Many of the site's most popular subreddits, like r/gaming, r/Music, and r/Pics, are participating, and each has over 30 million subscribers.
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The full list of subreddits participating in the June 12 shutdown is currently over a thousand subreddits strong.
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This means that you get fun civil wars, where the users and mods can take up arms against the site administrators. While Reddit is a company that makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year, the content moderation and community building is all done by volunteer moderators. Reddit's APIs also exclude adult content, a major draw for the site. Reddit is Fun (RIF) developer /u/talklittle said Reddit's API terms also require "blocking ads in third-party apps, which make up the majority of RIF's revenue." Talklittle says the pricing and ad restriction will "force a paid subscription model" onto any surviving apps. A post pinned to the top of the new /r/Save3rdPartyApps subreddit calls for a pricing decrease "by a factor of 15 to 20," saying that would "put API calls in territory more closely comparable to other sites, like Imgur." Selig broke the news of the new pricing scheme, saying, "I don't see how this pricing is anything based in reality or remotely reasonable." Selig said Reddit wants to charge $12,000 for 50 million requests, while Imgur, an image-focused site that's similar to Reddit, charges $166 for 50 million API calls. View community ranking In the Top 1 of largest communities on Reddit Is season 18 ranked using splits this time I didn't catch this in the notes anywhere and was under the impression that there wasn't going to be splits this time. Narwhal, another third-party app, will be " dead in 30 days" when the pricing kicks in on July 1, according to its developer. The developer of Reddit is Fun has said the API costs will " likely kill" the app. Other third-party apps are in the same boat.
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Apollo's developer, Christian Selig, hasn't announced a shutdown but admitted, "I don't have that kind of money or would even know how to charge it to a credit card."
The popular iOS client Apollo announced it was facing a $20 million-a-year bill. Reasonable API pricing would not necessarily mean the death of third-party apps, but the pricing Reddit communicated to some of its biggest developers is far above what other sites charge. LivestreamFail, or LSF for short, is one of Reddits most popular subreddits dedicated to posting clips and videos about Twitch streamers and content. Before then, it was up to third-party apps to pick up the slack, and even now, the revenue-focused official app is generally considered inferior to third-party options. Part of that push included the development of a first-party app for mobile devices, but the 17-year-old site only launched an official app in 2016. Reddit started life as a geeky site, but as it has aged, it has been trying to work more like a traditional social network. A widespread protest is planned for June 12, with hundreds of subreddits planning to go dark for 48 hours. Reddit is getting ready to slap third-party apps with millions of dollars in API fees, and many Reddit users are unhappy about it. Getty Images | Yuriko Nakao reader comments 125 with
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