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Your imageboard should debut with some topic boards, not too many to spread out discussion too much, but at least a few to actually give some structure and build communities around interests/hobbies. I've seen several altchans die very quickly or fail to take off just because having the website be one big /b/ or dedicated to a single topic makes it hard to foster discussion. Likewise, allowing users to create their own boards willy-nilly will just lead to a bunch of splintering/fracturing and also kill the site.
It will take some spare compute but if you don't want to deal with embedded image fuckery you'll have to recompress the image or just extract the visual data itself and put it into a new file without any additional embedded information (most of the time that's just something cat'd onto the end of the file).
Host it on an OpenBSD box for the most security, but unlike 4chan administration, actually update the OS (although this had little to do with how 4chan was hacked). Do other basic security practices too, like minimizing your use of the root account as much as possible. Imageboards tend to attract the type of people who will try to hack shit just because they're bored.
You probably already knew those things though.
