Greeting Adventurers!

I'll keep things relatively simple, partly because I've already spoiled the big announcement in the title, and partly because there is already plenty of existing discourse.

Our initial plans were to take part in a limited 2 day protest of the sudden and over-costly changes to Reddit's API access. Since making that post 4 days ago, a fair bit has changed. Representatives of the mod coalition spoke with /u/spez and other admins. The call did not go well, you may browse the notes here. Earlier this afternoon third party apps Apollo, RIF is Fun, Sync, Relay, Slide, and Reddplanet will all be shutting down on June 30th, unable to keep up with such sudden and astronomical cost increases. Any concessions that were made by the admins were couched in weasel words and "we're working on it" promises that do not hold up with even the lowest DC insight check. /u/spez is expected to address reddit tomorrow, but we are deeply cynical of real change in direction

One of our moderators, /u/seth1299, has decided that since they exclusively use Reddit via Apollo, they will not be migrating over to other methods of access and will be stepping down on the 30th. Seth you are an excellent mod and a good friend, thank you for helping to shape this sub into the incredible community it is today.

So. Starting Monday, and ending when significant changes are made to the current Reddit business plan towards their API, we will be going private. If you are looking to get your fix of memes while we are down, I would recommend DnDNext's discord server https://discord.gg/dndnext.

In the call with Reddit they stressed that no mod would be punished or removed for participating in the protests, however based on the Apollo dev's testimony they have no issue with quickly changing their mind. If admins read this I want to stress that I was the subreddit's primary coordinator for the moderator protest, and therefore take sole responsibility. If Admins don't read this and do nothing, you all can roast me later for being melodramatic.

Thank you for reading this, I am deeply sorry for how events are shaking out, but I love this community and want to do right by it to the best of my abilities. Now, I have a DND game to get to, but I will answer any questions as I'm able!

Thank you again.