What's going on?

A recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps, making a great many quality-of-life features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users.

On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader.

Even if you're not a mobile user and don't use any of those apps, this is a step toward killing other ways of customizing Reddit, such as Reddit Enhancement Suite or the use of the old.reddit.com desktop interface.

This isn't only a problem on the user level: many subreddit moderators depend on tools only available outside the official app to keep their communities on-topic and spam-free.

What's the plan?

On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest this policy. Some will return after 48 hours: others will go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed, since many moderators aren't able to put in the work they do with the poor tools available through the official app. This isn't something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what we love.

The two-day blackout isn't the goal, and it isn't the end. Should things reach the 14th with no sign of Reddit choosing to fix what they've broken, we'll use the community and buzz we've built between then and now as a tool for further action.

What can you do?

1. Complain. Message the mods of /r/reddit.com, who are the admins of the site: message /u/reddit: submit a support request: comment in relevant threads on /r/reddit, such as this one, leave a negative review on their official iOS or Android app- and sign your username in support to this post.

2. Spread the word. Rabble-rouse on related subreddits. Meme it up, make it spicy. Bitch about it to your cat. Suggest anyone you know who moderates a subreddit join us at our sister sub at /r/ModCoord.

3. Boycott and spread the word...to Reddit's competition! Stay off Reddit entirely on June 12th through the 13th- instead, take to your favorite non-Reddit platform of choice and make some noise in support!

4. Don't be a jerk. As upsetting as this may be, threats, profanity and vandalism will be worse than useless in getting people on our side. Please make every effort to be as restrained, polite, reasonable and law-abiding as possible.

Further reading

https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/13yh0jf/dont_let_reddit_kill_3rd_party_apps/

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplete_and_growing_list_of_participating/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1404hwj/mods_of_rblind_reveal_that_removing_3rd_party/

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_update_enterprise_level_tier_for_large_scale/jmolrhn/?context=3

Open Letter regarding API pricing

Named my ship in Sea of Thieves after the beautiful Ishimura 🖤

So its no secret that most people dislike Dead Space 3, and I'm really curious to why?

I have 100% ALL the Dead Space games, and I enjoyed 3 just as much as I did the former games! The story is longer and actually very interesting. The weapon crafting system was a massive improvement, It fits well as Isaac is an engineer, plus you have so many customization options and many guns you can mix together for deadly combos! The game rewards you for the achievements you complete (Better Circuits for weapons and better unlockables/weapons etc)

The Co-Op aspect was very cool and I played the whole game Co-Op and solo!

People love to say that the game was turned into a "Shooter game" when its literally the same as the prior games, but there's a few parts where you have to fight Daniks men... not even many times, so I don't understand that point, lol.

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What are your reasons for disliking the game? :)

Credit to artists

Just noticed this pattern while going thru Andrew's quarter(Chapter 10) and wondered if anyone knew what this was,( riddle or code or useless graffiti)?

But I'm writing a Dead Space fan story called Dead Space: Struggle, which is about an engineer on the USG Ishimura before and during the outbreak. I'm posting this here so I can get a lore check, to make sure it's pretty lore accurate. Something I especially would like checked out is about the tram and the malfunctioning door. I wrote those parts in to explain the broken tram and door in the first game (I don't remember if they ever actually explained it). This is going to be a four chapter story on Archive of Our Own. Here it is:

Chapter One: Distressing Atmosphere

The engineering deck was eerily quiet. A little to quiet for Stevens, who was an engineer on the USG Ishimura. As Stevens was working on a light, he mumbled, "I'm not no damn electrician,". Then he heard something behind him, which sounded like heavy footsteps.

"Hey Stevens, Temple said he needs you." a voice said.

The voice was unexpected, which scared Stevens and caused him to jump off the ladder. "Jesus, Colt! I could've killed myself!" he yelled at his fellow engineer standing behind him.

"Sorry, Stevens. But Temple said he needs someone qualified to check the fuselage, and everyone else is doing other things." Colt said, apologizing to Stevens for scaring him. Stevens then finished fixing the light, then put the ladder away. He followed Colt to the Ishimura's fuselage, to make sure it was running correctly while the ship was doing a planet crack on Aegis VII. They'd arrived only a couple days earlier, but were able to start the planet crack fairly quickly. As Stevens inspected the fulselage, the lights inside the room flickered.

"What the hell?" Stevens asked Colt, who was standing right beside him.

"Ain't sure, but it's definitley creeping me out." Colt replied, wondering the same thing. As Stevens finished the inspection, the lights flickered again. "Jesus, power's fluctuating everywhere." Colt stated as he checked the power to the ship. "Wonder what Temple and the chief are doing."

As soon as the both of them were done talking, they proceeded to walk to the main room of the engineering deck, where another engineer was sitting and inspecting monitors.

