Futallaby

Futallaby is a PHP Imageboard script first published in November 22, 2003. The name is a portmaneau of Futatsu (Two) and Lullaby. It is fork of 2chan's Futaba Script v031015 made by members of the Raspberry Heaven community. Namely: thatdog with collaboration from moot and terra.

Development History

Futallaby started development in November 10, 2003, released v031222 on December 22, 2003 and a final version v040103 on January 3, 2004. Development stopped at some point, after a falling out between moot and thatdog. Futallaby's sudden development stop saw it be supplanted by Waha's Wakaba.

In 4chan's case, W.T. Snacks took over as 4chan's webdev, announcing v081404 in August 14 2004, a frontend update with several new features and UI changes.

At some point between 2005 and 2010 (with a max date of 2012), Futallaby's codebase was completely phased out by what's today known as Yotsuba Script.

Features

Futallaby the same HTML UI as Futaba

Compared to Futaba v031015 and moot's early GazouBBS fork, Futallaby featured a web 2.0 libraries update, modernizing HTML and DB handling, with minimal changes to the UI.

v031222 (2003/12/22)

(Reworked from a moot 4chan newspost)

• Support for multiple data schema including MySQL. (unknown which ones)
• Render with valid semantic HTML and stylesheets.
• Fully dynamic page generation. Per-user settings (language/posts per page/etc) without anonymity sacrifice.

v040103 (2004/01/03) --> Final public version.

• Valid XHTML
• Cascading Style Sheets with the now classic futaba and burichan themes.

4chan's fork.

v081404 (2004/08/14)

• imageboard.php

• Ability to post a reply with an image.
• After a (default) amount of 3 image replies have been made to one post, all image replies are hidden until "Reply" is clicked.
• Amount of hidden image replies displayed.
• Image dimensions are now displayed next to filesize.
• Original image filename is now saved, and displayed next to image dimensions, but only on response pages.
• Name and email, on top of the already saved password, are now saved via cookies.
• Quoting a response number (IE: ">>16821") will make it a link to the reply. If it a response, and not a thread starter, it will highlight and scroll to it.
• Only partly a script change, you can now donate again. Donating button is next to the rules list.
• Not a script change at all, but Spork made the donate image!

• up.php (/f/)

• Tripcodes now work!
• Name and password are now saved in a cookie.

Unnamed 2005 version

• Moderation Toolkit & Admin Toolkit

• FutabaLightPHP, image viewer.
• FutaTools, board statistics page.
• Ban Management page
• Ban Statistics page

Futallaby Sites

• 2003-11-10 - 1chan
• 2003-12-20 - 4chan.net
• 2003-12-22 - Burichan
• 2004-10-14 - 8chan.net

Albeit, technically, there's been short lived imageboards running 4chan's leaked source from Sep. 2004.