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I've migrated and fixed a bunch of shit along the way, but if anything is broken please use this thread to report it. I've locked the previous thread to focus new issues here.

Two known issues:
- Favicon didn't fly so good
- Need to set up a new tor socks5 proxy for webring

Both of these will be fixed shortly.
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Did the onion die from a fuckup or was it deliberately brought down due to ((( spam )))?
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>>5708
It was brought down on purpose because someone was throwing a tantrum and manually spamming through it.
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>>5709
Is there no way to institute an automatic timeout instead of closing it altogether? As in, issue a 10 minute cooldown on onion posting when a certain amount of messages are posted in rapid succession?
is onion still down?
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>>5817
Yes. Sorry.

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EDIT 9/17: APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOREVER. FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT ONE AT ANY TIME.
I will leave the rest of the post intact, please ignore the special stipulations.

Hello and welcome to the fist round of BO applications for zzzchan. I will outline the application process below, along with some special stipulations for this first round.

To apply for a board, you must submit your answers to the following questions: 

1. What will the focus of your board be?
2. What will the rules be?
3. How would you handle the following hypothetical scenarios:
    A. A user who is only breaking the rules of your board has a substantial post history that is perfectly fine up until the single instance you are reviewing. What do you do?
    B. A spammer posts CP. What do you do?
    C. A spammer has slid your catalog and all unpinned threads are gone. What do you do?
4. What time range(s) would you normally be able to keep an eye on the board?
5. If your board becomes active enough, do you agree to look for one or more vol(s) to help you? Do you know anyone already?
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>>5879
Then why have you?
Trying to frame someone as a "disingenuous retard" you finally decided to ignore doesn't work when not even 24 hours later you go right back to your eternal slap fight with some schizophrenic pedo spic on /b/ you've been prolonging for almost a year by now.
https://archive.ph/c7KLj#327087
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>>5884
He posts daily even when ignored. He has been at it for over two years now and I have silently deleted his posts for the majority of that time. 99% of posts he responds to have not been made by me. The reason I engaged with other retards is for transparency purposes since plenty of retards complained about a lack of transparency before I volunteered. As it turns out, they don't actually want transparency.
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>>5885
>The reason I engaged with other retards is for transparency purposes since plenty of retards complained about a lack of transparency before I volunteered. 
Maybe they all aren't retards?
>As it turns out, they don't actually want transparency.
Maybe it's that you're antagonistic and hysterical?
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>>5886
When you're a retard who deliberately reads everything in the least charitable tone possible, I'm sure transparency appears to be antagonism. If this is because I don't stick to baby talk to coddle retards who continue to spew bullshit and insult me after I have laid out my reasons for taking certain actions, I don't care. This isn't a professional setting.

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This is a long overdue state of the site address. ZZZ has been languishing for a while now and as its admin I can only take responsibility for this and work to address/reverse it. I will not be making excuses, I can only offer this and future changes as a mea culpa. 


With that said, here is the plan for changes going forward. All feedback and suggestions are welcomed, I just ask that you stay on topic and keep the shitposting light and tasteful. 


Site Maintenance

- I will be updating jschan this Sunday evening and I will be performing monthly updates going forward. I will look into properly automating this but you'll have to excuse my paranoia when I've had debian fucking brick itself updating because I tried to install a more recent version of ffmpeg. Consider this the initial shit test for the rest of the plan.
-I'll be paying more attention to /meta/ in general, specifically bug reports. The current bug thread will be edited with a guide on submitting a helpful bug request.
-I'll be fixing the text errors across the site as well.
- I have a WIP custom docker image for jschan that I have picked back up, this will ease automation of updates and other management tasks once complete. Current progress is around 80%. This would also speed up a full redeployment if needed as it would handle redis etc.
- All recent (last ~6 months+) hiccups in site performance have been downstream of the proxy hosting provider (although some were due to massive attacks on major infrastructure). I use this provider because they explicitly state that they do not care about cartoons in their TOS. If anyone is aware of any provider with a similar policy (and preferably accepts monero) please let me know so I can set up a proper failover.

