/operate/ - Endchan Operations

LynxChan uses file mime-type filter to keep our anons safe. This the official thread to add new items or anything we missed.

What file types do we don't support that you would like us to add?

IF YOU ARE HAVING A PROBLEM WITH UPLOADING A FILE, TEST HERE AND LET USE KNOW THE MIME TYPE YOU GET:
http://mime.ritey.com

Here's the current list:
    "image/apng",
    "image/png",
    "image/jpeg",
    "image/jxl",
    "image/jxr",
    "image/jp2",
    "image/jpm",
    "image/jpx",
    "image/mj2",
    "image/gif",
    "image/bmp",
    "image/webp",
    "image/x-flif",
    "image/x-icon",
    "image/bpg",
    "image/x-bpg",
    "image/tiff",
    "image/avif",
    "image/hiec",
    "image/hief",
    "image/hiec-sequence",
    "image/vnd.ms-photo",
    "audio/midi",
    "audio/mpeg3",
    "audio/mp3",
    "audio/flac",
    "audio/ogg",
    "audio/aac",
    "audio/mpeg",
    "audio/wav",
    "audio/webm",
    "audio/x-m4a",
    "audio/x-ms-wma",
    "application/x-ape",
    "audio/mp4",
    "audio/webm",
    "audio/x-matroska",
    "audio/x-flac",
    "video/webm",
    "video/mp4",
    "video/ogg",
    "video/x-ms-wma",
    "video/x-matroska",
    "video/x-matroska-3d",
    "video/avi",
    "video/msvideo",
    "video/x-flv",
    "video/quicktime",
    "video/x-msvideo",
    "video/x-ms-wmv",
    "text/plain",
    "application/pdf",
    "application/x-shockwave-flash",
    "application/vnd.adobe.flash.movie",
    "application/epub+zip",
    "application/zip",
    "application/x-zip-compressed",
    "application/x-7z-compressed",
    "application/x-rar-compressed",
    "application/x-tar",
    "application/x-gzip",
    "application/x-bzip2",
    "application/x-download",
    "application/download",
    "application/x-xz",
    "video/3gpp",
    "audio/3gpp",
    "application/gzip",
    "application/x-bzip",
    "application/x-unknown",
    "application/x-7z-compressed",
    "application/x-cbr",
    "application/x-cbz",
    "application/x-cb7",
    "application/x-cba",
    "application/x-cbt",
    "application/octet-stream"


Updated: 2022-04-07

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Came up on the apropos of the Christmas Special that we should hold a recurring "movie night", maybe on monthly basis. We just might do that. 
The first occasion would be on the 8th of February (probably would be the 9th for Australians). One movie, and maybe two short videos, as an intro and outro, might be related to the movie itself, might not.

Right at this moment, I can't offer a more exact date, for all the timezones it is hard to plan. Was talk about 21:00 PST on the 8th which is 00:00 EST and 16:00 AET on the 9th. However this is too early for Europeans on Sunday. Maybe we could offer two streams with some gap between.
Also no titles yet.

So ideas, suggestions are welcomed.

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Is there a way to make the wordfilter recognice spaces so it only applies to isolated words but not if the phrase is part of a longer word?

like filtering '_trans_' but not 'transport'

So how should custom spoilers be formatted?

Normal preview images are 255x255px but a spoiler that size apparently gets compressed to something like 255x172px distorting the image.

I managed to create an undistorted spoiler by embedding it in a transparent 255x172 image but then the resulting visible preview is only 172px high instead of 255 like normal images.

Any way to fix this?

Users reporting lost media on several boards. Not sure what happened yet, or we can recover the lost images. For now it seems the whole html element that contains the uploads is missing from the posts, so it's not like the media itself in the db got lost.
But will see.

Is it possible to increase the total possible page count for a specific board? There are threads on my board that I don't want to lose but we are bumping up against the page limit and important threads are starting to be lost.

