Reddit Updates

[Smh]

Reddit was always unusable in mobile browser from my experience. I never tried as logged-in user though but the damm download our app banner will not allow you to do anything.

r/developersIndia is not participating, members were not happy but it seems mods have removed complaining users and posts.

 

[Sushubh]

r/gurgaon also seems to be open lol. Around 20000 members iirc.

 

[Nishant]

Looks like the whole thing went down.

 

[Smh]

seems some unrelated (not related to blackout) major server outage reddit Status

 

[nishantt6969]

yeah down.

 

[Sushubh]

some of the subreddits i follow are back online it seems. a bunch have decided to remain private indefinitely including some huge ones. reddit does not seem to give a shit.

Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass”

“We absolutely must ship what we said we would.”

www.theverge.com

 

[Sushubh]

Moderation Bots & Tooling – Reddit Mods

this was highlighted on the main page for me.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Well their frontpage has only a couple of posts with more than a thousand upvotes, so have to do something. lol

 

[Sushubh]

added today on the above link.

Edit on June 15, 2023: We’ve seen lots of questions, and have confirmed today that fewer than 100 bots total (including both moderation and non-moderation bots) currently exceed our updated free API Rate limits of 100 Queries Per Minute for those using OAuth authentication. We've allowlisted all the bots that we can see are owned by moderators or taking moderator actions (out of the thousands of moderation bots that exist, less than 20 exceed the updated rate limits).

 

[Navjot Singh]

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps”

Thousands of subreddits are still dark.

www.theverge.com

Keep talking like that.

Huffman now takes issue with the third-party apps that are building a business on top of his own. “I didn’t know — and this is my fault — the extent that they were profiting off of our API. That these were not charities.”

“That’s our business decision, and we’re not undoing that business decision.”
I asked him if he felt that Apollo, rif for Reddit, and Sync, which all plan to shut down as a result of the pricing changes, don’t add value to Reddit. “Not as much as they take,” he says. “No way.”

I also asked if Huffman truly believes that the blackouts haven’t impacted his decision-making around the API pricing changes at all. “In this case? That’s true,” says Huffman. “That’s our business decision, and we’re not undoing that business decision.”