Reddit protest updates: all of the information in regards to the API modifications infuriating Redditors

Reddit’s new API updates introduced in April may change the platform endlessly — however perhaps not in a great way. Ever since Apollo for Reddit developer Christian Selig revealed he’d be on the hook for $20 million per yr because of the modifications, Redditors have been livid over how the updates would possibly have an effect on third-party apps.

Hundreds of Reddit’s communities, together with a number of the greatest, most energetic ones like r/humorous, r/gaming, r/devices, and r/todayilearned, have now gone darkish as part of a coordinated protest. Because the protest unfold to extra subreddits on Monday morning, Reddit.com began crashing, with an outage affecting the primary homepage.

Right here’s our protection of the modifications at Reddit.