I'll make sure it's posted in both places for those who don't want to use reddit anymore!
Three will be more updates on that with the main post. That said, I will maintain this Lemmy alternative and the site described in this post for as long as I am able.
My personal opinion is that this is the beginning of the end for reddit, and the PoE community should diversify from being so reliant on a single, externally controlled site. Federated, open source, community hosted content seems like the future if you don't want your hosting platform to use profit as a reason to make it worse. The PoE Wiki made this transition, and I believe the subreddit can too.
I'm sure a lot of people's #1 question right now is: Will the /r/pathofexile subreddit come back before Exilecon? The short answer is yes. There will be detail on reddit's communication to us and other subreddits, plus moderator team updates and a community input post this week once we've finished talking to the admins. This was a contentious topic and some of the subreddit mods are resigning over it. Thanks for being patient
We actually just got modmail from reddit telling us we need to open up or they will assign new mods. We're talking about what to do.
Gotcha, yeah the reddit profile items won't be available, but for Google search results you could take reddit.com/r/PathOfExile/morestuff and replace it with new-website.com/r/PathOfExile/morestuff
Anyway I'm still working on setting that up. I'll post here when it's ready
Let me reassure you there -- we don't plan to close it down forever. Additionally, for the duration of the blackout I'm working on a read-only mirror of the subreddit with all the data up until March. The data is exported. Later this weekend I should be able to share a link that lets everyone view the contents of the sub without actually giving reddit any traffic
Would that resolve your concern about guides? Or does the posts are saved mean through the reddit saved tab, and you'd still need to re-find them all
I'm not sure we have statistics on modding from desktop versus PC, but when we mod on mobile, most of us do so from these third party apps that are going away in a few weeks. I think at this point we expect that after killing 3rd party apps, reddit will move forward with removing old.reddit.com, where most of us do our desktop modding too. This was the straw that broke the camel's back, but it seems like the right place to draw the line in the sand to us
I believe that all of the bots which the PoE reddit uses for reddit moderation either use under the existing limit for queries per minute, or use the legacy API so this increase in QPM doesn't impact them.
The core of the issue is still unresolved: Killing the apps that humans use to moderate (RiF, Apollo, etc.) and forcing them to use an app that is worse for moderating and a much less information-dense UI that makes moderation harder. Threatening that they'll replace entire mod teams who stay closed is also not helping.
All reddit would have to do is lower the API pricing to a feasible cost, and give a sufficient migration period for the developers of 3rd party apps who already are locked in with yearly subscriptions from Reddit users at far under the new cost per user. That IMO would be enough to end the mod strikes. It'd also help to not remove all NSFW content from the API since users won't pay to use an app that's a worse experience, but they might be able to get around that if they go far enough on the other two.
I'd personally be very satisfied if reddit turns back on their changes between now and Exilecon, it's always a very fun time for the community. The date that all the 3rd party reddit apps turn off is within a few days of Exilecon though, so things might be held up right up until the end.
This post is fine here too, but FYI there is a specific community for Build discussion on this instance: https://pathofexile-discuss.com/c/pathofexilebuilds
It's pretty easy to change the URL. What would you suggest?
We will definitely include this in the poll when the subreddit is forced to reopen!