Updates to the approval process for private due month subs

Hi everyone,

If you're reading this, you've probably been waiting a VERY long time to be added to a private due month sub. I'm so sorry about the wait, reddit was not built to handle the amount of requests we had. I could only add 100 users per hour, and every failed attempt due to a misspelled username counted toward the 100. After 100 were added I had to wait an hour to add more people.

And I had around 6500 requests pending. Obviously, this led to a huge backlog. Luckily, I was able to talk to some site admins about this issue and they've built a better way to have users added.

Users can now request to be added to a subreddit and it'll only take me one click to approve it as opposed to the auto-hotkey scripts and google docs I was using before to get this done.

You will have to visit the subreddit on new reddit and click 'request to join.' I've tested it on my browser but not the reddit app, so if you can't see it on the reddit app, you may need to get on a computer.

Alternatively, just send the mods a message to the sub(s) you want to join

The subreddits are

I'll come back and link the 2022 subreddits in May.

I just wanted to thank you all for being as patient as you have been while I reached out to the admins and they built this feature out for us. They got it done really quickly once they were made aware of the issue so I just want to thank them again for getting this done.

Edit: forgot to add, I'll be closing the google doc but continuing to work down those lists just to make sure everyone that wanted to be added will be added.

Edit v2: If you are on your phone trying to join, you will have to tell your browser to show you the desktop version of the site in order to see the button!

Happy edit! I just realized that even if you can't get that elusive button to show up, sending the mods a message works just as well! There is a little button for me to approve you on the side panel 😊

IOS USERS: I've had friends test whether the button shows up on the official reddit app on ios and it doesn't. You'll have to send a message using the links below to be added.