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Thousands of Reddit communities went dark this week in protest of upcoming API changes, which include a controversial policy that will charge some third-party apps for continued use
Reddit is facing an ongoing blackout from some of its most active users after it revealed...
Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest a new policy that will charge some third-party apps to access data on the site, leading to worries about content moderation and accessibility. “Reddit is killing third-party applications (and itself)," multiple subreddits wrote in posts seen on the platform's homepage this week. The new fees are part of broader changes to Reddit's API, or application programming interface, that the company announced recently.
If you hopped on Reddit to scroll through your favorite forums this week, you may have encountered “private” or “restricted” messages. “Protest and dissent is important,” Huffman said. Organizers of the protest say Reddit's new policy threatens to end key ways of historically customizing the platform using an API, or application programming interface, which allows computer programs to communicate with each another.
Thousands of Reddit communities went dark this week in protest of upcoming API changes, which include a controversial policy that will charge some third-party apps for continued use. Organizers of