/site/ - Site Meta

Official 8chan Site Meta. (Bring bug reports, complaints, and requests here)

Catalog Archive
Name
Options
Subject
Message

Max message length: 12000

files

Max file size: 32.00 MB

Total max file size: 50.00 MB

Max files: 5

Supported file types: GIF, JPG, PNG, WebM, OGG, and more

CAPTCHA
E-mail
Password

(used to delete files and posts)

Misc

Remember to follow the Rules

The backup domains are located at 8chan.se and 8chan.cc. TOR access can be found here, or you can access the TOR portal from the clearnet at Redchannit 3.0.

Welcome Refugees!
Don't see your board? Register and create it!


8chan.moe is a hobby project with no affiliation whatsoever to the administration of any other "8chan" site, past or present.

(1.03 MB 2048x1448 yoko slide.jpg)

(3.31 MB 1342x1821 8chan family.png)

General Purpose 8chan Sitewide Meta Thread Anonymous Board owner 05/12/2022 (Thu) 02:37:48 Id: 9b4131 No. 5423 [Reply] [Last]
This cyclical thread is for all of the following: Bug Reports General Help 8chan Tech Support Board Migrations Suggestions and Feature Requests Global Site Announcements Transparency Reports General Site Meta Discussion Summoning the Admins Specific meta threads on this board and elsewhere are deprecated. If something is really important or urgent it may get its own sticky, otherwise post in here.
996 posts and 144 images omitted.
>>12233 Well I suppose this was a long time ago. Now they have almighty TSPU Chinese machines and can cut off Russia from internet. High doubt they will try to directly nuke 8chan anymore. I mean all boorus are blocked and some of them are so small and filled with ToT they will never withstand any ddos or hack. Give it a try someday maybe. >See you soon! OWARI DA
>look at board list >see nonsense for stats Consider it a low-priority request for these to be formatted better, even just having them delineated would be enough.

(498.56 KB 1821x3091 FALchan crossed.jpg)

8chan Rules Enforcement and Corner Case Rulings Compendium Anonymous Board owner 11/21/2021 (Sun) 23:49:51 Id: 0a02ed No. 4481 [Reply]
This is a locked thread for archiving the causes and outcomes of corner case rulings vis-a-vis the site's Global Rules. It may be cited as an explanation for rules and policies. The Global Rules page is the "what", this thread will archive the "why" and the "how" for specific instances.
17 posts and 3 images omitted.
Ruling18: Shilling, Blackpilling, and Other Psyops. Global Rule 4 has long contained a provision prohibiting "psyops" against the site. Out of respect for free speech, and to avoid false positives or the appearance of policing opinions, this ruling is invoked only sparingly and only when predictable patterns of disruptive activity are noticed, and not merely on the basis of one isolated event. If this ruling is invoked in matters of controversy, a general policy is held that "the truth vindicates" - meaning that objectively true information, shown in its full context and without malice or leading the reader, will be exempted so that we can err on the side of free speech, even if such content would be inconvenient to the site. Many times the malicious users to whom this ruling would apply are already breaking the rules of the site because they are spamming the disruptive content and/or evading bans, and so those rules will generally be invoked against them first. Typically when prohibited psyops are detected by themselves the content will simply be deleted, but global staff may use their own judgement in assigning bans for persistent or particularly malicious posters of it. The most common activities that constitute prohibited psyops are: <Shilling Meaning marketing a website, article, meme, false narrative, product or service by faking unironic community enthusiasm, favorable reviews, or public or staff support, particularly when done for profit. <Datamining Meaning an organized attempt to disguise the solicitation of user metadata and/or personal identifying information as ordinary posts or traffic, particularly when done for profit. <Blackpilling Meaning a malicious attempt to demoralize or otherwise inhibit the interests, passions, or energy of the community to discourage users from participating in the site, a board, a thread, or some other allowed activity in order to hinder or limit user participation. <Death Memes Meaning a malicious attempt to create a false impression among the community that a board or the site is "dying" or otherwise in some perilous or compromised state, with the intent of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy by provoking users into abandoning it. <Derailing and Diluting

Message too long. Click here to view full text.

