The owner of this site says it takes a bunch of hundred dollars to run this site per month.
The owner of voat claimed that it cost him at least $2k per month, I vaguely remember seeing something in the range of $4k costs per month.
Fuck voat. The owner was a faggot and finally closed it due to some emotional issues around having to admin a website that, let's be honest, only had a marginal amount of users at best.
Glad you guys appreciate their work, but the owners of this site make voat and those admins look terrible.
I always found the whining about money strange. There's no way it should have cost anywhere near what was stated unless it was really, truly coded like crap.
There were plenty of us willing to give money to keep it going, but God, the whining and bitching about how difficult it all was, was annoying to say the least.
Voat did not shut down for the reasons claimed. Timing was too convenient.
It shut down after the Q psyop was no longer needed. Right after the election.
II don't recall Atko even so much as asking for money, but when he handed the reigns to Putt, he seemed to have taken every opportunity to shut the site down.
That was when the were using Microsoft Azure or something to host the site. Some more knowledgeable members suggested a much cheaper alternative. Voat was rumored to have received around a million dollars or so in bitcoin at present value. Some of the userbase donated prior to BTC exploding in value. I don't know how accurate 1 million is, but suffice to say money probably should not have been the biggest issue.
Seemed like Voat was a much more hostile environment.
I know, “THEN FUCK YOU FAGGOT!”
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