7chan is an English bulletin board that was co-founded by “symbion” and “zeneslev” on September 25, 2005,¹⁾ initially as a 'counter-statement' to 4chan²⁾ with transparent moderation.³⁾ Outside of it having one of the oldest furry boards, it has remained a mostly silent website.

On September 25, 2005, two 4chan users “symbion” and “zeneslev” were 'bored' and set up a bulletin board website at the “7chan.org” domain,⁴⁾ initially called Nanatsuba Channel (ななつば★ちゃんねる),⁵⁾ and it utilized Wakaba.⁶⁾ Most of its early history, prior to the /b/-day incident on August 23, 2006, was lost since the staff kept clearing the news log,⁷⁾ so we only have snide remarks from “moot” on the subject.⁸⁾

Following the /b/-day incident, 7chan set up the “Invasion” (/i/) board on August 26, 2006,⁹⁾ which fueled the Anonymous collective, then became 7chan and adopted Trevorchan (Kusaba) on November 6, 2006.¹⁰⁾ Most notably, the group began attacking Hal Turner's radio show for his nationalist views.¹¹⁾ This era would come to an end after people retaliated by contacting their web host, PixelFX Solutions.

After “p4ch3c0” discussed the issue with /b/, the /i/ board was removed in June 2007,¹²⁾¹³⁾ and the collective migrated to 420chan. Two years later, their web host, Ecatel, deleted 7chan without warning and the staff couldn't recover their backups, so 7chan had to start anew on June 30, 2009.¹⁴⁾ Since then, 7chan mostly fell out of relevance, and later gave up on establishing its own unique culture by October 29, 2016.¹⁵⁾

• 7chan & Related Services
  • Site Discussion [7ch]
  • Channel7 & Radio7 [ch7]
  • Internet Relay Circlejerk [irc]
• VIP
  • Very Important Posters [VIP]
  • Civics [civ]
  • IPv6 for VIP [vip6]
• Premium Content
  • Wildcard [777] - Experimental board(s). Post count resets when the board name is changed.
  • Random [b]
  • Banners [banner]
  • Flash [fl]
  • Graphics Manipulation [gfx]
  • Failure [fail] - Hint: You get the dancing letters by posting :F: :U: :C: :K:.
• SFW
  • The Finer Things [class]
  • Comics and Cartoons [co]
  • Particularly uninteresting conversation [eh]
  • Fitness & Health [fit]
  • Technical Support [halp]
  • Thrifty Living [jew]
  • Literature [lit]
  • Philosophy [phi]
  • Programming [pr]
  • Rage and Baww [rnb]
  • Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics [sci] - STEM.
  • Tabletop Games [tg]
  • Weapons [w]
  • Zombies [zom]
• General
  • Anime & Manga [a]
  • AI-Generated Artwork & Text [ai]
  • Cold, Grim & Miserable [grim]
  • History and Culture [hi]
  • Film, Music & Television [me]
  • Drugs [rx]
  • Video Games [vg]
  • Wallpapers [wp]
  • Paranormal & Conspiracy [x]
• Porn
  • Delicious [cake] - You must eat it. Lolicon.
  • Crossdressing [cd] - Contains images of real people.
  • Alternative Hentai [d]
  • Sexy Beautiful Traps [di] - Contains images of real people. Apparently, the difference between “traps” and “crossdressing” is that “traps” implies deceit.
  • Erotic Literature [elit]
  • Men Discussion [fag] - Contains images of real people.
  • Furry [fur]
  • Animated GIFs [gif]
  • Hentai [h]
  • Sexy Beautiful Men [men] - Contains images of real people.
  • Porn Comics [pco]
  • Sexy Beautiful Women [s] - Contains images of real people.
  • Shotacon [sm] - It gets taken down, more than /cake/ and /ss/, as people submit false reports.
  • Straight Shotacon [ss]
  • Uniforms [unf] - Contains images of real people.
  • The Vineyard [v] - An odd board about sticking your cock in wine.

• 7chan's mascot is 'Conductor Cat', originally inspired by Kishi Station's Tama (1999–2015).
• In the past, 7chan had a Minecraft server from September 3, 2010¹⁶⁾ to May 13, 2012.¹⁷⁾
  • The first Minecraft server was called 'Devachan',¹⁸⁾ then 'Nirvana',¹⁹⁾ under the control of “Teffen”.
  • The second Minecraft server was '7chanistan', under “N3X15” since February 2011, and their server used the BindCraft mod by “PrettyPony”.²⁰⁾²¹⁾ Keep in mind, Minecraft was still in its beta.
• In addition, there was also a Team Fortress 2 server that was under the name of The Failtrain.²²⁾
• An official 7chan guild on Discord was created in 2018, but the link is rather buried.
• Personally, I only remember 7chan as the website with the “minus8” (minuspal) or “chtkghk” archive, an artist with a particularly bad case of intrusive thoughts who kept deleting his accounts.

• 7chan → 420chan → 711chan - The /i/ line of succession.

• 7chan - The front page of 7chan.