Ever since I graduated and moved from Sweden to Switzerland and started my first full time job here in Zurich, working for Voat became increasingly difficult for me. A project of passion and learning turned into one of business administration, community management, and essentially a 2nd job. A nonpaying, yet rather stressful and demanding job.
I started Voat under the name “forbidme” (which later became Whoaverse, which later became Voat) because I wanted to learn more about .NET and web development in general, but as more and more people started to use it, it became clear to me that there was a need for a platform like Voat. I never imagined that Voat would grow this big or mature the way it has. I’ve been through so much with Voat during these past 3 years, and if I could go back in time and face the same challenges, the same victories, and the same defeats - I would do it all over again!
Today though, primarily thanks to PuttItOut, Voat is a stable and scalable platform which happily serves over a million monthly unique visitors. I was the guy who had the crazy idea to start this project but now, 3 years later, I feel that it is time for someone else to assume this role.
Effective as of this announcement, and with a heavy heart, I am resigning as CEO of Voat, Inc. and handing over my role to PuttItOut. PuttItOut has been with me side-by-side through all the ups and downs, all the long nights, all the difficult conversations, all the challenging decisions, and proven he is both committed and capable to moving Voat forward as a platform for Free Speech. I am confident and excited that Voat will do great things in the future.
I will still be at Voat, just in a different role, as a user and member of the community.
To every user I’ve gotten to know, for every funny comment I’ve come across, for every post that has opened my eyes or made me mad, it has all been worth it and I’ll never forget the fun times. Here’s to more in the future, but with a bit less stress for me. ;)
Atko
Edit: canary stuff: https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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SaneGoatiSwear ago
i called it puttitout is new CEO of voat
i call PR goat. @puttitout announcements key please. i want to do that job for you, and i promise to do it well, and leave my shit at the door, as i have in v/til
i can't believe you're leaving @atko seriously with all of mars' sand in my eyes, fuck you. :( :( :(
it's better this way if you really won't transition from cubicle life to running-voat fulltime.
thank you for voat. from someone who REALLY fucking needs a place to speak freely. thank you.
Atko ago
Love you bro (no homo). I'll still be around, so we can keep exchanging pleasantries for many years to come.
SaneGoatiSwear ago
really?
i've been a total cunt to you
(i mean, because someone has to keep you devs honest and keep shining the light on ya so we know it's all on the up and up, you understand)
(no homo)
pleasantries such as how you berated me for having so many downvoats ignoring the fact the good majority of them were sraight up downvoats on non-content like spam?
or how i posted links to all your shit online?
or when i FINALLY got you to notice a year old bug that could be used to not just strikethrough, but fully make unreadable any and all voat pages?
or when i wrote you a canary and bitched till you made it a thing, making voat more awesome?
bro
one one hand, you were failing voat by moving towards the cubicle life instead of away, and failing to grow voat dev, corporate, site at the level the userbase could have been growing at mostly because of it.
on the other, you, regardless of your sjw heart (you wanted to ban v/niggers on the spot, bro.), you kept this place (other than -ccp restrictions, voat comment and post restrictions, and derpy guy and shadowboxing, and that time you ninja removed thc) free speech and no-censorship.
you did what no other site can do.
and i don't know if it was just atko magic or what
i hope that magic stays.
we've had some times bro
is there a corporate document you wish to share with us to make this official?
silversurfers ago
Total cunt
SaneGoatiSwear ago
you ban people on fee fees.
much?
silversurfers ago
Like your picture Brutsch?
NobleCreaturePuncher ago
You're not the hero voat wanted, but you're the hero that voat desreves.