[Meta] Aaanndd... We're back!

A few frequently asked questions:

What happened? Why were you privated/unavailable for the last couple days?

See our pre-outage writeup for an explanation. This was pinned to the sub about a week before we went dark.

Does that mean reddit caved? Are 3rd party apps saved?

Not yet, as of the time of this writing. If that changes, we'll update this. We're just ending our protest outage instead of going indefinitely, because we both don't really have enough subs to make much of a dent in reddit's books (compared to some of the larger multi million subscriber subs that are dark indefinitely), and because we're more of a "non-fiction" sub (not for entertainment) and as such we'd cause more harm staying closed than remaining open.

Is everything back to normal?

Yes, for our sub. Submissions are back up, and of course the sub is public. We don't foresee any further outages.

Did you get spammed with modmails asking for access while the sub was private?

Yes. We sent a copy-pasted message to anyone who inquired about access, or why the sub was privated:

Hey there, we've temporarily privated the subreddit ("gone dark") in protest to Reddit's updated policy against 3rd party apps and tools (for example, apps like Apollo), as well as general grievances against the admins of Reddit. We are adding our voice to the 6000+ subreddits also going dark, which you may notice browsing reddit over the next few days. The subs that remain up will likely have explanations about the whole fiasco pinned, if you'd like to know more.

While some subs are going dark permanently until reddit reverses its policy changes, we feel it is important to serve as an info-base for the OW community, so our outage will only be temporary, until June 14th GMT time, ergo about 48 hours.

During this temporary privatization, we will not be accepting requests to join. As this is a protest about something that affects both users and mods (in fact, especially affects mods and other power users of reddit that rely on 3rd party tools), we ask for solidarity with us in this protest - we understand the inconvenience caused, but that's kinda the point, if you follow. If you just can't stop learning about OW, you're always welcome to join our subreddit discord at discord.gg/owu, which remains up as it's unaffected by this protest.

Cheers,

OWUni mods