I agree that organic growth done moderately will be a better userbase than migration growth.
Damn you were on Voat way before me! I hit it around the gamergate /r/conspiracy dramas in March before the yuge migrations I mentioned earlier. Man, Voat had a great userbase back then with people really putting in time on coding, hacking, tweaking the site.
But you know thinking back more, the fatpeoplehate migration actually went pretty well. Admins were on the ball and after the first couple days of FPH taking over /v/all they went private. Even the servers got hosed but putt / atko were on it although IIRC it took about 1-2 weeks to all get sorted.
But FPH is still there and do their own thing. Same with the niggers crew although they did push /v/all in a new direction after their migration unlike FPH. I think of all the migrations FPH was probably the best and would have been much better if the servers could have scaled faster.
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