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In response to Reddit's API changes, multiple subreddits announced that they would be shutting down from June 12 to June 14. [27] Huffman's AMA resulted in some subreddits, including r/polls, going private ahead of the June 12 protest. [28] The moderators of r/iPhone and r/Music decided to go private indefinitely beginning on June 12. [29]
Reddit users and moderators widely protested the platform's API changes; many subreddits went into "lockdown" to protest the changes, disallowing new posts indefinitely. [23] [37] Reddit denied trying to intentionally "kill" third-party apps. [21] [25] The Verge noted that Apollo became "the central figure in an all-out platform war". [23]
Many Redditors are still up in arms about Reddit's recent API changes, but CEO Steve Huffman isn't backing down. That's the gist (and, frankly, nearly all of the substance) of Huffman's interview ...
Reddit announced new changes to its API pricing, effective July 1, that will force many third-party apps to shut down. In response, on June 12, thousands of subreddits went private in protest of the decision; some for two days, and others indefinitely. [ 87 ]
In September 2024, Reddit announced that moderators will no longer have the ability of changing subreddit accessibility from "public" to "private" without approval from Reddit staff. This was widely interpreted by moderators as a punitive change in response to the 2023 API protests. [31]
Steve Huffman (born 1983 or 1984), also known by his Reddit username spez (/ s p ɛ z /), is an American web developer and entrepreneur.He is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, a social news and discussion website, which ranks 9th in the top 20 websites in the world as of February 2025. [4]
The text states Announcing the changes, Reddit stated that the Reddit data aggregation site Pushshift — whose service was used by LLMs — violated its API rules and would be losing access to Reddit’s Data API after Reddit had been unable to contact the Pushshift team about the violations. Pushshift later announced it was live again with ...
Prominent third-party Reddit clients Sync and Boost which had shut down due to changes to the pricing of Reddit's API began working on Lemmy clients, [14] [18] with them later relaunching as Sync for Lemmy [19] and Boost for Lemmy. [14] Multiple other apps and browser clients have also been developed.