Good for you. At least here there are admins that give a shit.
I never liked that whole 'democracy' code Putt had been working on anyway. It made me nervous. I figured he was just making it so he could abandon ship and Voat would run by popular vote, which may be a disaster waiting to happen.
I think the guy working https://notabug.io/ has the right idea. Sorry forgot his username. It is distributed totally run off of users + mirrors. More like a torrent setup. So cannot be taken down. Still very early though. Will have to wait and see how it develops.
I think Putt / Atko had the right idea. But they are/were unwilling to give server access to anyone. That pretty much limits Voat's future to the two of them. Ie RIP Voat.
And yeah, admins here are good. Actively working on the site.
is the notabug guy. And ceddit.
Thanks! ceddit? Redirected to me gitub promoting notabug?
Yeah I built that. The idea is none of the data needed to run the site is private. Even for my server the only data that would be problematic if leaked right now is the SSL key.
Working on performance improvements (server side vote counting/rendering) and authentication now.
I actually agree with what Voat said in his most recent announcement that being a clone is not enough of a differentiator to succeed; and that's why I focus on decentralization.
My hope is that notabug will eventually be successfull enough to subsume Voat, poal, phuks, raddle etc.... where each admin can put effort into running a site how they want with each community having the shared benefits of each others comments/discussion to the degree it is desirable.
Next release should make running a peer a lot easier as well and make way towards things like chat, and communities/moderation of a sort.
Good stuff. Keep at it! Added your site to my voat post with list of alternatives.
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