24 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

@VaBeach_Eagle

Has there been any uptick in new users now that Eagles reddit shut down? Too bad it happened during the dead zone where not much is going on newsworthy. 

Is that the place Dave told us we should all go when the EMB was closed for good?

22 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

It's like someone stole his lunch out of the fridge and he's not coming back until they fire the perpetrator. 

9 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

Is that the place Dave told us we should all go when the EMB was closed for good?

Yup. They are in the middle of some pointless protest with the website so the mods shut down everything until further notice. 

38 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

@VaBeach_Eagle

Has there been any uptick in new users now that Eagles reddit shut down? Too bad it happened during the dead zone where not much is going on newsworthy. 

Wait. The Reddit we were told to go to shut down after 3 years?

 

1) what happened? 
 

2)

18 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

Is that the place Dave told us we should all go when the EMB was closed for good?

Or is it the place 4X4 and DUM and Toronto went?

17 minutes ago, paco said:

Wait. The Reddit we were told to go to shut down after 3 years?

 

1) what happened? 
 

2)

So I might butcher this, but from my understanding, whoever owns Reddit wants to like actually make money, so they want to charge current 3rd party apps that are used to access the website. The cost supposedly would/is causing the third party apps to shut down because they can't afford it. Meanwhile, their is an official "Reddit" app that is free for anyone to use. But the mods don't like the free app and don't want to use the free app, so there's a bunch of subreddits that are joining forces and making everything private which makes the subreddits inaccessible until things change to their liking. Or until Reddit just mass bans all the mods protesting and puts in their own mods. And r/Eagles is one of them. 

The whole thing is so dumb. 

27 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Yup. They are in the middle of some pointless protest with the website so the mods shut down everything until further notice. 

It's about the api on the apps but I have no idea what that means.  

19 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

So I might butcher this, but from my understanding, whoever owns Reddit wants to like actually make money, so they want to charge current 3rd party apps that are used to access the website. The cost supposedly would/is causing the third party apps to shut down because they can't afford it. Meanwhile, their is an official "Reddit" app that is free for anyone to use. But the mods don't like the free app and don't want to use the free app, so there's a bunch of subreddits that are joining forces and making everything private which makes the subreddits inaccessible until things change to their liking. Or until Reddit just mass bans all the mods protesting and puts in their own mods. And r/Eagles is one of them. 

The whole thing is so dumb. 

Where ever will I find nudes and details about parties with like-minded swingers in my area...

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

@VaBeach_Eagle

Has there been any uptick in new users now that Eagles reddit shut down? Too bad it happened during the dead zone where not much is going on newsworthy. 

I didn't know it had shut down, or when it did. I haven't noticed any uptick though, but @Moderator12 deals more directly with new registrations and would be better able to say one way or the other. 

34 minutes ago, paco said:

Wait. The Reddit we were told to go to shut down after 3 years?

 

1) what happened? 
 

2)

Foolishly, they never set up an Amazon link  

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

@VaBeach_Eagle

Has there been any uptick in new users now that Eagles reddit shut down? Too bad it happened during the dead zone where not much is going on newsworthy. 

How does a reddit shut down? 

6 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

How does a reddit shut down? 

Mods lock it and make it private

23 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

It's about the api on the apps but I have no idea what that means.  

Asian pacific islanders?

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Mods lock it and make it private

I think they did it for everything, I was searching for something yesterday ( yeah yeah I set my self up lol) and it won't let you look at the conversation about said subject without actually signing up for reddit now

7 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

How does a reddit shut down? 

They delete the entire thing? I don't know, I don't really use Reddit, never really have. 

Just now, Bwestbrook36 said:

I think they did it for everything, I was searching for something yesterday ( yeah yeah I set my self up lol) and it won't let you look at the conversation about said subject without actually signing up for reddit now

I can still get on some smaller subreddits that aren't involved in it. But it seems like all the bigger ones with lots of users have locked out. 

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

I can still get on some smaller subreddits that aren't involved in it. But it seems like all the bigger ones with lots of users have locked out. 

What happened?

