Tens of millions of people are set to be without their favourite Reddit pages for at least two days, as users rebel against a move that could see some of the platform's top third-party apps forced to shut down.
While some communities taking part in the blackout have said they will return after 48 hours, others suggest they may not come back untilIn April, Reddit announced it would start charging for developers to access its API - that stands for application programming interface.
Whenever you use a Reddit app, you are essentially asking the platform's API for permission to look at the posts, comments and profiles you want to see. That's not an issue if you're going directly through Reddit, either via the web or its app, but it means for third-party developers the cost gets passed on to them.Reddit has not publicly revealed the exact pricing details, but the makers of the popular third-party app Apollo have claimed they would be charged more than $20m a year at their current rate of API usage."With my current usage [that] would cost almost $2m per month, or over $20m per year.
R/gaming said its members were"overwhelmingly in support of the blackout", as it said Reddit's API changes would make third-party apps"ludicrously more expensive for developers to run".
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