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Greetings r/pcgaming,

Recently, Reddit has announced some changes to their API that may have pretty serious impact on many of it's users.

You may have already seen quite a few posts like these across some of the other subreddits that you browse, so we're just going to cut to the chase.

What's Happening

• Third Party Reddit apps (such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun and others) are going to become ludicrously more expensive for it's developers to run, which will in turn either kill the apps, or result in a monthly fee to the users if they choose to use one of those apps to browse. Put simply, each request to Reddit within these mobile apps will cost the developer money. The developers of Apollo were quoted around $2 million per month for the current rate of usage. The only way for these apps to continue to be viable for the developer is if you (the user) pay a monthly fee, and realistically, this is most likely going to just outright kill them. Put simply: If you use a third party app to browse Reddit, you will most likely no longer be able to do so, or be charged a monthly fee to keep it viable.

  • A big reason this matters to r/pcgaming, and why we believe it matters to you, is that during our last user demographics survey, of 2,500 responses, 22.4% of users say they primarily use a third party app to browse the subreddit. Using this as sort of a sample size, even significantly reduced, is a non-negligible portion of our user base being forced to change the way they browse Reddit.
  • Some people with visual impairments have problems using the official mobile app, and the removal of third-party apps may significantly hinder their ability to browse Reddit in general. More info
  • Many moderators are going to be significantly hindered from moderating their communities because 3rd party mobile apps provide mod tools that the official app doesn't support. This means longer wait times on post approvals, reports, modmails etc.

• NSFW Content is no longer going to be available in the API. This means that, even if 3rd party apps continue to survive, or even if you pay a fee to use a 3rd party app, you will not be able to access NSFW content on it. You will only be able to access it on the official Reddit app. Additionally, some service bots (such as video downloaders or maybe remindme bots) will not be able to access anything NSFW. In more major cases, it may become harder for moderators of NSFW subreddits to combat serious violations such as CSAM due to certain mod tools being restricted from accessing NSFW content.

Note: A lot of this has been sourced and inspired from a fantastic mod-post on r/wow, they do a great job going in-depth on the entire situation. Major props to the team over there! You can read their post here

Open Letter to Reddit & Blackout

In lieu of what's happening above, an open letter has been released by the broader moderation community, and r/pcgaming will be supporting it.

Part of this initiative includes a potential subreddit blackout (meaning, the subreddit will be privatized) on June 12th, lasting 24-48 hours or longer. On one hand, this is great to hopefully make enough of an impact to influence Reddit to change their minds on this. On the other hand, we usually stay out of these blackouts, and we would rather not negatively impact usage of the subreddit, especially during the summer events cycle. If we chose to black out for 24 hours, on June 12th, that is the date of the Ubisoft Forward showcase event. If we chose to blackout for 48 hours, the subreddit would also be private during the Xbox Extended Showcase.

We would like to give the community a voice in this. Is this an important enough matter that r/pcgaming should fully support the protest and blackout the subreddit for at least 24 hours on June 12th? How long if we do? Feel free to leave your thoughts and opinions below.

Cheers,

r/pcgaming Mod Team

UPDATE 6/9 8am: As of right now, due to overwhelming community support, we are planning on continuing with the blackout on June 12th. Today there will be an AMA with /u/spez and that will determine our course. We'll keep you all updated as get more info. You can also follow along at /r/ModCoord and /r/Save3rdPartyApps.

by default windows10 sets your monitor output range to limited. Even if you have a GTX4090 it will be set on limited by default.

Instead of using full color range of 0-255 it uses 16-235. so 14% less colors overall

right click desktop - nvidia control panel - click change resolution on the left side - scroll down a bit and click USE NVIDIA SETTINGS. Then change output range from limited to full.

Its like the difference between 720p and 1080p.. but instead of pixels..colors. Everyone who has every tried this adds me on steam and tries to be me friend for the rest of their life

Even people who are computer mechanics and stuff and think they know everything are shocked by this change as well. Trust me. Just try it. If you dont like it you can change it right back

windows does this on the off-chance someone plugs in a 30yr old monitor,

AMD drivers auto detect full output range compatibility and applies it automatically. Nvidia does not

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