After working our assess of for the past 24 hours with just a few hours of sleep, we are finally able to catch our breath. I am on "vacation", visiting my parents after graduating and I only have my tablet here with pretty bad internet connection, working in these conditions under this kind of pressure is well... you get the point. @puttitout helped me get through this unplanned migration and I'm happy to say that he's now officially a part of voat. More info on this will follow soon.
My back is hurting so bad from sitting this long so I have to keep this post short and finally get up and walk! I just wanted to say thank you all who donated a shit-ton-of-money and made this all possible. You guys were able to kill our little voat alpha server and you were also the ones who paid for 2 new, kick-ass servers, allowing us to save some time and regroup. We received hundreds of emails from supporters, journalists, investors, developers... and we did not have any time to read them. We'll get back to you all asap.
Our paypal account has been suspended (we went over a limit - received too much cash) and it needs to go through additional verification process which I can't do from this country as my required documents are back in Sweden. Don't worry though, this is just standard procedure and all donations will go through fine. Those who wish to donate can still do that by sending paypal cash to hello@voat.co or by bitcoin (check frontpage sidebar for wallet address), just make sure to mention your voat username so that we can give you a profile badge as a token of our gratitude. Those who donated already, we will be processing all donations in batches and adding the badges to your profiles in a few days, this is going to take a week or so due to volume and we are only 2 guys currently able to process and do this task.
Anyways, thank you all for patiently hitting that F5 button over and over again and kicking our server while it was lying hopelessly on the ground and thank you for your support. Welcome to voat. This could be a rough ride but damn it's exciting to be a part of it.
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[–] moe 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
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I managed to get the original picture from someone and am willing to trade for a photograph of @Atko's arms.
[–] E-werd 0 points 19 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago
I think he was in the middle of that vacation. I'm not sure if this was a nice interruption or a poor one, I can see that being mixed.
[–] 37dicks 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
/v/creampies
Do it faggots! Also, fuck Reddit and that Pao bitch.
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[–] raisin 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
3541 as of this moment. Voat is exploding.
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[–] Atko [S] 0 points 267 points 267 points (+267|-0) ago
As long as the content you guys submit to voat is legal in Switzerland, we will not meddle, not as long as I'm here and @puttitout is on the same page here. I would like to work full time on voat instead of getting a job, but only you guys can make that possible.
[–] JTtheGeek 0 points 71 points 71 points (+71|-0) ago
The source code is on github, so if Voat get's takenover by corporate influence, or free speech gets stifled, we can take the code and run it elsewhere. Awesome job guys!
[–] StarfleetMedical 0 points 25 points 25 points (+25|-0) ago
Are you the creator of Voat? If so, I'm highly impressed with what you've done and I wish you best of luck with Voat. I'm really glad it was chosen as the reddit replacement. I will do my best to help make this an awesome community to be part of!
[–] albinobeaver 0 points 12 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago
If you guys go the rout of advertising, will you be obligated to work in their best interest?
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[–] EB-0 0 points 27 points 27 points (+27|-0) ago
With open mod logs, better voting rules, and the ability to take over squatted subverse, it's already systematically better. Bad people will come, but there are better tools to combat that here.
[–] zer0t3ch 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Reddit did have this. What would really make the system better was if it was automated. AFAIK, the method is the same here as it was on Reddit: make a post about it in a sub, and an admin will give it to you if they feel like it. Voat needs to make it where you can just create a sub over an existing one if all mods have been inactive on the site for 1 month, or the sub has been inactive for 3 months, or something like that.
[–] flyawayhigh 0 points 0 points 0 points (+0|-0) ago
Yes. There has also been discussion about removing power-hungry mods. It's good to know that @Atko and others are looking at this early. It's a tough situation, and I have confidence that something reasonably workable will be done when it becomes necessary. (And it will become necessary at some point.)
I don't think Voat is going to put up with the kind of word censorship we see at r/technology or the kind of domain censorship we see at r/politics.: D
[–] komnenos 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
I'm just happy I can see how many upvotes versus downvotes I have.
[–] suspiciously_calm 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
This used to be the case on Reddit.
The came the voting bots, so the numbers were fudged just a little so they could be shadowbanned without being able to detect that.
Then IDK what happened, the numbers were fudged more and more until they were meaningless, but stayed visible for a long time, confusing people.
Then finally they were removed since they were meaningless anyway. Let's see how it goes here.
[–] Tyrannosauruskek 0 points 1 points 1 points (+1|-0) ago
Fucking hate nigger and faggot sympathizers on reddit. Hope this site is a breath of fresh air
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[–] myrrlyn 0 points 0 points 0 points (+0|-0) ago
Could we please use civil language in public fora? I'm against uncouth gang culture and overglorification of sexual habits as the next man, but it's that kind of talk that makes it hard to defend.
[–] corpusant 0 points 84 points 84 points (+84|-0) ago
From me, as well as a lot of other users... "Thank You".
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[–] Biff-Top-Johnny 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Turded.
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[–] SuperStar_One 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
The relatively smaller size of the community at large is refreshing too. I've missed that.
[–] FatOffendsMe 0 points 63 points 63 points (+63|-0) ago
I was genuinely excited to see this site get beat down as bad as it did. Not out of spite, but purely because it pretty clearly shows just how much growth there was, very suddenly.
I'm really happy for voat. I'm also really glad you were capable of getting it up and running as fast as you did. All around, fantastic job.
GG exodus.
[–] Kakarot 0 points 15 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago
And here's to a growing community of voaters into the future. Even if we do, say, never surpass reddit, that one incident I feel has given an impetus big enough to create a sufficient community in voat, which can only grow as reddit becomes more totalitarian.
[–] SuperStar_One 0 points 13 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago
I think we're way better off going nowhere near surpassing Reddit. Reddit was a lot nicer place to be in the late 2000's when it had a smaller userbase and the average person had never heard of it before.
[–] HP48GX 0 points 34 points 34 points (+34|-0) ago
be very, very cautious.
[–] ivegotaqueso 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Reddit probably has their legal team trying to gather incriminating evidence of anything possible, for just-in-caseys, so yeah! Be cautious!
[–] chmod 0 points 34 points 34 points (+34|-0) ago
Since I made a donation I'm claiming the blue LED light on the left side of the top server. DON'T TOUCH IT! IT'S MINE!
[–] Apoplectic1 0 points 19 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago
Too late, I licked it.
[–] chaindrain 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Doesn't count until you pee on it to truly mark your territory!
[–] EB-0 0 points 24 points 24 points (+24|-0) ago
You did all this on a bad internet connection and a tablet. That's dedication! I'm really looking forward to seeing voat grow with you at the helm, Atko.
[–] Jourdy288 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
Yeah, well Tony Stark did it in a cave! With a box of scraps! Just kidding, I'm glad the site's back up.
[–] HonestAbed 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Confirmed. The leader of Voat is essentially Tony Stark, you heard it hear first folks.
[–] foxlet 0 points 20 points 20 points (+20|-0) ago (edited ago)
Nice to be back!
I do feel your pain though, typing this on a small Android tablet on 4G.