4 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

What happened?

 

53 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

So I might butcher this, but from my understanding, whoever owns Reddit wants to like actually make money, so they want to charge current 3rd party apps that are used to access the website. The cost supposedly would/is causing the third party apps to shut down because they can't afford it. Meanwhile, their is an official "Reddit" app that is free for anyone to use. But the mods don't like the free app and don't want to use the free app, so there's a bunch of subreddits that are joining forces and making everything private which makes the subreddits inaccessible until things change to their liking. Or until Reddit just mass bans all the mods protesting and puts in their own mods. And r/Eagles is one of them. 

The whole thing is so dumb. 

 

7 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

I can still get on some smaller subreddits that aren't involved in it. But it seems like all the bigger ones with lots of users have locked out. 

I was actually just looking up something for one of my animals to see if there was a food I could feed them and even answers given from like 3-4 years ago I couldn't even get access too. 

The biggest clowns are the mods of r/NBA that have the sub close down during the NBA Finals and when the Nuggest won last night.  

 

Best thing reddit could do is make a big cleaning the house of their mods and power mods on that site.  There's a wild stat out there that something like 4 or some small group of mods being mods on 200+ of the largest subs on the site.  And they definitely enforce their politics/social cultural views on all of those subs.  It's really taken that site on a steady decline since 2016.  

15 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

What happened?

 

2 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

What happened?

Reddit gave developers of 3rd party apps next to no time to adapt to Reddits change in charging for access to their API. Most 3rd party developers were ok with paying for access, except Reddit set the price astronomically high to the point where they knew 3rd party app developers couldn't afford it. One of the bigger developers said the API charges would cost him $20+ million a year. 3rd party apps have been around much longer than the official Reddit app, and the 3rd party apps have significantly better features and are virtually ad free. They allow better control for moderators and have better accessibility features for those that are blind. Moderators are not paid by Reddit and they don't want to be forced to use an app they find greatly lacking in features. A lot of people find the official Reddit app to be poorly designed and some say its filled with advertisements. A lot of the bigger subreddits wanted to protest these astronomical costs for accessing the API by going dark for 48 hours (turning the subreddit private). 215 out of the top 250 most followed subreddits participated, and since Reddit doesn't seem like they are going to change the cost for accessing the API, more subreddits are extending the blackout indefinitely. Some of these big subreddit have 30+ million followers.

The whole concept of Reddit is that it is a community driven link aggregator site, where users create and moderate content for free. Reddit is wanting to charge extremely high prices for access to the APIs and the community is pushing back on that by essentially the only way they can make an impact, not creating content. It would be similar if VaBeach_Eagle gave everyone a week notice that he would start charging $50 a month to access these boards. People would protest and the blog would go dark and lock down from posting since it is probably one of the bigger pulls to this site, hoping that he would change his mind or at least make the cost far more reasonable.

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

The whole thing is so dumb. 

Those idiots (PE.COM people that made the decision), were foolish enough to relinquish control to Reddit by joining their site rather than keep control on their own site. So as far as I'm concerned, that's on them, not on Reddit. 

2 minutes ago, wussbasket said:

It would be similar if VaBeach_Eagle gave everyone a week notice that he would start charging $50 a month to access these boards. People would protest and the blog would go dark and lock down from posting since it is probably one of the bigger pulls to this site, hoping that he would change his mind or at least make the cost far more reasonable.

Don't give @VaBeach_Eagle any ideas! 😝

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

So I might butcher this, but from my understanding, whoever owns Reddit wants to like actually make money, so they want to charge current 3rd party apps that are used to access the website. The cost supposedly would/is causing the third party apps to shut down because they can't afford it. Meanwhile, their is an official "Reddit" app that is free for anyone to use. But the mods don't like the free app and don't want to use the free app, so there's a bunch of subreddits that are joining forces and making everything private which makes the subreddits inaccessible until things change to their liking. Or until Reddit just mass bans all the mods protesting and puts in their own mods. And r/Eagles is one of them. 

The whole thing is so dumb. 

Take this to Reddit RnR, please.