Edited last time by Acidadmin on 08/31/2024 (Sat) 16:30:03.
(41.30 KB 614x767 Board Raider Legends.webp)

Ruling19: Raids, Raiding, and Raiding Raiders The Global Rules of the site do not generally prohibit the act of raiding, regardless of whether such raids occur between boards on this site, or are conducted by anons from this site upon other locations. However any raid, or series of raids, which spills over or gets out of hand (e.g., a board is spammed beyond the ability of local staff to handle, or retaliatory actions from other sites pose a threat to the communities here, the site as a whole, or other parts of our infrastructure, or doxing and /i/nvasion tactics start being used which may violate the law) may fall afoul of Global Rule 4's "harm to the site" clause and become prohibited that way. >Why? Board raids are ancient imageboard culture, dating back to the era of Gaia Online, Habbo Hotel, and Ebaumsworld. This site aims to protect and preserve as much of old imageboard culture as possible, and our general policy is that top-down moderation of the site should be kept to a minimum. The typical raid is a relatively harmless affair, done for the lulz and the only price paid is the minor frustrations of its intended victims. In sum, raids are meant to be fun and so long as they don't actually wind up causing measurable harm to the site or spill over into other Global Rule violations, then it isn't our place to tell anons and boards what they can and cannot do for their amusement.
Edited last time by Acidadmin on 08/31/2024 (Sat) 16:29:51.

Remove ID colors Anonymous 04/21/2025 (Mon) 20:47:04 Id: 277403 No. 11721 [Reply]
The only reason for ID's to have color is to give them personality and make them stand out so it's harder for them to be ignored. /a/ already implemented default CSS to remove the color and hide id's unless hovered over. I believe if we have to have ID's they should be as unintrusive as possible, and giving them color only encourages identifying with your id which is against the idea of being anonymous. >inb4 "it doesn't look as nice" or "it helps me match id's" I don't think ID's are supposed to look pretty. The only value of having colors is being able to easily identify which posts are from a given id, but you can still do that if you really want to by double clicking the id, and I think the burden should be on those who want to use the id rather than force everyone to always be wary of them.
>>11721 didn't mean to spoiler but w/e
(52.48 KB 640x411 Papiere Bitte.jpg)

>"HALT! Ihre Papiere bitte." Sicherungs patrol asks you for your ID. >White = Der Führer (take over the thread) >Green = High ranking Reich official (Pass) >Blue = Waffen SS (Pass) >Yellow = Wehrmacht (Pass) >Purple = Allied soldier of the Reich (Pass) >Orange = Enemy soldier (the entire squad opens fire on you) >Red = Communist (arrest on sight) >Black = Nigger (arrest on sight) >Brown = Juden (arrest on sight) >Pink = Homosexual (arrest on sight) IF YOU PASS >0-2 Sent to the Western Front >3-6 Sent to the Eastern Front >7-9 Sent to North Africa

Message too long. Click here to view full text.

>>11721 I'm not using /a/'s default CSS because it is ugly

Avif av1 opus webm support Anonymous 04/21/2025 (Mon) 08:44:21 Id: ccf25c No. 11600 [Reply]
Support - avif (and maybe animated avif, .avifs, even) - av1 - opus media formats. They are smaller in size, so it should help you with your storage needs as well.
- video codec iframe based image formats are cringe. jxl would be nice to support, but it has been murdered. - hardwarde decoding of av1 is sparse. - yeah, ok, as if someone is posting audio. maybe on certain boards i don't frequent. it's a free format so nothing to hate.
>>11916 Avif won.
>>12273 >being capped at 16k*8k is winning Ok, retard

Board unlock requests Anonymous 04/24/2025 (Thu) 01:10:22 Id: 86d817 No. 12190 [Reply]
I'll start: please unlock /fa/
Yeah I miss the boot generals and the watch generals.

