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[–] jenn 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I wish the comments had a "hide child comments" button like what RES has.

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[–] myrrlyn 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I'd say reduced functionality, but it's still in ALPHA and is being written ground-up by a tiny team.

I'd say no people, but, it's young and did any of us not show up by being siphoned from reddit?

I think the fact that it feels like a hastily-reskinned reddit is both the best and worst thing about it. It's familiar to all of us, but also it doesn't really have an obvious killer feature to make it seem like more than a reddit-clone with lax administration. I think if it could do its own image hosting, instead of having us rely on an imgur-clone as well, that could do it.

Also every time I upload and save a stylesheet, I get thrown back to the front page of the subverse, and the settings page doesn't show the stylesheet. COME ON

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[–] roboticon ago 

I think the fact that it feels like a hastily-reskinned reddit is both the best and worst thing about it. It's familiar to all of us, but also it doesn't really have an obvious killer feature to make it seem like more than a reddit-clone with lax administration. I think if it could do its own image hosting, instead of having us rely on an imgur-clone as well, that could do it.

Actually, it's been built from the ground up. The Reddit CSS skin is the only thing that was cloned from Reddit.

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[–] myrrlyn 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yeah I know, it's even in my favorite language. I tried to use subjective language on reddit-copy-ness, "feels like a hastily-reskinned reddit" and "seem like more than a reddit-clone", to convey that. I highly doubt the average user or journalist will look at the source code running the place, see that it's completely new, and go "ah this is entirely separate from any other site"; rather, they'll compare it's appearance and usage to other places and come up with "oh, it's pretty much exactly like reddit". It's got the same tree structure of comments, link/text submission process, vote controls, community organization (v-name instead of r-name, but otherwise a subverse is exactly a subreddit), etc.

I'm not saying this is a bad thing; I always liked reddit's interface structure and find voat a marked improvement on it. But without something obvious to differentiate it from reddit, what's to make people new to both go here, and not there?

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[–] Supreme_Authority 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

Lack of users. Also, " You are doing that too fast. Please wait 30 seconds before trying again."

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[–] OftenTooRude 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

No hide feature. Yes, it's a thing that other website has. Still, I'd like to be able to dismiss stuff (without voting on it).

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[–] Abe_Lincoln 0 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago  (edited ago)

People can't stop talking about feminism or reddit or Ellen Pao. On reddit I subscribed to several anti-feminist subreddits, but even I'm really sick of that shit taking over /v/all every day. Go to a gender subverse for that, we don't need /v/news and the other subs being circlejerks about feminism and Ellen Pao, especially if we ever want to this site to keep growing. If the fat-haters can agree to keep their stuff off the front page for the good of the site why can't we also agree to cool it on feminist stuff in the main subs?

Also the slow load times. They really need to get a Voat gold going, Reddit got a lot of their revenue from that it would help them expand servers even more.

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[–] ninjaguineapig 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I agree. If we don't want to come across as an anti-female website and scare off half of the population from joining the site (or the ~20% women who are currently here), /v/news cannot be full of anti-feminism/Pao articles, especially when it's not even real news. There should be separate subverses for that, not the default front page. I just finally unsubscribed from /v/news because it's honestly disheartening that so far, the majority of the population seems to be anti-feminism. I know that's not the case from the demographics survey, but if I didn't see those results, it would certainly seem that way. If we want to be better than Reddit, let's not cherrypick the worst of Reddit to be on the front page because that's really what is going on right now.

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[–] dallasmuseum 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I would like it if most reddit related stuff was kept to /v/MeanwhileOnReddit. Ellen Pao and her shenanigans does not count as real news. But I don't think I want the admins to do anything about it. I just wish the users could self-moderate a little better.

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[–] Ectopod 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I could not agree more. I unsubscribed from /v/news today because it is overrun with people who are obsessed with bashing feminism and talking about how shitty the world apparently is for men. If I wanted to read that crap I'd go find /v/mencomplaining or some comparable subverse. I replaced it with /v/technology and /v/science, which are mostly just overrun with people obsessed with Ayn Rand. That's not my cup of tea, either, but it makes for at least some decent conversation.

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[–] stevenxdavis 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I think a lot of redditors are coming to voat so they can talk about the things they can't discuss on reddit anymore. I imagine most voaters still use their reddit accounts (I know I do), so they aren't used to discussing "normal" topics on voat yet. It's sort of like how Australia was founded by criminals; they probably talked about criminal stuff for quite a while before they developed into a (mostly) normal society.

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[–] BoiseNTheHood 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

That the comments automatically sort by top instead of new and it has to be manually toggled every single time.

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[–] I_do_things 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

It's not actually different from reddit. It's the same website with different people but a slightly different polish.

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[–] snakepaws 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Well, it's pretty polished for being in alpha testing. I know they didn't intend for this site to gain so much popularity, quite literally, overnight. It feels like Bender created his own Reddit - with RES features by default and a sweet dark theme.

That being said, I have no doubt the people behind the site have big plans. I'm sure they started with Reddit as a template, implemented a few things they thought were lacking, and are moving forward from there. I think the future of the site, assuming it sticks around, will slowly start to evolve into something more than just a clone.

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[–] OREOSpeedwagon ago 

That's what I was going to mention as well. It's not original at all. It's the same idea, only with a few interesting tweaks. Kudos on the tweaks, but they've basically said they've started a new car company by cloning an existing car and changing the hubcaps.

:-/

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[–] I_do_things ago 

Yep. I intend to stick around. Even if I find the alternative I'm looking for. I wanna see where voat Is headed

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[–] myrrlyn 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

In fairness, that's kind of what most car companies are...

Also, see their about page for a usage of that exact metaphor:)

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[–] vjack 0 points 16 points (+16|-0) ago 

Most of the subverses I've subscribed to seem to be dead or nearly dead. Very little activity in comparison to what I was used to at the other place. If it catches on, that will change.

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[–] Caboose_Calloway ago 

I've created /v/machines and try to post something interesting every day. I do not want that sub to consist of my posts only so I try to hold back a little. So far I have only one submission which is not mine :(

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[–] fuckyeahgoats 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I'm on the same voat as you. I think it's important to find a way to promote those subverses, because they seem forgotten. Someone posted on /v/newsubverses about this topic. Here's the thread.

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[–] redflag415 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

You're the one that can change this. Go post something!

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[–] vjack ago 

I knew someone was going to say that! You are right, of course. I've been trying to do that in some subverses, but I am a bit worried that I'll end up pissing off the mods if I'm not careful. I suppose I have to count on them telling me to knock it off it I post too much.

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[–] section-owl 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Please contribute to them. There are tons of people who are there but think like you.

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