Over 8,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit’s upcoming API changes, and it’s shown me just how much I rely on Reddit to find useful, human-sounding information in my Google search results.
However, now that many subreddits are planning to stay dark indefinitely, we might be dealing with largely useless links for a lot longer than expected.
Many of the most popular subreddits are inaccessible due to the obscurity of their communities, and searching for them in search results takes me to a message saying the subreddit is private.
This is unfortunate, since it removes the conversational and community elements that make Reddit so dang useful.
For example, searching for reddit in Bing can return results that don’t contain any of the helpful information I was searching for.
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