Canary is 12 days old....

I can see what will happen, a bunch of liberal cucks will "volunteer" and slowly takeover (like reddit, etc) In 2 years voat will be banning nigger,beaner,faggot and itll be a reddit clone...

Was nice shitpostin with yall, see ya at the next spot

issues left unresolved

-you are not being transparent with the actual cost, @puttitout.

-you are not being transparent with who all is in the dev team.

-you have had over 3 months to explain these magic ban rules, but you have failed.

-you have had over 3 months to explain why you were caught manipulating users' CCP (including @Techius and @SaneGoatiSwear )

-you have neutered, then nuked, then killed chat.

-you have ostracized your core userbase in favor of SJWs from SRS, in v/soapboxbanhammer and v/protectvoat

you have either been played or are playing the voat community. on a number of fronts, not just your fuckery with fake sane and the chat spam.

i would have gladly joined and helped you on the front of house issues, but you've pushed massive behavioral restrictions and censorship, lied to the user base, manipulated users' CCP. you're not worth the penny up the gerbil's ass up the faggot whore's ass.

note how almost all responses are shill responses, not actual meaningful responses. this is how shills work. they think that if you see a bunch of detracting statements in response, you'll disagree with the comment, and disregard it. they think you are that stupid, voat!

We've been informed that if you don't keep to a strict code of censorshop, Donbuster the niggerfaggot rapey inbred pajeet will OUTRIGHT BAN YOU in slack. it's a terrible platform conducive only to faggots sucking each other off, like donbuster.

canarys been dead for 4 days GG

This place needs to shut the fuck down. Racists, misogynists, and assholes take up this place. Their rhetoric is purely focused on meanness and hate. Pointless.

Who asked for the refund?

Has anyone explained why the hell Voat is on Azure and not AWS. I have no experience with either directly I just know that AWS is usually touted as more cost effective and popular for projects with thinner budgets.

Does Voat really need the five 9's? I mean, does it generate ad revenue? Perhaps I'm the only one who doesn't completely lose their shit if a site I visit frequently is down from time to time....

I've got a Dell R710 collecting dust behind me because at my new place I am unable to run it... No A/C, expensive electricity, non-fiber ISP and a GF who doesn't think it makes a cool coffee table...

Voat is really a very beautiful constructed site. Wow.

Thanks for sharing the detail information about Store Transactions and Type Amount. rolling sky

Get some advertisers

What type of marketing is needed

Whoever made large single transaction. You are the real Internet savior

As long as VOAT stays away from censorship then it needs to stay. If it starts to censor I want it to go. There are enough platforms that censor as it is.

There were thoughts of making parts of the sites run on a decentralized server network. Is that an option still?

Vaot community relations: "What do you want nigger dick faggot?" /s

to donate larger amount of bitcoins, i think this is no problem for some people, i used to mine bitcoins 6 years ago.. we had 12 bitcoins per week with pair of overclocked ATI 5850, but i sold all my btc back then :\ there were many moments when the price went from 30$ per bitcoin to price like 9$ per bitcoin, nobody knew it will rise so much,sometimes it looked like it had doubtful future... but at least i have a wallet.dat with many dogecoins somewhere...

Like I posted in the last thread - I would be willing to invest (not donate) $25k or more if I can get an equity interest.

Put an amazon affiliate link at the top of Voat for people to click on before they make Amazon purchases. Allows people to donate without donating.

I just donated $25, ain't much, but every penny counts... T_Der still here.

Are you selling ad space. I'm ok with non-intrusive ads. Also, something similar to Reddit gold would help.

our first pro-bono lawyer disappeared on us with no explanation

Don't know why I find this hilarious.

Whoever gets stuck marketing voat... that's a fucking nightmare. Voat does not appeal to any companies. No company wants their logo plastered next to "kike nigger faggot" comments when they can go to Reddit, get a bigger exposure without risking their brand. Reddit didn't burn it's free speech for fun. Free speech is the model that got them labeled as a pedophile safe haven for a year.

Voat offers only 1 difference to reddit. You can actually use racial or anti semetic terms to say racist or anti semetic things. On Reddit, there are many subs that will let you say bad words if you are using them for rational discussion and not to be edgy. Pretty much most default subs.

If voat is to appeal it needs to compete. It needs to be different to the degree that people want to come here. Getting the reject Reddit subs that just want to continue to be edgy just makes more edgy community members that gatekeep voat.

