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О победе над НИГГЭРТИТС by Сталин - 12/15/07 @ 4:00PM PST#
Товарищи!
Соотечественники и соотечественницы!
Наступил великий день победы над НИГГЭРТИТС. Фашистская НИГГЭРТИТС, поставленная на колени Красной Армией и войсками наших союзников, признала себя побежденной, объявила безоговорочную капитуляцию.
Теперь мы можем с полным основанием заявить, что наступил исторический день окончательного разгрома НИГГЭРТИТС, день великой победы нашего народа над империализмом.
Великие жертвы, принесенные нами во имя свободы и независимости нашей Родины, неисчислимые лишения и страдания, пережитые нашим народом в ходе войны, напряженный труд в тылу и на фронте, отданный на алтарь отечества, - не прошли даром и увенчались полной победой над врагом. Вековая борьба Анонймоус за свое существование и свою независимость окончилась победой над НИГГЭРТИТС захватчиками и НИГГЭРТИТС тиранией.
Отныне над 7чан будет развеваться великое знамя свободы народов и мира между народами.
Четыре года назад мут всенародно заявил, что в его задачи входит расчленение Советского Союза. Он прямо заявил: "Мы уничтожим Анонймоус, чтобы он больше никогда не смогла подняться". Это было четыре года назад. Но сумасбродным идеям мут не суждено было сбыться, - ход войны развеял их в прах. На деле получилось нечто прямо противоположное тому, о чем бредили фурфагс. НИГГЭРТИТС разбита наголову. НИГГЭРТИТС войска капитулируют. Советский Союз торжествует победу, хотя он и не собирается ни расчленять, ни уничтожать НИГГЭРТИТС.
Товарищи! Великая Отечественная война завершилась нашей полной победой. Период войны в 7чан кончился. Начался период мирного развития.
С победой вас, мои дорогие соотечественники и соотечественницы!
СЛАВА НАШЕЙ ГЕРОИЧЕСКОЙ КРАСНОЙ АРМИИ, ОТСТОЯВШЕЙ НЕЗАВИСИМОСТЬ НАШЕЙ РОДИНЫ И ЗАВОЕВАВШЕЙ ПОБЕДУ НАД ВРАГОМ!
СЛАВА НАШЕМУ ВЕЛИКОМУ НАРОДУ, НАРОДУ-ПОБЕДИТЕЛЮ!
ВЕЧНАЯ СЛАВА ГЕРОЯМ, ПАВШИМ В БОЯХ С ВРАГОМ И ОТДАВШИМ СВОЮ ЖИЗНЬ ЗА СВОБОДУ И СЧАСТЬЕ НАШЕГО НАРОДА!
As you may have noticed, I have recently purchased 7chan from p4ch3c0. I'd like this to go as smoothly as possible in order to cause the least amount of drama. As you've probably read elsewhere, there will be a few new rules:
We will take a much stricter stance on Child Pornography. This means that any picture, drawn or photographic, which is even remotely close to underage, will earn the user a permanent ban.
The new *chan site will be primarily supported through the use of interstitial advertisements. Users attempting to bypass these advertisements will earn a permanent ban.
The new *chan site will be designed to appeal to a broad and diverse user base. This means that people of all genders, nationalities, sexual orientations, and sexual preferences will be welcome. Intolerance of these lifestyles will result in a permanent ban.
In accordance with the previous rule, users who have formerly been discouraged from frequenting 7chan will be embraced with open arms. Furries, Gaia Online users, and new Internet users will all be welcome, and each will have boards dedicated to their individual preferences.
Also in accordance with the new rules I have filtered the term "newfag" so when typed and submitted it appears as "silly sausage" to prevent offence being caused to new Internet users.
Thank you for your support through these difficult times.
We're holding a survey to give a chance for our users to express their opinion on our site's performance. Please fill out the survey at the following link, and please be honest. Thanks!
As we move into September, almost all of the staff has become more busy (school, jobs, etc.), so we have increased the number of moderators.
We have added a new NSFW board: /n/ - Neko (Catgirls).
We have improved the configuration of our server which should decrease loading times and general congestion.
We are always on the lookout for new banners, if you have any (300x100px, PNG, or GIF), feel free to email us.
