Last Updated: June 12, 2023, 18:01 IST
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The new API costs have created an enormous subject for builders
The platform is already seeing a mass exit from builders who’ve helped Reddit grow to be a profitable mannequin.
To protest the upcoming (API) pricing modifications on the social dialogue platform Reddit, greater than 6,000 subreddits have gone darkish, together with lots of the platform’s most-subscribed communities equivalent to r/humorous, r/aww, r/gaming, r/music, and r/science, that means these communities are not publicly accessible, even to Reddit customers beforehand subscribed to them.
Many subreddits participating within the protest will go non-public for 48 hours, from June 12 to June 14, however some plan to stay non-public till issues change, experiences The Verge.
“This isn’t one thing any of us do flippantly: we do what we do as a result of we love Reddit, and we actually consider this modification will make it inconceivable to maintain doing what we love,” r/Toptomcat was quoted as saying.
Christian Selig, the Apollo app developer who posted about Reddit’s API pricing that sparked much of the initial outrage, said seeing Reddit’s community unite against the proposed changes was “incredibly amazing”.
“I actually hope Reddit listens,” he wrote in a post on the Apollo subreddit.
“I think showing humanity through apologizing for and recognizing that this process was handled poorly, and concrete promises to give developers more time, would go a long way to making people feel heard and instilling community confidence,” Selig added.
Last week, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman hosted an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session to debate the platform’s controversial API modifications, confirming that Reddit is just not planning to revive its coming API pricing modifications which have prompted a number of builders to announce they are going to be shutting down their apps.
In the session, Huffman continued his accusations towards Selig’s “behaviour and communications” as being “all over the place” and saying he couldn’t see Reddit working with the developer additional, TechCrunch reported.
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