The r/Warframe subreddit will be reopening in a restricted form on June 21st, when the 7 Crimes of Kullervo update releases.

While dormi.zone was initially created as an alternative platform for r/Warframe on Reddit during its blackout, since then we have gained subscribers from all across the fediverse who have been yearning for a place to discuss Digital Extremes’ flagship game. Thank you for joining and helping this community grow!

We recognize that there needs to be a space to discuss the fate of r/Warframe, but we’re also noticing a rising amount of duplicate posts about this topic, aggravating users who are here to discuss Warframe the videogame and may have even found their way here through means other than our blackout.

To keep these posts from overwhelming the frontpage of this community without denying them the visibility they should have, we will be funneling all discussion about the r/Warframe subreddit in this pinned megathread.

Once r/Warframe reopens, meta discussion about r/Warframe will return to Reddit.

  • MarauderIIC@dormi.zoneEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I see lots of posts here saying the blackout is bad. I just wanted to say that I like the blackout. Thanks.

    • Halasham@dormi.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I agree. Got a good excuse to try something new and turns out it does some things in a way I like better than what I was already using. Still need to figure out a few things but this is nice.

      • OpentheSub@dormi.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m personally happy that dormi.zone exists and I hope it grows into it’s own little part of the community overtime, maybe distancing itself from reddit’s formatting a bit to be ‘more than JUST the reddit alternative’. I’ll probably even check in to get bullied about my out-of-date username every once in awhile. Still, it’ll never be what the subreddit is, and I don’t think it should try to be.

  • neooffs@dormi.zoneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    it makes me sad to see all the angry people here condemning the closure of the sub

    if companies had their way we’d all be zombies dancing to their songs

    this is just a small inconvenience to remind everyone how reddit can go to shit in the near future

    • ATiredPhilosopher@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      People simply don’t care about getting fucked by corporations because they’ve been conditioned to for decades. Someone told me that having all your data exploited is the price of admission for the internet…like come on, it is when you let it

  • Presi300@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    r/Warframe should not reopen, put a big banner on the sub, redirecting people to the lemmy instance.

  • SenorAvocado@dormi.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I just made a lemmy account, i doubt i’ll return to reddit, this protest and management response has shown the worst side of reddit i’ve never seen and am disgusted. good to see warframe is active here.

  • Ekoz@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    grateful. it’s nice to see an alternative, but it’s rough knowing that the countless things i submitted were lost even to me (since, you know, privating a sub also makes it impossible for a user to retrieve even their own submitted content.)

  • dantheman34@dormi.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Please do a community vote on the subreddit on whether people want it to stay closed. To be honest this sort of large decision should have been left up to the community rather than forced on to the community

    • The_Vampire@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I don’t understand why people act as if it is the community that owns the subreddit. The moderators do, and it should be that way. They made the subreddit, they manage the subreddit, and they set the rules. It is only fair that they get a disproportionate say when they put in a disproportionate amount of work for the subreddit.

    • neooffs@dormi.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      reddit is the one forcing decisions into every community within it

      it might not be as sudden as a temporary closure of a sub but will have longer lasting effects

  • Halasham@dormi.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, I was kind-of hoping that any reopening of the sub would be for knowledge categorization and collection to be brought here.

    • Apostroffie@dormi.zoneMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      We aren’t closing the lemmy instance, once we open it, feel free to take guides to archive them here. Reddit shouldn’t be the only repository of collected information by the fans. Historically, game information was spread out and exchanged throughout different forums so that the information constantly exists for fandoms with the most dedicated of users; a lot of our information we can’t exactly store on the wiki, as they have are different ways to obtaining content as well as research and discussion to support why certain metas are the way they are.

  • ATox@dormi.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The numbers don’t lie. You have thousands of users here vs hundreds of thousands on the reddit. Most don’t care about this site or even know it exists. Good to see the subreddit open again.

    • Dystopia@dormi.zoneEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      According to the sidebar, this place is fairly active for its size. ~1k comments in a week, with most help threads getting a response from someone.

      While some of this advice might be subjective/preference based, the people responding tend to give an explanation for why they recommended something.
      https://dormi.zone/post/15749
      https://dormi.zone/post/24620
      https://dormi.zone/post/14004

      There are a few people saying that there’s “important information on r/warframe” but they’ve never responded with what they were looking for when prompted.

      If someone wants information they can’t find elsewhere, feel free to make a post asking and someone procrastinating will probably come by to help instead of doing what they were originally supposed to be doing; can’t answer questions that haven’t been asked, and it helps to fill in the “missing repository”, although the wiki also a great source of information that people have already submitted. (even if its a fandom site)

    • neooffs@dormi.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      you are not making much of a point here. of course reddit has more users since it’s been around for a long time and houses hundreds of other subreddits.

