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SearchVoat on life support

submitted by chrimony to whatever 1.9 yearsMay 22, 2022 21:47:51 ago (+65/-1)     (searchvoat.co)

https://searchvoat.co/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=8395

Owner of the site says site may be going down in 2 or 3 weeks. He provides download links for data. No explanation as to why. See linked thread on SearchVoat forum.


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[ - ] Zinnsee 19 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 04:25:14 ago (+19/-0)

Tradition demands that he'll wait until Christmas before shutting it down...

[ - ] Autismo 6 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 09:28:54 ago (+6/-0)

Someone make a torrent and also Usenet mirrors of the searchvoat.xyz archive.

[ - ] Prairie 1 point 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 19:26:22 ago (+1/-0)

Better than pounding his site and costing him bandwidth.

[ - ] x0x7 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 23:22:14 ago (+0/-0)

Christmas in July, or June, whatever.

[ - ] system 18 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 03:00:36 ago (+19/-1)

Without it this place most likely wouldn't exist. Sucks to see it go, curious about the circumstances. Pinning because I know many care/rely on it.

[ - ] DonaldJTrump 4 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 16:19:57 ago (+4/-0)

fuckoffwerefull will be mirroring the site contents on a subdomain. If I can get the code from him I'll even set up the archive so talklol will keep being archived if you like. We'll see. I offered to take the domain and keep hosting the site but he hasn't responded.

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 20:34:26 ago (+1/-1)

I wouldn't respond to that u/ either, faggot.

[ - ] deleted 3 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 06:08:52 ago (+3/-0)

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[ - ] SilentByAssociation 2 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 08:40:02 ago (+2/-0)

Correct

[ - ] Prairie 2 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 20:43:46 ago (+2/-0)

That and those researchers who archived it for study.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 22:36:28 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] deleted -2 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 12:32:52 ago (+1/-3)

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[ - ] germ22 9 points 1.9 yearsMay 22, 2022 23:04:02 ago (+9/-0)

That is sad news.
I might not use searvoat often, but it has come in handy a few times. Is it possible to download all the data and make it usable offline like a website?

[ - ] MagicMushroom 5 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 16:54:16 ago (+5/-0)

The best way to try and do this is to convert a (soon to be extinct) website into a .zim file and allow people to browse and search it using Kiwix.

https://kiwix.org

https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/Build_your_ZIM_file

https://zim-wiki.org/manual/Usage/Publishing.html
https://github.com/openzim/zimit

Verify this for yourself by downloading Kiwix and and a .zim archive of a relatively small (10GB site) and try browsing the site using Kiwix.

A while ago, we tried to use a service, zim.it I think to convert voat.xyz into a .zim but it wasn't readable. It should be possible.

[ - ] s23erdctfvyg 5 points 1.9 yearsMay 22, 2022 23:14:05 ago (+5/-0)

Yes, as long as I'm understanding it correctly, the owner provided downloads to everything. Thankfully it's not that much, around 20 gigs in total I think.

[ - ] germ22 4 points 1.9 yearsMay 22, 2022 23:33:36 ago (+4/-0)

I saw the download links, but i guess i wouldn't know how to make it usable like a offline website.

[ - ] I_am_baal 6 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 00:27:58 ago (+6/-0)

From the looks of it, you'd have to insert it all into sql databases and then query them

[ - ] Rawrination 4 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 06:17:08 ago (+4/-0)

Ill archive data but don’t have the skills to sql whatever. Hopefully someone can make searchvoat2.0

[ - ] DonaldJTrump 3 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 10:31:30 ago (+3/-0)

I've been trying to download it but it's slow as molasses. If I offered you an ftp server address could you upload it for me? Fuckoffwerefull is going to mirror the contents.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 09:52:28 ago (+0/-0)

It's not that hard really. You just have to learn the correct commands and input that into a program or website with a button for each command, copy/pasting (after cleaning) the inputted text fields.

[ - ] Autismo 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 22:27:56 ago (+0/-0)

that sounds hard you stupid fuck.

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 21:09:54 ago (+0/-0)

I'll upload it to the diddndoo server so they can take full credit for inventing it.

[ - ] Sleazy 5 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 16:28:51 ago (+5/-0)

Damn it!

THAT SITE IS THE BEST SEARCH ENGINE ON THE WHOLE DAMNED INTERNET

[ - ] Tallest_Skil 6 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 08:45:51 ago (+6/-0)

This place will be next, I’m sure.

