Another year has passed, and Wapchan has just about made it to four.

This year had the greatest challenges the site had ever faced, with handling the traffic from the 4chan downtime and the large scale raid/DDOS from the bald man site. But through it all we managed to make it out with this site being not only more active and well known than ever, but finally SAFE. The last illegal post was over three months ago, as this version of the captcha I developed has been completely effective at its job of stopping that dreaded form of spam (as well as raid attempts).

The biggest surprise of the year was the /sp/ board becoming by far the most active on the site. They adapted very well to the site culture and I'm sure they'll keep at it over the next year.

I also would like to highlight the staff of Kissu for being such great net friends - they're helping keep the /qajp/ spirit alive, and they've helped me here and there when I've needed it. This goes for the rest of the net friends (and the sushis). Thank you to Verniy, 777, syrno, pwohmy, moth, mori, Puzzle, gloot, and the other staff that keeps this part of the imageboard world a place worth your time. And of course, the jannies of wapchan, who rest much easier these days now that they don't have to wake up constantly checking for bot spam.

Another bring spot was the soku tournaments. I'm still not great at that game but it's nice that they've managed to form a community here always up for a match.

This year I read a few great visual novels, worked on a lot of personal projects as well for anyone who follows me on xitter and met a lot of great people who enjoy this same kind of niche content. Thank you to all who make Wapchan the /kind/est imageboard around while still being interesting. It's a tough balancing act but it's something I really believe in.


Moving forward, I'm looking to bring back the IRC in the new year, as well as expand the radio variety. I'm probably going to be less directly focused on developing wapchan now that it runs itself to an extent outside of the occasional captcha bug here and there, but I'm still going to run events and keep this place tidy. I want to commit a substantial amount of time to a few topics:
>Drawing
>Creating YouTube videos
>Learning Japanese
None of these will be easy, but putting consistent effort into them will hopefully pay off.

Here's to another year of wapchan.org!