We very much appreciate all the support that has been offered here to continue the protest in some manner; it means more than you’ll know. You all are amazing and dedicated. We were seriously considering continuing the protest in some way, but there are growing developments behind the scenes now that cause us much concern. After much thought, we are choosing to fully reopen. (This doesn’t mean things can’t change in the future.)

While the CEO stated publicly that we have the right to protest, behind the scenes now, subs are being taken over, one after the other, the mods booted, and even locked out of their accounts. I can no longer count the number of sub takeovers, from both huge (millions of members) and much smaller subs (just a hundred thousand), and even from people who have faithfully dedicated their efforts as mods to their subs for 15 years. This has happened even in very large subs where the members voted overwhelmingly to continue their sub’s protest. There is a lot of ugliness going on behind closed doors. It's heart-breaking, and we don't want to see people who know nothing about astrology and have no caring interest in the subs, taking over. The CEO appears to be on the warpath, and we are retreating. For us to continue and risk a takeover now means more harm to our members than just the annoyance of some days without the subs.

On the more positive side, we are seeing, just this week, some long-needed mod tools being rolled out. That is progress, and we gladly acknowledge this. They are promising more mod tools on the native app over the next month. We shall see if they follow through.

We have been looking into an alternative site, but those alternatives are complicated and not very stable yet, as well as confusing for users. We’ll just also say that we’ve even looked into an electional chart for a new venue, but things just aren’t great for that at this time. So, that is all on hold. Perhaps we’ll create a backup site at some point, in case things get worse here on reddit, but for now we won’t be acting on that.

EDIT: We're not up for nasty comments about the protest. They will be removed.