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Today upgoat turns 3.

In 3 years...

Topics posted: 169,720
Comments: 1,342,528
Votes cast: 4,556,546
Users: 5,467 (accounts with no activity have been pruned a few times to deal with mass account creators)

Traffic in last 30 days
Upgoat.net
24,810 unique visitors
10,130,000 total requests
31 gb of data served

Voat.xyz
64,5700 unique visitors
20,590,00 total requests
76 gb of data served

I never look at this data and I was pretty surprised honestly. Not too shabby. I know people like to joke saying there is only like 25 people here, but if that were the case this website would be a literal ghost town. Social media websites require big pool of people, enough to hit a critical mass in which there is enough content being posted to warrant people visiting in the first place. This is why it's incredibly hard to get something like upgoat going, and one of the reasons I am grateful for you all and to be in this position.

That being said there is room for improvement. Traffic has dwindled a bit and I would hate to see this place die. This place does not rely on search engines for traffic. It doesn't rely on anything really. We're not allowed on the app store. Grassroots word of mouth is the only way we are able to grow. But many ex-voaters aren't even aware of this place. Occasionally they will find their way here but I rarely see this site mentioned out on the web... which is why I am going to ask you to share the url whenever possible. Doing this is vital to remaining active, relevant, and online. I like being a small site, but it does need to fill the ranks with more great minds. So spread the word. Share the link in reddit posts, twitter, video game chats, and where ever else. Doing this will keep upgoat active and online for years to come.

In other news I may mix things up a bit this year by trying experimental things or features. I have a few things in mind I may or may not try. We'll see. One thing i will I start doing is pinning topics which I think deserve it. Big current news stories or just interesting threads that went unnoticed.

In more other news, as of 2 days ago talk.lol is dead. The domain no longer works. Good riddance!

I love hearing your ideas, suggestions and even bugs, so post them up here and I will look into them. On side note, anyone want to create this place a logo/trademark? Something cool. The iconic voat goat was just handed to atko. Let's see what you guys can come up with.

It should work properly across the whole site now. Let me know if that's not the case.

Also fixed an issue with expired mutes not notifying you when they reply to your thread/comment.

Just came across this logo. It was a website I created when voat was down for like 2 weeks. It was a message board with a custom front page which displayed posts. I gave up in frustration due to lack of traction.

https://www.upgoat.net/colorize.php?c1=414b68&c2=1d202f&c3=414b68&c4=a9b1d6&c5=bb9af7&c6=e8af68&c7=a9b1d6&c8=9ece6a&colorswap=1&lightbuttons=1&lighticons=1&bgurl=0&bgopt1=0&bgopt2=0

The options for reporting a thread are

o This post is spam

o This post breaks a site rule

o This post is adult content and not tagged adult

o This post is gore content and not tagged gore

o Other

To prevent abuse you need 100 points on your account before you can submit a report.

Also I made a privacy policy https://www.upgoat.net/privacy_policy

Using multiple accounts to vote on the same content will result in all your accounts losing the ability to vote.

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You all complained and I listened. The "hard selected" categories have been removed and now defaults to /all again.

Later today talk.lol will be no more.

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The site name and domain is changing. Why? I was never too fond of "talk.lol" as a name. Yes it is short and sweet, but it never really grew on me and I think others can relate. Also the "premium" domain renewal is crazy and way higher than it should be. I think the new name better represents the community. It's also fitting for a voting site as well. The talk.lol and voat.xyz domain will continue to work as they do now, so after the down time just use the same domain you always have till the new one is revealed, BUT I am considering retiring them soon and eventually they will just redirect to the new domain. The new site will function slightly different then it does now but will pretty much look the same.. at least for now. Down time will start later today.

Will most likely be restored sometime tonight.

Edit: Voting is restored.

I wasn't ignoring you, I swear. I found a bug.