Hey, it's me again, it's been a while!
I isolated the issue and did what I could to bring the services back online.
I am still a bit worried as I haven't heard anything from Putt, but I hope that he's just enjoying a few days off somewhere nice and quiet.
Running voat as a one-man-show is insanely difficult, hats off to Putt for keeping it together, especially with a full-time-job on the side. Please give Putt all the support you can, he definitely needs it. This, once student side-project, has grown to something beyond belief and my initial dreams, and it wouldn't be possible without all of you pulling your weight together. Life is hard as it is, we are brought to this ready-made system with little to no room to change anything, and with free information flow getting more and more difficult, I am worried for the future of mankind in general. Idiocracy (the movie) shows a possible outcome, and I sincerely hope that we don't end up there. Question everything, check your sources, talk to each other in person... and don't get distracted by mindless TV shows, movies, games, apps and god knows what. While you're getting distracted, deals are being made every day to take away more and more of your hard earned cash. (sorry for this rant, but I feel that youngsters need to know before they too get caught up in the machine)
Thank you all for staying put, regrouping on preview.voat.co and all over the web (kudos to 8ch for hosting you (hi Hotwheels!), and even organizing your own instances of voat or other similar software.
I hope to see you soon.
Stay safe.
/drops mic
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fuckudatswhy ago
A lot of people were worried, it seemed surreal, for more than 2 days being out, no message from anyone, and reddit and 4chan censoring voat discussion, we were a bit paranoid about the whole thing. It made echoes on the web.
mag60 ago
Why does 4chan censor Voat discussion?
Alpha_Voat_Protecter ago
4Chan is almost completely compromised.
8Chan is more intact, but it is heavily monitored and infested with shills.
There is currently no directly-better alternative to 8Chan (i.e. "the Reddit to 8Chan's Digg", "the Facebook to 8Chan's MySpace", etc.), although there are several smaller sites that are more-or-less competing to be 8Chan's eventual successor.
mag60 ago
What are those sites? I’d like to know where to go once Voat inevitably crumbles.
Alpha_Voat_Protecter ago
shrug I don't really know, I haven't been paying attention to the lists for over a year, and small forum sites can undergo a lot of changes in that time. Other users (either here or on preview.voat.co) have been keeping better tabs on alternative prospects, and might have some recommendations.