Now that the dust has died down, here is an update on what you goats have done since the Angel announcement. If you haven't read this please do, it's a serious matter.
You have sent in 6.21405968 BTC in total which is approximately ~$12,428.00 USD (using $2K/BTC as price fluctuates). Please note the BTC donations were in a large part made by a single transaction.
Store Transactions:
| Date |
Amount |
| 18-May-2017 |
4,279.00 (USD) |
| 19-May-2017 |
5,200.00 (USD) |
| 20-May-2017 |
2,595.00 (USD) |
| 21-May-2017 |
1,800.00 (USD) |
| 22-May-2017 |
1,100.00 (USD) |
| Total* |
14,924.00 (USD) |
Total Donations:
| Date |
Amount |
| Store |
14,924.00 (USD) |
| BTC |
12,428.00 (USD) |
| Total |
27,352.00 (USD) |
Voat, I'm so very proud of you for pulling together and giving Voat another chance. I personally know that every donation is a sacrifice being made and I won't loose sight of this.
A note on hosting costs:
The value of $6,600.90 (USD) mentioned in the above announcement was for the billing period of 2017-04-01 through 2017-04-30. This means we have another bill coming up in one week. I did not turn down the hardware specs because of the uncertainty of the rather odd T_D advance and retreat we saw. Also, these amounts do not include all bills such as cloudflare and a few other small things were not added in.
This amount only gives us at most 3-4 months of operational only funds at our current burn rate, which isn't much. So now the real work begins.
Next Steps
In the short-run, we have to reduce operating costs significantly (porting to open backends and runtimes) and we need to get organized as a community. I simply cannot manage Voat alone and now is the time I admit this and open Voat up to help from the community. I will need volunteers to help with Voat's operations such sales, marketing, and community relations. If you have a strength and you want to help Voat, please send an email to [email protected] with your proposal. Voat also needs a lawyer for a few small things (our first pro-bono lawyer disappeared on us with no explanation) so if any are out there we'd love to hear from you.
I'm significantly delayed with responding to emails but I am working through them. Also, I am unable to stay on top of PM's through Voat (I have thousands of unread PMs). So please reach out via email if something is important.
I will shortly be making a post to v/voatdev with plans for migrating Voat to an open runtime.
Canary
https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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jinbnters ago
Great news, good work Goats and I hope more rolls in so we can keep going!
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
cynicaloldfart ago
Let's keep in mind this is Putt's and Atko's baby. Not all ideas can/will be implemented. Suggest and contribute realizing not every offer/submission will be used. If your favorite idea is not utilized, it may be the larger picture is above our level and not every decision has to be explained to our satisfaction. I think that is a part of maturity. But please keep thinking and contributing no matter what.
TremorAcePV ago
While you are right about all ideas not being implemented, it's an open source website. Ownership can only really go so far with that.
This voat.co domain is theirs of course, but I could spin up my own "identical in everything but name" website if I wanted thanks to it being open source.
But, one of Voat's main selling points is transparency. Putt doesn't have to explain stuff, but he probably should if it unsettles users because if he doesn't (unless there's a good reason), it's not better than Reddit.
dancemonkey ago
I think you're forgetting about Night Mode there pal...
PuttItOut ago
I'm working on this now as this is something we can do to immediately to give us more flexibility and cost reduction.
Arotaes_Forgehammer ago
As well it allows for a lot of redundancy in the coding base. Lose one person and two more will move in to fill the gap.
RevanProdigalKnight ago
Hail Hydrate!