Voat Lives

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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Wow, wild. I wonder if he has copyright to do that or if they'll sue him. Seems like they were hardly managing voat for the last year or so so I imagine they will be too lazy to sue but they might issue a DMCA over the name voat or something. It definitely looks like they're going for an exact clone.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Oh I was curious about that too. He's just gonna go for it, and if they sue he has a backup domain and logo ready to roll. I hope they don't scare him off with a fake lawyer email like this site has gotten.

I think the from scratch thing is kinda silly though. We'll see how he does once it starts getting real traffic.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Oh I was curious about that too. He's just gonna go for it, and if they sue he has a backup domain and logo ready to roll. I hope they don't scare him off with a fake lawyer email like this site has gotten.

Yeah not a bad plan I guess. Risky, but it instantly captures all the clout that that name carries. But it also comes with all the baggage, so good luck to him with that.

I think the from scratch thing is kinda silly though. We'll see how he does once it starts getting real traffic.

Yeah and PHP is an odd choice for a website in 2021. New designs always run in to scalability problems too. But escaping the licensing fees is probably nice. I'm curious to see what happens with it.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

PHP is legit, it's the unsung unsexy hero of the internet. Some stats put it as high as running 80% of web sites. Facebook helped modernize it big time when they were using it. Maybe I'm biased, it's my day job language.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah wow. I've heard good things about it in terms of reliability and standardization, but I always regarded it like PASCAL which does what it does well, but is outdated. I didn't know it was still in such common use