[coolnow]

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.

[omni]

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.

[pests]

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

[thaw12]

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

[pests]

I think I stand corrected. Thanks.

[pixl97]

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

[mcintyre1994]

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?

[davidgerard]

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

[pests]

While totally forgetting sites like StackOverflow use IIS.

[davidgerard]

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

[emdi81]

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

[JonTarg]

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.