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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/667480

Like many other subs (apparently over 5000) /r/joplinapp is going dark for the duration of the blackout.

The HN thread about it (or one of them): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36283249

One of the top comment puts it nicely:

The cheek of Reddits management is incredible. They've taken hundreds of millions in VC money hired an army of developers and yet delivered nothing to improve the user experience. All we seem to have have got out of is new reddit, a terrible, slow facebook like version of the site and an absolutely terrible mobile app. Where the hell did the money go? They use the time, labour, creativity, stories, humour, talent, wisdom, advice, skills of their users to try and make themselves billionaires whilst delivering a hopeless piece of tech in return, thats only been made useable by others people writing software to make the site bearable, Reddit Enhancement suite, Apollo, RIF. And yet here they are ready to make it rubbish again to get their filthy lucre. The more I think about it the more infuriated I get.

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[-] d4r1us_drk@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I don't really know why they don't make this a permanent blackout, or at least an amount of days enough to make Reddit lose a significant amount of money.

[-] graphito@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

This sub is used mostly for providing support to those who didn't want to register on official forum. It has little traction, memes, shitposting and engagement in general

So its value stems from users providing support to the main product -- rather than being engagement farm which is profitable to reddit

[-] d4r1us_drk@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the blackout for subs like these is a bad thing for us users. This type of sub is a very valuable asset for everyone, since a lot of technical support on many things, we can only find it in these subs.

[-] asqapro@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Blackouts for useful subs like this one incentivize people to join the protest against reddit’s changes. I know many people are in support of the protest, but I’ve seen plenty of apathetic responses from users who believe that the changes won’t affect them.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Well, it's best we start making those rules of inviting communities here now.

[-] splitcircus@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, even week would be great and big hit.

Two days is .. laughable.

[-] Helix@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Two days is … laughable.

For many terminally online people, even a few hours is making a huge impression. People are used to pages being up 99.9% of the time…

[-] ipha@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some already are, and I'm willing a to bet a lot of the 2-dayers will continue.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Big ones too. /r/videos, /r/Music.

/r/AskHistorians will go private for 2 days but will still be read only when it returns.

[-] Carlspanks@federotica.com 1 points 1 year ago
[-] BitOneZero@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago
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