How can we get more people to join this site and more importantly make sure that it has good diversity of opinion?

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[–]senatorpjt 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It will probably be the same as when everyone left Digg and went to Reddit. It happened because of what Digg did to itself, Reddit was just in the right place at the right time.

I don't know if Voat ever had a chance, but if it did, that opportunity was lost by being unable to scale when there was a major incident over at Reddit. Reddit seems to be more of a slow-motion trainwreck now, so perhaps it won't be as much of an issue. But if there is some other major event (like say, banning The_Donald), if this site can't handle the traffic it's going to be a lost opportunity.

[–]poestal 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

voat did have a chance during the whole pao debacle. people where leaving in droves to voat but their servers crashed for like two weeks because of mass migration. eventually people returned to reddit and the ones who couldn't were the ones you see today.

what saidit needs to prepare for is the reddit "hug of death" when people start to come in droves.

[–]5Nco2VME7FpWVbuS 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Unfortunately to prepare for that they will need funding, and I doubt the guys running this place are making much off of it in its current state.