One year ago this Memorial Day, Quote.Vote became open source.

Since then, contributors from around the world have helped steadily rebuild and modernize the platform while preserving the core concept: A text-first discussion platform where people can vote on specific claims and statements within a conversation instead of reacting only to entire posts.

The project remains:
1. Open source
2. Ad-free
3. Algorithm-free
4. Donation-supported

Today, I’m happy to share that the first release candidate of the Quote.Vote v2 migration is now live at:

Quote.Vote has already been publicly available for almost a year, but this release represents a major migration to a modernized architecture built around Next.js, TypeScript, and a more maintainable long-term foundation for open-source collaboration.

The migration effort has been championed by the following incredibly talented and generous volunteer contributors:

Over the past year, my own thinking about Quote.Vote has evolved as well.

I no longer think of it primarily as a social media platform. Increasingly, I see it as an experiment in civic and organizational infrastructure.  A way for communities, teams, and groups to structure discussion, disagreement, proposals, and consensus-building in a more transparent and participatory way.

There is still so much to learn.

Over the coming months, we hope to spend more time listening closely to contributors, communities, and early users to better understand a few key questions in mind.  We want to learn what kind of discussions work well in this format. Where the interaction model breaks down. Whether claim-level voting genuinely creates more nuance and clarity.  And what role software like this can play in healthier forms of online coordination and governance.

The internet changed tremendously over the past two decades. Much of online communication now happens inside systems optimized primarily for engagement, visibility, and advertising incentives.

Quote.Vote continues to explore a different direction.  Slower, more thoughtful, text-first participation built around dialogue instead of amplification. 

Thank you to everyone who has contributed code, ideas, feedback, criticism, design work, testing, and time to this project over the years.

If you’re interested in civic technology, governance systems, open-source communities, or healthier forms of online discussion, we’d love for you to explore the beta and share feedback.  Please reach out and request an invite! https://beta.quote.vote

— Louis Girifalco
Founder, Quote.Vote