i dont know if its my brain spasms but i think it used to have an oekaki function

Yeah, there was an oekaki app that you could use on any board to post
It was removed because >>/meta/14/3
Also the feature mentioned in the OP of that thread was removed too

>one reason is I realized there's no way to detect someone sending any normal image to the server as if it were oekaki
Eh? So the system couldn't tell if the image was done with the app or not?

>>4
Assuming you didn't go out of your way to try and fool the system then it can tell the difference.
But ultimately it's just data sent from your computer. If someone knows what they're doing they can spoof the image.
It's the same on any site that has oekaki. As far as I can tell the main defense against it is to just have a much smaller filesize limit on oekaki, because most things people draw are going to be fairly simple while a full blown photograph of something will be too large and get dropped.

So it just makes you wonder what's the point. It always seemed like the novelty of oekaki was that you knew someone just drew something fresh with their own hand using simple tools, but if you can't really know then there's no point having the app on the site itself, might as well just open up your favorite paint program and upload it that way.

But like I said in that other thread, if people want it we could always put it back I guess. Although I wonder if maybe we could do something more interesting to make it worthwhile, like the ability to use someone else's image as a background for your oekaki so you're drawing on top of it.

>>5
Well, I would like it. I hope I'm not the only one.
Some of the oekaki programs I've seen let you open files and some have layers so the background thing seems doable.

On 4chan I most often use the oekaki app not to draw art, but to circle or point to things in existing images, such as from someone else's post, or an external URL, or a screenshot. It's stuff that I could do in an external editor, but it's more convenient to just do it on the site. It would be even more useful if it had a cropping function.