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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philomath ago
Absolutely....now might be a good time for a donation drive. Are they still accepting only bitcoin?
dynamiteVacancy ago
I don't know if it occurred when the new shop opened or before that, but you can "buy" a donation over at the voat shop for real money. I donated a few weeks ago and got myself a fancy $1-$5 donation badge.
philomath ago
NIce - I didn't know about that. I think it's time for me to upgrade my badge... Edit - do you have a link for the shop?
dynamiteVacancy ago
It's in the post above but regardless, here is a quick and easy link.