>>18
The admin was obviously losing interest in it during its last few years, and eventually in November 2022 it stopped working entirely, as it had done many times before, only this time it never came back. No announcement or anything like that.
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Nanochan
has more details to the extent they're available.

>>21 is a joke; hikari was a spammer-turned-moderator who used endofunctor's absence from late-stage nanochan to hijack control of the site and delete opinions he didn't like. He created his own clone of nanochan, but nobody uses it. He is believed to be responsible for several CP spam waves on other Tor imageboards.