!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
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
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