Many protest subreddits will be privatized for 48 hours from June 12th to June 14th
Post Date – 12:15 AM, Tue – 6/13/23
San Francisco: With social discussion platform Reddit’s upcoming application programming interface (API) pricing changes, more than 6,000 subreddits have shut down, including many of the platform’s most subscribed communities such as r/funny, r/aww, r/gaming, r /music and r/science, which means that these communities are no longer publicly accessible, even by Reddit users who previously subscribed to them.
According to The Verge, many subreddits involved in the protest will be private for 48 hours from June 12 to June 14, but some plan to remain private until things change.
“It’s not something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible for us to continue doing what we love,” r/Toptomcat was quoted as saying.
Apollo app developer Christian Selig, who sparked the initial outrage over a post about Reddit’s API pricing, said it was “distressing” to see Reddit’s community rally against the proposed changes. Believably astonishing.”
“I really hope Reddit hears,” he wrote in a post on the Apollo subreddit.
“I think showing humanity by apologizing and acknowledging that this process was mishandled, and making a concrete commitment to give developers more time, will go a long way towards making people feel heard and instilling confidence in the community,” Selig added.
Last week, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman hosted an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session to discuss the platform’s controversial API changes, confirming that Reddit does not plan to revert its upcoming API pricing changes that have caused multiple developers to Announced that they were shutting down their app.
During the meeting, Hoffman went on to accuse Selig of being “pervasive” in his “behavior and communication,” and said he couldn’t see Reddit working further with developers, TechCrunch reported.
