it up.

>>14047 No, Kalyx. Go away.

>>14048 I'm not Kylax. appleman, you're not able to keep the place up, sell it to me.

>>14051 jokes on you. I'm not appleman.

plz fix this bug, don't know why linking to gnu.org or a wired article would trigger this

>>14056 it might be a regex thing with links or things ending with .org. or u are behind a proxy, vpn or using tor who knows

>>14060 it's totally fuarrrking random i could post links like this: https://gnu.org/childporn https://www.wired.com/IllegalUnderagePorn but if i make a detailed reply to a thread i get that error so it probably has nothing to do with links like he should just get rid of this whole thing because it targets legit posts more than the cp spammer

>>14061 I checked the log, you're trying to post about cp and aoc. fuarrrk off so I don't need to delete your post.

>>14063 very funny

>>2911 cp on main for several hours. i reported you to your hosting company and the fbi with timeline. as a public website, you are obligated to moderate entirely or not at all. you have demonstrated that you DO moderate, so enjoy your free federal assfucking.

>>14077 cp in main again, no moderation in sight. lainchan should be deleted if appleman can't even do the BARE MINIMUM.

>>14077 yo appleman it's pretty trivial to block this clown's /24 ip range with nginx, upload your nginx config file for this site to deepseek and ask how to block his ip range for the server block listening to 443 port (test your own ip first)

Can we talk about the post filtering that has waaaay too many false positives? This is actually extremely annoying. In case it's not clear, I'm talking about the "your post looks automated" soykaf. There might also be another one which I won't recall.

>>14089 imagine being so retarded as to not know that won't work. jfc is everybody here retarded? >>14090 appleman is retarded. he'll break the site entirely if he tries.

>>14082 appleman is continuing to allow cp on lainchan.

>>14090 Yeah, it's been a problem for awhile. Everyone on the staff is pretty much too busy to sit down and work on it, then we've got retarded spammers going to town on the boards. We had some ideas, but they were somehow worse before. The really big thing is just getting people to basically report what exactly was blocked, so we can address it, but no one wants to screenshot or copy/paste their message and share it with me so I can test what is hitting it. >>14102 You're a retarded nigger. We get to it when we can. I try to check the report queue twice daily.

>>14103 You're a pathetic fâggot who can't do his job right. stupid retards

>>14103 cope harder retard. you are a soykaf in the world

You keep failing. Absolute pieces of soykaf. As usual, lainchan is hosting çp. Appleman has continued to be absent from his admin duties, except to delete usually fine comments and content. Meanwhile, he let's the site degenerate into an all out soykafshow of çp, slide threads, and glowie bullshit. Lainchan has zero credible jannies, and whoever is doing the job if at all is making the place into a dumpster fire. fuarrrk appleman and fuarrrk lainchan. Why even come here if we're going to see 4çhan tier garbage and chïld abuse? Why bother posting if your soykaf might get deleted for no fuarrrking reason while assholes say incredibly stupid soykaf. If Appleman wants to pander to bottom feeders, he shouldn't be surprised the whole site is now a dumpster fire. >inb4 no complaining fuarrrk off, the site is turning into a complete soykaf show. take the criticism and fix your soykaf. half the basic site features are broken! you can't even reliably upload images. Imagine! Can't upload images on a fuarrrking imageboard. Half the text filters are retardedly ill-conceived, and legitimate users only end up being frustrated. Bots all the time. What a dump.

>>14103 >twice a day what a fuarrrking liar

>>14106 >>14106 >>14106 I hate to admit it, but you're right.

>>14106 >you can't even reliably upload images. I've noticed a few folks posting links because uploads failed but the text post posted anyway. Storage issue or something? Unless the admins messed with the code... >Bots all the time. Was coming to say this initially. Is it just me or is this place being astroturfed to soykafs? lot's of soykafty posts rn. >>13921 I've been seeing Anubis more often on independent projects. Seems to work well and at extremely low cost to run. The furry running it is mega autistic about programming, FOSS and refuses to monetize the project in any way. I trust her work until further notice. >>14027 >this anime girl said my no-JS browser is too bad for her sooooo idk looks like its glowing a bit the site itself may be glowing. the setting for requiring javascript for Anubis is enforced by the admin. (issue #1240)

>>14110 I have Anubis running in my VPS and it's awesome. As far as I know it's monetized alright, with an enterprise option to hide the furry soykaf and whatnot. Not that it's a problem, as that does not harm the project in any way. I didn't know a non-JS version was already being tested? Last time I checked it was still just a TODO. Anubis is quite literally the only JS requirement on my webserver... If this works well without JS this will be genuinely awesome.

>>14111 Also I actually don't think a pow would really help with botting to be honest... it's mainly to make scraping too expensive at scale, I don't think if it'd be effective to stop a dedicated spammer as scale is not his goal and so running a soykafty playwright setup is more than enough. I don't think there's a better path than some heuristics to identify and block soykaf... with low false positives.

>>14111 >I didn't know a non-JS version was already being tested? Yeah! they wrote about it on their blog. https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/anubis-wasm-vendor-binary/ Unsure if it is pushed publicly yet. The pic is from their bsky acc. They've been pretty interested in WASM. i wasn't exactly aware of how they monetize it, sounds totally fine. >>14112 >it's mainly to make scraping too expensive at scale I see... I also imagine it would break apps (thinking of clover for example) that access the site, but I would have considered it acceptable if it did a meaningful positive impact against botting.

