What do you have to say about this damning video. (vimeo.com)
What do you have to say about [this damning video.](https://vimeo.com/135152038)
I just wanted to say thank you for your Internet wizardry.
What is your favorite kind of cheese?
I just wanted to say thank you for your Internet wizardry.
What is your favorite kind of cheese?
Hmmm, maybe Parmesan or Cheddar, I have yet to taste fancy cheese
Hmmm, maybe Parmesan or Cheddar, I have yet to taste fancy cheese
Well, good for you, Great Nipples. Why aren't you shitposting with us? It's your code, honor it!
Well, good for you, Great Nipples.
Why aren't you shitposting with us? It's your code, honor it!
I usually shitpost over at Phuks while I tamper with the live code
I'll make sure to cross-shitpost here too from now on
I usually shitpost over at Phuks ~~while I tamper with the live code~~
I'll make sure to cross-shitpost here too from now on
I vote for a cross-shitpost bridge!
I vote for a cross-shitpost bridge!
You'll surely be welcome. And thanks, btw. To you for writing the code and @pmyb2 and @aou for using and improving it. It's a nice platform, I must say. And for now, poal is untouched by big crowd faggotry, so it feels like home.
!Hola!
Can you explain us the idea that sparked throat's project and the story behind its name?
!Hola!
Can you explain us the idea that sparked throat's project and the story behind its name?
Well, like most projects I was involved in, it started with some random talk on an IRC channel
Back in 2016 we had some people complaining about the inactivity of Voat's admin, and some were complaining about how Voat's code was so crappy that it was not a good idea to run a clone and we started idly talking with pembo and jesuspiece (if i recall correctly) about making our own Voat clone
Later, on May 2016 I got a friend to help me make the most basic parts of the frontend (I hate doing frontend work). Pembo and I started working on the rest of it like madmen.
I remember we tested everything on the shitposting.space domain, on a heroku instance. The whole site ran on a sqlite database and all the posts were reset every time we did a change to the database (basically every day or two). Around July the whole project seemed to die off until, for some reason I can't yet fathom, I said we should make Throat production-ready by december.... The phabricator activity graph for that time period talks by itself (sto.polsaker.com)
As for the name... I guess I had Voat in mind and that's the first word that came to my mind. Later on we ditched Throat as a name for the site but it stayed on the code and on the repo's name
Well, like most projects I was involved in, it started with some random talk on an IRC channel
Back in 2016 we had some people complaining about the inactivity of Voat's admin, and some were complaining about how Voat's code was so crappy that it was not a good idea to run a clone and we started idly talking with pembo and jesuspiece (if i recall correctly) about making our own Voat clone
Later, on May 2016 I got a friend to help me make the most basic parts of the frontend (I hate doing frontend work). Pembo and I started working on the rest of it like madmen.
I remember we tested everything on the shitposting.space domain, on a heroku instance. The whole site ran on a sqlite database and all the posts were reset every time we did a change to the database (basically every day or two). Around July the whole project seemed to die off until, for some reason I can't yet fathom, I said we should make Throat production-ready by december.... [The phabricator activity graph for that time period talks by itself](http://sto.polsaker.com/s04032019-000428.png)
As for the name... I guess I had Voat in mind and that's the first word that came to my mind. Later on we ditched Throat as a name for the site but it stayed on the code and on the repo's name
Pembo and I started working on the rest of it like madmen.
I don't doubt it, since I've spent about 10 months in the code to add new features to poal.
I can tell one thing, it takes 2 talented people to come up with a project like Throat.
Thanks for your answer!
> Pembo and I started working on the rest of it like madmen.
I don't doubt it, since I've spent about 10 months in the code to add new features to poal.
I can tell one thing, it takes 2 talented people to come up with a project like Throat.
Thanks for your answer!
Poor pembo, he's real good with PHP but I made him code in Python, but he managed to learn pretty well and coded in some really important features
Poor pembo, he's real good with PHP but I made him code in Python, but he managed to learn pretty well and coded in some really important features
Why have you not joined the poal team?
Why have you not joined the poal team?
With all the chatting we do I might as well already be on the team! :p
With all the chatting we do I might as well already be on the team! :p
I can confirm.
I can confirm.
Hi Polsaker!
Hi Polsaker!
Hello!
Hello!
Why have you not come on the poalcast?
Why have you not come on the poalcast?
I didn't knew there was a poal podcast, i swear!
I didn't knew there was a poal podcast, i swear!
So you'll be on next week right? We are going to discuss throat and phuks and poal. You got this right?
So you'll be on next week right? We are going to discuss throat and phuks and poal. You got this right?
Aight! Just make sure to remember me, I got bad memory
I'll try to learn sign language by then
Aight! Just make sure to remember me, I got bad memory
I'll try to learn sign language by then
Thank you for the code you've developed, Polsaker!
Curiosity question: Do you ever work with Poal like you do Phuks to implement new features, such as the new "Submit a poll" feature that's now at the Whatever sub on Phuks?
Thank you for the code you've developed, Polsaker!
Curiosity question: Do you ever work with Poal like you do Phuks to implement new features, such as the new "Submit a poll" feature that's now at the Whatever sub on Phuks?
Yeah. All of Phuks' code is open source, and all the code running there is on the repo. The Poal crew probably syncs or cherry-picks changes every couple months so you'll probably see polls on Poal someday (probably, I don't have much say in poal matters).
I do help boobs and AOU to debug code and fix bugs as we both stumble upon them
Yeah. All of Phuks' code is open source, and all the code running there is on the repo. The Poal crew probably syncs or cherry-picks changes every couple months so you'll probably see polls on Poal someday (probably, I don't have much say in poal matters).
I do help boobs and AOU to debug code and fix bugs as we both stumble upon them
Thanks for making the throat code and helping this site develop.
What do you do for fun?
Thanks for making the throat code and helping this site develop.
What do you do for fun?
I play games, break things (mostly computers) and code when I'm too bored.
Not too long ago I started playing Ingress.
I play games, break things (mostly computers) and code when I'm too bored.
Not too long ago I started playing Ingress.
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