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As protests continue on Reddit, the world’s largest community forum that is now inexplicably becoming the engine of shareholder-driven greed, one of its largest gaming subreddits has announced that it will be exiting the platform for good.
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The official Minecraft subreddit, r/minecraft, a community that has 7.4 million members at the time of publication (making it one of the site’s largest), has announced that it will no longer be supported by developers Mojang, and that, after having served as an incredible resource and useful place not only for discussions but also for technical support and changelogs, users will now instead ask to contact them directly on their website (or on social media).
Mikael Hedberg from Mojang wrote the post which reads:
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Reddit management recently introduced changes that have resulted in rule and moderation changes across many subreddits. Because of these changes, we no longer feel that Reddit is an appropriate place to post official content or make our players aware of it.
We’d like to thank you for all of the feedback and discussions you’ve participated in in previous changelog threads. Of course, feel free to post unofficial update threads in the future. If you would like to provide feedback on the game to the team, please visit our feedback page at feedback.minecraft.net or contact us through any of our official social media channels.
Note that it will be closed as an official community, a resource through which fans can get help and information directly from the developers. The subreddit will remain, but will only serve as a community discussion center.
We’re only a few years away from companies shutting down their own internal support and moving their forums to places like Reddit and, less usefully, Discord. Seeing that they already have to start bringing these things back in-house is as sure-fire a sign as ever that the enshittification of platforms like Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitch is now in full swing and that the is just as useful as their own The reach of people (and games and businesses) has only grown over the years as they all collapse under the weight of their own greed. That just goes to show that the only websites and forums you can ever rely on are your own.