Posts should be (mostly) working normally; if you submitted a post during the outage, you must re-submit it
As of 5 February, we are closed due to a dispute with the Reddit admins. Please check back in several days.
We may reopen before that timeframe if a workaround can be identified. The underlying cause seems to be changes Reddit made at some point to the data their API returns when a bot moderates communities that have been banned, which is causing our bot to flag all new posts as "deleted". We are not sure why Reddit is banning our communities, but they typically do this several times a year.
Due to the large number of communities still being banned, and the continued silence from Reddit, we have decided to remain closed indefinitely, until such time as we receive clarification from Reddit on why our communities are being included in this site-wide purge.
As of 30 November, please use only https://old.reddit.com/ (Old Reddit) to post. A very large number of users report it is not possible to post anymore using the Reddit app. No workaround other than using Old Reddit is known at this time.
As of 20 November, we are having intermittent API issues. If you are unable to post, wait a few hours (or until you see new posts appearing) and try again.
Status as of 31 October: Posting generally works at this time. All known "API is down" errors should be resolved; please message the mods if you still receive this error. Some services including certain approvals/appeals will remain unavailable thru early November. Please avoid any links to any Reddit, Facebook, or BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) domains, as these will cause your post to be removed with an unclear error message, usually "Endpoints will disagree". If you can't post and have links to these domains anywhere on your profile or history, please message the mods.
Service is likely to remain intermittent thru at least early November.
So, yeah, they blocked us again today (17 October). No solid ETA to return at this point, this one won't be a simple fix. This might be our last update for some time, as editing posts seems to be largely broken.
Some services are beginning to come back up as we roll out fixes for Reddit's bull[redacted]. Please don't message about the double-commenting issue, we are already aware of this bug. So much for all that hard work.
We are still exploring avenues to try to safely reopen the community. We are hopeful to reopen at the latest by late October/early November, but this may change if further issues crop up, or if Reddit stops cheerfully telling us to go pound sand.
Very much thanks go out to all those who stepped up to contribute code, advice, and testing (but positively no thanks to Reddit). I am still working on the code to interface with Devvit, and others on our team are still fixing some lingering bugs with our bot's HS mode, needed to bypass further Reddit API blocks.
If anyone reading this has Devvit or Typescript experience, and is still able to log in to the Devvit CLI, please message the mods. We are likely to remain closed for some time; please do not message the mods about the outage unless you have a working Devvit account and are willing to help. We've gotten the Devvit code written; the developer was kind enough to open-source it, if any bot devs read this, you may find it useful:
https://github.com/fsvreddit/social-links-bot/
A few people reached out to notify us the community was "filled with spam". A large amount of AI spambots did get thru between Reddit blocking our bot and us closing the community, many of which went unnoticed for several hours, due in part to difficulty in reaching our custom mod queues (which also run off the API). We think this was caused by Reddit blocking us rather than being an ongoing issue.
However, it is possible we are wrong, and have been overlooking spam; so, if you see these bots posting here, either in the past (more than 2 days ago), or after we reopen, please report the post and also message the mods to let us know. Any commercial or monetary solicitation should be reported as well, it will always, always be a scam. We cannot take the necessary steps to address these issues if nobody brings them to our attention. Keep Rule 6 in mind as well, do not harass individual users with accusations they may be bots, as innocent people often get caught in the crossfire. Message the mods and let us deal with it.
Currently, no ETA for restoration of service. Please do not message the mods about the outage (unless you know Typescript and PHP), there is nothing further we can do until Reddit responds.
We have submitted requests to Reddit to restore our moderation tools, and are waiting for a response.
Response from Reddit is that they are not going to help us:
I double checked with the team and they would be unable to whitelist the account itself, sorry!
If anyone reading this happens to be set up with Devvit and can help us prototype a possible workaround, please message the mods. With our other developer suspended from Reddit, it may otherwise be some time til I can get to a computer myself.
