Brand new Imageboard software

I wouldn't do that even if I was asleep t: not native english speaker

Great concept but it's a little buggy.

kek. I'm sure I wouldn't be misspelling much in asleep either, speaking of which I'm off to bed.

I just realized something, wouldn't this make it ez af to dox people?

goddamn kill me lel

Are the posts actually tied to IPs? I doubt they are because that would be really stupid. Imageboards struggle with P2P because imageboards weren't designed to be immutable, so maybe there is an IP/post link. In that case, a simple hashing of the IP would be in order and solve most of your problems.

Other than that, you'd only be able to correlate IPs to posts if you were the first person to see the post, and thus you saw the IP of the original poster. Even so, could you really be sure it was actually the poster and not someone else who happened to be seeding it alone? It would require being there the moment the post was made for each post and, while it might be possible, I wouldn't exactly call that easy.

ITT: we make life easier to enforcement agencies and media monopolies by making imageboards vulnerable to MAFIAA attacks.

You need something else than torrent for this to work. Maybe a Tor-like protocol where a download may ask to be hopped through several other clients or not, but the payload is encrypted an arbitrary number of times to simulate several hops even if it's a direct download.

Like:

OP wants to make hosting easier not go full lockdown. One step at a time user
or just do it yourself :^)

I think this would be a WAY better idea if you just focused on p2p hosting the media instead of the entire imageboard. You could have a much larger impact on strengthening imageboard communities if you found a way to squeeze Webtorrent or js-ipfs into vichan, or even just into OpenIB. We have immutable, decentralized imageboards now, but what we need is to reinforce the ones we use now.

I'm not saying it's not a perfect idea, I'm saying it is a terrible idea. I am all for small but significant steps, but this is a significant step in the wrong direction, unless getting caught is part of your plan.

With this shit, you can profile who visited certain threads with ease, and with some resources, when, or even the original poster. That's a terrible idea and should be reworked as soon as possible, unless you want the feds knocking on your door for distributing CP because some funny guy decided to post it in a thread you were watching.

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