About
The Vlare Project was discontinued on July 25th, 2021.
We'd like to thank everyone who supported the redevelopment of Vlare.
While there are still no direct plans of restarting development, we are continuing to keep an open mind about potentially having it's return one day in the future, however we cannot make any promises at this time.
We are exploring options to help the community recover their old videos and channel assets that may have been lost. While we cannot guarantee this service or provide a timeline, we will share updates on our Twitter/X as soon as we have more details available.
History of Updates
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June 2025 — Present Change in ownership & recovery of files
The Vlare project has undergone a change in ownership, with the original team stepping back to allow for new management. While much won't be shared publicly about the new owners, their goal is to allow access to old files and content from the previous iterations of Vlare. We hope to keep the community informed about any future developments and have no set timeline for this just yet.
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July 2021 — June 2025 Indefinite Shutdown of Vlare Project & Community
The decision to indefinitely shut down the Vlare project and community was made after careful consideration of the challenges faced in maintaining the platform. We underestimated the efforts needed to run and manage Vlare. We were just as disappointed by this as everyone else.
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Feb' 2021 - July 2021 New Ownership & Redevelopment of Vlare
Vlare was acquired by a new team in February 2021, with the goal of redeveloping the platform and bringing it back to life. The new team had been working on a complete overhaul of the platform, focusing on improving the user experience, addressing technical issues, and re-establishing the community. Unfortunately, this effort was ultimately unsuccessful due to various challenges and community difficulties that arose during the redevelopment process.
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Dec' 2018 - Oct' 2020 Beta & Launch of Vlare
This was the heart of Vlare's time as a platform. Launched as a beta in December 2018, Vlare quickly grew to become a popular alternative to YouTube. Unfortunately it shutdown in October 2020 due to DMCA issues and other challenges that were too difficult to overcome at the time.