Minichan (or Minichan BBS) is an imageboard/textboard for general discussion, founded in April 2010. There is no particular theme or "topic".
You do not require an account to post here. A unique account (UID) is automatically created for you when you first visit, assigned to a cookie. Clearing your cookies will drop your UID. You can set a memorable username and password in the /dashboard if you wish to preserve your settings, posting history, PMs, etc.
Minichan runs a modified version of the TinyBBS software, which was first released in 2010 based on ATBBS (2009). Neither project is actively maintained. If you're trying to install vanilla ATBBS, TinyBBS, or MiniBBS (a separate fork never run by Minichan), know that the code is likely to require significant cleanup to reach modern standards. ATBBS and TinyBBS have known vulnerabilities; you install them at your own risk.
We have a Discord server because everyone abandoned IRC in 2020 when it was decided IRC was no longer cool.
See /rules. Use your common sense. Do not post gore, CSAM (including animated or drawn material), or malware. Do not post anything illegal in the United States.
Please report any content violating our rules using the Report function shown within each topic (thread). For urgent matters, please contact [email protected]. Requests relating to data privacy, DMCA, child safety, or any other legal matter should also be sent to this address, with the urgency clearly indicated in the email's subject.
For routine matters, you can use the form here to send a PM to the /admins.
For more serious or urgent matters, email [email protected].
See our tripcode tester for details, and our tripcode generator to generate your own tripcodes from your browser.
The AnonTalk Bulletins Archive, hosted courtesy of IWantABro (IWAB), contains an archive of Kimmo's rage-filled bulletins. You can also find Kimmo Alm's personal website, KimmoA.se, archived here by IWAB. Unfortunately, Kimmo Alm became MIA around 2017 and remains so in 2026. If you don't know what any of this means, ask an oldfag.
Yes. Turkey systematically exterminated around 1 to 1.5 million Armenians between 1914 and 1923.
With a soft ‘g’ as in the word gin, as the creator of the GIF format has made plain. 🙂
tl;dr in 2008, Kimmo Alm began a long campaign of spamming 4chan to promote his forum, AnonTalk. People cloned AnonTalk's layout and features, releasing ATBBS 1.0 in 2009, written in PHP. Kimmo was angry. Tinychan, an existing forum, adopted ATBBS to power the site. Kimmo got mad. Briefly, 4chan allowed Tinychan to be hosted at tiny.4chan.org, leading to an even angrier Kimmo and heated email exchange with 4chan's moot. Tinychan eventually alienated its userbase, coinciding with Minichan going live on the newly created TinyBBS fork of ATBBS, causing (almost) everyone on Tinychan to migrate to Minichan in mid-2010. Drama ensued. Minichan and Tinychan continued attacking AnonTalk with shitposts, spam, and LOIC. AnonTalk eventually shut down in August 2011. Tinychan briefly shut down, but reopened. A Minichan user created MiniBBS sometime in late 2011, a TinyBBS fork with added features nobody asked for. Over the years, numerous "clone" BBSes running ATBBS, TinyBBS or MiniBBS have spawned and died, with varying lifespans: OtakuTalk, DepressionBBS, GHOUL, Scatchan, Psychtalkonline, BitsyTalk, ATBBS.org, robert.ismouton.org, Awesometalk, Duckychan, Peepeeandpoopoochan, and others. Then a lot of time passed and now it's 2026. Only Minichan and Tinychan remain. We have a Discord server because everyone abandoned IRC in 2020.
See our Minichan history and nostalgia thread.
You can also read the Minichan BBS article on Encyclopedia Dramatica for an amusing, and only partially lie-ridden, history of Minichan.