How can we reopen the FF14 subreddit?

[Aexnidaral]

I think it's these moderators who need to go touch grass or something, they even have the audacity to ask people money....
Maybe getting an actual working job would be a good idea too.

You're being purposefully disingenuous here.

There was a donation link listed for the Trevor Project, given that it's pride month and the FFXIV community is overwhelmingly supportive of the queer community -- but there has been no request for personal donations that would ever have been in the hands of Reddit or the moderation team.

[PredatoryCatgirl]

Friendly reminder that opposing the power tripping Reddit mods doesn't mean you support Reddit's corporate overlords. Its possible for them both to be garbage humans at the same time.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Friendly reminder that opposing the power tripping Reddit mods doesn't mean you support Reddit's corporate overlords. Its possible for them both to be garbage humans at the same time.

Too much nuance for this forum. lol

[AwesomeJr44]

Friendly reminder that opposing the power tripping Reddit mods doesn't mean you support Reddit's corporate overlords. Its possible for them both to be garbage humans at the same time.

Both suck. But the mods are the ones making themselves a public nuisance right now.

[Antharaes]

Have never needed to go to Reddit for anything. Take a break, do something else.

Looked at the FFXIV art there, some were really good, but after seeing yet another Y'sthola or Miqo'te for the 5024th time it's getting old real fast. I usually take my lead from wiki and use Icy Veins for stats and materia melding. Guides I watch on youtube.

[HollowedDoll]

I thought the main sub was just people posting their catgirls and forced positivity?

[Fleur-Lapin]

As someone who googles questions about the game a lot and always get reddit posts, it did bother me a bit. Luckily, I found a solution when you need to see a post from ffxiv reddit while it's closed down. You can put "cache:" in front of the url and it will show when google last checked the post. It doesn't always work but it did help me a few times. Actually, the subreddit being private led me to lurk threads here instead lol.

[LianaThorne]

Nobody knows where to look, which is why the same questions get asked over and over again on Reddit and become the top Google searches that we now don't have access to lol.

Reddit is hardly the only source of information on the game.

You want info on how to play your class? The Balance.
You want fishing timers or other related info? FF14 Angler.
Gathering timers? FFXIV Gathering
Crafting leveling guides? Icy Veins
MSQ guides? The FF14 Wiki
Glamour info? The Glamour Collection
Money making? UhhOlivia's blog is a godsend

All of these sites were found using a simple Google search and have been my main source of information for the past three years I've been in this game. I've maybe used Reddit a handful of times for really obscure searches like the JP theory with Atma gathering.

Hell, YouTube can replace all of the above since there's basically been a video on everything under the sun made.

[Donoman]

Reddit is hardly the only source of information on the game.

You want info on how to play your class? The Balance.
You want fishing timers or other related info? FF14 Angler.
Gathering timers? FFXIV Gathering
Crafting leveling guides? Icy Veins
MSQ guides? The FF14 Wiki
Glamour info? The Glamour Collection
Money making? UhhOlivia's blog is a godsend

All of these sites were found using a simple Google search and have been my main source of information for the past three years I've been in this game. I've maybe used Reddit a handful of times for really obscure searches like the JP theory with Atma gathering.

Hell, YouTube can replace all of the above since there's basically been a video on everything under the sun made.

It's not that we want to rely solely on Reddit; it's just that people use the most popular search engine, Google, to look up things about the game, and it will most certainly lead them to Reddit, the most popular discussion board for the game. I never said that Reddit is the only source of information, but it is a more familiar site, and a new player's first option would be to use a website that they know has high activity and information where it's easy to check how recent and up-to-date it is rather than taking a guess on a website that could have abandoned and outdated information.

I get it; this game has many resources scattered on many different websites, but many players still have no idea what any of the websites are, and I feel like it is a valid criticism that there are far too many. I don't care about Reddit, and if there was something else that had its niche, I would use that instead, which is why I said I dreamed of an FFXIV version of WoWhead, but I know we're just in a different era for that now.

Anyway, we were given workarounds to view old threads for now, which works for me. The community and guide writers made the subreddit successful, and they should be the ones who decide whether or not their information should be locked away, not the moderators.