If I can brag about one thing, ZZZ has always had a robust backup system. All site data and configs for all parts of the infrastructure have encrypted backups. It has always been the case that if all ZZZ servers were to vanish overnight I could rebuild the site within 24 hours (would mainly be waiting on upload to the new server). 
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To follow up on why the website is fucked.

A few days ago I made a post on /v/. I have seen an interesting video about the history of governments funding feminist propaganda in gaming as a form of social change. It's a in depth video with sources, discussing something that's usually pretty hidden. It starts in the 90s and carries on until today. The video is 25 minutes long, very informative and well edited. It is excellent content to discuss and to learn something. The exact type of content original 4chan and 8ch would have jumped on. Probably dug into and learned ever more. The thread is at https://zzzchan.xyz/v/thread/311579.html

The first response is a meme saying go back to 4chan. The 2nd is a FPBP response to it. The third is asking why a mod anchored the post so it couldn't be bumped instead of just deleting it.

This is not functional as a website. You have people posting interesting videos and the immediate response is "don't post stuff" and mods backing it up. And this is your most popular board. It's fucked. You're community isn't interested in discussing things. Your mods are intentionally sabotaging posters posting new threads. Why would any one want to be here? It stinks of having the website run to intentionally be uninteresting to subvert alt chan users. There's no other way to explain how shit ZZZ's community is.

Also notice the admin 
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>>5894
>Also notice the admin is still missing
Ostensibly, he is busy. Life happens.
>And any attempt to make a moderation bot for an imageboard always fucks up and mass bans people for over zealous rules that everyone hates
As far as I understand it, it is to deal with obsessive spam i.e. somebody flooding the website either with a script or poopsocking it with manual input (has happened a couple times recently, with another mod implementing his own automoderator with no false positives on one of those occasions). I could be misunderstanding the intended scope of the admin's own automoderator, but I wouldn't doubt he has taken into account that having it moderate in an overbroad manner is a potential concern.
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>>5894
If you actually cared that bad why did you spend way more effort into this whiny post than that shitty OP?
>>5894
>log message: There is already a thread about this
You could have posted your findings in the woke shit in games thread, at least I assume that's what it was. Maybe the mod could have clarified this in the bumplocked thread, though. Have a nice summer!
>>5838
>ZZZ's /v/ is full of deranged mentally ill autists who light pitch forks if you disagree on even minor things.
i am almost certain that those "people" are mossad agents considering people like them never join in on board shitposting activities. not UT, not "laugh at video games", nothing.
unfortunately most people have fallen for the bait.

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This thread is for handling boards from other sites that wish to migrate here/have been orphaned if public thread creation is locked on /meta/. If public thread creation is open you are free to make a dedicated thread here, otherwise I will make one for you.

The rules for migration are : 
- All Migrating/orphaned boards will be considered outside of the application cycle and should contact me at the same email address listed below.
- I will require proof that you are/were the BO/mod of the original board, or that the moderation team for the board in question has fallen apart.
- You must agree to follow all global rules for this site.
- You must agree to actively moderate the new board.
- If accepted, you must notify anons on the old board if it still exists. I do not mind If zzzchan is used as a bunker, the new board will be unlisted in this type of scenario and will not be announced until ready.

Feel free to ping me at [email protected] in case of a happening. I'll come right here.
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>>4620
Apparently the guy is moving to Trashchan.
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>>4622
https://trashchan.xyz/icup/index.html
If you want to talk to the guy
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Hey Sturg, I'm getting no response from the site's server when connecting from an Argentinian IP, I have to use a vpn to enter the site. What is up with that?
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>>4932
Been unable to connect from Finland for a few weeks as well.
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>>4932
>>4940
What are you seeing, exactly? If possible press F12 and go to the console tab to check errors. Can you ping the site via command line at all?

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Hello and welcome to zzzchan! I will be using this thread to explain how this site is set up and answer the initial wave of questions. Thread creation on /meta/ will be locked initially, I will explain how this will be handled going forward below.

Now, to answer some initial questions:

>Who the fuck are you? Who are the other mods?
I am sturgeon, I was a mod back on fat/v/ and later z/v/. fat/v/ was my first role as a moderator in any capacity. I'm happy to say that Pasta and seagull have also stuck around and will be managing /v/. r9k's BO will also be back.

