• @MalachiAzrael
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    91 year ago

    I don’t think it actually went private. They went “read-only” so that this:

    could be on the front page.

    • @Sleuth
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      41 year ago

      I honestly think that would’ve been the smarter move for every sub.

      • @MalachiAzrael
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        31 year ago

        I think both have their potential. Going dark will be seen by reddit behind the scenes. Going read-only will be seen by the users.

    • @waiglOP
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      31 year ago

      That’s what I said. However, I do believe that they were truly private, not visible for normal users, before that brief outage just now.

      • @zerosignal
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        41 year ago

        at least one other sub that i know of, r/2westerneuropean4u, went from private to restricted, and are only allowing posts that protest the API changes.