Windows 95 Anonymous 04/21/2025 (Mon) 00:35:04 Id: 2d79ab No. 11510 [Reply]
IMPROVE Windows 95 CSS PLEASE for those who use it unironically like me Home, Boards.js, Overboards, Multiboard, Posting.html, Settings Watched Threads and Account.js still don't have an icon, meaning that remembering which ones are the one I need extremely difficult Even some random icons would be better than just 9 gray boxes
8 posts and 8 images omitted.
(36.25 KB 100x98 eye.gif)

(397.00 B 32x32 Boards alt.png)

(527.00 B 32x32 Boards.png)

(593.00 B 32x32 Overboard-1.png)

(561.00 B 32x32 Multiboard.png)

>>12217 If the globe with the star sucks for watched threads, I can change it to a frame from a Geocities-era gif.
>>12222 Globe Star firs "watched" perfectly actually.
(125.29 KB 1360x578 Homepage.png)

(25.75 KB 387x248 logo_gray_dark.png)

(103.60 KB 1280x800 windows 95.png)

(44.45 KB 1200x675 windows 2000.jpg)

(45.14 KB 1024x768 windows-2000-classic.png)

Looking at the homepage now, there could probably be more tweaks made to the default icons to be more in line with classic windows. The logo could also be redesigned to have the 4 colors and black outline. It will be a little trickier with Windows 2000 as that one has the logo in the orange square. What could probably work better for the logo as a compromise for both the Windows 95 & Windows 2000 themes would be to have the logo in a black square as shown in pic 5 from 2000's file manager window.

Feature Request: vote to reveal ids in a thread Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 10:10:38 Id: 3e4461 No. 11341 [Reply]
Request: allow a setting so that the board will hide IDs by default. but when suspected samefagging occurs and enough users vote (one vote per thread) on the same user, will reveal the voted user's id on all of their posts (see image for how 2chan does it) Reference: https://8chan.moe/a/res/23599.html#q27445 Purpose is to help ID-shy users stay anonymous to other users while providing users tools to self moderate their threads.
29 posts omitted.
>>11738 My point is that it only feeds the middle ground fallacy.
>>11457 I am hoping to have an implementation of this prepared for next week and then I'll bug Codexx about implementing it. I'm not going to go through the effort of creating a sandbox just to run a local instance of Lynxchan, so I may have to eventually collaborate with some folks on /t/. The system has grown to be a little more elaborate as I've started to factor in potential ways it could be abused since it relies on the back end frequently querying a thread's reply table. One such example is limiting the amount of reply ids that the front end can parse to avoid gratuitous querying on the back end and just revealing the poster anyways for being a mass replyfag.
>>11341 The way how IDs currently work makes it very easy to immediately identify samefags, your idea adds a unnecessary delay to identify samefagging.

(137.95 KB 1600x1533 1654756492787.jpg)

Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 19:13:38 Id: 29da3d No. 10818 [Reply]
wtf is aleph
8 posts and 1 image omitted.
>>11128 There are a coule of alephs, but the first one is 1488. https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+05D0
>>11128 >Aleph is a symbol to represent the cardinality of an infinity set in set theory Cool. Kind of stupid that something sharing the same lingual root with "thousand" is used to denote "infinity". But I think it's safe to assume no one connected with 8chan shares any of the blame for that☺
>>10849 Alpha and Beta in Greek are derived from the Phoenician (Semitic) equivalent. It's also where the word Alphabet comes from.

(41.55 KB 808x254 Jannies.png)

Anonymous 04/24/2025 (Thu) 02:47:10 Id: ef5e37 No. 12209 [Reply]
8chan mod team is infiltrated by 4chan jannies >pedoshit >pedo bullshit That's literally a thing only a specific 4chan janny says

Remove post id on /a/ and /v/ Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 10:17:53 Id: 947dfd No. 11343 [Reply] [Last]
Please. Samefagging is a culture
46 posts and 3 images omitted.
>>12161 Just see /a/ and /v/ Its dead as fuck with those enabled
(112.54 KB 1572x600 SURE!.jpg)

>>12167 > Even /vb/ is faster than /v/ pic rel
>>12167 >Its dead as fuck with those enabled Captcha is not the reason for that, but nice try sharty

(2.30 KB 440x324 orange box.png)

