The protest over reddit’s recent API changes continues, as the moderators of r/WoW have announced the sub will be going back to private mode “indefinitely”. After the subreddit reopened today in a limited manner, the mods made the decision based on community feedback and posted this update:
In 12 hours r/WoW will return to private.
Hi all.
As you may have noticed, we opened the sub back up to a restricted state after the 48 hour period we committed to before. After reading over the feedback we received, on the post and in modmail, we have decided to take the sub back private, indefinitely.
Feedback ranged from “don’t partially reopen; either stick to our guns or don’t bother at all; go back dark, to hurt reddit ad money; reopen, because we’re fucking over the community, because it won’t have any impact, etc; who gives a shit.”
Ultimately, “don’t partially reopen; either stick to our guns or don’t bother at all” seemed to be the most common and popular, so that’s what we’re doing. The sub will go back full private 12 hours after this post goes up, giving y’all a window of time to get anything saved from the sub that you may need.
To recap:
Over the last 48 hours
/u/spez sent an internal memo to Reddit staff stating “There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well.” As many of you predicted, the intention is to wait us all out.
The AMA with /u/spez was widely regarded as disastrous, with only 21 replies from reddit staff, and a repetition of the accusations against Apollo dev, Christian Selig. Most detailed questions were left unanswered. Despite claiming to work with developers that want to work with them, several independent developers report being totally ignored.
In addition, the future of r/blind is still uncertain, as the tools they need are not available on the 2 accessible apps.
Thank you for joining us in this fight to make sure reddit stays open and accessible for its userbase. More information on what the blackout is aiming to achieve can be found here.
Please take this window of time to save anything from the sub you might need in the meantime.
We can suggest using Google’s cache function to do this. We can also suggest joining discord.gg/wow to continue interacting with the WoW community.
–/r/wow mod team
You can read more about the protest and why it’s happening here.
