In an impassioned Reddit post, Selig outlines that his app made seven billion requests last month. Even then, he says he'd still be losing money, as most of his 50 to 70,000 paying customers use his app for $1 US a month. He says the move would force him to drop the 750,000 people who use his app monthly for free. Selig says the proposed API changes would cost him an average of $2.50 US a month per active user. So there's a large amount of users who use Apollo in that way who are losing that."
"The Reddit app hasn't necessarily prioritized that. "If you're using a screen reader, you can swipe around and it'll read to you what's on screen," he said. Selig also emphasized that there are many blind or low-vision users that use Apollo, as he's made it a priority to annotate everything users see in the app. "It's sad to lose this tool that they've come to really enjoy." "There's like large swaths of moderators who use Apollo as the primary way to moderate their community and make sure the content flow is consistent and safe," Selig told CBC News. Apps forced to shut downĬhristian Selig, the Halifax-based developer behind the iOS app Apollo, which offers users an alternative viewing experience to the official Reddit app, announced in a tweet Thursday that his app would be forced to shut down at the end of this month because of the changes. Those apps are at risk of discontinuing their services if Reddit's changes go forward, as many of their developers say they cannot afford the sudden fees. Many moderation teams - unpaid volunteers that manage content in individual communities - and users with particular accessibility needs rely on third-party applications that present Reddit content in specific ways to help them moderate and navigate the site.
#Reddit down free
Reddit has traditionally offered an Application Programming Interface (API) that developers can access, allowing them to create their own applications that can query the site for its information, such as a list of posts in a particular subreddit, or the content of the comments associated with a specific post.īut beginning July 1, Reddit will charge external applications for accessing the site's content - a service that has been free until now. Misinformation on Reddit has become unmanageable, Alberta moderators sayĬhanges would see developers charged to access API.
#Reddit down update
Same as always, we’ll be monitoring the situation and will provide an update once we know more. We’ll keep you posted for if anything changes regarding this. While some subreddits have said that they’re going dark for just today, June 12, some have not given an end date for their protest. Multiple subreddits have gone private temporarily as a way of protest, as killing the third-party apps would invite spam and a number of other issues. Ever-reliable site Downdetector has reported a massive spike of outage reports recently:Īs for those seeing the “private” messages on certain subreddits (such as the one for the PS5 group below), it’s due to certain changes coming to the platform that will essentially kill any third-party Reddit apps. Over on Twitter, the site’s account hasn’t updated since May 31. We’re aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.īased on our own testing, it seems both the desktop site and the mobile version of Reddit are having issues.
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