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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8452071? ago
Voat has an excellent web layout, but I think the lack of a robust mobile API is holding Voat back. Having great mobile apps helps reach people who don't browse the web from a PC and being in app stores helps with discovery.
I've hit up Reddit third party app devs to see if they're interested in porting their apps to support Voat, and the lack of a robust mobile API is the stumbling block for many of them.
8453013? ago
Voat has an API but getting keys is not an automated process, you have to bug puttitout until he finally gives you one.
8453112? ago
I see. Do you know if the current API is feature-complete enough to offer things like inbox notifications? The current third-party Voat apps are pretty lackluster, and I worry that going this long without feature-complete apps means Voat misses out on a big chunk of people who browse sites like these.
I appreciate you taking the time to reply. I saw how many comments were in this thread and I worried that I was too late in the game to get a response from someone.
8453156? ago
Yes I do believe it is but I haven't dove too deep into it yet.
https://api.voat.co are the docs.
puttitout is planning to rebuild the frontend as a javascript app that is powered by the API, so any thing that is missing will have to get added for that to work at some point.
8453269? ago
Cool stuff, thank you for the information!