Edit: It's apparently a typo. It's taov.co. False alert.
I'm browsing voat.co and someone mentions toav.co. Curious, I check it out. It's the same voat.co website except some of the text, like the title, was backwards. I check the Wayback Machine to see if it has any historical captures for the domain and there were 5 captures. Some from 2017-2018. Some of them redirected to a GoDaddy landing page that they save the domain name from expiring. The last capture was today, 12/22.
I then did some digging. The only three pages on the site appeared to be the login page, the registration page, and the forgot password page. All other links redirected to the login page. The registration required an invite code. According to the page source code, it wanted a 32 character GUID following the regex pattern of [0-9A-Fa-f]{32}$. If you typed in a username that was already registered, it would tell you. The only name that I could find as already registered was puttitout.
I then made a few comments and posts about it and a few others saw it. Shortly after, the website went down and is gone. Then the Wayback Machine captures were all gone! WTF. I've never seen captures for a website literally disappear that fast. That's insane! And now the whole voat.co website is down.
I don't think we were supposed to find toav.co and I wasn't supposed to dig around like I did.
Edit: It's apparently a typo. It's taov.co. False alert.
I'm browsing voat.co and someone mentions toav.co. Curious, I check it out. It's the same voat.co website except some of the text, like the title, was backwards. I check the Wayback Machine to see if it has any historical captures for the domain and there were 5 captures. Some from 2017-2018. Some of them redirected to a GoDaddy landing page that they save the domain name from expiring. The last capture was today, 12/22.
I then did some digging. The only three pages on the site appeared to be the login page, the registration page, and the forgot password page. All other links redirected to the login page. The registration required an invite code. According to the page source code, it wanted a 32 character GUID following the regex pattern of ^[0-9A-Fa-f]{32}$. If you typed in a username that was already registered, it would tell you. The only name that I could find as already registered was puttitout.
I then made a few comments and posts about it and a few others saw it. Shortly after, the website went down and is gone. Then the Wayback Machine captures were all gone! WTF. I've never seen captures for a website literally disappear that fast. That's insane! And now the whole voat.co website is down.
I don't think we were supposed to find toav.co and I wasn't supposed to dig around like I did.
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