Cosmere & Sanderson Subreddit News

  Announcement: Sanderson Subreddits Reopening, Further Protest Plans, and more Background Reddit recently announced changes to API access pricing that are anticipated to result in the death of most commercial third party mobile applications (which twenty percent of our subreddits use to access the site, per our annual survey data), impact the moderability of massive subreddits, and interfere with the ability of blind and visually impaired users to use the platform. In response to these changes, our community voted to go dark for one week in protest, and then hold a follow-up poll. At the end of the one-week closure, we reopened the subreddit and conducted both a poll and a separate survey intended to help us understand the meaning of the results. Due to a sleepy moderator error in setting up the poll, the poll was set to run for three days rather than the two that we announced it would run. We made it clear that we would evaluate after forty-eig

  Announcement: Sanderson Subreddits Blackout Poll - June 19 What's Happening Reddit has recently announced major changes to its API policies. These changes are expected to kill off most commercial third party applications, impact the moderability of massive subreddits, and interfere with the ability of blind and visually impaired users to use the platform. More detail about these changes can be found in links in a stickied comment below. Last week our community voted to go dark for one week in protest of these policy changes, and to then hold a follow-up poll to determine our next steps. This includes all of the subreddits our team runs - r/brandonsanderson , r/mistborn , r/cosmere , and r/stormlight_archive , with r/imaginary_cosmere and r/skyward joining us. (in addition to some coordination with r/cremposting ) One week has elapsed and we have now set the subreddits to Restricted so that everyone can participate in voting on what we do next. Note that users can

  Announcement: We will be going dark on June 12 for a full week to protest Reddit's API changes (Details Inside)   What's Happening Reddit has recently announced major changes to its API policies. These changes are expected to kill off most commercial third party applications, significantly impact the moderability of massive subreddits, and interfere with the ability of blind and visually impaired users to use the site. More detail about these changes can be found in links in a stickied comment below. What we are doing Based upon the overwhelming results of two community surveys (see here and here ), all of the subreddits our team runs - r/brandonsanderson , r/mistborn , r/cosmere , and r/stormlight_archive - will be going dark for a week effective the first moment it is June 12 anywhere in the world . r/imaginary_cosmere and r/skyward will be joining us. ( r/cremposting is currently planning to shut down for June 12 and June 13 only, but this situation is chang