[–] 21112584? 4 points 35 points 39 points (+39|-4) ago (edited ago)
Voat community is deliberately being strangled. There's zero reason for the downtime.
Code, cost and brute-force attacks aren't acceptable excuses.
A free WordPress installation with a free brute-force protection plugin would perform better than Voat currently is. Downtime is deliberate.
[–] 21113915? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
If you get logged out going to voat homepage gets me a 'too many redirects'. Seems like a bug that would be fixed immediately if someone was behind the wheel. Putts last post was a month ago (u/PuttItOut). Definitely feels like something is going on. Maybe he just got tired of dealing with this shit too, who knows.
[–] 21115055? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
What's weird is....I use voat in a Virtual Machine, Brave browser with a fuckton of extensions. I just unpacked chrome on my VM...no extensions and it worked the very first time. Could be Brave...could be an extension. Our enemies use them too so maybe Putt and team are working something on the back end. Maybe not.
(Theory, since I don't know the particulars of the Voat set-up)
You normally get a different 'session' cookie on each instance of a browser. Each session cookie gets routed to a particular backend server (may or may not be different). If that backend server happens to be overloaded, you're out of luck for the browser(s) using that server.
[–] 21112590? ago
Yes, same for me. Been like that for like 6 months.