I was wondering where you’d got to 
So it’s the 12th here in New Zealand and now I have to wait and see exactly which “12th” the lockout will commence on. Which US timezone is normally followed for this kind of thing?
Eastern, probably.
Thanks.
FWIW, some of the subreddits I follow have already gone dark, so some of moderators are seeming to take the most expansive definition of “June 12”.
I won’t be signing back in, at a minimum, until after the blackout period, although a coiple of the ligher weight subreddits seem to be not paying attention. And if something positive doesn’t happen shortly after that, I guess I can walk away.
No.
There isn’t a set time when it will all happen. The change has to be done manually. I did mine this morning when I had time. It will happen over time over a 24 hour period.
Reddit is down right now. Maybe an attack or hack?
Front page appears to be up.
So, if the blackout works, but none of us are reading reddit, how will we know that they’ve caved to the demands? The only places I’ve read about this is this thread, and reddit itself.
Does anyone think this will make the regular news?
I consistently hit the front page, but with no content an a persistent “Something went wrong. Just don’t panic.” message.
[nelson]Ha ha![/nelson]
It’s all over the news. For example
It’s maybe not the top headline, but I’ve seen this on the major news sites for several days now. The story is on the front page of NBC News and CNN right now.
Looks like there is an issue:
tinfoil hat on They’re crashing their own site so people won’t notice the blackout!
I started Reddit well before they had their own app. I use Relay for Reddit on my phone. I hate their mobile interface and their app, so if the changes go through I’ll pretty much done using reddit on my phone. I’ll still probably visit the desktop version (until they kill old.reddit) but only when I’m on my computer, which is not that often. So it might be good for me to not be on my phone that much.
Don’t fool yourself: Even if you’re paying for something, you’re still the product. Paying customers get sold to bigger customers, and agreements that say otherwise are only as good as the penalties for breaking them are effective incentives. In short, if the penalty for selling your information is a small amount of the company’s profit, you’re being sold no matter what the law says.
Welp, the amount of content on my (carefully curated) front page has at least decreased significantly. A few subs I peek into occasionally but rarely participate in have gone private (including r/nba, indefinitely, which is hilarious timing).
On one hand, I do agree that this seems easily ignorable since it has a definite stop date. On the other hand, I can definitely see admins moving fast to quash widespread indefinite closing announcements, and it does seem that a significant, measurable drop is happening, which may have the intended warning effect. We’ll see, I guess.
Reddit is never a fabulous experience because of its content. At least in the places that I normally frequented. I don’t much any more because of that.
Then visit other places. There are thousands upon thousands of individual subreddits.
When the people on the subreddits related to my interests are assholes, then I should get new interests instead of not visiting Reddit?
Are your interests so obscure/niche that there’s only one sub for them? I think, for every subreddit I frequent, there’s at least a few others that are essentially the same, just with a different group of regulars.
ETA, to be clear, no one is trying to convince you to keep visiting reddit, if you don’t want to, you shouldn’t. What’s being suggested is a possible solution for a less toxic way to do it, should you want to.