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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lawofzero ago
I used to be a regular here before the double whammy of the @She saga and this place becoming /r/fatpeoplehate2.0 for a while left a bad taste in my mouth and left around that time. I've often wanted to come back but cannot remember my original password or even which email address I originally used (I change all that stuff every now and then and now have completely different email addresses) so that has been holding me back. But I think its a good time to just start completely afresh with a new account now anyway, let the old one be a thing of the past.
I was stupid to ever leave in the first place, there honestly isn't a better place for raw honesty and truth without vote fuckery and insecure twats in positions of authority. Haven't really had a place to shoot the shit in a long time. I've been using Reddit on and off but 99% just to discuss pro wrasslin', a community that is still unfortunately unmatched anywhere else. But I haven't been able to trust the place in a long long fucking time so honestly when it comes to discussion, I've been without a home for a while. The reason I left Reddit for here back in the day is because they were censoring the Ed Snowden / NSA saga in /r/worldnews. I'm glad that another eye opening drama has happened there now but it's just a pity that people are acting like its the first time anything dodgy has ever happened there and it'll probably all be forgotten about in a few weeks.
Glad to be back! I'd rather put up with hateful honesty than prozac fuelled Reddit zombies any day anyway. Besides, I'm sure that now that the 'safe spaces' thing is in the past, discussion here will be more balanced again. Glad to see that @Atko and @PuttItOut are still standing strong here after all this time!