I Miss the Community

[TheDreadPirate]

Below is my opinion. I am just a mod, not a core team member.

It is not just about pure principal, but that is a significant component. First, I was not on the team when that decision was made, but I do stand by it. API limits isn't the issue on its own. The Reddit API enabled various moderation tools. Limit the API and those moderation tools become expensive to use. If you did the math, it seriously wasn't cheap to maintain the same level of API activity. The other option was for moderators to spend an unsustainable amount of their personal time manually moderating.

And what if it was only about the principal? The Jellyfin Project is all about the principal. Jellyfin was forked from Emby to maintain its freedom and privacy. Freedom, privacy, individual control over their media and their data are the core tenets of Jellyfin and Reddit has made it clear they don't give a rats butt about its users.

API limits were just the last straw in a long line of decisions Reddit has made that are counter to the principals that this project stands for.

The community didn't go away. We just moved to this forum and Matrix/Discord/IRC.