As protests proceed over on Reddit, the world’s largest neighborhood discussion board that is now inexplicably being was an engine for shareholder-driven greed, one among its largest gaming subreddits has introduced that will probably be leaving the platform for good.
The official Minecraft subreddit, r/minecraft, a neighborhood that at time of posting has 7.4 million members (making it one of many web site’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 help and changelogs as effectively, will now be asking customers to contact them instantly on their web site (or social media) as a substitute.
Mojang’s Mikael Hedberg wrote the put up, which reads:
As you haven’t any doubt heard by now, Reddit administration launched modifications not too long ago which have led to rule and moderation modifications throughout many subreddits. Because of those modifications, we not really feel that Reddit is an acceptable place to put up official content material or refer our gamers to.
We need to thanks for all of the suggestions and dialogue you’ve participated in in previous changelog threads. You are after all welcome to put up unofficial replace threads going ahead, and if you wish to attain the workforce with suggestions in regards to the recreation, please go to our suggestions web site at suggestions.minecraft.internet or contact us on one among our official social media channels.
We’re only some years faraway from firms closing down their very own inner help and shifting their boards to locations like Reddit and, much less usefully, Discord. To see them have already got to start out shifting these things again in-house is as certain an indication as ever that the ‘Enshittification’ of platforms like Reddit, TikTookay, 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) over time, as they every collapse underneath the burden of their very own greed it solely goes to point out the one web sites and boards you possibly can ever depend on are your personal.
