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Uchan

Uchan (Учан) was a Ukrainian bulletin board, founded by “Yason dinAlt”,1) that ran from November 17, 2009 to September 11, 2016. This is often considered the first2) major Ukrainian imageboard, before new alternatives like Kropyvach or Fainach would eventually surpass them.

History

On November 17, 2009, “Yason dinAlt” establishes Uchan3) on top of his 'demotivational posters' website, “demotivators.org.ua”,4) before it was moved to “uchan.org.ua” on November 30, 2009.5) It ran on Wakaba. After a few months, Uchan saw a surge in popularity around April 2010 which breathed life into the community, despite the later rise of alternatives like Sich and Xatach during a perceived decline.

In 2012, a brief PES tournament was held. In 2013, there was a nationalist 'anti-Russian' fervor that would explode after the 2014 coup, so it became difficult to avoid politics. During its final years, the community would expand the local Warhammer 40,000 scene, moved to its alternate “uchan.to” domain around 2015,6) then it shut down on September 11, 2016 without warning.

List of Boards

  • Anime and Manga [a]
  • Disorder [b] (18+)
  • Cosplay [cos]
  • Erotica, Sex [ero]
  • Interesting Experiments [exp]
  • Fofudiushka [ffd]7)
  • Computer and Other Games [ig]
  • International [int]
  • Literature, Education, Science [lit]
  • Music [muz]
  • Psychological Collapse [pk]
  • Programming, Computers, OS [pr]
  • About UChan [sho]
  • Your Ad Could Be Here! [dev/null]
  • Transportation [tr]
  • Video, Movies, Television, Cartoons [tv]
  • Ukrainization, Politics [ukr]
  • Art Wagon with Les Podervianskyi [vg]
  • War, Army, Weapons [war]
  • Abyss [x] (18+)

Notes

  • For a brief period of time, Hyperchan acquired the “uchan.org.ua” domain on April 1, 2020 and ran a spiritual successor to Uchan, dubbed 'New Uchan' (Новий Учан), but it died after two years.

See also

  • Uchan [Archive] - The front page of Uchan, archived September 3, 2016.
  • Uchan on Entsyklopediia Dramatyka
1)
While the name is a reference to Jason dinAlt from the Deathworld series, the user consistently wrote it as “Yason dinAlt” (Язон дінАльт), so that's the username being used in this article.
2)
Technically speaking, there was a Ukrainian-themed UAchan at “uachan.com” (2007–11) and a short-lived Shchostamtake (Щосьтамтаке) at “w13.h.com.ua” (2007–08). However, the former was 'de-facto Russian', while the latter by “zxman” only has one archived page and reportedly amassed 118 posts before their free host shut it down for 'excessive use of resources'.
3)
"uchan є!" (November 17, 2009). Uchan /b/.
4)
"Першонах!" [Mirror] (November 19, 2009). Uchan /a/.
6)
"uchan.org.ua" (July 14, 2015). Uchan.
7)
The term 'Fofudiushka' (Фофудюшка) is a variant of Fofudja (Фофудья), a Ukrainian meme that came from LiveJournal as a way to satirize how Russian nationalists or Russian Orthodox fundamentalists spoke. Basically, it was a board to joke about nonsense of Russian origin, like the Federal Security Service (FSB) or Military Police (MP), when it was originally made on November 21, 2009.
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