Alternatives and competitors
Sites like 5ch.io
The 20 closest anonymous textboard forum alternatives to 5ch.io, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to 5ch.io? The closest matches are Girls Channel -, 4chan and bakusai.com. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About 5ch.io
5ch.io
Wikidata: Japanese online bulletin board system
Summary by Claude
5ch is an anonymous Japanese textboard (successor to 2channel) hosting thousands of discussion boards and threads on news, hobbies, games, entertainment, technology and other topics.
- Who it’s for
- Japanese-speaking internet users
- Business model
- Advertising and paid premium accounts
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to 5ch.io’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to 5ch.io
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to 5ch.io, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read 5ch.io’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Korean language website in Paraguay
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FC2 - Free Website, Analyzer, Blog, Rental Server, SEO Countermeasures, etc. -
FC2 is a portal site which brings you a pleasant web life providing blog/website/analyzer services and others. Our blog service is ranked No.2 domestically and supported by wide range of users including both beginners and heavy users. We offer as many as 30 different services.
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Japanese online artist community
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Japanese company headquartered in Aoi Ward, Shizuoka City; operator of a chain of general hobby shops and bookstores
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Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
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int08h
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Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games
Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 250 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!
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MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community
Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
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DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
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Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
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ニコニコ
日本最大級の動画サービス、ニコニコ（niconico）。動画にコメントを付けて楽しむニコニコ動画や、生放送番組にリアルタイムでコメントを付けられるニコニコ生放送のほか、イラスト・マンガ・最新ニュース・ゲームなど、エンターテイメントを全て無料で楽しめる！
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Hackaday | Fresh Hacks Every Day
Fresh hacks every day
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XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
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inc.com
business magazine
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Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
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Myinstants | The largest instant sound buttons website in Germany!
Myinstants is where you discover funny instant sound buttons from Germany. HAVE FUN!
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Liquipedia
esports encyclopedia
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The Japan Times - News On Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment And More
Latest news on Japan: business, politics, commentary, sports, culture, life and more
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Gizmodo | The Future Is Here
Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to 5ch.io’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones 5ch.io uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What 5ch.io is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56322f6cb0e0b2f-HAM
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS guss.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=cgSioxWsZTqNtNBEG432SS0Z3DCfoRKp5XRtf4Z0j60
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what 5ch.io adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on 5ch.io 9/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Google Analytics · not on 5ch.io 8/20
- jQuery · not on 5ch.io 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on 5ch.io 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- PHP · not on 5ch.io 6/20
- nginx · not on 5ch.io 6/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on 5ch.io 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on 5ch.io 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on 5ch.io 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on 5ch.io 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on 5ch.io 3/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on 5ch.io 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on 5ch.io 3/20