Hi all,
The subreddit is still down (more on that soon) as part of the widespread protests against Reddit's changes. While the official pathofexile forums and the /r/pathofexile discord are still available for questions, guides and community chat, the most common modmail we've gotten during this week has been people asking to see specific threads on the subreddit which contain useful game information. We've been working on a workaround for the community.
How to use it
Here's an example. You're on Google searching for "poe how to sustain maps", the first result will be this link, which shows the subreddit private page https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/x4ot0f/how_the_heck_are_people_managing_to_sustain_maps/
Now, you can take any link like that, and add poe before reddit.com, and see the submission and comments, for example:
https://www.poereddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/x4ot0f/how_the_heck_are_people_managing_to_sustain_maps/
Caveats:
- The amount of comments/submissions in the PoE sub is huge, so we are only able to store text. Links to videos and images work, but a native reddit video for example would not.
- Data is only present up through March 31st, 2023. Data beyond that is significantly harder to bulk submit, but we're working on it.
- If a user has opted out of data collection on reddit via pushshift, their comments/submissions are not present. All user information was stripped out of this mirror though
- This index includes deleted posts, so if you're browsing the index page of the site, you'll see posts that say deleted. That's because they are.
- Comments are unsorted, you may need to scroll down on the page to view comments with interesting replies
How is this accomplished:
We downloaded all the comments and the submissions from Pushshift, an open copy of reddit's content, and put them into a database using a tool called Redarc
TLDR: When you find a reddit.com/r/pathofexile/foo link, change it to poereddit.com/r/pathofexile/foo to see the posts and comments
Hopefully this is useful to people, we've been sending it as a reply to modmails asking to see subreddit threads
Wishing ya'll a good weekend, Multi
I'm sure a lot of people's #1 question right now is: Will the /r/pathofexile subreddit come back before Exilecon? The short answer is yes. There will be detail on reddit's communication to us and other subreddits, plus moderator team updates and a community input post this week once we've finished talking to the admins. This was a contentious topic and some of the subreddit mods are resigning over it. Thanks for being patient
Personally, I would prefer for the subreddit to not come back. I realize that's not an option according to the reddit admins, but I would personally ask that y'all do like r/pics did and do a user survey to ask if the subreddit continues normally, or if you do some kind of malicious compliance option like "only sexy photos of John Oliver are allowed".
Rogue Exiles Gone Wild
Sexy Doedre Pics Only
Tabula Rasa IRL
So many possibilities…