Timog is a message board for Filipinos in Japan.
Living in Japan can be challenging, especially if you’re up against the language barrier. Timog BBS was created to have a place online to meet other Filipinos, in order to have conversations and share experiences and tips about living in Japan.
Sign up
To post, please sign up with an email address and activate your account. Customize your user profile as you like.
For post formatting, please read the New User Guide.
Users may post anonymously by using Anonymous Mode.
Sections
This website is made up of many different sections.
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BBS - Message board for random discussions. Post questions, photos, rants, news, and almost anything else in this section.
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Wiki - Content that that can be edited and updated repeatedly by any user goes here.
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Blog - Longish content, not especially meant to be discussed. If you’re interested in blogging, please post here.
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Kanji - The Japanese-Filipino Kanji Dictionary. It’s basically a wiki where any user can post and edit entries.
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Archives - Archived threads of the former Timog Forum website.
Permissions
In the table below, [Yes] means Anonymous Mode is possible; [No] means not possible.
| Section | First Post | Replies |
|---|---|---|
| BBS | Editable for all time by poster. Anonymous Mode [Yes] |
Editable within 24 hrs by poster. Anonymous Mode [Yes] |
| Wiki | Editable for all time by all. Anonymous Mode [Yes] |
Editable within 24 hrs by poster. Anonymous Mode [Yes] |
| Blog | Editable for all time by poster. Anonymous Mode [No] |
Editable within 24 hrs by poster. Anonymous Mode [Yes] |
| Kanji | Editable for all time by all. Anonymous Mode [Yes] |
Editable within 24 hrs by poster. Anonymous Mode [Yes] |
| Archives | Posting and editing not permitted. | Replies not permitted. |
Files
The following files may be uploaded (all file information are deleted from image files):
- Image files (10MB max) jpg, jpeg, png, gif, webp, heic, heif
- Video files (100MB max) mov, mp4, webm
- Music files (100MB max) mp3
- Other files (100MB max) pdf, pptx, xlsx, doc
To embed Youtube or Vimeo videos: paste link on one line.
To embed an article excerpt (one-boxing): paste link on one line.
History
Timog started out as a vBulletin forum website in 2004 (called Timog Forum), hosted at Timog.com.
It reached its peak at around 2011, becoming “the most preferred online community of Filipinos in Japan as based on the number of members the forum possesses” according to this Asian Social Science study (168kb PDF file).
Timog Forum circa September, 2004 (screenshot from Archive.org).
After the Triple Disaster of 2011 which devastated many areas of northeastern Japan, the stress and drain on resources of maintaining such a large community became too much, and the website finally shut down in early 2012.
Timog 2.0 started in 2020, first as a collection of blog posts and kanji entries in a static website that I was doing at the time, and then finally morphing into its present state, powered by Discourse.
License
Timog content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0). You may copy and post our content (such as text, images and videos) in your own website as long as you credit us by linking to the original content at Timog.net.
A simple attribution with license like this will do (the word Timog.net should link to the original content):
This content was originally posted at Timog.net (CC BY-SA 3.0).