/r/Astros will be participating in the subreddit blackout on June 12 in a limited fashion. The mod team has decided to block all new submissions for a 48 hour period. The only threads that will be available for conversations are an off day chat thread, game threads, and post game threads. We will not be allowing any other submissions in this time frame.

Why are we doing this?

1. Reddit has changed their API policy. This will force many 3rd party apps and utilities that were previously free-to-run to pay to use the reddit platform. The price for the API is 15-20x higher than most other paid comparable platforms, such as Imgur.
2. Reddit is adding new requirements and limitations to developing against their platform. Today, this will likely have no impact on our sub, but if changes like this continue on the time frame that reddit operated here, game threads and other utilities we use to link our subreddit and our community Discord will break
3. Reddit has crippled our ability to detect spammers and bad actors by disabling Pushshift. Reddit has promised Pushshift will return, but why is it not already back if they wanted it to return?

What this means for you

All posts submitted to the r/astros subreddit will be automatically deleted from June 12 through June 14. Mods will not review these posts or approve any posts in this time frame. The astros discord will continue to be active and operate like nothing is happening.

The /r/astros modteam