Voat is currently getting hit with a huge amount of traffic as a direct result of recent changes happening over at that other place.
Everyone, we’re sorry. We’re both sad to see what we once loved change in this manner, but we’re also excited about the future, but our future won't be traveling down this same path.
We won’t be getting any sleep tonight (again) and we are doing everything we can to handle the traffic.
Our budget is limited but we’ll make sure to fight to the last penny in order to keep Voat alive for this community. If you want to donate, well, now is the time. Our bitcoin address is 1C4Q1RvUb3bzk4aaLVgGccnSnaHYFdESzY.
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gromenawer ago
They fire a mod from IAMA, who apparently was very beloved and resourceful.
As a result, a lot of popular subreddits has been set to private as protest.
EDIT: Apparently the mod was actually an admin too. Please read further in the comment tree for more info.
EDIT2: List of subs going private: https://np.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3bxjyu/list_of_subreddits_suddenly_going_private/ . Holly jumping volcano!
571817? ago
They fired a community manager admin that was responsible for coordinating the AMAs for a few subreddits (and perhaps had other duties), for unknown reasons. They had no migration plan in place to make sure that operation continued smoothly, and, apparently, didn't adequately communicate with the mods and users most affected by it. Though we still don't know the reasons for her termination (they could even turn out to be perfect valid, such as she was taking kickbacks from AMA targets), people are pissed off and revolting against the admins by setting their subs private, affecting literally millions of users and lurkers.
Crookston ago
No, the mods set the subreddits to private not the admins. The users want the mods to set it to private so it hurts reddit even more. The admins want the subs to not be private because that's what brings the money.