> OG ayashii world was essentially a guest book (no threads, no trees,
> just long twitter-esque post chain). I think Ayashii.net adds a lot of
> nice, handy, human features to the basic concept and I enjoy the chat
> here. What do you think are services that are essentially cousins of
> Ayashii.net?
> I found https://postzone.app/ today and think that's another creative
> imagining of the "chain of comments without registration" concept,
> easy enough to clone too. (there's a quasi-CSV file that logs comments,
> the JS can post/read/delete entries from that in nearly real time).
> The feature of being able to delete any comment you want is also pretty
> sweet.
> Something like forced-anonymous IRC software, like what's available
> at irc.sageru.org (eg ircs://irc.sageru.org/jp ) seems to also come
> close: type anything you want, and as time goes on, old messages drop
> into the void.
Before Ayashii World adopted MiniBBS in late 1997 (which as you say, is
little more than a glorified guestbook - identical to what we're using
now except missing a few QoL features. Practically everyone online in
Japan had their own instance at one point), they used free web chat /
single-line bulletin board services - if you've used our Dating or
@Party II, they were basically that but even simpler ヽ(´ー｀)ノ
Then in Ayashii World's heyday, there were other communities that were
similar and/or shared users:
- Namikare (Namida Kareru made Naku Hou ga Ii kamo), who used a
modified single-line-reply Q&A board script. I actually have their
script translated and ready to roll out if anyone's interested,
though I'm not sure it offers much
http://namikare.under.jp/nami.cgi
- YugaUn (Yuganda Unmei), who used a PO box script - it basically lets
users create their own MiniBBS-like boards that could be private,
public, or read-only. I also have this translated - it's very similar
to the current Polls@Heyuri in appearance and operation since it
derives from the same author and era
https://web.archive.org/web/20010302100329/http://yuga2000.bank-sakura.com/cgi-bin/list.cgi
- LNB (Licentious Notice Board), who used modified versions of MiniBBS
that displayed hotlinked images before later moving to the first true
imageboard script, imgboard (which believe it or not, is still being
updated as of 2022 (;ﾟ∇ﾟ)
http://www.big.or.jp/~talk/t-club/soft/room01/imgboard_ftp.cgi )
https://web.archive.org/web/19990129073748/http://www2g.biglobe.ne.jp/%7Emaruhi/cgi_bin/lnbn1.cgi
- Amezou, a link-site-turned-BBS that started with a free teacup board
before moving to an early thread-float BBS script resBBS around the
time original Ayashii World founder Shiba quit (causing many users to
take refuge in Amezou), and then combined the concept with MiniBBS-
based threads to create the proto-2ch Amezou-type board
http://amezor-x.net/
- Zian (Jidou Enquete Sakusei), who used a poll script - the same one
currently used on https://cgi.heyuri.net/vote2/ in fact - I took it
from them! (;^Д^)
https://web.archive.org/web/20010406065718/http://snog.squares.net/vote2/list.cgi
Reference: 2023/08/17(Thu) 14:32:45