>Nice namefagging
I intend to only use my name & role tag when posting something relevant to my role or the site. 

>Why have you set this up?
Because zchan was doing fairly well before the admin pulled the plug without warning. I'd been considering making my own IB since fat died but once zchan went down I decided I had to make the effort. 

>Will you abandon this after x amount of time?
I've gone through the effort of setting all this up after losing 2 previous boards. I'm doing this because I want it to, and I plan to keep this place running as long as I can. 
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A very warm thanks on this special day to Sturgeon, all the mods, board owners and anons who post, moderate, host and administrated this wonderful site. To me this place is very dear and I love being here. Without further ado.

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday dear zzzchan!
Happy Birthday to you!

zzzchan turns 5 years old today, and it’s all thanks to the people mentioned above, that includes (you). 
Thank you for delivering 5 years ago.
Will you please go to global settings, click the "Files & Thumbnails", and where it says "Other Mime Types" enter "audio/prs.sid"
I tire of all these years where C64 audio files cannot be uploaded. That is all you have to do. Please, Sturgeon, be so kind as to allow for this.
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Sturg are you going to say anything regarding joyeuse's recent escapade over on /v/?
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>>5378
Cry about it bitch.

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Do you consider zzz your home? Why do you stay here and not another place on the webring?
How many other boards on the webring do you regularly visit?
If you use tor, why come here at all instead of a tor only imageboard?
Do you think there are "better" chans for specific boards?
In terms of users/admin, what would you say is the differences between zzz, and say anoncafe?
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>>4098 (OP) 
I want to, but not like a tenured professor yelling at students for walking on the grass; more like a down trodden janitor.
there are other places?
when I learned about google maps exploits and the work being done trying to break gps; the fragility of the tor network before it has a enough nodes looked like ham radio rabbit hunts.
absolutely,  the reply popup just cut itself in half and i selected all cut and restarted this comment, i think it was an scroll issue.  >Do not spray into eyes I have sprayed you into my eyes
not sure what anoncafe is
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>>5869
forgot pic
>>5869
>not sure what anoncafe is
you're replying to a thread from 2022, newfren
lots of things have changed since then
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>>5873
ohh, is this site being decommission?
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>>5897
anoncafe was a separate, unrelated website and has not been around for some time now.

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Are you going to deal with the herdnigger spam on /b/ or will you let it become a mess beyond saving like you've done for the past months?

I've put in several global reports on their obvious and recognizable spam, and you dipshits haven't done anything about it besides leaving it up.
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>>3870
What if I don't want to?
>>3789
That TOR posting can have different IDs, retard.
Welp, looks like the shite dick spammer is back.

Thanks for nothing Sturgeon. You truly are an incompetent faggot, just like ((( alex ))).
tor called
>>3551 (OP) 
my theory on spam is archiving, makes it convenient for private security to pass off their hypo‑compliants to a third party like an image board. if there is a record held for more than seven years of their activities; lowers storage costs. while it should be trival to reduce spam you dramatically reduce average users fomo as things stay on the board. marble cake obscures this scrappy cost cutting trick to remove identifying marks for targets incase of subpoena or court document dumps.
tldr: spam gives the appearance of an active board, spam with no limits will exhaust users; think baking powder in brownies.

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Would it be hard to increase the thread limit? I've seen imageboards with, like, 200 pages or something
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>>4506
>that prevent people from making new threads 
they don't
>>4511
>Nobody's going to re-read shitty old threads like that as if they're some treasure trove of valuable information
false
>You can't make a new thread because it'll be deemed a duplicate
remove duplication restrictions
>Posting in a 2 month old thread will get significantly less discussion than a new thread
It is irrelevant.
test post
A new test
Third test
>>4499 (OP) 
i think this is a bad idea, fomo encourages return visits.

