A major subreddit, r/pics, seems to have gone back on the blackout : reddit

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A major subreddit, r/pics, seems to have gone back on the blackout (www.reddit.com)

submitted 2 years ago by waigl to c/[email protected]

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Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.world/post/76993

It is read-only, no new submissions allowed, but it is no longer private.

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[–] MalachiAzrael 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't think it actually went private. They went "read-only" so that this:

could be on the front page.

[–] Sleuth 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I honestly think that would've been the smarter move for every sub.

[–] MalachiAzrael 3 points 2 years ago

I think both have their potential. Going dark will be seen by reddit behind the scenes. Going read-only will be seen by the users.

[–] waigl 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's what I said. However, I do believe that they were truly private, not visible for normal users, before that brief outage just now.

[–] zerosignal 4 points 2 years ago

at least one other sub that i know of, r/2westerneuropean4u, went from private to restricted, and are only allowing posts that protest the API changes.

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