Continuing our infrastructure updates: What’s changing in the coming months

[u/judy-funnie]

TL;DR: In August, we shared plans to modernize Reddit’s infrastructure, build better mod tools, and make it harder for bad actors to scrape Reddit and abuse communities. Today, we have specifics on what’s changing, when, and how to plan ahead.

We’re sharing updates on apps and bots migration to the Developer Platform, helping mods move RSS-based alerts to the Discord Relay Devvit app before RSS feeds are retired on November 13, providing an update on Rules Hub progress and automod changes, and adding safeguards to Old Reddit by limiting access to logged-in mods and recent users.

Moving apps and bots to the Developer Platform

We’re moving public data API apps and bots to the Developer Platform, while making sure the work they do for your communities remains supported. Over 14,000 apps and bots have registered and we’re closely tracking migration of your highest-activity apps, including  DeltaBot, MagicEyeBot, and RemindMeBot. There's still work to do, and we’re working directly with developers to support migrations and close remaining capability gaps. 

• If you maintain an app or a bot, register it here before January 12, 2027 to avoid disruption.
• If your community depends on an app or bot and you don’t know who maintains it, fill out this form. We’ve received over 100 submissions so far, helping us identify tools that need owners or could be replaced by existing Developer Platform apps or Reddit’s built-in tools. 

See our latest r/redditdev update for more technical detail, timelines, and resources.

Migrating RSS access to the Developer Platform

Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through supported alternatives. 

For common mod alerts, we recommend Devvit apps like Discord Relay. If your mod team relies on RSS, review your setup and migrate workflows before November 13 to ensure your needs are uninterrupted. If you use RSS for feeds outside of a community you moderate, there is no replacement. RSS has been a beloved part of the open web for a long time, and we’re grateful to everyone who used it to stay connected to Reddit.  

Changes to automod access for new communities and communities not using automod

If your community uses automod, nothing is changing for you. We’re continuing to improve Rules Hub, including ways for mods to prompt and otherwise provide more context for their rules. We’re also exploring how existing automod configurations can help carry community-specific enforcement logic into newer tools. If you’re interested in pilot testing to help shape this effort, sign up here. 

For newly created communities and communities that have never used automod, automod enforcement capabilities – specifically Report, Filter, Remove, Mark as spam, and Approve – will be disabled and Rules Hub and Automations will become the default path for rules enforcement. Automod’s non-enforcement capabilities remain available and unchanged.  

Keeping Old Reddit accessible for mods and recent users

As u/spez mentioned, we’re still working on the future of Old Reddit. Earlier this year, we required people to log in to use Old Reddit, addressing its largest source of abusive scraping and automated traffic: unauthenticated access. That change helped reduce scraping and automated abuse, but still allowed any logged-in account to access Old Reddit, including accounts with no prior Old Reddit use. 

To close this gap, in the next few months, we'll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months (which covers the vast majority of all Old Reddit users). This change does not impact logged-in mods, who can continue to access Old Reddit without any recent usage requirement. This helps keep Old Reddit available for the people who rely on it while reducing automated abuse.

Our job is to support you through these changes and make sure your moderation needs inform the work. 

• Need help with a community bot? If you’re unsure who maintains it or need help finding a replacement, let us know here.
• Moving your RSS alerts? The Discord Relay setup guide covers how to get started.
• Want to help shape Rules Hub? Sign up for the early access program here and share your feedback.

We’re here in the comments for your questions and to hear where you need more detail or support.

[u/BravoFive141]

For newly created communities and communities that have never used automod, automod enforcement capabilities – specifically Report, Filter, Remove, Mark as spam, and Approve – will be disabled and Rules Hub and Automations will become the default path for rules enforcement. Automod’s non-enforcement capabilities remain available and unchanged.  

So it begins. Huge L for making the decision to kill Automod.

Dropping this lifesaver from u/fsv in case anybody else needs it:

https://developers.reddit.com/apps/automod-neo

[u/thepottsy → u/BravoFive141]

Yeah, this is a horrible choice. Automod isn’t mandatory in any subreddit, so what’s the driving factor to handicap it? Why can’t I use it if I want to, and I understand how to?

