Ummm, you mean like the preview voat site that has been used for testing for a couple years now?
Not really. Because that's the site he works live on. I mean set up a dummy voat, exact clone of live voat. Then run the upgrade script on it.
He develops on the preview site and then updates to the current version on that site, repeats until he's ready to go real. There gets to be a point where as much testing as can be done with a limited userbase and then needs the real Voat to dig any deeper. I dare say he and the developers have it handled better than either of us could.
I don't do this shit for a living, so I'm just spitballing. You sound defensive. Who's alt are you? ;) There's always a way to do things better, that's my philosophy for everything in life. If what I do is hacky and full of problems, I look for solutions rather than workarounds. That's just who I am. Maybe I should help with the testing more often. *shrug emoticon*
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