The Verge posted the actual memo that was released, you can find that below and the article here
Hi Snoos,
Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.
There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.
While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.
I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.
Again, we’ll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.
To me, this looks like it was absolutely destined for a public release/intended leak. The victimisation says it all with them crying that their employees are going to get attacked. This is a simply absurd statement.
Any indicated statement from a CEO of a community forum that insinuates that their users, who are currently undergoing a completely peaceful protest, are in fact, volatile enough to attack employees simply doing their job has completely lost the plot. Their position as CEO is completely untenable.
Thanks Reddit for throwing extra wood on the fire. I was getting concerned that it wasn’t raging enough.
Thanks for posting! This is wild. Internals are probably a disaster, to say the least.
like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well’
I hate this part so much. Corporate overlords be gone!
He’s saying “we don’t need to listen to the community, they’ll get over it”. Again, completely tone deaf.
This is just blatant “fuck your concerns it will blow over anyway”.
Think I may just leave the subs I moderate down for longer, then.
Might as well leave them down indefinitely. I’m gonna block reddit at the DNS level, I’m done.
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far
That’s what it’s all about.
Does the man not realize the absolute exodus the users are trying to warn him about? Blow over? Reddit will die overnight once people can’t use their favorite third party apps anymore, or browse their porn subs.
I know the 80/20 rule, and that a big chunk of that 20 uses apps, but I’m not convinced. I thought the same thing about twitter when they killed off third party apps, and I ended up being the only one in my circle who moved to mastodon.
Fediverse will still take years to get up, but this was a massive boost forward for it, the momentum has shifted.
I don’t care if all the subreddits come back. I’ve already deleted my account and will not be going back.
Blow this, reddit
So we’re going to do a forever protest on June 30 right?
I’m already there
Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all this to blow over!
I can’t wait to see how this all pans out. Will we see a “we listened” grovelling non-apology once they realise their core users are gone?
Realistically, it will. What’s left behind depends on the mods and users. Reddit isn’t going away that easily. Time will show impact
He’s using the kind of language that abusers do.
Cool. I was going to hold out hope that something might change. But I’ve just deleted my account of 12+ years.