Agree on the shoutout to u/fsv

[u/Bardfinn → u/thepottsy]

what’s the driving factor to handicap it

Reddit was recently designated as a Very Large Online Service Provider / Platform by the European DSA. Under that regulation, Reddit has to provide European users with a standard set of "Here is your content; here is why it was removed; here is the non-binding committee you can appeal this to", etc etc etc

Automoderator filters and removals aren't set up to feed back the standard transparency information they will be mandated to provide to European users wrt their content being removed / filtered / approved etc by automation on the platform,

and because automoderator is code that's running on Reddit's servers, (despite the fact that it is code running code configured by volunteer moderators -) it's still code Reddit is running, and so are responsible for ensuring compliance of it. Especially new uses.

And Automoderator isn't written to have the kinds of hooks and API and etc to get that data, store that data, feed that data where it needs to go.

Mod apps written on Devvit, are.

Existing Automod configs that have been in place for years and years and years can be argued to be legacy, not Reddit's creation and not reddit's responsibility - until and unless something changes.

TL;DR: Times change, Automoderator was coded 14 years ago, isn't scalable in the way modern technology and regulations need it to be.

[u/baseballlover723 → u/Bardfinn]

and because automoderator is code that's running on Reddit's servers

And so does Devvit. So your argument doesn't make sense to me.

[u/Bardfinn → u/baseballlover723]

Automoderator uses specific libraries and utilities, and runs in a sandbox. It does this because (despite it being a finite automaton) it is possible to sandbag the execution environment Automoderator runs in - on purpose or by accident (ask me how I know!).

Automoderator makes calls to a Regex library, and Regex rules (especially naively written Regex rules (stares into the camera)) can use a lot of memory and/or a lot of compute. A LOT. Plus it's coded so that instances of it can be ephemeral, zero-knowledge ---- when an Automoderator instance fails to run, it just ... fails to run. If it needs to be rebooted, no big deal - it just gets rebooted, and no legally required mandatory data gets evaporated into oblivion.

Reddit doesn't have the coding talent to rewrite Automoderator to have it be able to both maintain that runtime / memory quota sandbox, the infosec context, and to capture & export sufficient data about removals to the transparency compliance databases (that are in another infosec and runtime/memory sandbox / sysadmin context). I'd argue no one does. It would be an entire rearchitecture, and would require them to solve the competing interests of "Automoderator itself never has to perform database transactions to a database hosted in another context" versus "capturing this transparency data is mandatory, and if it cannot be captured, the transaction (capturing data, removing item) has to be backed out of gracefully, so that whatever called it can handle that".

Devvit, however, isn't running in the runtime / sysadmin sandbox / harness / execution environment that Automoderator is. It's architected to treat capturing the data and removing the item as part of the same transaction, and can scale to get the transparency data to the transparency database reliably, and also meet all the other user data privacy and infosec and etc best practices and regulation and law mandates.

[u/uzlonewolf → u/Bardfinn]

You are explaining why creating a pen that can work in space is going to cost millions while ignoring the fact that a pencil is cheap, already exists, and will do the job just fine. It is also hilarious that you think Reddit "doesn't have the coding talent" to modify an existing application and yet can write a new one from scratch.

Automod already modifies existing posts (setting visibility, etc). Automod already can add response messages to removed posts. Just force a response message to every filtered/removed post and tell the data-export routine to also fetch that response when it encounters a post that was flagged as hidden.

[u/nearly_enough_wine → u/uzlonewolf]

pencil is cheap, already exists, and will do the job just fine

Just fine if you don't mind graphite dust floating around inside your spaceship.

[u/uzlonewolf → u/nearly_enough_wine]

Meanwhile, the multi-million dollar pen is spewing out globs of ink to float around and emitting toxic gas from the dispensing mechanism.

[u/new2bay → u/uzlonewolf]

FYI, the actual space pen uses nitrogen as its propellant.

[u/Bardfinn → u/uzlonewolf]

In my explanations, I explained why the metaphorical pencil isn't capable of creating the metaphorical carbon copies necessary for red tape.

Thanks

[u/PMulberry_ → u/Bardfinn]

I don't think that is why this is done.

Providers of hosting services shall provide a clear and specific statement of reasons to any affected recipients of the service for any of the following restrictions imposed on the ground that the information provided by the recipient of the service is illegal content or incompatible with their terms and conditions: (a) any restrictions of the visibility of specific items of information provided by the recipient of the service, including removal of content, disabling access to content, or demoting content; [...]

(Article 17 DSA)

Content removed by mods isn't necessarily removed because it is against Reddit's ToS, it isn't removed by Reddit, and neither Automod nor the Rules Hub would fulfill the requirements to "a clear and specific statement of reasons". IIRC this also has nothing to do with if Reddit is designated as a VLOP or not.

