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Im sure that the constant ddos harassment hurt voat badly. but does anyone know what their traffic looked like year over year?

voat was never a deadzone, it brimmed with activity.

Im sure that the constant ddos harassment hurt voat badly. but does anyone know what their traffic looked like year over year? voat was never a deadzone, it brimmed with activity.

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It was in the top 1000 sites for traffic at one point, which severely rustled some jimmies

[–] • 2 pts

it was indeed, an amazing feat truly.

I genuinely believe we could have grown by leaps if putt had been savy to it. As i think back now, he almost quarantined us these last few years.

i would very much like to know why

[–] • 4 pts

Because running a top 1000 site is too much work for one person, but he absolutely refused to ask for help or delegate.

[–] • 0 pt

Bingo. Running the farms is going to kill Null and he knows it. DDOS, law suits, DMCAs, financial attacks, media attacks, host/registrar betrayal. Voat was constantly having hardware/scaling issues (among other problems) but we embraced them as features, features to slow the growth of and therefore prolong the life of the place. Also if you think about it who can you trust with access to delegate to? Are you going to make time to build gated access controls while also struggling to keep the site up?

The only way to have real speek on the internet anymore is in obscurity.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

In the beginning (2015) I was watching them rise on their Alexa rank. Does this help?

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/voat.co

[–] • 1 pt

yes i saw the graphs but couldn't make much of them. theyre very "beat around the bush"ish from what i gathered.

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/voat.co#section_traffic this graph shows 2020's traffic but this is all after the site took great hits. i'd like to find more long running data, say from 2015 to 2020.

[–] • 1 pt

I'm curious too. It was pretty active for such an obscure site.

[–] • 0 pt

Unlike this site (although I could be wrong) there was a count of online users for each sub. Before the major ddos attacks became a regular occurrence, at voats height of popularity I remember seeing users for some subs like whatever and news ranging from 250-400 online users at times.