It would be nice to share some pede history with some newer pedes. Thanks 🙏🏻
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Thanks! When and why was Voat shut down?
I think it was shut down Christmas Eve of 2020, shortly after the election. Not sure why, though.
Somebody screenshotted the last post before takedown.
It was a post showing a direct connection between the vatican and Les Wexner, who was epstein's first "client".
Wish someone would post it so we could see it. I barely remember it because of the heartbrokeness of it all. Worst Christmas Eve I remember
It was shut down due to rising costs.
They used the Azure cloud from Microsoft with a big discount for new users, and used C# (Microsoft technology) to build the site. When the discount period was over, it was $6000+ per month to keep the site up. There was attempts at converting it to open source but it didn't go anywhere.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/comments/6btlv1/voat_hobby_reddit_clone_with_no_monetization/
I see. Thanks for the info 🙏🏻
Hmm don't quite remember when it was. It was a few years back. The owner of the site shut it down didn't want to run it any longer I guess. He did give us warning, though.
Interesting… wonder what happened to him.