Heyuri

Heyuri.net is an imageboard created by lolico in 2019. It was originally hosted on the Heyuri.cf domain and meant to be a P2P filesharing website, but on November 24th 2019 it was relaunched in it's current form as an imageboard. May 25th marks "Heyuri Day", as it was the day when lolico finished his new software rollout, and Heyuri in its traditional sense truly began.

Heyuri has 3 main goals, to be a true "futaba clone", to encourage the creation of original content, and to provide a taste of older imageboard culture. As one user put it:

While our old site did have an undeniable "old internet" sentiment to it, and a userbase that bathed in nostalgia like a junkie bathes in opioids, it wasn't trying to emulate old 4chan specifically, as many assumed (and continue to assume) at first glance - at least, not beyond the fact it was an English-language Futaba-clone with an emphasis on anime and internet humor, as well as a couple of old 4chan-derived features that we liked (OK, maybe it was a little old-4chan inspired...)

While kuz once said:

We are NOT a oldfag circlejerk, of the same 5-10 recycled jokes from 15-x years ago. [..] In our eyes it is better to create something yourself that everyone can laugh at that than rehash a joke that you know for sure might get a kick out of a few.

Despite being a relatively small website, heyuri has an extremely complex, interesting, and layered culture. Due to rules which have cultivated a very small, tight knit community, the site is full of inside jokes and original content. See: Heyuri Culture

Boards

Current

/all/ - Overboard (overboard; displays posts from all imageboards as if they were one HUEG board)
/a/ - Anime/Manga (imageboard)
/b/ - Off-Topic (imageboard)
/c/ - 2D Cute (imageboard)
/f/ - Flash (file board; took the form of an imageboard at several points)
/h/ - 2D Ero (imageboard)
/jp/ - 日本語/Japan (imageboard)
/l/ - 2D Lolicon (imageboard)
/o/ - Oekaki (oekaki board)
/q/ - Site Discussion (imageboard)
/s/ - 3D Girls (imageboard)
/sw/ - Strange World (Ayashii-style board)
/lounge/ - Lounge (2ch-style board)
/z/ - ???
/ - IRUYEH

Other areas of the site:

cgi.heyuri.net - Heyuri★CGI (CGI/Perl-based BBSes, chats, games, etc.)
- /gamedis/ - Game Discussion (YY-BOARD)
- /support/ - Support BBS (YY-BOARD)
- /chat/ - Chat (comchat-based web chat)
- /dating/ - Dating (2-shot chat)
- /doramanbo/ - Heyuri Drama Club (drama/play-writing board)
- /vote2/ - Polls (poll board)
- /party2/ - @Party II (RPG game)
- /battle-r/ - Battle Royale R (character battler game)
- /chinsouki/ - Chinsouki (sugoroku-type game)
- /hakoniwa2/ - Hakoniwa Islands PvE (island-development simulation game, peace-type instance)
- /hakopvp/ - Hakoniwa Islands PvP (island-development simulation game, war-type instance)
- /banana/ - Web Banana (word association game)
- /shiritori/ - Web Shiritori (shiritori game)
- /nominate/ - Anime Nominations (for Heyuri Cytube)
- /gamenom/ - Game Nominations (for Heyuri Gaming Day)
up.heyuri.net - Uploader (formerly known as 2ちゃん) (uploader boards)
- Everything
- Game Roms
- Guro
- News
- User boards
wiki.heyuri.net - Heyuri Historical Society (you are here!)
mattari.heyuri.net - Mattari AA (Ayashii AA creation tool)
/aatester/ - Simple AA Tester (2ch-type AA creation tool)

Former

/amh/ - Anime, Manga, Hentai (imageboard)
/banner/ - Banners (imageboard; any images posted here would automatically become banners)
/g/ - lol dunno (/g/ was formerly something else before Games but there's no archives, somebody pls find and ~~interrogate~~ ask lolico what it was)
/g/ - Games (imageboard)
/g/ - Guro (imageboard)
/meta/ - Site Discussion (imageboard)
/v/ - Video Games (imageboard)
/y/ - Yeah! (imageboard; based on Futaba's Soudane board and soudane function; the default name, subject, and comment were all "Yeah!")
/ascii/ - Ascii Art (2ch-style board)
/code/ - Programming (2ch-style board)
/haiku/ - Haikus (2ch-style board)
/prog/ - Programming (2ch-style board)
/sjis/ - SJIS Art (2ch-style board; ~~contrary to popular belief, it still exists!~~ currently b0rked due to kncdn.org no longer existing)
/world/ - World Politics (2ch-style board)
/vote/ - Polls (poll board, archived and replaced by /vote2/ on Heyuri★CGI)
booru.Heyuri.cf - Booru (booru)

History

Timeline of Heyuri (outdated and wrong)

Teh beginning

Heyuri in its beginnings, as a booru-like filehosting service.

