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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by omni on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:00PM (#9823171)
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.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by pests on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:48PM (#9823338)
Voat runs a modified version of the reddit open source code.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by thaw12 on Friday July 03, 2015 @12:40AM (#9823517)
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

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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by pests on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:04AM (#9823792)
I think I stand corrected. Thanks.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by pixl97 on Friday July 03, 2015 @01:24AM (#9823673)
Trying to grow a site to Reddits size on IIS? That won't end well.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by mcintyre1994 on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:10AM (#9823812)
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?

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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by davidgerard on Friday July 03, 2015 @03:41AM (#9824111)
It's possible to scale, but you have to think about scaling ahead of time. Voat actually didn't and are now scrambling.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by pests on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:04AM (#9823796)
While totally forgetting sites like StackOverflow use IIS.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by davidgerard on Friday July 03, 2015 @03:37AM (#9824093)
No, it's a clone, written from scratch in C#.
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