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 No.348

Thread made for the upcoming decisions to be made for this site.

 No.349

After much debate, we have reached a decision to limit the amount of boards this site contains. Here are the following boards that we are going to remove and why.

/sh/: since long ago, this board had the least amount of moderation and cannot be maintained in the way that should be appropriate regarding the topics it holds. Adding to that, there are many more active alternatives for those who wish to seek the same content.
The board will remain for a week until deletion, you may save images you want from there within that time period before it is removed.
Board link removed, access board from here: >>>/sh/

/fr/: currently one of the least used boards, the reason for it having its own board to begin with is so the anons who do not like topics such as Mpreg and ABO to be able to browse their boards without seeing it and for the anons who are into it to have their own space for it. This board will have its threads moved to other appropriate boards when we see fit and future ABO talks can be discussed in /bl/ and other similar boards while Mpreg can be contained in /ex/.
Board link removed, access board from here: >>>/fr/

/yu/: this board has served its purpose and once /f/ was created it seems that it is no longer needed for other boards and /f/ manage to fulfill what it was made for. Unlike /fr/, only a few select threads will be moved to other boards, large threads will not be moved.
The board will remain for a week until deletion, you may save images you want from there within that time period before it is removed.
Board link removed, access board from here: >>>/yu/

In addition to this, the /flf/ - fluff board will be brought back, only and strictly SFW discussion and images are allowed on the board. Cute shota images will be allowed, you are not allowed to post any suggestive or sexual looking SFW images of shotas. Keep it cute and keep it SFW.

 No.350

This website will be taken down for a week or so within the month of January in order to apply the new updates for it. Things that will be changed are board specific themes, we will create themes for each board and update the main theme accordingly. We will have to use a pesky captcha system to limit the amount of malicious links we have to deal with, a small sacrifice to pay.
I will not be doing any tech support until after the January update, excuse my limited coding knowledge and as always, thank you for your patience.

 No.351

>>350
Thanks for your hard work! Do you know during which week of January the website will be down? More at the beginning or at the end of the month?

 No.352

>>350
Thanks for notifying! And honestly I have absolutely no problems with captchas, considering they'll help us keep the place cleaner from spam or malicious links.

 No.353

>>350
Thanks for the heads up! I'm really happy to hear that the site is getting captchas. Thank you for your hard work and devotion, adminjo-sama. o7

 No.354

>>349
Gone miss /sh/, but I understand your decision, giving the boards topic it's understandable.
Thank you for everything adminjo.

 No.355

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I'm so sad about /sh/. What are the more active alternatives?

 No.356

>>354
That board is only legal in the US and Japan, so I can see why it's be difficult to moderate. It's also become an issue on places like Mastodon where people are fleeing to from twitter.

Overall, I'm thankful adminjo-sama is still working hard for this small site and the Nonnas here.

 No.357

Shotasisters… Why must we always suffer.

 No.358

>>357
lets make some sort of private server before they fully nuke it, was really civil and fun there unlike other shota spaces with mentally ill schizos in it

 No.359

Where does content like the classic issue of 500-year-old non-human "shota" type thing fall into? I like a series that has something along the lines of this but have nowhere to discuss it because I don't want to risk regular people chimping out and from experience shotacons don't like it either because it's not "real" shota.

 No.360

>>357
It's for the greater good, I don't want fujochan as a whole to be inaccessible from my country because some anons post shota stuff in boards I don't even use or want to see just like how MRM isn't accessible anymore in several countries because of shota.

 No.361

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>>360
Probably a dumb question but what is MRM?

I'm not a shotacon and only use the board for sfw images so it isn't like I've lost anything. Still I feel bad for those who are because the only sites I can think of for the content are full of grossly realistic 3D models and are incredibly male-focused.

I hope the users of the board stick around for sfw threads.

 No.362

>>361
NTA but MRM is "MyReadingManga". It was my fav yaoi site but they shut it down in my country too and I can't go there anymore :( They posted so many good yaoi there and it wasn't all just shota content. I tried to bypass the ban but im not tech savy enough for that. It sucks.

 No.363


 No.364

>>359
Seems like it'd be easier to do it by series, get more people using /f/ at least.
What would be the reaction to "series ft. shota" general? Would that be against the rules?

 No.365

>>362
I can access MRM without an vpn or tor from the EU.
>>356
As far as I know in my country 2d is legal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_pornography_depicting_minors
But as >>360 said it's to avoid any future problems that could be associated with the topic.

 No.366

>>364
If /sh/ is as unused as stated in the OP I think just one or two threads on /bl/ or /f/ should be enough to keep discussions going yeah. Fujochan as a whole is slow anyway so why not.

