Dvach(2ch) (Двач) was a Russian bulletin board website that was founded by “Vikenty Fesunov” (Викентий Фесунов), with help from “Zoi” (Зой), and they ran from February 9, 2006 to January 17, 2009. It abruptly shut down, which was later revealed to be fatigue.¹⁾

In 2006, some Russian 4chan users wanted an imageboard of their own, so they would register “2ch.ru” on February 9, 2006, launched Dvach with the Wakaba and Kareha scripts around February 21, 2006, and announced Dvach to an anime community on LiveJournal.²⁾ This was primarily a quiet era of anime, localized memes, and net characters until 4chan had their /b/-day debacle around August 23, 2006.

During the /b/-day crossover, a secret /rf/ board was quietly set up. Despite the influx, Dvach remained slow and threads would commonly hit the bump limit. In 2007, spammers began wiping the board and brought attention to the website's lack of CAPTCHA and slow moderation response time, forcing IIchan to emerge as a moderated alternative on June 1, 2007 because communication was impossible.

For 2008, the CAPTCHA was finally enabled, which unsurprisingly stabilized the website, and Dvach initially welcomed IIchan in the sidebar.³⁾ However, the Dvach community had drastically changed since then, with considerably more low-effort content. It eventually reached a point where the administration simply gave up on the website, letting it die on January 17, 2009, since it exponentially grew out of their control.⁴⁾

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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
• Dvach (2-ch.ru, 2ch.so, 2ch.hk)
• IIchan
• Noldvach/Mentach
• Nullchan

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