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When more than 8,000 subreddits for 48 hours earlier this week to protest Reddit’s forthcoming API changes, there were signs the action had an immediate effect on the platform. On the morning of the first day of the protest, Reddit suffered a “” affecting its desktop and mobile websites, as well as mobile apps. Days later, company CEO Steve Huffman went on a where he attempted to cast aggrieved users and moderators, many of whom give countless hours of their free time to make Reddit the vibrant platform it is today, as…

Reddit has been in the news a ton this week, literally a ton. And it’s all due to them deciding to charge for their API. Because of that, many of the biggest and most popular subreddits decided to go dark for 48 hours earlier this week. And a number of others decided to continue, indefinitely. Initially, Reddit’s CEO had stated that this would pass. But now, it looks like they have another plan. Replacing the moderators on these more popular subreddits. Here’s the full note from Reddit, that was sent to moderators: If…

What good is Reddit without the support of its community? This week, Cherlynn and Devindra discuss the recent subreddit revolts, following the company’s decision to dramatically increase the cost of its API for third parties. They’re joined by Ryan Broderick, the internet culture reporter behind the must-read newsletter Garbage Day. Will the protests amount to any sort of change? Or will Reddit CEO Steve Huffman prevail and make the company ready for a potential IPO? Also, we dive into our reviews of the new MacBook Air…

As Reddit continues to deal with the mess created by high API prices, CEO Steve Huffman has written to employees to seemingly downplay the impact of network-wide subreddit closures are having.When it became clear that the prices Reddit will charge for access to its API will put apps like Apollo (one of the best Reddit apps around) out of business, many subreddit moderators said that they would act. That meant that subreddits under their control would "go dark," or effectively be made private so that nobody could see or…

If you go to right now, your favorite subreddit might not be available. More than 8,000 communities on the platform to protest Reddit's API policy changes. Moderators of many of those subreddits said they'd open up access to their communities again on Wednesday, while others are prepared to prolong their protests indefinitely. Either way, Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman doesn't seem too worried. According to , Huffman told staff to block out the noise from the collective action. He noted in a memo that there…

The Reddit apocalypse is nigh. Today, to protest Reddit’s pricing changes to its API, almost every subreddit on the platform has gone dark. A Twitch stream, which is counting the number of subreddits that have changed their permissions to private to protest the changes, counts 7237 out of 7806 subreddits going dark as of the writing of this article. The subreddits that have changed their permissions to private are no longer publicly available, even to those who were previously subscribed to them. The…

Apollo, a widely used third-party app for Reddit, has announced that it will be shutting down on June 30, 2023, as a direct consequence of Reddit's recently announced changes in its API pricing, according to TechCrunch. The new pricing plans would require Apollo to pay a staggering $20 million annually to continue operating, an impossible cost for an independent developer. Christian Selig, the creator of Apollo, was one of the first to raise concerns about the impact of Reddit's new API pricing on third-party apps. Even…

Reddit will implement a new API policy on July 1 that would charge excessive fees to developers of third-party apps for the website, thereby resulting in the shutdown of many popular applications such as Reddit is Fun (RIF), Sync for Reddit, Apollo, and ReddPlanet. Apps like BoostForReddit and BaconReader have not outrightly confirmed their shutdown yet. The new API pricing plans will end up costing third-party apps millions of dollars each year to keep their businesses running which is financially untenable for any indie…

After many efforts of reasoning with Reddit, Apollo, a great third-party app on iOS, will be disappearing forever from June 30, due to the company's bizarre stance on over-charging access to developers. But a different, more damaging story is unfolding.In a Reddit post, Apollo's developer, Christian Selig, goes into great detail about how he tried for weeks to reason with Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, but he only got hard nos in response.But it gets worse, as Huffman reportedly tried to stick Selig up as threatening to…

Reddit is in for a rude awakening, just ask some of its most popular subreddits. To protest Reddit’s recent plan to charge for access to its API, some of the platform’s biggest communities will be going dark for at least two days.In April, Reddit announced that it would be charging companies for access to its application programming interface (API), much the way Twitter opted to when Elon Musk realized he wasn’t making enoughmoney. While Reddit said that the decision was to keep companies like Google and OpenAI from…