 No.371

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Will reply now before I get busy with work again, been working on my weekends due to strict deadlines so excuse my lack of communication. I still see what everyone posts here on my lunch breaks so your concerns and suggestions are not ignored, just simply on hold.
>>351
Mostly at the end of January since the coders from Vichan are still updating the IB software. Last update was from 4 days ago so if I update the site then I won't be touching the code afterwards as PHP is so easy to break and my knowledge is mostly Ruby and not PHP.
>>352
As for captchas, tests have always gave me broken results so far when I try to make my own, getting one from google will not be an option for us as I do not trust google. If things work out then we'll have a yaoi themed captcha.
>>358
Go ahead anon, I encourage heavy moderation and strict verification for users before they join, we (FC team) will not be responsible for it. Best of luck.
>>364
It would be ideal for shota to not leak into other boards. Please and thanks.
>>366
It is used, just not EU approved. We used to go by US rules but the rules page will change based on EU rules.

 No.373

>>371
>If things work out then we'll have a yaoi themed captcha
That sounds awesome. Plus don't stress yourself so much if things don't work out as expected.

 No.374

>>373
Boards /shs/ - /fr/ - and - /yu/ are now removed.
While moving threads from /sh/ to >>>/flf/ it kind of broke the board and I do not know if the issue has spread to the rest of the site but hopefully not! No more than 2 threads have been saved in the process. Board hidden until the sticky is up, you may use it in the meantime if you wish. Have a great day.

 No.375

>>374
Are the threads from /sh/ permanently lost? I ctrl+s'ed all the threads when I heard the board was to be deleted, so maybe they can be recovered?

 No.376

>>375
I really hope the other threads can be saved. I was so happy when mod said they would all (save ones with a NSFW premise) be moved, like the western thread going to /wes/ and such.

 No.379

>>358
Yes please let's do this, I could mod if needed. Not sure if Discord allows that sort of thing. If not, maybe we could build one on guilded.gg or something. I'm really sad about /sh/ being gone, felt like the only female-oriented shota friendly space online.

 No.380

>>355
8chan has a shota board, you can also try baraag and pixiv

 No.381

>>379
I'm pretty sure Discord does not allow loli/shota

 No.382

>>380
I used to go on 8chan but forgot how after it was taken down a while back

>>381
Discord is the laxest platform there is

 No.383

>>380
Does baraag have general yaoi content or only shota? I looked it up and you need an account just to browse so I still don't understand just what is on that site

 No.384

>>383
It's basically a website for stuff banned on other sites. It allows loli & shota. You can find shota artists on there. It's not a yaoi specific site.

 No.385

>>380
Ah okay, I thought maybe there was a more active female-exclusive forum that allowed shota. Well I made a yumeshota thread on 8chan's /sm/ in case anyone wants to use that.

 No.386

Genuine question, why does this site exist in the current state?

it's no different than lolcow, down to having the same posters and same mindset. Most topics are recycled from there and BL topics barely get any answers.

Like should you try to do something different?

 No.387

>>386
I think it's a good alternative for some anons who don't want to use lc anymore or when lc is down.

 No.388

>>386
It's a well made alternative for more niche interests and most of us, if not all of us are fujoshis - after all, it's a site for fujos. Plus this is a BL/yaoi specific site and I love that. I'm happy it exists.

 No.389

>>388
Plus I don't like the look lolcow has and many of the discussions there don't interest me at all. I think this site looks way better and has higher quality threads.

 No.390

>>385
>I thought maybe there was a more active female-exclusive forum that allowed shota
Aarinfantasy ? I've only used it to download VNs but i think they allow shota

 No.391

>>386
LC is extremely prudish. I don’t like posting most horny stuff there because people are too judgmental and bitchy. I think some of those posters must just have shaming others as a hobby or something.

 No.392

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>>386
I have never used or even browsed lolcow my entire internet life. The closest I've been is being a /cgl/ regular. "4chan but it's fujos only" is my dream site.

While we're talking about the site, what the heck is the icon? I've only been able to see it as a duck wearing aviators and an old-timey pilot's helmet (my interpretation + original attached).

 No.393

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>>392
i see sangwoo emoji but i might be wrong

 No.394

>>389
> I think this site looks way better and has higher quality threads.
This site had threads?

 No.395

>>390
I'll check it out, thanks!

 No.396

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>>393
Good guess. It is indeed a Sangwoo emoji

 No.397

>>391
>LC is extremely prudish. I don’t like posting most horny stuff there because people are too judgmental and bitchy.
I think so too. Just looked at the Fujoshi thread there and almost all of it was hate sperging towards fujoshis. Plus they clearly can't see the difference between aydens and real fujos.
I wish I was a fujo in the early 2000s, where things seemed to peak, but alas I was born between 1999 - 2002.
I hope we get a better situation in the future.

