Dvach (Двач)¹⁾ was a Russian bulletin board website, founded by Vikenty Fesunov (Викентий Фесунов) with help from “Zoi” (Зой), that would run from February 9, 2006 to January 17, 2009. Their closure would be abrupt, only revealed to be fatigue about five years later.²⁾

In 2006, some Russians on 4chan wanted their own imageboard, so Vikenty Fesunov registers the “2ch.ru” domain on February 9, 2006, then deploys Wakaba and Kareha around February 21, 2006.³⁾ It was then advertised on a LiveJournal anime community.⁴⁾ Most of this era was 'quiet' with anime, localized memes, and net characters, then 4chan's /b/-day debacle on August 23, 2006 would prompt the creation of /rf/.

Despite this, the threads were slow and regularly hit the bump limit. In 2007, spammers began to wipe their boards, due to a lack of CAPTCHA and slow moderator response, so IIchan emerged on June 1, 2007. In 2008, the CAPTCHA was enabled and IIchan was welcomed,⁵⁾ but the quality of Dvach began to suffer, then it just reached a point where the staff let Dvach die on January 17, 2009.⁶⁾

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• Historically, “Zoi” was often mistaken to be the administrator, as his name was on the WHOIS.
• Dvach utilized Wakaba and Kareha, since they were the best available software at the time, and they arguably popularized the Photon theme that 4chan ended up copying as well.

• 2channel.ru (2009–2018) - A small 'joke' textboard that pretended to be its successor.
• IIchan (2007–) - The oldest successor, split before Dvach gave up on moderation.
• Mentach/Noldvach (2009–2010) - A short-lived refuge. This one wasn't worth documenting.
• Nullchan (2008–2014, 2017–2018) - The 'mint green' one, lasted quite long.
• Sosach (2009–) - The main successor assuming the 'Dvach' name, but isn't the same.

• Dvach [Archive] - The front page of Dvach, archived September 13, 2008.
• Dvach on Kolchewiki
• Dvach on Lurkmore
• Dvach on Noobtype Wiki
• Dvach on Wikireality