As far as records show, lolico registered heyuri.cf on December 26th, 2018. By February 2019, lolico had turned it into a self-coded booru-like site, which he advertised on 4chan's /g/. Lolico originally created the site as a way to sharpen his PHP skills and play around with programming, something he was very new to at the time.

Very little to no interesting things happen during this period.

Sidenote: The heyuri.cf domain was lost some time in 2021. The domain itself has been through a long history of seizures, back-and-forth ownership, and redirects; at one point, it was reverted back to a static version of how early booru-era Heyuri looked.

Heyuri becomes an imageboard site

On November 11th, 2019, Heyuri entered a new phase of life. Lolico launched Heyuri as an imageboard, spurred on by his need to expand his PHP knowledge further. It used his own fork of Fikaba, which he named Sakomoto. The "activity" on the imageboard itself was terribly slow, just like other smaller imageboard sites at the time. It also did not have many of the things that now represent Heyuri, such as Rule 8 or an established board culture.

Fast forward to February 5th, and kuz was visiting Heyuri. It's during one of these visits that he made Heyuri's first and largest Tomo thread (as "Tomoposter"), and the site would mostly consist of Tomoposter's blog threads for the next few months. Around this time, lolico announced that he was looking for a second administrator, and cavalier took on the role.

Lolico/kuz era

"Teh golden age of Heyuri"

See the Golden age of Heyuri article for more details

Eventually, cavalier stepped down, and kuz was made the new co-admin. The site was also moved to kuz's servers, since kuz offered to host it for free. Lolico and kuz run the site as two and the site increasingly garnered attention; lolico advertised the site on various imageboards, and kuz's following on 9chan tagged along with him to Heyuri. This influx of users caused a HUEG increase in activity, going from a few posts a week to hundreds of posts per day.

At the end of May 2020, lolico rolled out new imageboard software—his own fork of FutabaWall—which replaced Sakomoto. Namefags and anonymous users alike were now frequently posting on the site, and the PPH reached well above 100 each day (especially during partybus visits, where activity could reach heights of 200-500 PPH in short spurts). Tons of OC was made, and the overall feeling of the site was positive and optimistic. What could possibly go wrong?

TEH DRAMA

See the Drama article for more details

During the summer of 2020—especially after the stress and overwork caused by TEH CRASH on July 9th—kuz and lolico started to argue like two clucking hens behind the scenes. While initially contained to Dicksword, the fallout from these arguments increasingly began affecting the main site from late-July 2020 onwards.

Akima—who was originally brought in as a PHP developer, but would later reveal himself to be the sabotuer behind TEH CRASH—fanned the flames between the two co-admins, pitting them against each other while playing both sides. Arguments between kuz and lolico on Dicksword got leaked and posted en masse to Heyuri and 3chan, while faganon faganon'd. Most users were disappointed in lolico's apparent behavior, and others thought both co-admins behaved like children.

In early-September 2020, Heyuri got "hacked" and deleted by Akima, who replaced the site with lolico's dox. Lolico eventually regained control and took the site down, saying that it would stay down indefinitely. Over the next few weeks, kuz made several attempts to revive Heyuri on his own, but each attempt failed almost immediately due to crapflooding attacks from Akima.

Kuz/Kolyma era

StrawberryHeaven

See the StrawberryHeaven article for more details

Eventually, kuz launched StrawberryHeaven on September 29th, 2020, which replaced Heyuri for a few months. The use of Perl software meant that Akima could not attack it, for the skiddie had no compatible scripts.

There was no indication that Heyuri would ever return, and kuz would effectively tell users that they should get over Heyuri and enjoy StrawberryHeaven. Activity was significantly slower than on Heyuri and many former-Heyuri regulars seemed to be absent, but the users that were there still managed to have fun when they weren't wishing/demanding for Heyuri to come back.

Through some miracle (money? sexual favors? Who knows...), lolico eventually handed the heyuri.net domain over to kuz. In early December 2020, kuz shut down StrawberryHeaven and relaunched Heyuri to much fanfare.

Revival

Heyuri was revived on December 5th, 2020 using a backup made in August 2020 (roughly one month prior to the site being killed). The userbase was smaller and slower than ever, with many former regulars being nowhere to be seen, but at least Fun Heyuri Community Activities were happening again.