Just typing into google voat, youll see pizzagate and youngladies tied to this site like a huge black eye.

I tried donating something, but your system would not let me sign in. (So, here I am under a new name)

It has been some time since I signed in...Is there a time limit?

Anyway, I have a suggestion.

Why don't you establish a lock-box account here in the U.S.A.? And people can end checks or money orders directly to it....It is legally possible, and is not that complicated...A good bank, (or representative agency) can set you up with no tax consequences/filing here.

youre welcome

Follow gab.ai fundraising efforts. They seem to put together a very visible campaign and you should too!

How can you sell with all the crazy hate speech etc??? Im not complaining at all! I love it here faggotcucks.. But what im saying is no business or public entity is going to attach their name to this? Just wondering?

I'm a DevOps guy - Pretty versed in AWS and serverless systems. Need any help? What is the best coordination effort currently happening with this?

Sorry Gizmodo, we are here to stay. Take your fake news somewhere else.

A goat stick w/the addy printed on the back... COOL

My tip for cost reduction

How about doing it 4chan style with the storage. That means archieves get deleted after a fixed time say 1 month. Have a big counter until the next "purge". Archieving is not that useful, and if you really want to, generate a picture of it, with some addon or add the feature to the site. Offload archieving it to image hosters.

That is really awesome disclosing the particulars of the money that was sent your way. But the people will not be satisfied until you release Voat's tax returns!!!! Seriously what are you keeping from everyone by not releasing your tax returns. I archived the original post and where you said "Total Donations" the original unedited post said "TѲtДl DѲЛДtЇѲns" so WTF is up with that??? I don't want to sound like a hillary shill or nothin but.....

Okay I kid, I kid! You see you can joke with the mods at Voat unlike at fageddit where they will ban you for joking. I was not kidding about being transparent with your donations though. That is extremely welcome and I think in the future you will see that being transparent will encourage even more people to donate because the main reason people don't donate is because they are worried about being scammed. If you donated $5 and realized the thing you were donating to was a scam, you would be out $5 and also be resentful because you got scammed. If someone can throw $5 into the either its kinda like hedging a bet. If the people who received the money are upfront about what they got, then that is really encouraging to people who are on the fence about sending money.

Its good you realize that people who contribute money can be often times digging deep. The internet is not just for people in mamas basement, in fact some of the rhetoric from people who live in mamas basement can turn people off interactive websites like reddit. Voat gives an alternative for anyone who is thinking for themselves. Reddit promotes itself as an easy site to register and post whatever you want and get lots of view but that is not true, specifically the "post whatever you want" part.

I am not gonna get into too much personal details but I got outright attacked on a subreddit called "shit reddit says." This was several years ago and I laughed it off cause I figured that the people compaling were obvious trolls. As it turns out they weren't. They were deadly serious about the criticisms they had about me and their venom (although laughable) was nasty. I realized at that point that reddit had a serious problem, and the best way I could describe the problem is Mental Illness.

How can you explain people who get "triggered" by a posting about a religious anecdote? And I am not talking about someone respectfully disagreeing with something I said, but someone whining about what benign thing I said was "triggering" because they correlated offense to the fact you posted something in a religious context.

How the fuck do you even gain value to your insights when everything you write has to be cross referenced with what is politically correct and must be self censored or moderator censored? You don't gain value to your insights! In fact your thought patterns get damaged cause now you think "Oh I got censored because of what I said, I better not say that stuff again" but who is the authority banning your posts and controlling your thoughts? Cause thats what it is by the way, reddit does not promote individual thought, it seeks to control your thoughts and opinions. Say what you may about The_Donald, they are a bunch of weirdos if you ask me, but also, why are they not allowed to post their posts anywhere else then The_Donald? Wouldn't /r/worldnews like to know that Seth Rich was actually murdered by the Democratic Party? The users may like to know but I don't even know if they care about the truth vs the comfortable lie.

Voat does not censor even stupid opinions, and it does so with a really finely designed user interface. It allows the members of the site to determine whether a post should be upvoated or downvoated. Quality is determined by the merits of the user generated content, not an oligarchy of corrupt moderators.

Voat is needed so much in the current state of the internet. If Voat didn't exist the only site like this would be reddit and they have demonstrated their corruption time and time again. They are a filthy cesspool of brainwashed morons. You can get flagged for hate speech for posting a picture of an American flag and saying "America is awesome".

