Imageboard ( English imageboard - “image board”) - a kind of web forum with the ability to attach images to messages [2] [3] . Characteristic features are the ability to communicate anonymously and special slang and culture [2] .
Imageboards are usually divided into topics (“boards”) in which discussion threads are created (“threads”, from the English thread - “thread”). There is no archiving on image boards, instead, threads are sorted on each board by the date of the last message - newer ones are at the top, so older threads gradually go down [1] .
Imageboards appeared for the first time in Japan , and therefore there are many Japanese terms in the slang of imageboards - “ chan ”, “ kun ”, “ hickey ”, etc. [2] . Very informal communication is developed on image boards, blurring the boundaries between different social layers [2] . Moreover, the anonymity and lack of control on the part of public opinion create a sense of impunity on image boards [2] .
Content
Software
The first forum engine for the Futaba imageboard is used in the Futaba channel , written in PHP . In 2003, an English fork of Futaba called Futallaby appeared.
Currently popular are Wakaba forum engines written in Perl and Kusaba based written in PHP. Kusaba is a forum engine written in PHP (the original name of the Trevorchan script), the purpose of which was to increase the performance of the script and create a common consolidated management of all imageboard boards.
On August 31, 2007, the creator of Kusaba stopped developing the script. The latest version of Kusaba is SVN r193. Now the creator of Kusaba is engaged in a similar script PyIB (written in Python) and TinyIB (PHP). Three independent development teams continued working on the Kusaba script: Kusaba X, Kusaba 2, and Serissa. At the moment, only Kusaba X developers continue to work.
A much less popular, but technically developed forum engine is Orphereus, written in Python using the Pylons framework, equipped with slightly weaker functionality than Kusaba X, but it has features that all other forum engines for image boards do not have (registration, the ability to tag, instead of writing on one specific board, etc.). Most of this specific functionality did not allow the script to gain due popularity.
There are also imageboards with their own unique forum engines, this type of imageboards is often updated and constantly changing, adapting to the needs of the audience.
Image galleries in the style of Danbooru (Danboru) are sometimes also called image boards [4] , and the Danbooru project itself calls itself a “taggable image board” [5] . Unlike traditional Futaba-like imageboards, for Danbooru-like galleries, the main goal is a non-hierarchical semantic structure in which users can publish content and add tags, annotations, translations and comments.
Well-known engines of Danbooru-like sites are Danbooru ( Ruby on Rails ), Shimmie ( PHP ) and Gelbooru itself.
Popular Imageboards
- Futaba Channel is one of the first and most popular imageboards in Japan.
- 4chan - the most popular English-language imageboard [1] .
- 8chan is the second most popular English-language imageboard.
See also
- Anonymous
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Akhmadulin, 2018 , p. 87.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Teryokhin, Khodakova, 2019 , p. 42.
- ↑ Akhmadulin, 2018 , p. 85.
- ↑ Danbooru: Ubuntu Community Documentation . Date of treatment January 5, 2010.
- ↑ GitHub - r888888888 / danbooru: Danbooru is a taggable image board written in Rails 5
Literature
- Teryokhin A. S., Khodakova I. A. Imageboards as an aspect of negative socialization of youth on the Internet // Scientific Thought. - 2019. - July ( No. 1 ).
- Akhmadulin V. R. Imageboards as a means of mass communication // World Journalism: Unity of Diversity. - 2018 .-- S. 84-89 .