More than 6,000 Reddit forums went dark last Monday in what was supposed to be a two-day protest over the company’s plan to begin charging steep fees for some third party apps to access its platform. A week later, more than 3,500 Reddit forums remain dark. Now comes a ransomware threat.
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As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit’s plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces “open and accessible to users.”
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has told Reddit employees that he is unconcerned about current protests over the company’s sudden API changes. In a letter shared by The Verge, Huffman said that while there’s a “lot of noise” right now, it “will pass.”
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Monday’s protests reflect widespread outrage over a Reddit plan to charge millions of dollars in fees for some third-party apps to continue accessing the platform. The plan has already forced several of Reddit’s top app-makers to announce they are shutting down because they cannot afford the new costs, which are set to begin as soon as next month.
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Apple-related subreddit /r/apple has gone dark in protest of Reddit’s upcoming API pricing changes affecting third-party Reddit apps. The subreddit is now private. Here’s what’s happening.
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Popular third-party Reddit app Apollo will be shutting down as of June 30, Apollo developer Christian Selig announced today. The news comes after Reddit decided to start requiring developers to pay [what some consider] an unreasonable amount to access its API.
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Popular Reddit app Apollo might not be able to operate as is in the future due to planned API pricing that Reddit is implementing. Here’s what’s happening.
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A surprising new survey finds that 58% of institutional investors — the professionals who trade on behalf of banks and pension funds, the so-called “smart money” — admit to having made an investment decision based on information from Reddit.
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Reddit’s official app now provides users with the ability to search for comments within a specific post directly from the search bar. Here’s what’s happening.
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