As protests proceed over on Reddit, the world’s largest group discussion board that is now inexplicably being become an engine for shareholder-driven greed, certainly one of its largest gaming subreddits has introduced that will probably be leaving the platform for good.
The official Minecraft subreddit, r/minecraft, a group that at time of posting has 7.4 million members (making it one of many website’s largest), has introduced that it’s closing down and that, having served as an extremely helpful place not only for dialogue however for tech assist and changelogs as properly, will now be asking customers to contact them straight on their web site (or social media) as a substitute.
Mojang’s Mikael Hedberg wrote the put up, which reads:
As you don’t have any doubt heard by now, Reddit administration launched adjustments just lately which have led to rule and moderation adjustments throughout many subreddits. Due to these adjustments, we not really feel that Reddit is an applicable place to put up official content material or refer our gamers to.
We wish to thanks for all of the suggestions and dialogue you’ve participated in in previous changelog threads. You’re in fact welcome to put up unofficial replace threads going ahead, and if you wish to attain the workforce with suggestions concerning the recreation, please go to our suggestions website at suggestions.minecraft.internet or contact us on certainly one of our official social media channels.
We’re just a few years faraway from corporations closing down their very own inner assist and transferring their boards to locations like Reddit and, much less usefully, Discord. To see them have already got to start out transferring these items again in-house is as certain an indication as ever that the ‘Enshittification’ of platforms like Reddit, TikTok, YouTube and Twitch is now very a lot in full swing, and that as helpful as their attain has been for individuals (and video games and corporations) through the years, as they every collapse underneath the load of their very own greed it solely goes to indicate the one web sites and boards you possibly can ever depend on are your individual.
