I love this shithole. My tech skills are fairly meager but I would absolutely contribute monetarily and otherwise to Voat's survival or whatever can be built from it's ashes.
If you have any ideas/suggestions to BuiLd BAcK BetTEr post them. Example: I've heard of some anonymous/distributed hosting tech that could let a place like this survive, but I have no idea if they're really functional.
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Acerphoon ago
The reason that Putt doesn't accept donations and only informs us 4 days before the closure of the site is that this was always a honeypot to collect data on right-wing users.
magpul ago
NOT TRUE.
The reason that Putt doesn't accept donations is that he still has ~300 bitcoins he moved out to a different BTC wallet from voats official wallet and the coins are worth 400 * $23,000 , this week : $9,200,000
(The bitcoin donation addy that was on voat for ages):
https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/00000014ea8b260f
https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/00000014ea8b260f
Acerphoon ago
So money is not the problem then? Then what is.
Mind_Games ago
A lack of strong character.
kammmmak ago
He obviously made a deal.
thecajunone ago
He got a visit
Empire_of_the_mind ago
lol - years ago
mlangley ago
This.
Defy ago
Unless the problem is related to a lawsuit about vote that cashes his BTC. Now, they something they can sue him about and an actionable asset they can take from hi if they win.
fuckyourownface ago
jews
u_r_wat_u_eat ago
Mental fatigue.
Could you imagine running one of the most targeted sites on the web?
Voat is the last bastion of free speech and has been the target for years.
magpul ago
It is coded with a type of bug that causes a lockup, but not the lock we experience. That lock we experience, I propose is caused by a giant full forensic debug dump, meant to understand the nature of voats crash. Its probably a interdependancy lockup, or a recursion lockup , or a incorrect sort filter order bug. you filter THEN sort , never sort then filter. The three minutes voat goes down is probably a state dump. Longer than 3 minutes is a full server reboot and corruption scan of databases... for a total of ??? minutes.
better coding , switching to javascript and node, use of Mongo database, could all help it scale and run fine.
Hand_of_Node ago
The toaster it runs on only has 5 megabytes of storage. Worse, once it heats up, it ejects both drives out the top. Putt needs to jam a knife behind the handle to keep them from ejecting.