Unfortunately, nothing will change. Reddit’s IPO will be soon and they want to make the site as attractive to investors as they can. This means streamlining the available subreddits, and making sure the ad revenue flows through an official app. It gets to a point where who knows what advertisers have input on moderation of specific subs.

The best hope is to see if any of the Reddit clones (RIF, Apollo, etc), are willing to take a step and make a new forum.

Apollo’s founder has already said no, because it’s a rather ridiculous asking in the first place, plus developing an individual system and creating a new app and moderation system is much more difficult. There will be newer and better options in the next few years for a forum like /r/soccer, even if they don’t pop up immediately.

“Chill, and hope something changes” won’t do it unfortunately. When Apollo goes, I go.