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> Issue 1

Having some trouble with linebreaks spreading out. Seems to do it sometimes but not others, not sure why.
>>>/cumg/36/ >>>/cumg/37/

> Issue 2

Code tags seem to escape into greentext when $ is used.
>>>/cumg/16/ >>>/cumg/15/ >>>/cumg/19/

> Issue 3

The captcha button has no reload button in the reply pop-up. It doesn't always reload automatically, in turn causing the user the need to refresh the page.
> During the refresh, they may lose their text, however it seems to stay but the file they had attached gets unattached.


> Suggestion 1

Consider wrapping the site with IPFS for archival/resiliency.
https://ipfs.io/

> Suggestion 2

Consider adding support to KurobaEx. The current most popular FOSS image-board app on Android. A fork of Kuroba.
https://github.com/K1rakishou/Kuroba-Experimental/
I know this isn't exactly an Endchan thing, however it would be beneficial to Endchan end users and allowing more people to use it easily on mobile.
> inb4 phone-posters.

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6th birthday

When we started Endchan, to me, it was a bet on user experience. 8chan was going to switch to InfinityNext, which now 9chan uses. I bet that users would not like the instant jump to a radical new interface and prefer the older interface.

8chan was leaving Infinity, their existing software, for many reasons. Mainly it was hacked together without much thought to the structure. InfinityNext was a carefully approached re-imagination of what 8chan could be.

Selecting infinity for Endchan was not wise for a couple reasons. First what if InfinityNext was never finished. This was a real concern at the time, we even name our git repos InfinityNow as a joke around this idea it may never happen. And we had this luxury because not only had I made an imageboard engine and turned it into an archival system called Futabilly for 8archive after its backend couldn’t keep up. But mainly because StephenLynx had started a project after InfinityNext and before Futabilly and he had a great fast engine ready to be put to the test. 8TailedLynx a theme for Lynxchan also helped provide a similar interface to 8chan. My engine didn’t have no-js support, so it wasn’t even an option.

We were the prime Lynxchan instance for a couple of years until the disagreements over the direction of LynxChan added up and I just decide it would back-port features and fixes as needed. This has left our site feeling old and stale. We’ve had a couple boards disagree with our decision and have left for new instances running with the latest LynxChan.

InfinityNext was somewhat completed but 8chan failed to migrate to it. It was handed off to NextChan which they continued some development until Josh regained the will to implement another chunk and launched 9chan.

Josh’s 9chan plans didn’t quite work out as he expected and said if someone, like us, didn’t take over he was going to shut it down.

After we took over 9chan, over the next year we learned what it cost to not have a strong personality as well as lead developer with the promise to continue to transform imageboards into the future.

I had some code for a new imageboard / social media hybrid, called WrongThink. And after discussion with some other developers, one proposed the idea of unifying all sites under one look and feel.
I believe that user experiences are largely important to a site. So we operate 9chan separately from Endchan because the software is so different and a unique experience all its own. And while Endchan has maintained its 8chan look and feel, it does need a new coat of paint.

When we set out to build WrongThink, we decided not to build our own HTML/CSS and licensed an excellent modern mobile-friendly implementation from Jschan. This is a very similar experience to 8TailedLynx, other Lynxchan frontends and 8chan. However with WrongThink we’ve heavily invested in a really solid no-js experience (using heavy modern css tested on older browsers).

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This will effect several boards.
Got an ultimatum from Roskomnadzor to take down some content, else they'll block our domain. Since we won't comply we advise users to explore our alternative access options, and ofc look up possible ways to avoid government censorship.
Happy posting.

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As a newish phenomenon we're getting DMCA requests now and then. It happened enough times to dedicate a thread for it, a quick explanation and thought.
When we consider a DMCA request we check if the subject in question satisfies fair use:
https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/what-is-fair-use/
In short we take a look if the posts, the thread can be considered as commentary, criticism, or parody. If we don't find this aspect of the thread prominent enough, we have to comply to the take down request. If this happens we might not give a notice to the affected poster or board.

Personally here I wanna encourage our posters to do creative work, it can be more satisfying and entertaining.