KEPT YOU WAITING, HUH FULL

It gets recreated but with the existing threads gone, and is now completely dead. Meanwhile the 8chan/vg/ board owner accidentally deletes the whole board by fat-fingering the 'Delete Board' button and checkbox when looking at the administration panel on his phone. Some time later julay/v/ has some drama about the board owner locking threads about the Last of Us leaks for a variety of bizarre reasons including believing that they're too much like GG threads. Shortly before Fatchan went down, the Julay site owner declares he wants to get rid of most of the boards except a handful in 3 months and they should make their own bunkers.

For a while people were divided between Julay, 8chan/v/, 8chan/vg/ (the Mark-free alternative with a new board owner), and people reluctantly posting on 8kun.

Acid Man has launched at this point (Mark provided half the funding and runs /v/ but is not part of the administration) but coincidentally his DDOS-protection VanwaTech is doing infrastructure upgrades so his site was having severe technical issues at the time. Anons scatter, largely unwilling to return to 8kun and unsure of where to go. instead, and concerned about his host potentially getting blacklisted by Voxility even if he isn't using anycast himself anymore, the Fatchan owner shuts down the site. Rather than switching to not using anycast and using a single server in the U.S. Someone who has been emailing every service provider for every imageboard trying to get them shut down gets Voxility, which was providing Fatchan's host with anycast service, to blackhole the site, apparently based on them hosting a dead /pol/ with a couple dozen posts total.

KEPT YOU WAITING, HUH FULL

v/ sucessfully pulls off a full migration, 8kun drops to single-digit PPH that are all in the meta thread while fat/v/ picks up everyone. Fatchan is great and is very popular with users, with a /v/ board owner who seems decent and based on JSChan which functions well unlike 8kun.

Several other boards migrate to sites on the webring or have board-owners removed after they post loli in protest or sticky calls for migration. Every /v/ volunteer but 1 resigns in protest. People begin to migrate en-masse to the /v/ on. 8kun bans loli site-wide, not just loli boards, posting it now gets you a permaban from the whole site. A week later after talking to 1 lawyer 8kun administration apparently decides it's legally risky based on an obscenity law that has never been applied to any website despite many other sites hosting loli or selling it commercially without problems. Acid Man begins working on his own site, meant to be a proper sucessor to 8chan. The fat/v/ board is claimed by some anonymous Italian guy. Mark makes a /v/ on the webring board as a potential migration target, but after sperging super-hard and deleting a bunch of posts from even people defending him he deletes the whole board. Ron said they would migrate loli boards in 2 weeks after switching servers, but first he would talk to 2 lawyers to make sure it was completely safe legally. They both fired him and removed him as /v/ board owner. Mark stickied an open letter calling out the 8kun administration for various issues, including them not migrating loli boards as a form of soft-censorship. Modified copypasta summarizing what happened with /v/ recently: For finding non-/v/ boards remember that you can check the webring from webring boards, though isn't part of the webring yet so it would have to be checked separately. For anyone unfamiliar, the two boards that most people migrated to are either /v/ (run by Mark) or /v/ (run by the fat/v/ board owner).

Kept you waiting, huh