![]() “The potential loss of these services due to the pricing change would significantly impact our ability to moderate efficiently, thus negatively affecting the experience for users in our communities and for us as mods and users ourselves,” moderator BuckRowdy wrote in the open letter. API access also allows third-party apps to provide accessibility features for users who are blind or visually impaired, and allows moderators to use “superior mod tools, customization, streamlined interfaces, and other quality of life improvements” that the official Reddit app doesn’t offer, an open letter in r/ModCoord notes. Reddit responds to the requests with corresponding data. Upvoting a post, commenting, browsing subreddits and all other interactions users have using a third-party app requires API requests. Until now, API access - which allows a third-party app to communicate with a website, has been free. “We are all responsible for ensuring Reddit provides and open accessible place for people to find community and belonging.” “We respect when you and your communities take action to highlight the things you need, including, at times, going private,” Huffman said. When reached for comment, a Reddit spokesperson pointed TechCrunch to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman’s AMA post from last week, where he addressed changes to Reddit’s API. “Should things reach the 14th with no sign of Reddit choosing to fix what they’ve broken, we’ll use the community and buzz we’ve built between then and now as a tool for further action.” “The two-day blackout isn’t the goal, and it isn’t the end,” an instructional post in r/Save3rdPartyApps said. Users can watch subreddits go dark in real time on Twitch. The collective userbase across all of the protesting subreddits totals 2.8 billion, which includes a significant overlap of users who subscribe to multiple protesting subreddits. The most popular subreddits participating the blackout include r/funny, r/aww, r/gaming, r/Music, r/Pics, r/science and r/todayilearned. ![]() Some subreddits pledged to permanently shut down unless Reddit “adequately addresses” its users’ concerns, according to a post in r/Save3rdPartyApps. Moderators in r/ModCoord are keeping track of participating subreddits in an ongoing thread - as of Monday afternoon, 28,606 moderators are participating, and 8,300 subreddits pledged to go private in support of the movement. Participants are encouraged to speak out about the API changes by leaving negative reviews of the official Reddit app, as well as boycott the site in favor of non-Reddit platforms to dent its traffic. Some protesting subreddits will be in read-only mode. Participating subreddits will be private during the blackout, so that nonsubscribers can’t view existing content, and subscribers can’t post or comment on new content. The blackout, which began on Monday and will last for 48 hours, is a coordinated effort between tens of thousands of moderators and millions of Reddit users. Over 8,000 subreddits went dark or read-only in protest of Reddit’s API pricing, which will shut down many third-party apps like Apollo and Reddit is Fun because of the high fees.
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