ratwires

ratwires is an anonymous, javascriptless, single-board textboard. No accounts, no names, no images: just text.

Every post is numbered in order, so the 300th post ever is No.300, and >>300 links to it. Each page of the wall holds 255 posts. When a page fills up, a new one starts, and the old pages stay up.

Inside a thread, each poster gets an ID like ID:k3Fq9aZx. It's a scrambled code (a hash) of your IP address, the thread and the date, so it differs between threads and changes every day. It lets you tell who's who in a conversation. The board never saves your IP address.

See something that shouldn't be here? Use the ⚑ next to a post to report it. Reports are anonymous.

This is a revival of ratwires.space as it looked in 2020. The original ran on Ratmachine, an AGPL board written in Crystal with the Amber Framework and inspired by Make Frontend Shit Again and 2channel. This one is a from-scratch rebuild, not run by the original operators, and none of the original posts were carried over.

Repeated digits at the end of a post number get checked.