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submitted 8.4 years ago by PuttItOut

This is just a quick message for anyone visiting Voat for the first time.

We have a known blocking issue in our code base. This means that the site ~~is being a spoiled rotten no good son of...~~ often will toggle off for about 10 seconds and then turn itself back on.

It truly is the most annoying bug you can imagine and we are just so happy to have it along for the ride. To make matters worse, response times are very poor right do to traffic.

So heads up, it's a little like a goat track around here right now.

For two guys with fulltime jobs it is not easy to dedicate the time to find such an obscure bug. As we often do, we have to apologize.

Many apologies everyone. We hate it too.

What we don't have at Voat:

Server Farms
Engineers (or even employees for that matter)
Infrastructure budget
Marketing department
Salaries ;)

What we do have:

Freedom of Speech
Annoying bugs
Goats

Anyways, just wanted to say welcome to any new people and we hope that what we have outweighs what we don't have.

If you have the means, please consider donating. Every bit helps and means a lot to both of us. https://store.voat.co/donations

https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806

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DefinitelyNotPutin 8.4 years ago

Are Russians welcome? Asking for a friend..

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DrBunsen 8.3 years ago

They are, mister President. For mother russia.

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whisky_cat 8.4 years ago

I've genuinely asked for any Russian feedback here in comments and did not see any. My guess is, Voat may be blocked there. (looking at @townbike's comment I my guess might be pure shit.)

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DIGITGIDGIT 8.3 years ago

I like the russian people

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varialus 8.4 years ago

I can't see how we could possibly be blocked in Russia seeing as how gay Voat is for Putin. I mean, it's not as bad as Trump, but Voat sure loves it some Putin. I just assume that we've got a bit of unofficial-actually-official non-governmental-actually-governmental secret-not-really-secret attention from Russia. To get a single data point I looked up a Russian web proxy and it seems to be loading Voat fine.