>>14104 I still haven't seen where I'm not doing my "job" right, here. I delete the CP when it's posted, I deal with spam when/where I can. Did soyjakparty raids upgrade to something else? >>14107 >I try to check the report queue twice daily. >I try to This part was the important part of the message. I can't be here constantly like before, I have responsibilities outside of the computer now. >>14110 I noticed some complaints about the inability to post images. I haven't been able to recreate the problem on the test board or on my local instance -- I'm not sure what's going on there, but as far as I know, it's not code unless I don't have the latest version of the code base. >Is it just me or is this place being astroturfed to soykafs? lot's of soykafty posts rn I have genuinely no idea why we're being raided by like three different groups: LLM posters, spergs who say the same general verbage over and over (I think it might just be a guy who found out how to rotate IPs.), and of course the CP spammers... Which we get to as soon as we can.

>>14114 >I have genuinely no idea why we're being raided by like three different groups... NTA, but I believe you. Unfortunately, the problems you are facing seem to be endemic to the design of anon IBs in general. I could be wrong, but my feeling is any permanent "fix" would either remove the anonymity or make the site not worth interacting with. World governments have identified anon IBs as a threat, and are using their considerable resources to put pressure on those flaws. Just a feeling, I could be wrong somehow. It's still bearable here and in similar places for some, which is a testament to human resolve and the power of truth. They clearly wanted these places to die a long time ago. Sorry if my post is a culture shock. I am always a lurker, but I wanted to say something at least. I feel like something is happening. I want to raise the alarm but I'm not sure what's going on. Something is happening as we speak. I really don't know either.

>>14116 >>14116 >>14116 >>14116 niggers dont know how to Drive so they take the bus >>14116

I wonder how places like zchan and kissu seems to always be clean as a baby's ass and they don't have captchas or mandatory JS. Range bans? Is it just Cloudflare?

>>14118 the difference is competence. lainchan lacks it entirely. just excuses.

>>14127 yeah, lainchan is suffering under the incompetence of soykaf leadership and soykaf staff. the place falls apart and they only have one janny? even if they weren't inept or "busy", that's a soykaf way to run an ib. appleman needs to get soykaf fixed. fuarrrking retarded this is the situation on a site like this.

>>2911 I would just like to give a heartfelt thanks to the staff for dealing with the recent raids and waves of bots and spam. I also think that appleman is very attractive and probably has a huge dick,

>>14130 stop jerking yourself off applefạg. if you actually did deal with it, we wouldn't complain. literally just want a site that isn't covered in literal soykaf.

>>14133 oh and he is probably super tall, giga muscular and has a clean 10/10 chad face Present Day, Present Time! AHAHAHAHAHA!

Jokes aside, the nigger bot (not george droid hehe) is making the site blatantly unfun to interact with. That's probably their intention as well. Any real theories about why? It's targeted only to here it seems. Maybe only I see it and the internet is already Truman show. I understand banning IPs is pointless, but couldn't you filter the word? It's a bot. I know it would be a huge loss to free speech (or whatever lol) to basically ban the word, but it's a lot of spam. In this very thread too. And still not deleted for some reason? It's not really about the word for me, it's just not in the spirit of the site at all. "In good faith" discussions and all that. Also hii, I lurk here past two years I post now do not shoot I friendly

>>14139 fr the n poster (just went on a spree) is sucking what little joy remains. the place needs serious work generally.

>>14142 >>14139 I don't think they care enough to do anything. The way the board is being run and the self-congratulatory tone of the mods to being called out signals The Death of this once nice place. Salute lain, go peacefully into the long dark night.

>>14143 Do you think they're intentionally driving lainchan into the ground?

seem to be getting this error message when trying to post in threads

>>14116 >Sorry if my post is a culture shock You don't need to apologize. We're all working together to figure out how to at least keep the culture on life support long enough for it to get strong again. >remove the anonymity >make the site not worth interacting with The problem is that this would completely undermine the imageboard. People need to be able to share what they can... Now that said, one of my jobs that I work on is actually building a certain project, and there is a lot of overlap between these problems.... That said, there might be an actual avenue for at least components of the spam that I've found. It's just going to be awhile because I need to have actual time to be able to jump on IRC or mumble with Appleman. >>14129 >"busy" I work three SWE jobs, run a FOSS foundation, and I'm raising my son. I'm not the same me I was several years ago when I was just drunk for 14 - 16 hours on here a day, every day. I think things will smooth out soon enough and maybe I can put a few hours into the actual undercurrent to help deal with it. >only have one janny False. We have no jannies. Our last janny hasn't logged in for 4 years. We have a few mods. People don't apply, I guess. I mean I have a soykaf ton of people tell me how to run open source software, but they disappear when I ask for a patch. This is just the same as that. IDK man. Go pick a board, report soykafposts, and then we go from there. It's a community effort. Half the time people spam "MODS CP CP CP" on the imageboard but they dont report it and then someone won't get to it for way too long. Be the change you wanna see. >>14133 lmao if appleman talked like that, holy hell rofl

>>14147 We just need to get rid of the posters who soykaf up every single discussion. If you can't talk about difficult topics here, then where? Right now, you have this asshole bringing pol-tier soykafposts to main and distracting from the topic. No contribution, just mindless bshittery

So is lainchan's code not public anymore or what? The news page suggests it's been updated in 2026 to php 8.4 but the most recent commit on github is from 2025 (but really from 2022).

>>14162 Appleman is incompetent. He has done maybe one or two updates in a heck of a long time.

>try to make a post >add a webm >"file not supported" error >upload it to catbox and try to make a post with that link instead >get an error message with a long, unreadable escaped html description >try make the post without the file and without the catbox link >"go away, spammer" can't you guys use a captcha instead of this auto-detection bullshit

bugs thread is filled up so im posting here staff application form says not to add spaces to antispam term, but you actually do need to add them