[–] myrrlyn 0 points 2 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
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.
[–] myrrlyn 0 points 1 point 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?
[–] redflag415 ago
The fonts are too big and there is too much physical space between threads. I feel like I'm reading R*ddit on my grandmother's computer. I can Ctrl - out but it just shrinks everything relatively.
Small thing, but it bugs me.
[–] DickTwaddler 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The fact that it's as stable as a drunk in a barrel going over niagara falls.
[–] cooledcannon 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
25 links on the frontpage.
Upvote limits.
No real easy way to find subs (perhaps because there arent many?)
There are better choices out there. Neither of the most-used fonts look very 2015.
Makes the site feel cramped.
Reply to a message and your only confirmation is a change to the button. Reload your messages and you still can't see what you've said before or if you've even replied.
z-index++.
Maybe I wanna save that pic, ya know?
No one say anything worthwhile until tomorrow, ok?
One of the little things RES does.
Just gonna harp this point until it changes. Move these elsewhere and everything will start working better.
Scroll to the bottom of the comments. You ping the server. Scroll up a bit and then back down again. You ping the server again.
Expand a text post, you ping the server. Close the text expando, ping the server again.
Hit "reply" beneath a comment, you ping the server. Save the comment, you ping the server.
Left a voat page open somewhere? You'll keep pinging the server.
Some of us want to help but don't want to install everything voat's using to run just to make updates.
[–] LOOK_AT_MY_POT 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
1) The site is extremely slow, almost to the point of not being usable. Hopefully this is just growing pains though, and will get sorted soon.
2) As others have said, there is a disproportionate amount of reddit drama that carried over. The anti-Pao circlejerk is literally always on the front page of /v/all. Mrs. Pao doesn't work for voat, she works for reddit, so it is all irrelevant here. Wanna protest Pao? Take that shit back to reddit. Actual news on /v/news would be nice instead of just anti-feminist and anti-Pao articles. We came here to get away from Pao and her feminazis, but all we do is sit here and talk about them.
3) We need a "Voat Enhancement Suite". I love that the expandos and night mode are built in to the site now, but I need the "subverse filtering" and keyword filtering functionality of RES to be able to fully enjoy /v/all the way I enjoyed /r/all.
4) Lack of users/content. The site is still pretty new, hopefully this solves itself in time. Most subverses seem to be growing pretty quickly.
5) Even though I have it set to open links in a new tab, it just doesn't. This is easily worked around by middle clicking though, so it's not a big deal.