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vichan - A lightweight and full featured PHP imageboard.
Lainchan - A fork of vichan
========================================================
About
------------
vichan is a free light-weight, fast, highly configurable and user-friendly
imageboard software package. It is written in PHP and has few dependencies.
vichan is a fork of (now defunc'd) [Tinyboard](http://github.com/savetheinternet/Tinyboard),
vichan is a fork of [vichan](http://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan),
a great imageboard package, actively building on it and adding a lot of features and other
improvements.
Support and announcements: https://engine.vichan.net/
Requirements
------------
1. PHP >= 5.4 (we still try to keep compatibility with php 5.3 as much as possible)
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4. [PHP GD](http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.image.php)
5. [PHP PDO](http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.pdo.php)
We try to make sure vichan is compatible with all major web servers and
operating systems. vichan does not include an Apache ```.htaccess``` file nor does
We try to make sure lainchan is compatible with all major web servers and
operating systems. lainchan does not include an Apache ```.htaccess``` file nor does
it need one.
### Recommended
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Contributing
------------
You can contribute to vichan by:
You can contribute to lainchan by:
* Developing patches/improvements/translations and using GitHub to submit pull requests
* Providing feedback and suggestions
* Writing/editing documentation
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Installation
-------------
1. Download and extract vichan to your web directory or get the latest
1. Download and extract lainchan to your web directory or get the latest
development version with:
git clone git://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan.git
git clone git://github.com/lainchan/lainchan.git
2. Navigate to ```install.php``` in your web browser and follow the
prompts.
3. vichan should now be installed. Log in to ```mod.php``` with the
3. lainchan should now be installed. Log in to ```mod.php``` with the
default username and password combination: **admin / password**.
Please remember to change the administrator account password.
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Support
--------
vichan is still beta software -- there are bound to be bugs. If you find a
bug, please report it.
If you find a bug, please report it.
If you need assistance with installing, configuring, or using vichan, you may
If you need assistance with installing, configuring, or using lainchan, you may
find support from a variety of sources:
* If you're unsure about how to enable or configure certain features, make
sure you have read the comments in ```inc/config.php```.
* Check out an [official vichan board](http://int.vichan.net/devel/).
* You can join vichan's IRC channel for support
[irc.6irc.net #vichan-devel](irc://irc.6irc.net/vichan-devel)
* You can join lainchan's IRC channel for support
[irc.freenode.net #lainchan](irc://irc.freenode.net/lainchan)
### Tinyboard support
vichan is based on a Tinyboard, so both engines have very much in common. These
vichan, and by extension lainchan, is based on a Tinyboard, so both engines have very much in common. These
links may be helpful for you as well:
* Tinyboard documentation can be found [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20121016074303/http://tinyboard.org/docs/?p=Main_Page).
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Donations
---------
Do you like our work? You can motivate us financially to do better ;)
* Bitcoin: 1GjZEdLaTQ8JWVFGZW921Yv4x59f9oiZME
* Bitcoin: 18CshTkxW6HRFoBhXo9mLJcjkReMmjvuq9
You can also ask us to develop some feature specially for you <3. Join our IRC
channel and ask for a quote (there are a few of us, who work with the codebase
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Localisation
------------
Wanting to have vichan in your language? You can contribute your translations at this URL:
Wanting to have lainchan in your language? You can contribute your translations to vichan at this URL:
https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/tinyboard-vichan-devel/
Oekaki
------
vichan makes use of [wPaint](https://github.com/websanova/wPaint) for oekaki. After you pull the repository, however, you will need to download wPaint separately using git's `submodule` feature. Use the following commands:
lainchan makes use of [wPaint](https://github.com/websanova/wPaint) for oekaki. After you pull the repository, however, you will need to download wPaint separately using git's `submodule` feature. Use the following commands:
```
git submodule init
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------------
Read `inc/lib/webm/README.md` for information about enabling webm.
vichan API
lainchan API
----------
vichan provides by default a 4chan-compatible JSON API. For documentation on this, see:
lainchan provides by default a 4chan-compatible JSON API, just like vichan. For documentation on this, see:
https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan-API/ .
License
--------
See [LICENSE.md](http://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/blob/master/LICENSE.md).
See [LICENSE.md](http://github.com/lainchan/lainchan/blob/master/LICENSE.md).

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