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| Type of site | Imageboard/TextBBS |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | "moot" |
| Created by | "moot" |
| URL | 4chan.org |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | No |
4chan (四葉, Yotsuba, four leaves) is an English language imageboard, based on the Japanese imageboard Futaba Channel. On 4chan, many pictures (generally related to anime, manga and popular media) are posted and discussed.
Site description
4chan was founded as a project by "moot", a member of several anime forums. The site soon attracted anime fans from around the world and has grown greatly since its creation, eventually surpassing Futaba Channel in traffic.
The site is divided into discussion boards, image and upload boards, and drawing boards. Currently, there are 35 different image boards, with topics ranging from anime, weapons, and photography to real and animated pornography. Eight of these were "trial boards" until January 9, 2007, when all but one, Sports, were upgraded to permanent boards, with Sports being discarded. On February 15, 2007 the site added two new trial boards, Paranormal, and Traditional Games. The site's other boards include an oekaki board, an Artwork/Critique board, an upload board that is used for the uploading and discussion of Flash movies, and 19 text-based discussion boards. The discussion boards were once hosted on a separate site called "world4ch" (pronounced world four channel) until they were integrated into 4chan using the subdomain dis.4chan.org. The discussion boards were initially created by 4chan's administrators and hosted on world4ch as an homage to the defunct world2ch, which itself was a site created during as an earlier attempt to create an English version of 2channel, a popular anonymous Japanese BBS.
Because 4chan is provided to its users free of charge and consumes such a large amount of bandwidth, the site's financing often becomes an issue. To avoid long periods of downtime caused by a severe lack of funds, such as the four "deaths" that plagued the site during its first year of existence, the 4chan staff regularly requests donations. However, there have been numerous problems relating to the receipt of funds through several different online payment services. These services include: PayPal, YowCow, and the Authorize.net payment gateway. Historically, a large contributing factor to these problems had been the presence of pornographic imageboards on 4chan, since such content violated many service providers' Terms and Conditions agreements.
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