Hi r/mealtimevideos community,
Most of you are aware of the issues concerning Reddit’s upcoming API update, which will cause the death of most 3rd party reddit apps, may negatively impact moderation tools, and risks alienating users dependent on accessibility features not provided by the default app. We offered a poll last week asking how you thought we should respond, and the overwhelming majority of you responded that we should continue to leave our subreddit in private mode, effectively pausing all activity, until Reddit opened amicable discussion on how the update could be resolved in a way that wouldn’t upset so many developers, moderators, and users of the site.
We sought to enforce your mandate. Unfortunately, we have received communication from Reddit staff indicating that our subreddit must be reopened. In truth, they’re blasting these messages out to pretty much every subreddit, but the threat behind these messages is real, and entire moderator teams have …