I brought this one up at the dinner table last night because it shocked me that much. From Minecraft's tech lead:
Quote:So Long, and Thanks for All the Feedback (safereddit link)
As you have no doubt heard by now, Reddit management introduced changes recently that have led to rule and moderation changes across many subreddits. Because of these changes, we no longer feel that Reddit is an appropriate place to post official content or refer our players to.
We want to thank you for all the feedback and discussion you've participated in in past changelog threads. You are of course welcome to post unofficial update threads going forward, and if you want to reach the team with feedback about the game, please visit our feedback site at feedback.minecraft.net or contact us on one of our official social media channels.
I can't even begin to imagine how the site is going to recover from this. Every time I think that we're going to hit the period of people acting like "OK, we can go back now", more people leave, influential people, and they move onto forums or other self-hosted platforms.
The shift to forums has been very interesting. My wife actually made the jump well before I did, back around the time that Twitter first started shitting the bed, which was when I chose to move to Tumblr instead. It took me a while to get to here, I guess because I was certain that everyone would get tired of independent living eventually, and we'd all sadly crawl our way back onto the various platforms we're addicted to ... (I've tried and failed, in the past, to get people onto this very same forum.)
I think we're finally seeing a genuine shift. I have to wonder where things will go from here.