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This is just a test for Viability of a RPG thread and for multi-faceted Roll posts in /b/ or /rpg?/.
Please MODS, feel free to bumplock.
I'll ask that all posters here SAGE, t00.
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>>5790
Good suggestion.
I'll probably try it out in a couple weeks since my schedule right now is going to be insane.
But I'd love to try GM-ing a Paranoia game or 3 at some point.
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>>5789
you type like a fag, you're shit's all retarded, and I fucking hate you. every single thread I have to see your fucking walls of verbal diarrhea. you're an annoying shithead and I hope you die, cancer cell.
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>>5792
Awwww, that's sweet.
i hope you KYS too.
Too bad you have absolutely Fuck-all going on in your life other than (YOU)r precious 'Tism box

Your bouts of emotional incontinence are both sad and disregard-able. 
Keep it up, and I'll RAMP UP my 
>EYECANCER 
Just 4U.
>quotes from Idiocracy
>Claims some sort of "Above it all" supreiority
Must suck being a sniveling introvert having a 128 IQ and being constantly mogged by a 142 extrovert.
I don't hate you though.
that would require me to KNOW you.
And all I could possibly hate is your constant puling, whingey, childish jealousy which really, on the face of it all, is too pathetic to even regard as anything worthy of even a second look.
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>>5795
not reading this cancer, go back to reddit
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>>5796
>not reading this cancer, 
Kek! (you) KNOW you did, I Know you did; you just can't help yourself.
>goes into someone else's thread,claims PROUDLY to not read what's posted..In a post
This is a Child's tactic, Todd.
>go back to reddit
Never been, No thanks.
You sure seem to know a LOT about Plebbit posters.
>MAYMAY of Shitskin/Dipshit comprehension..
..And you're proud of being such a   SEE, I ''KNEW you would look at it ALL
Suck it up, Buttercup  
Now get the fuck out of my thread; you aren't invited to spew your childish whinge.

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Admins! MODS! Fellow Cuntymen!! Lend me your...
Ah. Anyway, I throw myself to the benevolence of the MODS here.
I'd like to run a thread in /b/ just for fun.
I know that in other chans this has been a possible datascraping  gambit by glownogs, but I'm not that.
I appreciate the bullshit you guys have to put up with, having deep involvement with both FChan and OChan, and while I also support keeping Anonymous boards Anonymous, there are times when individual thread Namefagging or even Tripfagging is desirable.
I assure you, I won't (intentionally, ) ever use the above namefagging in any other thread
Since there isn't a /ck/ board here,(not that this chan has a large enough base to warrant one,) I figured I'd post it in /b/

I wanted to clear it with you guys first, since I hold no real umbrage with a MOD enforcing the RULES by B&ing several of my posts, but I wanted to make sure we are all on the same page if you allow this thread.

I'm also well aware that there are bad actors that use bullshit arguments like Muh FreezePeach in order to try to shove boundaries that should be non-negotiable.
I won't do that.
You guys say NO, and I'll respect that.

..As always.. Mods drink for free, and the coffee's always hot and the beer's (almost,) always COLD
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>the meta thread keeps getting bumped rather than the actual drinking thread
<Am I the only one that drinks every day? Ugh. 
>11 more hours until can drink as work is in the way 
>will drink then fall asleep
>won't likely post in the drink thread as the day will loop again 
<oh... not my day off yet.. our days off probly don't align... so the meta thread is more powerful
aaaah the French
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>>5760
KEK!
I'm not the one who keeps returning to it, to cowardly snipe on a thread that I hadn't been back to for 2 weeks until the shitflinging autist kept posting to it.
then, as you might have well seen, there were several POSITIVE interactions amidst his,(not going to assume you are he,)impotent FUMING

Whatever.
You think you know me, you don't,
You have me "Pegged" as someone who doesn't even exist ITT.
I'll wager also, you think (you)r post will make me scurry to go post in MY thread, which was only ever a /b/ thread that I've been in in other chans that was fun.
That's the point here right? Have fun, spread Info, argue positions?
My last 3 weeks have been all about preparing to move into my new property, and as I am self-employed, I Could drink all day, every day if I wanted to, but not only am I a lightweight,(as previously mentioned ITT,) I also have better shit to do than get soused like a lush every day.
I keep my drinking to weekends and a few days during the week in the evenings after a long hard, physical day.
So...
that's all you get from me on that.
You know who you sound like to me?
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>>5761
Not looking at your spoiler, faggot
BTW, there is SeePee on the /b/ catalog.
I've reported it, HAVE YOU?
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>>5763
Sorry, got it.

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