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All the sites I visit have search engines working without problems. Only Voat had it disabled. I don't get why it was so hard making a search engine on Voat?

All the sites I visit have search engines working without problems. Only Voat had it disabled. I don't get why it was so hard making a search engine on Voat?

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[–] • 6 pts

Because the search function was once used as a means to DDOS the site and Voat didn't have many volunteers working on fixing bugs.

[–] • 1 pt

If that happens again, we could make 2 parelell sites, one to search archived posts and the live site with search disabled.

[–] • 0 pt

I think that's basically what voatsearch.co is.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

The admin of Poal is looking for derram to bring here derram bot. Do you know how to contact him?

[–] • 4 pts

it was disabled because it was a security vulnerability.

[–] • 2 pts

there was a site dedicated to nothing but being the search function for voat

[–] • 2 pts

It is still online and has all content, including the last post: https://searchvoat.co/

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

It used to work, but was deactivated. I thik the explanation offered was that there was a bug that could be exploited for DDOS attacks.But it was left disabled and never fixed. By then voat was being run down anyway, and searchvoat.co existed.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Probably because Putt couldn't write a query to search posts to save his life.

[–] • 0 pt

Voat had/has a search engine, it's at https://searchvoat.co/ and it still works to search for old posts. They have also added a forum but it isn't getting much traffic right now. However, a lot of old goats have joined. You can join with your old username if you saved the SearchVoat password that was sent to your inbox a few days before the site was deliberately killed off.