[ - ] deleted 1 point 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 12:36:04 ago (+1/-0)

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[ - ] NeoNazirite 1 point 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 18:15:32 ago (+1/-0)

I'm in the same boat, but instead, I bought a motorcycle and ride with some fellas most days. Everything else is just fuggin stupid

[ - ] deleted 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 24, 2022 12:09:29 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] NeoNazirite 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 24, 2022 18:36:36 ago (+0/-0)

Yeah, but I can haul ass. 🖕🏻

[ - ] deleted 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 24, 2022 18:49:06 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] NeoNazirite 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 25, 2022 15:18:29 ago (+0/-0)

Oh yeah? Well fuck you!

[ - ] v0atmage 6 points 1.9 yearsMay 22, 2022 23:01:13 ago (+6/-0)

Noooooo, we need the borg!!!

[ - ] MichaelStewart 10 points 1.9 yearsMay 22, 2022 23:17:02 ago (+10/-0)

Jews did this.

[ - ] VigourousJackson 4 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 06:27:51 ago (+4/-0)

same as the voat takedown

[ - ] DanielR 3 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 10:46:24 ago (+3/-0)

So will this site close ? Or it wont affect the website ?

[ - ] deleted 2 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 11:32:13 ago (+5/-3)

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[ - ] DanielR 2 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 13:55:09 ago (+2/-0)

ok so this site is gonna be okay

[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 15:49:16 ago (+1/-0)

We're all gonna die. Commence panicking as soon as possible please, thanks.


--the government

[ - ] shitface9000 2 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 10:35:10 ago (+2/-0)

It’s the jews

[ - ] MagicMushroom 2 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 08:10:27 ago (+5/-3)

SearchVoat has been terrific, however, it has always suffered a fatal failing, and now that weakness is expressing itself: Centralization.

This problem of centralization is the same problem that voat.co had, and the exact same flaw that voat.xyz / talk.lol suffer. Dependency on a single entity for the system to work. In this case, searchvoat.co had a maintainer who can no longer maintain the site. It is only a matter of time until the same thing happens here on talk.lol.

The solution is clear: distributed systems

There is already a viable, distributed system which is well suited to Voat's needs: Aether

https://getaether.net

Aether was around before Voat.co and has been supporting Free Speech, anonymity on its network which requires no infrastructure beyond the client. It uses very few resources, doesn't require much memory or storage and has many Goats there already.

Lets not keep repeating the mistakes of the past. See you on /b/Voat

[ - ] system 6 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 13:25:23 ago (+6/-0)

How does the p2p work? Are IPs exposed?

[ - ] deleted 5 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 13:31:47 ago (+6/-1)

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[ - ] Tallest_Skil 2 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 08:46:52 ago (+2/-0)

There’s a Voat discussion thread on Aether already… I’ll be damned if I can remember the address though.

[ - ] MagicMushroom 1 point 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 09:09:28 ago (+1/-0)

Hi, @Tallest_Skil - thanks for all your work for the Voat community.

The latest discussion on Voat about Aether seems to be here:
https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=628a93198b892#

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 1 point 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 09:42:49 ago (+1/-0)

It's hard to keep sites like old Voat up. Most people that use it want real information but can't or won't pay to keep it going.

[ - ] lord_nougat 5 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 15:48:00 ago (+5/-0)

Bullshit. I've paid every chance that was a thing that was possible to do. Still have my cool goat shirt and everything! I mean, not like I donated *substantial* sums, but just a hundred here and there. I figured if everybody did similar, there would be no financial problems. Heck, my few hundred could probably cover hosting expenses for a couple months as it was at that time.

I guess the main problem is communist payment processors; we still lack real control of the shekel!

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 2 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 17:00:47 ago (+2/-0)

The other part is owning the infrastructure. Anyone that relies on M$ or Amazon is going to get the ax if Mr. Schlomo calls and tells them to "shut it down". GAB got around that. Telegram was late to the party and had to build out infrastructure.

[ - ] MagicMushroom 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 17:00:04 ago (+0/-0)

Antiwhites are actively banning activists from the financial system. The banking system is another choke-point for us, hence the advantage of a system that doesn't require any infrastructure beyond that which the users already have. This is another advantage of Aether.

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 21:07:36 ago (+0/-0)

Honey pot aka "Operation jewdem" completed?

[ - ] 9000timesempty 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 17:46:24 ago (+0/-0)

Oh well. Don't host where they want to close you down stupid fucking dumbasses.

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 17:05:08 ago (+0/-0)

There must be a bunch of people downloading the ZIP files. I got one that says it'll be down in 14 days.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 11:29:03 ago (+3/-3)

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[ - ] bobdole9 2 points 1.9 yearsMay 23, 2022 14:44:56 ago (+3/-1)

Rent free.