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Reddit going dark: 6,000+ subreddits go quiet over developer pricing changes

By Christopher Hutton
Published June 12, 2023 2:43pm ET
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Reddit going dark: 6,000+ subreddits go quiet over developer pricing changes
More than 6,000 forums have gone dark in protest of the social forum website Reddit charging developers for access to its internal code, a protest that could leave users unable to use large portions of the website for days. Several subreddits, or smaller forums dedicated to specific subjects on Reddit, set themselves to private on […]

More than 6,000 forums have gone dark in protest of the social forum website Reddit charging developers for access to its internal code, a protest that could leave users unable to use large portions of the website for days.

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