Initial Thoughts, fwiw

[1moar]

First, I guess I never really gave it a whole lot of thought that there was an actual human, ultimately, behind the voat username of the owner of this site. Just goes to show how numb a person can get.

Second, I dig the vibe around here and the layout is nice. Of course I'm a forum scab vs. the news agg format. I can see the need for both, but for me personally, I like a forum more anyways. Seems a little more comfy, personally.

Third - Thanks for having us for now. Idk what your long term intents are, but heads up as I am sure you can see it too...this could very well blow up in terms of scale, etc. Bear with me, I'm spitballing a bit here too.

4th...I loved Voat for what it is/was. Getting older so I don't participate online as much these days as I used to. I guess that's all just to say...communication is awesome. I'm surely not one to demand or even ask for anything in anothers' house, but if things go like #3 and folks get comfortable, intents on the future might be laudable.

1 thought on security...and this is just me - would it be a good idea to 'hide' the subverses from non-users? I get all sides of the argument, so goats don't need to rile themselves up about freedom of speech, etc.

Anyways, for fear of repeating myself, thanks again for having us. I'll try to remember to piss outside lol.

[SearchVoat]

Thanks for the thoughts. We're on the same wavelength.

1 thought on security...and this is just me - would it be a good idea to 'hide' the subverses from non-users? I get all sides of the argument, so goats don't need to rile themselves up about freedom of speech, etc.

Yes I think this would be good. The other thing I'm wondering about is whether to block new registrations - i.e. this place is only for known goats, for the time being. Obviously it would/could be opened up later, but it would make life simpler for now.

The problem then, of course, is providing for those goats who didn't manage to log in to Voat over the last 3 days and therefore don't have a login here.

[Nosferatjew]

The other thing I'm wondering about is whether to block new registrations - i.e. this place is only for known goats, for the time being. Obviously it would/could be opened up later, but it would make life simpler for now.

The problem then, of course, is providing for those goats who didn't manage to log in to Voat over the last 3 days and therefore don't have a login here.

Limiting registration for at least the first few months while you're fine tuning the site makes sense. As for goats who didn't log in to voat in the past 3 days, i don't know. It would be great if they could just use their password from voat.

[B3bomber]

No one should have access to Voat's password DB for all kinds of reasons.

[Nosferatjew]

No one should have access to Voat's password DB for all kinds of reasons.

Yeah, I know.

[2017Fallout]

You could have a referred by a goat function? Maybe on Poal where a lot of goats are resting those who didn't get a password to get the Ok from someone who did. Wouldn't work lingterm but maybe early whilst this place gets the curtains up.

[Fateswebb]

First, I guess I never really gave it a whole lot of thought that there was an actual human, ultimately, behind the voat username of the owner of this site. Just goes to show how numb a person can get.

Second, I dig the vibe around here and the layout is nice. Of course I'm a forum scab vs. the news agg format. I can see the need for both, but for me personally, I like a forum more anyways. Seems a little more comfy, personally.

Third - Thanks for having us for now. Idk what your long term intents are, but heads up as I am sure you can see it too...this could very well blow up in terms of scale, etc. Bear with me, I'm spitballing a bit here too.

4th...I loved Voat for what it is/was. Getting older so I don't participate online as much these days as I used to. I guess that's all just to say...communication is awesome. I'm surely not one to demand or even ask for anything in anothers' house, but if things go like #3 and folks get comfortable, intents on the future might be laudable.

1 thought on security...and this is just me - would it be a good idea to 'hide' the subverses from non-users? I get all sides of the argument, so goats don't need to rile themselves up about freedom of speech, etc.

Anyways, for fear of repeating myself, thanks again for having us. I'll try to remember to piss outside lol.

that is why I requested a RSS feed.. then we get the best of both words, news aggregate feeds, and forum formats...