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Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by jimmijazz »

epmaybe wrote: post #21
zzzzz_ wrote: post #16

Reddit is technology wise pretty simple - it's just one step up from a forum. So these guys have re-implemented a forum and added a stack of features that only a bunch of devs could come up with. Markdown support is mentioned twice at the top of the features list! Anyway this is a site by actual guys that used to work at Reddit so you'd expect them to be pretty smart business orientated chaps right? Well they launch,…

To be fair, "logging in" is just making a username and password. No Email is required. That's really not a huge deal to me, but maybe others disagree.

I believe a large majority of reddit users are lurkers. I browsed the site almost daily for months before I felt the need to create an account so I could start commenting.

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by seibelj »

dkhenry wrote: post #15
imran3740 wrote: post #9

As with voat.co, who's gonna switch to this? Really the only people who switched over to Voat are the people who felt reddit was restricting their rights by posting controversial/hateful material on reddit. So it tends to be full of /pol-like MRAs/extreme right/alt-right users. Voten seems like it's trying to implement a more democratic system, but who will be pushed into switching over to that?

I dunno, with the recent changes reddit has been rolling out it is no longer a nice place to visit. There is so much hate and anger on the front page and so little good content. I could make an account, but it seems like they shadow ban everyone except for bots ( and not just for content, the last two times I was shadow banned it was because I logged in from my office IP address which they deemed was "gaming" votes )

I have been hearing "reddit sucks now" for 8 years and my reddit account is 9 years old. And I pretty much agree. But I keep going there!

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by emodendroket »

zzzzz_ wrote: post #16

Reddit is technology wise pretty simple - it's just one step up from a forum. So these guys have re-implemented a forum and added a stack of features that only a bunch of devs could come up with. Markdown support is mentioned twice at the top of the features list! Anyway this is a site by actual guys that used to work at Reddit so you'd expect them to be pretty smart business orientated chaps right? Well they launch,…

The Cuil of Web forums.

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by SquareWheel »

douchechill wrote: post #34

What do you mean? I for one not only had a chuckle over morning coffee, but, learned a few things about what I would do and not do for my own startup. That's my opinion on the original comment. My opinion on you is that your feelings are too sensitive and are muddying your rationale here. "What new platforms need, is less of this." I disagree, brutal honesty goes a long way.

Flagging this comment. Creating a throwaway named "douche chill" just to reply to somebody might as well be a direct insult.

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by ue_ »

aloisdg wrote: post #26
kevingrahl wrote: post #13

Aaand yet another reddit "alternative" and they all seem to fail or have troubles gaining traction. I can recall voat.co, hubski.com and imzy.com (my favorite so far) and now one more. I'd really like to know why devs think they can rival Reddit, it's just too big.

I would like a decentralized Reddit.

Have you heard of things like NNTPChan? Granted, it's not "Reddit" (it's an imageboard) however it's an imageboard that works over NNTP. It's as decentralised as I know of, though I'd also be interested in finding decentralised Reddit alternatives.

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by snomad »

imran3740 wrote: post #9

As with voat.co, who's gonna switch to this? Really the only people who switched over to Voat are the people who felt reddit was restricting their rights by posting controversial/hateful material on reddit. So it tends to be full of /pol-like MRAs/extreme right/alt-right users. Voten seems like it's trying to implement a more democratic system, but who will be pushed into switching over to that?

> who's gonna switch to this

I wonder if the removal of CSS from the subreddits will give other message boards a chance to splinter off some of the community.

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by dvdhnt »

tyingq wrote: post #2

"The app itself is powered by Laravel, Vue.js, Socket.io, and Node" Is there another Laravel other than the php one? Seems odd to roll out with both php and node.js. I don't know why you would need both. Edit: Yes, I see each has it's strengths. But that has to drive a lot of doing the same thing twice, in two languages...they both interact with the same data. I would guess time-to-market is important at launch to re…

Agreed. Also, I've never noticed someone using both a front-end framework AND jQuery simultaneously. Usually, at least in projects I've collaborated on, this is redundant. However, I've never used Vue.js, so perhaps this is standard?
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