As someone who isn't in the "I've left Reddit permanently" camp, but more in the "I'm seeing what else is out there" camp, I've been interested to try out Voat just as much as Snapzu. But every time I have tried Voat in the last 48 hours, it's been down. So I'm still waiting to learn what the community is like over there. What I have learned, though, is that Snapzu is an awesome place that will get plenty of my time moving forward.
Yes, same... I tried Voat awhile ago. After several minutes it finally loaded, but then it being an exact Reddit clone didn't sit with me well. It's also just a pain to connect to, and now it's down... soooo....
I tried Voat out a while ago, went there a few times a day for about a week. It was like reddit, if reddit actually made impovements and upgrades. In-line video and image expansion, dark mode available. There were other improvements to the commenting and upvoting system that essentially made it impossible to create new accounts and brigading/harassing.
The community (in general) is pretty nice, mostly reddit refugees or converts, mostly people who don't like the way the site is going. A lot of jokes about how reddit must have really fucked up (after voat's servers went down), and a lot of posts about being glad to be there, etc, but otherwise pretty similar to reddit's content.
It definitely has potential, but they definitely need to be able to handle the influx of people that are clamoring to try them out.
Honestly, I would be more than happy for both sites to make it through this with their own communities. One of the best things I've been seeing from the Reddit abandonment has been a chance for these smaller sites to show off and expand what makes all of them unique from the Reddit super-site. I don't see why only one site has to make it out of this as the only "winner".
Yea, from what I've read of comments from people who actually got into Voat, about half have said that the community is made up in nice people. So it's worth a try, for me at least.
Haha, I guess I haven't found the right 5 minutes to try yet.
But I was reading today that Voat is finalizing some venture capital funds. If that happens they should be up and running soon after. We'll see what happens then.
It looks like it's back up again. Who knows for how long. It'll be interesting to see where it goes. I do like Snapzu so far though. Just wish that there was a mobile app.
As someone who isn't in the "I've left Reddit permanently" camp, but more in the "I'm seeing what else is out there" camp, I've been interested to try out Voat just as much as Snapzu. But every time I have tried Voat in the last 48 hours, it's been down. So I'm still waiting to learn what the community is like over there. What I have learned, though, is that Snapzu is an awesome place that will get plenty of my time moving forward.
Yes, same... I tried Voat awhile ago. After several minutes it finally loaded, but then it being an exact Reddit clone didn't sit with me well. It's also just a pain to connect to, and now it's down... soooo....
Snapzu party!
I tried Voat out a while ago, went there a few times a day for about a week. It was like reddit, if reddit actually made impovements and upgrades. In-line video and image expansion, dark mode available. There were other improvements to the commenting and upvoting system that essentially made it impossible to create new accounts and brigading/harassing.
The community (in general) is pretty nice, mostly reddit refugees or converts, mostly people who don't like the way the site is going. A lot of jokes about how reddit must have really fucked up (after voat's servers went down), and a lot of posts about being glad to be there, etc, but otherwise pretty similar to reddit's content.
It definitely has potential, but they definitely need to be able to handle the influx of people that are clamoring to try them out.
Honestly, I would be more than happy for both sites to make it through this with their own communities. One of the best things I've been seeing from the Reddit abandonment has been a chance for these smaller sites to show off and expand what makes all of them unique from the Reddit super-site. I don't see why only one site has to make it out of this as the only "winner".
Yea, from what I've read of comments from people who actually got into Voat, about half have said that the community is made up in nice people. So it's worth a try, for me at least.
I was able to get on for about 5 minutes today before the site went back down.
Haha, I guess I haven't found the right 5 minutes to try yet.
But I was reading today that Voat is finalizing some venture capital funds. If that happens they should be up and running soon after. We'll see what happens then.
It looks like it's back up again. Who knows for how long. It'll be interesting to see where it goes. I do like Snapzu so far though. Just wish that there was a mobile app.
Yeah, once the communities can get settled, this will be good. I hope that Voat can fix their servers.