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Original Story: They're calling it Reddark—a Reddit rebellion in which thousands of subreddits are going dark, in protest of potential for the site to start charging for third-party apps. 7,178 subreddits and counting have gone dark today in protest of a 3rd-party app pricing calamity
The protest has ensued due to new pricing plans for third-party app developers, such as Sync forRedditandRedditis Fun, that host the site's content for a more streamlined mobile experience. Many have made it clear that the premium charges would make their apps essentially unsustainable.
"We now have premium API access for third parties who require additional capabilities and have higher usage limits", Reddit admin FlyingLaserTurtle says in a recent post on the site.
"Until this change, for-profit third-party apps used our API for free, at significant cost to us. Of course, we have the option of blocking them entirely, but we know third-party apps are valuable for the Reddit ecosystem and ask that they cover their costs. Our simple math suggests they can do this for less than $1/user/month."
Evidently, this didn't go down well. Not least when it comes to
cheap Dark And Darker Gold the larger subreddits being run by nice people simply volunteering their time.
Update: Reddit servers are starting to Dark And Darker Gold go down, which is expected to be due to the protest. Reddit outage reports spiked around 03:37 pm BST / 07:37 am PT / 10:37 am EST, and the number of subreddits going dark continues to increase.