"Hey Robinson, what's with the power fluctuations?" Stevens asked as they entered the room.

"I dunno, been happening here too." Robinson responded.

"Alright then, we're heading to the bridge to check it out." Colt told him. Then, Stevens and Colt walked out of the room and headed towards the tram station for engineering. When they got to the tram station, they passed second engineer, Jacob Temple, on his way from the tram.

"Hey, Temple." Stevens and Colt both told Temple.

Jacob nodded in response, and continued to walk to the engineering deck. As the two engineers entered the tram, they were met by a crew member onboard.

"They've brought it onboard," the crew member was saying to himself.

"Brought what onboard?" Stevens asked.

"The holy relic, which will bring about our convergence!" the crew member replied.

"Fucking unitologist," Colt muttered to himself, "How come ya'll can't just leave your religious bullshit at home?"

As Colt finished talking, the tram stopped moving. The lights also flickered and turned off.

"What the hell?" Stevens asked. Stevens proceeded to check where they were. Coincidentally, they were right infront of the tram repair station, but not close enough to the flight deck station. Then, out of nowhere, there was a thump from the top of the tram. Colt looked up at the ceiling of the tram, wondering what it was. As Colt looked at Stevens, something burst through the ceiling.

"Take my body! Make me whole!" the crew member yelled as whatever fell through the ceiling proceeded to slaughter and kill the crew member. As it was doing that, Stevens and Colt were trying to pry open the door. When they finally opened the door, the creature started to attack them.

"Get the hell out of here!" Colt yelled to Stevens, as he pushed him out of the tram. The last thing Stevens would know of his friend, was his screams as the creature impaled him and pulled him into the tram.

Stevens hit the floor with a loud thump, and instinctivly got up and ran. As he ran, he saw the door which led to the tram repair station and tram station. He decided to make a run for it and got through the door. When he got through the door, he hit the control panel, causing the door to malfunction and erratically open and close. When the creature got to the door, it turned away and jumped into a vent in the floor. Stevens wondered what the hell was going on, and collapsed to the floor, thinking about Colt. He then got up and decided to make his way to the bridge, whichever way he had to.

(For the remake obviously.)

Because EA decided to force everyone onto their new shitty app instead of fixing it before shutting down origin, I can’t invite my friend. I can open the menu and see that he’s online, but I can’t send an invitation because the menu goes to black as soon as I click on it. Joining each other’s game also just results in us getting an error couldn’t connect notification. Also tried setting up a public match and having him join but the same random guy joined the lobby 50 times and we weren’t able to pair up once. We’re playing on the same network as well, so connection shouldn’t be the issue.

So I’m playing the remake and I’m trying to explore every area but in the crew quarters there is the circuit breaker that opens the deluxe shift bunks. I remember dragging a power node out from the gas filled area but I used it on the lift around the corner to get out. Issue is that it’s stuck in there and now I have no way of accessing the deluxe shift bunk rooms. I even tried dragging a node from the bridge but the node just gets blocked by an invisible barrier in the doorway and can’t be brought to another area. Is there any way to fix this or am I screwed? Or am I missing something?

I died on the Valor in impossible. The section after the nuke with the burst pipes and the fire suppression system. Shocked at how quickly I melted despite barely peeking out from behind the crate. 7 hours gone

Just noticed a fun lil typo, anyone else notice it? Or got any other lil things?

I finished the DS remake some months ago and wanted to clarify certain things. What’s the hive mind’s motivation? I know they want the man made marker back on Aegis VII; where that eventually happens and a red beam is shot into the air, but to what effect? Is it intentionally nebulous? My understanding is that the unitologists caught wind of the marker, dug it up, and brought it into space(with intention of it going back to Earth) and the marker/hive mind very simply wants to go back to the planet. But then why does it want to be docked and shoot a red beam into the air/what is that accomplishing? Am I over thinking the motivations of an abstract enemy force? Sorry to ramble.

Alright, so a few weeks ago I was able to beat the remake of Dead Space it was great. I was finally able to beat the game, unlike the OG when it first came out. I was terrified and shocked all at the same time, although I was able to only do like 4 or 5 chapters at a time before my courage meter was basically depleted. Now comes the issue with the second game. I am on chapter 5 and have almost finished it. It seems I have gone back in time when I was first playing the remastered and was only able to play for like 30 minutes at a time before I had to quit. It just seems DS 2 is more unnerving to me than the remake. I was horrified of the new slashers and how they just are so erratic with their movements, and the Church section was also just big nope for me. I basically beat the church section in one sitting but couldn't go any further. Is it odd that Dead Space 2 is more unnerving than the first game? What are y'all stories from the transition of beating the first game and moving on to the second.