U-18Chan

U-18Chan is a mature furry imageboard hosted in Europe. Its name comes from a German submarine from the First World War.

Boards
The site boards are split into five categories: Furry Related, The Basement, General, Indices and Misc.

Furry Related
 * /fur/ - Furries
 * /c/ - Furry Comics
 * /gfur/ - Gay Furries
 * /gc/ - Gay Furry Comics
 * /i/ - Intersex
 * /scale/ - Scalies
 * /rs/ - Requests & Source
 * /a/ - Animated
 * /aw/ - Cute

The Basement
 * /pb/ - Post Your Naked Body
 * /p/ - Ponies
 * /f/ - Feral
 * /cub/ - Cub

General
 * /d/ - Discussion
 * /mu/ - Music
 * /w/ - Wallpapers
 * /v/ - Video Games
 * /lo/ - Lounge
 * /tech/ - Technology
 * /lit/ - Literature

Indices
 * /ifur/ - Furries Index
 * /ic/ - Furry Comics Index
 * /igfur/ - Gay Furries Index
 * /igc/ - Gay Furry Comics Index

Misc
 * /b/ - Traffic Data
 * /guide/ - U-18Chan Guide
 * /gp/ - Gentlemen Protocol
 * /vlkyra/ - Valkyria
 * /rules/ - Rules and FAQ
 * /chat/ - Chat

The lounge board is a board for general chatting and random threads, while the discussion board is for discussions, debates or arguments. The most popular of the furry boards was Gay Furry Comics, with double the number of threads of any other board.

/r/ - Recent and Search had to be removed after security concerns.

The Indices section is simply links to the Catalogues of the first five boards in Furry Related.

Mascot
U-18Chan's first mascot, a cat in SS uniform, was taken from the German imageboard Krautchan. The second and current mascot, a sergal in SS uniform, was drawn by Yuuri and then named Valkyria through a competition held by Jay. Further drawings of Valkyria have been done by SpazzyKoneko including different versions for each holiday so far. Every drawing of the current mascot is hosted in full resolution on a special page.

Software switch
Due to the limitations of Kusaba X, U-18Chan was forced to switch over to the more efficient ImageBoard4Free software, which was provided to U-18Chan by Infinitus of ib4f.com. U-18Chan successfully switched to ImageBoard4Free during summer 2011 and was able to clean up some of the bugs created during the switch. U-18Chan has worked on new site software in the past but with the departure of the sole coder there has been no further progress.

April Fools
For April 1, 2012, the website's main page had an upside-down announcement that read "U-18Chan is now hosted in northern Australia. Edit: We have had some reports of the site appearing upside down for some users. This is most likely due to upside down packets coming from ISPs running outdated firmware. Please contact them and ask about Australian compatibility if you are experiencing this issue." The site was not actually moved to Australia, but the news post has remained on the front page with the April 1st time stamp and upside down text.

2012 data loss
On or before 2016 July 8, the website was reduced to a mainpage that said "Hello fellow users, we have unfortunately experienced a catastrophic failure at our datacenter we host at. As such we are working to recover the site as best we can with limited resources, we hope to see you all soon. -Sincerely LeonFox."

On or before 2016 September 14, a News announcement (with incorrect date of "24/09/12") was posted to the homepage that something had happened at the datacentre that U18 had used and the website data had been lost. Leonfox wrote that U18 "have moved to a new datacenter on hardware we own instead of renting. This way we have full say and control over the server and the drives in it. We are also implementing a 3rd party cloud storage service to be used for offsite backups of our content."