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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bruhbruhbruhbruh ago
Web software engineer here - I will create a replacement, if you guys are good with a couple rules:
I will accept financial support to pay for hosting, but I’ll also pitch in a few hundy to kick it off.
I will use a warrant canary and will not store IP logs.
If you guys are OK with that, I’ll put up a placeholder domain, but only if this gets traction and everyone is gonna move over there.
Shotinthedark ago
Well shit a 10 day old account that hasn't posted anything has a great idea, sign me the fuck up
observation1 ago
F you faggot
Well
If you are serious I will supply network and server hardware
But not racskpace. So aws or bust or need a rackspace donor
Glory_Beckons ago
Are you me? Those are exactly the rules I would use. Suggested as much here years ago. Didn't go over well then, but I think sentiment has changed on that. You practically never see porn on the front of all anymore, because nearly everyone downvotes it when they see it. So I think you would be just fine with those ground rules.
I'm very tempted to start a replacement as well but, realistically, I know I don't have the time for such an endeavor right now. Especially on such short notice. If you open source it, I would definitely pitch in though. I'm sure there are many here who could and would contribute. Best of luck, either way.
tholmes4005 ago
Willing to help with code, support.
Buff_Awesome ago
What are you going to call it? We need to know what to look for since we won't be able to coordinate here.
VoataoV ago
I'm willing to potentially be the public facing part of it
heretolearn ago
I'm good with those rules. How will we find you.
SparklingWiggle ago
There were a couple of users that ported the code a year or two ago. I wonder if they could supply the source. I will cough up money. I also have IT skills of varying levels. I'm a troubleshooter of all kinds. I code in an industrial language but the logic methods are similar.
Monday685 ago
I'm there.
beece ago
I'd move. Gonna miss the wild free speech that most of you assholes bring to the table.
captainstrange ago
Don't use a warrant canary. The alphabet soup gang has an internal policy to kill any canary as a sort of "out-of-spite" policy. Yes really.
They kill the canary on any site that uses them 1. to spite any site that tries it, 2. to discourage and moot the utility of it, so it doesn't spread as a practice.
bruhbruhbruhbruh ago
Interesting. Maybe I should work under the MO of having a warrant canary specific to every hour of the day and even for specific users. I wonder what the practical limits are there.
captainstrange ago
That is something in my idea folder. Would make it a lot easier for people to establish grounds to sue for malicious interference in 1st amendment speech.
AltUserMe ago
How long do you realistically think it'll take to code? I have a bit of downtime.
Diogenes_The_Cynic ago
I'm down.
RoBatten ago
Yeah, we need someplace to go . . .
bruhbruhbruhbruh ago
Vote me out then, get others also, if a bunch of people don’t see it then it’s not worth doing.
Spyzz808 ago
Yes 9 day old mem
bruhbruhbruhbruh ago
I know, I deleted my prior user a couple weeks ago because of some... stuff... that I posted… I did not realize the site was going to be deleted a couple weeks later or I would have waited.