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.
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.
Some already are, and I'm willing a to bet a lot of the 2-dayers will continue.
Big ones too. /r/videos, /r/Music.
/r/AskHistorians will go private for 2 days but will still be read only when it returns.