Welcome to the new Voat! Voat 2.0! (announcements)

submitted ago by 1727282?

Now that I have your attention, I have a confession to make: I lied.

 

Well sort of… because Voat 2.0 doesn’t exist yet, but it will in the future, and this thread is the first in a series of Quarterly Reviews we will be doing to get your feedback on what we need, what we need to improve, and the direction we need to move as a company and as a community.

I can finally announce that Voat’s features (software-wise) are now in the ballpark of a semi-functional platform. I’m not saying Voat is perfect, nor am I saying the features are mature, rather I am saying that we are nearing "acceptable" as a basic functioning platform.

But a basic functioning platform was never our end goal, it was just the first milestone we needed to hit. Now that we are approaching this milestone we need to lay out our future direction.

Voat doesn’t want to be a “clone” any longer. We want to stand up and proclaim our uniqueness. We want to put our differences on display and stake our future on them. Voat can’t survive without redefining ourselves, without evolving into something bigger, something better, something unique and new.

 

This is the post where we get to dream big, have no boundaries, no constraints, and live in world where everything is possible.

Hypothetical

You have an army of programmers, mountains of cash to burn, and you are the only board member: What does Voat 2.0 look like?

 

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8450894? ago

Some things I would like to see.

  • When clicking on the menu, have the subverse listing go top -> bottom/left -> right instead of left -> right/top -> bottom. It's much easier to read lists like that.
  • Profile pages are not needed. Get rid of the profiles pages and put your posting history in the menu for only you to view.
  • Make upvoting increase the score, but downvoting hides the post for that user.
  • Make a pro account for something cheap, like $1USD a month that will let you own 15 or 20 subverses and/or some other benefits, don't know what else, havent thought of it, but free accounts can still own subverses, but up to 5 and non can be transferred to them.
  • Better searching.
  • A refresh button that updates when there are new posts in subscribed subverses or viewed subverses for /new.
  • Same thing for new comments, too. When a new comment is posted, it will automatically insert itself into the comment tree, but, to make it not spam, if the comment is new, it only displays up to the first 3 lines and then there is an expand button and any other comments after that post will be hidden until you expand the parent. But, while typing a comment, the comment tree doesnt refresh.

That's off the top of my head. I can get more later if I decide to think more about it.

8453138? ago

  • mmmmmeeeeeh

  • yes they are fuck off. it's nice.

  • there's a button to hide the post. why reduce that with downvoating? make a case for it.

  • no fuck no damn right cross it out.

  • searchvoat.com try it. maybe @puttitout will do some integrating

  • f5 use it

8452418? ago

Make a pro account for something cheap, like $1USD a month that will let you own 15 or 20 subverses and/or some other benefits, don't know what else, havent thought of it, but free accounts can still own subverses, but up to 5 and non can be transferred to them.

I don't like this because well-to-do users and corporations could buy tons of subs and use them for marketing. Allowing only 5 free subs per user is terribly restricting.

8452469? ago

I didn't even think about that. That's a great point.

I strokethrough that one. Thanks.