Kokonotsuba is born

By early 2021, the performance of the old FutabaWall fork that Heyuri had been using since June 2020 had degraded signicantly, and the site was painfully slow to use. This was later discovered to simply be that fact there was no maximum thread limit (which the software was not designed to handle), but this wasn't accepted as fact at the time (although it may have been suggested and ignored...).

Kuz had been dreaming of a replacement imageboard software as early as October 2020, and in February 2021, kuz and friends (also known as third-world PHP developers on Fiverr) started working for realzies on a new fork of Pixmicat—itself a fork of futaba. This would become known as Kokonotsuba, and its launch on March 18th, 2021 was controversial to say the least.

Kolymization/De-kolymization

See the De-kolymization article for more details

The period of early-2021 to early-2022 was by far the slowest (yet also most controversial) period that Heyuri has ever been through. 2021 in particular was extremely inactive, with posts-per-day on Off-Topic falling to averages as low as 6, with days where no posts were made at all. Users frequently expressed disatisfaction with the apparent neglect that kuz was showing towards Heyuri (despite preemptively announcing a new era of prosperity for Heyuri every couple of months).

On a more positive note, Strange World was launched on March 29th, 2021, and was officially merged with Heyuri on July 11th 2021. By the latter half of the year, Strange World was neck-and-neck with Off-Topic for the most "active" Heyuri board, sometimes even surpassing it.

Despite this, there were frequent spats and differences of opinion on site direction between kuz and certain longterm Heyuri users. One point of contention was that kuz had introduced wordfilters for certain sites/admins he didn't like, which lead to posts on his personal site disparaging those sites/admins. This culminated in a very longpost-y debate circa late-2021 on whether or not Heyuri should be pro or anti "board wars" (hostility and aggression towards other websites). On the 6th Townhall on December 11th, 2021, kuz expressed that he was pro board wars, while other Heyuri staff/users (including Kaguya) were against. The majority of other users present expressed a deafening indifference to the matter.

From late-2021 onwards, kaguya (who had been a Heyuri moderator for a little over a year by this point) became more heavily involved in fixing up the site, solving as many issues that had been present since the introduction of Kokonotsuba as he could with his limited access.

The first Heyuri Cytube took place on March 5th, 2022, starting with FLCL. Heyuri Cytube events would take place roughly every two months until May 2024, when it was increased to roughly once a month.

Kaguya era

Teh VidLii influx

On April 26th, 2022, kuz stepped down as Heyuri's administrator, and kaguya took on the role. The userbase was unanimous in believing that kaguya would be better suited to the position, and were happy to see it happen. At the same time, kaguya made anonwaha the site's sole janitor, later being upgraded to moderator on July 7th, 2022.

From May 2022 onwards, activity on Heyuri would slowly rise, with November 2022 (1641 PPM on Off-Topic) having roughly 3x the activity of April 2022 (564 PPM on Off-Topic). This was due to increased optimism and proactiveness in advertising the site in new places. One of these places was VidLii, which had recently been bought by kuz. Anonwaha's Heyuri-tan dreaming video was uploaded by kaguya to VidLii on May 4th 2022 and featured on the front page of the site, which led to an influx of (mostly teenage) users. Many of these new users weren't familiar with imageboards.

Notable new users included usagi, who made many glorious flash animations, and lg, who made a lot of AA.

Teh HUEG New Years 2023 influx

In late December 2022 and early January 2023, one or more rogue users began mass-promoting Heyuri across many different websites, including 4chan. This led to sudden yet never-before-seen levels of activity, with December 2022 and January 2023 having 3,401 and 6,406 posts per month on Off-Topic respectively—now 4x more activity than November 2022, and 11x more than April 2022. This influx had a mostly positive impact on Heyuri, but also meant that the site staff (which was still just kaguya and anonwaha) were massively overwhelmed.

Little Alice was created around this time, along with a ton of other OC.

There were a few notable instances of drama caused by friction between kuz (who was still secretly involved in the hosting and moderation of Heyuri) and anonwaha (who had long been the most vocal Heyuri user when it came to calling out "kuz/kolyma crap"). This was sparked by former Heyuri users—some of which had previously left due to their dislike of kuz and/or his running of Heyuri—asking if kuz was still present, with kaguya initially claiming he wasn't. This was put to rest once kuz, anonwaha, and kaguya held a private discussion.

An additional drama episode between the same individuals occurred in March(?) 2023 after kokonotsuba had finally been made open source in January, where kuz had forcefully replaced lounge's software with his new proprietary and kolymized fork. This was soon undone, as the only real benefit it provided was the addition of several new emotes. Kuz also tried offering an automated thread archival system if Heyuri adopted his ghey fork, but the users said nothx.

On April 3rd, 2023, one of kaguya's other imageboard sites Nihongochannel was merged with Heyuri in the form of the 日本語 board.