Lastly, we've considered doing a "/b/tard movie of the month" sort of thing, using torrents. If you are interested, email us at btardmovies@7chan.org. This is very hypothetical right now, so don't expect much to come of it.
Spawn more overlords by p4ch3c0 - 9/3/07 @ 12:20AM PDT#
Thank you for your submissions. Mod applications are now closed.
As you may or may not know, our less populated boards tend to be more vulnerable to attacks. It is for this reason that we need additional staff members who are willing to keep a vigilant eye on our smaller boards. If you wish to apply for modship, email me or catch me on IRC (keep in mind that I am not physically online at all times, even though my computer is always on), and present the following information:
1. Your age.
2. Board(s) you wish to moderate.
3. Why you want to moderate said board(s).
4. Do you have any experience with moderating other online communities?
4a. (if applicable) Any references (sites you have created, forums you moderate, projects you are a part of, etc.)?
5. Rough estimate of the time and days that you are usually online.
6. Username/handle and password that you would like to use to log in, should you be accepted.
Should you have any questions regarding our mod conduct, feel free to ask me, or check out our rudimentary mod manual, which is still a work in progress. Thanks.
Due to Fapchan's everlasting lack of niggabytes, I've moved the boards back to our main server. As such, each board will once again be blank. Feel free to directory dump all of your relevant content in the meantime, so as to keep the boards alive.
After a week and a half of downtime, we're finally back. To summarize why we were down, our host (FDC) received complaints about certain images that we were hosting on one of our boards, so they terminated it without notice. We've lost all of our files, although there is a chance that we may recover some of our data (our database is intact, thankfully). Allow me to take this opportunity to warn users of hosting anything on FDC's servers (including their resellers, e.g. PixelFX/"Zenex 5ive"). Not only do they not give half a shit about their users, they also have terrible reliability. All of our downtime these past couple of months was not our fault, but rather, the host's fault.
tl;dr, shit fucking blew up and avoid FDC like AIDS.
IS IT CAN BE BANNERZ TIEM NAOW PLZ? by OverlordXenu - 6/10/07 @ 5:40PM PDT#
Oh hi, we need some banners. Dimensions: 300x100. We only accept EPIC WIN. Email them to admins@7chan.org.
We are currently in the process of moving boards to different servers in order to balance 7chan's load. If you encounter any errors (apart from the broken links at the top of each page, which I will fix after everything else is in order), get on IRC and pm one of the ops in #7chan. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, and thus your patience would be appreciated.
The NSFW boards are currently down due to them being moved. They should be back up within 45 minutes or less. Thanks go to Fapchan for hosting our NSFW boards. If you're interested, be sure to visit their other boards. :3
Alright, so here's the skinny. HD failed, we got the data restored, 7chan should be working perfectly. I took the Paypal button off, because they bitched (I wonder who told... hmm, looks like they're not around today). Otherwise, we have enough to pay for next month, so if you still want to donate, come on IRC and we'll provide OTHER ways to donate, if Paypal doesn't like us, then screw them, us 50,000 customers of 7chan will take our preferred payment system elsewhere. We are also accepting bandwidth as a donation, pm zach to find out how.
/oeb/ has been deleted. /m/ and /mech/ are next up for deletion if they continue to go unused.
The text ads have been restored after having to transfer to Adbrite's adult ad network AVNAds. Please take the time to click some on a daily basis that are relevant to your interests if you cannot donate!
Donations are now being accepted through Moneybookers and soon ePassporte and snail mail! Learn more on how to donate by sending an email to ian@7chan.org or getting on irc and PMing ian.
RSS feeds are available for every board. Simply navigate to http://img.7chan.org/board/rss.xml (where board is the board of your choice) and subscribe to the feed! They all show the last 15 posts on the board. Additionally, there are tracker bots in the IRC server in channels #general-announce, #vip-announce, and #porn-announce. They will report posts based on the RSS feeds for each of the sections of 7chan. This new code has not been added to the txt server yet.
