Upset by changes that would kill popular third-party Reddit apps, volunteer moderators protested by locking the thousands of subreddits — which crashed all of Reddit.Reddit`s volunteer moderators kicked off their promised blackout protest in response to Reddit`s planned API changes, removing more than 6,000 subreddits from public accessibility and crashing Reddit`s servers along with them.
The move comes in response to planned changes to the Reddit API that would charge outrageous fees to high-volume users, hurting popular bots, external data tools, moderation support tools, and (most notably for general users) a number of popular apps like Apollo, Sync, and RIF that provide a better Reddit browsing experience than Reddit`s own official app. While Reddit backtracked on the moderation tools and apps that are explicitly meant for accessibility, it has steadfastly held to its extreme fees for third-party apps. Christian Selig, the developer of the popular iPhone Reddit app Apollo, reve...
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