Tag: reddit
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Opinion: Reddit must not betray its community for profit
Reddit’s recently announced API changes have caused uproar, including a 48-hour “black out” of thousands of subreddits. With the company making over US$500 million last year, CEO Steve Huffman’s claim that the website is not “self-sustaining” does not hold water, especially as Reddit is currently valued at $10 billion.
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Thousands of Reddit communities “go dark” in protest of API changes
Today, over 7,000 subreddits have made themselves private — “gone dark” — in protest of new changes to Reddit’s API. An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a way for programs to talk to each other, and Reddit’s is undergoing some big changes.