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Reddit still has those subs about beating women and lynching black people, right? Get over yourself, voat is better than every single example you listed.

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I have yet to even see what Voat looks like because every time there's a Reddit event and someone mentions it, Voat is completely unresponsive.

Voat runs a modified version of the reddit open source code.

Wait, I thought it ran on a completely different codebase? It's hung from an ASP.NET framework running on an IIS server.

https://github.com/voat/voat

Trying to grow a site to Reddits size on IIS? That won't end well.

While totally forgetting sites like StackOverflow use IIS.

I think stackexchange are still running on IIS so it's probably close to doable - although I imagine they have some seriously smart people and resources way beyond what Voat will in the near future.

That said, does Azure play nicely with IIS? I bet it's expensive but can you scale that way maybe?

It's possible to scale, but you have to think about scaling ahead of time. Voat actually didn't and are now scrambling.

I think I stand corrected. Thanks.

No, it's a clone, written from scratch in C#.

You keep telling yourself that, maybe some day the truth fairy will come along and grant you your wish.

I thought the super secret internet clubs era was over. How old are you? Most people on voat cross browse. There's even a plugin to put both aggregators in the same page. I don't get where this idea that voat is that "den of pedos and fat haters" is coming from.

Anyway, +1 for Snapzu.

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