# voat/voat

The code that powers Voat

Repository: https://github.com/voat/voat
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/voat
Homepage: https://voat.co
Language: C#
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2018-07-08T01:12:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4528, "days_push": 2979, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1185, forks 269 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:54.912898+00:00)

## What it is
Voat is the source code for a Reddit-style social news and discussion platform built on ASP.NET Core 2 with PostgreSQL, featuring user-submitted links, voting, and moderated subverses. The project is no longer maintained, with its last release in 2018 and the site itself defunct.

## Use cases
- self-host a reddit-like link aggregator
- run a community voting and discussion forum
- study a real-world asp.net core social platform codebase
- deploy a forum with user moderation and subcommunities
- fork a social news site with voting and comments

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted reddit-style community platform and are willing to maintain legacy .NET code yourself
- you need a reference codebase for studying ASP.NET Core social platform architecture

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained, secure forum or social platform for production use
- you are not comfortable with .NET Core 2 preview-era code and an unapproved license
- you want modern features like activitypub federation or mobile apps

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-framework, http-server, search-engine, auth, api-framework
- domain: web-development, social-media, self-hosted, backend
- platform: cross-platform, self-hosted
- tags: reddit-alternative, social-news, forum, aspnet-core, postgresql, user-generated-content, voting, community-platform, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- voat/voat (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:54.912898+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:24:13.119664+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/voat/voat (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:54.912898+00:00, sha 1f273c9ba79e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.