If you are in the position to donate server hardware (no 100mhz processors or the like pls), a hosting account (with a bit of bw/mo for imagehosting), or server (as unlikely as it may be) you may email me at ian@7chan.org
It's that time again. 7chan needs your support if we're to keep going. At the moment, we're maxing out our port speed and on top of that being DDoS'd nearly once per day. Our host is great, but their network is weak, small and simply cannot accommodate us. Upgrading is out of the question presently because I do not have the money to do so. I'm sorry to say that I won't be paying out of pocket for 7chan's server costs, therefor if the site is to stay afloat, it will have to do so with your help. We don't need to just have enough to pay our monthly fees, we need to have enough to expand, upgrade and grow our servers and resources to support all of our users and enormous bandwidth consumption. As for the ads... well, they aren't doing as good as I expected. They don't come anywhere near the monthly cost of the server. If you can't donate I implore you to click some ads relevant to your interests. We aren't on the verge of dying, so don't worry too much just yet, but with the continuous DDoS attacks and maxed out port, we might as well be. There is a PayPal button on the left-hand sidebar if you would like to donate. As always, I am available on the IRC channel at irc.7chan.org #7chan
I Christen Thee '7chan' by ian - 2/22/07 @ 1:29PM PST#
Some major improvements have been made by tee to the trevorchan software. Apologies for the downtime, again, and thank you for your patience.
Most of you have probably noticed and been wondering about the recent downtime that goes unexplained. The last three weeks have been particularly bad. We've been DDoS'd for the last three weeks at least two times per week, forcing me to reboot the machine each time. 7chan runs on one 100mbit connection and it is extremely easy to saturate it's bandwidth with a small botnet. We will be working with our service provider within the next month to report logged attacks to help improve 7chan's stability.
Contact Information by ian - 1/24/07 @ 9:11PM PST#
Please email all legal inquiries, questions, or any other kind of feedback to ian@7chan.org -- I was way too fucking lazy to set up a full fledged mailserver. Casually browsing my gmail, I noticed that Google provides email for domains now, so I set one up for 7chan. Saved a lot of time, effort and reading through manpages / userdocs, which I never enjoy doing.
A backup I had lying around that I used when we moved to the new server not too long ago was restored in light of a MySQL injection attack that wiped the posts on most or all boards. You can go to Trevorchan.org and yell at TJ, or hop on our IRC and spam his PM for not keeping our shit locked down.
In other news, 7chan no longer keeps Apache logs. The MySQL database which contains posters' IP addresses has been double-encrypted as well for Anonymous' protection.
7chan Under New Management by ian - 12/3/06 @ 8:16PM PST#
In short: symbion has left 7chan. The DNS should propegate back to the normal IP within 24 hours. We may be changing hosts again soon. The biggest change though, is that we do not have anyone to fund us anymore. Depending on if donations keep coming in will decide whether or not we will need advertisements and such. If you have any ideas or suggestions for dedicated server hosts please hop on IRC and PM me.
The reason we were down the last two days was because of an issue when upgrading the kernel on the server. We apologize, and are now running 2.6 with excellent load averages and CPU times.
New server online by ian - 11/12/06 @ 11:58AM PST#
The new server is now online. I apologize for the downtime, as it actually shouldn't have happened. Our old host was supposed to give us a grace period of two days before taking the box offline for nonpayment, but apparently they are cunts and decided not to. A backup has been restored from Friday and you should experience faster posting times.
4chan is back up. Huzzah, our server isn't being bombarded by faggots, etc. The new server was purchased earlier this morning. The server should be set up and working either later today or Saturday at the latest. As long as everything doesn't fail for time time being, 7chan should stay online during this waiting period.
A new server will be purchased tomorrow. During the 24-48 hour downtime we will be fixing bugs and adding to code of the imageboard software. With the new server, the site should be much faster and handle better under stress (such as when 4chan goes down). In the meantime you are welcome to invade our irc at irc.7chan.org #7chan (webapplet here).
New imageboard software by ian - 11/6/06 @ 11:39PM PST#
Dear 7chan, we upgraded our imageboard software today. No longer will we be in the dark ages of wakaba, haunted by waha's ability to take a sleek and fast language and create a bulky, slow, shithole excuse for a perl script. Thanks to tj9991 and his PHP-based imageboard software, trevorchan, we can relax. He has worked the last few days with us to impliment all the features we need and moar. The only boards to be left on wakaba are /fl/, /oe/, and /oeb/. Unfortunately, we could not save the database, since they differ so much. The post counts and bans have been retained, though, thanks to my hours of slave-like work of copy paste and data entry (I'd kill myself if I ever had to do something like that professionally).