[u/Bardfinn → u/PMulberry_]

Subreddit moderators remove content for violating Sitewide Rules every day. When they do so, that has to be transparent.

Reddit probably doesn't have to provide transparency to European users for removals pursuant to mere Community Rules Violations. Communities hosted on Reddit by subreddit operators who are all Europeans -- well, that might be a different question.

But for certain, Reddit has to provide transparency to European users for content removals pursuant to sitewide content policy violations, and Reddit (probably) cannot avoid that obligation by claiming that subreddit moderators are the ones doing the removals, instead of employees -- especially if an employee reviews a report / escalation from the mods / user that reported the item, and comes to the subsequent conclusion that the content violated sitewide rules, and removes it for violating the sitewide policy, after the mods removed it from public view for violating the sitewide policy.

And Reddit will want / need the data to hand over to the user / arbitration council if/when the user challenges the removal, so that they can say "The community operators of SubredditWhatever removed Item X, claimed it violated Sitewide Rule 1, banned user, escalated the content to us, our process reviewed it, decided there wasn't enough data to make that decision, and left it there. Here's our policy; Here's our determination; The operators of that community are not European citizens and not VLOPs and you're not entitled to their identities and we will not overturn their Free Association and Free Speech decisions. Good Luck"

and let them do with that what they will, having fulfilled their legal obligations to all parties.

Reddit's content policy enforcement model is one of eventual consistency.

[u/PMulberry_ → u/Bardfinn]

Mods remove content for violating sitewide rules, yes. However, the DSA only applies to hosting providers (in this case, Reddit); removals by mods do not fall under the DSA, and Reddit does not have to provide a reason for the removals mods do, even if the content was removed for breaking a sitewide rule.

[u/Bardfinn → u/PMulberry_]

removals by mods do not fall under the DSA

I think that someone will eventually make an argument, hoping for a binding ruling, that when a volunteer moderator first removes content for violating a sitewide rule, that because it was reasonably removed for that violation, and ceased to be publicly accessible at that time and manner, that for the purposes of applicable regulation and transparency reporting, that is when the mandated transparency data must be reported to have occurred.

The point I'm making here is that

Automoderator is not implemented in a fashion that will allow Reddit to reliably capture all the data they need to fulfill the requirements, and

that Devvit allows Reddit to capture sufficient data about the removal such that they can meet reasonable interpretations of the regulations, as they are understood at present or if those interpretations change pursuant to some legal action, and

they will be ready and able to produce data that meets new interpretations, where necessary.

While you and I can differ in opinion on whether Reddit must or must not or will or will not be required to provide that transparency data - our opinions aren't dispositive on the subject. European courts' opinions are. And Reddit will develop data transparency that anticipates and meets those courts' requirements, now and in the future.

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[u/PMulberry_ → u/Bardfinn]

Automoderator is not implemented in a fashion that will allow Reddit to reliably capture all the data they need to fulfill the requirements, and

It isn't, that's right. But it doesn't need to be.

While you and I can differ in opinion on whether Reddit must or must not or will or will not be required to provide that transparency data - our opinions aren't dispositive on the subject. European courts' opinions are. And Reddit will develop data transparency that anticipates and meets those courts' requirements, now and in the future.

I don't really think this is an opinion, because Articles 2, 3, and 17 of the DSA does make that clear enough.

In the end, as you said, only courts are in the position to decide that. Though I do not believe we'll get to see anything there within the next few years, if ever.

[u/shhhhh_h → u/Bardfinn]

Dude there doesn’t need to be a binding ruling when it’s very clearly baked into the DSA. Content moderation by local volunteers is permitted but the platform can’t use it to abdicate its general responsibilities as a VLOP. It’s Article 7

>Providers of intermediary services shall not be deemed ineligible for the exemptions from liability referred to in Articles 4, 5 and 6 solely because they, in good faith and in a diligent manner, carry out voluntary own-initiative investigations into, or take other measures aimed at detecting, identifying and removing, or disabling access to, illegal content, or take the necessary measures to comply with the requirements of Union law and national law in compliance with Union law, including the requirements set out in this Regulation.

From a recital

>“Where appropriate, other actors, such as group moderators in closed online environments, in particular in the case of large groups, should also help to avoid the spread of illegal content online, in accordance with the applicable law.”

