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[–] LOOK_AT_MY_POT 0 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.

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

There is no iPhone app. There are a couple apps for android but not 1 iOS app. Hopefully someone will release 1 soon because even though browsing mobile web is fine I feel like an iOS app would really help voat expand.

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

Downvotes...oh wait, can't do that.

Upvotes...oh wait, can't do that.

Shit, can I still comment? If not, I might as well go to Digg.

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

The fact that it's as stable as a drunk in a barrel going over niagara falls.

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

This is something that I may just misunderstand, but it seems like there is a system in place for users to earn money from the traffic their posts generate. I'm worried that if/when voat blows up, there could be problems with power users.

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

The fact that there is no /r/fantasy equivalent. I love that place.

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

The theme and colors, anyway to make it look exactly like reddit? Dark mode is too dark and not good on my eyes. Light mode is full of pastel light blues and purples. Some other theme options would be good. Font is slightly too small. Really i just hate the layout

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