I was just browsing a thread on c/nfl looking for new mods. There were multiple 12+ year Redditors there offering to help.

Got me wondering. There are 14,000 of us in this community. How many of us are ten year plus users who have just had enough?

Edit: I didn’t expect this post to be as poignant as it became. There are so many of you… I can’t reply to everyone. I’m an 11 year user and have modded something like 150 subs over the years. I’m really sad too, but I’m finding that lemmy has most of the content I’m looking for, just needs more comments.

The API was a big blow, but removing awards on past posts and deleting coin balances is really dumb.

  • tj kreemEnglish
    15•1 year ago

    For about 6 years but I shall share a story cause why not. I don’t remember the exact details of how it unraveled.

    So for a lot of time I had an unverified account, one that wasn’t linked to any email. I just browsed as usual. Then one day my account got ‘locked’ and I had to verify it through a mail to unlock it. Now, I think I went ahead and tried linking it to my mail (or it might even be that I tried linking it from the very beginning but never got a confirmation mail), but I wouldn’t get any mail. I tried regaining access for a while but I soon made a second account to be able to interact with the content. Now I believe some time had passed and I remembered about my first account, got determined to unlock it. I even contacted support about it. It was at that time that I noticed what went wrong. I had a typo in the mail I had provided, just one letter. That is why I never got any mail, but there still was a problem: there was no option to edit and correct the mail I had given them. I was devastated, there was no way to get that confirmation mail at this point… unless? What if I created a new email account, one with the typo, so I could receive that mail? I did just that. Created a new google mail account for the sole purpose of getting that mail. I did it, got the mail, unblocked my account, changed the linked mail and deleted the typo-mail account.

    I finally got my original account back. I continued however to use the second one, it was more up to date with my interests at the time, but I was happy I managed to solve the issue - no thanks to support.

    Thanks for reading my story, have a nice day :)