He used images of Abu from Disney's Aladdin. Ību changed the moderation team and banned some of the former moderators for their abuse of tripcodes and avatars. He also repressed many in-site user communities, such as Rozen Maiden and My Little Pony fans, child porn posters, and anime fans posting outside of the /a/ board. Unlike previous owners and copy-cats, who tried to preserve the original image of Dvach, Abu introduced many innovations.
The welcoming message was changed to Добро пожаловать. Again.), becoming an informal slogan of 2ch.hk. The site used Makaba, a custom version of the widespread Wakaba engine. Abu was criticized by users for promoting the imageboard in social networks like Twitter and VK. When the board was advertised in MDK, one of the largest VK communities, the 2ch thread discussing this fact was deleted by Abu, who became a moderator in the community.Ību also introduced subscriptions to the site, 'passcodes', which allow users who have bought them to avoid captchas and attach up to eight images to their posts instead of the default four.
