How many times does the search bar have to dissappear, be disabled, non functioning... etc etc etc
I do not believe this is a mistake. NOTHING MENTIONED BY MODS. Why?
https://voat.co/v/AskVoat/1722670 VOAT SEARCH FUNCTIONS
[–] Cynabuns 3 points (+3|-0) 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago)
It has been temporarily removed, https://voat.co/v/whatever/1722614/8428496 :
[–] PuttItOut 4 points (+4|-0) 32 minutes ago
I did it.
We are currently looking at how much cpu search uses so we are getting a benchmark with the site running without it.
Should be back on tomorrow. Apologies.
Who is PuttItOut?
AN ALTERNATIVE Another option that works super well, created by a Voater: https://searchvoat.co
Other mentions and excuses
[–] Disappointed 3 points (+3|-0) 17 days ago
They were taking it down for day to test things. That was about 4 days ago.
Tune in for The People vs. Search court case
The GiG is up VOAT. Time for some splainin.....
This place is SO FUCKING compromised. LIkely we are signing up for our spot in the FEMA camps just by posting here. Compiling lists by region as we type. FUCKERS.
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abortionburger ago
How much power do you think we have over Voat? What on earth would lead you to believe that we can edit the site itself?
SecondAmendment ago
For what it's worth, mods, the "search" button on my computer is fine. Never had any problems with it.
abortionburger ago
Really? I can't get any searches to come up.
SecondAmendment ago
WHOA! I stand corrected. I was wrong! I posted that the searches were working because earlier today the search bar was, in fact, working fine. But just now when I tried a few searches I got an error message that said:
"Well this is embarrassing. Something went wrong and let's face it, nobody's happy about it. We'll dispatch our monstersquad to take a look at it right away!"
Sorry, @abortionburger. I should have checked before stating that it worked because, as of a few minutes ago, I could not get a search to work, either. Sorry.
abortionburger ago
It's all good! Good to know it's down for everyone. Mine hasn't worked in days, @vindicator was speculating that maybe it's a browser cache clearing issue.
Vindicator ago
Not that I would actually know, being a tech retard. Was just hypothesizing this would explain the variance between users. Search was up for a while after the posts linked by @awarenessadventurer above, but right around the April Fools UI change, it went byebye again.
Awareness, did you see my comment in the April Fools Day sticky over the weekend? Mods are as in-the-dark about this as users. There is only one Voat admin, @PuttItOut, the owner of Voat, who runs it in his spare time. Busy guy. I've pinged him a few times about the impact on our end, but he has never responded.
awarenessadventurer ago
Puttitout is also a founder/registered owner of this site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voat (public info, not a dox)
Founded in April 2014 as WhoaVerse, the website was initially a hobby project by a BSc student, Atif Colo (known on Voat as @Atko), who was later joined by Justin Chastain (known as @PuttItOut).[14][15] The website has been labelled as an alternative to Reddit with a focus on freedom of expression.[5][12][16] In December 2014, WhoaVerse changed its name to Voat for ease of use.[17]
Vindicator ago
Yes, I was just looking at his comment history to see what he might be up to -- looks like he has been neck deep in Voat Chat. Incidentally, this is how I find out what is going on around here: Go to v/AskVoat, v/VoatDev, v/announcements, v/ProtectVoat, NEW, and see if anyone has posted on the subject. However, titles of posts are not always indicative of actual content (cause few subs have rules requiring it), so you have to click and drill. :)
awarenessadventurer ago
I think we know all we need to about this forum, about all of it. For me, its obvious. ITS NOT SAFE HERE. WE ARE PART OF A LARGER CONTROL EXPERIMENT, "AI" driven. I am not interested in being a lab rat.