The past week has been a tumultuous one for regular users of Reddit. First, news broke that the planned changes to the Reddit API would put an end to the most popular third-party apps available for the social media platform. This was followed by the announcement that a growing number of subreddits would be staging a 48-hour blackout starting on June 12 in protest at these changes. Finally, it emerged that popular third-party apps like Apollo, reddit is fun, and Sync will be shutting down on June 30 with no plans to return.
Today, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, u/spez, conducted an AMA addressing these issues and more. But despite the potential for this to air and clarify many users’ concerns, Huffman and his team answered just 21 questions out of thousands submitted. Most significant of all, the administrators did not acknowledge the protests planned for June 12, which are set to be the biggest Reddit has ever seen. With 26 subreddits with over 10 million subscribers and thousands of others taking part in the blackout, Reddit could potentially lose tens of millions of dollars in revenue.
Frustrated Reddit users also raised other concerns, including why developers were not given more time before the changes were implemented, why the APIs would cost so much, and what Reddit planned to do to fill the gaps left by the departing third-party apps and tools. To further compound the issue, Huffman took the time to single out Apollo developer Christian Selig for discussing the proposed changes publicly. However, the AMA failed to address the most pressing user concerns, making it a PR disaster for Huffman and his team.
The AMA is technically still ongoing, but it seems unlikely to change its impact. As a result, the June 12 protests are poised to go ahead and are likely to gain considerable momentum. We will update this article if anything notable occurs, but the situation at Reddit looks set to remain fractious and tense.
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