No.1985
Kalyx sold .org to Appleman. In the following months, mods became increasingly distressed as Appleman wouldn't let them do any site development like kalyx used to, he wanted to do everything by himself but was too slow. Eventually a few days before .org's birthday kalyx got some email from the VPS provider, which meant that Appleman didn't change some notification email address in the months since he bough .org. Kalyx tried whether the password was also still the same, and it was. He thought that since he can for the lulz and because Appleman needs a reminder to change pw and email (and obviously has backups), he just wiped the server. Appleman, the idiot he was, kept backups on the very same VPS the site was on, so it was gone for good.
At this point, mods and posters who were less autistic felt like they had enough of Applemans's soykaf. He bought a domain and a website but not a community, and now that he managed to delete the website, it was time to be rid of him. Meanwhile, the more "just let me post in 2 year old threads on /lam/ and love lain" type of users were mad at kalyx for livening the place up a bit at the cost of their 2 year old threads.
Since Seph happened to be in her "you must construct additional discord servers" phase back then (<3) she decided that it was time to make a lainchan that doesn't suck. With kalyx. I think many people missed that wild, dirty and dangerous cyb mood that lainchan had in 14-15. While having kalyx made the 'claim' more legitimate, it also made things spicy because people who blamed kalyx wouldn't for the love of god come here. While .org was still down (for around a week), .jp came up first. However only people connected to the community through IRC or so would find out. Some mods were thrown out of .org and people formed a vim cs emacs style holy war around which site is the good one.
Eventually things calmed down and it seemed like this place is way slower than .org. Some discussion was had on the adverse effects of being a "lainchan" as well - site has no identity, people think it's the same as .org, whatever. Eventually there was a kind of survey (post in this thread) about a new identity/name, and once that passed a period of "what should we name it". The idea Arisu came up pretty early. I'd say 40% of posters seemed to like it, among them Seph, while no other ideas got any consistent support. I remember nagging her in PMs about how bad an idea that was, but then again dirty and dangerous means things get decided fast.
A month after it was changed to Arisu, I went on a few imageboard-free months.
In case anyone wonders, I've been on lainchan since june '14, and favored .jp during the schism.
No.1986
>imageboard drama
Arisuchan is for phoneposters, girls and edgy discord teens. The only "cyberpunk" thing about this place is chaos.cpu refugees. Seph also unironically datamines it's users, I'd recommend everyone to stop posting from your ordinary IPs and browsers and switch to Tor.
Lainchan is for larping skids and their xanax trips, also whining about their ex-gfs, but nothing much left there.
No.1988
>>1987Somebody certainly thought it was worth keeping alive, that's why we have a /ru/ board.
No.1989
>>1988My point is that the epitome of imageboard drama is being a refugee because your board died violently.
Splitting your imageboard in two so people with different needs and opinions can visit either or both is, if anything, useful.
No.1995
>>1991That is totally the wrong text warping effect.
No.2000
>>1985regarding the 'couldnt find out unless they were on irc', there was a shortbit where lainchan.org redirected to .jp.