  • JakeBacon@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    reopening in a restricted form

    What are we talking about here? Will it be a protest similar to r/steam or r/pics, a restriction on who can post/comment, or something else entirely?

  • McRibbles@dormi.zoneEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    An unfortunate decision, but ultimately a rather understandable one. I have some mild complaints about Lemmy, primarily those related to how…incredibly alpha it feels on all the iOS browsers I’ve tried. Even despite that, given the whole reason for the blackout to begin with, I would’ve been more than happy to stay on here long term. “Well why don’t you do just that, even if the sub reopens?” probably because the already incredibly small community (even including non-posting lurkers) here will all just pack up and leave back to reddit making this a total ghost town. Unfortunate, but thems the facts. Though perhaps I’m just trying to rationalize being a hypocrite. Dormi.Zone’s a super cute name, too.

    Wonder who’ll be the first to post primed Wisp Ass and get all those sick reddit updoots.

    • Kaldo@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve said this elsewhere but I like the smaller and overall more positive community here, I don’t even miss r/warframe and have no plans to go back unless this one dies completely. We dont need millions of active users to have a nice space here, and it’s only a matter of time before reddit shits the bed again and people wish they had an alternative.

      edit: about the browsing experience: I’m on kbin so the layout on dormi.zone is different for me. I have to say it feels very sleek and professional and with some user enhancement scripts I also have collapsing comment threads, domains next to all usernames and similar improvements.

  • patreides232@dormi.zoneEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    so, are we just doing discussions about the original subreddit on reddit, or are we returning all our warframe posts to reddit?

    • Halasham@dormi.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      My Warframe posts are staying here. Would be amusing if the sub was turned into just a meta-sub discussing the pre-blackout sub… in the same vein as the new John Oliver fan clubs.

  • OpentheSub@dormi.zoneEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Attempting to stop supporting a massive company you don’t like while actively and provably damaging a smaller company and community that you DO like was and is a terrible idea, frankly. I would have been so disappointed if the sub stayed closed while 7 Crimes launched, thinking about the analytics guy at DE looking at the tangible dip of week 1 player activity post-patch (compared to other updates) because the people who usually see the updates coming from looking at the reddit just didn’t know it even came out. Honestly, even keeping it closed for the next few days will hurt the anticipation buildup and negatively effect activity, but whatever. Better now than never.

    • Dystopia@dormi.zoneEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I deleted my twitter account for less. Is it an issue that I stopped supporting a “massive company” because I didn’t like how it was being run? (not that twitter was run particularly well before it was bought). It’s not the first time a platform has killed itself. (looking at tumbler)

      • OpentheSub@dormi.zoneEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Your twitter account wasn’t (probably) an active and living part of a game development studio’s online presence. Individuals can do whatever they want with their accounts, obviously, but the subreddit isn’t that, it’s a forum. All the people that choose not to engage with reddit anymore can just do that, but the people who want to interact with warframe ON reddit in SPITE of reddit (I hate twitch but I still watch these streamers, I hate youtube but I still watch yada-yada, etc;) can’t anymore with the sub closed. Do what you want, but let everyone else do that, too.

        • The_Vampire@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          In the same vein, Reddit moderators should be free to close down the subreddit. The subreddit is ultimately a reflection of their hard work and their values. They’re the ones who take care of and manage the subreddit, and they’re the ones disproportionately affected by the API changes.

          It’s no different from a forum admin closing down a forum. Ultimately, it’s their decision and their right.

          • OpentheSub@dormi.zoneEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Hard disagree

            When bus drivers quit, they don’t get to keep the bus. Any admin who thinks they OWN their forum enough to close it down (Especially when they don’t even own the website it’s on) is power tripping. Again, individual users can do what they like, and any moderator who doesn’t want to operate on new reddit doesn’t have to, more power to 'em. But they don’t take the slot with them when they leave.

            Thankfully the mod team understands this, they talk about it in their return reddit post.

  • Torchbound@dormi.zoneEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    It sucks that the corporation won once again, but I am happy that WF is one of the reddits I frequent that actually did it properly. You didn’t fail us, mods, we failed you. I personally tried to stay off reddit completely, at least on the first two days and did limit my use of it in the next days after, but as the drug uses are coming back in droves, staying off it will not change much. Let’s hope when RIP and Apollo close we get another wave of this.

    • doctortofu@reddthat.comEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know about others, but I’m definitely not coming back - didn’t visit reddit after the blackout at all and somehow I’m still alive - turns out I can live without it!

      I’m honestly a bit disappointed in the decision to reopen, not really surprised, mind you, but disappointed. Still, if moderators want to keep volunteering and providing free labor for a site that treats them like dirt and users prefer to watch tons of ads there that’s their prerogative and I genuinely and unironically hope it makes them happy. I’m much happier here, and that’s why here is where I’ll stay.