A modern, full featured and actively developed imageboard engine (similar to Futaba, Kusaba and 4chan). Based on (and compatible with) Tinyboard.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- MySQL Community Edition
- MariaDB
- PHP
The best free alternative to Kusaba X is vichan, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Kusaba X and 11 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Kusaba X are LynxChan, TinyIB, jschan and FoolFuuka.
A modern, full featured and actively developed imageboard engine (similar to Futaba, Kusaba and 4chan). Based on (and compatible with) Tinyboard.
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Fully support users not using javascript. Make information available in json format. Support the most amount of users with the least hardware power. Modular front-end.
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