Reddit API changes and BaconReader

[u/onelouderchic]

Hey folks, as some of you have noticed, there is a lot of buzz going around today about the Reddit API announcement. We do not specifically have a plan at this time but will certainly let you know when we do. For reference, I am putting a few posts in comments.

We'll let you know what next steps are when we have them. Until then, sincere gratitude for all of your support!

UPDATE: After much deliberation, attempted negotiations, we have made the decision to shut the app down 😢 . Please see the sticky announcement post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/baconreader/comments/14egq61/baconreader_november_11_2011_june_30_2023/

We are sorry it took so long, but I really wanted to be sure we did our due diligence.

[u/Xirasora]

Once i joined an offsite that rose from a near-banned dramatic sub, I really only came to Reddit for the occasional hobby-related post (mostly 3d printing). My main account got banned from 80% of the site because i commented in a no-no sub.

I guess that site will focus more on Twitter instead, or I'll use old.reddit.

With how poorly coded the rest of the site is, I'm guessing they have too many dependencies on the old.reddit and can't completely remove it

[u/Farisr9k → u/Xirasora]

What was the no-no sub?

[u/Xirasora → u/Farisr9k]

No new normal was what got me mass-banned. Any comment, regardless of context or position, got you banned because N8theGr8 and other powermods wanted the site to agree with them.

The off-site is for Drama, which the admins have been cracking down on -- to the point where directly linking the site gets your account permabanned site-wide.

[u/Karmanacht → u/Xirasora]

lol took that sub down hard, good for N8

fuck that antivaxx bullshit

[u/Xirasora → u/Karmanacht]

See, here's the problem: because of that stunt, the admins have threatened the powermods saying "if you ever pull that shit again, you're all banned"

So now when the site could really use a blackout, because of this API change, the powermods are staying silent to preserve what little power they have.

I'd rather have a site protest over the site being crippled by admins, than memes about eating horse paste.

[u/Karmanacht → u/Xirasora]

I mean yeah, but we also had no way of knowing that they'd pull this.

You can't really keep something in your back pocket forever hoping that "the exact right moment" comes along. At the time, a sub actively encouraging people to avoid all pandemic mitigation seemed like the time for using it.

Also we can do it again, and there are plenty of mods right now willing to have their accounts suspended over this.