Being tied to a Microsoft server due to .NET was a bad idea. They should have re-written it to be compatible with Mono as soon as possible.
Being tied to a Microsoft server due to .NET was a bad idea. They should have re-written it to be compatible with Mono as soon as possible.
They built Voat on .net and used almost all the Micro$oft options for software and service.
That was a really bad choice. I guess at the time Atko never expected it to grow the way it did.
His choices doomed Voat to a small dev team and mega-bucks for operating costs.
If my assumptions are correct, user donations and merch sales could cover bandwidth, but not much more.