Almost every subreddit has gone dark in protest of Reddit's proposed API changes RedditBlackout
Published Jun 12th, 2023 12:47PM EDTToday, to protest Reddit’s pricing changes to its API, almost every subreddit on the platform has gone dark. A, which is counting the number of subreddits that have changed their permissions to private to protest the changes, counts 7237 out of 7806 subreddits going dark as of the writing of this article.
The subreddits that have changed their permissions to private are no longer publicly available, even to those who were previously subscribed to them. The protest started today and is supposed to last for 48 hours. Some subreddits started to go dark on Sunday, but the vast majority of them changed their access today.
As a result of the blackout, Reddit is even experiencing technical issues with some parts of the site going down altogether. According to the company’sSome are going a step further than the two-day blackout.
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