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Jesus christ it's a mess. JQ shit, schizoposting, echoposting, the works. I know it's on the le epic hikki board where le everything is steeped in 50 LAYERS OF IRONY and if you don't get it's because you're UNENLIGHTENED but i think maybe basically posting mein kampf is maybe perhaps not good?

So maybe wipe the thread? i don't know, it might be somewhat offputting for tranhikkis to join and then immediately be greeted with a flood basically calling them untermensch.

Be honest, is this how it all ends?

Where is desuchan..what happened to it?

As we know, rule 8 prohibits political symbolisim including people like "Hitler, Trump, Bernie Sanders, Karl Marx" Problem is Marx is a very important 19th century European philosopher, economist, and one of the founding fathers of sociology whereas the rest of those guys are corrupt politicians and a fat businessman. Personally I think this is unfair to Marx but can see where admin is coming from. So to make things fair please also ban Hegel.

Bad news. The archive seems to be dead.

What date is the Uboachan Day?

4 you :3

There are now seemingly random fours above my head.

I have modified the software today to be able to block the actual endpoints of the shortened URLs usually included in CP spam. This should help a lot with slowing down the spam; the spammers have infinite URL shorteners but so far they all point to the same few places. We will start checking endpoints and adding them to the blocklist soon. Hopefully browsing will become less stressful.

This modification has also been submitted as a pull request to the main vichan repo. Hopefully they pick it up and other sites can start using it.

P.S. I also upgraded us to the newest version of the software. Stuff could break so please let me know if something isn't working right.

So, yeah. It has come to this. Sorry everyone.

Even after adding multiple new janitors, getting one or more CP spam posts per day was just, still too much. It limits who will even be willing to visit my imageboards in a possibly traumatic way, and having it appear so often puts me at legal risk.

Even being desensitized from dealing with this so long, some of the more recent images were especially disturbing to me. I'd rather force my users to fill out a captcha than force my users and janitors to look at this shit all the time. I got it working and it's gonna be here to stay until I can think of something better.

I realize that Google's solution is not the best solution, but it's what ships with Vichan. At least one user reported that reCAPTCHA blocks their entire ISP, but they were able to get around that by enabling the uBlock Origin browser extension, strangely enough. If I can get the software updated there is an alternate provider, but there are issues with that such that it is going to end up being a major surgery I have to set aside some hours for.

I have the captcha set at the lowest difficulty setting for now. If you are having trouble posting regardless, you can report it to me at seisatsu@uboachan.net, though I can't guarantee I can do anything.

I'm sorry again that I had to do this, and I hope it doesn't significantly impact the experience for most people.

- Sei