Alternate non-Reddit Link: https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/Minecraft/comments/14kj3z7/so_long_and_thanks_for_all_the_feedback/
Thanks to Tununias for the link.
Minecraft, a game owned by software giant Microsoft, has decided to no longer post official updates on reddit. Emphasis mine.
As you have no doubt heard by now, Reddit management introduced changes recently that have led to 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 refer our players to.
We want to thank you for all the feedback and discussion you’ve participated in in past changelog threads. You are of course welcome to post unofficial update threads going forward, and if you want to reach the team with feedback about the game, please visit our feedback site at feedback.minecraft.net or contact us on one of our official social media channels.
Kind of feels like it is pretty huge to have a subsidiary of a major corporation admitting they don’t feel like officially participating in a subreddit is a safe thing to do in respect to their branding anymore.
I also find it quite funny that Microsoft feels the need to give us permission to still post “unofficial update threads.” We’re welcome to, so they say. Ha. Isn’t that what people were doing on reddit before they showed up?
Microsoft is just as bad or worse than Reddit.
I’ll say. The kings of proprietary code grifting, but they sure want YOU to share all your code on GH, which they own (so that corporations can rip and run with it).
yes, this is why I post poorly written, unoptimized code to github. no other reasons…
uh, no further questions goodbye!
Time to advertise GitLab.
That’s a bit of a billboard statement. Why do you say that?
Either way, Microsoft’s reputation aside, they’re large enough to make an impact with a decision as this one.
They literally invented the EEE strategy that reddit is copying.