Thousands of subreddits are shut down for 48 hours following controversial charging plans.
Thousands of Reddit communities have "gone dark" as part of a protest by users over how the site is being run.
As well as a few paid administrators, the website uses tens of thousands of unpaid moderators - known as mods - to keep the website functional. "We respect when you and your communities take action to highlight the things you need, including, at times, going private," he said. "If it's almost the entire website, would they destroy what they've built up in all these communities, just to push through this highly unpopular change that both the mods and users of Reddit are overwhelmingly against?"Reddit, which describes itself as "the front page of the internet", has an official app but it was developed in 2016, many years after the website was founded.
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