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Diochan

Diochan is an Italian bulletin board website, initially founded by “MarcoZ” on November 16, 2007,1) and has likely went through several owners. However, the website is kinda desolate and old, not that the alternatives are any better or informative, it kinda just exists.

History

2007–2010

On November 16, 2007, an Italian-language 4chan thread2)3) introduced users to the #itachan IRC channel,4) where the idea of an Italian-language imageboard rose. This was named 'Diochan', a play on the 'dio cane' profanity, and “MarcoZ” sets up Kusaba on his Pokémon forum's server, so you had “ilex-forest.com/diochan/” hiding behind a “diochan.tk” domain5) since he never figured out how subdomains works.6)

In 2008, “MarcoZ” gave Diochan to “Anonymo”, who moved it to “diochan.890m.com” on January 11, 2008,7) then it briefly moved to “diochan.co.cc” around August 13, 2008,8) before they settled at “diochan.com” by October 2008. In 2009, there was downtime in February 2009 as they forgot to renew the domain, the “Lezard Valeth” thing happened, then a literal bulletin board (/d/) would be added.9)

2010–2020

To avoid further financial issue, a temporary donation-led wildcard board (/*/) ran in 2010,10) then they foresaw legal problems in November 2010 where they tried to limit access to the “Random” (/b/) board since people were coming in with doxing attempts and Facebook raids. Initially, they had a 'credentials' system, where users had to answer a quiz in IRC, while 12:00pm to 11:59pm were off-hours where anyone can post.

As a consequence, alternatives like Kemychan and Niuchan would get a small boost in popularity. The rest of the 2010s were mostly unremarkable, consisting of minor board changes and the occasional 'pranks' if the administration felt like it. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Diochan shook up the board line-up in July 2020, most notably combining several boards into a catch-all “Culture” (/cul/) board.

List of Boards

Notes

  • The whole 'DVCE' meme was ironic and meant to satirize fascism, so the users pretending to be fascists would type with: all uppercase letters, substituting the letter 'U' with the 'Roman V',11) drone on about autarky or colonialism, and translate English words into Italian.
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1) , 4)
"log". Diochan.
2)
"ITALIANFAGS! Dio quanto è demenziosa sta board :°D" (November 16, 2007). 4chan /b/.
3)
For the record, 4chan did not have an “International” (/int/) board until 2010.
5)
"Apertura" (November 16, 2007). Diochan.
6)
"Se non vi funziona il reply, sostituite "diochan.ilex-forest.com" a "ilex-forest.com/diochan" finché non vedo come fixare." (November 17, 2007). Diochan.
7)
"Diochan v2.0" (January 11, 2008). Diochan.
8)
The earliest archive of the “diochan.co.cc” domain was August 13, 2008. There's not much to go off of since nobody 'reacted' to it, and the news page was reset on August 8, 2008 (“8/8/08”) for aesthetics, so it's not really reliable for anything, especially since they stopped using it after this point in time.
9)
From 2010 to 2020, the /d/ page was a figurative 'bulletin board' that people could tack images onto.
10)
The wildcard board had theme(s) like: 'Twilight', 'Cuddling & Blowjob' (Coccole & Pompini), 'Motherland' (Madrepatria), 'Help Desk', 'Transportation' (Trasporti), 'Le Bizzarre Avventure di JoJo', and '8-bit'.
11)
There was the 'ironic fascism' trend of replacing 'U' with 'V' as the letter 'U' did not exist in Roman times, thus did not appear on Roman monuments, and arguing that it looked 'cleaner' somehow.
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