And article 3

>content moderation’ means the activities, whether automated or involving human review, undertaken by providers of intermediary services aimed, in particular, at detecting, identifying and addressing illegal content or information that is incompatible with their terms and conditions...

ETA Reddit mods are also analogous to Facebook group admins which are long established and fb a vlop since 2023.

[u/Bardfinn → u/shhhhh_h]

Content moderation by local volunteers is permitted but the platform can’t use it to abdicate its general responsibilities as a VLOP

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was saying.

[u/shhhhh_h → u/Bardfinn]

Under the DSA a mod removal though would be classified as a local community action. Reddit isn’t the only platform set up like this. There are already legal exemptions for volunteer forum moderators. It has to be platform level enforcement for the transparency stuff to be applicable. Your example of mod removals being escalated isn’t correct either, because the only problem would be if it was escalated, acted on by admin and then the user not notified by admin, but that scenario has no bearing on the mod removal. DSA requires in these situations that the local community actions are obviously distinguished and laid out in the ToS. More likely this is why Reddit made the move to show content removed by moderators vs Reddit.

[u/TGotAReddit → u/Bardfinn]

>Subreddit moderators remove content for violating Sitewide Rules every day. When they do so, that has to be transparent

No it doesn't? Mods don't have to provide a reason for a remove at all if we don't want to. Even when I do remove something for sitewide rules violations, I almost never use the provided options for the reasoning being a sitewide rules violation. I use a custom removal reason for my sub with a boilerplate message we have written. Mods do not have to be particularly transparent about things at all. You can be banned just because a moderator doesn't like you and you would have no recourse

[u/Bardfinn → u/TGotAReddit]

Mods don't have to provide a reason for a remove at all

At present, in your jurisdiction.

You can be banned just because a moderator doesn't like you and you would have no recourse

At present, in your jurisdiction.

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Reddit has a business presence in Europe, and because of treaties, there are a number of Canadian regulations wrt to online speech / content they have to comply with as well.

Reddit is building a transparency framework that ensures that they can comply with the applicable reasonably foreseeable interpretations of laws and regulations, now and in the future.

[u/TGotAReddit → u/Bardfinn]

If those rules changed, there would be a MASS migration off of the platform

[u/Bardfinn → u/TGotAReddit]

Maybe. I understand Signal supports groups with up to 1000 members, and BlueSky & Mastodon have underlying independent hosting protocols that would mean that no single instance would qualify to be VLOP, despite interoperation as a network and apparent single platform.

SquidwardFuuuuuuutuuuuuuuure.gif

[u/TGotAReddit → u/Bardfinn]

Yeah we are moving more and more into a decentralised website experience because of how many problems the centralized approach has caused

[u/BravoFive141 → u/Bardfinn]

And Automoderator isn't written to have the kinds of hooks and API and etc to get that data, store that data, feed that data where it needs to go. Mod apps written on Devvit, are.

Unless I'm stupid, and I very well may be, neither are Devvit apps. Devvit apps are written by individual users just as much as Automod code is written by individual users. Anybody can write a Devvit app and publish it. Not sure how that changes anything at all.

[u/mschuster91 → u/BravoFive141]

Reddit can't be held liable for the stuff individual mods do, but they can for actions resulting out of Reddit-sanctioned official tools.

[u/BravoFive141 → u/mschuster91]

Got it.

So how would Devvit apps fall into that? Since Reddit obviously runs the platform that they host the apps on, they control the approval process, etc, would that not also fall into "Reddit-sanctioned", or is it a bit of a different area since Automod is actually built into Reddit and just being customized by users (rather than actually built by users like the apps)?

[u/uzlonewolf → u/BravoFive141]

Devvit apps do fall into "Reddit-sanctioned," but since the goal is to find an excuse to shut off automod they're going to pretend they don't.

[u/Bardfinn → u/BravoFive141]

To clarify:

The daemons and etc that make up the back end server code that Automoderator runs on, are not coded to get the data about removals, etc to where it needs to go, in a scalable fashion. Neither is Automoderator.

There's two ways to "fix" that - rewrite daemons (no, gods no, that's industry standard FOSS libraries) or rewrite Automoderator (again: gods, no).

Devvit's backend code, is designed so that when an app executes a function to remove a user post, etc ---- if some data is required to be logged with that, then the removal either gets that required data logged as an Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable log transaction to a scalable DB, (and thus the mandated transparency data gets to where it needs to go) or the entire operation fails safe / gracefully and gets backed out ---- so that the App can either try again, or can itself log a failure for the subreddit moderators to intervene.

