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| − | Ychan has recently been discontinued due to limited knowledge of legal action for failing to pay for server service (or something along those lines). Ychan has currently been shut down until these payments are met to the Canadian Law officials. Go to yiffy.chan.tk for more information. | + | Ychan has recently been discontinued due to limited knowledge of legal action for failing to pay for server service (or something along those lines). Ychan has currently been shut down until these payments are met to the Canadian Law officials. Go to yiffy.chan.tk for more information. Servers are back online by a thread. No idea how it happened, but I'm amazing how she got them back. Way to go, Karma! |
Revision as of 18:05, 23 June 2009
Ychan is a furry image board that registered users and anonymous visitors may post to.
- Address: http://chan.yiffy.tk/
- Administration: Bad Karma Networks
- Ran from/to: March 3rd, 2008 - present (Server is currently, online and running after a legal issue)
Contents
Resources
Ychan features search capabilities, image tagging, a bookmarking system called Favourites, and support for standard BBCode in posts. Ychan is a project of Yiffy International, and as such enjoys the integration of many of its features, including a private messaging system and distinct user profiles.
Media Support
Ychan supports a number of image and video types including:
Raster
- PNG
- JPEG
- GIF
Vector
- SWF
Video
- MPEG
- AVI
- WMV
- MOOV (QuickTime .mov)
Features
Tags and Searching
Videos and Images on Ychan are taggable. Tags are keywords that go beyond the normal role of assisting searches and facilitate linking to and even suggesting related material. A traditional search interface and tag cloud are provided to cater to spelunkers and casual browsers alike.
Duplicate Image Detection
While most image boards have traditionally served as temporary dumping grounds, Ychan aims to be an efficient, highly categorized and diverse archive. As such, threads and posts are not phased out or 'pruned' (deleted) and techniques such as Duplicate Image Detection are employed to reduce repeat posts and promote older threads.
The possibility of a false positive (wrong match) when looking up duplicates is remarkably small due to a dual-fingerprinting technique that also produces a longer hash than most contemporary solutions.[1]
Special Boards
Ychan has two "special" boards, /ot/ and /rl/ which are for Off Topic and Real Life content respectively. Images and videos not pertaining to furry are allowed in the Off Topic board while the Real Life board is specifically for content which is deemed "reasonably furry." The criterion is that a photo or video contain one or more of the following:
- fursuiting
- plushie
- ears/tails/other accessories
- bodypaint
- 'zeta' toys
- other content which is reasonably relevant to furry
Ban list
Yiffy International and Ychan maintain a common public list of banned addresses and information associated with them which the creator affectionately titles The Shit List. The purpose of this list is to facilitate detection, tracking and geolocation of malicious botnets for education, amusement and the benefit of the forensically inclined web community.
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ChanPlz · F.A.P · Furfa.gs · FurPiled.com · Kemonochan · Pawsru.org · Ritachan · Sidechan · VeeBooru · Yiff.tk · Yiff Image Board
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Legal Action against Ychan
Ychan has recently been discontinued due to limited knowledge of legal action for failing to pay for server service (or something along those lines). Ychan has currently been shut down until these payments are met to the Canadian Law officials. Go to yiffy.chan.tk for more information. Servers are back online by a thread. No idea how it happened, but I'm amazing how she got them back. Way to go, Karma!