America is awesome. And so is Canada and New Zealand and Australia and Japan and the rest of the good countries in the world. Netherlands also is fuckin tight. And also I should mention Jamaica cause Jamaica is awesome and I have nothing but good experience with the people down there.

But also fuck reddit, Voat is way better. Stay live and stay happening Voat! And keep you donation option available because some people live paycheck to paycheck don't have the money to donate right now, but Voat users are smart users and we can consider everything and budget for things that we care about.

Keep Voat going as long as you can. Even though you are often compared to reddit, that bullshit site full of idiots is nothing compared to Voat. The existence of Voat is an indicator of a healthy internet. If Voat dies that's like freedom of speech on the internet getting hit by an asteroid. When freedom of speech is being attacked on all front at this time in history, even unassuming Voat will be remembered as one of the last bastions of decent freedom loving folks. Even if sometimes they come across as a little racist lol! You know every black person I know rolls there eyes at racism and just mutters to themselves "People will always be ignorant..." and that is also a valid opinion, that should not be censored!

Fuck reddit, its a cancer on the minds of people. Long live Voat and the extent of internet freedom that it promotes. If you have extra money, consider helping them cause it sounds like they need help.

Please add a monthly donation counter, yes it may be tacky and begging for donations, but I think that there are many fellow goats that would like to see it.

Spelt*

"Get the flock out of here!"

Why not shut down one hour per day beginning with Eastern Standard time and each hour thereafter round the clock 24/7. That way down time is fairly distributed around the world. Use that hour to solicit donations with all available info to make it really easy to donate and offering several different options, including merchandise. Have a clock face indicating how much time left on the hour so viewers know when to come back online. Kill 2 birds with one stone. Soliciting one hour per day, one hour interruption in services very tolerable. Perhaps an hour per day will not result in sufficient savings. My concern with doing it one day per week is losing potential users who might not understand why VOAT is down and then losing them indefinitely

I'm not sure that's the method of reducing server load we want to pursue :P

I am always amazed at the money the alt right has compared to the left. Of course we got jobs etc, but it is insane that before reddit started with censoring, that donation bar would never fill up, and I expect the little donations they got, are all gone now.

Could a Read Only Mode reduce cost?

Maybe a user preference option to turn off luxuries that can help reduce a small percentage of usage.

How about a QR code for each subverse that leads to a site where the mods randomly post pictures/comics/whatever relevent to the subverse?

I agree, here. God damn @puttitout!

the rather odd T_D advance and retreat we saw

Bwahahaha

I've been using my credit card to donate for over a year without issue. However if you'd prefer to not supply your info you could donate with bitcoin. Or you could buy pre-paid credit cards at convenience stores and use them.

Get /pol/ more involved with this place since reddit will ban you for linking here.

I'd buy a sticker for sure. Maybe a few. Maybe a lot for a bundle price, and they should have the URL on them so that I can leave them laying about in leftie hangouts.

The last batch of shirts was the goat head on the front and butt on the back. I like mine a lot.

Has anyone tried martin skreli?

Yeah

Why not

But this shit is weak strategy and you know it deep down

....

We need a fucking battle cruiser running on super cheap shit fuel

No license fees/copyright royalties, just the fucking bandwidth

With that, we cut the cost by 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSNrhe3lY9c

We fuck them up, who ever they are

WE FUCK THEM UP

Turning down services would be a good idea. It would extend the life of voat even further. What kind of service symptoms would we see browsing the page? Added latency?

Thank YOU. This place is worth it.

Why not move to Amazon from azure?

Azure is very expensive.

Great, let us know again if a deadline is approaching and overhead expenses have yet to be minimized.

Sanegoat take your fucking meds for fucks sake.

Ok seriously....do you understand the basics of running a business? For the past two years you keep making these panicked announcements and scrounge up enough money to skimp by for a few months. WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS PLAN? How do you expect to maintain revenue and grow? Are any oppurtunities seeking you out? If not are you seeking oppurtunities? Even if you are planning to live on donations you still need a plan. You need a revenue projection, a timeline for when you need to start campaigns, quarterky goals. PLEASE, find someone with business acumen who will partner with you.

I agree, I'm still waiting to be able to purchase a shirt, I missed the last time it happened. I just figured subscription since it would give them a better gauge for what income to expect.