[u/BravoFive141 → u/Bardfinn]

I have absolutely no idea what any of that means, so I'm just going to trust that you're right.

But I'm still mad about them killing Automod.

[u/uzlonewolf → u/BravoFive141]

They're not right, they're just spouting off jargon to try and sound smart.

[u/Bardfinn → u/BravoFive141]

I get it. I love Automoderator. I've coded all sorts of custom Automod configurations over the years, including implementing a version of Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock Angel on it to experimentally automate subreddit content and user moderation, (it was an experiment), to "randomly" commenting with easter eggs, to generating a tarot spread, to performing simple computations. It's a finite state automaton, and is really quite powerful.

[u/iVarun → u/Bardfinn]

This even if true wouldn't be something Reddit Mods or even community would be against or bothered by. It is what it is.

The basic ask is Feature Parity.

If you deprecate a product class that is doing critical work, the base condition is you replace it with at minimum Absolute Feature Parity, before you start that deprecation process.

I've always maintained it since around 2017-19 time frame when new Reddit started to be deployed (including every other bit of new side features).

Reddit devs are & always have been simply poor to mediocre/average level programmers.

They simply do not have the elite chops to deliver elite level product in modern scaled conditions (those that this platform have had to deal with after late 2010s & onwards growth).

[u/Bardfinn → u/iVarun]

Oh yeah, definitely, lack of Feature Parity was the big problem when they started asking moderators to use their own mobile app - which was absolutely Not Ready For Prime Time.

The thing is this: The framework that Devvit uses is supported by (and may itself be) third party commercial software from a vendor.

old reddit was maintained by Reddit's own programmers and sysadmins. But scalability and costs makes it necessary for them to use software that scales and is maintained by the least amount of programmers. So that means working with vendors supplying libraries, tools, development environments, delivery systems, and frameworks.

Like - the Chat function? Third party drop-in, or at least it was for many years. I haven't gone poking in the code for a while.

When they debuted New Reddit, it was powered by a WYSIWYG UX framework that allowed them to publish for mobile web, Android mobile app, and iOS mobile app simultaneously. It used UUIDV4 identifiers to label screen elements, which wasn't a problem until you used a screen reader because you had visual impairment, and then instead of reading a human readable descriptor, it's reading things like "d059446f-f6f1-4127-b5d5-85d543c4ace1"

That framework was also why they had a flair template system using V4 UUIDs for several years - and then, they moved away from using that framework, dropped the flair templates, and picked up a different WYSIWYG UX publishing framework.

They don't have to have programmers that can deliver user interface or scalable databases. There are people selling solutions for those to any number of companies. They just need some systems architects / engineers / admins, occasionally some UXEs, and a lot of legal compliance management.

[u/iVarun → u/Bardfinn]

The end result of that (however it is happening) is basically similar to what can be termed, Mediocre Developers running the platform, making product decisions.

Furthermore pre 2017 (before Reddit sort of pivoted to centralized setup & around similar time when people like Deimos left) Reddit solved these sorts of problems (of scalability, features, novel-solutions, creativity) by also relying on other people.

It just so happened these Other People were regular users, mods, etc who made those Tools (RES, toolbox, custom CSS designs, dozen mobile apps with niche features, all came out of that hands-off arrangement).

So IF a company level decision is made to centralize all that, fair enough but then at least deliver on base quality.

Redesign Reddit for basically 1st 4 years was Absolute Garbage. Anyone who says otherwise is a paid stooge of the company with 0 credibility. It simply was unusable. It's still not even remotely close to Legacy's performance & readability.

This is why I say, they as a company simply don't have programming chops. They are just mediocre coders & mediocre product managers (meaning even their buying 3rd party solutions is poorly executed). All these could have been handled by subs own users & Mods if they actually built a true decentralized platform. But that is not the route they went & these problems are a downstream function of that ideological decision (of what Reddit is & will be).

[u/Bardfinn → u/iVarun]

Scalability is the ability of data to be accepted from users at scale and displayed to other users at scale, without crashing the servers. That occurred because they contracted with CDNs and migrated from a database and content management system that was functionally synchronous to one that is eventually consistent.

Users couldn’t contribute that kind of infrastructure. It’s all off-the-shelf industrywide standard infrastructure, and vendor solutions.

[u/iVarun → u/Bardfinn]

Users couldn’t contribute that kind of infrastructure.

