Reddit – Top 20 Web Site – DOWN After Massive Backlash And After Falsely Accusing Famous Developer of Blackmailing the Company

via independent.co.uk:

Reddit has stopped working for millions of users around the world.

The mass outage comes amid a major boycott from thousands of the site’s administrators, who are protessting new changes to the platform.

On 12 June, popular sub-Reddits like r/videos and r/bestof went dark in retaliation to proposed API (Application Programming Interface) charges for third-party app developers.

Among the apps impacted by the new pricing is popular iOS app Apollo, which announced last week that it was unable to afford the new costs and would be shutting down.

Apollo CEO Christian Selig claimed that Reddit would charge up to $20 million per year in order to operate, prompting the mass protest from Reddit communities.

Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout

Popular Reddit client Apollo will shut down after talks over new developer fees got ‘ugly,’ with allegations of blackmail

Reddit communities restricted user access in a protest of the platform’s decision to start charging developers fees to access its data t.co/FXUCgPSY5e

— WSJ Tech (@WSJTech) June 12, 2023

Big big protest today on Reddit. "r/todayilearned, r/funny and r/gaming, with more than 30 million subscribers apiece" have gone dark to protest huge API fees from the company that organizers (many are moderators) say will kill 3rd-party Reddit apps: t.co/lYo8TTcLWM

— On the Media (@onthemedia) June 12, 2023

h/t dr0id