For future Voat historians

[MrPim]

I decided to start looking up migration periods.I started w FatPeopleHate. https://searchvoat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/2123362

[Cynabuns]

I decided to start looking up migration periods

Perhaps unironicly, the wiki for Reddit details these dates beautifully

[MrPim]

https://searchvoat.co/search.php?t=thepedes&ss=

[Joe10jo]

Steve Buscemi's character in Big Fish who loves the town of Spectre so much he never wants to leave parallels a Goat's love of Voat.

[Vindicator]

It's so bad...I've got like ten tabs, each with dozens of sub tabs open in two operating systems -- all involving research I wasn't done with or didn't want to have to dig for again. Most are Voat tabs. Now I nostalgically don't want to close or refresh any of them. So pathetic! LMAO.

[Thisismyvoatusername]

It's so bad...I've got like ten tabs, each with dozens of sub tabs open in two operating systems -- all involving research I wasn't done with or didn't want to have to dig for again. Most are Voat tabs. Now I nostalgically don't want to close or refresh any of them. So pathetic! LMAO.

The plug was pulled while I was engaged with family and Christmas dinner. When I got back on the internet the next day I found I still had a Voat tab open and it indicated I had 2 unread messages. I am kind of curious what they were. Oh well.

[Vindicator]

It's so bad...I've got like ten tabs, each with dozens of sub tabs open in two operating systems -- all involving research I wasn't done with or didn't want to have to dig for again. Most are Voat tabs. Now I nostalgically don't want to close or refresh any of them. So pathetic! LMAO.

The plug was pulled while I was engaged with family and Christmas dinner. When I got back on the internet the next day I found I still had a Voat tab open and it indicated I had 2 unread messages. I am kind of curious what they were. Oh well.

Yeah...I had 16. Same problem. Spent the days leading up to Christmas madly trying to notify pizzagate researchers their research would not be lost and where we were going to be. NOT what I wanted to be doing the holiest days of the winter.

[PeaceSeeker]

I *think* I recall that there was another iteration/name of the site before WhoaVerse ("who-a-verse" lmfao). Edit to note, 26 May 2015 was my Voat birthday.

forbid.me

No one has really done a thorough job of telling the story of Voat, that I've seen. The knowledge is scattered among the viewpoints of many users who all joined at different stages. I'm starting this thread, here, so that people can contribute their thoughts -- and more importantly, their links -- for those interested in this topic or who may want to write something up in at some point.

To get us started, here is an interesting final thread by @redpilldessert who spent his last hours on Voat archiving important threads "for future Voat historians": https://searchvoat.co/v/whatever/4174408

I'll link to some of the more relevant /v/OneTruePutt threads for reference:

Putt becomes CEO

SaneGoat's alt army gets banhammered

Some commentary on Putt's "Voat Needs an Angel" announcement, plus the arrival or the /r/The_Donald users

...and how their arrival helped keep Voat alive

The Port begins - May 25, 2017

Credit Card processor blacklists Voat - July 16, 2017

Preview Voat testing begins - July 29, 2017

The date for the Port switchover is set - September 26, 2017

Massive DDoS attack is launched against Voat, coordinated on the intended date of the Port - October 3, 2017

Second attempt at the Port begins - October 17, 2017

The Port is completed - December 27, 2017

Voat goes down for three days, users flocks to Preview Voat in the meantime - April 21, 2018

Some commentary on the user reaction to the Voat outage - April 30, 2018

Positive support despite the controversy - May 3, 2018

Comments on another, shorter outage - June 18, 2018

Port Updates - June 25, 2018

Voat goes read-only for the first time, without warning or a notification banner - August 27, 2018

A large wave of Q followers arrive after /r/GreatAwakening is banned - September 19, 2018

Q endorses Voat, even more Q followers arrive - September 24, 2018

More DDoS attacks, another Voat Lockdown - October 22, 2018

I've exceeded my SearchVoat accesses for this hour, and it's late, so I'll add to this later on.

[29again]

It's so bad...I've got like ten tabs, each with dozens of sub tabs open in two operating systems -- all involving research I wasn't done with or didn't want to have to dig for again. Most are Voat tabs. Now I nostalgically don't want to close or refresh any of them. So pathetic! LMAO.

I don't have any open for research, but I confess that I have tabs for Voat open on both laptops.. I can't bear to close them out and let them go forever.