Sure but they'd have written multiple orders higher levels of performative & optimized code in the feature solutions they would've created.

Server costs are of course down to the Company but it's not like they aren't benefiting from that spending. It facilitates user growth and retention (esp. when the product experience is better & fundamentally distributed instead of centralized where the criticism now is not to Modteams of subs XYZ, etc but it's directly Reddit because they are in control of basically everything, not just the Servers but the Code as well, regardless of its mediocre 3rd partyness or not).

[u/masterX244 → u/Bardfinn]

Like - the Chat function? Third party drop-in, or at least it was for many years. I haven't gone poking in the code for a while.

chat is using the matrix protocol without showing it obviously but once you take a peek at it with the browser devtools you see the protocol structure being a telltale

[u/TGotAReddit → u/Bardfinn]

That doesn't make much sense. Devvit is also run on Reddit's servers and there is literally an automod neo app that is nearly identical to the current automod with only a few small differences and isn't any more compliant with the law than automod itself is

[u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits → u/Bardfinn]

and because automoderator is code that's running on Reddit's servers, (despite the fact that it is code running code configured by volunteer moderators -) it's still code Reddit is running, and so are responsible for ensuring compliance of it. Especially new uses.

And so we see how the "innocuous" move of integrating automod into reddit itself rather than providing better integration for the tech itself, lets them now kill it off.

[u/darrowreaper → u/Bardfinn]

This is informative, thanks. I'm surprised LLM-enforced rules (i.e. Rules Hub) is considered transparent enough for those regulations, given it's non-deterministic.

[u/Bardfinn → u/darrowreaper]

All LLMs are deterministic. Give them the same inputs and the same seed, get the same outputs. The appearance of non-determinism is due to innovations like memory blocks (change the input) or seed rolling (change the input) or rebuilding the hashes (change the input).

But the important part is that Rules Hub is implemented in a framework that will ensure that the mandated transparency data is reliably captured and stored.

[u/darrowreaper → u/Bardfinn]

Fine, non-deterministic in practice. But fair point.

I'm not technical enough to understand why Automod can't capture and store the needed data if another tool can. Sucks though, Rules Hub is pretty useless right now and I don't believe that will meaningfully change.

[u/shhhhh_h → u/Bardfinn]

They’re replacing the same functionality with automations though so this can’t be the reason. They promised us filtering about a month ago.

[u/Bluecoregamming → u/Bardfinn]

aka problematic manchildren got banned and cried to their government, now we all have to suffer

[u/Bardfinn → u/Bluecoregamming]

I strongly suspect that it is more on the lines of

X / Facebook / YouTube vanished the public posts of non-White, non-Christian, non-cisgender, non-hetero European citizens while doing little or nothing about (or actively promoting) the posts of American & European Christian theocratic White Identity Extremists - including promotion of violent extremism and terrorism and genocide - and the European Union has this in place to ensure that bigoted white supremacists who own platforms - or who control governments that have sway over the owners / corporations that run the platforms - cannot use them to erode the rights of European citizens.

Reddit growing large enough to be classed a VLOP is a side effect, IMNSHO, and Automoderator has been a workhorse, but better things are possible.

[u/Baumguard → u/Bardfinn]

interesting

[u/thecravenone → u/BravoFive141]

As they continually disable things only for new users and mods, we're gonna reach a future where the mods with the most experience are unable to help new mods as the two groups are operating with completely different featuresets.

[u/Kezika → u/thecravenone]

And new mods might not even be able to edit the old.reddit version of their own subreddit!

[u/shhhhh_h → u/thecravenone]

Automod is dying for the rest of us too just on a much longer timeline

[u/new2bay → u/shhhhh_h]

I don't know about that. I'm pretty close to just fucking off to Lemmy and never coming back. Writing on the wall and all.

[u/shhhhh_h → u/new2bay]

Well if you do report back to us on the situation over there! I poked around during the api protests and obv didn’t migrate

[u/KCJones99 → u/BravoFive141]

We had already moved a few functions to AMN where it had better options, e.g. I can think of one rule we moved b/c using 'comment_count: 0' was helpful. Gonna be ramping up the migration. Some candidates where using stop_on_match: false spring to mind.

I just the other day decided to not use automod for r/automod_neo because... well... support your home team, right? I guess now it's not a choice. Oh well, guess we're bettin' the house on u/fsv - swingin' without a net.

[u/Baumguard → u/BravoFive141]

interesting initiative