Dobrochan (Доброчан) is a Russian bulletin board website that ran from August 7, 2008 to November 15, 2022, but it *technically* remains alive through a refuge on one of the later official domains. The name was stolen from IIchan calling itself a 'kind' (добро, dobro) alternative.

Following Dvach's lack of moderation and IIchan's campaigning, somebody borrowed IIchan's nickname and set up “dobrochan.ru” using Wakaba on August 7, 2008. In 2009, the website had an influx of new users, as Dvach shuttered on January 17, 2009 and IIchan refused to welcome them. Shortly after, the website changed owners, who made Dobrochan switch from Wakaba to a closed-source Hanabiru on April 16, 2009.

As it gained momentum, there was eventually a DDoS attack and problems with “dobrochan.ru”, which made staff remind everyone that “dobrochan.com” has existed as a mirror since 2010.¹⁾ There would be another influx of users after the Mail.ru deal at Sosach, but things eventually stabilized. In 2019, Google+ would be shut down, forcing Dobrochan to make Telegram and Twitter accounts.²⁾

In the 2020s, storage issues began surfacing and an IPFS was suggested,³⁾ then file uploads temporarily stopped working due to a lack of storage in January 2022. Following the Russian intervention, the staff advised users to use “dobrochan.ru” or “dobrochan.net”, as the calls for sanctions would force them to drop “dobrochan.com” and “dobrochan.org”,⁴⁾ then it ran out of storage and died on November 15, 2022.⁵⁾

On January 13, 2023, a refuge was set up at “rf.dobrochan.net” using Vichan, supposedly with the same staff under “Mikuso” (Микусо) after “RusAnon” went missing.⁶⁾ Their domain was temporarily blacklisted by the RKN on October 23, 2023⁷⁾ and April 22, 2024.⁸⁾ On January 31, 2025, the staff would formally unveil their Vichan fork “Hananoka”,⁹⁾ though it's currently an alternative UI.

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• The Boards
  • Brotherhood [b]
  • Dobrochan [d]
  • Anime and Manga [a]
  • Spice and Wolf [sw]
  • University [u]
  • Video Games [vg]
  • Computers [lor]
  • Neural Networks [ai]
  • Dating and Meet-ups [dt]
  • Copypasta [cp]
  • Refuge [rf]
• Test Boards
  • Madness [mad]

• Dobrochan's semi-official mascot is 'Holo' (ホロ) from Spice and Wolf.
• Any so-called 'conflict' between IIchan and Dobrochan immediately ended once IIchan had downtime around May 2009, which led to some users taking refuge at Dobrochan's own refuge board.
• One of the Dobrochan refuges had a wiki at wiki.dobrochan.nl, but most of these articles had been mirrored to Kolchewiki. Supposedly, aoba.me became that refuge's successor.

• Wakachan /unyl/

• Dobrochan (.net) - The front page of Dobrochan, currently redirects to the refuge.
  • @dobrochan on Telegram - The official Telegram channel.
  • @Dobrochan_news on Twitter - The official Twitter account, though rarely updated.
• Dobrochan (rf.dobrochan.net) on Kolchewiki
• Dobrochan on Lurkmore
• Dobrochan on Noobtype Wiki
• Dobrochan on Wikireality