Great, this means that the PV/SBBH/SDBH crowd will now have more power as they will definitely be the ones to take the new positions of power.

How do you get a penny in a gerbil's ass?

This has been downvoted, but I'm unfamiliar with many of these criticisms and would be interested in the reasoning behind the downvotes, if not responses to the criticisms.

$5 a month to ban the detractor and forum-slider SGIS.

Ey, Putt, where'd the seed money for Voat come from?

Looks like shitty Jizmodo will have to edit their story now (they won't)!

Deus Voat.

Community relations with this community is easy. Just don't put up with any bullshit, call them all faggots and slap the shit out of them if they get lippy. It's how you earn respect in the wild.

we're all just happy little trees right now aren't we. I know I am.

Good point.

How about a mug that goes from day to night mode when you pour hot coffee in it?

Alright, so USB sticks are dirt cheap and you can buy pretty customizable ones for fairly cheap in bulk, what would be awesome is a USB stick with a voat goat head on it. Probably not something for the immediate future but I would buy them just to give to people who have no idea what voat.co is.

I also think it would be hillarious if we did "innocently racist" themed phone covers, like watermelons, fried chicken, tacos, burritos, stacks of shekels.

Since what we're really all about here is free speech we should have some patriotic themed goat stuff too.

WHATEVER YOU DO, DONT LET JEWS IN ON THE OPERATION. THEY WILL FUCK IT UP FROM WITHIN. TRUST ME.

If you need someone good at the bits of programming that don't involve running a website, I can totally help.

What the fuck we need marketing for? I hate that faggy shit!

Please just take subscriptions. We all know that advertising requires to much sacrifice of the freedom that makes this great.

Stop.being obtuse.

Ever thought of making a Patreon account? That shit is popular. See how it goes and all.

Here's my idea for making money, putting your money where your mouth is. Basically it's like reddit gold where you can select a post that makes a donation to the site but as a reward you get to pick from a few different options such as faggot, nigger, kike enthusiast, etc. which you then get to force on the poster of the message in the form of a page they must click through in order to continue using voat.

If you do it please make the jew click through deposit shekels and the nigger one gibs.

Well, I was thinking that you could give the permalink of the comment you wanted, and the system would grab the author and text of the linked comment, format it like it was on the website, and turn it into an image. That way everyone could get a mug with their favourite rant, shitpost or whatever on it. Like I say, probably a bit too much tech-wise.

Subverses would certainly be much easier, and I'd love to see that, too.

Come and listen to a story about a place called voat.
A place so po' they could barely stay a-float.
Then one day they wore looking for some loot.
Up from the ground come a bubblin' crude...

Something like that.

It definitely depends. If you're thinking about making some kind of product based around the mascot to be sold in the Voat Store for Voat funding purposes, I'm sure that's fine. @NeedleStack has made Voat plushies in the past (but I still don't have one!).

I still think you should make it subscription based.

I believe it is trademarked, yes. See bottom of the page:

Voat and the Voat Mascot are trademarks of Voat, Inc.

I'll try to donate the same again next month, or possible buy some ads for /v/mensrights

If you put up a donation thermometer thing it might help

I got an idea, we could borrow cash from 4Chan who would in turn borrow cash from Reddit who could then borrow cash from US!

What could go wrong with that? It works for our respective governments!

That might be one of the best kind of things to put in the store, you'd make it once and sell it forever.

I'd quite like a mug. Bonus points if I can buy a mug and give the permalink of someone's comment to be printed on the reverse, but I think that might get to be too technical.

Anonymous single donor of 12 grand... Who might have that kind of money to toss around? I know all too well, people with big money 12k is nothing. They will blow 10x that on a night partying. I have said, tptb watch this site. Bitcoin gives people who might be extremely rich and personally involved in the things posted here.... the ability to keep us going anonymously.

Good request. Market research is required.

I can do some great basic tier photoshopping, CS3 style. Or If you're really desperate for community outreach, I can't tell these fucks what for.

All forms of goat paraphernalia.

Here at the Department of Helping New Users I shall continue my life's work of explaining to people how to get rid of unread notifications, why 'block subverse' takes a while to kick in and why their subverse request will be rejected.

you're a hero man, keep up the great work

Glad to see you asking for help. We really want to help. Prepare for that email inbox to be flooded.

Feel free to PM me when the needs arises for a Minister of Propaganda. I have really good people skills and can surmount any obstacle in this area.