 No.398

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>>397
I really miss the old deviantart fujos… things were so fun and everyone would RP and reply to each others art in character. I don't care if it was cringe. I'd gadly go back to old internet cringe than put up with the blandness of today's internet.

 No.399

>>398
Those were the days. Truly peak fujo era.

 No.400

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>>398
at least small spaces like this with like-minded fujos/fans exist, it's crazy how mindsets changed with the internet getting bigger and becoming more corporate and homogenous and the internet being treated as a part of people's life, web3 is gonna be even worse

 No.401

>>398
Those days are never coming back. Where did all those people go? Did they really just grow out of it?

 No.402

>>401
Do you mean that… fujos will slowly go extinct with BL and yaoi?

 No.403

>>396
>>393
Extremely cursed, thank you.

>all this longing for the 00s

I won't deny that it was a better time for community, but I don't think I'd go back. I've always been more of a weeb with an incidental interest in western slash and modern internet suits these needs of mine way more than Ye Olde Tymes. Pixiv+Twitter beats combing through an artist's personal fanart site for crumbs any day.

Speaking of, that reminds me that it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. There was definitely a mild-to-severe degree of anime/jrpg-prejudice depending on where you were (that often bled into outright racism). I started going online to look for weeb stuff because I got bullied for liking it IRL (lmao) so it was annoying to have the same sentiment in some fandom spaces. You don't really see that anymore unless it's some rightoid going on about "tranime". I'm soooo jealous of people who got to grow up when liking anime was socially acceptable (as well as having access to higher quality and cheaper merch!).

>>401
Because fujoshi are women they are more likely to have to sacrifice their time to their families as they get older. Because young fujoshi are women they are more likely to be bullied out of it thanks to terminally online discourse. While I wouldn't say extinct like >>402, I do get the impression that the candle is burning at both ends. Probably just a rough patch.

 No.404

>>357
The pain

 No.405

>>404
Adminjo said we can still post cute sfw nona!

 No.406

>>403
It's definitely nostalgia. For Fujos nowadays things are better than ever. More variety, better variety, easier raws.

 No.407

>>385
Are you using 8kun or something else? Can't find an sm anywhere

 No.408

>>407
https://8chan.moe/sm/
Sometimes you can't access it directly, which is confusing, but it works for me.

 No.409

>>403
>I do get the impression that the candle is burning at both ends
I wonder if the same is happening to people who make "problematic" smut content
I wonder if we will witness that kind of art shriveling away as well

 No.410

>>406
NTA but agree. BL was extremely inaccessible in the 00's and being not Japanese and not living in Japan you were limited to series that were either straight out dogshit or not BL but nevertheless sold as "yaoi" due to having bishounens in it. It's why retarded anime dudebros still call all joseimuke "fujo shit" (which is also why insecure yumes rage even more because they don't want men to see us the same). BL games never got official translations and the best you could get was a fan patch you had to pull all sorts of tricks to get working, or just play the game in Japanese and read the English translations somewhere else while playing. A lot of series were embarrassingly edgy and focused around rape and angst, and while I personally do enjoy problematic fiction every now and then that was the only kind available. It put a lot of people off back then, and even now I've had to go blue in the face explaining that things are different these days.

As for the community, the autistic yaoi fangirl with no social boundaries was a real thing and thankfully went extinct. A lot of them were genuinely unhinged and way more interested in obsessing over their seme husbando than shipping the two characters. Nowadays the "straight girls fetishizing gay people" thing is a meme worth eyerolls but back in those days that's basically what they were doing, seeing the gay men they met IRL as their yaoi dolls to play with and thinking that lesbians love to be groped and sexually harassed by other women.

The community cleaned up their act immensely in the 2010's and even though being a fujo continues to be suffering because we're always considered pariahs in the big fandom picture, we're getting way more direct pandering from official sources, there are entire services dedicated to releasing translated BL manga, more people are connecting through social media to share their creations, there's a lot of talk about BL as a tool of exploring female sexuality and the feminist angle of the genre, its origins being dug up from old Japanese sources etc. While I sometimes have nostalgia for the crusty 2005 Livejournal communities I have to remind myself of how they drove me insane on the regular and the frustration of not getting my hands on the doujinshis and mangas that I really, really wanted because they were out of print and importing was borderline impossible.

