Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods
Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods
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Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods
Here's the list of highlights from the article, as it's a good TL;DR:
- The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark
- How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
- Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
- Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
- Why disabled users joined the Reddit blackout
- Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted
- A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working
so... nothing new?
Pretty much, but it's useful to have such a summary to refer to. Specially in the future, as it'll be harder and harder over time to remember what was going on in Reddit, and why so many people left it. And one of my objectives with this comm is to document what happened with Reddit, it would be great if we did the same when Digg went downhill.
I’ll tell you what happened with Digg:
there, now you're all caught up
did many people actually leave? Haven't seen any statistics yet