Reddit hit by protests! Check out the ‘killer’ reason and much more | Explainer
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Reddit, the popular online discussion forum is facing major protests from its users, moderators, and third-party apps. Yesterday, thousands of subreddits went private as a part of their 48 hours long protest against the company's new API pricing policy. Reddit even suffered a massive outage on Monday after so many subreddits went dark. Even now, Reddit is struggling with frustrated users as most of the popular communities are not accessible to them. But what has prompted Reddit users and moderators to take such drastic measures and what exactly is this new API pricing policy that has been called a “third-party app killer”? Let us take a look.What made the subreddits go dark?On April 18, 2023, Reddit announced that it would start charging third parties for its application programm...