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So Long, and Thanks for All the Feedback - Minecraft Devs leave Reddit

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Just saw this, and didnt see it here.

The minecraft devs have decided that Reddit is no longer a suitable place for their official discussions.

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It’s a big deal. Minecraft is a huge community, most of the big YouTubers or Streamers become big because of it or Fortnite.
You also have to remember that it’s Microsoft behind Minecraft, it’s the second GAFAM after Google which is unhappy with the situation.
It’s definitely gonna affect the IPO negatively.
- At this point, anyone who thinks Reddit will come out of this smelling like roses is an idiot.
  
  Caroline … you’d need a golden calculator to divide …
- It's also the no 1 best selling video game of all time, by a sizable margin, so it would be a big deal regardless.
- Note that the subreddit will not disappear. All this means is that the actual Minecraft devs will no longer be using it for official announcements / collect feedback (that's why the "thanks for the feedback"). Instead now they ask people to use the existing feedback channels.
  It might affect the IPO if this happens more generally or causes a trend, but I don't think it's such a big deal. It's not like they are sunsetting the subreddit. And even if they did, the reddit admins can simply mark the channel as abandoned and allow for new mods to take it over. So the community there will most likely continue as it was. I bet most people didn't even know the official devs were there.

Well fuck I’d say that’s kind of a big deal.
- Hell yeah, that’s a big draw for Minecraft fans to go elsewhere
- I don't even play Mknecraft bit I know that's a huge deal.
- Minecraft is why I started using Reddit way back in 2011. Kinda weird to think about.
- hopefully the first of many

major brands are leaving Reddit
Every day, spez comes closer to his dream of following Daddy Elon’s ‘vision’ for Twitter
- Destroy major company - Check, done.

Well that's an epic way of walking out with your head held high. I tip my hat to u/sliced_lime.

Cool, but let's not pretend Mojang are the good guys.
They added chat moderation on private servers that you host yourself on your own hardware using your own internet.
The entire community was in uproar over it for months and they didn't care. They deleted all criticism from their sub and continued on like nothing was happening. They refused to answer any questions about it, and uploaded new snapshots that only had ONE change, and that was to break mods that disabled chat moderation.
This was so bad it actually prompted modders to backport all of the 1.19 features to 1.18.
Just thought I'd remind everyone. Mojang is a shit company now that they are owned by Microsoft. They are not the good guys.
- for sure. They can do something good in one context, and something that i strongly disagree with in another.
- How is this related though
- This was so bad it actually prompted modders to backport all of the 1.19 features to 1.18.
  This has been a thing for every major modern version. Its faster for a single enterprising dev to backport things than for the entire mod scene to update to a new version. I distinctly remember playing Blackgear's Caves and Cliffs Backport on 1.16.
  There are, however, Forge/Fabric mods that completely remove the reporting system.
- Wow didn't know about the chat moderation. Haven't spun up my server since a year or so, but good to know for when the next cycle of Minecraft gaming sessions hit again.
- This. I stopped playing Minecraft when they tried to force me to enter my real phone number to keep using my account.
  
  Give us your first born child or we won't let you use what you paid us for!
  
  MineTest is better anyway. If you miss it, play that instead.

Thank you Minecraft. I hope other devs do the same

Well yeah. I mean, it's barely usable and definitely not the same vibe with a bunch of knock off subs in r/all and Instagram like posts.
Who knew it would go to shit so fast when you piss off the content creators, the foundation of your platform?

FYI, imgur specially blocks viewing images when used with more strict privacy settings on Firefox. It even loads the title bar, but then purposefully blocks everything with a gray screen. A better image host would be appreciated!
- What is a good alternative compatible with lemmy? New to fediverse here
  
  If it’s one image, why not just upload it to lemmy?

There's a typo in your title. You can edit post titles on Lemmy :)
- AFAIK it also changes the URL
- Thanks. fixed. thats what i get for posting before bed.
- Big if true

Not all heroes wear capes
- But the Minecraft Devs probably do anyway

This is the death by a thousand cuts Reddit needs.

Huge. I aways found it crazy that big companies would find reddit useful enough to risk officially run a sub. Don't know if we will see the same here unless they were to self host, and I don't think many would.

damn, that's kinda awesome. Do they mention moving to a different platform, or will they be sticking with their support site and discord only?
- They will stick to their already existing proprietary feedback channels.
  And I doubt the subreddit will disappear, it's just that it will no longer be "official". I don't see them stating anywhere that they will set it to private or something... and even if they did, the reddit admins can simply mark the channel as abandoned and allow for new mods to take it over.
  To be honest, I feel this is simply the most convenient strategic move for Mojang. As a company I would have done the same, they no longer have to bring employees to support a third party platform and at the same time they get to promote their own. And instead of getting backslash, they'll look like the good guys for doing so.

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