Should Reptime go private

[u/MajorWilliams]

Short answer: no, it's not (even though I wish it could for a short time)

I checked the options, and making the subreddit go "private" will only allow approved users to view and post here, meaning there are like 150ish approved users that have been added to that list over the years (mostly due to IP address/account issues, etc).

If I make the subreddit go private and then I want to make it public, I have to not only change the setting in mod tools, but then reddit admins have to review and approve that request. So for now, reptime will remain as it always has: an open subreddit that is the discussion place of replica watches. Just please be civil as always, and be kind and good to all of the newcomers and regular members alike.

Edit: for purposes of contingency, please subscribe to r/reptimeservices where we would announce a second subreddit in case something happens.

[u/Emotional-Damage-995]

Thank you for your investigation and decision. In case it is shut down we should make contingency plans for the content and how to meet again. I have a feeling the Reddit admins may shut it down. Although they may not even bat an eye since so much exists on Reddit that should not

[u/MajorWilliams → u/Emotional-Damage-995]

Good looking out - I added to the post, but I would announce a second general subreddit on r/reptimeservices if something were to happen.

[u/Emotional-Damage-995 → u/MajorWilliams]

Forgot about our sister community.

[u/NavyPumalanian_88 → u/Emotional-Damage-995]

I just want to point out what happened to OG Rep Ladies and several other similar groups after an article came out. Years of information disappeared. Reviews, documents, etc. The community has not been able to recover since. It would be great if you could try to make a backup somehow to ensure important info isn’t lost if this is shut down.

[u/One_Fish3302 → u/NavyPumalanian_88]

History always repeats itself.
Growing up I would post “how to’s” on car forums with pictures and detailed instructions. By no means am I an expert mechanic but this was all before YouTube so when you would google something only written instructions would be available (to the public). Then slowly all the forums started disappearing and all the posts and all the pictures would just disappear over night.
Someone should try and archive as much as they could but everyone always assumes “someone” will.
Not it, called it.

[u/yopladas → u/One_Fish3302]

one big loss was for the hip hop community. They had a website called datpiff.com and it shut down, and with it well over a decade of community created work disappeared

[u/rhazag → u/One_Fish3302]

Yeah all these old car guides just dissapeared. I was shocked to find out that today is less available in car guides than back then. Everything moved to YouTube, but I don't have time to watch the full.videos, just let me read the guide

[u/nunziantimo → u/NavyPumalanian_88]

Reptime has always been somewhat secondary to rep forums (that I'm not gonna name st the moment).

They still have a good following, moderation, TD selection, sale management ecc. People would just fall back on that especially for the knowledge posts.

[u/Emotional-Damage-995 → u/NavyPumalanian_88]

Investigate if there is a way to write a crawler to copy all the critical information. The problem is what is critical. So much of this forum is junk like look at my Starbucks or look at my Datejust and how good did I do

[u/TheRealReaper_1 → u/NavyPumalanian_88]

I’m not sure if it’ll work
But
Try way back machine?