So it's a protest, Reddit is going to start or increase charges for third party apps to makes API calls to the reddit servers. For users it basically means they can't use third party apps that work as a replacement for reddit mobile which kinda sucks, the reason the mods are all in protest is that there's third party apps that automate a lot of moderator function so it's going to make their jobs harder. That's my basic understanding of it. Weirdly reddit seems to be broken atm. About an hour ago it stopped loading all together. The CEO announced "LOL" essentially because the owners can just reenable the subs any time they want making it a pretty weak protest.
There is the possibility that if reddit goes down, or at least has a mass exodus, that we might get a surge of new people to the forums that are looking for a place to talk about stuff.
I know they're a good people on reddit, but I really don't need about a thousand of them coming over here. If it gets completely shut down. While Reddit does have its good users, there are plenty of other ones that either act like obnoxious douchebags, or just completely toned deaf socially. I know The Escapist will do a good job, but I just hope we don't have too many noisy jerk offs. If this ever happens.
I honestly kinda get the impression the forums are intentionally obscured. I noticed none of the content creators advertise the forums and nothing ever gets updated. I recall asking about it once and getting blown off. I suspect if people actually started using the forums again it would too much of a hassle to manage and they'd just shut it down.
And that is a big warning sign of why I don't really trust Reddit at all. The DMC subreddit used to be a decent place, but first got ruined when the "reboot" was announced way back in 2010. When the actual game came out, everything was on fire, and it took a good while for everything to cool down. When DMC5 got announced and was first released, things were good at first from what I heard, but it didn't stay that way for long. It got to the point where the moderators encourage users acting like jerks and only posting about dumb or already tired memes, instead of talking about characters, story, lore, or advanced gameplay. A couple of users on the DMC forums mentioned this to me.
Might be nice to have more than like the dozen or so of us that post here. So we can remain cautiously optimistic.
The madness of crowds. Or as I like to say, "I hate people. I love persons, but I hate people."
For mainstream subs this holds true, but the more niche subs were a nice source of information. Adding "reddit" to a google search when looking up tabletop or graphic novel stuff would usually yield good results.
Seemed like a bit of a trial run, several subs are already polling more permanent blackouts. But it is a weak threat when the subs can be unlocked and left unmoderated regardless of the intentions of the sub members.
You could just not use it rather than hope it dies. Y'know because people like it and you're not the main character.
Yeah, I cant imagine this leading to anything, particularly if the owner is just cashing out
Yeah, it has a ton of content and obviously some of it will be good. Yesterday google linked me to reddit about trying to give permissions to an android app where you gotta connect your phone to a computer and do some adb commands in the command prompt because the app's howto was missing the commands. I wanted to see the whole line of replies from a user's post as one of the 1st replies included a list of the commands needed so I wanted to expand the thread to see responses to see if those worked and/or more commands were needed. Clicking to expand the thread to more replies, it removed the 1st reply with said commands so I had to click back again to see that post. It's the worst interface/structure/design for a message board I've ever seen.
Or they can fix the horseshit design of their message boards when they're a message board site. It's like getting mad at someone not liking Salesforce for entering in work hours when it's the most horseshit site for entering in work hours. It takes me an hour a month to enter in my hours when the last system took less than a minute.
