One Twitter user posted, “Reddit crashing for anyone?? #Reddit,” while another said, “#reddit melting down rn.”
Post Date – 11:23 AM, Tue – 6/13/23
San Francisco: Social discussion platform Reddit faced a brief outage as subreddits protested changes to the company’s new application programming interface (API) pricing.
The company has now fixed an issue that was causing problems loading content.
According to the status page on Reddit, the outage began on Monday.
On Twitter, some users reported this problem.
One user posted, “Reddit has anyone’s influence?? #Reddit,” another said, “#reddit melting down rn.”
According to outage monitoring site DownDetector, 54 percent reported problems using the website, 33 percent reported problems using the app, and 14 reported problems using a server connection.
Last week, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman hosted an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session to discuss the platform’s controversial API changes, confirming that the company does not intend to revert to its upcoming API pricing changes that have caused multiple developers to Personnel announced that they would be shutting down downloading their apps.
Following the new API pricing changes on the social discussion platform, more than 6,000 subreddits have disappeared, including many of the platform’s most subscribed communities such as r/funny, r/aww, r/gaming, r/music and r/science, This means that these communities are no longer publicly accessible, even for Reddit users who previously subscribed to them.
Many of the subreddits involved in the protest planned to go private for 48 hours, but some planned to stay private until things changed.
