Iichan

Idlechan/iichan is an imageboard similar to the famous 4chan, only it makes love, not hate.

Idlechan is actually a collection of hosted boards dedicated to a delicate variety of stupid fucking wapanese, unlike 4chan, where users actually discuss things not related to the admittedly superior Japanese culture. The average iichan user is a weeaboo wapanese who think they are otaku /b/tards.

History

Upon its original foundation,it was one imageboard rather than a collection of hosted boards, much like it's mother site 4chan. It was originally intended to be a "home from home" for the nomadic /b/tards that were left without their daily dose of chaos and depravity after 4chan died for the 4th time on June 20th, 2004, due to various reasons. However, upon 4chan's return less than 2 months later, iichan had established it's own userbase, and ended up "competing" with its mother site. This was not to last, and iichan was closed on October 24th 2004 due to rising bandwidth costs and a lack of funding. it was slated to return in December, but in February 2005 it merged with another board to create the horrifying weeaboo infestation we see at Wakachan.

Iichan was effectively hosted at Wakachan for another 6 months then Iichan was reinstated, however rather than becoming another imageboard it instead became a central page which linked to many other smaller imageboards, most of which located at wakachan, keichan, sovietrussia.org and a few other smaller ones.

The admins then took Idlechan offline for "2 weeks" in order to fix something, and it ended up being offline for about 8 months, all the time the main page saying they would be back for 2 weeks. The large userbase it had build up left to go to other imageboards. Idlechan has been up ever since but the boards now have very slow posting rates, and run at a speed that 4chan was not long after that was founded. Posts on the /random/ board now last a week or before they finally get saged off the end, and the boards still get periodlly raided with CP

Software

Idlechan was the first board to develop its own software rather than using the futallaby software that 4chan uses. It developed 2 branches of software: Wakaba for image posting and Kareha for text only posting. These are so named after the warning stickers that Japanese people put on their cars to tell other people that they are either learning to drive, or are blue haired old wrinkleys on their way to a farmers market demolition derby. Most if iichan's sub boards use this software as do many other imageboards.

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