Reddit Message Boards Dark In Major Protest Over Fees For Third-Party Developers; Site Goes Down
deadline.comReddit communities including some of its biggest clicked into to private mode today, meaning not accessible to the broader public, as they carried through on threats to protest the platform’s fees hikes to third-party app developers.
The protest hit the site Monday with users reporting widespread problems loading content. The company’s latest at 8:47 PT said, “We’re observing improvements across the site and expect issue to recover for most users.
We will continue to closely monitor the situation.” Dozens of the thousands of communities, called subreddits, that are now in blackout mode have over a million subscribers — from r/videos and r/reactiongifs to r/earthporn.
The protests is expected to run for 48 hours, although some subreddits that depend on third parties could permanently shutter thereafter.
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