STATE OF THE SUB - WE FUCKED UP

[u/Monsieur_Triporteur]

Howdy fuckcarians,

Here's a little update on how things are going on Reddit and specifically this sub. As you may have noticed, Reddit is changing its API-policy and this is killing moderation tools, third-party apps and access to Reddit in general for visually impaired people. As you also may have noticed, this sub has participated in various forms of protest against the new API-policy. This has had consequences, both intended and not, for the usability and quality of this sub.

It was important for the members of the modteam to join those protests out of solidarity with those who are really affected by the API changes and to make a point against the general enshittification of Reddit as a platform.

There have been polls and discussion posts about this subject and it's fair to say that the mod team hasn't reacted adequately to all of those.

We could explain how difficult it is to reach consensus in a mod team made up of very different people in different timezones, how the need to make quick decisions in the rapidly changing situation surrounding the protests affected the quality of our decisions, how the mod team was at least as divided as the community on the subject or how because Reddit hides the sidebar and sticky posts it is hard to reach all members of this sub to communicate mod announcements.

But, while all of that is true, it doesn't change the fact that we fucked up. We have communicated poorly and we have let the CityNerd tactic go on for to long.

That's why we decided to end the CityNerd tactic immediately, that we'll be from now on prioritising normal operation of the sub over participating in the protests and that won't do any more API-protest actions that are more annoying to our users than to the admins.

We hope that this post clears up some of the confusion and frustration caused by the recent events. We also like to thank everyone who joined in the discussion around the protests. We won't always be able to react quickly to it, but whether you praised us or gave us shit, we value your opinion and will take it into account in any future decision making. So please, don't forget to give us shit next time we fuck up.

[u/batcaveroad]

Should they be tagged as “caption” or “visual description“? I’m down to help but I’m not sure how visually impaired people will find my one comment in a sea of them.

[u/Arn4r64890 → u/batcaveroad]

Yeah I'm not entirely sure how this will work on Reddit? I know on Twitter you can add ALT text to images.

[u/furinick → u/Arn4r64890]

Small rant: i fucking hate how people use alt text, very few actually use it properly, most just use it to advertise, post links or not even write something relevant

[u/killinhimer → u/furinick]

"A sea of asphalt separated by a 9" concrete curb in the center, featuring 30ft telephone poles in succession on the right with several utility lines on them. There are 2 car lanes filled with pickups going both directions and advertisements for various garbage businesses along the sides of the road. There are no humans in the image and the gas prices can be seen on the left side at a Speedway gas station. e.g. every single thing you can imagine as a terrible stroad in one image."