A major subreddit, r/pics, seems to have gone back on the blackout

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/

Crossgeposted von: https://lemmy.world/post/76993

It is read-only, no new submissions allowed, but it is no longer private.

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MalachiAzrael@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y (4 replies)

I don't think it actually went private. They went "read-only" so that this:

could be on the front page.

Sleuth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I honestly think that would've been the smarter move for every sub.

MalachiAzrael@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

I think both have their potential. Going dark will be seen by reddit behind the scenes. Going read-only will be seen by the users.

waigl@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

That's what I said. However, I do believe that they were truly private, not visible for normal users, before that brief outage just now.

zerosignal@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

at least one other sub that i know of, r/2westerneuropean4u, went from private to restricted, and are only allowing posts that protest the API changes.