On April 26th—after significant bouts of crapflooding and an increase in trouble—some of Heyuri's rules were tweaked. Rule 8 would be more heavily enforced on needlessly angry posts, all discussions related to trans topics were outlawed under Rule 7, and "board domination by a single user/topic" were clamped down on.

On April 29th, new janitors were "hired" to help moderate Heyuri, which was still at 4000-5500 PPM on Off-Topic.

Heyuri★CGI

A gathering of @Party II players, back when Heyuri users still played the game.

See the Heyuri★CGI article for more info

On July 18th, 2023, Heyuri★CGI was launched as a "sister site" to Heyuri, ran by anonwaha. It houses Japanese CGI games translated into English, a Japanese-style chats/boards, and other novelties from ye olde Japanese web. @Party II was the first "big" game to be launched on July 26th, 2023, with Hakoniwa Islands 2 following it on September 19th, 2023. Other games would later be released, such as Chinsouki★ (Christmas Day 2023) and Battle Royale R (September 12th, 2024).

Hakoniwa Islands

See the Hakoniwa Islands article for more info

Hakoniwa Islands became very popular with some Heyuri users (and even non-Heyuri users), with threads about the game taking the top spot on Off-Topic's index until discussions were moved to Heyuri★CGI's own Game Discussion board (and later, Hakoniwa Chat). By early-2024, the players had mostly split into 3 large factions: HAPI, OTAKU, and independent nations. The unsolvable differences between HAPI and OTAKU culminated in two HUEG wars between them. Due to increased drama, trolling, attacks on the site/staff, and user resquests, the game was controversially split into PvE and PvP instances in March 2024. This led to many OTAKU players quitting the game, and activity dying down.

Chat@Heyuri

Launched on December 5th, 2023, Chat@Heyuri became a highly active center of casual/retarded discussion by Janaury 2024. In January 2024 it hovered around 1000-2500 message per day, before settling into the hundreds with occasional spikes.

Bunkasai 2023

On November 4th, 2023, Heyuri held its inaugral bunkasai (cultural festival), Bunkasai 2023. Users held a quest thread, drama club, trivia thread, music club, scanlation club, drawing arena, drew their own manga, and various other activities.

SpaceHey influx and Rule 0

Starting in late 2023, Heyuri began being promoted on SpaceHey (a MySpace clone) by some users. This led to an influx of underage and mostly female users (ranging from 11 to 15 years old, including the so-called "Loli Trio") between December 2023 and February 2024. Some of these users began posting photos (including n00dz) of themselves on Off-Topic, which started becoming something of a regular occurrance. Many users were... not entirely dissatisfied with the situation, while other users wanted them all B&.

Eventually, with regretful agreement from staff and users alike, kaguya instated Rule 0 on February 26th, 2024:

You must leave this site immediately if you are under 18 years old.

;_;

MOAR BOARDS

On June 11th, 2024, the overboard feature which had been absent since the launch of Kokonotsuba in March 2021 returned to Heyuri thanks to hachikuji developing a new implementation of it. This was shortly followed by several former Heyuri boards being brought back on June 16th: Anime/Manga (/a/), 2D Cute (/c/), 2D Ero (/h/), and 2D Lolikon (/l/). The 2D Lolikon board was the result of loli3/lolich/whatever-the-hell-it-was-called's loli board being imported over, and included all the posts from there.

Heyuri's Flash board (/f/) was brought back a little later on September 18th, 2024. This was again thanks to hachikuji, who developed a new and improved flash board template and SWF embed function. The motivation for restoring /f/ came from the fact that 4chan /f/'s SWF embed function was b0rked for several days. Some Heyuri users thought that maybe they could get some of 4/f/'s users to visit Heyuri (as has happened before) during the downtime. Typically, the 4chan board was fixed several hours after Heyuri's /f/ went up.

Bunkasai 2024

Bunkasai 2024 took place on November 2nd. One of the main activies was the introduction of Yumemiru Gambler; a CGI game where users can play a lottery, roll dice, bet on horse racing, and play rock paper scissors while trying to bag as much virtual cash as possible. It became something of a frenzy, with many users spamming it non-stop for several days. It was later found that the randomization technique was flawed, leading to some users quickly gaining HUEG profits before it was patched.

MOAR BOARDS part 2

On November 16th, 2024, a new 3D Girls (/s/) imageboard was added. It's purpose is to house cute/erotic real life content such as JAV, gravure idols, and cosplay, with the limitation being that everything must be Japanese in origin.

Type of site	Imageboard
Owner	Kaguya
URL	www.heyuri.net
Launched	February 2019
NSFW?	Varies