Welcome to our Frequently Asked Questions page. On this page you can learn almost everything you need to know about how to use 3chan and more.

3chan is a mostly anonymous image-based forum also known as an (imageboard) with a major focus on free speech and light moderation.

3chan was founded for a couple reasons with the most prominent reasons being:

• Hiroyuki doesn't seem to care about 4chan at all and is just shilling ads and is probably selling your information like he did on 2ch. (Who didn't see that one coming)
• 8chan is probably still selling your information as well, idk how anyone could trust jim.
• The fact that there needs to be more quality alt chans.

3chan runs on a heavily modified version of futallaby. Our software is internally referred to as Mitsuba (Japanese for 'Three Leaf').

The goal of our software is to be an open source eventually open source alternative to the closed source software known as Yotsuba.

Our software also aims to have many new features, ideas and improvements implemented over what Yotsuba offers. For a list of features please check out: Our features page.

We have plans to release the source code publicly when it is deemed good enough for public distribution.

Yes we are aware that many of you would like our source code to be released.

I've seen that some people who have never used an imageboard before have struggled to understand its simplicity so thats why I've decided to add this.

At the top of the page is the post form, all you need to fill out to be able to post a thread is the comment and file field everything else is optional.

An important thing to remember when creating a thread is to make sure your not replying to an existing thread.

To check look at the top of the post form, if it has a orange bar with white text saying "Posting mode: Reply" then your replying to an existing thread. You should probably press the [Return] or [Catalog] button on the bottom & top left side if thats the case.

I've seen that some people who have never used an imageboard before have struggled to understand its simplicity so thats why I've decided to add this.

Scroll down to the thread you want to reply to and then press to [Reply] button, this will open the thread.

Once the thread is open you can view all the replies and make your own reply by filling out the comment field with your message, the comment field is the only thing that is required to reply everything else is optional.

How do I quote and reply?

There is no account registration on 3chan but you can still verify your identity by using a tripcode.

To use a tripcode just put a # next to your name in the name field. Example: ("User#randompassword") The outcome would look like this. User!xdD43xY93U

If you put two hashtags "##" this will generate a secure tripcode. User!!xyFSC3v7gyv. (Please note that secure tripcodes are site specific and won't look the same on other sites)

You can test the outcome of what your non-secure tripcode will be here.

Sage is a way of replying to a thread without bumping it to the top of the board.

Nonoko returns you to the board index instead of the thread you replied to.

You can sage a thread by typing "sage" without the quotation marks into the Options field.

You can use nonoko and sage at the same time by typing "nonokosage" without the quotation marks into the Options field.

Have you ever been curious about what sort of things can be put into that mysterious options field well now you can find out.

Simply enter any of the options you want to use listed below into the options field, to use multiple options you must divide each option with a plus sign, comma or space.

Please note that some options are only enabled on certain boards.

• sage - Prevents your reply from bumping the thread to the top of the board.
• nonoko - Returns you to the board index after your post instead of the thread.
• fortune - Shows your fortune.
• dice+numberdfaces e.g. dice+XdX or dice+XdXX+XX - Rolls a dice and tells you the result in your post. (Replace the X's with numbers)
• showid - Forces your ID to be shown on a board where IDs are not enabled.
• noflag - Hides your country flag on boards that have country flags enabled.
• muteinfo - Shows information about your last mute on boards with robot9000 enabled.

Here is a comprehensive list of all the bbcodes and markdowns you can use on 3chan.

This ID is given to users who sage a thread and also staff members who use a capcode.

/z/ is a board run by selected users, those users decide the topic and rules of the board.

Users can get chosen two ways:

1. Get the most votes in a poll.

2. Get chosen by one of the admin or moderators.

I have decided against using any captcha systems on 3chan for one simple reason.

They only stop a few bots and end up annoying actual users.

Yes.

Click here to view it.

Yes, and donations are very appreciated. You can donate anonymously to our bitcoin address below.

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If you don't know how to get bitcoins there are many sites that exchange real money for bitcoins and visa versa, you can also mine bitcoins with your own computer but it does take a while.

A capcode is like a tripcode that only members of our moderation team can use.

An admin capcode would look like this: ## Admin

A developer capcode would look like this: ## Developer

A manager capcode would look like this: ## Manager

A moderator capcode would look like this: ## Mod

Janitors only have a capcode on the super secret moderation board.

If you're banned you will be automatically redirected to the ban page when you try to post.

If you want to manually check if your banned go to https://3chan.co/banned.

If you got an error saying "Posting from your ISP, IP range, or country has been blocked due to abuse." when trying to post then congratulations your ip range has been blocked from posting!

We rarely issue range bans to legitiment posters, range bans were added to combat automated bot spam because fuck captchas.

If you would like to appeal your range ban please contact us with your ip included.

Please refer to this.

Please do not contact us if your ban is 3 or 4 days long.

We now have an embedded appeal system on the ban page.

So if your ban is longer than 3 days you'll be able to appeal it.

The blotter is a bunch of short updates about the site that weren't worth making a news post about.

You can find the blotter on the homepage and also below the post form.

You can contact us by e-mailing <admin at 3chan dot co>, only e-mail us if you don't want to make a public thread on /3/.

You can post a thread on our /b/ - Random board.

You can contact one of the moderators or the admin on our discord server.

Or tweet @3chandotco