What’s going on on Reddit? Reason for closing hundreds of subreddits

Reddit is experiencing a new crisis following the announcement of changes to its API and subsequent announcements from platform CEO Steve Huffman. Thousands of subreddits have reportedly gone private, and hundreds of them have been temporarily or permanently shut down in protest. edge. But what exactly happened?

It all started just a few days ago when Reddit announced an update to their API that includes new and offensive pricing policy. A policy that, in particular, will cause many developers to make their applications unusable because they cannot take care of so many. Among them is Apollo. The problem is that these API changes came with little to no warning. All this, in addition, with very poor communication from the CEO of the platform.

In fact, complaints about Reddit’s new API policy skyrocketed after Huffman ran a Q&A on the portal. The CEO has done nothing but “inappropriate responses” as the subreddit claims. r/video, which has over 20 million subscribers. Huffman, for example, said the API changes were announced in April; many claim that this is not true. At least not many of them like the new prices. Also a new policy that prevents certain third-party apps from sharing explicit content (listed as NSFW).

The developer also confirmed that it’s not true that the Reddit managers were talking to the developers about the new API update.

Hundreds of communities with millions of followers are shutting down on Reddit

Changes to the Reddit API and not entirely accurate answers from its CEO, we repeat, they are causing many subreddits to shut down completely or go from public to private.. One of the largest on the portal, r/iPhone, confirmed that his intention was to close for 48 hours. However, the moderators confirmed that after Huffman’s statements, they would make the subreddit closed indefinitely.

When a CEO wants to lie and spread defamatory statements about another 3rd party developer and then tries to double attempts to vilify them, again at the AMA, despite the developer proving him a liar with audio recordings, that’s when we knew what we were up against.

Part of the statement posted on the subreddit r/iPhone on reddit.

r/iPhone is not the only Reddit subreddit that has confirmed its intention to stop working. In fact, according to the portal, more than 200 are already closed or becoming private, so that no user can access them. Reddark. r/funny has gone private with over 40 million subscribers. Also subreddits with over 30 million subscribers such as r/gaming, r/science or /Music.