Deletion of Ikonboard

Comment: As per ^demon I'm also a former developer of Ikonboard. I think that historically Ikonboard had notability and as the book link suggests it used to be a very popular software competing with other software which is still notable.  That said these days it is nowhere near as notable as it once was, in my opinion ownership battles and mis-management affected development and lost many of its users.  The article has some independent interviews to provide third-party sourcing, unfortunately some third-party sites such as swarf.net have ceased operating.  The web archive is the only reliable method of recording official announcements as ownership of the ikonboard.com domain appears to have been lost.  I doubt it will be possible to provide any reliable third-party sourcing of any future development.  I would suggest the article remains semi-protected though it would appear much of the IP based editing/vandalism has been done by the current developer  (based on
Stance: keep
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