Lainchan

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Lainchan.org

Foundation	April 2014
Creator	{{{creator}}}
Major Boards	/Δ/, /λ/, /zzz/, /drug/, /layer/, /q/
Total posts	402k+
Website	Lainchan.org

Lainchan is an imageboard based on the 1998 anime television series Serial Experiments Lain. The site was founded in 2014 and has its own publication called Lainzine, a shameless rip-off of the Soyteen Digest†. It is officially affiliated with Uboachan and shares much of its userbase with that site. Lainchan famously (or perhaps infamously) has more staff than posters. Bans and thread deletions for little to no reason are common since having fun breaks rule 3 and rule 4. Lainchan is a popular hangout spot for the obvious since it's a tech-centered imageboard. The site uses its own unique Lainchan engine forked from Vichan.

The Lainchan splinter Arisuchan, which split from Lainchan in 2017, was originally hosted on the domain lainchan.net before moving to arisuchan.jp and closing down in 2019. An archived version of arisuchan.jp is currently hosted at legacy.arisuchan.jp. Arisuchan was briefly resurrected as arisuchan.moe in 2024, went down again, and now lives at arisuchan.xyz. It is a completely dead site, however (even by altchan standards).

Like most well-known altchans, Lainchan is regularly raided by Soyteens. The most notable raid on Lainchan occurred on August 14, 2022, when The Party wiped all but one thread out of the /drug/ board on Lainchan and stole the 11111 GET. The one stoner online at the time had a meltdown about it. The archived threads were later manually reverted, but the post count remained unchanged.