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Adao Nimingban

Adǎo(A Island) Nìmíngbǎn(Anonymous Board) (A岛匿名版), originally AC Nimingban (AC匿名版), was a Chinese bulletin board that was founded on October 21, 2011 and once affiliated with AcFun until 2015. It was nicknamed Adǎo (A岛, lit. “A Island”) with the pinyin abbreviation of ADNMB as seen in its URL.

Following an internal crackdown1) and an upcoming cybersecurity law, “AcFun” was dropped from the name and the website started to require identification, whilst maintaining user-facing anonymity.2) Due to an internal conflict, it ended up shuttering in early 2022.

History

2011–2015

The first iteration of AC Nimingban started at the “s.acfun.tv/h” subdomain on October 21, 2011.3) In 2012, it was subjected to a brief Komica raid, then they migrated to “h.acfun.tv” on May 16, 2012 and upgraded the boards on September 23, 2012. Two years later, the website temporarily closed from late July to August 2014 for 'reorganization', then they unveiled the 'v3' upgrade on November 5, 2014.4)

On December 25, 2014, it was announced that the servers would move outside the country and the domain would change,5)6) but we only saw a domain change to “h.nimingban.com” on January 23, 2015. Then on February 10, 2015, a developer announced that the would be closing for maintenance for 'five hours',7) but it ended up lasting much longer than they had initially estimated.8)

2015–2017

When AcFun severed their ties as a precaution, “AzureTimm” rebranded the website to Adao Nimingban and moved it to the “h.adnmb.com” domain on February 11, 2015,9) but a DDoS attack on March 2, 2015 would divert some traffic to the Kukuku clone on March 6, 2015, and the developers eventually announced they were working on it on April 1, 2015.10) It would then come back at “hacfun.tv” on April 16, 2015.

Two years would pass without incident, aside from brief downtime around July 19, 2017, but it's important to note that China was about to push a Cybersecurity Law that required websites to identify its own users. In order to comply, Adao Nimingban would adapt by requiring an account to post and view threads in full, since a logged-out user would only see the first 100 pages.11)

2017–2022

In August 2018, the website temporarily rebranded to 'Adǎo(A Island) Límíngban(Daybreak Board)' (A岛黎明版), but reverted the change after time had passed, then came a growing scandal about how the website's funds were being misused.12) Then on February 22, 2022, the adminstrators “Boen” and “JiàngJiàngJiàng” (酱酱酱) would seize the website, alleging that “AzureTimm” and “MOMO” neglected to pay them since 2020.13)14)

As a result, they went into desperation mode and rebranded to 'Bèitāi(Fallback) Nìmíngbǎn(Anonymous Board)' (备胎匿名版), but left it in a read-only state as they moved to the “nimingban.xyz” domain. The remaining administration hoped to raise ¥260,000 RMB for 10 years of maintenance.15) Suddenly, the website vanishes around May 2022, so Aweidao is made, then the staff returns with the new Xdao Nimingban.

Website slogan

Original text English translated
开放包容 Kāifàng bāoróng Open and forgiving.
理性客观 Lǐxìng kèguān Rational and objective.
有事说事 Yǒushì shuōshì Speak what's on your mind.
就事论事 Jiùshì lùnshì And judge the matter as it stands.

Notes

  • AC Nimingban simply borrowed the “AC-chan” (AC娘, AC-niáng) mascot, while Adao Nimingban would declare a new blue-colored mascot named “Reed-chan” (芦苇娘, Lúwěi-niáng) on April 27, 2015.
    • Back on February 9, 2012, a user intended to upload Carlos Pérez Vázquez's Terram illustration, joking that the pubic imagery is the 'common reed' (芦苇, lúwěi), but they accidentally uploaded a random screenshot from the start of the Resident Evil movie instead.
  • This information isn't going to be very useful, but here are some of the community nicknames:
    • The users were called 'zombies', specifically 'sāngshī' (丧尸, lit. “mourning corpse”).16)
    • The 'administrator' (管理员, guánlǐ yuán) role would be mistyped as 'stork pear ape' (鹳梨猿, guàn lí yuán), which eventually led to the role being reduced to a 'monkey' (猴子, hóuzi).
  • You would need to make an account to view posts that were made beyond the thread's 100th page.

See also

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1)
In 2015, AcFun moved their headquarters from Wuhan to Beijing, then the news reported that three high-level personnel at AcFun were arrested for “unauthorized trespassing” (unauthorized hacking).
2) , 11)
In other words, user-facing anonymity still existed, but the administration could now tie your IP address (which most websites of this nature logged anyways) to your real-life identity if you wanted to post.
3)
"有谁知道一年前的今天事什么日子吗？" (October 21, 2011). AC Nimingban /综合版1/.
4)
"庆祝A岛V3界面启用~" (November 5, 2014). AC Nimingban /综合版1/.
5)
"为让主站避免不必要的政治风险，近期我们将进行:" (December 25, 2014). AC Nimingban /综合版1/.
6)
"有关A岛服务器搬迁和新域名" (December 25, 2014). AC Nimingban /综合版1/.
7)
"A岛紧急维护，约5小时后完成。" (February 10, 2015). Weibo.
8)
"抱歉，可能不是5小时，而是无限期维护了。具体开放时间参考我或者ATM的通知。即日起匿名版开始无限期维护。" (February 10, 2015). Weibo.
9)
"A岛沉没期间备胎岛再次上浮，部分地区DNS更新中，打不开请刷新DNS缓存。" (February 11, 2015). Weibo.
10)
"关于A岛 O网页链接" (April 1, 2015). Weibo.
12)
"他改变了AC匿名版". Tencent Docs.
13)
"来自酱酱酱的一封信" (February 25, 2022). Adao Nimingban /综合/.
14)
"聊聊atm所谓的用爱发电岛跟穷到没钱交服务器费" (March 4, 2022). AcFun.
15)
The '¥260,000 RMB' total covered 'server costs' (¥60,000 RMB) and 'salary wages' (¥200,000 RMB). At the time, it roughly equated to $1,500 USD in 2022.
16)
In the past, the ACG community used to translate 'zombie' as 'sàngshī' (丧失, lit. “lose loss”), which was short for “sàngjìn tiānliáng, rénxìng quēshī” (丧尽天良，人性缺失, lit. “lost conscience, barely human”), but the term was eventually reworked into 'sāngshī' (丧尸, lit. “mourning corpse”).
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