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Karachan

Karachan is a Polish bulletin board founded by “Zalgo” on June 3, 2010. It's the oldest surviving Polish imageboard website, but it also has many security measures intended to deter newcomers or law enforcement, plus you can't even post without a Polish IP address.

Despite their status, it's really not interesting. The administration is inept, though that describes most popular anonymous communities, and most users aren't worth talking to because they are either fucked up, underage, or prefer to discuss politics.

History

2010–2020

On June 3, 2010, “Zalgo” sets up Karachan at the “karachan.org” domain with a fork of Kusaba X,1) then the security measures were presumably implemented once they started to gain media attention.2) As a result, Karachan can't be archived through normal means and we don't know when they switched to Mitsuba, but we do know that Vichan ended up handing over the “Cenzopapa” meme to Karachan.

As the userbase grew, Karachan began experiencing server issues more frequently during the mid-2010s. Then on September 9, 2016, a moderator rebelled and gave everyone access to the moderation control panel, but the damage was done as everything was reverted a few hours after midnight. From there, it's just mostly uneventful shenanigans like raiding other websites.

2020–

A screenshot of Karachan's web traffic from Friday, August 21, 2020.

Suddenly, “Hendrickson” became Karachan's new owner on August 7, 2020, but this marked a turn that the userbase didn't like. In the next four years, Karachan had a significant “normie” infestation, then some moderator had this volcanic meltdown that began in April 2, 2023,3) and they didn't even put up a Christmas tree for 2023.

How to Access?

The following information was obtained from Karalock.
You can install a userscript, but you still need the filters.

As a warning, it isn't known if any of this information is still valid since I don't actually use Karachan myself.

Desktop instructions

  1. In your ad blocker, add these filters:
! karachan.org
||freshscat.com$domain=karachan.org
||youtube.com/embed/j0aAiKSUzJM$domain=karachan.org
||koronawirus.netlify.com$domain=karachan.org
||karachan.org/bolbutthurtu.webm
||karachan.org/wykop/src/1577811355539470976.webm
||karachan.org/wykop/src/1584127626835644712.mp4
||karachan.org/jannn.webm
||karachan.org/Bursztynek.mp3
karachan.org###zjadam_srake
karachan.org###czaj
karachan.org###kurwy
karachan.org##.board:style(background-image:none !important)
!#if cap_html_filtering
karachan.org##^script:has-text(localStorage.xD)
!#endif
!#if !cap_html_filtering
karachan.org##+js(acis, Math.sin, localStorage.xD)
!#endif
karachan.org###jesli-zablokujesz-tego-diva-ukraina-odniesie-zwyciestwo

Mobile instructions

  1. Browse to the search page (/fnd/).
  2. Enter settings, go to “User JS”, insert the following code, then click on save.
localStorage.xD = "xD"
function setCookie(c_name, value, exdays) {
  var exdate = new Date();
  exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate() + exdays);
  var c_value = escape(value) + ((exdays == null) ? "" : "; expires=" + exdate.toUTCString());
  document.cookie = c_name + "=" + c_value + "; path=/";
}
setCookie('regulamin', 'accepted', 365);
$('#czaj').remove();

Wiki instructions

  1. In your ad blocker, add these filters:
! chanwiki.com
chanwiki.com##body:after
chanwiki.com##+js(aopr, rzeczy)
chanwiki.com##+js(aopw, HTMLImageElement.prototype.src)

List of Boards

If you get a fake error page, click on your browser's address bar and hit the enter key. If you're getting 404 errors for all of them, Karachan might be on a backup server, so check /b/.

Notes

  • “Karachan” would be spelt “Karaczan” in Polish, but “Karaczan” is also the Polish word for the insect subgroup, Blattodea, which goes into why the cockroach (“karaluch”) is their mascot.
  • They have a Minecraft server named “Karagrad”, not to be confused with the 2011 “Karagrad” thread.

See also

  • Karachan - The actual “front page” of Karachan, featuring rules.
  • ChanWiki - Polish-language wiki about Polish-language imageboard culture.
,
1)
"Otwarcie" (June 3, 2010). Karachan.
2)
"Strona CKE zaatakowana" (May 20, 2012). Telewizja Polska S.A.
3)
The “Wulkaniarz”, or “Wulkanoid”, references an incident where a Karachan moderator of 6+ years had a meltdown, wrote a wall of red text, and passive aggressively concluded the rant by saying that they had to watch a documentary about volcanologists (Fire of Love). Since then, it developed into a derogatory term for Karachan's incompetent, sporadic moderation.
4)
Karachan's /4/ is in reference to Vichan's /3/, which was essentially /b/ with forced anonymous.
5)
“1-5am” in Central European Time is “7-11pm” in Eastern Time.
karachan.txt · Last modified: 2024-10-15 04:00:35 by namelessrumia