These 21 Subreddits Are Going Dark to Protest Reddit's API Changes

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These 21 Subreddits Are Going Dark to Protest Reddit's API Changes
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Subreddits for Taylor Swift, Minecraft, RollerCoaster Tycoon, and Robinhood are joining the fight against Reddit's pay-to-access API.

Reddit is in for a rude awakening, just ask some of its most popular subreddits. To protest, some of the platform’s biggest communities will be going dark for at least two days.

“Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Steve Huffman, founder and CEO of Reddit, toldApollo is a third-party Reddit viewer that relies on the platform’s API to generate a certain browsing experience, similar toTo avid Redditors, Apollo fixed a lot of the issues that Reddit seemingly overlooked, like an overall improved browsing experience, collapsed comments with inline previews, better media displays, and the...

. “I’m deeply disappointed in this price. Reddit iterated that the price would be A) reasonable and based in reality, and B) they would not operate like Twitter.”one hand, it’s good that AI models from the likes of Google and OpenAI have less access to train. On the other hand, it’s a pity that so many programmers—who are constructing tools and features to enhance the reddit experience—are now unable to pursue their projects.

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