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Who runs 4chan, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest imageboard forum alternatives.

Who’s behind it
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Online since
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Trackers
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Prices
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Last price change
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Closest alternative
8chan/kun

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs 4chan

4chan 4chan.org

Wikidata: English-language imageboard website

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience

02 · Privacy

What 4chan tracks

We couldn’t read 4chan.org’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to 4chan

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to 4chan, thumbs down if it isn’t.

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We can’t read 4chan.org’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    8chan/kun 8kun.top No trackers

    Welcome to 8kun

    What do you do with the mad that you feel, when you feel so mad you could bite? When the whole wide world seems oh-so-wrong, and nothing you do seems very right?

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  2. 02
    Reddit reddit.com Top 1K

    American social news aggregation website and discussion portal

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  3. 03
    5ch.io Top 10K English

    Japanese online bulletin board system

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  4. 04
    Something Awful somethingawful.com No trackers

    The Something Awful Forums

    comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka

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  5. 05
    2chan.net No trackers

    双葉ちゃん♪

    Japanese imageboard website

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  6. 06
    2channel 2ch.sc 2 trackers

    2ちゃんねる掲示板へようこそ

    巨大掲示板群『2ちゃんねる』へようこそ!

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  7. 07
    Machi BBS machi.to Japanese 1 tracker

    まちBBS

    「まちBBS」は皆さんの地元の話題についてお話をする掲示板です

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  8. 08
    Open 2channel open2ch.net

    Japanese online bulletin board system

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  9. 09
    Girls Channel - girlschannel.net Top 10K 1 tracker

    ガールズちゃんねる - Girls Channel -

    女子の女子による女子のためのおしゃべりコミュニティ。女子の好きな話題にみんなでコメント、みんなで投票して盛り上がれる匿名掲示板「ガールズちゃんねる」へようこそ。

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  10. 10
    Arcalive arca.live Top 10K English

    Korean language website in Paraguay

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  11. 11
    DC Inside dcinside.com Top 10K Korean 2 trackers

    ## CONNECTING HEARTS! 디시인사이드입니다. ##

    국내 최대 인터넷 커뮤니티 포털이자 인터넷 트렌드의 중심, 디시인사이드입니다. 실시간 베스트 등의 갤러리 커뮤니티 서비스를 제공합니다.

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  12. 12
    Pantip pantip.com Top 10K Thai 1 tracker

    Pantip - Learn, Share & Fun

    ร่วมพูดคุยแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็นในทุกประเด็น ทั้งบันเทิง หุ้น ความงาม ท่องเที่ยว รถยนต์ กีฬา โทรศัพท์มือถือ อาหาร การเมือง ครอบครัว บ้าน วิทยาศาสตร์ สุขภาพ ธุรกิจ

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  13. 13
    Dcard dcard.tw

    Internet forum in Taiwan

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  14. 14
    bakusai.com Top 10K Japanese 2 trackers

    爆サイ.com−日本最大のローカルクチコミ掲示板

    北海道から沖縄まで日本全国の気になる話題を網羅したローカルクチコミ掲示板。掲示板カテゴリ数4000以上。ニュース速報・スポーツ・動画・政治・経済・芸能から、パチンコ・スロット・キャバクラ・ホスト・風俗・ギャンブルまで幅広い。

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  15. 15
    Todayhumor todayhumor.co.kr

    South Korean website and internet forum

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  16. 16
    PTT Bulletin Board System ptt.cc Top 10K Chinese 1 tracker

    首頁 - 批踢踢實業坊

    bulletin board system based in Taiwan

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  17. 17
    clien.net Korean 2 trackers

    클리앙

    모두의 커뮤니티 클리앙

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  18. 18
    dogdrip.net Top 10K Korean 2 trackers

    DogDrip.Net 개드립

    유머, 이슈, 정보 커뮤니티. 개드립

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  19. 19
    Bahamut Gamer's Community gamer.com.tw Top 10K

    Taiwanese ACG Internet forum

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  20. 20
    MetaFilter metafilter.com

    general-interest community weblog

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles 4chan’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones 4chan uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what 4chan adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 3 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
49 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to 4chan’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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