(296.22 KB 567x425 kawaii oranges.gif)

The Orange Box Anonymous 07/14/2024 (Sun) 23:54:58 Id: f413fc No. 9460 [Reply]
Throw ideas to improve the site in a nutshell.
31 posts and 12 images omitted.
>>12092 I understand, I still think there are ways to implement a reverse search system for image files while limiting the ability for the nigger to fuck everything up, one option would be to skip the disclaimer page when the media is being accessed from certain domains like saucenao, tinyeye and iqdb, another option would be to generate a temporary link for a media file that would expire in one or two minutes, just enough time for iqdb to download the file.
It would be cool if multiple file posts thumbnails reliably displayed in a grid instead of a single column on mobile
(1.00 MB 1384x807 nigger pope.jpg)

Mirrion dorrar idea: -Do not ban new users learning the site shenaningas-

(144.03 KB 2024x1513 22 april 2025 altchans.png)

The elephant in the room Anonymous 04/23/2025 (Wed) 11:36:19 Id: fef79e No. 12050 [Reply]
This site has a latency problem it often happens that images and videos are slow to load, and that drives away some of the rare people who even discover this place exists The more people this place gets, the worse the latency becomes, the little 4chan refugees were enough to make images and videos load slowly The worse the latency becomes, the more people leave out of annoyance This means this site will never grow to have an high population, the latency acts as a soft cap on the max userbase Is there any server status or server stats page to check to have a better idea of what is the server load and capacity?
5 posts omitted.
>>12050 Is that why the website feels like shit to use? Images take ages to load, replies take ages to get sent, everything is slow as fuck.
>>12072 It's as simple as buying a dedicated server and putting everything behind Cloudflare.
>>12162 There's certain facts of life about this site that make those 2 things not as simple as you'd think.

Anonymous 04/23/2025 (Wed) 04:57:36 Id: 14f0ab No. 12013 [Reply]
your shitty site is slow as hell and its formatted like shit, image posts with text are basically unreadable when you enlarge any image. and theres like a million splinter boards for le special snowflakes. unironically kill youareselves.
1 post omitted.
>image posts with text are basically unreadable when you enlarge any image This and why do even small file sizes take time to load
i don't understand why waste time making this shitty ass interface when 4chanx does the job better and locally.
>>12013 Grow up.

(40.22 KB 1300x680 bambi.jpg)

/zoo/ Bunker Thread Anonymous 03/19/2025 (Wed) 03:27:00 Id: c46c36 No. 10155 [Reply] [Last]
There is a possibility that /zoo/ and all related content may have to be removed for legal reasons. Use this thread as a bunker in case /zoo/ disappears. There is a sister thread at >>>/zoo/25830, and and news from the site are usually posted first in this thread: >>5423 My personal advice is to assume the worst until further notice and try to save as much as you can.
69 posts and 4 images omitted.
>>12011 Someone would expect them having bigger problems than someone sharing zoo porn.
>>12011 neat
>>12011 Still not working man

(110.66 KB 800x910 Imoto-chan.jpg)

Replying Imoto-chan 05/22/2022 (Sun) 06:49:43 Id: 000000 No. 5577 [Reply]
Dumb but how do you reply to people's comments on your post? And how do you keep track of your posts on who replies and not?
2 posts omitted.
>>5586 By default, at the top. If you want them at the bottom then you can set that in the Settings menu.
>>5577 Cute anime girl
>>5579 and what about this? >And how do you keep track of your posts on who replies and not? an audio ping or a red tab symbol like 4chan for when you get a reply would be good

(79.97 KB 800x450 confusedtravolta.jpg)

How to find boards on this site. Anonymous 04/22/2025 (Tue) 19:47:22 Id: 4205ee No. 11933 [Reply]
Is there a list of all the boards on this site?
3 posts and 1 image omitted.
>>11946 fix your fucking search, it's fucking shite
>>12094 You have to earn the right to post on a board now also find all the hidden boards
>>12094 yea it's horrible it only will return exact combination of words

[ 12345678910111213 ]
Forms
Delete
Report