What happened to poe Reddit?

I don't care about the reddit APIs.

If you don't like their actions, stop using their product. Blocking others from doing so is not your privilege.

The content on the POE reddit is made by the users, and is not owned by the moderators/admin.

The folks unilaterally deciding to block us from accessing it are clearly wrong in their action and should not be allowed to continue in their positions.

This hurts POE and the POE community.

There are subreddits specifically devoted to commentary about reddit. That is the proper place for this action.

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Dreyloc wrote:

I don't care about the reddit APIs.

If you don't like their actions, stop using their product. Blocking others from doing so is not your privilege.

The content on the POE reddit is made by the users, and is not owned by the moderators/admin.

The folks unilaterally deciding to block us from accessing it are clearly wrong in their action and should not be allowed to continue in their positions.

This hurts POE and the POE community.

There are subreddits specifically devoted to commentary about reddit. That is the proper place for this action.

Agreed! I'm praying the end result of all this is the current batch of corrupt mods on ALL the private subreddits are removed and replaced by competent people who don't have a power trip.

Has GGG ever said they were gonna make their api paid? I can't agree with something that's not happened.

To me as a software developer, the more we have free access to api's the better, cause free is always good and more free data to play around is nice to have.

If GGG would make their api paid (don't know if it is, never used it), then yea stuff like poe.ninja might fall out of existence and that would suck but hey that's life. It would suck but I wouldn't go around organizing some weird blackouts.

EDIT: Sorry for the up your nose answer, but that was kinda misleading question. It's up to companys discretion on if the api is free or not, they're gonna be that ones dealing with the fallout regarding that. We as the community will always find a way, if poe.ninja would not exist, then heck let's go oldschool and go back to arguing about meta builds on forums.

Same with the poe subreddit, if it goes down. There's always other ways, heck I never used the poe forum this much in my life as I'm now

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mikkojh wrote:

Has GGG ever said they were gonna make their api paid? I can't agree with something that's not happened.

To me as a software developer, the more we have free access to api's the better, cause free is always good and more free data to play around is nice to have.

If GGG would make their api paid (don't know if it is, never used it), then yea stuff like poe.ninja might fall out of existence and that would suck but hey that's life. It would suck but I wouldn't go around organizing some weird blackouts.

GGG's API is already rate limited, which is exactly what reddit is doing (rate limit of 100 requests/min. Reddit is just adding an option to remove that rate limit at a cost.

Good riddance!

Best thing to ever happen to this game and this community will be the permanent closure of that cesspool. Or better yet, them handing it over to GGG.

Agreed! Kalandra league was so fun though with all em peeps crying. I put gamer tears in my morning coffee.

All kidding aside, yea maybe it's just better to gtfo reddit. The upvoting what else system there is kinda fucked nowadays. Whole platform is. Best of luck for the mods and whonot with this shit. That thing really is a cesspool, just look at D4 for subreddit now.

I shall congregate in poe forums nowadays.

Sincerely,
Mikko

inb4 back in reddit bois

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mikkojh wrote:

Agreed! Kalandra league was so fun though with all em peeps crying. I put gamer tears in my morning coffee.

All kidding aside, yea maybe it's just better to gtfo reddit. The upvoting what else system there is kinda fucked nowadays. Whole platform is. Best of luck for the mods and whonot with this shit. That thing really is a cesspool, just look at D4 for subreddit now.

I shall congregate in poe forums nowadays.

Sincerely,
Mikko

you are being needlessly negative

Having a company in control of a subreddit devoted to the brand/one of their products is against the point of Reddit, and is in fact against the terms of service of Reddit. GGG can not, and should not, ever have control of the subreddit.

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AbbadonTheDespoilerator wrote:

Having a company in control of a subreddit devoted to the brand/one of their products is against the point of Reddit, and is in fact against the terms of service of Reddit. GGG can not, and should not, ever have control of the subreddit.

You can argue the former all you'd like, but the latter is 100% not true. Companies can and do manage their own subreddits all the time. Heck it's not even in the comprehesive Reditquette documentation any more (which I'll note isn't actually Reddit, it's just a community consusensue without any enforcability beyond public shaming).

Reddit's ToS makes it a MINEFILED for a company to do so, because basically anything a company knowingly posts, Reddit is given eternal rights to use however they wish. I don't know if that particular part of the ToS has ever sat before a judge before, so I can't tell if it'd hold up or not (as I'm very much not a lawyer).

Heck just looking up the Reddit ToS to read it myself (because your claim sounded utterly insane to me, how would they even enforce that? And why when it would be so awful for their bussiness model?) I found three different pages talking about how to do exactly that, what looked like a business consultant who was doing it by hire, and two generalized blogs about the pros and cons.

I also happened into a random thing claiming that you can file to take over a subredit in which the mods haven't had activity in for two months, so all of you "just make your own reddit" might be able to just reclaim a preexisting one. Though you'll have to see if that's actually real, I only read the headline.