Welcome!

Everyone is already aware to some degree of what happened to Helma.us, and I think it would be inappropriate to continue dwelling on that. But I need to write an opening post for this board, so, I'm going to write briefly about my thoughts and plans for this website. After the original board was shut down in mid-2020, the idea of building a new SW-focused imageboard was floated a few times. I myself mulled over it for several months as I had neither the money nor the know-how at the time. Then, in late November, I decided to take that idea off the drawing board. And thus Helma.xyz (not my first choice for a domain name, but oh well) was born. Hopefully other SW fans, from /c/ and elsewhere, will come to see this as a pleasant and comfortable place where we can all share our love for our favorite Witches. I am going to work as hard as I can to that end.

A partial archive of Helma.us exists and I plan to put it up on this server in the near future, as a static mirror if nothing else. Restoring all that content as part of this Kusaba instance, on the other hand, is much less likely, as that would be a very labor-intensive task and would require the development of some sort of scraper. I wouldn't completely rule it out as a long-term project, but also don't count on it.

Feel free to post any questions, suggestions or meta discussion here.