I just know I could be a positive force for The Domination of Voat.co.

Good work Putt stay strong, looks like you have a few thousand wingmen! Will chip in when I get paid end of the month thanks for having me.

Can you offer us any advice on whats using the most resources from a user behaviour perspective. Let us try and reduce usage voluntarily before we start having to turn off features. Though turning of features is completely fine too.

There have been a number of suggestions made that those who make monthly pledges could receive some kind of useful feature, like a sitewide flair. Might encourage more donors, who knows.

I, for one, would not complain if there was a goat face floating next to my name.

We should reach out to Gavin McInnes. I could see him being a Voater.

We could also try Lauren Southern.

If you read this Putt, I have the time, we just need somewhere to co-ordinate with other goats. 3PL of merch, mutually beneficial advertising, SEO to make any Google-based crawling edits visible,...I am positive that it has been edited. Anyway, all can be added/improved and happy to help with.

Thanks Putt for all you do, the community is with you, should you need more than financial help.

A huge thank you to everyone who donated.

Dat dere REEEEal good writing halps alright, halps real good, shoot.

This was the reply I first typed up. I couldn't bring myself to post it in itself so here I am quoting it for your pleasure.

:-D If the size of badge is proportional to his screen, he wouldn't have space left to read the actual content.

I think community relations sounds like it will have a whale of a time. Would this be for promoting off site? Goathovah's witness knocking on doors like:

Excuse me sir or madam, do you have a moment to talk about the Jews?

All hail our Lord put, for he is good.

I'd need to know more details before I could offer any sales or marketing services. I'm willing to help, but I need I know if my specific skills are actually needed.

Total 27,352.00 (USD)

:-) It went better than expected!! Thank you for the great work and many sacrifices to keep the freedom of speech alive!!

Edit: I hope more goats will pledge monthly donations to keep this place running...

I'll ask you all first since this is going to be controversial, but should I reach out to r/linux for help? I'm sure v/linux can do some work, but our numbers are small here. We might get some /pol/ users over there that would help out.

Voat also needs a lawyer for a few small things

That is concerning, but I understand why you aren't able to talk about them. Hopefully you'll be able to at some point.

Wow, impressive amounts of donations already.

If you need someone to help with web stores etc, please reach out. Also check your BTC.

Edit: Will email proposal for store.

I definitely think reducing operating costs is a priority, and I know you need help to do that in reasonable time. We have people from /v/Linux actively working to help with that process.

Specific parts Putt has stated a need for volunteers so far:

• Lawyer
• Community relations
• Marketing
• Sales

Putt, could you go into some more depth sometime soon about the exact work that needs to be done in these categories? And are there any other roles that need to be filled? I think the more specific the stated roles are the more likely people are to reach out.

EDIT: Also, if people stay true to their pledges and if more pledges come in, I'm sure that with reduced monthly costs and more volunteers we can run Voat long-term and smoothly. If you intend to donate monthly and are not on the list I linked to, please contact me so we all have a better understanding of how much we can reasonably hope to bring in each month on our own.

EDIT 2: Also, that title is amazing.

Did our lawyer get clintoned? Jokes aside, thanks for the transparency through the costs of operation. Seeing the necessity and the small capital required greatly increases my will to donate.

Btw you ought to dump some of that BTC into cash, surely it's reaching peak price.

Fuck yeah.

I'm new here, but willing to do what is necessary to help. And just want to thank everyone who helped keep this place around for a while longer at least

Putt, have you considered daily downtown to cut cost in a more immediate way? 2 or 3 hours everyday during slow posting times?

Edit: Some goats are suggesting going down on Sundays...what you think? Off day for you at least based admin.

Great news, good work Goats and I hope more rolls in so we can keep going!

I will shortly be making a post to v/voatdev with plans for migrating Voat to an open runtime.

Please do, try to get as much community involvement and engagement as you can. If you can coordinate (or at least be involved in) creating a plan, decide on the stack, create an official repo, then Goats will contribute especially with everything laid out and some guidelines set. There's a good possibility we can reduce the time to port the platform so those hosting costs can get reduced, so in essence Putt don't forget the community is here to help you don't need to do this all on your own

I'll keep an eye on voatdev I guess.

T_D advance and retreat, we'll said.

Fuck yes. I'm proud of you deplorables.

Faggot.

Good show m8

Neat.

Nice work man. You the real G.

I'll make good on my word now.