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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Goater ago
Again, if you implemented BTC adverts you'd probably double Voats advertising budget. A lot of us don't want to link our usernames with our credit cards.
Also, you aren't doing too well with the whole badges for donating thing...I think I'm at about 6 months for $300 in total and still no useless shiny thing. Maybe you can outsource that to someone for like 1% of the donation per user.
E.g. I donate $200, u/someone allocates the badge, u/someone gets paid monthly 1% of named donations, v/badges makes complaints if u/someone isn't doing their job, u/someone gets replaced if shit.
Hell, you could even make it an honorary Voat position, with users invited for submitting quality content or comments.
That u/someone has to put up an indemnity fund of 1.5x last months avg in donations in a separate BTC wallet so they can't just run off with that months donations.
I mean, it's a lot easier to implement than the advert payments and will also give an incentive for the u/someone to organize fund raising campaigns, as the more donated, the more badges, the more they get, the more Voat gets.