Full memo transcript of u/Spez to reddit employees
Hi Snoos,
Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.
There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.
While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.
I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.
Again, we’ll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.
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ftfy spez
To be fair, if reddit employees are put in any danger by this debacle that will say far more about redditors themselves than spez. Hell it might say enough that he is concerned enough to forewarn employees.
Yeah, I highly doubt anyone's gonna get punched in the face or shanked over this. Maybe some heckling out in public at most. I'm guessing anyone who is even remotely upset about this stuff is either too wise or too timid to resort to actual violence
Damn, makes me wish we had reddit markup lol.
Is reddit markup patented? If not someone could create a fork/mod of lemmy with this feature.
It's not, it's a format called markdown. Several apps have support for it already, but it's not foundational to Lemmy. The UI services just have to render it (it's just text with characters denoting format)
I know what markdown is my guy. Are you sure it's standard markdown? I was under the impression that reddit had their own dialect but I could be wrong.
Most of it is pretty standard. Spoiler tags and a few other addendums is there but all within the flavoured markdown spectrum.