 No.411

>>386
Disagree. Lolcow is ran by people larping as normalfags who think "anime is bad" is a revolutionary statement, cannibalistic camwhores talking shit about each other, tradthots and FDS BPD-chans posing as radfems, undercover scrotes and husbandofags who hate fujos to the point they literally can't go a day without derailing a thread to bitch about them and how they're all degenerate porn addict trannies. I only used Lolcow for its fujo thread and a few others but didn't bother with the rest of the site, I'm not interested in gossip and I would rather read discussion about media, weeb media specifically, especially as a fujo.

In case you're talking about the manhate (due to the coy "it's *just* like lolcow!" statement) then deal with it, more men need to be drafted to a war only to never return.

 No.412

>>410
I see what you mean, and to some extent I agree. These things are more acceptable and easier to find these days.

I'll take 'my stuff is impossible to find' over 'I can find my stuff, but everyone posts about partisan politics all the time in a very hostile manner and I'm assumed to agree with them or be shunned'

 No.413

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>>412
Or you could just not interact with them? While I agree that I wish more people who clearly don't enjoy the medium as a whole would leave or be gatekept, in terms of baseline fandom accessibility I'm with the other anon.

If you just stay on Pixiv and know how to properly filter stuff on AO3 it's much easier as a whole to avoid these people. While the slow conglomeration of the internet has been pretty fucking terrible and corporate, for fandom it's great. Open Doors on A03 is rescuing blogs and fandom communities that are dying. Previously they would have been gone, completely lost. Now fandom has enough infrastructure and reach to keep things alive more permanently. You have preservation efforts, ever evolving ways of participation like group fan-animatics, zines are more organized than ever and incredibly polished products, people can more easily sell fan-merchandise.

Another thing I love about modern fandom is how much easier as a whole it is to find older shows that in turn create newer fanbases and give series second-chances. I despise Crunchyroll as a company and think their subs are lacking in comparison to fansubs. At the same time though since they cover just about every seasonal anime more fansub communities are working on subbing 70s and 80s series that I enjoy. Years ago most retro anime fansubs were for OVAs and early entries in big franchises. Ditto for manga releases, as official scalations grow scangroups can focus on previously unloved and ignored releases. Now the previously neglected children's series and weirder series aimed at niche audiences (like early BL works) are finally getting time to shine.

It's easy to fall into a trap of looking with rose-tinted glasses back on the past, and failing to see how things improve over time. I miss LiveJournal, I miss early Tumblr, I miss when DeviantArt was an actually browsable site with a unique culture. Some things do get worse, some things die. However it's important to not miss what new benefits change can bring.

 No.414

>>412
99% of the fujos that I have met in recent years think that the people shilling hostile identity politics (i.e. not reasonable debate of the female sexual liberation of BL and the lesbian community that was a big part of creating it) or muh fetishization are delulu nutjobs. Empty barrels make the most noise, the overwhelming majority of fujo communities have a good head on their shoulders about this, especially if you hang around people past 25 who have actual lives to take care of instead of just spending all their time online engaging with a polarized mine field.

 No.415

I too feel nostalgia for the old times in general, but I deeply envy younger generations who have grown up in a context where manga/anime and Japanese culture in general have become mainstream. I see kids wearing MHA shirts outside, streaming anime on their phones on the bus, grown adults trying to sound special by claiming how much they love this obscure studio called Ghibli, etc, while back when I was a kid I'd get laughed at if I even dared to admit that I watched Digimon instead of generic western cartoons. This is a great time to be into BL, no matter how shit the internet might be at least everyone has a chance to engage with like-minded fans, let's try to make the most out of it. If only I could have enjoyed this much interaction back when I was young.

 No.472

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but does anyone remember an anon in /sh/ (RIP) making a short manga/doujin about Yoshikage Kira as a shota, going to an art museum? If anyone has it saved, can they post a link to it, or share it in the 8chan yume shota thread? I think this is it: https://8chan.moe/sm/res/12724.html
Much appreciated

 No.494

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Posting here real quick because I can't seem to squeeze in time for a detailed post about this matter. As you all know we are a small site with a small team but we still do need all the help we can get, janitors, mods and the like. You do not need any previous experience as we'll spoonfeed you all the necessary steps. If anyone is interested please do let me know and afterwards I'll post links to forums where you can get in contact with us directly and discreetly. Thank you for your time and patience.

 No.495

>>494
Depending on what time zones you need covered I don't mind being a janitor and cleaning up those spam posts.

 No.496

>>495
Any time zone is welcomed.

 No.497

>>494
I'll help if you bring back /sh/

 No.498

>>496
I'd be willing to cover EST work hours then. I'm almost always online either on my phone or computer so I can check in throughout the day (and night). Drop a link to get in touch and when I get out of work at 10ish tonight I'll get in contact.

