Ylilauta¹⁾ is a Finnish bulletin board, founded by Aleksi Kinnunen, which stemmed from a merger on February 20, 2011.²⁾ However, most of their bulletin board is locked behind a timer and subscription service, so the free accounts can only view a limited number of recent threads.

Following the Finnchan and Kuvalauta era, both Kotilauta and Lauta.net were initially rivals, but the latter had accepted a merger due to financial problems. On February 20, 2011 at 11:32pm, Kinnunen would establish Ylilauta at the “ylilauta.fi” domain.³⁾ They quickly gather national attention, several months later, after the news reported that the police contacted them 17 times⁴⁾ and data breaches were shared here.⁵⁾

In 2012, Kinnunen allegedly sold Ylilauta,⁶⁾ so it moved to “ylilauta.org” by May 1, 2012. Around this time, the website would have surprisingly positive press.⁷⁾⁸⁾ In 2017, the staff banned anime threads from all boards, excluding “Anime” (/a/) and “Chat” (/rr/), from February 23, 2017 to April 3, 2017. In 2020, a hacker shared data from the Vastaamo data breach on October 21, 2020⁹⁾ that was swiftly removed.¹⁰⁾

There was a noticeable uptick in online gambling advertisements (e.g. Mr Green) in 2022,¹¹⁾ then Ylilauta made some unpopular changes in October 2023 that rendered it unusable without a subscription¹²⁾¹³⁾ and several pornographic boards would be hidden unless you had an 'established' account with a subscription. In 2024, the “Archive” (/arkisto/) was removed, then they cut down on the number of boards.

^{Note: This list was retrieved on 2026-03-16. It may have changed since then (because it's a pain in the ass to pull).}

• Ylilauta cannot be accessed from an older OS or web browser, and the website is difficult to archive since the Internet Archive blacklisted it and Archive Today is sometimes detected as a bot.
• The post numbers are now 'hidden' by default, and all threads use a 6-character 'short link' in its URL.
• You can change the language or 'localization' in settings, now reduced to Finnish and English.
• My account keeps getting deleted for inactivity, I presume, so I can't help you there.

• Spurdo Spärde - A meme from Kuvalauta, but popularized by Ylilauta through Krautchan.

• Ylilauta - The front page of Ylilauta.
• Ylilauta on Meemi.info