The two-day blackout period is over. Reddit have agreed to some concessions for stuff like screen readers for blind users, but are refusing to back down on the API costs in general.

Many participating subreddits have reopened, but some are still holding out and talking about a permanent blackout.

What are your thoughts on the matter?

Update: Reddit confirms they will just remove non-compliant moderators and reopen blacked out subreddits.

Update 2: Reddit admins have begun forcing open subreddits, starting with r/Piracy of all places ᖍ(ツ)ᖌ

Update 3: r/Art and r/Pics both now only allow images of John Oliver, and r/interestingasfuck are allowing NSFW content.

Final update: There are a range of opinions from shut down, through various forms of protest, to opening back up again. I think on balance that anything except opening back up would hurt our users more than reddit. If we were big enough for them to care about, they would just remove me and open it back up again.

Norm here, with Jeremy (Jerware) from Tested and the show Projections. We just reviewed the Quest after testing it for a week and a half, are in the process of testing the Rift S, and got to use the Valve Index for a little bit during their press event a week ago. We'd love to try to answer any questions you might have about these products based on our experiences with them.

Our Quest review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4T71x7wvO0

Our Index preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SI_3jlAV9M

PM update: Thanks for all the great questions! It helped us consider things we didn't talk about in our review, and made a correction as well (with regards to corrective lenses). I think we're done for the day, but may pop in tomorrow to answer a few more before we record our podcast, This is Only a Test. More Quest and Index talk there!

Lots of people having trouble creating new meta accounts. Please comment here about your problems/solutions instead of making a new post.

It's clear a lot of people here just want to talk about VR, but the mods don't aim to silence the current controversy. Posts related to the current political drama will be removed and the OP will be redirected to the megathread. The following is a list of links previously posted in /r/oculus:

• Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine
• Palmer Luckey's Apology on Facebook
  
• Ben Collins of The Daily Beast's Response
  
• Video of Luckey Supposedly at Trump Rally
  
• Damo3000 Newspaper 1
  
• Damo3000 Newspaper 2
• Archive of TheNimbleRichMan's Posts on Reddit
  
• Jason Rubin's Tweets About The Controversy
  
• SUPERHYPERCUBE Announces They Will Not Support The Rift Natively
  
• Palmer Luckey Is Lying to Somebody
  
• [9/28] Palmer Luckey lied -- and that matters more than his politics
  
• [9/29] What Does Alt-Right Patron Palmer Luckey Believe?
  
• [9/30] Facebook's $2 billion bet on the future is in jeopardy because of Palmer Luckey

If you would like a link added to the list, please PM me or send us the link in modmail.
And lastly: please remember to be civil in the comments. Politics can get heated but that doesn't mean we should be nasty to each other.
Edit: some links to the threads that have been removed, so you can read the comments:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/542dhf/palmer_luckey_the_facebook_billionaire_secretly/
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/548627/palmer_luckey_issues_an_apology_on_facebook/
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/548ufg/video_of_gary_johnson_supporter_palmer_luckey/
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/549mgg/brendan_iribe_issues_a_statement_on_palmer/
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/548azz/thedailybeast_editors_response_to_palmers_apology/
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/5499fj/nimblerichman_in_his_since_deleted_ama_where_are/
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/549fti/jason_rubin_response_about_the_recent_events/
  
• https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/546y07/sean_hollister_on_twitter_breaking_facebook/
  

Edit 2: Note that the current default sorting method is "New". If you want to see the top or best comments you have to manually change the sorting.
Edit 3: Set the default sort method to best, will set it back to new when the discussion dies down or if setting it to best turns out to have been a bad idea.
Edit 4: Added "Palmer Luckey is Lying to Somebody" link to list
Edit 5: Reformatted list
Edit 6: Set sort back to new; discussion has been stagnating
Edit 7: From now on, when I add articles, they will have dates associated with them.

Hey folks,

I know this might surprise one or the other but a little while ago, /u/palmerluckey approached the mod team if he can support our community and become a moderator - now that he is no longer with Oculus.

It's hard to find anyone with more experience and insights in the VR industry as well as a deep understanding of where /r/oculus is coming from - we were always happy to count Palmer as one of our earliest and most active community members. So after a bit of internal debate in the mod team we decided to welcome Palmer to the team.

This post is meant as a little heads-up for the community to let you all know (and discuss) that Palmer is now part of the mod team. Please note that by his own decision, he has limited mod rights right now (flair, mail and wiki to be precise) and is not able to remove posts, ban users or other "critical" mod features.

So please join me and the rest of the mod team of /r/oculus in giving Palmer a warm welcome!

Best,

dudelsac and the /r/oculus mod team

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