Editing Textboard

'''Textboards''', also called text boards, discussion boards, or message boards, are a basic type of bulletin board where registration isn't required. They are mainly popular in Japan but are obscure or unpopular outside of it due to the lack of visual media making it seem archaic.

== Summary ==
Textboards are self-explanatory as text is the main form of communication. Users usually have the option to attach a name, tripcode, capcode, email, and sage to their post, but most of these are ignorable. Additionally, a user can quote multiple posts with dashes and commas (e.g. >>1-9, >>7,11, etc.) depending on the textboard script.

The front page of a board often consists of its header (e.g. banner, rules), a thread list with a link to archived threads, previews of the latest bumped threads, and the new thread form. A user may typically view an entire thread, 100 posts per page, or the latest 50 posts.

== Script Examples ==

* '''[Perl]''' '''[https://w.atwiki.jp/wiki12_0ch/ 0ch]''' (v4.XX, 2007-01-04)  The original 2channel clone by '''精神衰弱''' ◆Y3kwSzvOHE. It used to be common back then, which is why World4ch tried using it<ref>https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#47</ref>, but it's very outdated now and you're advised to not use it.
* '''[Perl] [https://kent-web.com/bbs/yybbs.html YY-BOARD]''' (v10.2, 2021-07-27)  It's a simple Japanese textboard script from '''Kent-Web'''. Aside from its own history, it's not very relevant, but it is somewhat still maintained.
** '''[Perl]''' '''YY-2ch''' (v0.5, 2002-03-19)  A fork of YY-BOARD v4.54, by '''( ´∀｀)モナ吉''', that was obviously modified to resemble 2channel. A working download cannot be recovered at this time.
*** '''[Perl]''' '''[http://eng2ch.s22.xrea.com/bbs.zip Eng2ch]''' (2003-03-11) The infamous Japanese-translated English script by '''◆hp2chtOdqo''', once used on World2ch.
* '''[PHP]''' '''[https://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan Shiichan]''' (v3960, 2009-04-13) The weird PHP script by '''Shii !lWV9WxNHV.''', with a few Something Awful references coded in, and used on World4ch until its death. For some reason, Shiichan is still used for the messageboards of a site called Fchan.
* '''[Perl] [https://wakaba.c3.cx/releases/Kareha/ Kareha]''' (v3.1.4, 2009-04-16) The popular English textboard script by '''!WAHa.06×36''', which can be used as an imageboard as well. Kareha remains in use at 4-ch, Sageru, TXTchan, and so on. This has no known vulnerabilities and has been recommended a lot by people.
* '''[PHP] [https://github.com/Dalloway/MiniBBS MiniBBS]''' A compact textboard–imageboard script by '''Dalloway''', once featured on the site called MiniBBS. It remains in use at Tinychan and Tinychan's archives of World4ch. '''This is not to be confused with the MiniBBS script that was used in Ayashii World.'''
* '''[Perl]''' '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160816151942/http://tablecat.ipyo.heliohost.org/bbs/ Tablecat]''' (v20140318; 2014-03-18)  A simple script named after its creator, '''Tablecat''', though it's a bit ''too'' simple. You will have to edit 1 line to fix pagination<ref>There's a minor pagination bug in line 382 of html.pm, so change the following:

<code>. $dir . '/read/' . $thread .</code> to <code>. $dir . '/read.cgi/' . $board . '/' . $thread .</code></ref>, then make that sure the .htaccess doesn't block your website's robots.txt file.
** '''[Perl]''' '''[https://github.com/oprel/emanon Emanon]''' A slightly improved Tablecat fork by '''Oprel''', but still abandoned. Despite this, it remains in use at Post Office and formerly Secret Area of VIP Quality until very recently.

== Notes ==

* A “floating thread bulletin board” (スレッドフロート型掲示板, ''sureddofurōto-gata keijiban''), which is sometimes translated as “thread float type bulletin board”, refers to a type of board where popular threads “float” (get bumped) to the top of the board. Before this type of board came about, boards used to be static and websites like Ayashii World were just a reverse chronological timeline.
* The fake 2channel <abbr>CSS</abbr> is sometimes called “Pseud0ch” (Pseudo-0ch) because Shiichan based its theme off of 0ch's 2channel theme. You may rename this to “2chgata” (2ch型) or whatever.

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