5ch.io
5ch.io
Who runs 5ch.io, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest anonymous textboard forum alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- 2channel
Measured from 5ch.io’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit 5ch.io01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs 5ch.io
5ch.io
Wikidata: Japanese online bulletin board system
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What 5ch.io tracks
We couldn’t read 5ch.io’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to 5ch.io
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to 5ch.io, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to 5ch.io match.
We can’t read 5ch.io’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Full Disclosure
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DEV Community
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Dailymotion
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Digg - News, before it trends
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles 5ch.io’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones 5ch.io uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what 5ch.io 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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 62 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to 5ch.io’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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56322f6cb0e0b2f-HAM
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS guss.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=cgSioxWsZTqNtNBEG432SS0Z3DCfoRKp5XRtf4Z0j60
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS 11/20
- Google Analytics · not on 5ch.io 10/20
- Google Workspace · not on 5ch.io 9/20
- jQuery · not on 5ch.io 6/20
- nginx · not on 5ch.io 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on 5ch.io 5/20
- PHP · not on 5ch.io 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on 5ch.io 4/20
- Google AdSense · not on 5ch.io 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on 5ch.io 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on 5ch.io 3/20
- Apple Business · not on 5ch.io 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on 5ch.io 3/20
- Mailgun · not on 5ch.io 2/20