POLL: Should r/thomastheplankengine continue to participate in an extended blackout?
##[**Vote here on what we should do next!**](https://strawpoll.com/polls/XOgONd6wQn3)
Hi all,
Recently [we participated in the Reddit blackout to protest Reddit's API changes.](https://redd.it/146m8zc) We did so after holding a poll where the majority of voters wanted us to particpate. Thanks to all of you that voted or commented and expressed your opinion. And thank you to all of those that joined our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/zJD33MKZF4), we saw a nice influx of new people!
We are here to ask for the community's opinion once again. Although the two-day blackout [did cause a Reddit response](https://redd.it/148lgko), it seems that it was not enough to warrant any changes. Many people, including myself, are not surprised about this since it's such a short period of time.
However, many subreddits have decided to take things further by doing one of two things:
- Extending the June 12 - 14 blackout by going private indefinitely - Going restricted indefinitely, opening the subreddit but not allowing any new posts
[More information can be found here!](https://redd.it/148ks6u)
So we want to hear from you whether we should follow suit and do one of those, or to move on and stay open. This is an extremely tough decision for us to make, and I can see the pros and cons of both sides. I love this subreddit and I worry that shutting down would pretty much kill this community and destroy all the progess we've made, even if we moved to another platform. However, many of our mods use 3rd party apps and tools and are completely against Reddit's decisions.
To be honest, we are leaning towards staying open, as it is the safer option and I feel that our size means that we don't have too much power in this matter. So **the results of this poll will not neccessarily dictate our next actions**, we just want to see what your thoughts are. So please vote below, and comment your opinion. I've put the poll on an outside website this time in case any 3rd party app users couldn't access the last poll (thanks u/WhoRoger!)
##[**Vote here on what we should do next!**](https://strawpoll.com/polls/XOgONd6wQn3)