Unfortunately there are tons of people believing that Reddit has already done the work by exempting certain accessibility apps from the changes. So they think there’s nothing to worry about.
I hope that post gets traction. People should be sharing it all over to prove Reddit is being entirely disingenuous. They don’t care about third party apps or accessibility, they immediately made promises they have no ability to keep before their self imposed deadline.
Edit: after considering further I just wish the post organically gained traction. I think Reddit deserves to be shamed for what they are doing, but wouldn’t want it to seem like people are using their community in furtherance of a broader goal.
Got to love the users who entirely miss the point. Complaining that this is ruining their experience, well go complain to Reddit for failing to listen to community feedback and refusing to negotiate.
Users of subs are choosing these paths which is way more user driven than what Reddit admins are doing.
I hope more subs do stuff like this, the Steam sub is trying to be about literal steam but the mods don’t seem to be officially endorsing it yet (users are running with it though)
If Reddit is serious about communities moderating themselves they shouldn’t have a problem with subs becoming useless if that’s what the communities decide they want. I feel like it’s going to provide Reddit another way to show that they are liars though.
Sorting by top day helps. I have actually been sorting by new as well. Not as busy here as it is on Reddit, plus generally high quality so new stuff is pretty good.
I’m only going on there to support stuff like this, at least until Apollo is turned off. Then I’ll mostly be here.
The person who commented on there about changing the subreddit to discuss literal steam has the right idea.
It’s definitely a weird response, since it’s directed at employees I would have expected him to try to be reassuring without downplaying or even really mentioning the blackout.
Should have been easy to just say something bland like “we believe in the changes we are making and how they will make our company better. “
I don’t think there was a whole lot of forethought other than “third party app users would make us more money if they switched over to the official app”
I don’t get the sense that there was even clear communication within Reddit administration itself given they were assuring devs that they would work with devs and it would be affordable initially.