GroveDiesel
Footballguy
Surprised that I don’t see a thread on this already.
Thousands of subreddits go dark today in protest.
The gist is that Reddit is going to now charge third party apps/services that use Reddit’s API (basically who grab the raw data from Reddit’s services and display/provide access to Reddit through their own app). The third party developers seem to understand that paying for access is a financial reality, but then Reddit’s pricing and required timeline made it clear that the real intent was to eliminate all third party access/competitors. Reddit’s leadership then lied to the developers, lied about the discussions that took place with the third party developers, and have attempted to trash the third party developers/apps.
The real issue is that all of the subreddits on Reddit are started and managed by volunteers who moderate the subreddit communities. And the vast majority of them use these third party apps/tools because the moderation tools provided by those third party apps are vastly superior to Reddit’s tools in their native sites/app. So now the work of modding a sub will be much more difficult and time consuming.
Thousands of subs have now gone “dark” for at least 48 hours in protest. After a disastrous “Q&A” that Reddit’s CEO did where he continued to trash the one big third party developer, ignored user concerns, and copy and pasted pre-drafted answers, many of the largest subs made the decision to indefinitely go dark unless changes are made. Reddit leadership threatened the possibility of removing current moderators and re-opening subreddit communities if they felt it was in the “best interests of Reddit”.
Lots of users have now claimed that they are done with Reddit unless Reddit reverses course. The table is now set for the potential downfall of Reddit.
Thousands of subreddits go dark today in protest.
The gist is that Reddit is going to now charge third party apps/services that use Reddit’s API (basically who grab the raw data from Reddit’s services and display/provide access to Reddit through their own app). The third party developers seem to understand that paying for access is a financial reality, but then Reddit’s pricing and required timeline made it clear that the real intent was to eliminate all third party access/competitors. Reddit’s leadership then lied to the developers, lied about the discussions that took place with the third party developers, and have attempted to trash the third party developers/apps.
The real issue is that all of the subreddits on Reddit are started and managed by volunteers who moderate the subreddit communities. And the vast majority of them use these third party apps/tools because the moderation tools provided by those third party apps are vastly superior to Reddit’s tools in their native sites/app. So now the work of modding a sub will be much more difficult and time consuming.
Thousands of subs have now gone “dark” for at least 48 hours in protest. After a disastrous “Q&A” that Reddit’s CEO did where he continued to trash the one big third party developer, ignored user concerns, and copy and pasted pre-drafted answers, many of the largest subs made the decision to indefinitely go dark unless changes are made. Reddit leadership threatened the possibility of removing current moderators and re-opening subreddit communities if they felt it was in the “best interests of Reddit”.
Lots of users have now claimed that they are done with Reddit unless Reddit reverses course. The table is now set for the potential downfall of Reddit.