THE FALL OF HEYURI
by Ivan Segorovich

GLOASSARY:
Lolico = the founder and main developer of Heyuri
Kuznetsov =  co-administrator and part time developer
Akima = security developer, advisor
Nakura & Ross = moderators
Server06 = The server which heyuri was hosted on, owned by Kuznetsov
9CA = Russian Troll Agency owned and operated by Kuznetsov, used to subvert political and social enemies of 9chan.
Yuka = 2nd Highest ranked user of 9CA, behind Kuz himself, generally the orchestrator of all attacks.
party/b/us = group of english-speaking 9chan users behind roughly 60% of heyuris activity
"the tripfags" = generally refers to the most prominent tripcode users in heyuri, such as ryogo masaki, tomoposter, bottlerockets, haakor, atanasan, krautmaster, mac, mcmuffins, PMT, mr tamokoto, superwizard man, yuki-chan, and biggus dickus - all of which claim to have originated from 9chan - they combined account for another 20% of heyuris activity.
"original userbase" = term used to describe the reming 20% of home-grown users from Heyuri. None from 9chan.


Part 1, The Beggining of the End
On July 10th, 2020, Lolico and Kuz, after putting up a global message about the search for developers, hired Akima. Akima claimed to have extensive experience in PHP, nginx configurations, and digital security. As it would turn out, none of this was true. Kuznetsov and Lolico would have arguments and fights even before this date, but they rarely flared up into anything more than a few days of tension. However, after akima joined, he would often stoke the fires to make them into things many times bigger than they were supposed to be. 

On july 12th, 2020, Akima ran a command on the server Heyuri was run on, which formatted the "/" Directory, therefor removing all the files, and ruining the server. After "examining" the hardware through ssh, akima concluded that the OS had spontanenously failed, and removed everything. Kuznetsov's 170$ Server, and 4 months of Lolicos PHP work were destroyed. Each admin mourned their respective losses. At this time, both administrators believed akimas conclusion and continued to give him developer access to their servers. By July 14th, Heyuri was back up and running, but with many users gone, and many months behind in development. This is usually regarded as the first death of Heyuri. Many often refer to May - June as Heyuris golden era.

This crash left heyuri down for several days, and in that time many users left the site, and Kuz became increasingly discontent with the state of the software. He would often complain to lolico that it was broken, and lolico would claim he was working himself to exhaustion to fix it. Lolico also fired kuz 4 times in this month, but each time invited kuz to come back. This was when ross and nakura, Heyuris only moderators, came in. There was another moderator (cavalier) but he was often inactive and never did any real work.

On july 20th, akima and kuz were talking in the KolymaNetwork, when akima proposed that instead of having to deal with "lolicos incapablitlies", that they could simply take over Heyuri themselves. Akima laid out to kuz his knowledge of creating and spreading malware, which he could use to take over lolicos computer. Akima also collected private information about lolico, in 2 days, he had collected more information than kuznetsovs intelligence agency (9CA) had in 2 months. Kuznetsov was frightened by the prospect, but reluctantly agreed to be strung along in this plot to overthrow lolico and take control of the domain.

Part 2, The Downfall
By August, relations between lolico and kuz had soured into complete hatred, they argued daily, and akima continued to propogate these arguments so as to create more divide. After one spam attack, heyuri was crippled, the posts had been wiped, and the speed of the read/writing on kuz's drives scared him. This, in turn, caused kuz to tell lolico that he couldnt host for him anymore. They moved to awardspace, and were down for 2 days, which in turn meant the userbase was even more discontent with the downtimes.

Finally, in mid august, kuz became so angry with lolico that he revealed to him that he had all of his personal information. Lolico was taken aback, he was offended and felt as though his trust had been broken. After 10 minutes of arguing, kuz said he regretted outbursting, but it was too late, his trust with lolico had completely ruined. Kuz asked to be demoted to mod, and to never bring it up again, but later quit entirely. An agreement between kuz and lolico was made, lolico would stay silent, and kuz would seperate ways with heyuri. Both sides acknowledged this fully, but the spam attacks continued, heyuri would be spammed daily, and with kuz gone, all of akimas hatred was directly targeted towards lolico.

Kuznetsov held a final Q&A with the userbase of Heyuri, the /q/ thread reached over 100 replies, and many users were saddened to see him go. The party/b/us, the core tripfags, and even yuki-chan left. Lolico responded to the critisism of his leadership by banning users off the assumption that they were "just trolls".

Lolico, a struggling 17 year old programmer, simply could not keep up with the constant attacks, and it took an immense toll on his physical health. Akima remained the developer, and continued to lie to both lolico and kuz about his intentions. 

Part 3, The death of heyuri
In september, with his FTP access, akima deleted all of Heyuris files, and replaced the front page with a static file mocking lolico and his family. 3 days later, akima admitted that he was behind all of the attacks. Lolico went into hiding, kuz immediatley revoked all of akimas power, and for the first time in months, everyone was united in mutual disgust and sadness.

Heyuri was born as a file uploader, and had the ambition to be something much bigger. 1 man destroyed it all. 1 man ripped an aspiring young programmers dreams away from him, and ruined the relationship between kuz and lolico. Akima destroyed Heyuri, Heyuris userbase, and killed off one of the finest damn imageboards i had ever seen. Heyuri was something different, something unique, and it saddens me daily to see it gone.

Rest in Peace, Heyuri. Gone, but not forgotten, and truly, in my heart forever.