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I remember at some point there was a problem of license fees, because putt or atko had built the site using proprietary solutions which remained free for the first year or so and then they had to pay a license fee

Does any one remember that story?

I remember at some point there was a problem of license fees, because putt or atko had built the site using proprietary solutions which remained free for the first year or so and then they had to pay a license fee Does any one remember that story?

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Yeah, vaguely. It seemed pretty obvious they had the bareass capital to get voat going and then were relying on an injection of funds from somewhere. But the user base was always so toxic that the actual site had actually no monetary value whatsoever.

I'm sorry I can't shed more light on the actual license issue, but there's plenty of better connected goats here who might know something. Iirc wasn't there a sitewide fund raising effort? Or was that to pay for something else?

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Voat always had issues paying the bill left and right, the license fee was such a problem at some point they had no choice but to go full open source and pretty much rewrite the entire site