 No.499

>>494
I'd be interested personally.

>>497
actually nevermind, I agree with this nonna.

 No.500

>>497
This (even as a hidden board lol)

 No.501

>>497
NTA but same

 No.667

>>349
Why the need to genocide these boards if you could have simply locked them? What's the thought process behind it?

 No.669

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>>667
This. It's been a year, and I'm still pissed /sh/ was removed. I didn't even get to save that OC of a femmob at an art museum, which obviously won't be anywhere else on the internet.

 No.702

>>669
There is no where else on the internet for female shota fags. Every other place is filled with pedo gay guys and scrotes who self insert as a shota fucking milfs.

 No.727

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Hello fellow Fujos, I would like to make a quick announcement that all the treads that happen to have the images missing from the OP post will be locked and archived. Feel free to make new threads as you see fit. Thank you for your unwavering support for this site, Nonnas.

 No.728

>>727
do you think you could post a list of the threads that were locked afterwards?

 No.729

>>728
Obviously not adminjo but here's the ones I see locked:
>BL games fujochan.org/bl/res/361.html
>This is a Teru thread fujochan.org/bl/res/2122.html
>seasonal / recent anime thread fujochan.org/bl/res/322.html
>/bl/ general fujochan.org/bl/res/1060.html
>Monster Boys thread fujochan.org/bl/res/972.html
>Incest fujochan.org/bl/res/1242.html
>BL manga discussion fujochan.org/bl/res/16.html
>fic thread fujochan.org/bl/res/3.html
>Devulmahnn fujochan.org/bl/res/1554.html
>Unexpected BL fujochan.org/bl/res/989.html
>art finds fujochan.org/bl/res/480.html
>Sports Anime and Manga General fujochan.org/bl/res/2.html
>Bad/Funny BL art thread fujochan.org/bl/res/857.html
>old school/classic bl (Restored) fujochan.org/bl/res/146.html
>Muscular boys fujochan.org/bl/res/1293.html
>Looking for an Eruri image fujochan.org/bl/res/2062.html
>Boys love elements in videogames thread? fujochan.org/bl/res/1074.html
>Figures and Merch fujochan.org/bl/res/27.html
>Unhinged brat correciton thread! fujochan.org/bl/res/2135.html
>Fujoshi origin story thread (restored) fujochan.org/bl/res/102.html
>Obscure ships thread! fujochan.org/bl/res/1479.html
>Hetalia General fujochan.org/bl/res/53.html
>Fellow fujos, how do we all feel about the new game Lies of P? fujochan.org/bl/res/1557.html
>OPT fujochan.org/bl/res/1336.html
>Is sex important? fujochan.org/bl/res/1997.html
>webtoons fujochan.org/bl/res/5.html
>book thread fujochan.org/bl/res/51.html
>crossdressing/trap thread fujochan.org/bl/res/1230.html
>Writing Request Thread fujochan.org/bl/res/1788.html
>/shelf/ thread (Restored) fujochan.org/bl/res/123.html
>BL Recommendation thread fujochan.org/bl/res/1217.html
>/bbt/ - BL Boys Tropes fujochan.org/bl/res/474.html
>Fav body parts? fujochan.org/bl/res/1137.html
>BL Read Along! fujochan.org/bl/res/1540.html
>cute /bl/ fujochan.org/bl/res/1085.html
>/bl/ fashion thread fujochan.org/bl/res/1117.html
>Any omegaverse works that have a beta as an main character? fujochan.org/bl/res/1973.html
>Furry/Kemono thread. fujochan.org/bl/res/1161.html
>What's the lates BL you've read? fujochan.org/bl/res/1102.html
>feminine ukes fujochan.org/bl/res/179.html
>What are some good 2022 shounen ai animes? fujochan.org/bl/res/1123.html
(1/2)

 No.730

>>729
(2/2)
>Manga/mahwa discussions fujochan.org/bl/res/1975.html
>Emo boys appreciation thread fujochan.org/bl/res/421.html
>How do you feel about the ever-increasing prevalence of omegaverse in BL works? fujochan.org/bl/res/1939.html
>BBG - Brown Boys General fujochan.org/bl/res/619.html
>Translation Thread fujochan.org/bl/res/846.html
>Loading… fujochan.org/bl/res/746.html
>Hot Bastards fujochan.org/bl/res/541.html
>/3P/ - threesome fujochan.org/bl/res/625.html
>BL from Yesterday fujochan.org/bl/res/593.html
>/og/- omega general fujochan.org/bl/res/1928.html
>Tags thread fujochan.org/bl/res/292.html

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>>729
>>730
thank you so much, nona!!



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