This is what happens when you make companies and organizations afraid that you’re just going to take away official communication channels from them. It’s the only logical action for then
That and the devs are reddit users. I have a feeling this whole thing pushed them too much
I’m starting to think Spez isn’t the brightest bulb in the box
Glad to see it 💪 Fuck Spez
Wow, definitely the biggest users to exit the platform
But they quit without replacement? https://feedback.minecraft.net is not a replacement for a community
Seems more like a cost cutting measure (mods are paid by microsoft) than a protest. Some manager saw the opportunity to blame an unpopular decision to someone else?
I really don’t think it’s a protest on the part of Minecraft anyway; what they were really saying is that because subs were no longer enforcing rules and content moderation wasn’t happening anymore (or was being actively discouraged) and porn among other things was becoming more prevalent on the site, they didn’t feel comfortable having an official affiliation with Reddit, even if it was only with one sub.
The protest worked in a way, but I wouldn’t give Microsoft credit for actually backing the protests.
There’s the old minecraft forums and its still up iirc.
Companies like this really need to get back to hosting their own forums and stop relying on centralized third parties for everything.
We are about to see a huge renaissance of individual forums of all sorts, I think.
I feel as if this is the first real sign that this shit has had an impact. Minecraft isn’t a small community by any means, and them ditching the huge subreddit over this is shocking.
It makes sense from a perspective that their jobs just got a lot harder, they don’t have any of the tools they used to, they are being threaten with termination if they don’t volunteer their free time.
Why would anyone want to do that hobby?
