Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, who staged a boycott of changes to the platform’s API a few days ago, doesn’t seem bothered by the shutdown of thousands of subreddits. In an internal memo sent to employees and viewed edgeexecutive hHe clarified that there is “a lot of noise” about this, but the mass protest will “pass”. He also warned his staff to be careful when using Reddit commands in public in the face of potential threats from platform users.
The email sent to staff comes just days after thousands of subreddits went closed to protest the new API changes. This, in particular, will become paid; something that has caused many developers to announce they are shutting down their application – as in the case of Apollo – because they cannot bear the costs. These are also changes that have taken place with little or no prior notice, and with a very poor connection to Huffman. The CEO of Reddit is alleged by some to have even lied several times during the Q&A session.
After days with thousands of private subreddits making it impossible to access unless you’re subscribed, Huffman wanted to keep his cool, ensuring this is something that will soon return to normal. Further, he claims that does not plan to rollback API changes and that they have not noticed “any significant impact on income so far” and that they will continue to monitor the situation.
Reddit CEO on shutting down apps like Apollo
The CEO of Reddit, on the other hand, has detailed that his team communication with developers of applications using the API to avoid closing their platforms at the end of the month, as already announced by Apollo or RIF. He also confirmed that these accessibility applications will remain exempt from the new API changes.
Huffman finished the letter with a warning to his employees be careful when using Reddit equipment in public places in the face of a possible threat these users against the new changes. Sorry, but be careful when using Reddit publicly. Some people are really upset and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustration,” he says. This is the complete letter.
hello snus [así es como se llama en Reddit a los empleados],
Since last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We expect many of them to return on Wednesday, as many have said. Although we knew it would happen, it is difficult and we have a lot of work ahead of us. Several Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure pressures, interacting with communities, and responding to the many issues surrounding this outage. Thanks team.
At this point, we haven’t noticed a significant impact on revenue and will continue to monitor.
There is a lot of noise with this. One of the loudest we’ve ever seen. Please know that our teams are up to date and like all explosions on Reddit, this one too will pass. The most important thing we can do right now is stay focused, adapt to the challenges and keep moving forward. We absolutely have to send what we promised. The only long term solution is to improve our product, and in the short term we have several major modding tool releases that we need to commit.
While the two largest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, as well as several others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in talks with a few others. And, as I mentioned in my post last week, we will be releasing accessibility-focused apps, and for now we have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.
Sorry to say this, but be careful using Reddit equipment in public. Some people are really upset and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustration.
Again, we’ll get through this. Thanks everyone for helping with this.
Meanwhile, navigating the platform has been really difficult in the past few days. The app is temporarily out of service, and some subreddits with millions of users are still unavailable despite the outage lasting 48 hours.
Source: Hiper Textual
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