>>30454I had played a bit with running a board on KusabaX around 2009 or so, but it was just an experiment and no one used it. At the time, KusabaX and Wakaba were the two major competing imageboard software solutions. Around that time I became an admin of an IRC network, and that was where I met SaveTheInternet (STI), who was also an admin. The two of us and a couple other admins left and spun up our own IRC network, and we hung out there a lot while we were all NEETs.
In 2010 or 2011, STI began writing the Tinyboard software which would later become Vichan, the software used by most imageboards nowadays. At the same time, 4chan.org removed the /pol/ and /r9k/ boards, so STI spun up 4chon.net with those two boards and poached the userbases in order to test his new software, a decision which he came to regret much later. I was also a moderator on 4chon.net for a while, and that was my first real imageboard moderator position.
Then in 2011, I was given control of Uboachan.net when Rozencrab retired, and finding the software of the time difficult to maintain, I rebuilt the site using Tinyboard. I somewhat regret this as well, because a lot of the userbase threw up their hands and left when I archived the entire site to rebuild it. Uboachan was Tinyboard's second ever alpha test site. We are now running Vichan.
Then I continued running Uboachan for 14 years before retiring and handing it off to Bal/Seagal.