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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TheArcanumOrder ago
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.
DammitMoonMoon ago
I do not think this would be a good idea at all. I don't know anything about the r/linux community but the general atmosphere at eddit is to talk as much smack as possible about voat. Also, it could lead to other nefarious characters infiltrating. Last thing I want is an undercover SJW writing code for the backbone of voat.
just my thoughts.
TheArcanumOrder ago
I agree.
nogods_nokings ago
i agree with this. reddit is definitely not the place to go for this, even if you could get someone who doesn't believe the negative press t_d has been spreading since they went dim.
Crensch ago
Do not advertise that putt is looking to the community to fix things there. While they can find this themselves, don't wave our weaknesses around so they can infiltrate.
TheArcanumOrder ago
Will do. I'll try to come up with something else
Crensch ago
I could be wrong about that, but my first reaction was one of fear for our security. Other goats will respond soon, so take a poll or the most convincing argument either way.
TheArcanumOrder ago
I'll check out responses later tonight. We could always go hit up 4chans linux board. I dont think theyre our enemies. As long as we avoid /b/. Then we'd just get a bunch of 10 year old trolls