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Site to track Subreddit's as they go dark (reddark.untone.uk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place, but I see Reddit developments as Tech news right now.

Wanted to share a website that is tracking Subreddits that have/will be going dark. It even has a sound notification for when they change their status.

Edit: Adding the stream https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

Double Edit: Data visualization https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I know some subreddits are just locking new submissions, not going private. Does this tool track that, or exclusively those that go private?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It must track only the ones that are private. It doesn't show Explain Like I'm Five as green. They said they would leave a stickied post that is informative about the protest and block all new submissions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This tool doesnt, but the one linked in the second edit does

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This makes a lot of sense. I was curious about this too, but didn't want to give reddit any traffic during the protest by checking out any of the subs to see what's going on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm going to guess just private, because automatically assessing how a sub is being moderated would be very hard.