Bunkerchan was a left-wing bulletin board that was meant to be a refuge for 8chan's /leftypol/ board on September 8, 2015, then it became their home on August 5, 2019, but this arrangement later fell apart with the split on December 21, 2020 and collapsed by April 30, 2021.¹⁾

During the failed 8chan migrations in late 2015, “Hoxha” sets up Bunkerchan at the “bunkerchan.org” domain with Vichan on September 8, 2015. About a year later, “Hoxha” gave the website to “Space_”, who moved Bunkerchan to the “bunkerchan.xyz” domain on September 8, 2016, but made the strange decision to replace Vichan with a highly experimental Lynxchan. These years were mostly quiet unless 8chan went down.

Around November 2018, GETchan decided to merge into Bunkerchan because the GETchan community had shrunk considerably and niche websites were stagnating. Then on August 5, 2019, the fall of 8chan finally forced /leftypol/ to use Bunkerchan as a permanent home, so the combined staff tried their best to revitalize the website (e.g. moving /leftytrash/ to /GET/, the catch-all /hobby/ board, the /roulette/ board).

Unfortunately, the arrangements gradually soured. “Comrade King” would leave /GET/ on February 22, 2020, then the /leftypol/ staff realized that “Space_” was difficult to work with, so they had an open discussion on December 19, 2020,²⁾ but “Space_” overreacted and threatened to remove everyone.³⁾⁴⁾ He does exactly that, which forces “leftypol.org” to finally split off from Bunkerchan and “getchan.net” to break off in solidarity.

At first, the /leftypol/ split was undermined as 'personality' drama,⁵⁾ then “d0llars” takes over⁶⁾ and proceeded to awkwardly beg for reconciliation.⁷⁾ However, firing the entire staff, including the tech team, would quickly prove to be a terrible decision as the errors quickly surged (e.g. anchoring⁸⁾⁹⁾ and post histories¹⁰⁾ not working, broken '<orange text', etc.).¹¹⁾ Then on January 8, 2021, two new hires wiped the website.

Bunkerchan was forced to use a three-week old backup from December 17, 2020, then it was announced that “Space_” wished to die with the domain, so “d0llars” began talks about donations and a possible rebrand.¹²⁾ Most users saw the writing on the wall and bailed, so Bunkerchan abandoned its planned 'Leftchan' rebrand,¹³⁾ restrored base Lynxchan,¹⁴⁾ and then moved to the “bunkerchan.net” domain on January 17, 2021.¹⁵⁾

For the following months, a moderator named “FifthCommunar” would secretly warn the Leftypol.org staff that “d0llars” plans to leverage a Foreign Policy article¹⁶⁾ for reconciliation.¹⁷⁾¹⁸⁾ Despite the Bunkerchan staff being against the idea, “d0llars” entrusted the TLD to “FifthCommunar” during negotiations, then it naturally fell through and Bunkerchan would become a redirect to Leftypol.org on April 30, 2021.¹⁹⁾

• Bunkerchan
  • Leftist Politically Incorrect [leftypol]
  • Random [b]
  • Hobbies [hobby]
  • Tech [tech]
  • Education [edu]
  • Games [games]
  • Anime [anime]
• Meta
  • Gulag [gulag]
• Hidden Boards
  • Leftist Politics [left]
  • Post-left Conspiracy HQ [dead]
  • Entertainment and Education [e] - /ent/ + /edu/. Closed for /hobby/ with /edu/ returning later.
  • Democratic Peoples Republic of K [dprk] - Closed for /GET/, but re-established as /b/.
  • International [int] - Closed for /ref/.
  • test [testing]
  • Roulette [roulette] - This ran for like six months and every trial board got approved.
• Deleted Boards
  • Fashion [fash]† - April Fools 2020 joke.
  • [troon]† - Identity politics board. The result of “Pyongyang” going rogue.
  • Anime [a]† - Someone fucked up the URI for /anime/.
  • Hangout [GET]† - Returned to GETchan on Christmas 2020.
  • Refugee Camp [ref]† - Returned to GETchan on Christmas 2020.

• Bunkerchan [Archive] - The front page of Bunkerchan, archived April 28, 2021.
  • @bunkerchanlp on Twitter - Maintenance announcements. Deleted after the backstab.
  • @realenverhoxha on Twitter - Bunkerchan's founder and former owner. Some guy in France.
  • @ericmusicfan on Twitter - Bunkerchan's former owner. Retired.